The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

j. H. Hodge, who was mentioned for an
! aldermanic nomination in Manchester, N.
/ H., says that he has no grudge against
himself that he wants to pay off in that
way" and that he would not take the Of
| flee on any consideration
Robert H. Hunt of California. SAYS
Popular Science News, has, it is stated
perfected a device to take the place of the
| shuttle in weaving. By means of d car
/ rler, armed with pincers to hold the
| thread, and which takes the place of the
/ shuttle, the machine obtains it's supply of
/ yarn from both sides of the loom, thus
| doing away with the necessity of the bob
bin, the use of which involves the waste
of time and of a certain amount of yarn.
AS the carrier flies to and fro across the
piece, it draws with it the thread, which
| 1t automatically measured and cut off to
the proper width, and deftly fastens it On
the selVage. The new apparatus can, it
| is said. be attached to any loom, works
automatically, and, in the case of a thread
breaking or any other mishap, the loom
at once stops, and bell rings.
The present are the days of darkness
and doubt, when deadly germs have been
| proved to Turk on all hands in what we
| eat and in what we drink, says the Medi-
| cal Press. Science has warned us off with
emphatic voice from uncooked saveloys,
| from ice-creams, from underdone pork
and from a good many other more or less
| toothsome delcacies. 1t has shown that
timed meats and stale soup often spell
| poison in large letters, and that ordinary
| filters are no better than SO many death>
traps. In the midst of all these disquiet-
ing dangers it is pleasant to be able to say
good word on behalf of our old friend
the English plum pudding. Properly made
! a mr. a1rfwr - -
plete sterilization in the boiler, and can
then be kept for a year and day in a dry
place, not only without being a bit the
worse, but even with absolute advantage
to it's flavor and general attractiveness.
Indigestible it may be to the stomachs of
our weaker brethren, but dangerous,
| never. With confidence, then, all hale
| some folk, whether in the green bud or
| the sere and yellow leaf, have our sane
ton to indulge discreetly in this most
| sweet and seasonable dish.
Small boys struggling with the after eff
fects of their first encounter with a cigar
do not have half as had a time as some
persistent smokers in the past had, says an
exchange. Eastern potentates once des-
politically treated their subjects for in
digging in the Frankish novelty of a smoke
In Persia, where but recently dire strife
for possession of the tobacco monopoly
reigned, Abas l., of dread memory, cut off
the lips of those who smoked and the noses
OF those who used snuff. On one occa-
sion, when he had discovered a man SELL
ing tobacco, he threw the man and his
wares into the fire. The Turks, under
Armurath ", were similarly punished if
they infringed his edict not to smoke. Cruel
acts were practiced by Mohammed ". Sir
Edward Sandys of Pontrefract in his trav-
els IN 1910 says he saw a Turk, who had
been caught solacing himself with a quiet
smoke, dragged before the tribunal and
condemned to the torture of having a hole
pierced through his nose and a pipe in
serted. Then he was seated on a donkey
backward. and driven through the city.
Not less cruel were the barbarities prac-
ticed in Russia under early czars ANY
subject caught smoking was publicly
knouted, and in some Instances his nos
trils were split open. If guilty of a Sec
ond offense he was put to death The
ambassadors of the Duke of Holstein, who
visited Moscow in 1894 were eyes witnesses
TO the public whipping of eight men and
one woman found selling brandy and to-
| bacco. By was of palliating this punish
ment it was stated that numerous houses
mad been set on fire in Moscow by smokers.
Scientists think that death by electric
ity or lightning is painless, says the
Youths Companion. They do not know
that it is So but infer that it is. Prof
| Tyndal, while lecturing at the Royal In
| stltution, London, accidentally touched
with his shoulder the conductor leading
from fifteen Leyden jars, charged with
| electricity He thus describes the effect
| on his body: Il am extremely sensitive to
electricity, vet a charge from such a pow
erful battery as fifteen jars seemed to
| have no disastrous effect on me. l stood
| perfectly still, wondering that 1 did not
| feel it; but 1 knew something had oc-
| CURED. After standing for a moment or
| two seemed to open my eyes, which prob
! ably were open all the time l saw a
| confused mass of apparatus about me.
l felt it necessary to reassure the people
| before me, so 1 said: over and over again
l have wanted this battery to be discharg-
| ed into me and now 1 have had it, AL
| though l appeared unaffected, really the
optic nerve in me was so affected that l
saw my arm severed from my body.
soon, however recovered proper sight.
and saw that L was all right" The bat
terry was not powerful enough to cause
| death, nor did it cloud Prof. TyndaPs
intellect, while distorting his vision; but
| he felt no pain, though the shock affect
| ed him, because the nervous energy by
which the consciousness of pain is excited
Travelled like a tortoise while the electric
current ran like hare.
The remarkable experience of witness
ing meteor flashing across the frma-
ment, watching it in its course, and see
| ing the stone drop to earth within a few
| yards of where one is standing, comes to
| but few people, yet such a happening oc-
| Cured to Ben Hall, painter of Albina,
Ore, says the Portland Telegraph 1t
was shortly after 1890 p. m. that Hall
started from the store of Joseph Turner
| to go to his lodgings. Reaching the cor
ner of Rodney avenue, Hall was startled
by a sudden illumination of the sky to-
ward the east. Gazing aloft, Hall saw
what at first he took to be BAH from a
Roman candle fired from some pyrotech-
mic display incident to the many process
sions. As the flaming globe approached,
however, 1t assumed such size that the
Roman candle supposition was precluded.
Nearing the earth, the oncoming ball of
fire could be seen to be bringing with it a
trail of blush sparks, which left the
main body with peculiar cracking sound
resembling the swapping of charcoal
Rarely missing the roof Of tho honga