The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The largest waves are seen off cape
Horn. rising to IS feet in hight; ana 20
feet long from crest TO crest $3.50 az ~ to
the North Atlantic have been oDseIEe ., ~
rise 43 feet in hight. In the Geft H
ocean their hight does not exceed l5t2 leet'
and In the Mediterranean 1872 leet-
The engineering bureau of the United
States navy has been making some lnqul-
ries as TO the possibility of procuring large
merchant vessels In an emergency, 10
serve as machine shops for the meets
list of some suitable vessels mas been 81 81
cured, and Engineer IN Chlef Georse Wv w
Melville in his annual report asks loi an
estimate of $3.50 for machine tools 10 oe
laid aside for fitting out one OF THESE YES
sells if required.
AT a recent meeting of the EngAsh %
ciety of Arts a proposal was preached for
the construction of RAILWAY Z me ~, L5e9
on the Indian border, connecting WIN
Agra and Bombay. The road would cross
upper Arabia to Basra, ana sktrt Ips
north shore of the gulf and the AraD6 d
sea TO Kurrachee, and VIII cost Si9,VVoVyU'
on which sum 1t is supposed a Ian II
terest would be paid by the frame a. a.
though political reasons are aYoWeuIy tliS
object of its construction.
Now that the winter season is coming
on, says Harper's Bazaar, the children VIII
miss the berries and fresh fruits that in
the summer varied the monotony OF thelT
simple nursery supper. For TINS reason
the mother must give little thouSht 70
the matter of variety in the menu, that
the little ones do not weary OF pledu
and milk and cease to enjoy their even
ing meal, 1t is easy, by a ntSe I orr
thought to plan simple yet agreeable sur
prises. One night let dish OF rice DolIe1
plain and dry be served with sugar ana
cream; on another, the bread may De az
cOmDanied by apple-Sauce or pam ITult
jelly Tomato toast is always enjoyed, as
is it's near relative, cream toast roasted
crackers sprinkled with salt ana sodheu
in warm milk are appetZng, ana arrow
root or tapioca Jelly is considered treat
-Mathilde Anderson lies on rubber
mattress in the city hospital here with a
rubber bag on her chest, says st. Paul
special. Eighteen times every minute a
nurse presses down the bag and then
leaves the chest free to expand with tLe
inrushng air. For forty-one days the
woman has thus been kept alive Should
the nurse fail for five minutes TO assist
her in breathing, death would be lneNlla-
bic. The work is beginning 10 tell on tue
nurses, and machine is being construct
ed TO take their place; but even II 1t
should be successful constant ATTENDANCE
would be required to see that II dld not
get out of order. The disease affecting
Miss Anderson is a form OF paralysis
which affects the muscles of respiration.
| If she can be kept alive nature may re-
move the malady. 1t is possible that she
| may remain in her present condition Tor
| years.
The municipal authorities of Paris are
! just now engaged in the suppression of an
altogether novel form of food adulteration
! which is assuming phenomenal proper
| tons. Real oysters are expensive in Far
| is and so, with the object of suiting slen-
| der purses, artificial oysters on the hall
| shell have been invented. which are sold
! at 20 cents a dozen, and they are so cleN-
| erly made and look so nice and fresh that
| once lemon juice or vinegar has been adj
! ded, they cannot be distinguished from
! the real article, especially when Wnlte
| wine is taken in connection herewith
| The only genuine thing about these oy-
| sters is the shell, the manufacturers buy
| ing secondhand shells at a small cost
| and fastening the spurious oyster in place
| with a taStelesS paste. The municipal
| laboratory has not yet proclaimed the
| ingredients of which these bogus oysters
| are composed, but has announced that
| they are of harmful character.
! AS Spain is as backward in statistics
| as in everything else, says an exchange
| the latest educational reports attainable
are those of 1889 in which the percentage
! of adults unable to read or write is fixed
/ al MS the highest rate of illiteracy in Eu.
| rope except, perhaps in Portugal and the
| Italian Islands. The annual increase Of
| population is from one-third to one-hal
| of l per cent, against 1165 in England
| With a soil 80 per cent of which is pro
| duCtiVe, and a mineral wealth SurpaSS
| ing that of almost any other European
| country, her mineral resources are almos
! undeVeloped, agriculture is neglected be
| ing pursued only on small scale and il
| the most primitive fashion, and with th'
exception of Madrid and Seville, her cit
| les, with their graSs-grown streets anC
| silent plaZas. wear an air OF poverty
| desolation and ruin. OF trade there is lit
tie, of commerce almost none and an at
| mosphere of decay broodS over the LAND
which seems slumbering under some en-
! chanter's spell; dying of hamilton in The
| midst of plenty.
An interesting occurrence of tin ore
and diamonds, which is believed TO be
unique, is described in the recently ISSUED
! report of the department of mines an6
agriculture of New South Wales for 1896
Gravel containing casseterite in worka biz
! quantity, together with diamonds was
| discovered last year at BOggy Camp, fif.
teen miles west of Tingha, which has beer
for some time a productive tin field. The
| pay streak at Doggy camp, which is from
30 to 80 feet deep, averages from TWO tC
| seven feet in thickness, the width of the
| lead not yet having been aScertained. One
| load of gravel yielded 5l5 stones of 18.
| karats aggregate weight and forty-twC
| loads furnished 600 karats of diamonds
| and tinstone al the rate of thirteen pounds
per load The pay streak Is a quartz peb.
pie drift underlying a large hill OF
geologist who examined the occurrence
! considers that the basalt filled what was
| originally an oval-shaped depression. The
| gravel rests on granite, and granite car
be traced entirely around the basalt The
! diamonds are white and of good quality
and it is thought that when the gravel i.
drained the district will make a considera
bic production.
First class English hotels are now
adopting a boot polishing machine the
novelty of which is great enough to temp
| even the most fastdiouS into this distaste
| full task, because one has nothing to dt
but direct the motion of the brush, tn,
power being supplied electrically. A small
| machine, that can be placed on a bench
table, on the floor or anywhere, the propel
| connection being made with the lghtine
circuit, is all that is required. 1t consists
of small motor, driving a flexible shaft
which carries at it's free extremity re
volving brush. At the extreme end of thi
brush, to the left, is the hardest brush
making about 1,J00 revolutions ne
minute for cleaning off the mud and dust
At the opposite end is the backing brush
which is fed automatically by q roller
and revolVes at a comparatively low rat,
of speed, so that when not needed il car
be thrown out of gear by simply push
ing a spring Midway between the enc
brushes are those intended for drying an(
polishing, and, as these revolve very rapi
Oily, and any pressure can be applied {
boot is polished in a remarkable shor
time. A modification of this machine i
used for cleaning and polishing china
glass and silVerware in hotels and res
taurants. One great advantage claimed
Tor them over other machines is that the,
| are practically nOiSeleSS i'm OnpratiOn