The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-23


swers. Any big native feast without ele-
plants flesh is as rare as an English So
ciety dinner without vension. In dressing
the carcass Of an elephant the rough out
er skin is first removed in large sheets. Be-
meath this Is sub-cuticle-a pliable MEM
brane from which the natives make wa
ter-skins. The rib bones are cut out and
stewed, but all the other bones are de-
stroyed. The most delicate part, very
strangely, is the first joint of the leg be-
low the knee which one would suppose to
be the toughest portion of the animal.
This joint is cooked by being buried in a
hole in the ground, a huge fire over the
top supplying the heat.
The Burmese forests are rich in tim
Der, many varieties of which are equal, If
not superior, to teak in durability under
alterations of heat and moisture, but
some of which are too heavy to float, SAYS
the Philadelphia Record. One Of the fin
est is the padouk, which is reserved and
cut only by the government. 1t is as
hard and durable as lignum vitae, and is
used for cogs and driving wheels In rice
mills, and Is used for some purposes in
stead of brass. This wood makes hand
some, though rather heavy furniture, and
makes f1ne substitute for mahogany in
cabin fittings for steamers. The pyinka-
doe is also very good hard wood, of
reddish color, which makes first-class rail-
road ties, nearly million having recently
been ordered for the Chittagong Assam
railway. The natives have a trick OF COL
oring and substituting cheaper wood, and
In one case out of twenty ties examined
only two were found to be genuine AS
this wood Is being so rapidly used UP the
government will henceforth fix a mini
mum cutting girth to prevent it's destruc-
ton.
In the course of an interview with Hi
ram s. Maxim, as given in the current is
sue of Casselrs Family Magazine, the fol-
lowing is given as his own narrative of
his present position in the matter of aer-
onauucal experiment: "Well, 1 will only
say that at the present time l have given
up the premises at Baldwyn's Park, and
that I am moving on to larger premises,
where l shall have plenty of room, and
that / propose to make a new machine,
not so large as the old one, taking ad-
vantage of all that has been found out and
hope to succeed. All these experiments,
however, are exceedingly expensive Still,
flying machine can certainly be made 1t
is largely a question of money When I
first commenced my experiments found
that a machine could be made that would
lift ttself-that Is, a small apparatus
would. Both Prof. Langley and myself
were of the opinion that the same form
ulae would not do for a large machine.
However, l made very large machine,
and Langley made a small one. He lifted
more per horsepower than l did, because
his machine was only twelfth part as
large in any one dimension; but my ma
chine lifted more than it's own weight.
But could not learn to manoeuvre it in
the grounds that 1 had. Moreover, my
machine is too large for a first machine,
while Langley's was only a toy. Some
Al fw,rr n
between the two, but Big enough to carry
one man."
in recent communication to the So
ciete Internationale des Electricians con
corning the therapeutic and physiological
effects of high-frequency currents, NJ.
d Arsonval showed the powerful inductive
effects which can be obtained with these
currents, says the Electrical World A
striking experiment consists of placing
three lamps in tension, allowing the cur
rent to pass through the body. These
currents cause no sensations, and man
placed in a circuit does not feel that he
Is traversed by the currents which bril-
liantly illuminate the lamps. The princi-
pal results of this electrif1cation are an
augmentation of the oXidations in the or.
ganlsm and an increase in the produc.
tdon of heat. A subject who, under or
binary conditions, eliminates II to q itres
of carbonic acid per hour throws off ?7
litres after having been submitted to this
action. High-freQuency currents do not
act solely upon the surface of the body
but also profoundly upon the interior. All
of these results have been obtained upon
number of subjects by MN. Apostoli and
Charrin. NJ. d'Arsonval cited, in closing,
the action exercised upon microbes and
bacteria by these currents. The microbes
and bacilli are modified, and the toxines
L cd
NM. d Arsonval and Charrin hope by this
method to arrive at direct treatment
Tor the interior of the bodies of patients
suffering with zymotic disease, and ex-
periments to this end have begun.
The intelligence of scent of the red
legged grasshopper enables it to select its
food while on the wing in the air, where
Dy some process of signalling known only
to itself 1t gathers a great army of it's
kind to descend with massed force on the
neld beneath, when a forty-five acre of
corn will only afford them a single meal.
says the Chicago Times Herald. Last
year the grasshopper reports sent to the
University of Nebraska at Lincoln caused
apprehension of an invasion this year, as
great quantities of eggs had been deposi-
ted In the soil over a large area of coun-
try and those eggs are expected to furn-
ish am army of active "locusts," as they
are technically named. Farmers call them
"hoppers," but the college entomologist
talks knowingly Of "H. Atlantis" Pack
ardi" and 'Camnula Pellucida." In Utah
they have what they call a rope cure
for the pest, and every man. woman and
child takes part in the performances 1t
consists Of drawing ropes, held taut by
persons at each end, across the back, over
the field Of grain, so that Mr. Grasshopper
shall not find any room for the sole Of his
foot, and they keep this seesaw up until
he Is starved out. No doubt the agricul-
tural college viii find a way to meet an
other visitation with some exterminating
process when the migratory locust will mi
CRATE TO a cline where he will DISTURB no
more, whittier forbears of his Tx have
gone
The German military papers have Just
published the report of the minister of
war regarding the results Of the introduce
ton of bicycles into the army and the
training of a bicycle corps during the
year 1885, says the Philadelphia Record. A
large number Of experimental runs were
made and the bicycles were also employed
IN maneuvres TO advantage. The aver
age OF the runs was about fifty-five miles.
with an average speed OF nine and one