The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A human picture gallery came to light
at an autopsy just held on a fisherman
Of Toulon. France named Fenonil, who
! was tatooed from head to foot, there be,
ing absolutely no free space of his body
On the chest was a picture of Gen. Briere
I de lIsle: on the abdomen the bust of a
woman and an inscription in Gothic let
tiers, Compagnie BarbOt;" on the left
I breast a cross of the Legion of Honor:
on the right, the bust of a woman and a
criminal condemned to hard labor; on the
right shoulder a bunch of fruit on the
left a bunch of fiowers-the two forming
| a species of epaulettes. On the right
arm the head of a priest and a pigeon
| holding letter in its beak; on the left
| arm a squirrel, a crocodile, a Chinaman
and the bust of woman; on the forearms
| roses, pansies, sword, woman's head
clasped hands. etc. On the back was an
| elaborate picture of a woman being de.
| Voured by a bear in a forest, an exact
| reproduction of an engraving in the Jour
| nal Illustre of 1891 on the remainina
| parts of the body appeared pictures OF
| lions, pigs, a portrait of Gabrielle Bonn
| pard, etc, there being in all thirty-five dis
tinct pictures.
1t is said that at Frankfort the large
banking firms associated with the name
| of Rothschid have adopted electric heat
| ing for all their extensive vaults and large
| ty with which uniform temperature can
be obtained in summer or winter are Civ
| ing the firm every satisfaction In con-
! nection with this recent application of the
| electric heating it may be said that some
| experiments conducted at the University
| of Maine as to the relative cost of cleo
| trio and other methods of developing heat
for small household uses, such as with al
cohol, prove that the current belief that
| electric heating is prohibitive in price is
| erroneous, and that the cost is not great
| er, while the method possesses the evil
dent advantages of convenience and clean
| illness. The experiments show in detail that
| if electric energy can be furnished for Is
cents per klowatt hour, which is slightly
greater than the ordinary rate, the use of
| an electric heater is about 80 per cent.
cheaper than the commercial alcohol and
| about Is per cent. cheaper than wood alco-
hol.
The ageing Of wines and liquors by
electricity is now being done extensively
at Tournus, France. 1t has been estab-
| lished that the Improvement which takes
| place in wines with age is due to a slow
| oxidation of certain constituents of the
| liquor, and in the use of electricity for the
| artificial ageing of wines the process is
| identical. The method consists in gener-
| ating ozone from oxygen under pressure
| by any one of the well-known methods,
! OHlQlZl02
| agent known. This ozone as generated
Is passed through a cask containing the
liquor, entering at the bottom and passing
out at the top, then through a second and
third cask, after which the gas is washed
dried and conducted back to the ozoniel,
where is goes through the same manipu-
! latiOn again. The treated liquor is then
allowed to stand in the casks for four or
five months to allow the oxidized products
to separate, after which it is filtered and
bottled for consumption. AS at present
carried out, about seventy gallons are
treated at one time. and the daily ca.
pacity of the establishment is nearly 1000
gallons. So that there can be no doubt
as to the success of the method.
Microbes everywhere; not only in
drinking water is bacteria to be found, but
the alarm has been sounded concerning an
entirely new source of danger for they
are said TO exist in ink, says the Chicago
Times-Herald. But as most inks are made
from nut gals and tincture of iron the
latter of which is antiseptic the danger is
not really alarming Several Of the yeasts
are said to furnish quite distinct races or
varieties of micrObe or bacteria. IN brewer
les in different parts of the world. Physi-
clans declare that all microbes are not
bad or dangerous and that their whole
sale determination could only result in evil
for mankind, in much the same manner
by birds has been found detrimental to
fruit and other crops. At the meeting OF
savants in Toronto recently II was claim
ed that lit is the light in the solar rays,
and not the high temperature, which gives
to those rays their well known power TO
limit the life of the bacteria in our streets
and rivers and makes the sun our most
powerful scavenger. Hence so far from
bacteria being synonymous with disease
germs, the majority of these organisms 9p-
pear to be beneficial instead Of inimical to
man.
The use of salt as a condiment is so
general and so universally believed in as
necessary that we rarely hear a word
against it's excessive use, says the New
York Journal of Hygiene, but there are
a multitude of persons who eat far too
much salt-eat it on everything, on meat
fish, potatoes, melons, in butter, on to-
matoes, turnips and squash, in bread and
on host of foods too numerous to men
ton. To so great an extent is it used
that no food is relished which has not
salty taste, which is often very delicate
Now, the amount of salt required in the
system is comparatively small, and if the
diet has been rightly compounded very lit
tie is necessary Some go so far as 10
discard it's use altogether, but whether
this is wise or not we viii not here con-
slider. What are some of the evils of the
| tACtSSlS = use VI SAIL L uty are TO par
alyZe the nerves Of taste, or to perVert
them so they cannot enjoy anything which
has not a salty flavor, and in addition
there is a direct tax on both the skin and
| the kidneys In removing it from the blood
Whether the skin is harmed by this tax
we do not know. Possibly 1t Is not great
| ly injured yet we know that few people
possess a healthy skin; but it is now pref
! ty well settled that an excessive use of
salt does overtax the kidneys in its re-
moval and that the great number of cases
| of arrangement and disease of these or
| gans is due to this use. 1t takes only
little time to learn to enjoy many kinds
! of food without salt, and we advise our
| readers and others to look into this mat
ter and to try and diminish the use of this
condment so far as possible. We believe
they win be better for it.
"A young laundress thrust a broken
! needle into her right hand while washing
| clothes, says Cosmos. The needle having
| disappeared in the flesh, the surgeon, who
| was consulted several days after the ac-
| cident, refused to perform an operation,