The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

had an aluminium plate four inches IN |
length placed in his jaw 10 TAKE tIE pa
Louise j. Lyle of the Presbyterian H9sp1l-
tai Allegheny, Pa, that ne mas thtIely
recovered. and is now in as sooo dllt ~
as ever before. Mcconnell enteled me
hosnital iast lime. He had had tooth
extracted some time before puA tIE ueu'
fist shattered the jawbone, causing Pc
cay Mcconnell writes that he mas iuly
recovered, can eat as well as ever, anu
would never know that part OF his ahato-
my IS aluminium.
The big ocean greyhounds will soon,
1t is thought be equipped with hfehoats
harnessed to balloons, SO as TO be pfac-
ticaIIv unsuitable Cylinders filed with
compressed gas will be placed in com
partments of the lifeboats, and from these
the balloon, which will be harnessed win
cords to hollow mast connected WIN VIII
the cylinders, is inflated. The mast, Wnlch
is iron tubing, is adjustable, ana, When
turned forward the big balloon acts as
a sail, oars proving quite UNNECESSARY.
The combination boat will doubtless prove
of the greatest service in saving people
far out at sea. In recent test II was
shown that, even with the boat fllled WIN
water TO the SunWales, the llItlhg power
of the balloon prevented the craft from
either sinking or upsettlnS'
To demonstrate whether diamonds do,
as has been claimed, store up light and
subsequently give it off when ~ complete
darkness, the French Investigator, Mr..
Mascart, arranged a dark room, in which
a collection of $50 diamonds was placed.
In one side of the room an ordinary al
ternating current arc lamp was suspend
ed. The lens, which served the purpose
of concentrating the light was covered
with a violet-colored glass so that only
the ultraviolet rays were thrown on the
diamonds. Among the stones were sew
ca river@pd several from the South Afri-
ton only thrrpgs OF the entiFn cQlho,
reScent-one, BfdaInan stone of one and
fVe-eighths carats. possessed this quality
in a remarkable degree, and an old Bra
lillian stone of three carats also showed
the same property. The two stones
whose phosphoreseence was most marked
were perfectly white stones, with a blu
ish tint. They assumed milky white
color of the variety which comes from
the Bagagon mines of Minas Geraes, of
which only few are found annually. The
phoSphorescence exhibited by these
stones lasted for fifteen minutes after en-
poSure with, however, a gradually lessen
ing intensity. All of the other stones
were invisible in the dark. Pure white
light was also used, resulting in a less
beautiful experiment, although the phos-
pnorescence was quite apparent. This
test gully demonstrated the fact that some
diamonds, though not all, possess the
power of absorbing light and emitting il
il the dark.
AT Philadelphia the other day L was
much interested by visit to the editorial
department of the Pennsylvania railroad
says writer in the Chicago Record. 1t
Is composed OF about dozen men, under
the direction of Mr.. Frank N. Barksdale
and in addition to looking after the adj
Vert1sinS their chief duty is to read the
newspapers for the officers of the com
pany. About 800 papers are received daily
from all over the world, which are faith
fully examined by experienced readers,
who understand all modern languages,
and, like the exchange editors of a great
newspaper, can detect an interesting par
agraph at a single glance. Each man has
pair of scissors in his grasp and clips
every item of news and editorial, every
personal and advertisement. that he thinks
will interest the head men of the road
When the DAYS reading is done the clip
pings are assorted and pasted according
to topics upon sheets of heavy MANILA pa
per, bearing the date and the title of the
classification. The sheets are then Sepa-
rated and laid upon the table of the presi-
dent, who is thus able to get the news
of the world and expressions of public
opinion upon important topics at a glance.
When the president reads them he passes
them down to the vice presidents, the gen
eral manager, the general solicitor the
general passenger and freight agents and
other officials, and when they have all had
their chance the sheets are returned to
Mr.. BarkSdale, who files them away in
pigeon-holes according to their date. Thus
the history of the world is preserved for
ready reference in a permanent form, and
articles of importance are indexed.
The Dismal Swamp is by no means so
cording to the description of local geog-
raphers, possesses features which ought
TO make it an attractive watering-place
and Sanitarium, says the New York Trib-
une. 1t IS not, as most people imagine, a
vast bog sunk low in the ground, into
which the drainage of the surrounding
country flows. On the contrary, according
to accurate surveys, it is above the level
ground, some fifteen or twenty feet, and,
instead of being the receptacle, is, in its
immense sponge-like bulk, gathering the
waters that descend upon 1t, the source
of rivers, five of which take their origin
within it and flow onward to the sea. The
swamp is entirely of green timber; there
is no decaying wood, the two principal
woods that grow there being the juniper
and the cypress, which never rot They
fall on the ground like other trees, but, in
stead of decOmposing, they turn into peat,
ana in that form remain Interchangeable
and indissoluble. There is nothing in the
swamp to create miasma; no rising of the
tides and decomposition of rank Vegeta-
bles; no marshes exposed to the burning
rays of the sun All is fresh and sweet,
and the air is laden with balmy odors.
The water is tinged with the juniper to a
faint wine hue, and is thought to possess
valuable sanitary qualities. 1t is often
used by vessels going on "A foreign cruise,
on account of its heaithful properties, and
also because 1t keeps fresh and clear for
years. Those who live near 1t are not
slow to declare that it is the healthiest
place on the continent, and are perhaps
not without reason for the faith which
Beware of black animals Is consider
ed sound advice by a magazine writer who
devotes six pages and numerous illustra-
tons to warnings against and awful ex-
amples of black animals. leopards, cats,
ravens, beetles and undertakers' horses.
The black leopard is admitted to be the
most savage and in tractable of all quadru-
pcds. The horrible black leopard Death
in Eugene Sues Wandering Jew" who
was followed about by loathsome Eng
lishman, anxious to see him eat his tanner,
is declared not to be a scrap overdrawn
when compared with the black leopard
now in the geological gardens-Satan by
name. Satan hates the whole world and
wants to fight it, to gnaw it. to tear 1t to
rags and splinters; and he is staring,
dancing mad because he can't get at the
world to do IT, He lies there, black and
deadly, his yellow eyes ablaze, ready to
pounce on you--if only those bars sudden
~ melt away! But hey don't melt and
you come no nearer. Then Satan filings
himself at the bars with yell and flies
up and down and over and over about his
cage like nothing but a black leopard with
about 5000 seidlitz powders swallowed
separately and suddenly efferVescing all
together inside him. lie claws and bites
at the walls the bars. the floor even his
own tail and feet in frantic rage a his I'M
ability to get near you. And finally he
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