The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-25
ITEMS of INTEREST.

anu sometimes vertigo and nausea, says
DR.. c. A. Wood. is within the expert
enee Of every ophthalmologist Not only
are there effects produced by the eye
strain consequent upon the added efforts
made by one or both eyes to see through
or around an obstruction, but the irreg-
ular figuring on the veil itself is, in some
instances, source of annoyance.
Power for the Jungfrau Electric Rack
railroad will be supplied by two water
fails, producing 4.JOO horse power. The
steepest grades will be / in 4 and the
minimum radius of curves 32S feet. The
conductors will be overhead Three trains.
holding 200 passengers, will be kept NOV
ing at the same time. The length of the
line is 7.6 miles, and the total rise is e555
rect. The speed is limited to So miles an
hour, the trip taking ninety-six minutes.
Inc cost is estimated at 100000.
The difficulty of removing fish bones
and similar distractions impacted at the
lower end of the oesophagus is well
known, says the Medical Times. and va
rious mechanical measures and appliances
have been invented to deal with the diff
Guilty. One of the most simple however,
and, as reported, one of the most effectual,
is to administer to the patient a pint of
milk, and 40 minutes afterward an emetic
of sulphate of zinc. The fluid easily passes
the obstruction and is, of course, rapidly
coagulated in the stomach into a more or
less solid mass which, on being elected,
forces the obstruction before it and so eff
fects its removal.
Johann Karl Won Eckenberg was the
strong man of the early part of the last
century. If the stories told of him are
true there are no strong men of the pres
ent day who could compare with him
Eckenberg is said to have broken anchor
a
nails and bolts he turned playfully be-
tween his fingers into screws. He could
bite into piece of oak wood. A bench
made of wood sixteen feet long he grasped
with his teeth by one end and carried it
around while trumpeter, blowing his
instrument, sat on the other end His
great feat was to lift platform holding
horse and rider, with one hand while
he drank glass of water with the other
The Old George w Tavern in Portugal
street, London, which Dickens common
tators unite in saying is the house which
the novelist described in "Pickwick" has
just been sold at auction for about SS7, $50
in our money. The building, which is
still a comfortable place of public resort
for food, drink and lodging, stands on
row of wooden pillars, the upper stories
overhangng, and is a good specimen of
the public houses of the c.ose of the last
century II Was the custom Tor many sue
cessive landlords of this old house to keep
sort of unauthorized medical register"
in which all the students al the neighbor-
ing hospital who had successfully braved
the terrors of the examination room were
expected to sign their names. These books
contained the names of many men who
have since become famous in medicine and
surgery.
In regard to superfuous eating, Popu-
1a- CT,
food needed for repair, for growth and
for heating, physiology teaches us. is
much less than is generally imagined, and
it impresses us with the truth of the great
surgeon Abernethys saying, that cone
fourth of what we eat keeps US and the
other three-fourths we keep at the peril of
our lives" In winter we burn up the
surplus food with limited amount of ex-
ira eXertion. In summer we get rid of it,
health, literally. at some extra risk to
health, and, of course, to life We. cannot
burn it. Our vital furnaces are banked,
and we worry the most important work
ing organs with the extra exertion of re-
moving what would better never have
been taken into the stomach.
The American Waltham Watch Com
pany has sent to the committee on ways
and means a most interesting and valu-
able exhibit. 1t consists of about SO 800
worth of ruby watch balance jewels. 1t
has been suggested by members of the
committee that these valuable manufac-
tured gems, the most of which are inn
ported. should be taxed as a means of
providing revenue, and the watch COM
pany is opposing this idea. The princi-
pal object of the company in sending this
exhibit to the capitol is to emphasize be-
fore the committee a fact which they
have already urged in letters that it
would be so easy to smuggle these little
gems into the country the government
would not derive any revenue therefrom
| A man could put 5000 worth into a chew
of gum, and stick them to his back teeth
and the custom house officials would be
no more the wiser. The rubies SAYS the
Washington Post are now safely locked
in the vault in the sergeant-at-arms of
| flee.
-London's population continues to in
crease rapidly, but recent census figures
reveal a change in the character of this
growth which has both surprised and puz-
zled the English statisticians, saws the
New York Times. Up to times compare
lively recent the city's increase was
chiefly at the expense of the country dis
trlcts and of other lands, the number of
births within the metropolitan limits
when not less than the number of deaths
being not nearly enough in excess of il to
account Tor the annual increment Thus
in the period of 1S71-SO, the increase i'm
population was more than 100000 in excess
of the births over the deaths In the
years 1880, however, the balance was the
other way, the addition to the popula-
ton being nearly 11S,OOO less than the
natural increase. In the period 1915 the
excess OF births over deaths was $50 0O
but the actual increase in the population
was slightly less than 10000. From these
f1sures it appears either that London-born
children are the victims of an excessive
death rate, or else that the opportunities
TO be found in the great capital are no
longer attractive enough 10 satisfy its
native inhabitants, large numbers of
wnom, therefore. have been led TO seek
their fortunes elsewhere. The problem is
a rather obscure one, and the new So
cial current has not yet been flowing long
enough TO make easy a determination of
It's direction, extent and cause.
Mckinley will be the first President to
have INC" in his name. says an ex-
change II is a singular fact. considering
the prominence of the Scotch and Irish
blood among the American people. that
not a single Me has served as Presi-