The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-20
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men is half that amount. and no fees are
accepted. Last year the combined salaries
of the mayor and the city fathers were
given to help needy widow pay her
taxes.
A speaking watch" ought certainly to
be appreciated by those restless people
who are perpetually striking matches in
the middle of the night to see the time.
The invention halls from Geneva, and is
an adaptation Of the photograph to the
ordinary watch. By pressing a button the
watch calls out the hour in distinct terms,
and II ntted with an alarm TO wake the
sleeper at a certain hour 1t adds: Time
60 get up; don go to sleep again"
Molten glass has long been moulded
into a great variety of ware, says the
Railway Review, but the blowppe driven
by air from mans lungs has been deem
ed Indispensable for shaping jars and 9TH
er hollow articles, as well as window gla So.
A recent invention bids fair to deprive the
glass blower of his vocation Just as many
time-honored craftsmen in the iron trade
have found their occupations gone. The
nrst use of the new glassmaking machines
rs in the manufacture of fruit jars at
Muncie, Ind. One blowing machine is
said to do away with the services of three
men, and Ii is estimated that the same
product can be turned out with only two
thirds as many workmen employed. The
introduction of these machines in glass
making is regarded as fully as revolution
airy IN that trade as was the Introduction
of the Bessemer converter and the open
"a
type-settng machine, self-binding har-
Vester, ETC., in their respective fields.
%! by gum! There really is no end to
the ways In which the microbes of disease
may be passed on from person to person.
A few days ago, a child going home from
school saw what she thought gorgeous
lump of chewing gum on marble gate
post. 1t looked fresh; she seized it, and, di-
Vidlng 1t, chewed one-half and conveyed
the other half to a sister at home. Within
few days both sisters had canker spots
on the inside of their cheeks and their
gums so precisely alike and so utterly un-
like anything they had experienced before
that the doctor felt that he need seek no
further explanation than that lump of
gum; and that there is still a capacity for
injury In infected gum the following West
Chester item from the Philadelphia Record
shows: While attending school a few days
ago a child of Joshua Abel came in contact
with schoolmate who had just been tax
en- i'll. The Abel child returned home and
divided some chewing gum she had in her
mouth among four brothers and sisters
Next day the entire family was stricken
| with d1phtheria, and the house is now I'M
der quarantine
During the past few weeks the Paris
postal officials have been troubled with
a considerable number of letters which
| they find it quite impossible to deliver.
Ihey are all IN one handwriting, says a
| London Daily News telegram, and are ad-
| dressed, for the most part, to celebrated
| personages who have long since passed
ence. One envelope bears the inscription,
| Monsieur lie Marechal de SAKE, a Paris -
and there rs added the direction In
| case of absence, forward Immediately to
| the seat of war Another letter is ad-
| dressed to Monsieur Corneille, to the
| good care of his majesty, in Paris" The
/ most extraordinary thing about the let
| tiers is their contents. All ask the ques-
| ton: What influence do you think the
| else on contemporary journalism" The
| writer signs himself Emile de Girardin,
| the Pantheon" The postal authorities
| Sagely conclude that he must be the VIC
| tim of hallucination.
Empress Elizabeth has at the present
moment sort of polygot American in her
| service, says an exchange. He bears the
| name of Barker, speaks almost every Ian
guage under the sun, and has taken the
place of Prof. Christomanos, who for so
| many years past has attended her majeS-
ty in all her wanderngs for the purpose
| of teaching her Greek and conversing with
| her in that language. The professor for
some reason or other has been dismissed,
| and Barker has taken his place as the
| constant companion of the empress on her
| interminable pedestrian expeditions. His
duties are, to say the least, peculiar for
| throughout the walk, which lasts hours
| and extends over miles at an exceedingly
rapid pace, he has to read almost inces-
sanity to her from the daily papers in
| English, French, German. Italian and
| Spanish. He trots along beside her with
bundle of twenty-five or thirty news
| slant flow of journalistic intelligence, and
| when he shows signs of being fatigued in
one language, is asked to try another. In
| order to prevent stumbling in his precpit-
| GUS progress, he is forced to keep one eye
on the printed sheet and the other on the
path, with the result that his eyesight is
becoming impaired, so that his tenure of
his present appointment is not likely to
prove a permanency.
| Sleep ensues when the brain is largely
denuded Of blood, when cerebral anaemia
is established, says the Spectator To
partly empty the brain of its blood sup
ply, TO keep the head cool, the body suf-
hclently warm and to send the blood rath-
er to the lower eXtremities-this is the
physical problem of the sleepless. 1t is
interesting to note that during sleep a
great number of the bodily functions con-
tinue quite normally without interfering
with sleep itself, and, therefore, sleep is
1 not so ike death as some of the poets
have imagined. Man asleep is not so pro-
foundly different from man awake, the
two chief points of difference, however,
being these: A greater indrawing of oxy-
gen and exhalation of carbonic acid and
a complete vasomoter rest. The bedroom
and the state of occupant assuming the
factors in the problem. The sleeping room
should be airy and cool never, for adult
persons, reaching a higher temperature
than 60 degrees though young children
need greater warmth. The head should
never be under the sheets, but exposed and
cool. The feet should be kept warm by a
little extra clothing at the foot With a
heavy sleeper there should be no thick
curtains, but with light sleeper curtains
are essential as sunlight plays upon the
optic nerve and rouses that attention
which is the one object of the sleeper 10
keep in suspended animation The bed
should never be between fireplace and
door, as it catches the draughts, and il
is more dangerous and more easy to con-
l.tract a chill in bed than in the DAYTIME
the specially chilly period being about 3
a. m.
"A new sailing vessel, termed the ''um-
brella boat" or boat with a cyclone sail
has been very conspicuous at Cowes and
in the Solent, says the Scientific American
The chief feature of this huge umbrella
rugged above the boat is, it is said, that
the wind pressure does not tend to in
cline the boat. When the wind is making
a large angle with the sail the center OF
pressure is almost at the center of the sur
face, but when the wind
strikes the sail at an acute
angle as in all sails or kites. the
center of pressure moves towards the
weather edge; but, by suitably ADJUSTING
the sail, the desirable result of obiiterat-
ing all heeling movement has been achieV-
ed. In practice this has been obtained by
putting more sail to the leeward than ia
| the ViOdUard nj