The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

children, is a corruption Of Bob, the name
of a famous Gothic general. II has been
used as a terror word for many centuries.
The cravat was originally a large
shawl worn around the neck, not for
show, but for comfort by a nation of
Eastern Europe called Cravates or
Croats
Watches originated at Nuremburg as
early as 14T. They were at first called
Nuremburg eggs, which they resembIed
both in shape and size. They were often
fitted into the tips OF walking canes.
On the state railways in Germany the
carriages are painted according to the col
ors of the tickets of their respective class
es. First-class carriages are painted yell
low, second-class, green, and third-class,
white.
The first use of Nlagara's power was
made in 1725, a primitive saw-mill being
operated. Nothing more was done until
1872 when Augustus Porter conceived the
plan of hydraulic canals, and in 1861 one
of them was completed.
in several of the eastern cities the ex-
perts on paving have recommended the
painting of asphalt cutters This is sug-
to do away with the disntegration due to
the action of standing water.
As France taxes bicycles and tricy-
Giles the number of machines used in that
country is known exactly. On Jan. l, 1897,
there were 329, S14 taxed, an increase of
nearly 74,000 over 1895, which had shown
an increase of $1,000 over the preceding
year. The revenue obtained in 1896 was
800, 339 francs
The Smithsonian Institution is about
issuing a report Of $50 pages, royal octa-
vo, setting forth the work of the first half
century of its existence All the leading
scientific men of the country have been
invited to prepare articles for it, setting
forth the progress that has been made in
their special fields during this period.
"A popularity of the yellow fever that
may not be generally known" said MIR.
A. NJ. Marcus of New Orleans to the
Washington Post, "is that it only appears
on the Atlantic side of this continent.
1t is liable to visit our Atlantic cities any
year, but its dread visitation is unknown
in San Francisco, Portland or any of
the towns on the Pacific coast. Even Oh
the Isthmus of Panama its ravages are
confined to the Atlantic end of the mar
row neck of land that connects the
seen explained, but the fact is well es-
tablished. Yellow fever is not, as has Of
ten been asserted, confined to the white
race. Negroes are not immune although
much less subject to the disease particu-
larry those of pure African blood. Those
with an Anglo-Saxon strain in them are
by no means exempt"
The arrest of bleeding in surgical OPP
erations is now said to be assured by
means of an instrument due to the inge-
nuity of Lawson TAFT, says the New York
Tribune. A platinum wire, so arranged
as 10 carry a current of electricity, is in
closed in the blades of a pair of steel for
cops or any other required instrument,
the wire for this purpose being insulated
by a bed of burnt pipe clay. This ar
rangement being perfected, a current of
suitable voltage is turned on, the artery
seized and compressed and in a few sec
onds the tissues and arterial walls are so
agglutinated that the passage of blood is
rendered impossible. The temperature
employed is about $50 degrees Fahrenheit,
the fact being thus apparent that the prin-
ciple involved in this device IS different
from that of electrical cauterizing instru-
ments.
The "clou," or great overshadowine
feature of the forthcoming Paris exposl-
ton, is yet lacking, and the manage
rnent has so far vainly sought for it amid
the myriad of practicable and impracti-
cable schemes preached by inventors and
theorists and cranks and are still in
search of new ideas and encouraging
their presentation, An immense captive
| balloon, an enormous telescope and a.
2G0-ton monumental clock are among the
suggestions; as are also great piano.
| rama's of the world, a giant electric
| gyroscope, typical streets of each coun-
! try, a palace of jewels, a ceramic palace
| and a thousand other schemes more or
less visionary; but meanwhile the manage
| nent Is yet bewailing the great unbound
'clou," which Is to take in the coming
exhibition the place of the Eiffel tower in
the last.
In all the European armies, save that
of Britain, canine intelligence is employ
ed IN the role of spies, messengers and
aids to the wounded The Italian sentries
! in the Alps are always accompanied by
! dogs; the Dutch found them in Acheen
| invaluable in preventing the butchery of
! sentinels by stealthy foes; the Russians
! employed them to some extent in their
| last war with Turkey; the French have
| used them in Tunis and Algiers, and the
Austrians utilize them in the detection of
ambuscades. The dogs employed by the
| Russians are wolf and sheep dogs and a
! species of St. Bernard, and equipped
with packages of bandages around their
necks and TASKS of soup or brandy. are
taught to find the hidden wounded, offer
them restoratives, give the alarm, and
| afterward if necessary, to draw them
on little handcarts to the hospital The
Germans use pointers, Scotch collies,
| Pomeranians and short-haired sporting
| dogs, which are trained to march silent
", indicating strangers by a point or a
low growl, to carry messages some miles.
TO obey men in the German uniform and
to halt all others
The use of salt as condiment, says
the Journal of Hygiene, is so general and
so universally believed in as necessary that
we rarely hear a word against its excess
sive use, but there are a multitude of per
sons who eat far too much salt-eat il on
everything, on meat fish, potatoes, mel
ons, in butter, on tomatoes, turnips and
squash, in bread and on host of foods too
numerous to mention To so great an ex-
tent is 1t used that no food is relished
w1fcl1 has MOI a salty taste, and this hides
more or lessfhe real taste which is often
very delicate. Now, the amount of salt re-
quired in the system is comparatively
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