The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-12
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man as saying that thsarmers of Iowa
are making money out ( the COW. THE
Iowa cow, he says, 'hs proved of far |
more peneHa as reN,enus'aiser than 10
firmly established as one f the institu-
tons of the land In the Glnty of Jones
the farmers have in bankfeDosits over |
100000. according to the last report of
our state dairy commissioned Here is an
object lesson to the agricuuralists all
over the union. for it goes to loW that by
proper management and atteion 10 The
right things farmers can becne lenders |
of money instead of borrower"
The aerial observation caran ingen-
ious device which has just been,erfected
by Paul Skobeloff. Russian wal ex-
pert, is destined, says New You paper
to be OF great service in marine tarfare
as by its application the ofncersof one |
fleet can be appriZed of the enemy move |
mentS by signals from the cloudSwhne |
the enemy will be ignorant of being /
watched. This invention is, to SON eX- |
tent modification and vast imlOVe- |
ment upon the war balloon, yet 1t ears |
so little resemblance to the usuallyton- |
ceiVed idea OF that machine that thsob- |
server might well be pardoned for Ais- |
taking it for anything. except an air sip. |
1t is, in fact, a combination Of all he |
practicable features of air craft constrJl- |
ed during the last quarter of a centut |
and, in addition, has number of entires |
new and novel features which give it |
success heretofore unattained by any nl
Vention for aerial navigation.
The novel sight of a man eating, with
seeming relish. nails, glass, screws and
other indigestible articles was witnessed
yesterday, says the Baltimore Sun of Fri
day, by the faculty and students of the
Baltimore Medical College. The man was
Samuel Harris, % years old, of Syracuse,
n. Y, who calls himself the Ostrich
Man." who has been exhibiting himself TO
the students of medical colleges through
out the country for the last seven years.
eating
nails, one two-inch screw, a three-inch
horseshoe-nail and a portion of lamp
chimney, he. bit piece off the blade of
a pocketknife and swallowed it. Several
members of the faculty examined Harris
with out finding anything to give him I'M
usual digestive power: Harris then per-
mitted one of the students to pull him by
the hair, which appeared to be as strong
as iron. Harris said his secret was in
the fact that he always ate a hearty meal
of beef and bread before taking an allow
ance of the other articles.
A novelty promised for the New York
cycle show, says the American Cyclist, is
a device for testing and exhibiting bali
bearings. This is an invention covered
by patents, and is said to be really one of
the most instructive devices relating to
the vital part of a bicycle that could pos
sibly be made. The remarkable exhibition
is made by using a cut-glass hub of beau
tiful design, having glass BAH races with
large steel balls, steel cones and axle. all
of which in operation are clearly exposed
to the eye. This crystal hub. with its
crystal ball races, is set up in wheel
Identical in all respects to a bicycle wheel
save that it is much larger, being forty
two inches in diameter. AS a testing de-
vice the main idea of this creation of in
ventlVe genius is by use of the glass hub
and ball cones to show in
a simple and most effective
manner the action of the balls
in any style of bearing in use. AS an
educat ional feature the crystal hub will
very likely be without peer in the entire
show.
"A Cleveland, o.. special says: "Cleve-
lands epidemic of mad dogs continues. In
regard to the peculiar malady affecting the
animals DR.. IS. e. Kaestien, a prominent
physician, said to-day: NV informal opin-
ion is that the reported cases are not those
OF genuine rabies. This year a complaint
resembling grip has developed among the
human species, and frequently has run into
cerebral meningitis. The meningitis has
| had varied effects. In some cases il has
resulted in death. In other cases it has
resulted in insanity. Through two or three
dog fancers / learn that dogs have beer
affected this winter with a complaint that
resembles the grip. Why couldn't the
grip give them meningitis as it has mem
perS OF the human family? A dog affected
with meningitis would froth at the mouth
probably, and would snap in its irritation
at other dogs, at persons and at objects
Or. w. II. Terrence said: 4 have been call.
ed upon to treat several pet dogs that
were in this condition recently l cannot
say that there have been more cases oil
this nature during the present winter thar
ported"
-Sxty-fve years ago. says the PhiladeI
phia Record, Hiram Lukens entered the
lntelligencer office, at Doylestown, tC
| learn printing, and he is there vet. setting
| type as fast as anybody around the place
ms record for continuous service with the
! establishment is probably unequaled in
business. Several 90
ment has changed, but he has never left
ms case. Three sets of floor boards have
| worn away under his feet in that Ions
| time, and 100 pairs of thick-soed boots
| nave been put on the retired list Fol-
! over 1850 working days his eyes have
| been trained on the type but still his Wis
| ION IS unlmpaired and he handles the
! smallest size with ease. 1t is quite fail
| to estimate that he has set and distribute
ed an average of 5000 ems of type a day
| or total in sixty-tive years of 156, 600 OK
! ems. This is equal to 2S 1888 columns Of
common type-enough for all the reading
| a half; Besides attending to ordinary
| duties he has trained at least $50 appren,
/ uceS, but not one of the lot could eVel
snow so clean proof as he Very few
| OF them approached him in point of rapiC
| composition.
The native tendency of women to gao
about is variously repressed in different
ages and countries, says the New York
! Tribune. In China their feet are early
! put in bandages, COMPRISING them to
| point where locomotion is attended with
! extreme difficulty. In other eastern coun.
! tries they are shut up in harems and
| guarded by large and limitary cunuchs: IN
| Africa they are fed to point of pingliid.
| lily which makes them practically immov-
| able. The North American Indian handi.
| caps his wife with all the impedimenta OF
| the family, including her papoose every
where restraint is laid on her against heI
naturally fugitive and mobile tendencies
| In all these expedients there is a certain
| measure of oppression and cruelty, but
| none of them equal in this respect the de.
| vice of st. Louis husband, who tied q
| mouse on the box containing his wife's
new bonnet and thus kept her a prisoner
| at home for ten days. She was ultimately
| restored to her freedom by the captain
| of the precinct. who brought around the
| station-house cat and a warrant for the
arrest of the cruel husband. His diaboli
| cal ingenuity is not unlikely to incite imi.
| tation here and there among the more un.
| feeling clan of spouses incapable of recog
| nizing the fact that to the female appre
| hension the domestic mouse is an obiec
| of more terror than the Sea Monster Of
! Perseus or the Dragon of St. George OF
an army with banners.
The approaching tests of engines run
! by compressed air on the Manhattan Gle
waited railroad are awaited with interes
| by railway mechanics saws the Spring
/ field v appbitqan Tho IJOadiay custom a