The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-19
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ana Wisconsin,; Arizona is IN Louisiana
and Nebraska; Alaska is in Indiana, Mich
igan, West Virginia and Wisconsin; Ar
kansas is in Wisconsin; California is in
Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan,
Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania; Colo
RADIO is in Illinois and Texas; Delaware is
in Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa. Kentucky,
New Jersey and Ohio; Florida is in ILL.,
nols, Indiana. Massachusetts, New York,
North Carolina and Ohio; Georgia is in
Indiana and Vermont; Idaho is in Ala
bama, North Carolina and Ohio; Indiana
is in Pennsylvania; Iowa is in Louisiana;
Kansas is in Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky,
Ohio and Tennessee; Louisiana is in Mis-
souri,; Maine is in Minnesota New York
and New Jersey; Maryland is in New
York; Michigan is in North Dakota; Mon
tana is in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri,
New Jersey and Wisconsin; Nebraska Is
in Arkansas, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsyl-
Vania; Nevada is in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and
Texas; New Hampshire is in Ohio; New
York is in New York and Iowa; Ohio is in
Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri New
York and Texas; Oklahoma is in Virginia;
Oregon is in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana,
Maryland, Michigan Missouri North Car
DINA, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wis
consin; Tennessee is in Illinois; Texas is
in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mary
lana, Michigan, New York, Ohio and West
Virginia; Utah is in Illinois and Pennsyl-
vania; Vermont is in Illinois, Indiana and
Missouri.
An American inventor has just secured
the patent rights in Great Britain for an
apparatus to scrape and clean the bot
toms of ships while afloat. 1t consists of
frame of metal or wood, about 80 feet
long, which is suspended from the side of
the vessel Within the frame a grooved
pulley is mounted at each end, and over
said pulleys an endless driving cable
passes which also passes around grooV-
ed pulley provided with rollers. A flexible
power-transmitting shaft is fastened to
one end of the shaft of the pulley A cas-
ing contains two parallel rotating brushes
and casing is provided with a handle for
holding the brushes against the hull. A
diver holds the rotating brushes against
the sides of the vessel below the surface,
and thus scrapes off all weeds barnacles,
etc. AS the diver moves in the direction
of the length of the vessel he draws the
frame along. The pulley is rotated in all
positions of the frame as the driving cable
passes around the pulley. The diver can
thus clean the vessel for a distance great
er than the length of the frame before the
frame need be shifted in the direction of
the length of the vessel. The frame is
suspended directly above the surface of
the water so as to permit the diver to op-
crate upon the lowest parts of the hull
without requiring a flexible shaft of I'M
due length. The diver may stand on a
weighted frame lowered into the water.
The brush may have bristles OF copper or
steel wire, cane, rattan, or whalebone. In
case the vessel is not to be cleaned to
very great depth, a handle lever can be
mounted to the casing of the brush by
means of which handle lever the brushes
can be pressed against the side of the hull
from the float adjacent to the hull, which
float then contains machinery for operat-
ing the flexible shaft.
In a recent work of NJ. Gelineau on
Unhealthy Fear, or Phobiae," the au-
thor gives a complete list of these morbid
mental conditions, says the Medical Times
and Hospital Gazette. They are aichmo-
phobia, or fear of sharp points, as of nee
dies or pins; agroaphobia, or fear of open
spaces, with a sub-variety; thalassopho-
bia, or dread of the ocean; astrophobia,
or fear of the stars and celestial spaces;
clauStrophobia, of fear of inclOsed spaces;
mysophobia, or fear of filth; haematopho-
bia, dread of blood; necroDhobia or horror
of dead bodies; thanatophobia, or fear
of crowds; monophobia, a fear of being
left in solitude; baciliphobia, or fear of
microbes; siderodrOmOphObia, or dread of
railways; pathOphobia, or fear of disease,
with many subdivisions of which the most
important and most frequent are angina
phObia, syphilophObia, lyssophobia Cor
fear of rabies, spermatophObia and zoo
phobia Tor fear of animals), which in its
turn has subdivisions for cats, dogs,
| horses, mice, etc, ad tOtum catalogum an
| imalium. Further we find in the same
| list kleptophobia, fear of becoming a KEEP
tomaniac; phyrophobia, fear of matches;
| stasophobia, dread of standing upright;
aerophobia, or dread of draughts of air;
| acrophobia, fear of high places; toxico-
| phobia, fear of pOisOns; demonOphobia,
a dread of the devil (this is rather rare).
There are also a great number of pho
| biae peculiar to certain professional per-
| sons, which have yet to be Hellenzed and
| classified. The eliminating fear, however
| the quintessence of dread, is the fear of
| having a fear, the dread of dread, or pho.
| bophoba. The study of these phobiae
opens up a large subject, and the long
names will be hailed with delight by I'M
scrupulous members of our profession. In
calming Cor humbuggingO hysterical pa
| tients some of them would be invaluable
| for that useful and classic term "neuras-
| thenia" is getting a bit played out among
| the laity. The hypochondriac old lady
| who tells her sympathetic medical attend
| ant that even to think of travelling by
a horrid railway train sets her all of a
! tremble' will be greatly Gained and edi-
/ fled when DIR. WeSky gravely replies that
! such statement does not surprise him,
as she is suffering from that curious and
! interesting complaint called siderodromo-
| phobia.
| The people who used to play whist the
| old-fashioned whist. enjoyed the game
| and cherish pleasant recollection of the
! evenings whiled away in this pastime.
These people do not play whist any more,
says the Indianapolis Journal. If by
chance three of them are gathered to-
| gether the needed fourth is sure to be a
disciple of the new system; he plays scien-
| tific whist. and scorns their haphazard
methods. He may be too well bred to
speak his contempt, but he makes it felt;
1t envelopes him as a cloud; it is visible
in his air of patient endurance and the
! sad droop of his eyelids. The old-fash-
Toned player feels his inferiority and loses
his interest in the game. but at the same
! time cherishes a secret belief that the de-
voices of the new and improved" system
| do not get the entertainment out of Il
that he once did out of what was then
| considered a highly digniied and respect
able game but which is now condemned
as "bumblepuppy" The players now
! proceed as If performing a solemn rite;
they have no appearance of enjoying
themselves, but are serious of counte-