The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-05
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is only little village, and four enormous
tubs constitute the water works" One
hundred and fifty women make up the fire
department and one of their duties con-
sists in always keeping the tubs filled
with water. The women are fine workers,
it is said, and know how TO handle a fire
with as little confusion as possible.
in trying to make point against vege-
tarianism a member of the Ethnographi-
cal society in Paris read a paper before
that body short time ago in which he in
sisted that carnibals are exceedingly
strong and vigorous, far exceeding in
strength those tribes not addicted to such
food. He said that the savages who alb
stained from human food rarely ate meat
of any kind and were a puny lot The
most curious part of his argument was
that the flesh of women was much more
digestible and far more nutritious than
that of men; many tribes recognize the
fact and cat only women, until the supply
gives out.
Peter Casson is a butcher in the prohi-
bition town of Escondido. He also has a
ranch ano a winery. 1t is related that last
fall he made several thousand gallons of
wine which he stored in his big watts. One
holding 800 gallons was reserved for a
higher price. A few days ago Casson sam
pied this cask and felt it was going to be
a money maker. The vat had a small plug
that projected near the floor. How this
CHANGED to be pulled out by his herd of
forty hogs some time that day Casson does
not know. But the following morning his
cask was empty and his hogs wallowed
drunkenly about it. Only one was able to
rise to its feet, when it fell down again.
1t has been found that the average pro-
fessional life of a trained nurse is only
ten years. In that time she must save up
enough for her support in case of illness,
to which she is peculiarly susceptible, ow-
ing TO the nature of her work. She is al
ways liable to contract contagious diseas-
es from her patients-contagion not only
from epidemics such as cholera, yellow
fever and smallpox, but from the infection
OF typhoid troubles and pneumonia, which
are readily conveyed to the nurse in close
and conSt9nt attendance. At the end of
ten years of active work IN her profession,
the average nurse Is worn out and inca
pacitated for further arduous service.
Peter S. McNally, the Boston cham
pion long distance swimmer and life
saver, will sail for England in May, and
after several weeks of hard training he
will attempt to swim across the English
channel from Dover to Calais, a distance
of twenty-one nautical miles, or twenty
six statute miles. This swim has been
accomplished Dy only TWO persons, the
late Capt. Webb, who lost his life in
foolhardy attempt to swim the Niagara
rapids, and Capt. Paul Boynton, Who
crossed in an inflated rubber suit. Hun
dTeds of expert swimmers have unsuc-
cessfully tried to make passage across The
channel waters, but this fact does not
seem to be at all discouraging to Nc
Nally He is confident that he can ac-
complish the trip, and those of his
friends who are acquainted with his abii-
ties as a swimmer are equally confident
that he will be successful.
Prof. Lucien Blake of the chair of
electro-chemistry of Kansas University,
thinks he has discovered a way to make
white men out of negroes. In a. lecture
a few nights ago he said: The negro
owes his color to a carbon pigment in the
tissues of the skin. If a current of cleo
tricity be sent through tissues that con-
tain moisture, as all tissues of the body
do, the tendency of the current is to de-
compose and transport certain of the ele-
ments that make up those tissues and
liquids. A little experimentation will IL
most certainly reveal a practical method
of applying electricity so that it will de-
compose the carbon in the pigment layer
of a Negroes skin and leave him as white
as you or me. One way might be TO
place the candidate for a white skin in a
common water bath, insert one pole of The
battery in the water, and place the other
upon the negro's body. A mild current
of electricity would then diffuse itself
equally over the subjects body, but the
point of making it remove the carbon
without destroying the tissues would have
to be determined by careful experiment"
While most photographers are probably
still inclined to view with suspicion, or
with positive incredulity the claims made
nv re "a a
of producing pictures that duplicate the
colors as well as the form of nature by a
purely chemical operation, yet some pre-
sumably hard-headed English capital
lists have demonstrated their entire conf
dence in the Parisians solution of this old
problem by purchasing from him the pat
ent rights which he has obtained or applied
for in ali the countries that grant such
rights, says the New York Times. The
syndicate's plan is to keep the process a
strict monopoly. No one will be allowed
to buy the formulae for preparing the four
liquids by the use of which the colored
photographs are produced, but in each
country one or more agencies will be es-
tablished where the liquids will be sold
and instruction in their employment given
1t will cost some money to secure such an
agency The United States consul at
Frankfort reports that an offer of $4,000
for the exclusive franchise in Germany
HdS DtSl I6luSCu tne l@OnuOn company.
The consul, speaking apparently from his
own knowledge, declares that however
mysterious the process is, the accuracy
and beauty of its results cannot be ques-
toned, while the practical application of It
is so easy, and should be so inexpensive,
as TO open new era in reproductive art.
The lot of the nineteenth century cat
win not compare with that Of his ances-
tors, says an exchange. In early times
many countries held the gentle feline sa-
cred; Egypt thought the cat worthy of
worship, and many people have insisted
that the modern pussy descends from
those which awed the Pharaohs. If that
is So however, there seems TO have been
reaction in popular sentiment. Among
the ancient laws of Wales was one that
condemned a man who had killed a cat
to the punishment of being compelled to
hold the dead tabby by the tip of it's tail,
so that its nose touched the ground and
the amount of grain which was needed to
bury poor kitty had to be contributed by
the malefactor to the owner Of the deceas-
ed feline. That the cat had distinct eco
nomlc values IN those times is proved
by the fact that SaXony, Switzerland and
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