The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-28
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he is safe, so long as he remains there.
Usually his family supply him with food
until he is able to make his escape, but
he is never allowed to return to his own
tribe.
I'm Berlin no animal may be killed, I'M
der heavy penalty, except at the NUM-
cipal slaughter-house. Every animal is
not only subjected to close scientific in
vestgation, but specimens of its blood and
tissues are examined under powerful
microscopes, As lady miscroscopists with
eyes trained to the work, being constant
ly employed.
In the British settlement in the great
Chinese city of Shanghai ready money is
practically unknown. After you have had
lunch at restaurant you calmly get up
and walk out without thought Of paying
in cash. Some time later in the day
coolie arrives at your residence with tiny
slip of paper-a chit" as they call it
simply memorandum of the amount.
For fifty years the city of Grenobe,
in France, has maintained a municipal
restaurant and kitchen, where meals are
cooked and supplied at cost. The food is
of the best quality; The cooks are skilful,
and the service is excellent. One may dine
there on bread and soup for 3 cents, and
have his hunger thoroughly appeased, or
may pay y cents and enjoy course din
ner.
"A French sea captain living in the Rue
d'Alesia, in Paris, kept savage orang-
outang as a pet in his rooms and refused to
chain him up. During his absence recent
ly a burglar entered the house, was tack
led by the ape, which bit him horribly and
tried to strange him, but was rescued by
people, who heard his cries for help. On
hai tq xn1 RI tha fol fba lArfre rI-r.
went mad.
There has been a rise in the market
value of wives in Natal, South Africa. Be
fore the rindepest killed so many cattle
the quotation was eleven head of cattle
valued at f33; but eleven head now repre-
sent f132 1t is being urged that the gov
eminent should fix three head as the price
of wife for the present, and should make
il rule that the money equivalent may be
paid where cattle are unprocurable.
"A striking example, as it may well be
regarded, if the utilization of water power,
made possible by means of wheels of the
impulse type, is said to be presented in the
arrangements recently made for power in
The well known textile goods mandatory
of NJ. Benoist Cadet, fills, at La Batisde. a
town south of Bordeaux in the department
of the Tarn, France, says an exchange.
Here steam engine, which formerly was
in service to furnish power for the entire
operations of the establishment, is now
held in reserve for periods of low water,
and the greater part of the time power is
furnished by a thirty-six-nch impulse
wheel, working under a head of 12S feet
al 285 revolutions per minute, and furnish
ing some forty-horse power in the whole
Furthermore, in this arrangement the use
of contracting nozzles renders a high eff
/ Ci wit 4 h.
which is practical point of much i'm
portance.
A very valuable document has ben is
sued by the bureau of mines Philadalpia.
showing the production of anthracite and
bitumnous coal in Pennsylvania last year.
1t appears that there was a decrease of
over 100000 tons of anthracite in 1897, as
compared with 1896, while the production
of bituminous within the same period in
creased nearly four and one-half million
tons. The number of persons employed
in mining anthracite was larger than that
of those employed in mining the bitumn-
ous-that is, the amount of coal mined
for each person working was far less in
the case of anthracite than of btuminous
Again, the number of accidents fatal or
otherwise, was very much larger in min
ing anthracite than bituminous. There are
various reasons why anthracite mining is
more hazardous-the mines are deeper and
blasting with high explosives is more nee
essary, more machinery is employed in pre-
pairing the coal for market, this, of course
| increasing the liability of accident; on the
other hand, however, anthracite mines are
free from the formation of fire-damp or
explosive gases, except under very I'M
usual conditions.
The value or harmfuIness of chemical
adjuncts in the treatment of edible sub
hae Iad 10
England especially the public mind has
been more than ever stirred by disclosures
lately made by scientific experts, says the
New York Sun. The official analyst for
Marylebone, for example, in a report just
issued, dwens emphatically upon the prac-
tice of coloring margarine with aniline dye
SO as to resemble butter, and urges
the Importance of making it an
offense to color foods with anilne dye
unless the purchaser is informed of the
fact Investigation shows the aniline dyes
possess such great tinctoria power that,
even with those that are poisonous, the
quantity taken III consumption of any one
ordinary colored article is most minute, so
that in few cases could really decided
symptoms be produced; on the other hand
when sugar, butter, milk, cream, sausages,
confectionery, and a number of other
things all have a small trace of aniline,
these traces in a day add up. Observation
anu experiment. nave SIOMu Ildl the AM
line dyes in small doses interfere with d.
gestion-indeed, scientific opinion is that
the increase of maladies of the digestive
organs is in part due to the increasing
use of amline dyes in fruit products.
The wounds sustained by marines at
Guantanamo bay were terrible In effect
and appearance says an exchange. In
the very first accounts of the skrmishes
there it was noted that the dead were
terribly mangled. This was due to the
efficacy of the Mauser bullet at short
range. The wounds were saucerlike af-
fairs, and at first 1t was thought that the
Spaniards had use soft cartridges.
which set up or spread like a mush-
room upon impact. but the fact that the
Mauser rifle was the regulation small arm
of the Spanish infantry led TO an exami-
nation of the kind of damage it does. AT
short range the Mauser bullet because of
its wonderfully rapid twist, tears a large
hole At a greater distance its gyrations
grow fewer, its flight Is steadier, and it
makes a Sitting wound like a saber
thrust. At the greatest effective range
the Mauser bores like an auger, leaving
only a small incised wound and completely
penetrating bone, sinew, tendon, or flesh
sod 10 a.