The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-26
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and mystery men of the kingdom and in 1t
they keep thousands of snakes of all kinds
and sizes. These Shiny, crawling creatures
literally own the village, as well as the
temple that has been erected for their spe-
cial accommodation, and may be seen
hanging from the rafters and doorposts of
any house in the town. In Werda to kill
serpent is a crime punishable by death.
The serpents in the sacred. temple are fed
by regular corps of attendants, who are
paid for their services out of the public ex-
chequer.
Some interesting data concerning the
needle industry of Germany are furnish
ed by the United States consul at Anna
berg, showing a very great development
during the last few years. The principal
seats of activity in this speciality are Ak
7 la-Chapelle, Burtscheid, Iserlohn, Altoona,
Nuremberg, and Schwalbach, the facto-
ries of the first named place alone produc-
ing the enormous quantity of 100000
needles weekly. The following figures
show to what extent Germany has been
supplying other countries with increased
quantities of this article During the eight
years from 1880 TO 1887 the amount sent of
needles of all kinds-em broldery sewing
knitting, darning, and sewing machine
sorts-reached H. 100000 pounds. The fol-
creased to 100000 pounds. The enormous
growth indicated by these figures is attri-
buted to the prodigious amount sent from
Germany to China
"A new ships bottom paint, consisting
of seaweed, which, while green and moist,
is ground in OIL and mixed with litharge,
lead acetate, turpentine and linseed oil, is
noted in the Farben Zeitung Such a
iS Said m Ia ot1Ixv oil, 10
protection against the adhering of shells,
but also to prevent worms from entering
wooden ship bottoms or any wooden sub
marine constructions. The method of
manufacture pursued in the production of
this peculiar article is as follows Into a
definite quantity of linseed oil, say forty
eight litres, there are. put onerhalf pound
of litharge7 and one-half pound of sugar
Of lead. these being then boiled for five
hours at a temperature of 600 degrees F.
The next stage is TO bring this mixture to
the proper painting consistency with tur-
pentine, adding one-half liter of seaweed
which has been ground in Oil, in the green
and wet condition. For coloring, various
substances, such as ocher etc, may be
added, the paint being then ready for use.
in France, boats provided with wells
for keeping fish alive are only used for
fish. In England Holland, Denmark
Norway and Germany, these boats, how
ever, are in constant use, much attention
being paid in these countries to this
means of preserving the fish alive. Fish
thus taken alive to the markets enjoy
much greater favor in the eyes of the
public than fish preserved in ice. These
vivaries are either part of the
boat itself or else are large NOV
20 cir In
either case, the water is renewed by
the progress of the boat, the liquid being
communicated to the deck by means of
a kind of well in which the action of
the swell is felt. A large number of the
French fisheries still continue TO make
use of ice only as a means of taking the
fish alive overland. The Societe des
Pecheries de rOcean, for instance, has
organized the work in such a manner
that the products of the trawling fleets
(some five in number) are taken ashore
every day by one of the boats, ice being
employed in transit by rail inland.
Several well-knowh French cyclists
have lately, the British Medical Journal
points out, been rejected as unfit for mill
tary service by reason of hypertrophy ana
other diseases of the heart. "A cotempo-
rary, representing no doubt lay opinion,
pIO16SSSS dSlOIilSlIltIll dl THIS result buL
medical men will be rather surprised thas
the numbers are so small There must
be few of US who have not seen the ILL
effects of over-exertion on bicycle. The
commonest is palpitation and temporary
dilation; but even this is sometimes very
difficult to cure. In case which occurred
recently, lady, ordered for a fortnights
change Of air after influenza, chose to
spend it in bicycling about fifty miles a
CHI hoS 6al
that time-now nine months ago-a pulse
which on the least eXertion rises to 100
though she has not ridden again. That
temporary dilation occurs is enough TO
show the great strain put upon the heart,
and il is an added danger that the sense
of fatigue in the limbs is so slight The
rider is thus robbed of the warning to
which he is accustomed to attend. and
repeats or continues the strain upon his
heart. AS in other similar cases, the eff
feet is to render that dilation permanent
which was at first but temporary. and 10
cause an. increase in the muscle of the
heart by repeated exertion. The heart
produced is of large dimensions and of
thick walls-a condition which NAV ner
maps, give little uneasiness to its owner
but which medical man will view with
considerable distrust and apprehension.
Weakly and elderly people cannot he too
abused though, if taken in sensible meas
ures, few are more healthful or enioya.
ble' a
"A writer in Italia Termale, quoted Nv
the National Druggist, is not much in ia
vor of the theory that late suppers are in
furious. He declares, in fact, says the
latter writer, that many persons who ,e-
main thin and weakly in spite of ali ne
cautions in regard to diet, etc. owe the
1act largely to habitual abstenoiousness AT
night He says, very truly, that physioI-
ogy teaches us that, in sleeping as in
walking there Is a perpetual waste going
on in the tissues of the body, and II seems
out logical that nourishment should ba
continuous as well. The digestion of the
food taken on at dinner time. or in he
early evening, is finished, as a usual hing
before or by bedtime, yet the activity Of
the process of assimilation, etc, continues
for hours afterward, and when one retires
with an empty stomach the result of his
activity is sleeplessness and an undue
wasting Of the system All other crea- |
lures, says the writer, outside of man
are governed by a natural instinct which |
leads those having a stomach to 90 l..