The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-04
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/ clothes are hung. the device being sus-
pended from the ceiling by a rope and
! pulley, so il can be drawn up out of the
way after the clothes are hung.
/ A handy portable elevator for raising
| packages from wagons to the second story
of a building has a supporting ladder car
rying a sliding frame, which is raised and
/ lowered by a derrick mounted under the
/ ladder, an adjustable platform being
/ mounted on the frame, which can be set
level when the ladder is at any angle.
| A novelty 10 be exhibited at the Ma
/ Jional Tailors' Exchange convention, that
| will be held in Richmond on Feb. 8, will
/ be a suit of mems evening clothes for sum-
/ mer wear designed particularly for sea-
| side balls The coat will be of black al
paca, with MORE silk facing The waist
| coat will be white cashmere and the trous-
/ ers of lightweight laVender-colored French
/ cashmere. Patent leather pumps and plain
/ black silk stockings will complete the at
| tire. A sample of the suit win be worn
/ by a former president of the National Ex-
! change.
There is a wooden-legged steer at the
| livery stable of C. E. Wright, in State
street, says the Bowling Green CKy.)
/ Times and it is needless to say that he
| is a curiosity About ninety DAYS ago
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! tree on the farm of J. w. Sturgeon. Dr.
! John e. Gray of this city, was sent for
| an amputated the leg just below the
! knee. 1t healed in about twenty days, and
! the doctor then made the steer a wooden
! leg, which he strapped on. Since being
! furnished with the wooden leg he walks
with much more ease than a man with a
| false member and can run almost as
! swiftly as before suffering the accident
! The leg supplied is a hind leg, and the
! steer kicks with his stub in preference to
! bis good leg invariabl-.
-Locusts are regularly shipped from Al
/ geria to London, where they are worked
up by manufacturers of guano. This in
formation is of unusual interest now, says
! an exchange, owing to the report of pur-
| chaser for the English markets of Argen-
! tine locusts. which may compete with the
! African article. In this connection a re-
| port of the British consul general in AL
giers is of importance. Algeria had two
lights Of locusts last year. That the vis-
tations in that country are of magnitude
is shown when it is stated that the area
| over which the eggs We're laid last year
| was 424,500 acres, while 27012G bushels of
| young locusts were destroyed, and these
| are said to be below the real figures. The
| barriers or lines of defense. made by the
| Cyprus apparatus" or of zinc. extended
| over 322 miles, while lib bitches were
| locusts. The damage for the year is esti-
mated at about $2J0000.
When the great Leary raft went to
piece off Nantucket in December, 1888, no
one thought Of regarding it as anything ex-
| cept an unqualified disaster entailing Sc
| rious pecuniary loss on the owners of the
| raft This view however, was erroneous,
| for permanent good has resulted from the
accident. The raft was composed of thou
sands of logs and when it broke up each
| log became what may be termed a special
! observing station for the photographic of
| fee. Since December of that year, each
| log that has been observed, has had its
position noted by passing vessels, and
| from these observations the office at Wash
| ington has compiled and issued carefully
| prepared pilot chart. This chart repre-
sents the courses which the logs took after
the raft was broken up, and the points
in mid-ocean in which they were found;
il shows at a glance the general direction
of the currents, and gives an object les
son to the mariner for which data could
scarcely have been obtained in any other
way.
The Maryland terrapin the idol of cpl
cures, is to be protected. The Maryland
Game and Fish Protective Association has
prepared bill which will undoubtedly be
passed by the legislature this winter. max
| HilS II uHIdWIuI 10 Cdlcn uldlQOnQ-Ddck ter
| rdpin measuring less than five inches on
the under she'll A careful investigation
made by a Subcommittee of Eastern Shore
fish experts shows conclusively that large
numbers of small terrapin are annually
destroyed by being confined in ponds dur
ing summer. The diamond-b back terrapin
are rapidly disappearing, and ii is evident
that without a closed season they will soon
disappear. All efforts to raise them in
confinement have been utter failures, and
the present system of fencing them in
ponds merely results in large numbers of
small, understood terrapn being caught
in the summer and held in unhealthy con
hnement where a large percentage dies.
The bill, therefore, makes it unlawful TO
I catch terrapin of any size or to confine
them in ponds between April l and Nov. l.
The work on the Jungfrau railway is
being pushed forward, in spite of the Sc
we're winter weather which has set in In
Lauterbrunnen water power 10 the extent
of 400 pOrse power is now available, and
half of this force is being utilized for the
electric dynamos employed in the boring of
the Eigcr glacier tunnel The mountain
stream has been diverted from its course
for a distance of ten kiiometers, extending
from the water wheel house to the Schied-
egg station and the Eiger glacier, and the
open line between the Schiedegg and the
glacier. with a tunnel OF eighty meters is
electric railway over the tract can be
opened in the first half of next June, and
in time for the tourist season. The princi-
pal tunnel has been carried to distance
of $50 meters by hand boring-mainly the
work of Italian eXcavators-and the pre-
iminaries for tracing out the great tunnel
have been accomplished after some two
years labor. The rock is found to be ex-
ceuentiy adapted for tunneling and OK
periments on the Jungfraujoch have prov
ed that it is reached at a depth of twenty
! five to thirty meters under the snow in
stead of seventy meters. as was at first
| apprehended.
-Bacteriologists have been doing good
work in the investigation of the various
causes which lead to the dangerous con.
diton of many canned foods. says an ex.
change. Study was specially directed to
the bacterial fora of canned CLAIMS ana
Holsters, which have broken down, or in
other words been imperfectly preserved.
In every case where spelling" had oc-
cured, bacteria were present in large num-
bers. whilst in no instance were any dis
covered in sound cans. Sometimes only
a single variety. or a pure cultllre of a