The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Gently tried with success in Belgium, con-
sists of small accumulation of two cells,
with an incandcscent lamp attached. 1t
burns for twelve to sixteen
hours, and gives light
from two and one-half to five times
brighter than the ordinary miners lamp.
1t keeps alight in any position. and is not
extinsuished by current of air or an eX-
plosion.
"A composition for rendering paper,
cardboard, wood, etc, waterproof, con-
sists of solution of a chemical prepa-
ration of alum, chlorate of potash, caus-
tic soda made soluble in water, kaolin or
china clay, and lac or shellac made soiu-
bic by ammonia in water. The solution
is applied by immersion, or with a brush
or sponge, or may be incorporated with
the paper during the process of manufac-
ture. Writing or printing on this paper
is indelible in water, an advantage which
will be fully appreciated.
One of the greatest achievements of
modern civilization is in the security, COM
fort and convenience of modern travel.
The New York newspapers relate that one
day recently five children, all girls, in
three separate groups, arrived in that city
unattended from Europe. One of them,
like Sebi a little blue-eyed 5-year-old,
came from her home in Central Russia
with the directions of her route on tag
pinned to her bib. Gentle railroad and
steamship employees took her from con-
veyance 10 conveyance till she reached
her father in New York. Two other chill
dren and years old, travelled from Rus
STA to New York with no attendance in
the same ship. Two more girls, from to
10, came in another ship from Austria.
Their parents were waiting for them on
their arrival.
Putting libraries in office buildings for
the use. of the tenants, a feature which has
made its appearance within the last two
or three years, is more extensively devel-
oped in Chicago than elsewhere, the
Times Herald of that city claims Two
buildings, largely occupied by lawyers,
have libraries containing 5000 or more vol
umes, another building tenanted by ply
sicians has library of 1000 volumes, and
a third mentioned, where engineers con-
gregate, boast a reference library of 1850
volumes. These attractions are costly to
introduce and costly to maintain, the an
nual outlay for this purpose in one build
ing being stated at 5000. OF course the
tenants pay this in increased rents but
they find their compensation in the added
convenience. The landlord looks upon it
as a good stroke of business sagacity; it
fills his building with desirable tenants
and it pays.
The master mechanic of the Norfolk
and Western Railroad put himself on rec
ord recently as being against the electric
headlight for locomotives, because, as he
asserted, the rays of the light We're so
strong that it was impossible to distin-
guish the color of the signal lamps. This
statement was promptly challenged by
the president of one of the electric head
light companies, and diSproVed in an
actual test at Indianapolis which was wit
messed by several railroad officials. Many
locomotive engineers, however, strenu-
ousy object to the electric headlight on
another ground-that running against
it is very dangerous. That is, the stream
of light from an approaching locomotive
is so powerful that it is practically blind
ing, and the engineer who faces it cannot
tell how far away the approaching loco
motive is, or whether it is moving or sta
tionary. Persons who have happened to
face search-light will appreciate this
objection, which becomes especially CO.
gent in the case of single-track railroads.
London is said to be the healthiest city
in the world of it's size, says the HUI
manitarian. Then it has TO be remem-
bered that there is no other city of the
same size as London. The numerous
hospitals are evidence of the great preva-
the activity of the coffin makers and I'M
dertakers is well known when the fogs
come on Some interesting figures have
recently been given, showing the cases
treated at the voluntary hospitals and dis
pensaries of London, and also at the hos
pitfalls of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
They amounted together to the total of
1,753,Gl1 patients, and the following are
some particulars of the various classes of
disease represented in that total:
General medical diseases .............55S3 300
Treated at Children's hospitals .....127. 272
Eye affections .........................109 92S
Diseases of motherhood .............. 20, $40
Consumption OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ,236
Fare and throat .....................43 AZ. 290
Diseases of the skin ................ 80 131
ever ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2l8l0
Paralysis and diseases of the nerves. ST.
DR. L. O. Towards investigations in
to the commercial value of the scale insects
developed some matters of general inter-
est. For many years the cochinal or cac-
tus scale insect, now called Coccus caeti.
was used as the basis of an important red
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