The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The largest building in the West for
killing and dressing poultry was finished
in Kansas City last week, and put to use
at the Armour packing establishment 1t
is go by 50 feet, and houses 10000 to q, 900
! chickens. From 125 to 80 hands mostly
| negroes, are employed in the industry at
| the packing house. and 1900 chickens
killed and dressed is considered a fairly
good days work for them.
The hull of none of our battleships
| OF cruisers is sheathed with copper. The
gunboats Newport, Vicksburg, Princeton,
| Annapolis, Marietta and Wheeling are
| sheathed with copper. and are the only
/ vessels in the American navy so treated
| The bottoms of all modern vessels are
| steel, and painted to prevent rust and
! fouling. None of the vessels captured at
Santiago was copper-sheathed.
| According to statistical returns the
suicide rates per annum a million of pop
ulation have risen during the past thirty
years from 81 to So in England and 10 to
| "a in Scotland. II is asserted, however
that the tendency 20 conceal the occur
| renee of death by suicide has diminished
since insanity has become more widely
| recognized as a disease; and this leads to
! the belief that suicide on the whole are
| not increasing.
There used to be a saying in the old
dueiing days of a generation past that
every bullet has its billet, says Invention
| Now, if may believe a statement in
! Der Militararzt, the time has arrived when
| a billet, even a blllet-doux may be con-
verted into a bullet. The Journal states
| that a French army surgeon has invented
bullet made of compressed paper COW
| cred by thin sheet of highly polished
! aluminium The new bullet it is claimed
| is less expensive than those in use; it
| makes equally as good targets at any
| range, and the wound made by it is, sur
| gically clean, healing with far greater
| ease than wounds made by any of the mis-
sizes now in use Thus, while the number
of wounded may be no less, the labor of
! surgeons will be llghtened by the absence
of septic conditions.
The Boulogne tugs have recently been
fitted with guns for firing a line across a
vessel al sea, for the purpose of establish
! ing communication by means of a life
! saving hawser, says the London Times
| The tug gets to windward of the vessel
| stranded on a lee shore, and, by anchor
| ing a short distance from it, is enabled
| to take off the crew On a level and
| sandy shore a stranded vessel may be
! hundreds of yards away, and in the teeth
! of a gale the rocket may not reach the
! wreck. The mode adopted by the Bou-
! logne Humane Society has some manifest
| advantages; for instance, it obviates hav-
ing to pull man 200 or 300 yards through
! the surf, with the prospect of rescuing
| him more dead than alive. Another point
! in favor of the method is that in a given
time one can rescue more persons by it
| than by the use of a ong-distance hawser
"A new kind of safety paper for banks
etc, is announced, though the inventors
name does not appear. It is a foreign
| idea, one feature of the invention con-
! sisting in printing or otherwise mpressing
| on the paper employed, a plurality of sets
| of lines or marks, one or more of which
! sets are indelibie, and the remaining sets
deliole; these lines or marks are made so
! fine and so closely alternating or relative
| ly disposed that, in ordinary observation
with the naked eye, no single line or
mark is distinguishable. Again, the in
! delible lines or marks are made Of a color
differing FROM though Complementary to
thai of the delibe lines or marks, so that,
owing TO their close juXtaposition, they
! win convey the impression of a color diff
fering from those of either of the sets of
lines or marks Thus any chemical ac-
| ton or erasure on such paper would, it is
| claimed be at once discernible, and the
shade made by the two color combinations
would be hard to duplicate.
When DR.. Wenycn, the famous medical
missionary, went to China, many years
ago. he had to combat great deal If
! prejudice against the practice of his pro-
! fession. However, many patients came to
| him and he made many cures, but some
! of the Chinese hterau jealousy instigat-
! ed an opposition hospital 10 Wenyon's s,
| equipped with all the facilities for the
practice of medicine according to Chinese
etiquette. A staff of Celestial doctors ad-
ministerej the drugs. The place was call
ed "The Hall of Ten Thousand Virtues,
! but somehow that did not assist the cures.
/ In fact ii came to be a case of going to
| Wenyon's for a cure and to the "Ten
| Thousand Virtues for a coffin. One day
! there came to the missionary a stately
gentleman, a learned man belonging to
! the upper classes, having a painful dis
order needing surgical treatment He
! hlred private ROOM was operated on
and in fortnight he was well. He had
| not tod who he was, but before he went
away he said to the doctor: "You might
like to know who 1 am, and / want 10
| tell you, because l am so grateful for be-
ing cured of this terrible disease. I am
| the head physician of the Hail of Ten
Thousand Virtues"
The island of Monte Cristo made ia
! NOUS by the masterpiece of the elder Du-
mas, has just passed into the hands of
! the Prince of Naples, who will employ it
! as reserve Tor big game hunting. Last
! spring it was abundantly stocked with
! chamos, and month ago King Humbert
! of Italy passed a few days on the island
with hunting party. His majesty dis
| tnguished himself with the rifle by get
! ting fifty-one head out of a total bag of
seventy chamois. This is a record the
previous achievement almost approaching
it being a total of forty-four by King
| Humbert's father, King Victor Emman-
uel. On reaching Rome the King had
documents transferring all "titular'
right to the island to his son, the Crown
Prince. 1t is not likely that the rent
roll of the Prince concerning this estate
will be very large. for, as in the days of
Edmond Dantes, the inhabitants are en-
tirely transient, the island being used
as shelter for fishing boats in case of a
storm or as a harbor for smugglers. The
island is thickly wooded. and there is
provided not only magnificent sport but
il will give the Princess of Naples an oD-