The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

after theatrical company from Baden
Will give performance twice a week.
An American with large business inter-
ests in Mexico says that there is not a
manufacturing industry in Mexico con-
Quoted on business principles that is not
paying from % to 10 per cent. on the capt.
tai invested, and there are any number of
undeveloped fields for investment which
ere available to Americans with little cap
itai"
The fighting power of the newly form
ed republic, the United States of Central
America, is not great. Salvador has an
army of 1000 men, with a militia, of 1900.
It's navy consists of custom house cruis-
er. Honduras has an army of 500 men,
with 10000 militia and no navy whatever.
Nicaragua has an army of 1000 men, with
5000 in its reserve guards.
Walter Hickam, a Bonneville CNdo)
Klondiker, who has just returned to his
home, says that the Alaska fraud is the
greatest ever perpetrated upon the unsus-
pecting public There are many fine
claims there, but they were all taken be-
fore the exodus from the states began.
Hickam brought some dust back with
him, but is nevertheless several hundred
dollars short on the trip.
-Quartermaster Murray of the auxil-
larry cruiser Yale now the Paris was
among party of blue-jackets who went
aboard the Reina Mercedes a few days
after the battle of July in search of
relics. The wreck of the Spanish cruiser
has already been stripped of nearly every
thing portable by curiosity seekers, even
her figurehead having been sliced up into
spinters to serve as mementos; but Muir
ray and others of the Yale's crew found
a box of unused 7-inch shells, which they
carried off in triumph.
Just as the Dreyfus scandal is opening
again comes the news from Vienna that
Baron Alexander Won Marschfeld, a
colonel on the staff of the Austrian army,
has been quietly tried, convicted. deprived
of his commission and also his nobility
title, and sentenced to ten years of penal
servitude for selling to the military at
tache of the Russian embassy at Vienna
the plans of Austria for the defense of
Galicia and for the mobilization of the
Austrian army. The Russian military at
tache has been recalled.
The announcement that Paris mete-
biologists regard sun spots as having
some relation to temperature leads the
Rochester Post-Express to say: ut is
more than fifteen years ago that Henry
G. Maine of this city proclaimed as an in
controvertible scientific fact the indissol-
uble relation of cause and effect between
solar disturbances, better known as sun
spots, and meteorological disturbances on
the earth, and thus incurred the ridicule
that comes to reward man of an original
turn of mind for a discovery that runs
counter to current ignorance and preju-
dice. Now that he has won the good fight
and laid the foundations to a true science
of weather, we do not propose to stand
by in cowardly silence and permit the
Paris meteorological authorities or even
so respectable a scientist as NJ F'lam-
marion, coolly to gather in the fruits of
his long, arduous and most noteworthy
labors."
The action of poisons upon the system
is and always has been one of the most
interesting of subjects, says the New
York Ledger. Just how and why it kills
has but just been determined through a
series of experiments made by scientists.
The following description is unquestiona-
bly, the best and most lucid of any that
| have been given to the public THE
venom may be roughly separated into two
parts-one acting upon the blood, and the
other upon the nerves. When injected it
Immediately begins to create terrible de-
struction in the blood vessels, the walls
of the veins are eaten away and an in
| ternal hemorrhage takes place. When
! this is going on a portion of the venom
is attacking the nerves. Particularly sus-
cepuble to its raVages is the vasomotor
/ system, a nerve center which controls the
! muscles of respiration. Paralysis takes
| place in these organs, and the victim gen.
| orally dies from an inability to breathe
| The medical officer of one of the lead
! ing deaf and dumb institutions of England
/ states that he has obtained material aid
! from the seemingly improbable source OF
q loud-speaking telephone an the treat
ment of his patients, in the education of
| such deaf mutes as possess a fragment Of
| hearing power, the telephone being found
| 10 possess many important advantages
| over the speaking tube usually employed
In the first place, in arranging for this
purpose, the wires from several receivers
/ can be coupled up to one transmitter, and
| thus a teacher can instruct a group of
! children at the same time; then again, IL
is not necessary for a teacher to apply
! his mouth close to the transmtter, so that
! pupils have full view of the facial ex-
pressions and lip movement, which is not
! possible when having to direct his voice
! into the moGth-piece of a speaking tube or
trumpet. While seeing the movement of
! the lips, the patient has the sound con-
veyed close to his ear drum-a most ad-
vantageous combination.
The idea of utilizing the threads of the
spider on a larger scale than is. or was
done by telescope makers issvery old, but
attempts have never been persevered in.
About ten years ago a Madagascar mis-
| sionary, Camboue, experimental with two
! kinds of spiders of that country. He
| seemed to be successful but nothing fur
! Their has been heard of his researches
! In the professional schools at Chalais-
| Meudon, we see from the Industrie Tex
| tile, spiders have now to spin for the bene
| lit of the balloons which are used for sci
entiic and military researches. The spid-
ers are grouped in dozens before a reel
which withdraws the delicate threads. One
| spider can give a thread from twenty
yards to forty yards in length, after which
| performance it is released. The threads
are of a pinkish hue, and are washed to
remove the sticky surface layer Eight
threads have to be combined. The re-
sulting texture is much lighter than or
binary silk of the same bulk, and strong
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