The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-01
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Irrawaddy, in Burmah. They extente "a
$50 acres and comprise 500 native welN
curing in soft, hillocky sandstone Z Al
shales of the Tertiary age. The mainN N
bearing sand is 200 to $50 feet below 1
surface. The sand is evidently the remaN Ire,
of a river estuary, and contains many foR
sils of land animals including reptiles. Din
Noetling has also found that the mud vol-l
canoes of Minbu are connected with sub
terranean strata bearing petroleum. The
warm grayish-blue mud they eject is satu-
rated with the oil. These petroleum beds
are he thinks, not deep. He anticipates
that new petroleum beds can be found in
these parts of Burmah by boring.
Circulars have been forwarded, ac-
cording to Nature, to a hundred and
forty-hve beekeepers in Germany in order
to CLEAN information as to their immun-
ity to stings. From the replies it appears
that all but twenty-six had acquired i'm
munity, nine or so having il naturally.
The number of stings required to bring
the result varies from about thirty to
one hundred, and the remedies applied
range from tobacco juice, saliva and water
to French brandy, rum, ammonia, acetate
of alumina heat, and massage. DR.. Ian
ger, who is conducting the Investigations,
states that a 2 to per cent. solution of
permanganate of potash injected will
counteract the poison. 1t used to be sup
posed that the poison of bee stngs was
due to formic acid, but as it has been
found that heat does not destroy the poi
sonous activity, this can hardly be the
case, and it is more likely that the toxic
substance partakes of the nature of an
alkiloid.
The first International electric road to
be operated on the Canadian border will
probably cross to New York state over
the new steel arch bridge now building
over the Niagara gorge AT Niagara Falls
to replace the upper suspension bridge. II
VIII be built by the Niagara Falls Park
ana River Railway Company, which COM
pany has secured a lease of the electric
road rights across the new steel arch and
viii run their cars across the bridge to the
New York stale side. The electric rail-
way company now owns the electric road
which runs along the top of the bank on
the Canadian side of the river from
Queenstown, Ont. to Chippewa, and the
connection they win secure through the
right on the arch will be most important
as it Will bring them in close touch with
the crowds in both of the great free parks
at the Falls, the Queen Victoria Niagara
Fails Park on the Canadian side and The
New York State Reservation, on this side.
The electric cars are expected TO cross the
bridge in July.
| ance on Saturday promulgated the follow
ing reforms relative to burials; THE use of
craps, gloves and other undertakers sup
plies should be dispensed with 1t is
meaningless of pagan origin and costs at
least S. at each funeral. The use of car
riages should be limited to actual neces-
sity. such as for family and pall-bearers.
| There should be no costly casket, metallic
or otherwise, especially devised to defer
The decay Of the body, except when bodies
are TO be transported by rail This is the
Jay of embalming, and bodies can be kept
as long as any real need demands if such
need exists. The custom of public leave
taking of the dead should be abolished.
Let all fareWells be priVa te, and the casket
remain closed after the service has COM
menced. F'ulsome and indisCriminate eulo-
gy should not be pract!ced or encouraged.
1t Is easier to omit than to confne within
right limits That as far as possible, Sun
day funerals be avoided. That punctuality
a. funeral services should be insisted upon
as much as at any other religious service
That there should be no exposure of the
living, with the false idea that it honors
the dead. To this end, let the gentlemen
| Keep their heads covered a the grave. In
inclement weather, let the open-air ser
vices lie abbreviated to the utmost limit
permitted by a proper regard for all in
terested, the custom of waiting until the
grave is filled be abandoned, and the filling
of the grave be supervised by a friend OF
the family"
The report of the special board of en-
gineers, who have recently been conduct
| ing experiments with oil as fuel on the
torpedo boat Stuetto, at the Brooklyn
navy yard, has been submitted,
says the Iron Age The board
found that OIL fuel was in every
way superior to coal. particularly for
small vessels. Among the chief advant-
ages enumerated in this report are econ
omy, ease of handling, reduced fire room
force, absence of waste and higher calor-
ific capacity. AS a result of the tests
made it was found that where this vessel
ran twenty-eight miles on one ton of coal
she would be able to accomplish fifty-six
miles on one ton of oil. The oil supply
for fuel runs from the dock into the bun
kers, and thence to the fire by gravity
alone, doing away with any necessity of
handling. Another distinct advantage lies
in the ready removal of the oil burning
apparatus in cases where oil is unobtain-
able, permitting the use of coal or other
fuel at any time. The board recommends
| that the apparatus already installed in the
Stlerto be continued in use, and that sim
liar provision be made for utilizing the oil
system of firing in all the other torpedo
boats of the navy. Should the report of
Jne DOdrd be supported by the Secretary
of the Navy, and meet with executive APP
proval, there is a prospect that the sys-
tenn of firing on board naval vessels may
be entirely revolutionized. Additional ex-
periments, however, will be needed to
demonstrate the practical use of liquid fuel
in larger vessels. The necessity for carry
ing enormous quantities of crude petro-
| leum fuel may prove a hindrance to its
adoption in these cases.
Under date of April 5 John Goodnow,
| consul general of the United States at
Shanghai, writes 10 the state department
at Washington in regard to the use of
bicycle by the Chinese. Mr..
Goodnow says: Few Chinese
| have as yet taken to the
wheel Their clothing is not adapted to
exercise, and especially not to the wheel.
No man above the coolie class, in Mid
die and Northern China, appears in public
otherwise than in long clothes-i. e.. an
outer petticoat reaching TO his ankles.
The few Young Cinnamon who ride here
either leave off this outer garment tenn
porarily or turn it up and fasten it at
the waist They also bring the long one