The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-22
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at the Lake Bluff camp meeting grounds,
says the Chicago Chronicle. There is in
consequence a scarcity of hymnals and
several collections win be necessary to
repenish the stock. At the close of last
years meetings the hymn books were stor-
ed in the tabernacle aud in their place
the other day was found a pile of gnawed
rubbish.
"A Chinese correspondent Of the London
Times says: Owing to the very poor
quality or the paper used for Chinese
newspapers and to the cheapness of labor,
both literary and mechanical the cost at
which the native papers can be Produced
is extremely low. The price of the ordi-
nary Shanghai journal is four cash 800
cash to the dollar. or. al the present rate
of exchange one-tenth of a penny, and
that of the Shin WI Pao, which is pub
lished only three times a month, and in
book form, is five candereens, or about
three halfpcnce.'
The following is the oath which tina
Queen of Holland will take at her corona
ton soon; Il swear to the Dutch peo-
pie that / will observe and always main
tain the constitution. 1 swear that I will
defend and guard with all my power the
independence and the territory of the en-
pire; that l will protect public and pri-
vate liberty, and the rights of all my
subjects, and that 1 will use every means
con1ded to me by the law to foster ana
uphold the national and Individual we'll
being, as a good queen should do. And
may God help me-
The Emperor of Austria will have
reigned fifty years on Dec 2, and 1t is the
intention of the Austrian people to signal
ize their Emperor's jubilee i'm a fitting
manner. The fete viii practically begin
on Nov. 80, when there Will be a pro-
cession of imperial and royal personages
from the Hofburg to st. Stephens Cathe-
dral, where grand te deUm will be sung.
The following day viii be a busy one.
There viii be a court dinner, a dinner for
all the generals of The Austro-Hungarian
army, and gala performance at the I'M
perial Opera. The anniversary of the En-
peror's accession will be marked by a
brilliant scene in the new palace. Here
twenty-eight members of the imperial and
royal houses including the German En-
peror and Empress, will offer congratu-
lations 10 the Emperor Joseph
The alleged discovery of formula for
the manufacture of artificial albumen con-
tinues to excite interest in the scientific
world, says a London dispatch. Chemists
and physicians Of the laboratory where
the work IS claimed 10 be carried on say
they are not yet ready to disclose the Sc
cret, and will not make ii known until
they are amply protected by patents OF
the alleged discovery the Lancet has this
to say: If this great discovery has really
been made il will be of great Importance
to physiological chemistry but that such
accomplishment is going to reVolutonize
the practical food question no psychologist
or sensible man viii be prepared to accept
In the slightest degree as possible. Pure
albumen is already manufactured on a
large scale, fairly cheap, and though the
manufacture has been going on for years
albumen, pure and simple has not found
place in dietetics, nor has it been pro-
posed to substitute it for ordinary articles
of food. 1t Is absurd to think the time
Will come when We are to carry about a
complete meal or dietetic outfit for a day
in the shape of a thimbleful of powder"
DIR. Benecke of Marburg has made
| known his curious observations on the
growth of the human heart says the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean. 1t appears from the
doctor deductions that the increase of
weight and bulk is greatest during the
first and second years of life, the size of
the organ at the end of the second year
being exactly double what it was at the
time of birth 1t is also noted that be-
tween the second and seventh year il again
| doubles in weight and bulk. After the end
of the seventh year a slower rate of
year, the augmentation of volume during
the seven and eight intervening years be-
ing only about two-thrds. AS the period
of maturity approaches the growth of the
heart again makes rapid progress; but
even after the body has matured the or
gan continues at the rate of about 81
1,OO0th of an inch annually between the
twenty-tirst and fiftieth years When the
full growth is attained the average human
heart is about six inches in length and
four inches in diameter. 1t beats 1O0,S00
times per day, or about 100000 coo times in
lifetime of eighty years
During the last imperial maneuvers a
! series of experiments on the value of sugar
as food was carried out by Chief Staff
Doctor LeitenstOTfer, says Berlin letter
! Twenty men were selected from the same
company of each of the three battalions
ten of whom We're subjected 10 the sugar
diet, while the other ten received exactly
the same rations as the rest of The com
pany. In choosing the men for the special
diet preference was given to those who
We're without private means and were
weak corporeally. The results of the ex-
pertinent have now been made known in
the German Military Medical Weekly Ac-
cording TO this Official report the weight
OF the sugar" men increased during the
maneuvers more than that of the con
troP' men. 1t was proved that during
long marches the feeling of hunger could
be kept down for longer time by the use
of sugar, that the sugar people suffered
less from thirst than the others, and that
a few pieces of sugar sufficed to still thirst
for a considerable time. 1t was also OBJ
served that symptoms of exhaustion or of
sunstroke were quickly overcome by a
small ration of sugar. None of the men
experimental upon showed the slightest
! Discrimination to the new food during the
whole course of the trial. As a practical
result of these experiments DR.. Leitenstor-
fer now recommends that sugar be con-
sidered a regular article of soldiers roo4
that il be stored with the other provisions
for fortresses, hospitals, and ships and
that, above all, soldiers on the march
should have a supply of it.
Scarlet, it has always been supposed.
was the worst color possible for the pur-
pose of the battlefield. It has been said
so with such frequency, indeed, that no.