The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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man elections is related. Apparently the
| elections had no interest for the voters at
! Postrom, for when the polling booth was
/ opened not a single voter put in an ap-
| pearance. Nor was a single vote register
! Ell during the time the booth was open.
/ Since the electors abStained from doing
/ their duty as citizens the officials at the
/ booth also declined 10 vote. Nobody hav-
ing come to vote, we viii not vote either,
! they declared.
"A new form of accident insurance pol
icy, guaranteeing the holder against the
| consequences of the damage he may in
! llict upon others, is being issued in Paris
| Partisan drivers are VIGOROUSLY reckless
| and they look upon this method of pro-
| tecting themselves at small cost as d
| good thing. The scheme robs the running
| down of pedestrians on the streets Of half
| its terrors for the cabbies and other driv-
ers, but doubles the danger for the UNI
| fortunate pedestrian This may account
/ in part for the news that Paris pedestrians
| has threatened 10 arm themselves with re-
! Vlovers as protection against the opera
| tors Of the automobile vehicles.
They appear TO be turning snakes to a
| good account in Brazil, says the Cincin-
| natl Enquirer, for rats have become so
| abundant there that domestic snake, the
/ giboya which has about the circumfer-
| ence OF the arm, is sold in the market
| place in Rio Janeiro to be kept In the
! house as protection against rodents. 1t
| would seem that the serpent pursues its
! prey more for the pleasure there is in It
| than sense of hunger since it is said
| il rarely eats the rats caught. Similar in
its habits and attachments to the domestic
! cat of our northern lauaIdes the giboya
will, it is said, find the way back 10 the
| house of its master even if transported to
| a considerable distance.
The old order changeth. SAYS the Pail
| Mall Gazette 1t has been found that in
| fancy in Paris will no longer consent TO
| the humihating locomoton of the goat-car
| The child who respects himself goes at
present to the Champs Elysees, where four
infant carriages are awaiting his arrival.
! These are harnessed to a motorcycle and
driven by a licensed conductor. The pater-
nal authority of municipal Paris has in
sisted that the bicycle train goes slowly
! but the child Of the Champs Elysees is
satisfied if it goes by cycle traction at all
The wheeling squadrons are everywhere,
and the horse, the donkey and the goat
are all complaining of evil days and occu-
I patton gone The sorry hacks that are let
out on the beach for a spirited ride az a
shilling an hour are to be superseded by
the automatic wheel. The jolly saudboy
Of the future will be AIRY on the motor
car and even the bathing-mach are to
be made automatic. But supposing in the
latter case the brakes do not work!
The commercial agent at Roubaix, Mr.
Atwen writes to the state department
as follows aluminium is now being us
ed in the manufacture of bicycles, and
military authorities have for some time
past made an effort to employ this metal
in place Of iron, copper and steel for all
articles of equipment carried by infantry
In Il he 1fs1f ne
possible. With the same object. the Rus
sian minister of war has ordered alumni
I'M horseshoes for the cavalry. The first
trial is now being made by the Finland
Dragons, and the horses are shod as fol-
lows: a shoe of the new aluminium model
is placed on one foot, the three remaining
shoes being of the kind now in use. The
trial. which has already lasted six weeks
seems TO be satisfactory, as the aluminium
wears out less rapidly and is less affected
by mud and moisture than the ordinary
shoe. The difference in weight is about
seventy grams (21a ounces on each Shoe
The cost is not greater at present, and will
be less as soon as the system of manufac-
turing the new shoes shall have been per-
| fected.''
The engineering branch of the govern
ment has recently completed it's work on
the three old, single turreted monitors
Manhattan, Canonicus and Mahopac, ly
ing al League Island navy yard, says an
| exchange. This work was done in a Gu
rious fashion in order to save time. Or
dinarily, the putting in of new boilers such
as We're needed for all three of these mon
itors, would have required the tearing up
of the iron decks and some elaborate re-
construction. To obviate this, the boilers
and machinery were made up I'm small
J sections and passed down the smOkestacks.
The work is now finished, with the decks
II frf haf A on
other war expedient, Chief Engineer Mel
vile has adopted the plan of having du-
| plcates made for all important parts of
steam machinery on the war vessels, SO
that when q break occurs il can be rene
died In short order The supply snip Vul-
can, which recently went to Santiago, car
ried a large assortment of these extra
parts.
Some interesting experiments have re-
Gently been made with regard to the We
nom of reptiles, says the New York Post.
A mixture of the venom of three snakes
whose poison was considered most deadly
was employed and different doses were
given to rabbits. One of these animals
received by injection into a vein of the
ear a dose five times the amount usually
considered fatal and died in the course of
twenty minutes. In the meanwhile DR..
Chalmette, the investigator of these phe-
serum into two rabbits and in a few mo-
ments gave them the same dose that had
proved fatal to the first. The serum pro-
tected the animals perfectly, and there
was not the slightest trace of the action
of the poison to be observed. The new
rabbits were then used one of which was
inoculated with the serum Ten times the
fatal dose was given, with the result of
killing, within three minutes, the rabbit
which had not been rendered immune by
the serum, while the other was in no way
affected. Prof. Chalmette has stated that
the results of the action of reptile poison
could be calculated with considerable pre-
cision. Knowing the weight of the per-
son or animal il was possible to state
how much poison would destroy and how
much serum would save life. The serum
is now being sent to India, and ii has
been found to he stable in quality and able
to last any length OF time.
Consul Corey of Amsterdam, In the