The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


go up in the air till they see their home,
and then fly toward it in a straight line.
The manufacture of camphor in Japan
has fallen off considerably and many men
have gone out of the business altogether.
| This is due to the growing scarcity of
camphor trees. japanese production is
now confined almost wholly TO Formosa.
"A missionary journal notes some signs
of progress in China. Chinese merchants
are educating their sons in English schools
at an expense of IS a month. The bar
row gives way TO the bicycle, and the
sedan chair to the carriage and pair. The
Understanding movement and the Chi
nese Ladies' School also indicate the great
change which is going on in China.
-Aldinl nephew of Galvani, discovered
that it was possible by the aid of galvan-
ism to distinguish good teeth from bad.
The passage Of the current through the
| teeth gives rise to no discomfort when
healthy; but its application to a decay
ing molar, for example, is followed by vio-
lent pain, land an involuntary motion of
the body" The Medical Press goes on 70
say that now that their attention den
tists) has been called to a discovery some
centuries old there wiK be less excuse than
ever for such a blunder'' as that of remov-
| ing sound tooth by mistake.
"A French inventor, NJ Leon Appert,
was the first to introduce the use of COM
pressed air for blowing bottles, thereby
affording means of replacing the usual
method of blowing them by the mouth.
This practice has a very injurious effect
on The lungs of the glassblowers, and the
great heat to which they are necessarily
subjected intensifies the evil The use of
Observation-Disclosures air is now combined
Of
| fused glass necessary to form a bottle
| is poured into an iron mould, and is dis
| tributed by a rotating piece over the sides,
| the formation of the bottle being assisted
| by a current of compressed air After
| withdrawal from the mould the bottle only
| requires annealing TO be ready for use.
Machines have been constructed which
can turn out twenty bottles a minute, and
| there is no doubt that higher speed than
this will be reached in the future.
Scientific Paris, almost obvious of the
tremendous sensations in connection with
the Dreyfus affair, is vitally excited over
the marvellous Miss Lenor, a model who
is great favorite among artists and
| sculptors. According to accounts from the
| French capital, this extraordinary young
woman hears music through the pores of
| her skin and shows the effect in certain
| attitudes and expressions of the face. At
| fuence, she is photographed, and then, if
the development of the negative is done
near her, she gets to trembling and faint
| ing. She feels the cold of the developing
! solution and the movements of the devel-
| oping dish. It is supposed that when hyp-
| Noticed she gives forth through the pores
! of her skin an invisible substance or fluid,
which is the vehicle of her senstbility, be-
| coming a kind of human battery, produc-
! ing a special kind of electricity capable of
| being photographed. Her experiences
when the negative is being developed oc-
cur after she has been awakened.
Lord Kelvin the celebrated English
! scientist, has just celebrated his 74th birth
| day He was born in Belfast Ireland.
| For over fifty years he has held the chair
! of natural philosophy at Glasgow Uni
| versity, and this was rightly considered
SO remarkable that in 1896 the jubilee was
| enthusiastically celebrated. A good story
| is related of his lecturing methods at the
| university. AS a professor of science he
| can use long words in such formidable
| array as would make a dictionary break
| It's binding with horror. During a course
| of lectures once on magnetism, for in
| stance he defined an ideal magnet as "an
| infinitely long, Infinitely thin, uniform
and uniformly and longitudinally magne-
| tized bar" and the misguided students
! vociferously cheered which caused the
| professor to say, Silence" The definition
was made and cheered, with the usual rep
| rimand, frequently during the lectures
| Once, near the conclusion, however the
students did not cheer, but Lord Kervin,
| from force of habit, raped out "Silence!'
the same as before.
"A generation is an uncertain period
of time, though the word is used very
much" observed an authority on such
I ttaas-
Strictly speaking, it means that amount
| of time that elapses between the birth of
the father and that of his son. Il depends,
| therefore, great deal on the age of the
father, for if he marries very young the
time between his birth and that of his son
| will be correspQndingly brief In ordinary
| calculations however, it is safe to put a
generation at thirty-three and one-third
| years, or three generations in each cen
fury. There are instances, though, of four
| and even more generations in a century.
| In countries where the people marry young
| there are, therefore more generations than
| there are in others. For the same reason
! generations in sou hern countries are much
| more frequent than in northern countries.
| This applies to the extreme sections at
I either end of the United States as well as
| to foreign countries. A generation, there
fore, in Louisiana is a much shorter period
| than a generation in Maine or Vermont"
| There is nothing so irritating to a
cough as coughing" says a physician who
! is connected with an institution where
| there are many children. For some time
| L have been so fully assured of this that
| l determined to lessen the number of
| coughs heard In a certain ward of the in
| stitution. BY the promise of rewards and
| punishment l succeeded in inducing the
| children simply to hold their breaths
when tempted to cough, and in a little
| while 1 was myself surprised to see how
some of them entirely recovered from the
| disease. Constantly coughing is precise
| ly like scratching a wound on the out
side of the body; so long as ii is done
the wound will not heal. Let a person
when tempted to cough draw a long
| breath and hold it until it warns and
| soothes every air cell, and some benefit
will be derived from this process. The
| nitrogen which Is thus refined acts as an
anodyne in the mucous membrane allay-
ing the desire to cough and giving the
| throat and lungs a chance to heal At