The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-EleVen persons, two men, 1--WE women,
ard four children, inside a man on the box
beside the fat driver. three sacks of hops
on top, and q man standing on the springs
behind was the load of a London four
wheel cab drawn by one horse the other
Gay, The driver was fined ten shillings
Tor carrying excess passengers.
Mr.. Harmsworth, who betrayed the ex-
penses of the Jackson expedition in Franz
Josef Land, has declared that he will send
two ships of the Arctic next season and
Keep an expedition in the Arctic regions
llll complete map can be made of all the
accessible parts of the North Polar world.
Inc jackson expedition has cost him $780,
What is said to be the smallest watch
In the world is on exhibition in a shop
window in Berlin The lliputian time
piece was made in Geneva, in Switzerland
Its diameter is less than half an inch: its
thickness is little more than a tenth of an
men. The entire works of the tiny watch
comprise nlnety-five individual pieces. Aft
er having been wound up with its diminu-
tive Key it will run for twenty-eieht hours
The preliminary work in the making of
the watch was very expensive, and the
selling price is 1880.
Mr.. Hearn, the British consul at Ror-
deaux, in his consular report of the .rade
Of his district during 1897, refers to the
striking decrease in the Importation of
Bordeaux wines to the United KINGDOM
which was no less than %, S46 gallons. as
compared with 1896. He says: perhaps
one OF the reasons for the decadence of
taste for clarets in England besides the
advent of the cigarette directly dinner is
over, is the fact that the public buys wines
OF mark without paying attention to the
year OF vintage, whereas an ordinary wine
OF q good year will probably be superior
to a frst growth wine of a bad year. 1t
may not be generally known that the
mode of drinking clareT among ,RordeatIx
connoisseurs is to drink from four to sew
en- different marks of claret during din
ner beginning with the lower grades and
youngest wines, and with each dish pro
crossing upward to the higher growtns ard
Oldest Vintages, or sometimes by ascending
a scale of growths all of the same vintage.
In this way, and by the choice of appro-
pirate dishes, the true qualities of the
wines are brought out and done justice
to, and thus the delicacy, bouquet and fine
qualities of the vintage can be appreciate
to the fullest extent"
Some smells are dangerous, says the
Boston Transcript. A single sniff of high
ly concentrated prussic acid will kill a
man as quickly as shot through the
heart The odor of bad egg is due to
the presence of sulphuretted hydrogen,
and the Objectionable perfumes of sewers
and bone factories are attributable chiefly
to the same gas. Chemical laboratories
are famous for bad smells. Berzelius, who
discovered the element called "selenium,"
k,.fo ~. ] r.
a bubble of pure hydrogen sellenide gas
TO enter his nostrn. For days afterwards
he was able to smell strong ammonia, the
olfactory nerves being temporarily para
lyzed. Selenium gas has the odor of pu-
trid horseradish. Tellurium is even worse
There is story of a physician whose pa
tent, lady, refused to take an absolute
ly necessary rest, because she was so fond
of always being on the go in society. He
gave her pill containing a small quanti-
~ of tellurium, and her breath was af-
fected by it to such an extent that she
was not able TO appear in public for a
month. She never guessed what the
trouble was. The volatized essential oil of
roses Is supposed to cause rose cold"
This peculiar complaint is so far nervous
in its character that paper roses some
times excite it,
-OOuDIS StdNhS lOI IOCOIuOllNEb nave
latterly again become prominent says Cas-
sier's Magazine. Both in Great Britain
and the United States experiments have
been made with them for the past year or
two-on the London and Northern Rail-
way, under the supervision of Mr.. F. w
Webb. the well-known chief mechanical
superintendent of that line, and on the
Toledo, Peoria and Western and the St
Louis, Chicago and st. Paul Railways
and the results, generally, appear to have
been favorable to their use. On the Lon
don and Northwestern Road the stack,
in outward appearance, looks like an or
binary one, flattened at the sides, the
larger axis running in the direction of the
length of the boiler; but there are two
openings for the exhaust, one for each
opening in the stack. The smoke box is
divided into two separate chambers by
horizontal plate, and one of the stacks
passes down through this partition into
the bottom chamber so as to bring it's in
fuence to bear on the lower tubes, while
the exhaust through the other stack is
intended to produce a pull through the
upper tubes. In the American engines
there is no partition in the smoke box, and
the stack is placed with its larger axis
running crosswise of the boiler the special
object aimed al in this case being an equal
distribution of draught between the cen
ter flues instead of between the top and
bottom ones. Judged offhand alone, both
devices commend themselves favorably,
the British one, perhaps, more so
than the American one because of its
partition feature, which would seem to
insure greater certainty of the equaliza-
ton desired, and the test figures thus far
available show a very acceptable percent
age of coal saving over the usual single
stack arrangement. 1t is not unlikely
therefore that more will be seen and
heard of the new practice.
An engineer of Cracow, Malachowski,
has devised a valuable instrument by
means of which plant and animal life can
be studied under water, and ships hulls
and bridge piers be examined, says En-
The instrument is practically
a binocular with a long tube. 1t consists
of three PARASITIC lenses, the diverging
tube made of zinc, and the closed box