The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! ming of the festivities for Emperor Francis
! Joseph's jubilee in Vienna by climbing in
! the night to the top of one Of the steeples
! OF the Votive Church, sos feet from the
! ground, by means of the lightning rods
and architectural ornaments. and hang
ing on 1t a yellow and black banner TWEEN
| ty feet long.
A curious story is told in the British
war office. Some years ago a workman was
/ engaged in casting metal for the manu-
facture Of ordnance at the Woolwich ar
| senal when he lost his balance and fell into
| a huge cauldrOn containing twelve tons of
/ molten Steel. The metal was at white heat,
and Of course, the unfortunate man was
/ utterly consumed in an instant. The war
/ department authorities held a conference
ana decided not to prOfanC the dead by US
| ing the Steel in the manufacture of ord
nance, and the enormous mass OF metal
was actually inferred and a Church of
| England clergyman read the burial service
over it.
Whoever has looked inside an ele-
! plants mouth has seen a strange sight,
says the Philadelphia Times Elephants
| nave no front teeth, and they never eat
flesh, or any food that requires tearing
| apart. Eight teeth are all they have, two
above and below on each side, huge vel
! low molars as wide as a mans hand and
| ABOUT Two inches thick. over these hay or
| FODDER is shifted by the queeresJ ugl.est
tongue in the whole animal kingdom, a
| tongue That IS literally hung al both ends
| having no power or movement except in
| the middle, where 1T shifts back and forth
! from side to side, arching up against the
| roof of the big mouth like an immense
WrlnHled pink serpent. There is nothing
| stranger than the working of aTf~ ele-
! phants tongue, unless it be the working of
ms breathing apparatus when he sleeps.
! elephants, like human beings, have two
! sets OF teeth-the milk teeth which are
smaller than the permanent molars fail
out when the animals are about fourteen
/ years old. These baby teeth, which are
nevertheless, enormous are occasionally
picked up by circus men amonAthe fodder
and preserved as curiosities.
The first Chinese baby show in the
world has just been held here, says the
! Penang Gazette. There were 200 of them
! from embroidered slipper to shaven poll
| they We're arrayed in their best. They wore
SATIN blouses that shone in the sun with
a siiNery simmer They wore embroider-
les Of wonderful birds and bees and flow
ers never seen on land or sea- The little
boys were shaver. and the little girls had
| Their hair stfIened and polished, and dress
Ell as though for the grandest function.
| with little bird cases and fringes of beads
and paper atop There were great tinklings
OF metal and much shining of green Jade.
| A new fashion in infant headgear showed
| naIo of stiff DOmDons that rose above
| the infants sombre eyes. Others wore huge
rosettes of silk on each temple, like a
joss, and one little girl had a name of
| black silk queue-strings hanging down
from the back of her head. Even the ba-
by complexion had been looked after. On
| the smooth, yellow checks appeared the
most lovely patch of pink rouge. put on
| quito frankly in the Chinese fashion The
| rosebud mouths We're touched up and The
] narrow DTOWS De1nitft1i1V
A curious cigar seen in the Italian
quarter of the city where it is made and
sold. is about seven and a half inches In
length and very slender, being not much
bigger around than an all-tobaccO cigar
cite and almost uniform in size for The
greater part of its length says the New
York Sun. At the end that is placed in
the mouth this cigar is made around
piece of straw an inch and a half in
length, which projects about a quarter
of an inch clear of the tobacco. When
the cigar is made a broomsplint long
enough to reach almost to the lighting
end Of the cigar is run through the straw
and the cigar is made around that. The
| DroOmSplint is cut long enough SO that
a quarter or half an inch of it projects
clear of the straw mouthpiece When the
cigar is to be smoked the broom splint is
Withdrawn. The opening through il where
the splint was makes the cigar draw free
~ anu the ScCliOH OI straw at the slender
end keeps the cigar open there. These
! cigars, made of strong, dark tobacco, are
sold az retail for one cent each. Cigars
of this kind were more commonly made
and sold here twenty years ago; their
place with the general smoker has now
been taken largely by the stogie. Sdch
cigars are made in Austria, in Switzer-
land and in India.
Some German experiments conducted
to ascertain the effects of alternating cur
rents on the human body were made as
follows: Two metallic conductors of op-
| posite polarity We're held one in each
hand. With the hands damp and effect
i've electromohve force of thirty volts at
fifty alterations per second the whole arm
seemed paralyzed; extended it could not
| be feXed. and tieXed il could not be
strengthened. At the same time the pain
was so severe it could not be borne for
more than five or six seconds, and it was
with difficulty that the hands could be
detached from the electrodes. When the
voltage was raised TO fifty volts complete
fxation occurred, that is, the hands could
! not be withdrawn by voluntary effort and
the pain was intense. When the volta ge
was raised to eighty, even with the hands
| dry all the above phenomena was accentu-
ated. The effects of alternating currents
on the muscles and organs of the body is
much more intense than continuous cur
of the same voltage. Experiments were
| also conducted to observe the effects Of
the current passing to the earth through
the body from a live wire. A person
standing on a damp macadamized road
with dry shoes, and touching his hand to
a conductor having a potential Of 1000
volts experienced a burning sensat ton, md
| when the conductor was grasped by the
whole hand a violent tMmOr occurred
through the body with complete fXation.
Such experiments are exceedingly danger
Gus, and might prove fatal and consequent
| y should not be attempted except under
special conditions. of which an expert only
should be the judge.
We know in a dun sort of way that
lemons are useful, and if we didn't We
might easily find this out by looking over
the papers says the Louisville Courier
Journal. But just how valuable they really
are few of US realize They are of very
| Great medicinal Value and arc better than