The morning news., 1899-12-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There was trouble at the Brooklyn end
of the big bridge the other morning at the
rush hour Some new hands had been put
in to sell tickets and not being used 10
the frenzied dash of the crowds going TO
work they could not handle the tickets
fast enough The mob became congested
and soon there was an incipient riot Then
q number Of impatient men made rush
and carried the position. Ticket choppers,
guards and other attaches We're thrust out
of the way and the crowd boarded the
bridge cars in triumph.
In Pennsylvania a new telephone
transmitter has been devised and is being
manufactured. 1t is so constructed that
the outer casing and mouthpiece may be
removed for the purpose of cleaning with
out disturbing the diaphragm and carbon
parts in an inner casing independent of
the outer she'll The diaphragm is held
in place by threaded ring which screws
on the inner casing. 1t is, therefore, NJ
dependent of the adjustment of the mouth
piece or any other condition of the outer
casing The manufacturers adjust the
instrument. and no subsequent adjustment
| is needed.
-Cadiz O., is the richest town of Its
size in the world, as correspondent of
the Chicago Evening Post describes it,
| With barely 1,600 inhabitants and not a
manufacturing industry of any sort, 1t
| has four national banks and four prosper
Gus loan associations, with a combined
| capital of $l,215,000 1t has more financial
| Institutions than ii has churches and
| schools. The isolation of the place makes
; its position as a money center all the more
| remarkable. There is no waterway of nav
| igable size nearer than twenty-five mics
| and its connection with the world is by
H~gY 1a1oI vail fIn in limo 1f
| Panhandle. Figures concerning the banks
of this country village are interesting. A
| recent report shows that their combined
| capitalization is but 100000, while they
| possess surplus and undivided profits of
| S171, ,359. The deposits amount to l,125, ,052,
| and the discounts foot up s1,594,S47. Con-
/ siderable money too has been earned
for the stockholders since their organiza-
ton. Counting the undivided profits, these
banks have earned for their owners more
| than $1,000,O00 on an investment of about
| one-third of that amount. Leaving out
the four hundred colored inhabitants, the
| deposits average about $1,500 for each per-
| son.
The London Lancet publishes an article
of particular interest dealing with the ef-
fects upon the wounded of the Mark II,
the Mauser, the Dum-Dum, and the Mark
w bullets. The article has been written
by DR.. Arthur Keith and Mr.. Hugh Rig
| by, respectively lecturer in anatomy and
| surgical registrar at the London Hospi-
tai. In summing up their article the writ
| ers say; I'VE fiEd that The destructive ef-
feels of the Mark II bullet, the Mark ",
| bullet and the Dum-Dum bullet stand to
| the Mauser in the ratio of II, 2, and As to
| /. But this result applies mostly to flesh
| wounds, the bone-destroying and explo-
sive tendencies of all, and especially of the
ope n-nosed, bullets being unnecessarily
| great. We agree with Prof. Ogston that
Won Bruins has overstated the case against
| the English open-nosed bullets In the
| first place. the Dum-Dum bullets which
| he used were mueh-eXag Grated forms sec
ondly, the wounds which he figures in his
rapers, dealing with the effects of the
| Dum-Dum bullet and the Mark " bullet
| were such as We have been unable 10 pro-
duce; and, thirdly, the wounds are great
| ly exaggerated from the fact that dried
and wizened legs of cadavers were mostly
used. Bullets are meant to kill; when they
fail and cnly wound, it is better that they
| should produce an effect sufficient to dis
| able temporarily without causing perma-
nent damage but unfortunately, no mod
ern bullet has yet attained TO such perfec-
tion."
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