The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-24
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miliar figure In the hospitals.
Syracuse, N Y. has established a
municipal lodging house at which an ap-
plicant is furnished with a supper. bath.
| lodging and breakfast on condition that
he works at street cleaning half a day. A
meal is furnished for one hours work
| The system has put an end to the tramp
nuisance.
Count Skorzewsld. a wealthy land
owner in Posen. Germany, has recently
caused a sensation among the natives bv
employing a camel instead of horses or
oxen to draw the pillow on his estate The
experiment. has proved successful, and it
is probable that it win be followed in
other agricultural districts
In Norton county, Kansas. there was
tie between the candidates for register
Of deeds. 1t was agreed in the Board of
county Commissioners, SAYS the Kansas
City Journal that a silver dollar be tossed
TO settle it, and the dollar was pitched in
the air by the Populist member II came
down head, and the Republican won.
"A London weekly offered a prize of 80
guineas for the best telegram of encour-
agement to the British soldiers in the
Iransvaal. It was won by Col. Francis
CornWallls, whose message reads as fol-
lows: Soldiers, your grateful countrynen
and women recognize the courage and dis
clpline which have added fresh pages to
our glorious annals"
An electric rack-railway has been built
at Leon, France, to connect the railway
station with an elevated plateau 672 feet
ABOVE the station, where most of the in
haoltants live. The overheard trolley sys-
TEN is used in combination with a rack
ran track. Ordinary street cars are used
seating forty passengers. The total cost
OF the hne, which is mile and a quarter
long, was nearly $4,000.
"A few years ago a sea wall was built
at Barrow, England, to keep the sea from
the workings of a mine. and it is now pro-
posed TO make an embankment 6.75O wards
long to inclose 10 acres of land under
which the mine has been extended, the ex-
istence of ore having been demonstrated
under that area. 1t is estimated that the
work will cost nearly $780, 900, but the
ore is of the finest quality
One of the results of the late war with
Spain win be the change in the furniture
of our war vessels. Formerly all the fur
niture, which was made of wood, mad to
be thrown overheard just before battle in
order TO lessen the chances of fire Metal
furniture viii lake the place of the wood H.
and the cruiser Atlanta is the first vessel
10 be equipped with IT, The furniture. con-
sisting of chairs. tables, sofas, beds, etc.
Is made of chilled steel tubing and Right
wireWork.
The French government is considering
the advisabilIty of disseminating the use
of the guillotine and contemplates the
adoption in its stead of electrical execu-
ton. The head of the criminal is inclosed
a hnnr 9aatc II,
by diver. When the executioner turns
on the current two needles leap from their
sockets, penetrate the temples and enter
the brain. A powerful alternating current
ruptures and destroyes the brain cells so
quickly that it is believed that death will
be instantaneous. This seems like a clum-
sy method of execution, says the Scientific
American, but there is no question that it
will be efficacious.
For thirty years William johnson, a
farmer near Kokomo Ind, has run A farm
of six acres and never had a horse on the
place. He is known throughout the section
as the horseless farmer" He raises corn.
potatoes, cabbage, celery, melons and all
kinds of vegetables all tEle land being I'M
der cultivation. johnson does all the work
himself by hand. He has made plougfa,
hand cultivators, hand Planters and nand
harvesters Even the marketing Is all d ne
by hand He trundles his crops to town in
wheelbamow, making an average Of
three trips a day the year round. In the
thirty years johnson end his wheelbarroW
have Travelled 16S coo mies-nearTy seven
times around the world. When a boy he
was kicked by a horse, and since then he
has had nothing TO do with horses.
"A Philadelphia man, according to the
Record, who has just returned from Paris
which is alftoroobil oroz,y e,,-- 49, Il.
cost of maintaining one would bankrupt
the ordinary citizen. There are plenty
to choose from" he remarked, with
steam, gasolene, petroleum or electric mo-
tors. These range in price from $500 for a
motor cycle to 5000 for heavy rigs suita-
be for carrying four persons and driver
Nhiie in Paris l busted myself to the ex-
tent of finding out how much ii cost to
operate one of these carriages. For a year
1t is about as follows: Gasolene, $S7 50: lu-
bricating oil, $5.45; repairs to carriage
$lO2 30; repairs to machinery, $1S5; repairs
to tires $3.50; sundries, $64SO; deprecia-
ton, $50; tax, $50; servant, 500. That
makes total of $S72.75. Remember, this
Is for Paris, where my calculations are
based upon the actual experiences of q
friend of mine But they can't vary much
in this country"
in etching on glass advantage is TAX
vapor of hydrofluoric acid to eat into anv
exposed portions of glass. When it is de-
sired to produce a design upon glass.
either in fiat or bottled form, the article
Is dipped in melted wax. and the design
etched through this thin coating so as
to expose the glass beneath. The article
is then brought within the vapor of the
acid, the depth of the design being pro-
portionate to the time that the exposure
is made. An English glassmaker has
taken advantage of the action of the
huoric acid on glass to produce some in
teresting effects by crystallizing various
salts in thin layer on glass and then
exposing it to the vapor of the acid. The
crystals act in the same way as when
the design is etched upon the wax-covered
article, and their microscopic forms are
beautifully reproduced, etched into the
glass The exposure to the vapor varies
from three to five minutes the glass be-
ing first well warmed to prevent the crvs-
tails from dissolving.
The famous DR.. Samuel johnson would
never enter a room left foot foremost.
and brave Marshal SAKE was In terror at