The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

II Fehcn medical science has discovered
that artificial eyelashes are not beyond
the wit of man. With needle threade /
with hair the Obliging doctor will now
sew on to anybodys bald eyelids the most
beautifully long and langtIorous lashes.
The operation sounds a little tainfu. but
probably it is no worse than stitch in
the side.
-Woerishofen, in bavaria, for many
years the scene of PreIate Knepp's water
cure has raised memor al m his honor,
in the shape Of a hfe-size bust in while
marb e, resting on a pedy stal of red n ar
bic. i is placed above a spring flowing
from he rocks in the garden of .'Kneipp :
veum," and hears the we1-known Kneipp
motto; NOstra est aqua. Ours is the water
Next year it is expected that Rome will
draw as many visitors as the Paris Expo
sition. According TO calculations which
have been made by the Vatican Secretary
of Stale, at least $4,000 pi grims win
visit Rome-an average of 800 a day The
amount of Peters pence they will bring
is expected to reach 100000, while the
amount of money they will spend in Italy
is reckoned at $500, coo 600
The number of postage stamps
Throughout the world amounts 10 1851. of
which 13l different kinds belong 10 Great
Britain, ami 8 Si3 TO her colonies and terri
forks un1er her protection. The greatest
diversity of stamps is on the American
continent-4C56. OF tn Sc the Tn ted States
have l6S, the Repub ic of Salvador z72. TTfu-
quay z15. The own of Shanghai has no less
than IA var cites. Poland and Tierra del
uego nave but single set each.
"A German doctor has devised a plan
for massaging rheumatic joints He takes
he
glass which is two-lhirds full of quicksil-
YER The mercury exerts an equal pres
sure on every portion of the fingers and
the pressure Increases rapidly as the nm
gers sink farther into il. The hand is al
ternately plunged and raised about TWEEN
" or thirty times at each treatment, and
after second visit there is a marked di-
minution of the swelling
On the ranch of Paul Miller, at Brad
ley Flat near Hot Springs, S. D.. is
ledge of rock which seems to possess all
the properties of a Photographic plate
When the rock is moist it viii show, after
a thunderstorm, clear photograph of
the surrounding trees and bushes Grad
ualiy pictures so taken seem 10 fade out.
being renewed by each new thunder
storm, though the same objects are not
always reproduced. The rock seems 20 be
a combination of flint and sandstone and
is OF dirty red color.
Prof. Axenfeld, the famous physiolo-
gist, has in recent article declared in IA
vor of the proposition that men of se-
MUS are always The first-born of their pa
rents although the experience of most peo-
pie would not substantiate It, The pro
lessor, however, quotes many names
from Alexander the Great TO Carlyle-in
support Of his theory; but hedges by ex-
pressing the belief that the second or
third may become eminent He further de-
clares that the fourth, fifth, or sixth new
er achieve greatness, but any succeed
ing ones may show marked talent.
Fifty years ago a steam carriage might
have been seen on the streets of New
York. 1t was the invention of Robert
Dudgeon, who is Wen known by reason Of
his many inventions He used this car
rage TO go from his business to his resi-
dence in Harlem Two bushels of coal
were used on every trip, so 1t will be seen
it was not particularly economical means
of conveyance. The water tanks carried
sixty gallons. Finally, after being used for
about ten years. the city authorities for
babe its use on the streets of the city and
it was taken on Long Island, where 1t ran
for some time on country roads.
"A monument of the composer johann
1897 was inaugurated on Oct. last in
Meiningen. It is the work of the SOUP
tor Hildebrand in Florence. The violin
king, Prof. DIR. Josef Joachim, a personal
friend of Brahms, pronounced the inaugu-
raj Grafton. on the same day the monu-
ment of the great anatomist Johannes
Mueller was solemnly dedicated in Cob
lenz After the singing of hymn Prof
DIR. Virchow delivered the\ inaugural ora
universities of Bonn and Berlin, of dele
gates from various German universities,
and a large number of spectators.
The reason that German, officers and
many others of that nationality have en-
listed with the Beers is rather hatred of
England than love OF the burghers The
Germans, it seems, have arrived at the
idea that the struggle is commencing be-
tween England and Germanism for thew
say that the Germanic element which fol-
merly existed among the English has been
entirely uprooted and replaced by the Gel
tic. While nothing hos been dore 20 warn
the Germans in the Transvaal against
heir enlistment, it is authoritatively stat
ed that the enrolment of Germans bv one
or other of the combating parties will be
Judged from the same standpoint-an an
nouncement that is somewhat indefinite
II. CtSt Olclub, the RUSSIAN cleo
trician, is able to perfect the electrical an
paratus by which he Claims to be able to
give sight to the blind, then indeed is he
TO be regarded not only as the most Won
derful electrician, but as the greatest bene-
factor of this age OF scientific miracles.
He does not profess to restore sight. but
ne maintains that by means of his inven-
ton the blind will be able to distinguish
light and the shape of objects with their
brain. To enable these afflicted persons
to do this much VIII be indeed 10 confer
upon them a great blessing, and If his in
vention is as successful as he most con-
fdently hopes il win be, there will he
thousands throughout the world who will
surely c!amor that the highest honor each
nation can give be bestowed upon this
wonder-worker. 1t must also be remem-
bered that his invention gives all who use
1t the actual power to see through a
brick wall" so that as a patent burglar
and coiner trap it will likewise be useful.
and in due course may even play its part
in farcical comedy as the ocular instru
ment which Sam Weller regretted that ba