The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-16
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plague. has been in London recently. Va
rious European scientists who went to
India to investigate the plague have con-
firmed the efficacy of his vaccine After
Prof. Haffkine had experimental on rao-
bits and guinea pigs, to demonstrate the
effect of the serum, he decided 70 Try II
on himself He took dose four times as
great as that which he regards as sudi-
cient to insure immunity The symptoms
which manifested themselves during the
next few days were carefully noted by
my colleagues, he says. My tempera-
ture went up, there was certain sore
ness of the part inoculated, and generally
mild manifestation of the recognized
symptoms of the plague. AT no time,
however, was 1 incapacitated from my
work-simply 1 felt somewhat out OF
sorts"
A Mississippi editor makes this appeal
to delinquent subscribers: Fish down
into your pocket and dig up dust, the edi-
tor is hungry and the paper bout to
bust We've trusted you for several
months, and did it with smile, so just
return the compliment and trust US for
While. Our wife she needs some stock
ings and baby needs a dress; Jimmy needs
some breeches, and so does Kate and Bess,
Pud is on the hog train and Peggy sick
with grief. and, good gosh almighty, cant
you give a man relief. Shell out those
nickels and turn loose the dimes, turn 'em
loose and whistle and Wen have better
times; there will. be fewer patches on the
bosom of our pants, and Wen make the
paper better if he had half a chance Don't
give US that old story, long gone to seed,
bout taking more family papers than the
family want to read, but help to feed the
printer, and he'll help our town to grow,
and thus escape the sulphur in the re-
gions down below"
"A young lieutenant in the navy has
been waiting anxiously for the arrival
here of his trunk, which was sent by rail
from a Southern port, says the Philadel-
pha Record. Every time a neWsboy
shouts extra" his nervous system re-
ceives a shock, for there are possibilities
in that trunk of serious character Ill
ness forced the lieutenant to leave his
ship in a hurry and proceed North. One
of his comrades volunteered to pack his
trunk and forward it here by rail from
the first port touched. The young officer
received a letter the other day, saying
that his trunk was on its way. The letter
continued with a severe denunciation of
baggag e-smaS and the writer recalled
the fact that his trunk had been broken
so badly that it had to be tied up with
ropes before it could be delivered to him.
I'm packing your trunk" he wrote Il
placed in it a loaded three-pound shell,
which, if the trunk is handled properly,
should reach you in safety and prove
valuable souvenir to your friends. If, on
the contrary, the baggag e-smashers take
such liberties as they did with mine they
will bring swift punishment on them
selves"
"A Baptist missionary once sent home
an account of a prayer offered by Wang
Cheng Sui on the occasion of the visit
of two Americans who were on tour
around the world on bicycles says the
Cincinnati Enquirer. After the bicyclists
had ridden to the mission station Wang
prayed: I'VE thank Thee, our Heavenly
Father that our eyes have this day seen
the real pattern of the 'self-going cart
of the ancients. What mysterious wisdom
is Thine! How willing Thou art TO i'm
part knowledge to men! But our sins
hinder Thy revelations! How stupid have
we become through serving Satan SO long!
Many years have we lived, and yet to-
day for the first time have we seen this
marvel of Thy skill, which has enabled
Thy servants in the West to understand
Forgive US our sins. Restore us 10 Thy
favor. Communicate to us, also, Thy mys-
teries, and let US share in the wonderful
inventions by which Thou dost make Thy
name glorious amongst those who serve
Thee. Let us be entrusted with Thy Sc
crets and possess the power of the an
clients; so will all our countrymen come
to know that we have found the right
path, and are servants of the true Cod
The missionary thinks it very likely that
such a prayer will provoke a smile, but
he bids us believe that Wang was in red
hot earnest, and that he simply felt that
he had witnessed miracle and was giving
God the glory.
An interesting fish that inhablts the
waters of the Nile is the malapterurus
electricus, which is considered about the
best species of electrical fish, for unlike
the gymnotus and torpedo, it's electric or
gans do not affect it's motion In a pa
per recently presented to the Royal Insti-
tuition at London, the theory is advanced
by Prof Gotch that the seat of the cleo
tro-motive force is the nerve center itself
and not the collection of plates which have
hitehrto been considered the electric or
gan of the fish. These plates number
about 100000 and consist of a modified
muscular substance separa ted by an al
luminous composition, while each is con-
nected by single nerve fiber to the nerve
center. A measurement of the electro
motive force of the cells by a capillary
electrometer revealed the fact that the
electro-motive force was of the same order
as that produced by the contraction of a
muscle, and amounted to about 04 or O5
volt. Between the excitation of the. nerve
and the maximum electro-motive force
there is time lag of about 1900 of a Sec
ond, and an oscillatory electro-motive force
is generated by a single momentarv excl
tation of the nerve. At the lecture before
the Royal Institution already referred 70
the electric current was shown with A tel
ephone, and also shocks given to MANY of
the audience. Some of these fishes were
procured by the Senff expedition of Column
bia University while at the Nile last sum
mer, and are exhibited in the museum of
the department of zoology of that tnstitI.
ton.
Ponce claims, by her last census. a nop-
ulation of $4,000 people in her urban and
rural districts of the province, saws Har-
per's Weekly. In the town proper. how
ever, the population is 1900 or a little
over though, by Including the villages of
Cantera, Canas and Playa, which are
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