The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-30

According to Law Notes, a paper de-
voted to legal affairs, Senator Henry J.
| Coggeshall of the New York Legislature
intends to introduce at me next session of
| that body bill to make Dewey day a
| legal holiday in the Empire state Law
| Notes further observes that 'the bill will
| doubtless pass, as will almost anything
else that is introduced in the New York
legislature. If we have to lop off another
working day for each new hero we had
| best stick to peaceful pursuits, else we
shall soon have nothing but Sundays and
| legal holidays"
In Denmark a campaign against rats
| is being prosecuted with vigor 1t was
originally started in Copenhagen, where
the alarming multiplication Of the rats
induced he municipal authorities to re-
s-rt to a medieval methcd of free ng the
community Fl ON beasts of prey As a price
was once offered for every head of a wolf,
so the cOnscript Ia he of the Danish
capital engaged to pay a certain sum for
each dead rat. An official report of the
statistics Of at slaughter has been issued
every week since The opening of The cam
paign In the first week the rat catchers,
professionals and amateurs, gave in the
heads of 5000 rats, in the second week 6616,
in the third week 6,7S0. The average week.
~ bin of mortality among the rat popula-
ton of Copenhagen has now risen t. about
1910 0. Other towns and communes followed
the example Ct the capital and the Danes
are making patriotic attempt to exter-
inmate petty WOLF" as Hendrix not in
aptiy named the rat.
An enormous megaphone has been
erected at Faulkner's Island, Conn, on
the government lighthouse reservation. for
testing new system of fog signals, says
hA Safa
is seventeen feet long and seven feet in
diameter at the mouth. Attached to It
is one and one-half inch steam siren
The whole contrivance is mounted on a
circular platform twenty-eight feet in di-
ameter, so that it can be revolved to any
point of the compass. Different signals
may be made for each point of the com
pass. The object of the invention is TO
throw the sound waves in a certain direc-
lion to the exclusion of any other direc-
ton, so that any vessel approaching the
signaling station in a fog shall hear only
the sound which is given when the mega
phone is pointed directly at it. That is to
say, if the signal means north the fog
signal must be due north of the vessel or
those on the latter could not hear that
particular signal. The instrument has
been tested and il is found that the sound
was heard ten miles away when the OBJ
server was standing in a line with the
axis of the megaphone, but nothing could
be heard of the sounds sent to the other
points of the compass when at a DISTANCE
Of mile or more from the instrument.
The popular theory that animals can
be taught tricks by firmness and kindness
is grim error, according TO a veteran
circus man who has sent forth the die
tum that no animal was ever trained IN
90 anything unnatural except by punish
ment, says the Chicago News If II
knows hunger or pain will follow disoba
diepce it wiz obey orders. Ii takes the
whip to break a colt 10 harness or sad
die, but the end justifies the means ana
the animals intelligence when once il has
learned its lesson does away with further
use OF the whip. But if a horse is taught
tricks such as one sees in a circus the
constant use of the whip is necessary. AMI
the little pat on the neck the trainer pives
the animal in public is not bestowed in
private. There is never any let-up in their
training. Trained dogs always appeal 10
women and children. for The little animals
appear to thoroughly enjoy their work
But the barking and frisking is only the
natural joy of the poor beasts a being
let out of the cramped quarters Wbera
they stay when they are not in the ring
Moreover, they know the trainer does nor
whip them in public. There is scarcely n
trick a trained dog does that he likes or
that he will do at order unless punish d.
Willis Cobb was the first dog trained 70
make a reputation. and when he was m D.
dleaged he abandoned his profession be-
cause he said he had not the heart to 60
on making a living by whipping dogs
Until monkey is beaten he has no fear
He would as soon attack a lion as a gnst.
and as long as he can look into your eyes
he will not submit. He considers hims.Ir
the master. Avert the head and he give
in. This is a recognized fact among ami
mai trainers. The ring-tail monkeys taken
about by Italians are very gentle and are
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