The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-21
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were touched with the finger tiny
spark was emitted and a distinct cleo
trical shock was felt. Professor I.eipsic
found that even at a distance of eighty
feet the tree had a strong influence upon
the magnetic needle. These magnetic va
riations varied according to the time of
day. They were strongest at noon, but
almost entirely disappeared at midnight
The electricity also disappeared in wet
weather. No explanation of this strange
phenomenon is attempted.
"A simple remedy for sudden chill Is
TO drink cup of as hot water as can he
swallowed. but if it isn't obtainable or the
sufferer would rather die than take it,
as is sometimes the case, then resort 20 a
yet simpler method, that of inhaling three
or four breaths and expanding the lungs
TO their fullest extent, holding every time
the inhaled air as long as possible and
then slowly letting it forth through the
nostrils. In doing the imitation of the
lungs sets the heart in such quick motion
that the blood is driven with unusual
force along its channels, and SO runs into
the tiniest veins. This radates a glow
down 90 the toes and finger tips, and sets
up quick reaction against the chill. The
whole effect is to stir the blood and set
1t IN motion as from rapid exercise
ut should not be forgotten, saws the
Springfield Republican, that many of the
newspapers that are now so lightly BAN
dying about the word traitor" were
equally Industrious in the last presidential
campaign In calling nearly half their fell
low-countrymen anarchists "repudia-
tors" etc. If we fan to yelling "Judas Is
cariot!' and Benedict Arnoldr' at our
neighbors because they do not vote as we
n ha1
have no efficient language of abuse-noth-
ing worthy of Gen. Eagan-because all
our epithets will have been made stale and
meaningless by being applied to great
masses of very ordinary plain people. The
dictionaries will give some such definitions
as this: Traitor GU. s.: one belonging to
an opposite political faction; specifically
an independent voter (see "Mugwump'O;
sometimes used in a derogatory sense in
periods of political excitement"
The efforts now making on a wide
scale to preserve the forests do not spring
from altruistic regard for the well-being
of the next generation, says the New York
Journal Of Commerce. So far as the flu
ture supply of lumber is concerned, the
destruction of our forests will only make
timber more expensive and lead to a freer
use of metals for purposes of construc-
the cities need of drinking water that is
inspiring the efforts, legal and scientific,
state and national, to retard the destruc-
ton of our forests. In New England, New
York, and the older parts of the West the
denudation of the soil has already proceed
ed so far as to seriously diminish the VOL
ume of rivers. This has unfavorably af-
fected the water supply of some of our
cities, and it is diminishing the amount
Oft
must depend for its rainfall 1t is for the
sake of the crops and for the sake of the
water supply of towns that efforts are now
making to check the reckless destruction.
of forests.
AS in other European CAPITALS. saws
the Baltimore Sun, the large matinee hat
has been a source of trouble in Athens.
Greece and among its theater-going peo-
pie. Such was the annoyance caused by
1t that Kyrios Bankruptcies, the new
minister OF the interior, found 1t necessary
to adopt stringent measures. Accordingly
he issued orders against hats at theatrical
performances. All the Greek journals.
without distinction of party, supported his
action. In spite of this the ladies' protest.
ed and the new rule resulted in several
comical scenes. Here is an account of one
of them reported in the Akropolis: 1.-THE
other day a lady, elegantly attjred. ar.
rived at the theater. She wore a very
small hat, but an official politely recalled
to her the new regulation. The offended
lady drew attention to the minuteness of
the headgear, but the Official was inflexi-
bic. The lady protested, and in a loud
voice vowed that she would be revenged.
She entered the theater on the succeeding
day without a hat at all. But her hair
which was luxuriant, was done up in such
a way as to form a veritable mountain.
The official was nonplused, and those seat
ed behind the lady were heard to express
their preference for a small hat and no
hair"
One Of the best evidences of the value
of lightning rods up to date, says the Sci
entific American Supplement, has been af-
forded by the Washington monument. It
is capped by small four-sided pyramid
of aluminium, which metal, so cheap to-
day, was very costly at the time of the
building of the greatest obelisk the world
has ever known. This aluminium tip is
connected with the ground by four copper
rods which go down deep into the earth
On April 8, 1885, the monument was struck
fiercely five times, but it suffered no dam
age whatever. On June 10 of the same
year a more tremendous assault was made
the result was a fracture of one of the
topmost stones. The crack still remains to
show what nature can do in the way of an
electrical shocks, but the slightness of the
damage is evidence of mans power to pro-
tect himself from such attacks. The ODE
llsk is ideally located for attracting cleo
trical assaults from the skies, and yet
while many times hit, 1t has suffered only
once, and that time TO a trifling extent.
The Statue of Liberty, New York harbor,
is protected by copper rods united to the
figure and extending through the pedestal
to copper plates buried in the wet ground
beneath the foundation. Lightning has
never injured the statue in the least
The torpedo boat destroyers built by
Schichau of Elbing for the imperial Chi
nese navy with their complete outfit and
twenty-five tons of coal on board, says
Engineering. are reported by Mr.. Schichau
to have steamed 35.2 knots over the meas
ured course of 1872 sea miles, and with six
ty-seven tons of coal-i. e.; full bunkers-
1876 knots The trials took place in open
sea, between the lighthouse tower at Pill
lar and that it RruStarArt uyaatha,.