The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-03
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| sltton VIII be before 10 a. m, two francs,
OF about 20 cents, 10 the entire exhibition;
! between the hours Of 10 a. ga. and p.
| IN. a franc viii be the charge, and after
| 6 p. m. on week days two frances, while
on Sundays the fee is not 10 be raised for
the evening hours.
in a recent paper Dr. Sheard. medical
officer Of health in Toronto, says that dur
! ing the past year in the Blood Indian re-
! serve OF the Canadian Northwest Terri
tory, in a population of 1000 there were
| 12 deaths from pulmonary consumption,
! cons tfrIUng % per cent. Of The total death
| rate. This occurred in a tribe occupying
| one OF The finest climates Of the world.
| among the foothills of the Rocky noun
tains-a region in which consumption is
extremely rare among the white popula-
| ton.
DR. f. w. Scripture described before
! the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science the method of producing
| an esthesia by the direct application of
! an electrical current without the apphca-
tion of drugs. An alternating current with
| equal positive and negative phases was
made to traverse the nerve. At proper
frequency of about 5000 complete periods
| in a second it can be made to cut off all
sensatory communication by this nerve.
| Needles can be run into the part of the
body supplied by this nerve without any
pain being felt
According to social usage, women In
Peru cannot attend funerals, and they do
not appear at weddings unless they are
very intimate friends. When a funeral
| procession passes through the streets the
coffin is carried upon the shoulders of the
pall-beareTs who are followed by an emp
ty hearse drawn by two, four or six
| horses, according to the means of the
mourners and their desire for display. All
the male members of the family and
friends of the deceased follow on foot,
with a line of empty carriages behind
them. AS long as they are in the pres
ence of the dead it is considered a proper
and necessary evidence of respect to walk.
After the body has been committed TO the
grave those who attend the funeral are
brought home in carriages
The president of the Royal College of
Surgeons. who has just volunteered for
service in South Africa, is no novice in
! service on the field of battle. He served
as volunteer surgeon during the Franco
| Prussian war, and was present at the
| siege of Sedan. He has written book des-
| cribing his experiences in this conflict,
| which had a great influence in improving
| the condition of field hospitals and am
| bulance service on later battlefelds He af-
| terward served in the Turko-Servian war
| ana Is tHS DOSSGSSOT Oh IDGHg IOI64gH acc
| orations, given in recognition OF his SER
| vices. He is now serving his fourth term
| as president of the Royal College of Sur
| geons. In going out to South Africa, says
the Chicago Tribune. Sir William gives
up an enormous practice. He is nearly "a
| years old
One of the priced curlos of the Phila-
defphia mint is a coin which is 2OCO years
cd, and which was coined at the ancient
mint of that other Philadelphia of the
Far East 1t is still in good condition. and
| the inscription is perfectly legible. The
! design on the face of the coin, says the
| Philadelphia Record, bears a striking re-
semblance TO the Goddess of Liberty of
our own currency, and underneath is the
one word, Demos" which means The
people" On the other SIDE is the figure of
| Diana, with her bow arched and the in
| scription, Diana, Friend of the Philadel-
| phians." When this coin was struck off
| Philadelphia was the most important city
| OF Lydia. The prize was picked up in Eu-
rope by Joseph Mickey, a celebrated Phil
adelphia violin maker and numismatist of
| high repute, who presented it to the mint.
"A tunnel between the postoffice and st.
Martin -sle-Grand, London, and the Lon
don and Northwestern Railway station at
| Euston, which has lain idle nearly forty
| years. is now to come into practical use.
| 1t was built in 1859 for the purpose of
| carrying mails and parcels from the post
| office to the railway station pneumatical-
| ly. The railway cost $4,000. The diff
| cuties of using pneumatic pressure on a
| large scale caused the project to end in
| failure. The power was increased from 100
| to 800 horsepower, but the results were
| the same The tunnel is four feet in
| hight and four and one-half feet in width
Now an electric train is to be run through
il and regular mail service between the
important station and the postofice can
be maintained. The trip will require about
five minutes The tunnel is also to be
| lighted electrically.
An electrical audiphone suitable for
people afflicted with deafness has been in
vented by R. Hutchisou of Mobile, Ala.
1t is intended that the instrument should
enable deaf people 10 hear sounds like
people of normal hearing and to train
their ears to hear without the instrument.
Tt consists of two rubber ear pieces held
together by means of a spring like the
shape of a receiver used by telephone
gir,s, which fits over the ears, and there
is metal breastplate on which is fixed
in front of the mouth of the wearer a
transmitter. The transmdter is of rubber,
and arranged so that it can be turned to-
ward the mouth of the wearer or away
| from him, and become a receiver. There
is a switch on the breastplate to cut off
the current, and cut 1t in, so that the
wearer can only hear the instructor or his
own voice and those of the remainder of
the class.
"A Washington dispatch to the New
York Evening Post says: "a good idea of
the enormous size of the postal business
may be had by getting close to one of
the big machines smallest wheels. Take
for instance the credting of stamped
| envelopes or stamps which have been
accidentally destroyed or rendered worth
less. This one duty occupies the entire
time of six men. During the last quarter
the books of the department show that
| Chicago was credited with twenty-one
cases of such stamped envelopes. each
| containing 10000 The losses come from
many different causes. Often envelopes
are misdlrected Some times they are
burned or get'wet. A method by which
stamps are frequently lost is the grinding
of a mail sack under the wheels of a