The morning news., 1899-05-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


separate filaments of carbon, each fed by
its own wire. The socket is so contrived
that the current may be turned into one
or both tilaments at pleasure. If one fla
ment is used an eight-candle light is OBJ
tanned; if both are used a siXteen-candFe
light results. This invention removes IN
part one of the defects of the ordinary
electric lamp, namely, that one cannot
turn down" the light without turning
it Quit is all or none. The removal OF
this defect makes the electric lamp more
available for domestic use, especially IN
parlors of homes containing marriageable
young ladies.
in Boston a scheme of utilizing sea
water for fires is employed. About $4,000
worth OF iron pipe was laid from the wharf
10 the crowded part of the city, and into
this system of pipes a tirebOat pumps sea
water at the rate of 4000 gallons min
ute. The ordinary fire hose is attached
to the hydrauts al the ends of the branch
pipes, and thus one fire boat at a central
wharf is made to do the work of six or
eight ordinary fire engines. The plan is
said to work we'll Cities close to the sea
or to rivers by utilizing q. system of pipes
in this way might largely dispense with
fire engines for business districts when
the houses are crowded and lofty, says the
Baltimore Sun. Permanent plants for
pumping placed near the wharves might
serve wide areas. The hose wagons would
however, still need to hurry 10 the scene
of fires.
Charles Brinkley, l Iinnaeus (Mo)
boy, serving in the Philippines, writes
home: THE American soldiers blood is
up now. The enemy capture our sick and
mutilate them in the most inhuman man
ner They respect no Red Cross. They
have captured some of our men, and tor
tured and killed them. They send out
white flag, and when we go out to meet
the bearer they fire on US. They know bet
ter; they are smart enough. This is
fine, healthy climate We have good quar-
ters, and / am well satisfied to be a sol
dier. The beast of burden is the water
buffalo. The only horse used here is
small pony. 1 have one to ride that is
snow-white. This is strange city. 1t is
surrounded by a wall twenty feet high and
twelve feet thick, with a forty-foot moat
around the outside. Inside the wall is
city of prisons, and outside the wall the
inhabitants live. There is so much to
tell, it is hard to tell at all. We
have captured several coffins full of arms
in the last two days We will get them
all soon"
The Manila correspondent of the New
York Tribune writes: Not less trying is
the sight of the actual ceremony of inter
ment We do not smoke long cigars at
funerals nor do we chatter ceaselessly
thereat; both these things are done by Fill
pinos. But then, they do many things that
we do not do. They wash rice in the dirty
Paslg. Girls of ten and twelve years smoke
cigars. Females, old and young, wear the
same dropping off -the-shoulder cut of cor
sage, That is, perhaps, an advantage for
a man of family, since, in consequence the
style never changes. Not less startling
than the cemetery was my first view of
the interior of La Iona Church. 1t had
been made the headquarters in the field of
a division commander. In the roof gaped
great holes made some days before by
shells from the fleet firing on Caloocan
The altar rail bore a drapery of officers
saddles and equipments. Within the rail
a telegraph instrument and typewritng
machine clicked and clattered; hunks lined
the walls; from the great chandelier was
suspended a mosquito canopy; a confess
sional did duty as a clothespress, while
in the sacriSty was a store of grain for
public animals, and on the walls and altar
the sacred images and stations of the
cross remained, locking down on the hav-
oc that he'll I'm the guise of war had Great
ed in His temple 1t was awful. 1t was
war.
"A naturalist claims that there is a
great deal of ignorance of the effects of
| chloroform on the part of many stable
| helpers and others, to whom the task
of giving chloroform TO horses is often en-
| trusted, and from this ignorance a great
| deal of needless cruelty has been inflicted.
| The Junker method of forcing air through
| chloroform has stood the test of expert
| ence remarkably we'll A known quantity
| of the chloroform is evaporated at each
| compression of the bellows, and so a def
| mite amount of the drug Is presented to the
| patient at each respiration. This method
| has been adapted ingeniously to the chic
| reforming horses. Satisfactory anaesthe-
| sia can by this method be obtained in
| horses by using 1898 minims a minute in
| one case, 1858 minims in another and Isl
| minims in another. This gives an average
| of about half a rninim a respiration The
| piston, which takes the place of the bel
| lows in the apparatus of Junker, gives
| absolute control of the percentage of vapol
administered. Three imperative rules
| however. should be followed: "a the vapol
should be given during the whole period
of inspiration; ~ only so much chloroforn
should be given at each inspiration AS
| can be completely absorbed; (0 to begir
with, only one-twentieth of a minim should
| be administered, slowly and carefully In.
creasIng the dose to one-tenth, one-ffth
etc, and never going above half-minin
doses. If some reliable person about eacf
stable were trained to this method oil
| chloroform administration the present
dread and uncertainty about using the
drug would no longer stand in the way OF
| amelorating or if necessary terminating
the sufferings of valuable horses.
An authority on tin plating says that
food Gamers cannot be to careful in see
ing that the quality of tin plate used by
them is of the proper quality. Persons
who eat canned goods are not supposed
to know anything of the chemical reac-
ton of the contents against the material
Of the cans themselves, and in this chemi-
| cal process may be found much of the
cause for the common complaints Of can
rcd stuffs on the score of their being poi
sonous. Most of the tin plate for can
ming purposes Is made in Monmouthshire
and in South Wales. OF late many
changes have been made in the methods
of coating tin plates. These changes have