The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A little daughter of Mrs. F. F. 9Th of
Bridgeport. n. j., has been treated for two
years for catarrh. A day or Two ago an X
ray examination revealed gutta percha
button in her nose 1t was removed
The German debt is growing constantly
at the rate of about Ss6O0O,OOO a year. In 1888
it was $173, 100000. AT the end of 1898 it was
three times as great. These figures are
from German statistical paper. The total
debt, $40, 100000, is very small, as debts go
in this age.
"A French physician recently reported
to the Academic des Sciences the result
of his experiments on blind children.
Among 204 he found four boys and five
girls who were able to recognize the
Roentgen rays. Some saw the x, catholic
and fourescent rays, others only the ca
thodlc and X rays. and one described them
as being of a reddish color.
There has just been brought forward
portable electric safety lamp for use in
special cases when an open flame. or even
one safeguarded as in the miners lamp
would prove dangerous. The combination
consists of a dry battery arranged to be
carried in a holder at the belt or in the
pocket the battery being controlled by
small rheostat, maintaining an even sup
ply of current to the lamp and allowing
it to burn with the same brilliancy during
the life of the battery. The electric lamp,
connected TO the battery by a flexible
cord, is the miners lamp manufactured
by the Edison electric company, and is of
six candle-pOwer set in a small white en-
ameled parabolic reflector and provided
with stick-pin to allow it to be attached
to the hat or any part of the clothing,
the light having sufficient luminosity to
permit of ordinary matter being read at
a distance of 100 feet from the lamp.
Evidences that Morse explorers sailed
over the waters of Lake Superior in 1852
or that somebody is trying TO play large
and solemn joke on the archaeologists of
Chicago's most learned suburb--has just
been discovered in a North Minnesota viii
lage, says the New York Times. The ev-
idence takes the shape of a large fiat
stone inscribed with characters said to be
Runic, which a young Norwegian farmer
has just founder, at least dug up near
the lake shore in the little town of Ken
sington. He sent a copy of the inscription
to one of the professors in the North
western University, and the professor
reads the rune as follows: "A number of
Norsemen are out on an expedition of dis
covery to the Vineland of the West We
had a camp along with boats a days
journey from this stone We got out daily
to fish, and one day after we came home
we found a man red with blood and dead
Goodbye. Rescue from fire. Had any one
such friend as we had? Now on our way
to look after our ship, and fourteen DAYS
journey from this island" This is all yery
importantly authentic. The stone, its
finder says, was covered with six feet of
dirt had been cracked by the roots of
large tree, and its resting place was 1 100
feet above the present level
OF the lake. 1t has been
forwarded to the university and II
the experts agree on its genuineness there
is likely to be great stir in archaeology
ical circles.
Though there is a rule in the British
army about the sustaining power of ice,
explained an army officer to a Washington
Star reporter, there is no such a rule in
our army regulations though the engi-
neers have formula which covers the
matter. Their formula, in brief, is that
ice three inches thick will sustain 100
pounds to the square foot; four inches will
sustain a column of infantry and five
inches artillery. In Central Park. New
York, and Druid Hill Park. Baltimore
skating is never allowed until the ice is
three inches thick on the lakes The same
rule is observed in other public skating
parks. Ice two inches thick is safe enough
for man to skate on, and even for
number at the same time, but that thick
ness of ice cannot be depended upon for
parks where great crowds gather Ten
inches of ice will hold up any weight that
can be put upon It,, as far as people are
concerned. Railway trains have been run
on the st. Lawrence river on fifteen-inch
ice, without the slightest suspicion of dan
ger. There have been a number of horse
races and carnivals on the Hudson river
on ten-inch ice One of the best races of
the kind l ever saw was on the Potomac
about thirty-seven years ago, In which
a half-dozen horses engaged and thou
sands of persons stood on the course and
watched it, and the ice was not over nine
inches and a half thick. The Central
Park rule of three inches or no skating
is a good one, and is on the safe side
rather than otherwise. Even then it is not
safe to have any very large number of
persons to gather on a small space, for
three-inch ice is not always as strong as
it should be. In small ponds two-inch ice
is safe enough for children or even small
party of grown persons, but they should
keep scattered as much as possible. In
1856 when the Potomac broke its freezing
record there were hundreds who drove
wagons and carriages on the ice from here
as far down the river as Mount Vernon
and teams crossed the river at many
points. 1t was over thirteen inches thick
and lasted two weeks
The geology of the Klondke region
formed the subject of a paper presented
at the annual meeting of the American
Geological Society, in which the territory
where gold has been found in large guam
titles was described. 1t comprises about
1000 square miles. and is bounded by the
Yukon river on the west, the Klondike
river on the north. which flows into the
Yukon from the east; the valley of Flat
creek on the east, and the watershed be-
tween the Stewart and Indian rivers on
the west. The greatest elevation above
the sea level is about 1900 feet, and the
/ country is a succession Of vast swelling
hills, with deep valleys intervening. Trees
and shrubs grow on a soil composed of
decomposed rocks, and along the numerous
creeks are located the best paying claims
The rocks underlying the gold bearing ore
are rnicaceOuS and schistS often crt nv