The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

to adopt MarcOnfs system Of wireless te-
legraphy on their coast line for defensive
purposes and as a means of c0mmunica~
ton between lightships and the shore.
Scientists have discovered that the
memory is stronger in summer than in
winter. Among the worst foes of the
memory are too much food, too much
physical exercise and, strangely enough,
too much education.
M Janet. a Frenchman of Beauvais,
finds that for toy india rubber balloons
attached 10 a yard of whipcord makes a
swimming belt or life buoy. The balloons
should be only half full in order to re
sist the waves better. This life belt can
easily be carried in the pocket and inhat-
ed at need.
A Russian physician announces that
he has discovered a microbe fatal to rats.
An epidemic having broken out among
rats kept for experimental purposes in
the government agricultural laboratory,
bacilli We're isolated from the liver ana
spleen of the affected animals, and they
proved very effective in killing off rats
ana mice.
The success Of wireless tefegraphy and
the remarkable capabilities of the Hertz
rays have led a French electrical savant.
Dr.. le Bon. 10 turn his attention to The
possibility of applying this force to mod
ern warfare. The result is the startling
announcement that he hopes shortly 20
perfect an apparatus by which, seated
comfortably al home several miles inland,
ne "oula De aple TO PROJECT current ca
pdbIe OF annlhhatlng fleet hoVenng oil
the coast. The explosions would be occa-
stoned by the showers of sparks resulting
from the contact between The projected
current ana me electflc wires on boafd
the SNIP, when shower would be so IN
tense as 10 Immediately lghite the poWder
ana smell on board.
Journalism in Greenland is renresent
GU 'S sDIsle paper coAuueIsu py eeI
tam Mr.. Moeller says the Westminster
Gazette. Ihis energetic gentleman per-
forms slngie-handed the functions of ed
ire nan co. i I tba rro, f lI rle en-
lie has set up a primitive printing estab-
iishment at Goodthaab, and twice month
4 ne per Loi ','9 d lo.ls voyage on skdtes
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A dispatch from Passaic. N. J., says:
Antito,ina sorrr, mos in5a,tod ic+.
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niai . "a an III '"e dssilc General nos
pa I'9t N1oI!cdy d1'ellI NOON III an eIoit
-, 10 saHS i.IS ne ne was attacked 10y
l0chJdN ne patent Is Joseph y Grot
~ ~ q" iN' q 1ipi $3.50 Vi me P7ace, Oh
''99IiN- ne w. iNJ u - tHe might peLoIe
blank cartridge pistol one of the charges
entered the palm OF his LETT hand, intiict-
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Monday morning. The doctors hone to
save his life The FIRST patient TO be in
oculated with serum in this county was
operated on in the General Hospital at
Passaic a year ago and he recovered. He
was A. n. HemOn.
MI. I,,,,.,7,,.., ,,,,,..4 ,...,... g. ..-
from the 1holah arsenal py whose ofhcers
it was devised and the name should not
he snal1ed in two words or oven b,,rbar-
ized as q Great MANY, neo1la a,noar 20
think. Dumdum is a town ana = mill
tarv station about four miles, northeast of
Calcutta. 1t was the experience in the
Soudan and also in the Snanisb- American
war. that the new magazine rifles WHOSE
small caHbers allow them to have create,
accuracy and greater carving mower Than
the old weanOns were family, in oDa i'm,
portant particular. The small caliber hui
let's have slight effect on those srrncls IN,
them. and il was TO obyiate this dificl1ltv
that the Dumdum bullet was devised This
bullet is one from which part of the nickel
or copper covering is removed. so tbat
the force of the impact spreads the sof,
lead making a missile that inAiots a -
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F. w. Johnson, superintendent of the
central division of the Mexican Central
Railroad, who is stopping at the Hotel
Walton, has been a resident of the City
of Mexico for the past eighteen Years and
during that period has witnessed vast
strides in civilization in our sister renuh-
lie. says the Philadelpbia Record When
he first went there he introduced an Eng
fish saddle into the Mexican canita1 ana
whenever he rode ollt was ragar,lad u1ith
great curiosity bv the natives To-daI1
the old ELECTROMAGNETIC Mexican eaddie
and the fancy costumes Of The Mevicar,
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