The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-18
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sale for a book of that character.
Scientists declare that the physical de-
terioration of the human race. which has
been going on for centuries, has ceased
and a gradual improvement commenced.
The Glasgow Town Council has award
ed a contract for two electric traction en-
gines to an American company solely on
the ground of an earlier delivery than could
be promised in Great Britain.
The Old Colony Company has applied
for a charter 10 construct railroad tun-
mel under Pixies Peak with branches en-
circling the Cripple Creek district. the to-
tai length being fifty miles. The tunnel
viii enter the mountains at Colorado City
and emerge at Marigold.
st Vincent's Hospital, New York, is
to have a motor ambulance. 1t will be
propelled by electricity, and Is expected
TO effect a great saving of time in trans
porting the victims OF accidents to the
hospital The ambulance is to be present
ed to the institution by wealthy resident
of New York.
Only one-half of those who enter the
military academy at West Point continue
in it long enough to obtain commission,
the discipline. Six thousand six hundred
and ffty-eight cadets were admitted to
the academy up to and including 1886, and
only 1854 of these were graduated.
Mrs. Clara e. Wright of San Francisco
started the Rampant City Whirlpool in
the Klondike last January, and it has
proved TO be a great success. 1t is issued
once a month and sells at 81 a copy. 1t
is typewriter instead of being printed
the work being done by Mrs. Wright
and her daughter-and is well filled with
good, paying advertisements.
According to estimates of the salmon
pack made at the principal cannerles on
Puget sound in the last few days, this
years product of canned and picked sal
mon will reach fully $50, 600 cases, or a
gain of 50 per cent. over last years pack.
This means that the product of the can
neries sold IN the English and American
markets will realize about $4,000.
British mariners see an important col
lision-preventing apparatus in the ingen-
lous sound locator of Mr. James Anthony
of Newcastle. This has a large circular
mouthed sound collector, with a resonator,
from which the sound is transmitted
through a receiver to the ear tubes. When
the operator has turned the collector to-
rection is shown on a dial
Now comes notice from London of
new novel, entitled Under the Sjambok."
dealing with life at the present time I'M
der the Beers. The sjambok is the ter
rlble whip, or rhinoceros or hippopota-
mus hide, used among the beers TO keep
their black servants in order. The in
cidents and scenes introduced are based
on the actual experience of the author
@. Hansby Russell. who lived for a con-
siderable time in South Africa.
Gold mining in South Africa resembles
iron mining in the Lake Superior region.
from the fact that the metal is not visible
to the naked eye in the form of grains or
nuggets, but is distributed sparsely through
the matriX or EARTH and if the ore con-
tains one ounce of gold to the ton it is
considered rich. In order to recover the
precious metal thus disseminated compii-
Gated metallurgical processes are necessary
and very costly machinery is required
The investment of British capital in the
mines must be stupendous in amount
The dress of women nurses in the
United States army, it has been decided.
shall consist of a waist with adjustable
cuffs and an apron of white linen worn
with a skirt and necktie of army blue gal
atea. A jacket of galatea style is Also
provided. to be worn when desired. Caps
are not to be used. Chief nurses are EMIT
led to wear in place of the apron a sash of
red silk knotted around the waist. Each
nurse may have the uniform made as best
suits her convenience, but the material and
cut are to be prescribed. The distinctive
badge of the nurses corps is a modified
form of a Greek cross of dark enamel
edged with gold.
Waste of water in the pipes is cry
ing and chronic evil in American cities
The more waste the easier the pretended
demonstration of insufficiency and the
richer the returns TO corporate greed when
it is in control of sources of water sup
ply New York city uses about 10 gal
Ions of water daily for every resident; the
| actual amount required is about twenty
seven gallons per capita. Nearly eighty
gallons a day per head of population is
wasted in one way or another. In England
and in Europe, where the matter of sup
plying municipalities with water has been
reduced almost to an exact science, the
daily allowance per head varies from fif-
teen gallons in Vienna to forty-two gallons
in Paris. In st. Petersburg the average
is twenty-five gallons per head, in Berlin
eighteen gallons, in London thirty-eight
gallons. In comparison with these figures
the liberal supply of most American cities
| seems almost like extravaganza.
The navy department has issued an or
der to place metal furniture on the cruiser
Atlanta. The placing of metal furniture
on United States cruiser is an experiment
which grows out of the experience of the
navy during the Spanish-American war.
1t was found that the presence of the
wooden furniture aboard the warship dur
ing the late war was a most serious men,
ace to the men. More injury was done
by the flying splnters than was done di-
rectly by the shells of the enemy. Admiral
Dewey had thorough appreciation of the
danger from this source and before or
dering his squadron into the battle of Ma
Mia bay he had every piece of wooden
furniture on the vessel cast overheard
The recommendation to put metal furni-
ture aboard the warships to take the place
of wooden furniture was made by Con-
structor Bowles. The trial will be made
on the Atlanta, and if the experiment
proves success metal furniture will sup
plant the wooden furniture on all the