The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

( tributing power through a factory in the
form of electricity rather than by pureys
! and betting are becoming more appaAent
every DAY. and In towns like Buffalo.
where electric power Is supplied on a la.gs
scale, 1t is said the pulley men have ceas-
ed to push Their wares very vigorously.
says the New York Tribune. Still. the old
power transmission systems representa-
tiyes pretend that their business has not
yet been hurt appreciably
"A good many years ago." says the
Philadelphia Record, Jay Cookies coun-
try residence, Ogontz, was the show place
Of the country side. 1t was looked upon
as marvel of architectural beauty and
richness, and no drive through the CheI-
ten hills was complete without a visit 10
the Cooke estate. At that time the sta
ton was known as York Road and the
little village surrounding it was content
with the plebeian name of Shoemaker
town. Then both station and town were
renamed Ogontz. But now the former
home of the great financier has been turn
ed into a school, and 1t is quite over
Swallowed by the palaces of William l.. Ell
kins, P. A. B. Widener, John B. Stetson
and other men of wealth. And both Og-
onIz and Ashebourne stations have disap-
peared, and in their place is Elkins, mid
way between them"
"A colored barber in Philadelphia has
the following placard displayed on the
wall of his shop: The tonsorial parlors
The only barber shop on earth that COM
bInes the salient features of a tonsorlal
palace and an old curiosity shop. Here
you can be served by finished artists who
have manipulated the Sultan of Turkey,
the Shah of Persia the Gar of Russia
King Menelek of Abyssinia and the En-
peror Of Austria. Here priceless treasures
delight the eye, and Truthful Tales of
Stirring Adventures in Love and War, on
Land and Sea, tickle the ear while being
served. Here, Furthermore. you can en-
joy the rare felicity Ct having your shoes
BACKED and your coat brushed by a gen.
uine Nubian, just imported from Constan-
tinople. And here. 10 cap the climax, you
can receive ten--think of it!-ten different
styles of hair cutting for p cents"
Physicians in South Africa now have
another theory for explaining away the
charges made by both Briton and Boer
that the other IS using explosive bullets
says the New York Sun. The extensive
liberation often found in bullet wounds
is now said to be due to the air which the
bullet drives before 1t into the wound. The
existence of this phenomenon can be prov
ed easily. If a round bullet be dropped
into a glass of water from the height of
a lew IGef IL VIII De seen lQdt WIlen inc
bullet touches the bottom a large bubble
of air VIII become detached and rise to
the surface. In this case the bubble Will
usually be from ten to twenty times the
size of the bullet. Now, d MauSer bullet
travelling at high speed is said 10 carry
before it a bubble of compressed air of
large dimensions. Experiment made by a
surgeon who fired pistol ball into a glass
of water showed the bubble TO be one
hundred times the size of the ball. From
the appearance of the wounds and from
these experiments it is concluded that the
mass of air driven by a Mauser bullet eX-
plodes in the body of the wounded man
with sufficient force 10 cause extensive
laceration. This destructive air bubble is
we'll known to surgeons under the name of
projectile air.
An estimate made by the American
Grocer shows the comparative consump-
ton of alcoholic and other beverages in
the United States for the year ending June
80, 1899 places the total cost to the con-
sumner at over one billion dollars, or, to
be exect, $114s,S 1922, as follows
Alcoholic drinks observation-disclosures 973, $50 $50
Non-alcoholic stimulants-
Coffee ........... ................ 13i 69o, 10i
Tea ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ....... 336l3,5SS
cocoa go. ......................... o,OOO 100
1Cldl u, 49, SSf u
Total. 1898 ....................$1,1 III Gel 366
The above represents a yearly per cap
ita expenditure for beverages of SIS. 90
for the 76,0l1000 inhabitants of the United
States, or about AS cents per day. The
above figures seem TO show that the
cheaper and the milder stimulants are
growing in favor and are steadily reduc
ing the use of fiery liquors. The quaint
ties of the four leading bevera ges con-
sumed for the year ending June 80, 1899,
We're as follows:
Gallons
Coftee ,346 851 ,542
Beer OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. / 35 $40 629
lea Observation-Disclosures. 433 4T4, $50
spirits and wines ............... 1l3 SO, 924
Twenty-Five years ago. says Leslie's
Weekly, the Engineer of London, the rec
osnized authority on all matters pertain
ing TO steamship navigation, made the
prediction that the crossing of the ATTAIN
tic ocean by a steamship az the speed of
twenty-five miles an, hour was one of the
things impossible of accomplishm At
that time the Atlantic had never been
crossed by screw steamer at as high
speed as fifteen miles an hour; the Gun
arder Scotia, the last of the big sidewheel-
ers, never doing better than an average
of fourteen and three-fourhs knots.
Therefore, the prophecy of the Engineer
was not at ali a wild one But to-day
there are steamers that have reached the
speed of twenty-five miles an hour, and
others are in course of construction which
are expected to surpass it. The fastest
liner of to-day has done more than an av-
erage of twenty-five miles. Her enor-
nous engines and powerful propellers,
mighty powers of propulsion, have forced
her through the toughest waters of the
Atlantic at an average speed Of twenty
one knots, which is a fraction over TWEEN
ty-six miles in the hour. The distance of
the Southampton-New York route is 5000
miles, which she covers, on the average
IN five days and seventeen hours, con-
siderably over twenty-five miles an hour
for the entire trip; her mighty engines
that throbbing, humping heart down be-
low-revolve about eighty times per min
ute, or about 672,000 revolutions to cross
the Atlantic.
Here is a situation for a novel, writes
w. f. Curtis in the Chicago Record Weng
Tung-Ho was the tutor of the present
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