The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| ferent varieties. 1t has been suggested
to the District of Columbia Commission
ers that a valuable and important educa-
| tional work might be accomplished by APP
plying labels in a liberal way to indicate
the botanical and common names of the
trees, about which most people are ig
norant.
| 1t has been shown by Koch and others
that soap is microbicide, or germ killer,
and, according to Prof. Seraf1ni. soda or
potash soap is quite good disinfectant,
not only because of the alkalis, but the
combination itself Heating the water IA
vors the effect. Resinous soaps are not
| the best dislnfectants. Marseilles soap
is very good; a solution of or per cent.
kills the most resisting microbes.
American shops have turned out 2.473
locomotives this year-the largest number
they ever manufactured in one year, and
| 59S more than were made in 1898. More
| than % per cent of the number or 534,
were made for railway companies in other
countries. Large as the output WaS-and
1t was fully equal to the capacity of the
WorkS-lt was little more than sufficient
| 10 replace the engines which were worn
| out and discarded. There are about 37,O0)
locomotives in the United States.
"A factory inspector is thus quoted in
strange sights | see, and one of the
| strangest was not long ago, at Cramps
shipyard There was an enormous pile of
soft coal, and a crowd of cultured looking
men were going over it and selec ling GER
tain Jumps. 1t amazed me to see these
| fellows, with their high collars, eyeglasses
and pointed Boards picking coal in that
| way and I demanded an explanation.
was told that the coal was being gone
over. and the very best of it being selected
for use in the trial trip of a new man-of-
war. Wise and talented men were choos-
ing the coal, because il was to be used in
the trial of a new warship, the contract
for which called for certain speed. Sue
| cess depended largely on the quality of
the fuel, and so it is no wonder, after all,
| that there was such a picking over of the
coal by the well-dressed experts, who did
not intend to take any chances of failure"
Balloons are generally accepted as like
| ly TO be of little use in warfare, on ac-
count of their liability to fall to the ground
at once on receiving the first perfora ton
| by a bullet. The Austrian government
| has, however recently carried out some
| experiments which show that a balloon SO
| feet in horizontal diameter and 46 feet In
vertical diameter can be used with good
effect to reconnoiter the meneuvers of an
| enemy whose guns are 5000 yards or 5000
yards away after a hight of $500 or 2,700
| feet has been attained by the car While
in this position eighty shell. containing
over 10000 bullets, were fired at the expe-
| rimental balloon which on subsequent
| examination was found to have been
| pierced with only three small holes and
! these for long afterward did not material
| ~ diminish the buoyancv. In effect the
balloon is difficult to hit and when hit
| continues to float for a very considerable
time, notwithstanding the holes made
| through the envelope.
"A news dispatch from Woicott, N. Y,
says For lack of a scientific name which
the puzzled medical fraternity are unable
to supply a new and general complaint
| here is called "sore knee" A large pro-
portion of the population is using canes
to hobble around. The malady struck
! here three weeks ago 1t attacks only
the right knee, but those who have passed
| through the ordeal says the pangs of rheu-
| matism end govt do not hold candle 10
| it. Clarence Johnson. a business man,
was the first victim. He noticed a sting
ing sensation in his right knee while at
work The knee began swelling, and in
! three days Mr.. johnson was at home
suffering great agony. In ten days the
knee had become double it's usual size.
For another week Mr.. Johnson was in
agony, while the swelling gradually grew
less, and a the end of three weeks he
was able to get around. The disease
seemingly had to run its course. Numer-
Gus cases of the disease are reported from
| North Wolcott and Red Creek.
The terrible disaster at Amalfi, Italy.
is not without precedent, says the Phiia-
delphia Ledger, for in 1913 a large Dor.
| ton OF the city was buried under the sea
| by a terrible storm, and the place which
| was once one of the most important in
Europe, never recovered from the shock.
1t became mere fishing village, and so
remained The disaster of Friday helps
| to explain and confirm the wonderful
| stories geology tells about the wearing
away of the land and the transforms ton
of continents. 1t is only an incident or
an unusually large scale OF the work that
is going on less noticeably all the time
The beating of the waves gradually wore
away the base OF the cliff on which
portion OF the town stood. At the same
time, it is probable. the action Of water
and frost gradually opened and widened
an unnoticed seam i'm the rock back of
the portion which eventually fell and
| these causes, working together for CEN
turtles, at last reached the point where the
coheslon OF the rock could no longer resist
the attraction of gravitation, and il yielJ-
Ell to some shock, perhaps too slight TO
attract attention.
DR., j. II. Hanaford says that Ameri-
cans have brought upon themselves the
reproach of being "a nation Of dyspeptics,
mainly through the habit of boiling their
food With great many people il is
concession even to sit down to meals. es.
pecially in the middle of the day. and The
more quickly the meal is finished the bet
ter the eater is pleased. DIR. Haraford
maintains that if there Is no cure for
rush In everything else American there
should be in the matter of eating. He
thinks it is time that wave of common
sense in this regard should strike the peo-
PIE, and suggests that an hour be given
to each meal, half OF the time to eating
thoroughly chewing every morsel. and
never swallowing it until it is well moist
ened with saliva; not washing il down win
not drinks, none of which should be taken
while eating, thus insurng go,d diges-
ton. During the rest from eating cheer
fulness is a safe and profitable aid in the
subsequent digestion. DR. Hanaford ue-
knowedges that in giving this advice he
realizes fully that If it were generally fol-
lowed ii would mean the ruin Of tbousar1-