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

| IN. W attempted suicide in the village OF
| Mclean, but failed to accomplish his OBJ
Ject, and. repenting, called in a physi-
cian The latter rendered all necessary
services, both medical and surgical and
saved the mans life. Later the phy+i-
clan sued his patient for $1,000 claiming
that the mans life which he bad saw d,
was worth that amount. The claim of &c.
coo was not allowed, but the plaintiff was
awarded 5000
A learned German, who has devoted
himself TO The study of physiology, anthro-
| polosy and allied sciences, makes the raeh-
er sLartl ng assertion that mustaches are
bee ming commoler among women in the
| present day than in the past. He says that
| in ConStantinople, among the unveiled Wo-
men that are 10 be met WITH one out or
ten possesses an unmistakable covering of
| down on the upper lip. In the capital OF
| Spain, again, tie proportion of ladies with
| the masculine charac feristic is said to be
guile equal to that observable on the Col
den Horn. An American medical man
states that in Philadelphia fully per cent.
of the adult fair sex are similarly adorn-
| cd, and probably the proportion would be
stil larger but that many women take the
trouble TO eradicate the unwelcomed
growth by the application of depilatory
preparations
Science has lately made it possible to
| obtain good wine from the apple, which
| has always been devoted to sparkling ci-
der. Experts have been deceived In
! sherry. madeira and sauierne which came
from apple juice instead of grapes. Juice
| from the apple is fermented with yeasts
of different kinds brought from the craps
| growing districts of Europe to this coun-
| try. For instance, the flavor If sherry IS
due not to the grape, but to the infi1ites-
| tmal fungus germs that cause its fermed-
tation The American companies import
these germs from the district in Spain
where they flourish. inoculate the apple
juice and obtain a fine wine. The same
process is followed with other varieties of
wine These yeasts are obtained from
the sediment in the watts of Europe They
are easily propagated, and the only diff
| Guilty is to separate the differen MT kinds AS
the quality of wine depends on these fungi
| winemakers have, usually left to chan
the kind of wine they produce, depending
on the organisms which float in the air
and attach themselves to the grapes The
yeasts are sold bottled, and are much in
demand.
Bacteria are now recognized as per-
forming some of the most stupendous
pieces of engineering in nature 1t is curl
GUS to find that an organism which is adj
mirable in one capacity should be so OBJ
jectionable in another. A case in point is
the disposal of sewage, by which offensive
matter is converted into simpler and in
nocuous materials. That similar dsin-
tegrating action would be instrumental in
the breaking down of a stone wall would
seem hardly possible, yet such is now
proved to be the case The gradual fritz
tering away of the cement mortar used
in water supply reservoirs is one of the
most serious problems encountered by
water engineers, and on which hitherto
they have been unable to grapple with
with any measure of practical success
This action has always been supposed to
be the result of the solvent property of
carbonic acid and other mineral substance
commonly present in a water supply. The
cement gradually crumbles away and be-
comes kind of mud, which slowly de-
taches itself. This strange process is
now found 10 be due to the action of
bacterium known as the nitrifying organ
ism. A microscopic examination of the
mud shows it to be teeming with these
organisms, which in the treatment of sew
age have such a purifying virtue. The
organism cannot flourish in the absence
of nitrifiable pabuunn, but in its presence
nitrous acid is produced, which leads to
the disintegraton of the cement lining
of the water reservoir
An cd locomotive engineer. in reply to
The statement that $50 miles an hour was
|
says that they may build the engines for
a 15O-mile gait but they can't build the
| engineers. The strain on the nerves at
very high speeds is something terrific and
anything over fif Y miles an hour is a pace
which Jars every nerve in the body The
average engineer is apt to break down I'M
der the influence of many spurts at even
TO miles an hour After such an ordeal he
is completely unhinged, jumping when he
| hears unPXOeple6 noises 10 b,ret
woman. BY those who have passed through
this experience it is believed that the
strain comes mainly through The sight
The engineer has to look straight ahead
but az the same time, as it has been ex-
pressed he sees things whizzing past
on both sides out of the tail of his eve
ana 1t is as if something had hold of the
optic nerve and was pulling it out like a
rubber band" Shadows are the terror of
the locomotive engineer. A bird may fit
across the headlight and throw a shadow
down the track as big as a box car or
Course ii is gone in an instant, but in lust
that heartbeat he nerves of the engineer
nave teen given shock that they nav
not recover from In week The new cleo
tic headlights are said 10 be the worst
KIND OF snook-producers. They cast such
sharp shadows that a bug moving over The
glass will give the engineer the impression
OF a COW lying just in front of the pilot
AT very high speeds such an experience
conjures up visions of sudden death ard
gives a siedge-hammer blow to every
nerve center IN the body of the engineer
Old engineers say that the speed Of 1oo
miles an hour is beyond the sustained en-
durance OF The man at lever, and with a
sreed of $50 miles the human machine
would go mad in a week.
Such of the innumerable readers of
David Harun' as have not yet forgotten
that peculiar book, says the New York
Times, may get new appreciation of its
humor from few passages of a letter
written by its author soon after his return
from Europe in 1895. MY itinerary y
wrote Mar, Westcott was a short one
shorter than intended when left home.
Tor | expected at least to go to England.
but when it came to the point l was too
much out of sorts to undertake the Jour
ney. In fact, pretty much all of the time
l was abroad / was half sick, and much