The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

York Legislature has favorably reported
a bill 10 prohibit the publication of any
paper which may be found on any person
who has been dangerously wounded, COM
mitted suicide or died suddenly, or who
has been found dead, unless such paper
shall have been produced before a coroner
at an inquest.
-Yonkers people are interested in
movement to buy the Manor Hall, built in
ICS2. and of historic interest as being the
scene of George Washingtons courtship
of Mary Philhpse. The Yonkers Gazette
says that two subscriptions of 5000 each
have been made to the fund. and the Yon
kers Historical Society and the local
Daughters of the American Revolution
are interested in the matter.
The paper famine in England is get
ting to be serious. 1t is csused by the
difficulty in getting wood pulp, by the
rise in the prize of coal and by the enor-
nous increase in demand and stoppage
Of supplies from America. The South
African war has naturally increased the
circulation of newspapers, so that they are
now using from 20 to 100 per cent. more
paper in London than they were a few
months ago.
The British war office has been test
ing a new electrical range finder for the
last two years 1t was invented by an
Australian, who says that it will give
the iange and bearing Of a fixed or NOV
ing object, and at the same time will give
information to any number of fortress
guns attached by wire to the instrument,
thus enabling 100 guns, for instance, to
concentrate their fire simultaneously on
a single ship.
The Kansas City Journal asks Will
liam A. White, the well known author, to
reconcile the following assertion which he
made in his paper (the Emporia (Kan.)
Gazette on different days last week: IF
the Prohibtionists desire to be consistent
they should hold their national meeting at
Emporia, and not in whisky soaked Chi
cago." 'Emporia is good prohibition
town, but a man cen make a living by
picking up empty bottles in the alleys"
in many large laundries electric fat
irons are used altogether. In addition to
the ordinary work the irons are used to
finish off dresses etc, in dye-works. The
advantages of the electric iron are said
to be cleanliness and economy. Besides
this the heat can be so controlled as to
keep the iron always at the right temper
allure, so that scorching becomes impossi-
BILE finished dress has frequently been
spoiled at the last minute by a bit of
The Susquehanna Electric Power Com
pany has so far matured its plans that
within a comparatively short time the city
of Baltimore may get its electricity for
lighting and power from the falls of the
Susquehanna river. The necessary real
estate has been secured and the company
with S,000C00 capital, has been formed.
1t is proposed to build two power hous-
es, each capable of producing 1000 cleo
trical horse-power at the normal flow of
the river. The general plan of the plant
will be the same as that at Niagara Falls.
In the matter of telephone development
Japan compares favorably with other
countries Several of its large cities have
a number of subscribers Toxic has about
5000. with 1900 on application at the last
report, and a new exchange is being built
with capacity of 5000. The subscribers
last year in other cities are returned as
follows: Osaka 1,600, Yokohama 1902 Kobe
S4S, and Kyoto $40. The subscription rate
in Toxic is 1913 a year, and 10, 600, 900 mes
sages were sent over 800 miles of wire in
1899. The government is spending 81, 000,-
900 this year on new telephone work
DIR. Scripture in recent meeting of
scientists at Yale stated that he had in
vented a delicate piece of electrical appa-
ratus by which he applies a waVe-current
of high frequency to the nerves of the hui
man body. He sends the current longi-
tudinally along the nerves. and claims to
have put mans arm asleep so that he
could stick pins into it without the slight
est sensation. 1t was argued that the
current had, from its wave-lie form, the
property of soothing the system and pro
ducng a feeling of rest, but its anaes-
thedc or benumbing power had not been
convincingly demonstrated.
In a town in Wisconsin where there
was trolley speed regulation of eight
miles an hour on single tracks. and ten
miles an hour on double tracks the Off
cials made test in answer TO complaints
Two rode in car and third rode his pi-
cycle alongside the car. There was a cy-
clometer on the wheel and the two Off
Gals inside the car kept the time They
found that the rate between stops was
never less than twelve miles an hour. ami
al time the speed rose to twenty-six miles
an hour Several arrests followed and now
the cars do not go above the legal rate
The townspeople are dissatisfied. however
and the speed restriction is likely to be
removed.
"A method of estimating gold quantita-
lively has recently been described by Herr
l.. Vanino and makes use of formalin.
To solution of chloride of gold ordinary
commercial formalin is added, and then
few drops of caustic soda, and the mix
ture heated in a water bath. The metal
lie gold is separated by filtration, and the
filtered liquid is again tested by forma-
lin to make sure that the precipitation Is
complete. The gold so precipitated is
washed with water and alcohol after
which it is dried. Formalin will also
throw down silver from its solution in
nitric acid whether heat De applied or
not while the reduction of silver chloride
by its agency is also possible.
Every one knows the peculiar qualities
of japanese paper and the many uses 90
winch 1t may be put. 1t is made from
wood or bark and its properties are the
result of its material and manufacture.
In the absence of English names the
pants cultivated for the making of this
paper must be given their japanese names
--mltsumata, sozo and gampiju Bamboo
bark is also used, though not so much
Mitsumata is grown in plantations from