The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t is interesting TO note that not so
long ago, in County Donegal. Ireland. the
market price for knisting pair of socks
used to be one penny, and women worked
cheerfully for that sum.
The demand for oat meal throughout
England is increasing every year, and the
quantity used among the millions Of Lon
don will soon exceed in ratio the consump-
ton in "Ault Reekie'' ITSELF.
-Four miners were entombed for
twelve days in the Matsuyasu coliiery
in Japan lately. They did without food
all the time, and for most of the time
without light. and were none the worse
when dug out.
Among the beggars and vagabonds of
Breslau, Germany, 70 per cent of the
men have been found unfit for military
service while the figure for the popula-
ton in general does not exceed per
cent
Cups and saucers are never used for
tea anywhere in Russia. The teacup is an
unknown article. The drinking vessel
for tea is the "stakan," a glass tumbler
in a silver holder. No Russian ever
drinks milk in his tea.
The higher classes of machinery and
tools used in Russia are from Great
Britain and the United States. Al pres
ent there is more demand for common
sorts The finer SORTS are used IN bicycle
factories, marine machine shops, etc.
The sexton of church in Denver re-
Gently found that all the movable prop
erty had been carried Off He traced it
10 a pawn shop, where 1t had been left
by burglars who represented themselves
as deacons eager 10 raise funds for the
church.
Statistics compiled by the German gov
eminent show that the oak is more likely
to be struck by lightning than any other
tree. The beech is the most seldom struck,
and next in exemption is the pine OF the
lightning -struck trees upon which the cal
culation was based SO per cent. were oaks,
81 per cent frs. 10 per cent. pines, and
per cent. becomes.
Fish are great gluttons. That is probably
the reason why fine looking bait tempts
so many of them to destruction. A single
bluefiSh has been known TO kill and deVour
ten cod each as big as himself in rapid
succession. Birds are also blessed with fine
appetites. The robin can easily devour two
thirds of his weight in earth worms in
day, and the ordinary pigeon can get away
| with his own weight in grain between sum
| rise and sunset, and then go 10 sleep hun
| cry.
The lighting of stores and shop windows
by incandescent lamps is by no means
novelty, and yet it is the exception rather
| than the rule to see such work properly
done. The lamps should always be con-
| nected from the street side OF the win
| dow. and the surrounding reflecto-s should
be so paced that no shadows are cast
| on the goods in the window. A suffused
| glow of soft light is what should be
| srven for, and the nearer this is APP
preached the better will be the effect
produced.
The newest aud probably the best
equipped electrically of the words fleet
of cableships is the Won Podbielski. which
has JUST been finished on the Clyde. She
was built for a Cologne, Germany, firm,
of cab.emakers and layers, and is 255 feet
long between perpendiculars and has a
moulded breadth of So feet. When fitted
out for sea her dead weight carrying ca
three cable tanks and her main deck is
flush from stem to stern to facilitate
handling the cable.
Edward Tho ndike sums up his con
clusion on the subject of mental fatigue
as follows: Mental work is not a simple
matter of mental energy, of quantity of
| positive or inhibitory nervous discharges,
but of their directi as wall: mental
fatigue is not like physical fatigue and
| requires different treatment; is warning
| signs are mere comp icated less effica-
cious, and Their fore more often neglect
| cd; the warnings that we do have are not
measures of the degree CT inability, but
| indedrite and at present Misunderstood
| signs of da ger; the degree of mental in
abb ty does NOT vary proportionately to
the amount Of work done without suf-
fic' ent rest, but increases much less
| quickly up to a certain amount of mental
work, and then may increase much fast
or, so that one straw of mental work may
tn n break the camels back.
An ingenious automatic electrical fire
alarm has been produced by New Yea
land inventor. 1t involves the "sagging
wire principle heretofore used in many
electrical measuring instruments Near the
ceiling of the room to be protected fine
copper wire is stretched between stud
and an adjustable strainer. At the mid
point of the wire is attached a contact
rod working vertically in a glass tube
A corresponding contact is fixed at the
bottom of the tube and is connected
through an alarm bell and a battery by q
I two-wire circuit. The acton of the APP
paratus is extremely simple. In case OF
fire slight rise in the temperature OF
the stretched wire causes large move
HenC Oh the contact roo winch touches the
lower contact in the tube, thus completng
the electrical circuit and ringing the alarm
bel.
indigestion in its various forms, says
a contributor to the Medical Record, is
considered most common cause of Sleep
lessness, and fatulence, esp eially case
ois d.stenlion of the stomach, is looked
upon as one of the most active factors
In addition to treatment of the funda-
mental conditions, a glass of hot water
at bedtime may be effectual in prevent
ing interference with 5 eep. Should this
not be sufficient, 1t may be preceded by
aroma ic spirit of ammonia and sodium
carbonate, or an alkaline carminative
Graft may be given. Sodium carbonate OF
sulpho- carbclate with aromatic spirits OF
ammonia, compound tincture of carda.
MON, or ether and peppermint water, OF
camphor water, and sometimes sodium
bromide or ammonium bromide, may be
added with advantage for time Friction
over the abdomen or between the Shout.
GERS may aid in dissipating hatulence