The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In the United States was 1,017, with de-
posits amounting To 81, Sal 100000. and sur
plus and other assets making their hold
ings $2,o1S0O1,000. In 1899 the number of
such banks was 9i2, with deposits aggre-
gazing $2,199, 0000c0 and other assets making
a total of $2,401,0 900, 600
-SamH particles of cinder and metal are
constantly getting into the eyes of en-
gine-drivers and stokers says London Tit
Bits. They have one invariable way of
getting them out. No sooner has e
driver Of an engine got a nasty bit of
grit in his eye than his companion, the
stoker, opens the eyelids quite wide and
Hicks out the unseen fragment-which
might produce tragic results sometimes
with his tongue. The public knows little
of this hero-c remedy, but on every line
in the world it is being applied every hour
of the day. All surgeons recognize that
this is often, with all their beautiful in
struments, the only way. And among the
thousands of women connected with our
fishing trade who have to clean behring's
il is also practiced as the only method Of
getting out of the human eye the very
minute herringscales that lodge there and
soon produce serious mischief ii not re-
moved.
To plant a biograph machine upon the
actual field of battle and to snap shot
TIE liz HlIIS utllll elmer IQe coveted views
are obtained or The operator is placed hors
du combat by a stray shell or bullet is
an undertaking that demands no small
measure of courage and GOODNESS, and
every one will hope that the prospective
hero of this rash but most interesting en-
terprise who has already sailed with his
paraphernalia for Africa, will escape safe
and sound, bringing his sheaves of duly
loaded" films with him. Should he sue
coed it will be possible 10 see, for the first
time, living pictures of warfare in full
progress, and TO participate in the emo
tons of a battlefield 10 an extent that no
mere illustration or verbal description
however vivid, could render possible
Should the adventurous knight of the BIZ
ograph return safely the results of his en-
terprise will be the more appreciated on
account of the perils incurred in their
acquisition.
The botanical curiosites of the Island
of Ceylon are replete with varied interests
One of them is the forbidden fruit or
Ewes apple tree Its native name is
Diwi Kaduru, Kaduru signfying forbid
dem and Diwi tigers" The flower of
this extraordinary production is said to
emit fine scent. The color of the fruit
which hangs from the branches in a very
peculiar and striking manner, is very
beautiful, being orange on the outside and
deep crimson within The fruit itself
presents the appearance of having had a
piece bitten out of ii. This circums lance,
together with the fact of its being a dead
ly poison, led the Mohammedans on their
first discovery of Ceylon, which they as-
signed as the site of Paradise to repre-
sent 1t as the forbidden fruit of the Gar
den of Eden, for, although the finest and
most tempting in appearance of any, il
had been impressed, such was their idea,
with the mark of Ewes having bitten it,
TO arm mo Ifr,er
stance possessing such noXious properties,
1t rains a good deal in the Puget
Sound country" said the man from that
section says the Washington Star, "and
l heard of funny incident not long ago
about it. Some chap had come from the
Mississippi valley TO take up his residence
at Whatcom on Bellingham bay, where
there are very high tides. When the boat
landed him at the end of the long pier
extending over the tide flats the water
was low and the new man didn't notice
anything but a wide stretch of sand be-
tween the boat and the town. 1t was in
the evening about dark and was raining
and he went to the hotel on the front
street and stayed there, going to bed with
out having gone out for a walk. The next
morning when he got up he looked out
and the tide was in, the water coming up
close to the hotel He gazed at the wide
ing up his hands in establishment he ex-
claimed: Gee whiz, it must have rained
hard last night Then he hurried down.
stairs to the Office to find out if there
was any danger from the flood, and the
clerk smiled four or five times and gave
him some much-needed information.
1t looks easy enough to operate the
handle of controller of a trolley car,
says the Philadelphia Record, and, ex-
cept for the disagreeable jolting one is
sometimes given by green hand, to most
people one motorman does it in just the
same manner as another, and few people
would believe that there is considera BILE
opportunity for exercising judgment in
turning on and off the current and speed
ing up the motors. Mr.. Charles w Hew-
lit, of the Union Traction Company. some
time ago, before the Engineers Club, gave
the result of some practical tests he had
made of the efficiency of various motor
men, the results of which showed that
some men could go over the same route
on the same schedule time, and with the
same number of passengers, and yet one
motorman would use a little more than
half the current used by another A watt
meter, which measures the energy con
sumed, was placed on a car without the
knowledge of the motOrman, and this
car was run over different routes bv diff
ferent men. and careful record made of
the car-miles Travelled, the time and
number of passengers carried. By the
way, it was found that the number of
passengers carried had an almost inappre-
-ciable effect on the consumption of en-
ergy, the variations in the amount of en-
ergy depending almost entirely on the mo-
torman. These figures showed that the
saving if all motormen were as good as
the best, would amount to 43 per cent of
spower.
That the drainage canal can flow two
ways at once may seem queer, but Tsham
Randolph, chief engineer of the sanitary
district, says it is entirely possible, saws
the Chicago News. Not only is it Dossi-
BILE, says he but m all probability there
will be half a dozen or a dozen times a
year when such a peculiar phenomenon
may be observed. A southwest wind fol-
lowing soon after northeast wind would
almost certainly create such "A condition.
according to Mr. Randolph. AS every one
at all familiar with the whims and pect-
liarities of Lake Michigan knows. a sus-