The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

six-inch ice, heavy field guns, such as
eighty-pounders; eight-inch ice; battery
or artillery, with carriages and horses.
but not over 1000 pounds per square foot
on sledges, and ten-inch ice sustains an
army or an innumerable multitude On
f1fteen-inch ice railway could be built.
and two-feet ice will stand the impact
Of loaded railway carriage after a sixty
foot fall.
The Diesbach family of Atchison. had
an old horse which had lived out Its
days of usefulness, says the Kansas City
Journal At last It became so old and
decrepit that it got down in the barb
and could not get up. The family sent
for horse ambulance and turned the
animal over to the town scavenger with
money to buy choloroform with which TO
give the old horse an easy death. The
horse was carefully conveyed to the bone
yard ana pint of chloroform was soaked
in sponge and placed beneath its nose
as it lay on the ground. After sniff1ng
at the chloroform the horse jumped up,
kicked out its heels and ran cavorting
out into the country. And yet a man once
wrote book to prove that animals have
no sense of humorl
HAY lozenges are the popular confec-
tionery among army horses in the Phil
ippines and South Africa, says the
Youths Companion. The food, or rather
the form Of it, is a Yankee invention.
called into existence by the circumstance
of war in a country lacking good roads.
Hay put up in the ordinary bale can
not be transported on horseback because
Of its weight and bulk. 1t is therefore
compressed by powerful machinery into
disks foot or eighteen inches in dame
ter and two inches thick. The disks are
packed into rolls, like the Iozenges the
train boys sell, and hung in slings from
the horses back one on each side. A
single loZenge, when broken up and OPEN
ed out makes a meal for horse or mule,
and will cure him of that hungry feel
ing as quickly as mangerful Of fresh
hay. The compactness OF the new bale
also means a great saving in freight.
The causes of general paralysis, says
the London Chronicle. may be summed
up in the two words drink and debauch-
cry, to which conditions perhaps it is only
fair to add stress of life and worry. If
DR.. Stewards contentious be correct,
then we have to congratulate ourselves
on an improved state of things as re-
CARDS intemperance among the working
classes and lower middle classes of our
towns The surplus energy of these lat
ter sections of society, we are told, must
have found more healthy outlets, and it
is to athletics, to football, cricket and es-
pecially to cycling that DR.. Stewart looks
for the solution of the problem set be-
fore him. If this deduction be a true
one, then we see in the increased atten-
ton paid to outdoor exercises a saving
clause in the history of the nation. II IS
not only that disease decreases here, but
that the general and national constitu-
ton becomes better fortified for its work.
The continued prevalence of general par
alysis among the well-to-do points to in
creased or continued luxury as the cause
of the ailment. On the Continent the
story of the disease is one of increase,
and especially among women. It is in
England alone that the decrease Is APP
parently to be found.
Some experiments of remarkable ma
ture, says the London Express, were car
ried out by the Blackpool Corpora ton
yesterday with a view to demonstrating
highly valuable system invented by the
borough electrical engineer r. C. Quin,
by means of which all danger from '1ive"
electrical wires Is averted. The demon
stration was made as a sequel to the two
| lamentable fatalities which occurred at
| Liverpool last week as the result of a
broken telephone wire falling across the
| electric trolley wires in that city, and
| the experiments were completely sue
cessful in manifesting the absolute safe
! ty of the Blackpool system. While an
| electric car was being run along the
| Blackpool and Lytham track a telephone
wire was cut and allowed to fall across
| the trolley wire. There was a snap and
a spark. from the broken telephone wire
but the automatic cutoff was brought
! instantly into action and Mr.. Quinn ham
| died the wire freely without sustaining
! injury. Half dozen telephone wires were
then cut and dropped across the live troll
/ ley wire, and were also handled without
danger. Finally the live trolley wire it.
self was cut and similarly handled, and
the Quln automatic cutoff rendered this
also free from danger.
The difficulties involved in the ma
nipulation of a long celluloid film, says
| Nature, have prevented the extensive use
Of cinematographic apparatus by anna
teur photographers. To avoid this OBJ
! lection, Leo Kamm has invented a cam
era-the Kammatograp h-in which a cir
| cular glass plate takes the place of the
celluloid film. The plate can be made to
rotate rapidly by means of multiplying
| gear, and at the same time it travels
lateraily. small lens forms an image
| upon the plate, and when the plate Is
|
into a series of pictures arranged in a
| spiral. The plate is, of course, developed
| precisely in the same way as an ordi-
| nary negative, and positive Is then
taken from 1t. To display the series OF
pictures 1t is only necessary to place the
positive in the camera and to arrange the
camera so that the beam from a lantern
close to 1t can pass through the lens
| The plate is then rotated as before. ami
the succession of the pictures projected
upon the screen reproduces the original
| movements. About six hundred pictures
can be photographed during the motion of
single plate, at rate of about twelve
or fourteen second. The camera is very
compact, and both as regards price and
adaptability is within the reach OF any
photographer who wishes to secure pic
lures of rapidly changing scenes and NOV
ing objects. The small size of the pic.
lures will not permit of projection upon
a large screen, but the views can be
shown large enough for ordinary pur-
| poses.
Do you know that most Of the old silver
you buy in Holland is imported from
England? asks the Newcastle Chronicle
If you have wandered about The Neither
lands be sure you have rubbed your in
quiring nose against the dim glass and
old curiosity shops and been tempeted in
live mis-