The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST

amount 10 S9,UOU,UOU- All duulteidled
and impure teas are excluded from
coming into the country by the tea
inspection law, which was passed in
1897. If tea is adulterated the adultera-
tions are added in this country.
All the transportation in Venice is
done by gondolas, big and little. The
freighting and delivery service is car
ried on by means of barges built on
the same lines as the gondolas, ana
merchants either send the goods OF
their customers home that way or In
panniers upon the backs of men.
The type of horseshoe common in the
Orient is a plate fitted SO as to cover
the entire bottom of the hoof. with a
perforation in the center. The weight
of the average horseshoe is three ourths
of a pound. The native smiths usually
cut these plates from sheets OF
wrought iron and rudely shape them
for the purpose in view.
The Rocky Mountain News objects
because the Denver city Council, for
partisan reasons onlya says that the
city, which is the natural hating place
for every crook in transit across the
continent, shall be content with 81 per
head for police" while in the first
twelve cities of the land the police APP
popriations range from 50 to $1.40
head.
Prof Charles Whitney Carman of
Chicago has invented machine which
will produce on a screen solid, liquid,
opaque, transparent, animate and in
animate objects. The tense acts as an
opera glass, and the photograph or
painting. or picture, is enlarged about
fifteen times its area when thrown
upon the screen, making a reproduction
that is perfect in color and shading.
Not many years ago. says the New
York Times, the East river water front
was a forest of masts." To-day a
dozen smokestacks take their place.
Poetry has given place to the dullest
and driest of prose. An illustration of
the sorrowful pass to which sailing YES
sells in the merchant marine have come
was related last week by the son of
once wealthy ship owner now dead. Il
was present in my youth" said he, lat
the christening of one of my father
barks, $50 was offered to me for an
eighth interest in another bark which
he had owned. 1t cost him $4,000. l
took the offer 1t was a question of
taking $50, or paying an assessment of
5000, and as / was not empowered TO
spend money of the estate, and saw no
probable profit if l did, l took the cash y
A dispatch from Vienna says that
an automatic railway accident pre-
venter. invented by an electrician
tested by a body of expert railroad
managers with satisfactory results. The
main idea is to put the engineer in di-
rect communication with all the signal
boxes by electrical apparatus on the
engine, contact being effected by a third
rail. The signalman can thus make
red light burn on the locomotive IN
front of the engineer, while an electr1-
cal bell will ring until the engineer
switches it off. On the other hand, the
continuance causes a bell to ring in the
signal box as soon as the train is with
in 5000 yards. Finally, if one train APP
proaches another on the same rail With
in 1000 yards red lights burn automat-
ically on the locomotives.
1t is now said to be possible to tele-
phone from an electric car moving at
its fullest speed to a person in another
moving car on the same line, no matter
what the distance is. 1t is also claimed
to be possible to hold conversation
from a moving car with any one in his
train is between two cities. This is
brought about by the invention of Ben
son BidwelI of Chicago, whose son, Z.
P Bidwell, gave a practical and sue
cessful demonstration of his father
apparatus in Muskegon, Mich, on jan
9. A wire is run parallel with the over
head trolley wire. To the trolley pole
of the car is attached another snort
pole which forms a connection with
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Hanged wheel. In this manner close
circuit is obtained. Two ordinary tele-
phone wires are run one from each
trolley pole to the phone in the car.
There is a burglar, or set of bur-
glars, in Paris with knowledge of the
classics, and making good use of the
episode of the wooden horse A series
of the mysterious burglaries that puz-
zled the police were found on investi-
cation to be more or less connected
with a wooden horse. The horse was
one of those frequently seen in harness
shops for display purposes. Its own
ers generally fixed on a promising To-
cation, and persuaded the porter of the
place to let the horse remain in his
stable or courtyard until morning.
During the night the robberies would
occur. Strange IS it may seem, this
horse was used a dozen or more times
before the police decided to watch II.
When they did they found concealed in
it young rascal who, at the appointe
time, would creep out and let his con-
federates into the premises. Once
caught the men confessed that they
had stolen the horse for this purpose.
DIR. J. T. Bohemian, a West-end
surgeon in London, who has been expe-
rimenting for some time with high fire.
quency electrical current as a cure for
consumption has succeeded in obtain
ing striking results. The patient is laid
in a reclining position and the current
at pressure of $4,000 volts is applied
to his or her chest by means of a brush
held few inches from the body. The
application lasts from ten to fifteen
minutes, and the patient undergoes the
treatment either daily, or three or four
times a week depending on his ccndi-
ton. There would seem to be doubt
among the specialists as to whether the
treatment affords a permanent cure or
only temporary eXhilaration. In cases
where the disease has not az yet OBJ
tanned firm grip, il might cure. but
from what the dispatch says, the meth
cd Of treatment does not apparently
differ from several that have been tried
in this country. with questionable re-
suits so far as lasting cures are con-
cerned.
The year book OF the London Daily
Mail contains some comparative figures
Of the wealth and Indebtedness OF ma
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