The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


of sugar enables one to support ia
tigue with ease greater than with 9TH
er foods. Sugar can replace guam
tity of oats fed to a horse without
diminishing the muscular energy of
the animal.
Mirrors attached to billiard tables
perpendicular to and at the side of the
playing surface may soon become an
indispensable equipment for the game.
Prof. Foller of Munich was the first to
suggest that mirrors be used in this
way. By this means it becomes easy
for novice to make difficult plays
since the mirrors show very distinctly
the result of each stroke. A full and
scientific explanation is promised in a
forthcoming book, on which the pro-
fessor has been engaged for some
month. Experts agree that the game
will be vastly improved as soon as the
mirrors come into general use.
There has been some delay in
bringing out the Edison nickel-steel
storage battery. The inventor an
nounces that the cell has been very de-
cidedly improved during the past year
and has been submitted to severe prac-
teal tests, in which it has more than
fulfilled his expectations. He has, how
ever not been willing to put the battery
upon the market until these tests were
conclusive. Early this year the bat
teries will be put in service for auto
mobiles in New York and Brooklyn.
The cell, however, cannot be put upon
the market in large quantities for some
time owing to difficulties in obtaining
material for its manufacture.
The development of invention has
added to the potency of humanity in
the measure that it has supplanted
Drawn by brain, says the Electrical
Review. Gunpowder has replaced by
the marksman's skill the might of the
arm that swung the truncheon, and as
nerve has supplanted muscle, what is
nerve but branches of the brain? Pass
ing by the services of railway and
steamship, the work of the electrician
has contributed to the scope of human
power in the increase of available time
through its means of illumination, and
has diminished unavailable time in
speedy and instantaneous transmission
of intelligence. Men are not now old
at 45, because the services of the in
Ventor have extended the potentiality
OF life over a longer scope.
An apparatus has lately been in
vented to suppress sound, smoke and
fire in guns, says an exchange. 1t
consists essentially of a steel tube
made IN compartments closed by par
tltions, these partitions having orifices
somewhat larger than the calibre of
the f1rearm. This tube is fixed in front
OF the muzzle of the gun by a bayonet
clasp at the moment of firing, AT
other times it is detached and carried
as walking stick. 1t operates as fol-
lows: While the projectile is engaged
in the piece the gases from the pow
der spread in front of the muzzle and
are arrested by the first partition. AS
the prOjectile passes along the bore
the gas is arrested in the same way
and when the bullet leaves the piece
there is so little gas remaining that
there is no flame produced by it's COM
ouston. The gases, mOmentarily
stopped by the partitions, escape sue
cessiVely and quietly without sound or
smoke. The auxiliary tube weighs zoo
grams, is 70 centimetres in Icing h
and can be armed with knife at the
end so IS to serve as a bayonet. 1t is
fully described in France Militaire by
M. Humbert, its inventor.
DIR. Andrew Wilson says that one
of the most important facts which the
study of chidrens defects by ply
sicians has elicted is that such defects
are mostly cura ble-that is, If they are
taken in time, says the Scotsman. The
use of appropriate spectacles, for ex-
ample, will correct eye defects, save
the child from headache and eye
strain, and give it a fair chance to see
properly, and thus to gain its educa-
ton as do children with natural eyes
Allow the defects to remain unattend-
ed to and things grow worse, 80 that
later on the case may be altogether
beyond aid al all. With the ears the
case is even stronger, fer their cure
is possible only when in the early DAYS
of an ailment advice is sought. Every
case of ear discharge, common after
measles and scarlet fever, should be
invariably seen to by a surgeon. If
such cases are allowed to proceed I'M
treated, not only is the drum of the
ear likely to be destroyed and hearing
lost but a cold or chill affecting such
an ear may produce Inflammation of
the brain and death. If it is only for
the sake of the childrens happiness
and freedom from pain, apart from all
educational considerations, we should
see that these ailments of eyes and
ears are corrected.
james Cronan is the music-loving
Der dealer of West Roxbury, and the
hostler's pet is Lucky, an old horse of
thirty years, that refuses to eat un-
less music is being played and is as
frisky as a colt, says the Boston Post
Cronan, the hostler, is as much at
tached to his pet as a father could be
to his child. He has a gentle tenn
permanent that finds expression in a
fondnesS for music and animals. By
speaking he can attract Lucky to him
no one else can do anything with the
horse-and Mr.. Mitchell declares that
while he lives Lucky will never have
to work. The horse is thirty years old
and in it's day did some tall hauling.
1t is now ending its days peacefully,
but it is so we'll cared for and is in
such excellent condition that it seems
like beginning its days rather than
ending them. During feeding time
the hostler plays his tunes and Lucky
eats contentedly. Although there is
nothing for Lucky but to eat and sleep
and play with it's master, it will not
eat unless the old violin is murmur-
ing. The horse has been petted by
every one. 1t will follow the hostler
about and keep time to the motions of
his baton or violin. 1t will lift up its
forefoot to give a handshake and pull
the master by the coat and sleeve in
sport.
The supplementary report on tuber-
culosis in Paris has been placed in the
hands of the Municipal Council by NJ.
Ambrose Rendu. 1t states that. al
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