Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


THOMAS KAY urges that bottles containing
citrate OF silver be slowed away in life boats.
seven ounces OF the citrate will turn enough
SEA water into drinking water to supply
man for week.
SOCIETY IN the Samoan islands is growing
Interestingly conventional. A law has been
established lately forbidding senators to ap.
| pear naked at any session under penalty oil
$1Oo ior each appearance.
MASSACHUSETTS FARMER writes that be
has found 1t of advantage to transform
! large three-apartment stone and cement sllo
/ INTO refrigerator for the preservation OF
fruit. Cold storage for fruits very profitable
| near large towns.
INSTEAD of sending the fish to the Colonial
Exhibition at London, the Melbourne Aqua
/ rum will forward several hundred water
/ color drawings by good artist. They will
/ form the basis OF an illustrated volume on
1 Australian fish, TO be issued later
The FIRST homestead bill was presented to
/ Congress IN 1850 by Andrew johnson, OF Ten
ncssee. 1t passed the Thirty sixth Congress,
/ but was vetoed by President Buchanan. 1t
/ became law in 1867, just after Andrew john
son LETT the senate to become Military Gov
1 ernor of Tennessee, and has never been
/ changed.
| \ STORY Is related OF a Connecticut infantry
/ company in the war which is believed to be
without parallel. The company, which was
! recruited in the town of Greenwich, had no
less than twelve pairs of brothers IN its ranks.
1 Ihere were, IN addition, three instances in
/ which father andton served side by side and
/ three brothers- ln-law.
/ THE recent heavy gales on the Maine coast
washed up at Kennebunk the copper fas-
! tened keel of a vessel, which had evidently
/ lam on the bottom of the ocean many years.
II was carefully examined by old salts, and
! the opinion is expressed that the keel be
I ISaQOr3. which of
| Cliffs, Me-, Nov. 80, 1872, with all on board.
THE PEOPLE in Harnett county, n. c., have
been losing geese, ducks, chickens, pigs. sheep
and lambs IN 4 mysterious way. Finally it
was decided to build large trap and bait 1t
with "a live goose. The second DAY after the
trap was balted they found in 1t bald eagle
! whose wings from tip to tip measured ten
feet. The bird was taken from the trap unin
jurcd.
II. SINsABAUGH. of Mattoon H.. has been
relieved of a needle that has lain Embedded IN
his body for % years. When babe a needle
was accidentally stuck into his breast and
broken OF. Recently it worked its way out
OF one OF his heels, and he finds himself mi
raCulOHsly cured of supposed rheumatic pains
that have troubled him FOR the past years
me needle was as bright as a new silver dol
lar.
NJ. PAUL GGBIER, who has continued his
studies OF hydr0phobia IN the laboratory of
cine that ne has been absolutely unable to OBJ
tain rabld dog IN Berlin. ami that the physi-
clans IN the Imperial Veterinary School in
that city state that they have not seen a rabid
dog for more than three years. NJ. Gibier at
tributes this condition of affairs to the fact
that IN Berlin all dogs are muzzled.
THOSE who, having recovered from the By
ronic fever OF youth, now run to the other
extreme of Byronic dislike will enjoy this
stray leaf blown over the sea: when Lord
Byron published his sentimental Farewell
after his separation from his wife, the matter
was the subject of much after dinner COM
ment. Curran's opinion was once appealed
TO. Il protest. said he. i do not understand
this kind OF Whispering. Here IL a man who
hrst weeps over his wife, and then wipes his
eyes with the public"
NEARLY THREE YEARS have elapsed since
Gambetta's remains were consigned to the
grave al Nice, but nothing has yet been done
to give even decent appearance TO his last
estlng place. An old friend of the departed
statesman, who visited the cemetery on the
anniversary Of his death IN order 10 strew
flowers on MS TO nh, gives a melancholy &C
count OF the state Of neglect into which 1t has
been lowed to fail. He says it is only a
temporary scanOlding, a pyramid of wood
covered with wreaths and offerings. The bar
rler which surrounds 1t Is half rotten. The
/ great tribune, apparently, Is forgotten al
ready.
The JArANEsE do not appear to have lost
any of their faith IN the efficacy of vaccIna-
ton for the smallpox. They have Just en-
acted a very stringent law on the subject, for,
besides ordinary vaccination in the first year
I Of infancy, it provides for at least two subse-
quent reVaccinatlOns at intervals of from five
10 seven years. so that by the time a child has
/ reached its fifteenth year 1T will have been
vaccinated three times. Besides, during cpl
denies OF small poX, local authorities have
power, when thev deem 1t necessary, to order
the vaccination of all the inhabitants Of their
al n - 1rla ftNl
uuired by law.
SACCHARIN, species of combined benzoic
! acid discovered by Fahlherg IN 1852, is a sub
stance many times sweeter than cane sugar
and. when mixed with grape sugar, possesses
the flavor of the cane product in marked de-
gree. It's high price has hitherto prevented
It's acquiring commercial Importance. but sew
ersl costly steps in its prOduc ion have been
eliminated and II Is likely TO become very
{ useful 20 contectloners. One part OF saccbarin
added to 1000 parts of glucose is said to give
that substance a sweetness equal to cane SUI
gar. The same authority states that saccha-
rim Is harmless to the human organism, and
does not, like cane sugar, become decomposed
IN the system.
INVESTIGATIONS show that the limit of tenn
perature at which men can work depends
upon the length of their exposure, the amount
ofexertion they put forth, their condition,
and the nature of the atmosphere, particularly
as to its degree of moisture. II is stated that
men have been employed on railways at lO4
deg, In mnes-under very favorable condi-
tlons-at rs deg, and are said to work ocv
casionally IN the stoke -holes of tropical steamt
ers at 80 deg. Prof. Dubois is reported to
have estimated that temperature OF ~ deg
can be endured when the arr is AS dry as pos
sible, but that even l04 deg is likely to be
fatal in an atmosphere saturated with mois-
ture. II is also considered certain that men
cannot become accustomed to stand for anv
considerable time a higher temperature than
from AS deg. to 1865 deg, even when they keen
perfectly still and are IN quite pure air.
THE BEST PLACE to see dressm aking as a
Hne art on the STAGE but very few people
know what these perfectly fitting dresses cost
an actress. To begin with, the dressmaker
must be an artist. she measures the model
first. then cuts the Innings, and II the woman
hasn't the shape the lining has, she is made To
lit the dress, not the dress to ht her, as for
merry. The goods cut out, the work begins
and the woman L. tried soul. patience and
temper. The waist Is fitted for an erect car
/ rage. the train for motion. and the panior
4 ana draperics for chair effect, to say nothing
/ about the sleeves and collar, which are set
and reset till every wrinkle and crease has
/ been obliteratcd. During an this time the ac-
/ tress IS as passive as an artists manikin. She
4 has nothing TO say, and no suggestions are eX-
/ pectod or needed, 10 ls mmaterial how the
garment feels. Fit, and not feeling Is the oh
ject. Women IN private lie never see a pretty
/ stage dress tnat they do not puzzle their
! brains to disCover the secret.
THE MATERIALS used in manufacturing