The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

BRICKS impregnated with tar are said to be
| hard. durable and waterproof The process
1 f impregnation is extremely simple. ordinary
| bricks, or, still better. machine brick being
boiled in tar for twenty-four hours. Bricks
| thus treated are claimed to be especially well
adapted for paving work-rooms. depots, etc.
Taey are also recommended for the construc-
ton of sewers, cesspOois, the insulation of
foundation walls and similar purposes.
The English syndicate which purchased the
Philadelphia brewery at San Francisco for
So 900 600 has failed to make the PAYMENTS due.
and Mrs. Weiland threatens to break the agree
ment. The sum Of $50, 900 was paid on deposit
to bind the agreement, $4,000 was 70 have
been paid July last, aud the remainder Aug.
IS. Mrs. Weiand says the purchasers aske1
thirty days time, which was granted. Unless
the money is paid by Sept is, the $4,000 will
be forfeited.
ONE of the most successful rose growers in the
country gives the following list of roses that
will blossom in the fall IS we'll as in the sum
mer: Abel Grand, Alfred Colomb, Auguste
Mic, Baroness Rothschfld, Baroness Provost,
Beauty of Waltham, Ca plain Christy, Boule de
Neige, Coquette des Alpes, Fisher Holmes.
Gen. Jacqueminot, Gen Washington, Queen
of Queens, La France, La Refine. Madame
Victor Verdier, Mabel Morrison, Pierre Noting
Prince Camille de Rohan
The gas department of the Birmingham E e.
land) corporation have under consideration the
penny 1.-The slot" scheme for the supply of
gas in small tenements. The idea has been
tested and proved feasible. the system would
involve the fixing of ma chine in the house of
each consumer and doing out gas by penny
worths The price now charged to small con-
sumers is cents per 100 feet. Under the
principle the proposal is to supply twenty-five
feet for one-thlrd OF that.
A CERTAIN BABAYEFF of St. Petersburg has
invented fireproof cement. which is said to
excel all hitherto invented in that line. A com
pany to freproof buildings with this
cement has been formed, and some fra insur
ance companies have pledged themselves to
1nsnre lch buildings at a premium of no more
than 10 per cent. of the rate charged on ordi
nary buildings Wood boxes filed with this
cement between the boards are said to answer
all the purposes of ordinary safes.
PHILANTHRoPHIc and wealthy Hebrews are
likely to be addressed from Philadelphia by the
promoters of movement now stirring in that
city 1t is quckening and extension of the
Jewish Alliance of America, organized some
years ago in Philadelphia to respond to the rush
of Jewish exiles from Russia and Roumania. A
national organization of local lodges and
societies is now contemplated Membership
fee will be S25. Thus far eastern more than
western colonization of these exiles has been
successful
THROUGH the stupidity of an engrossing clerk,
unable to write the English language gram
matically or spell correctly, the laws recently
passed by the legislature of New York are full
of absurd blunders and contradictions. They
are disgrace to the first state of the union,
and WILL no doubt. result in )stly litigation.
specimen bluuder is an amendment to the
charter OF Saratoga, which declares: No con-
tract for Spriukling shall, however, be made for
longer period than four years. except horses
and more than six sprinkling carts
ANY ONE who passes by the great Edison lab
oratory at Orange, N. j., by night is apt to find
the lights burning, no matter what the hour
Edison is an indefatigable worker and he paws
heed n Of ma tKyba
pied with new experiment or some fresh in
vestigation. To this spirit of perseverance he
owes much of his success. day or two ago a
gentleman who was visiting his laboratory, and
whose son was about to enter upon his first en-
pioyment, asked Edison to give him m tito for
the boy, so that he might have it as stimulus
and guide. Mr.. Edison laughed little at the
novel request, and then said: "Well! I'll give
him this: Never look at the clock"
THE MOST GIGANTIC MEMBER of the British
peerage is the Marquis of Drogheda. who is Is
years of age, and who stands six feet five inches
In his stockings. The marquis is the life and
soul OF the merriest of the merry parties at
Punchestown races. Though he has given over
racing himself, he still breeds thoroughbred or
two at Moore Abbey, county Kildare. He is an
excellent and therefore resident landlord and
owns some twenty thousand acres, worth some
$4,000 year. stanch conservative. he re-
sembleS Mr.. Gladstone in one point in his love
for welding the ak. He is moreover second
cousin to Mr. Parnell, for the marquis grand
NesNAS.
were brothers.
MOST EXTRAORDINARY FAD has been develop
ing itself since the death of Carninal Newman.
and that is the desire to possess some relic of
the great eccesiaStic. the most sought-for
souvenir is a lock or his hair During the last
twenty years the cardinal was waited on every
day at the oratory by q halrdreSser, who made
a point OF preserving all the cuttings of his
SUBJECTS" hair, expecting all the time to
stimulate a demand for it when the proper
fITOn q Oyrld IL oo. III
able store of this hair, and since the death of
the cardinal he has been busly occupied in the
distribution OF the precious relics, and is coin.
ing money as a result of his foresight and care
In storing these locks
PRINCE BISMARCK has stong superstition
concerning the number 3, which he considers has
always played an important part in his life.
The arms of his family bear over the motto
In trinitate robur' three trefoi leaves and
three OAK leaves; all caricatures of him repre-
sent him with three hairs on his head; he has
three children, Herbert, Wilhelm and Marie; he
has three estates, Friedrichsruhe Varzn and
Schonhausen; he has fought in three wars and
signed three treaties of peace; he arranged the
meeting of the three Emnerors, and established
the triple alliance. Finally, he has under him
three political parties, the conservatives, the
national liberals and the ultramontanes, and
ne mas served three German Emperors.
APRoPos of the recent numerous tempests
and cyclones all over Europe, the Boston Trun.
Scftpt gives SOlne interesting ractS about the
great tempest of 1908, which extended over the
whole Of Europe and continued for a week
with unparalleled violence-more especially in
England 1t reached its eliminating point on
Saturday. Nov. q, of that year. The losses in
London were computed at So, 900, 900; the streets
were encountered with the ruins OF houses: the
number of persons drowned in the rivers Severn
and Thames and in the vessels which broba
away from the anchorage and which were never
heard of afterwar1 was by estimation S. 900. be-
sideS which IL ships of war, with /, 500 men and
5?4 cannons, foundered within sight of land:
l,T0o trees In Kent were torn up by the roots
ana on one estate in Gloucestershire 800 trees
averaging 80 feet in hight, we're uprooted in a
space Of five acres. The Eddystons lighthouse
was destroyed, and large number of cattle
persisted.
AMONG the art treas ures which used to adorn
the drawing-room in his marble palace. now
occupied by the Manhattan Club A. IT
stewart cherished a block of Mexican onyx
twelve inches square and about en-eightbs
Oh an inch thick. He gave 500 for it, and il
was considered an unusually big rare piece of
wnat was then precious stone. So rapidlv
have the onyx deposits of Mexico been de-
Veioped since the day Of the merchant princa
however that piece or oynx the same size "a
the one the great trader valued SO highly can
now be purchased in New York for about as
or for good deal less than one hundradth mari
OF the price he paid. Blocks of ONYX of eight
feet are now shipped here, cut up to commer
cal size In Brooklyn and sent to the New England
factories TO be polished. For interior decora-
tion onyx black African marble, so long used