The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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A LOAF tnat has become too stale for the
table may be ''freshened" by wrapping it IN
clean cloth. and dipping il in boiling water foi
| thirty minutes Then remove the cloth anC
bake the loaf ten minutes in a slow oven
Stale breakfast rolls may be treated in the
| same way.
| SYSTEMS for distributing power in cities from
| central station are coming more into use
every day. Steam, electricity and compressed
| air are the common agents, but Paris has q
| system which is the reverse of that enployin /
compressed air The motors operate By
| vacuum created by immense air pumps at the
central station
JAMES BRADLEY died at his home in New YORK.
the other day. from conclusion of the brain and
| meningitis He received the injuries which
| caused his death in peculiar manner. While
| gong downstairs at his home, cat ran under
! ms feet, tripping him UP. He fell over the bal
! tstrade from the second story, and struck his
| head in the lower hallway. He was picked uu
unconscious, and remained in that condition
| until he died
| The ROADS in a certain town OF Maine had re
| Gently fallen into very bad condition, and the
/ men of particular district refused to repail
| tnem-said they were too busy, and it was q
| t1an kless task anyway. The women of the
| town thereupon urged and procured the ap
| polntment of woman superintendent and
| with the all Of road machine and some men
| whom she employed, the roads were soon In
|
| The influence of tight collars in impeding the
! circulation in the head by pressing on the jugu
| lar veins is well known to military snrDAons
! with the troops in India; but the bad effects OF
| SUCH pressure in cooler climates have been de.
mons1rated by the observations of Professor
| roster of Breslau, who states that 500 cases
| nave come under his notice in which the eve
| sight has been affected by the disturbance OF
the circulation caused By wearing collars that
are too small large number of these cases
were probably subjects OF myopia.
ACCORDING to the British and Colonial Dysg.
| gisf, good depilatory is made by mixing to-
Rether in fine powder, 90 parts of barium sui.
poydrate, p parts Of starch, % parts of oxide
OF zinc, and making into paste with sufficient
water. This is spread on the surface which Is
10 be freed from hair, about an eighth of an
inch thick, and allowed to dry. When this is
effected lit generally takes about ten minutes).
the mass is removed, leaving q perfectly hair
less surface. Irritation does not occur but the
mixture should not be applied TO the same
pace on two consecutive days.
A NOTED MEDICAL AUTHOR observed: mo
doubt much of la grippe comes through the
feet. Thin-Soled shoes, or thick soles, standing
on ice, or snow, or cold wood, until the sole
attains the same degree of cold as that on which
it rests; then cold feet, cold legs. cold abdomen
cold lungs, cold IN the throat, in the head; the
eyes, the nose, the mouth speaking witnesses
testifYing to the body resting on the feet and
the brain resting on the body, that plain
violation of every reasonable rule of health has
been permitted, TO be paid in penalty of suffer-
ing and pam; Of lost time, of care and anxiety
Of friends it may be of DEATHS not this and
this result sufficient warningg"
BALTEioRz LAWYERS are at Elkton, Md, ex-
aiming the records of the courts with refer
ence to the estate of James Paul Heath whose
will was executed Sept. s, 1T45. Heath was one of
the wealthiest land owners Of his day. For some
unaccountable reason the estate seems reyer
TO have been properly closed. The records Of
the orphans court show that at the time of the
last statement of the account of the executors
there then remained in their hands the sam of
f235 los Nd From time TO time during the last
half century the heirs of James Paul Heath
have bsen trying to recover possession of this
property. but no legal steps have ever been
taken to bring the matter 10 issue in the courts
FEW YEARS AGO sturdy old Chinese gen
eral and ylceroy died in Canton, who was
noted for having his own wav no matter what
the authorities at Pekin or even the emperor
himself wanted. Chang Chih-tung, the now
ylceroy of Human, is now enulating the
famous generals example. His imperial mas
Ter In Pekln recently increased the tax on
opium. The viceroy of Human decided that the
tax was too high, and that the opium raisers of
his province need not pay it, He therefore
issued proclamation informing the people that
the extra tax which the government imposed
would not be collected, as he considered the old
tax high enough. 1t remains to be seen whether
his dlSre gard for the imperial order viii get him
into trouble.
AT DELMoNICO's on Tuesday night line of ro-
fund New Workers, with rosy faces and vast
shirt fronts flied upstairs to gather at the great
"tasters' dinner" of the year. The ''tasters :"
dinner is that which Delmonico always gives to
to the twelve committeeman of the St. Nicholas
Society as q sample of the repaSt he means to
serve to the society on the night of the grand
banquet. The sample or taste is always pro-
nOUnced fine, and then the great dinner follows.
After the dinner is over the same committee
men meet, at the end OF a month, and eat pre-
cksely similar feast called the settling dinner -
Fhus they recall the grand good time they had
at the great dinner, 1t is a vast and joyous
thing to be kuickerbocker. but to be on the
st Nicholas dinner committee is fine beyond all
else that falls to New Workers. lot.
THE Bosphore EqM,tien announces new act
Of astounding vandalism, which that amiable
journal does not hesitate TO insinuate is CON
nived at by the Egyptian government. Three
gangs of workmen, under two local shieks, are
daily extracting blocks from the lower courses
OF the two largest pyramids of GlZeh. These
are broken up and carried away on camel
beck for building purposes. The sheihs allege
That Trey are doing this work OF destruction by
permission of the government; whereas they
have it is said, obtained orly permit authoriz-
ing them to remove scattered blocks (des bLocs
epdrpttteS). That these Arabs should exceed
their license is not surprising but it is surely to
say the least of it, extraordinary that a govern
ment partly administered by Europeans should
have granted such powers to native overseers,
unchecked by the presence OF one OF their own
officials The pyramids do not belong to the
khedive nor to his government; they do not
even belong to the Egyptians. They are the in
heritance of the world
ONE of party recently returned from a tour
in the Olympic mountains gives the Whatcom
ReueiHe the following account of some strange
animals discovered there: One night we
camped near Sentinel Rock, about mile from
the divide. This rock stands boldly out alone
like massive fortress guarding the entrance
to the valley of the Dungeness. Suddenly the
mountain sides seen med to be alive with men
whistling to one another, when-and one would
turn sharp around only to hear another and
shriller whew on the other side; and soon we
saw lots of animals about the size of a fox
with long, bushy tails, running from rock to
rock sometimes lying down, but more often
sitting bolt up, erect, like ferret does. We
shot couple of small ones that night and
afterWard shot several more larger ones
Campbell called them wbstling dogs, and de-
clared they were good to eat; but the smell was
enough for u.s. Their odor is peculiar but not
fragrant. They have two long teeth in front,
like a. beaver, and feet almost shaped like
squirrels feet ! believe their right name is
mountain beaver. Wherever we went afterward
to the mountains and as long as there was grass
we saw these whistiing dogs. as got to call
them. like to see them; they seemd to make the
place cheerful and lively. and were very anus
ing to watch. In winter they have long burrows
under the snow and their coats get a dark gray;
in summer they are yellow. Their skins should
make good fur, and think would pay for being
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