The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| the wicker-work builders, and to them was
given the fdshiODing Of warriors shields and
I the construction Of war boats and canoes: and
here another industry was brought into requisi-
I ton, the preparation Of the skins Of animals
essential for the covering OF these small ships.
| Tor everything must be taut and trim, ready TO
/ battle With ocean waves.
The NOTICES Of the death of a farmer at
New Lots, L. l., named Rapelje described him
as OF an old family. There never was truer
words written. The first white child born on
Manhattan Island was a little girl named
Rapelie, and the news of her birth was sent to
Holland in the first ship that left there after the
| trading post was established on Manhattan
| Island She was in all probability born within
| the stockade which stood where the Bowling
Green now is. There are only fourteen Rapelje
! to the Four Hundred. They spell Rapelje
in six different avs, and only one follows the
old spelling of the name.
MANUFACTURERS Of statuettes and other arti-
cles made Of porcelain have been experiment
ing for long time in the direction of process
to cover porcelain articles with deposit of
copper. No successful industrial process has
been discovered until recently. a Vienna
chemist solving the vexed problem The pro-
cess is as yet secret, but It is stated that one
OF the coatar products is first used to fill the
pores of the porcelain biscuit. thus preventing
the crystallization which has heretofore charac-
terlzed other processes. This treatment is fol-
lowed oy the processes or electric deposition
remarkable, the articles being difficult is dis.
tinguish from bronzes
YOUNG KING ALEXANDER of Servia does not
lead very cheerful existence for a lad OF IA.
Nearly all his time is spent in hard study, with
military exercise for recreation. He is going
gradually through the training for each grade
| or the army and has only just been promoted
to be corporal. Every afternoon he drives in
the park, and his carriage often passes that of
Queen Natalie, but mother and son merely
smile and drive on without exchange q word.
When King Milan accompanied his son. and
they met the queens carria ge, the ex-husband
and wife turned ostentatiously away from each
other and the poor young king, anxious to
o1end neither parent, stared straight before
him with most melancholy expression.
SIMPLE and novel treatment for the cure of
dyspe psia and cancer of the stomach has lately
been practiced by many prominent physicians
This consists In washing out the stomach. A
long flexible pipe is passed down the throat
until one end is IN the stomach. The upper end
has a funnel attached into which hot water is
poured until the stomach is filed. The funnel
end OF the pipe is then turned down until il is
lower than the bottom of the stomach, which is
thus emptied as through a siphon. The hot
water closes the blood vessels and reduces in
fammation. and the relief is immediate. On
the authority of the Mdtin Of Paris it is stated
that Mr.. Edison has discovered a new cure for
govt, which consists in the simultaneous use Of
lithine and electricity.
JULIET asks Romeo, "What is a names" APP
parently deeming one designation as good as
another in a warm climate. But there are
Juliets in dear old England who have their own
opinion on the subject At q recent provincial
exhibition sumptuously bound visitors book
was placed in the lobby, and the great show
was opened by her majesty, who was accom-
panied by the Princess Henry of Batteuburg.
The local mayor highly respected tradesman
tgasfitter and plumber, I bslieve), accompanied
by his wife, was of the royal party. AS usual
the queen placed her name in the visitors book
as VICTORIA" the princess following with
'Beatrice;" then came the mayors wife, who
seeing what had gone before, wrote with bold,
steady hand Jane" The official who had
charge of the book has not been seen SINCE
He is believed to have exploded in an ante
room.
NOVEL IDEA has been presented to the Eng
lish trade to meet the competition from manu-
facturers who have stores for retailing their
own goods 1t is proposed to form a company
with capital stock of 100000 This company
will pay cash for the goods, which will be resold
to shareholders at invoice prices, plus a change
OF per cent. to cover expenses. The object of
the company is that the shareholders, who are
retailers, will be able to buy all classes of goods
at the lowest wholesale prices for cash, without
reference to the quantity bought. By this plan
| OF cooperative buying it is figured that great
saving can be made over the regular way of
buying In small lots by retailers, who lose the
trade discounts and other items which il is esti-
mated make total Of about IS per cent The
idea is an excellent one, but whether it can be
made practical success or not remains to be
seen.
A SAN DIEGO GIRL distinguished herself at
Pacific beach the other day, says the Union.
She was one of three students from the College
| of Letters who belong to the swimming club.
They went to the bath house in the cove of
| Mission bay, got into bath suits and rowed out
| TO little island half mile Off looking down on
San Diego. The San Diegon has become an ex-
pert swimmer, and she was so busy teaching
nj n ~ ham, Nhc
| two OF the college boys swimming over and
| carrying of their oars. When it was discovered
the San Diegon girl remarked that she wouldn't
| oe outW1tted by any sneaking boys. Her COM
| panions could not be trusted in deep water and
| they accordingly turned pale. The San Degon
told them to get into the boat, as she would pull
| them across She then pushed the boat off,
TOOK the rope in her teeth. and swan across to
| the boat house, having TO float on her back but
twice in the entire pull.
ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO, two French chem
lists succeeded in producing rubies artifcaly
| The crystals obtained, however, were small
| and since then the inventors have been occu-
| pied with the problem of increasing the size of
| the rubies obtained. To this end considerable
changes haye been made in their methods of
| operating. Instead of using pure alumina as
| formerly alumina alkaliniZed by potassium
carbonate is employed. The addition of an
alkali does not alter the purity of the crystals
obtained, while it facilitates their regular for
| nation In the original experiments, the oper.
alton was completed in twenty four hours, but
the reaction is now exacted over several
months, with the result Of obtaining much
larger crystals. AS much as seven pound
weight of rubies is said to have been obtained
at single operation. Although the crystals
are still relatively small, they are sufficient
large to mount, which was not the case in the
first essays of the inventors
SIR JOHN POPE HENNEssEY, the recently
elected member of Parliament for North Kill
kenny, is the owner of the Raleigh, or Wardens
House, at Youghal. The house is much the
ancient Desmond's town. On the wall is the
original painting of the first governor of Vir-
ginia. and contemporary portrait of Queen
Elizabeth. Here is the table at which Raleigh
wrote and the oak chest in which he kept his
paper. There hang the old deeds and parcb-
ments, some with Raleigh's SEAL and the orig
inal warrants under the autograph and signet
of Queen Elizabeth. granting a pension to the
Countess Elinor of Desmond Yonder are two
bookcases of vellum- bound and oak-bolnd
books of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
Tie sun shines on the brown floor and oak.
panelled walls, through the oriel windows where
Raleigh sat with Spenser, and throws into
deeper shade the wide hearth-place with the
rich black carvings rising from either side of
the hearthstone to the ceiling.
The OPERATION of cutting the diamond com
prise three phases; splitting. shaving, and
polishing All crystals possess the quality of
easy cracking in certain directions; in the
di almond there are three principal and very
distinct directions without counting several
secondary ones, and cleavers or splitters cali
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