The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-18
NATURAL FRUIT FLAVoRs.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST,".
THE experiments in Bellamyism don't seem
to succeed as well in real life as they do in Mr.
Bellamy's book. For instance, the Decatur
Cooperative Housekeeping Club has Just col
lapsed. The club consisted of ten or twelve
families who rented a dning-room. hired a
housekeeper to take charge OF the servants and
paid the expenses of furnishing board to the
members of the club 1t was a success for q
year and half, but the novelty wore off, and
this fall so many of the members concluded to
set up establishments of their own that the few
who were left did not care to keep up the club
SO they disbanded.
PANAMA, the once gay and goddess Babylon of
the isthmus, is becoming virtuous and Puritani
cal in her sere and seedy days. A Sunday clos
ing decree was promulgated there two weeks
ago providing that all places of business, with q
few exceptions, shall be closed on Sundays.
The exec ptiOns are the railroad and steamship
offices, for urgent business only; hotels, drug
stores, restaurants, cook shops, bakeries, and
the ice house. But the exempted places that
sell spirits are required to post big placard
notifying that no drinks will be sold before
p. m, when the prohibition ceases. The market.
grocery stores and barber shops may be open
uutii ii a. IN. The newspapers continue to an
nounce the winning numbers in the Sunday
drawings Of the Panama lottery, so presume
bly, the lottery is exempted as a necessary bust
ness.
HAVE HAD the somewhat mixed pleasure,
a polo match at Newport "An the leaders of
society were present. was told in the paper
next day, land nearly 1000 people saw the
sport" Sport l had last seen the game at
Allahabad, in India. The Manipuri natives, who
invented it, came across the continent to play
the Ninth Lancers; and as the officers of that
regiment were reinforced by native troopers 1t
was virtually match of Bengalees against
BeDgelees. Such suppeness of body. the play
ers almost bending themselves double under
their ponies; such furious charges; such flights
across the plain; such desperate onSlaughts :;
such unerringueSs of eye aud wrist; such valor {;
such strategy. were surely never seen anywhere
else than on a battlefield; and the ponies were
ridden with the lghtest of snaffies, following
unguided every curve OF the ball. At Newport
| saw number Of spindle-shanked youths be-
strding a number of dumpy little horses. l
heard the leaders of society" gurgle with de
light tue prowess of the players: and l
thought of Alahabad and laughed
A YOUNG MEDICAL STUDENT IN New York had a
remarkable experience recently. He belongs
to that sort of young men who are compelled
almost to depend entirely upon their own
resources to obtain their education, and he
spends his evenings in downtown office. For
long time he was accosted by professional
beggar, strapplnS big fellow, with still neck,
while passing through City Hall park. The
| beggar accosted him night after night in an in
| solent manner. Frequently it was difficult for
| the medical student to get rid of the beggar,
| and they rarely parted without an exchange Of
| epithetS. This thing went on for some time,
and then the beggar suddenly disappeared.
| One morning shortly after this the medical stu
| dent went into the dissecting room to dissect a
| body. He was surprised TO find that the body
assigned to him was that of the troublesome
| beggar. The student had often wondered what
! was the matter with the fellows mock, and now
| he had an opportunity to find out. He dissected
the body and found that layer OF bone had
grown down the neck. preventing the head
I from being moved backward or forward. One
of the attendants mounted the skeleton for the
student and it now stands complete in bis room
at the foot OF the bed.
A wELL-KNowN Rochester business man
walked into cigar store the other morning and
took out two coins. One WAS dollar and the
other half dollar. He laid them down on the
case and pointed to q box OF imported cigars,
saying: Give me 81 worth of those" The
CLERK handed them out and the buyer laid the six
that he wanted in a row along the case. Then
he said to the clerk: Give me 90 cents worth
| Of any good scent cigar" The clerk did as he
was bid and the 5-centers were laid along in q
row also. The gentleman then took the row OF
| imported cigars and cut the ends off of them
| all. Then he mixed the 5centers and the
! 20-centers up together and put them all into
his capacious vest pockets. A friend who was
standing near, and who had watched
c1S op's said Wh WIZ Eo%" sinpy this
my boy" replied the man addressed. Il am in
a business where l have to give away good
many cigars. l am man who likes gooc
| cigar l cannot afford to give away the kind OF
| cigars that | smoke myself, so buy day &
supply and cut the ends off Then buy some
| cheap ones. When it is necessary for me &c
| give away cigar pull out handful and offer
| one to the person, whoever he may he. he
| thinks that the ones with the ends cut off
| have had in my mouth, and takes one OF the
| cheap ones, whereby save good many dol
| lars in the course of a year and also keep my
| self on good terms with the people to whom il
| is necessary to give cigars.
| MANY sCHooLRooMs containing the correct
! amount of space for pupils, or perhaps even
more than is necessary, writes Leicester Allen
! In the Engine inc Magazine, are still faulty
| as regards space. on account OF their proper
| tions. 1t may be set down as rule amply
| justified by practical experience that all space
| IN a scnoolroom lying above horizontal plane
twelve fest higher than the floor is, for purposes
| of ventilation, to be considered waste space.
| Each pupil should have 243 cubic feet of space
| below thus plane-that is to ray, 204 Sqys-=9ee
| feet Of floor space. or square each side OF
| which is Az feet. How many schools in this
| country meet this condition. By far the ma
| jority Of them do not allow more than half this
| space for each pupil, and in many cases not
| more than one third. How about the quantity
of air ADMITTEDLY To maintain the air in q
good sanitary condition in a properly
| constructed schoolroom, my experience
confirms the amornt required as stateo
by Billings TO wit, 60 cubic feet of air for each
| occupant per minute For 100 pupils this
amounts to 800 900 cubic feet per hour. How
many schools come up to this requirement
/ There many schools in this country that
| contain 100 pupils and do not introduce more
than 5000 feet OF pure air per hour, and
| even that is rendered in measure inetfect
| i've, because the air is not properly admitted
The pupils do not die in the poisoned atmos'
phere; many of Them will appear reasonably
| healthy. So do many persons who visit and
| tarry in malarial districts. But, though the
! effects are not immediate and striking, they are
sure, permanent. and easily to be traced 20 theii
causes in after years by those who make study
| of diseases and its causes. 1t Is scarcely less
| humane 10 kill q child than by willfully ignor-
ing sanitary requirements to cripple 1t for life
| physically, mentally and morally, as children