The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE Hoboken Ferry Company OF New York
wants to show a fac simile model Of the twin
screw steamer at the worlds fair, built in 1905,
with original engines and boiler s. contrast
to this venerable craft it will show the model OF
a modern screw ferryboat, the Hamburg, built
in 1892.
A NEWSPAPER In Cape Colony, where plague
of locusts prevails, reports the adoption by q
village council of the following motion, de-
signed to head off the legislature: Seeing To-
Gusts are q plague which cannot be looked upon
otherwise than as punishment sent us from
above, this meeting most strongly condemns
the proclamation of a law for the eradication
of the said plague.
MILK has been found to possess remarkable
healing qualities IL applied to wounds in an
early stage, and excellent results have been OBJ
tanned by its use in the dressing of burns
Congresses are soaked in milk and laid on the
burn, to be removed night and morning. An
extensive burn has in this way been reduced in
three days to one -quareer OF its original size
Another burn. which had been treated for eight
days with olive oil and oxide of zinc, healed
rapidly under milk dressing.
MAN IN Nswburg, N. Y. claims that while
he was at work on the steeple of Trinity Metho-
dist church in that city. and very near the top,
his watch slipped from his hand slid down the
side Of the steeple to the roof of the church and
thence downward to the ground. When the
watch was picked up 1t was keeping time as
usual. some morning Wlen ne DICKS LQlS
watch up from the top OF the bureau to put it
in his vest pocket and it slips out of his hand
and falls distance of three inches he'll find it
so badly wrecked that it will cost 81 bill to
get 1t repaired.
THE ALCALDE Of CaStanas, Mexico, according
to the Springfield Republican, and a number of
other credulous journals, recently issued an
edict, informing the Almighty that unless he
sent some rain within certain number of days
he, the alcalde, would suspend all religious ex
erelses, destroy the churches and behead all the
| priests, friars, nuns and saints. This blood
curdling piece OF news was 80 evidently q
fake" that it hardly needed for the Boston
| Pilot to show its absurdity. The name of the
| department, "Castanas," means chestnut" q
| fact which indicates that some flippant Ameri-
| can newspaper humorst may have evolved the
| incident out of his inner consciousness.
SORT OF OPIUM is obtained from the common
| lettuce. The scientists gave it long name,
and declare that they find important differences
| between the opium Of the lettuce and the opium
| of the poppy; but, for all practical purposes,
| the one is identical with the otner. Every one
| who has eaten lettuce knows how sleepy it
| causes him 10 become an hour or so after dinner,
and the older tine lettuce the greater the sleepi
ness, for in mature lettuce the milk jUics is we'll
| developed ana all the pro pertIes of the opium
are present. There probably has never been a
| clse where any one died from opium poisoning
| by eating lettuce, but this proves nothing, for
| loppy leaves may be eaten with as much inn
punlty as lettuce.
I AN ELECTRICAL JOURNAL calls attention to the
fact that electrical fans are intended for use
| and not for abuse. While deriving the fullest
benefit and enjoyment from the grateful breeze
| wlch the fan gives on the hottest day, people
should exercise some discretion in subJocting
| themselves to the brisk air motion The Jour
nal in question states that gentleman recently
came into MS oitice IN FerJ much oVerheated
condition and sa dp@n at his desk in the full
| brerze OF a. electric an. He contracted q
| heGvj COD hicn developed into pneumonia.
ri Gia NH a gniO
i.al he electrical fan is truly "a boon and a
| Messing to men, " but its use must be- accumpo-
MED by discretion
THE production Of artificial stone, especially
| for pavements, is largely on the increase. The
basis OF this product is crushed granite which
| is Incorporated with Portland cement, the water
| in the process being automatically gauged.
| After these materials are well blended the con
crete is laid in slab mods lined with zinc. When
| the slabs are set they are turned out OF the
molds and ST eped for about ten days in a solu-
| ton of sllicRte of soda, by which process they
| become indurated The silicate Of soda solution
| is made by boiling special kind of stone with
| 70 per cent. caustic soda, previously made into
| a soution with water; the silica of the stone
| dissolves and the solution Is diluted for use to
| the required strength. The slabs are taken out
| Of the solution, secured with wafer and stacked
| in yards where they are kept for months before
| being sent away from the works.
THERE is bacillus called typhi murium that
has prediction for mice It is cultivated,
distributed Through bread and the bread is dis
| Enormously strewn around where the mice will
eat it. AS ON as they have partaken of the
| Facilitated bread they become i'll, and In the
| agonies Of fever and stomach ache they roam
away to places where other mice are. The dis
| ease is catching and in q short time they all
| have it and most of them die. In Thessaly the
| mice have been such a plague that a field of
| grain would be destroyed 10 night. but since
| filling them with contagious diseases the scen.
lists have succeeded in Kidding large di. trcts OF
! these p>sts. The systematic distribution of
| things like diphtheria, cholera, typhus and
| smallpox to potato bugs, canker worms, bed
| bugs, anarchists and English sparrows has been
! seriously advocated as the quickest and easiest
| way Of getting rid Of them.
! DURING the month OF December last. says
Paris dispatch to the London Telegraph, the
| ladies of the mobility and gentry" Of the Eau
bourg Saint German were invited to the salons
| Of fashionable dressmaker in the Rue dc Lille
| to inspect court mantle made for the Empress
| of Russia. Needless to say that such an at
| traction caused hundreds of high-born dames
| to flock to the establishment, where they were
| shown, among other suburb garments, the man
| tie 10 question, gorgeous in crimson velvet and
| gold embroidery and said to be worth e60 900
| The exhibition Of this magnificent robe, of
course. gave a flip to the business, which, to
| all appearance, was soon in a most prosperous
condition The proprietress, taking advan-
| tage OF this apparent increase in her trade
| seized an opportunity to borrow on the strength
| of alleged heavy orders from the Russian court
sums Of money varying from 4e 900 to $4,000
| and amounting in the aggregate to no less than
| 100000 After the expiration Of the time
| agreed upon for repayment, when n creditors
| began to press for money, she explained that
the car was not a prompt payer, and left for
| St. Petersburg, stating that she going TO
collect the sums due to her from the Russian
| court. AS the lady failed to give any news OF
herself, the creditors sent a delegate to the Rus.
| sian capital, who discovered that, although the
| dressmaker was In reality there, she had no
| business with the court. and had never sold
mantle Of any kind to the empress.