The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-20
NATURAL FRUIT FLENoRs.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE Winchester Arms Company at New Ha.
ven has bored an artesian well 1900 feet deep.
Tt is the deepest hole in the United States the
nearest to it being well in Virginia At the
depth of 1000 feet IL was found necessary to
use dynamite TO blast through hard stratum
of rock. 'F1-2t @stAr l'
THERE aretwenty wen built towns in Kansas
without a single inhabitant to waken the echoes
Of their deserted streets. Saratoga has a $50
600 opera house. large brick hotel, q $50, 900
school house and number of fine business
houses, yet there Is nobody even to claim
place TO sleep. At Fargo a $50, 900 school house
stands on the stdeFot the hill, a monument to the
bond voting orazet1 10 o.,
TELEPHONY EXPERT has been making a
critical analysis 6f'the adsptability Of various
languages for transmission over the telephone
wire. Chinese Is pronounced the easiest tongue
for telephone purposes. 1t is principally mon
osyllabic, and is made up of simply rising and
falling infection The ruggedness of German
does not impair its merits for telephoning pur-
poses as much as might, be imagined The
French tongue is damned with faint praise,
since it Is almost as sbilant as English" but
the gutteral, though musical, Welsh comes out
OF the test with flying colors.
"A NUMBER of Belfast people," says the
Lewiston (Me.) Journal, ARE trying the CO
operative housekeeping experiment. About
half dozen families IN q neighborhood have
entered into an agreement to live as one family
One OF the women is hired to do the cooking for
So week, while the others pay their propor-
tionate parts Every available room in the
house is rented and each individual is busy with
| his or her particular work, but all congregate
at meal time in one place The plan hasn't
worked worth cent in other places where it has
been tried but these Belfast people may have
such angelic dispositions that they will over
come its difficulties"
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has or
dered 1900 tons of steel rails, Ito weigh 100
pounds to the yard. The heavy rail will be used
on the main line of the company There il
quite difference in size between this rail and
the first steel rail used by the company. When
the first order was given the rail weighed sixty
pounds to the yard. At that time the motive
power OF the railroads were not as heavy as
now, but as soon as the trafflc began ITO grow
greater facilities for hauling were furnished
and with these improvements the locomotives
were made heavier. 1t is now absolutely
necessary for the rails TO be heavier. The in
crease in weight of rails has been 6s9h per
cent.
A TEAR from the eye Of a representative of
the Caucasian races is found to be composed of
water, salt, soda, phosphate Of lime, phosphate
of soda and mucus. From the eye of an African
the elements composing the tear are found to
be the same as the above, with the single excep-
ton Of the phosphate of soda, aud with the ad-
diton of a slight trace OF ammonia The
Esqulmaux and the fishing Firms seldom shed
tears, but when they do chemists say they are
exceedingly salty. The chemical elements in
the Caucasian tear arrange themselves into
particles that look like fish bones; those from a
negroes tear form rude CROSS whine the same
process of evaporation leaves the chemicals in
an Esquimaus tear in the shape OF a bow.
A LEIrH C5cotland) boatbuilder is construct.
ing yacht which, in regard to design and ma
terial, is probably unique. This builder is the
, patentee of boat which he claims is unsink-
able and uncapSzable Hitherto he has CON
structed them of steel and he claims that
owing to the manner In which the fors and aft
sections, which are oonical in shape are per
manently and Theoretically sealed, the boats
are rendered unsuitable, even if filled with
water, as the water runs back into the sea
through the opening In the center board casing
The cruising yacht he is about 20 build will not
be of steel, however. but Of an aluminium alloy.
The metal is as white as silver and possesses
breaking strain of "a tons to the square inch
IL is unaffected by water. The yacht, which.
instead of being painted will be polished, will
be about 81 feet long and feet broad, and will
be provided with roomy cabin paueled in oak
and comodious forecastle. All the deck fit-
tlngs, as accompany the yacht, will be made OF
the same white metal. If this experiment
should turn out successfully a new departure
in yacht construction and fittings may be OK
pected.
'THE Chinaman perhaps shaves oftener than
any other man on earth, " says Thomas A. Dun
wildly of San Francisco to st. Louis Globe
Democrat writer and with the possible excep-
ton of the American Indian, he rarely has less
need of it. But it seems to be a fad among the
Mongolians Of San Francisco, and especially
among those who are at all we'll to do, to have
their faces manipulated by tonsorial artist
nearly every day. A queer little razor 1t is they
use, too It is in no respect like our razor, ex-
cept In the matter of keenness of its edge. 1t is
wee Bit OF blade, nicely curved into a semi
circle. With this tool the Chinese barber
scrapes the Glmost hirsuteess face of his Gus
toner and then shayes him around the ears and
down the neck to the first bone Of the spinal
column. 1t OF course serves the excellent and
highly 5comnendabe purpose of cleansing tho
Mongolian face, neck and ears OF dirt very eff
fectually, though obs hairs it chips are few and
far between TherouRded point of the razor is
also inserted into the Celestial ear and every
ambitious hair that dares to show itself in the
auricular lobe Is clipped before its growth pro-
ceeds very far. The Chinaman, you know, is
scrupulously eleenly shout his ears. growth
OF hair in them 1st considered a mark of low
birth or of careiess-or ungenteel habits"
A FoRENASof q composing room has con.
ceived the idea OF using both hands in picking
up and setting the types in the stick Ever
since the composing stick was known the left
hand has held the stick while the thumb
pressed each successive type into place against
the piecesa already in line A one-arrced COM
positor came to the foreman's room and with a
single hand set almost as much type as hs fell
low laborers did with two. After thinking this
over the foreman worked out two inventions by
which he proposes to use both hands at once
The first is a little mechanical device for taxing
the place of the Thumb. and the second is an az
tachments by which the stick can be put in a
convenient position for receiving the type with
out being in the way Of any subsequent opera
tons Having got 80 far the foreman found
that his next step was to train bis left hand This
was by no means easy, but after patience and
practice a considerable degree OF efficiency was
attained, and he added 90 per cent. to his
former capacity He believes a still further
advance is practicable, but is confident that
any eompositor, by the use OF his inventions
which are to be patened, will be able to add at
least so per cent TO his speed, thus enabling
hand work TO maintain sturdy competition