The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| ITEMS OF INTEREST.
THIS is the week when census Is generally
taken of the Oldest living graduates, says the
Springfield CMaSsl Republican, The oldest Of
! all is believed TO be Col Amos A Parker, Uni
| versity Of Vermont, 1913, now nearly 10I years
| old, and president at FitZwilliams n. n. He
was 100 years old on Oct last. At Yale he is
Edward McCrady Of Charleston, s. c.. class OF
| 1920, and now 80 years old. At Harvard he is
| the Rev. Dr. William H. Furness OF Philadel-
phia, 26. He is go years old and he is the oldest
| graduate, not only of Harvard College, but of
| the Harvard Divinity School and the Boston
| Latin school AT Brown the oldest graduate is
| the Rev. DR.. George W. Briggs of Cambridge,
| Mass, 25; at Amherst. Samuel D. Partridge of
| Milwaukee, '27; at Dartmouth, Mark Went
worth Fletcher of Wayne, Ill, %; at Williams
there are two, jeremiah Porter aud David Dud-
ley Field, 81. Mr.. Porter Is few months the
elder. Trinity College has Rev. Oliver Hopson
of Madalin, n. Y who has for seventeen years
been the only surviving member Of the first class
graduated at this college. Bowdoin has the Rev.
DR.. Thomas T. Stone of Boston, Mass, 20 He
Is now 81 years old.
The report of discovery OF mastodon IN
Grayeon county. Texas. being received with
doubt, the Galveston Net0S sent to the spot
representative who verifes it Two workmeu
is seems found the remains in the bed of creek.
| The tuSks measured S1S feet In length. The
molars six in number range in size from
inches at the front to inches along the inner
Jaw. The enamel on some of the teeth was still
firm and hard. Other teeth were in a crumb
ling state. The skeleton STOOD bolt upright and
was SIX feet beneath the surface of the ground.
| The tuSks were found to be ten feet apart and
| 1t wes at first suggested that fesh-eating ami
! mails had displaced th-m. But, on the other
! hand, each tusk was exactly the same distance
| from the center of the head. so that the conclu
| sion is drawn that the displacement was not so
| great as at first appeared to be the case and
| was probably caused by the action of accumu-
latng deposits from higher ground. One of the
! shodlder-bladas measured 51e feet in length and
| 81 in width. The beast was apparently IL feet
height and about 20 in length. Scientists say it
| was mastodon ohioticus-American mastodon
| IN the United States there are eight large
| factories for making fireworks, beside about
! dozen smaller ones, says Public ODrnton. In
! al these factories only about 1000 people are
| employed. One OF the most important is To-
| Gated at Parkvile. near Coney Island There.
! in an insulated neighborhood, stand about
| thirty wooden sheds of the fimsiest description.
| At some distance is low building with heavy
| oaken door This is the powder magazine. The
cases for rockets. roman candies and other
| fireworks are made in what are called the wet
| rolling sheds" This Il done by half dozen
men, who do the rolling, assisted by as many
boys, who do the passing of the sheets of damp
paper In the dry-roliinS sheds, wheRe the
work is light and not at all dangerous, girls are
! employed. Tue paper bombs are mode in still
| another shed Shells are filed by q few men,
| VINO work at a bench and pour he powder into
| a small opening by means OF funnel 1t is
! absolutely necessary to have everything spot
lsssy clean. The floors and benches busted
/ every llIJbSu minutes, anu not the smallest
| speck Of powder is TO be any place except
| in the tins provided for explosives.
! DECISION regarding the right of a negro TO
sit in any part OF a theater selected by him has
| Just been handed down In the supreme court of
| Missouri. The plaintiff sued the manager OF
| the Ninth Street tEeater in Kansas City for
| damages, RTound'ut hem on his refusal to
| allow the negro alt IL + nale companion to oc-
| cupy seats IN the parqu.tte. The court held
| that the fourteenth amendment was not VIC
( lated BY ne action of the manager THE col
! Oret mau, said Judge Black, in opinion
Concurred in by all the other Judges has aud
is entitled to have oil the rights of citizen but
| it cannot be said that equality OF rights me ans
| identity in all respects Here the defendant
! did not exclude or attempt to exclude colored
| persons from his theater. He provided accom-
| modations for them, but in doing so required
| them to buy tickets and take seats in the bal
| cony, and this rule adopted by him aec0rds
| with custom and usage prevailing tnsShis stale.
| Such custom has the force and effect of law
until some competent Legislative power shall
establish some other different rule. The do
| PENDANTS rule was no more than a reasonable
! regulation which he had right to make and
enforce
JOSEPH G. WARE of Newark, an ingenious
jeweer, has invented new whis, e. which prob
ably makes more nose than anything Of similar
size in this world, says the New York san The
noise evolved is similar to thas made BY the
steam siren or fog whistle used at the light
| houses, though less loud. 1t Ia an expensive
whistle and is intended for yachtsmen, to be
/ used in signaling in calling boats. It is
I about one inch in diameter and eau be used as
| heal of a cane or umbrella. The tube is made
! OF ornamental silver and the Orlfce is protected
| by fine netting Of silver wire. Inside OF the
whistle Is nicely balanced ivory disk perforated
| with seven holes. Below the disk is a metal
| diaphragm with six holes. The air blown
| through the seven holes in the disk becomes
| terribly wrought up in its efforts to escape
! through the six holes in the diaphragm and
| shrleks with agony, while the disk, which has
! caused sill the troubles. revolvAs in reckless
| triumph. Neighbors near the factory In which
| the experiments have been going on are hope
! full that the work will soon bs reduced to an ex-
| act science, SO that no more Of the Instruments
| will need trying. The whistles will probably
| sell for SO to $40 each and will be made exclu-
sively of precious metals for while.
THE EDGE of a razor consists Of innumersble
/ points or teeth" which if the razor is Of good
material follow each other throughout its whole
! length with great order and clesrness. Tho I'm.
| broken regularity OF these minute teeth" 20 to
| make up the blades excessive keenness The
| edge acts upon the beard not Sc much by tho
direct application Of weight or force as it does
! by slight "see-saw" movement, which causes
| the successive teeth" to act rapidly on one
certain part of the hairy growth The best
| razors according to the microscopsts have
! the teeth OF their edges set as regularly
as those of a perfectly set saw. This
| explains the magic effect Of hot water
| on the rnZor's blade-the act Of dipping
| 1t thoroughly cleaning the teeth OF any greasy
| or dirty substance with which they may have
| been clogged. Barbors often claim that razors
get tired" of shaving and that they will be all
| right after awhile il permitted TO take a rest
| When in this tired" condition q microscopic
| examination of the edge shows that constant
| stropping by the same person has caused the
teeth or ibers of the edge to all arrange them
| selves in one direction. A month of disuse
| causes these fine part cles to rearrauge them
| selves so that they again present the hetero-
| geneous, saw-toothed edge. After this little rec,
| reation each particle Of fine edge is up and
| ready tn support his fellow, and IL again takes
some time to spoil the grain Of the blade.