The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-10
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TEE board of supervisors OF Fairfax county,
Virginia, at their last meeting made an order
directing the clerk Of the county court, F.
W. Richardson, to advertise for bids for the
privilege OF lithsgraphing the last will and tes-
lament Of George Washington, the original
copy Of which is on Gle IN the clerks office,
The will is in the handwriting Of Washington.
ONE Of the most remarkable cases on record
of dependence in faith cure, says the Lewiston
CMe) Journal, is that OF a Dexter woman who
is reported as having become so infatuated
with the Christian scientist theory that she laid
away on the shelf her false teeth that she had
worn several years, declaring that she had
faith that natural teeth would grow again. She
mas waited patiently FOR this result for six
months, but for some inexplicable reason the
new teeth yet delay their coming.
AN English paper gives some suggestive hg-
ures in support Of its statement, that beyond
the noble service done by legislation for the
protection of sailors from the practices resorted
to in the past by rapacious shipowners the de-
crease in the annual loss of life at sea is in a
great measure, due to improvement in the de-
sign of sailing ships. which are now better able
TO withstand great storms, and the adoption of
steel, which minimizes the danger Of stranding
The proportion OF lives lost to the total tonnage
entering and clearing English ports has de-
creased from II per 100 900 tons in 1881 to 9 O6
in 1890. This represents decrease according
TO tonnage of about half In the case Of
43.6 per cent, and yet there was a decrease in
the number of lives lost of % per cent.
THE New York Observer has a correspondent
who solves the problem OF Kidding house of
ants as follows. Having had years of tor
ment with ants both black and red, we lighted
upon the following remedy, which with us has
worked like mag C: One spoonful tartar ernetie,
one spoonful OF sugar, mixed into a thin syrup
AS it eVaporates or is carried or add ingredi.
ents as needed. sicker lot of pests would
be hard to find. Whether they impart
Whether ' all are Killed ds nome trd HTm po or
Certain it is they do not pay US a second visit
For ants on the lawn, a spoonful of Paris green
cut with alcohol and made into syrup With
sugar and water can be plac9d on pieces OF
glass or crockery-covar from domestic pets-
and the slaughter will he satisfactory.
IT IS well-estabished fact, said a Buffalo
sport to NetcS man the other day, that some
dogs will eat almost anything in the way OF
food, and we also frequently hear of cases
where the animal displays marked appetite
for Intoxicating liquor. but I've got an Irish
setter that caps the climax, In my opinion. Did
you ever hear Of dog liking onionsr No. |
thought not. Well, this setter OF mine would I
firmly believe, run a mile il he thought he oould
get an onion at the end of the journey We
gave him one for fun two years ago when he
was very young. He snapped it up at once
and ever since he has been growing fonder OF
them. he will wade into two or three old rank
fellows and demoish them with the tears start
ing from his eyes, and whom the light spring
onions come around he is never satisfied until
he has plate full for his dinner"
A VERY BRoTHERLY and commendabls custom
is that Of the San Francisco carpenters, who
build homes for one another without charging
the owner for their labor. All he need supply
is the land and lumber, and If he takes q day
or two off the house will be completed when he
returns A local paper tells a story of how
such dwelling was put up in one day AT
thirtpaQ 1hera Of
union appeared on the ground, bring
ing their tools, and before dark
they had raised a structure whose
exterior at least was finished 1t was not a
Queen Anne villa of course, nor was there
much taste of any kind shown in the design int
it afforded comfortable home to the mechanic
and his family and the burden Of rent-payinx
was no longer to haunt him, THAT is the sew
enth house built this way for members Of car
penters' unions here, ;" said one OF the workers
when they we're packing up their tools. my
first enc. The boys put It up for me about a
year ago. When bought my material | had
only 5 10 left, and If had had TO pay for getting
it built where would have been? We bslieye
IN turning IN to help each other along"
TIE LoRdon fog has been regarded hitherto
chiefly in the light of an unmtigated nuisance
by the visiting foreigner, says the New York
Post. The native. when compelled to admit its
existence, has been wont to treat il either az a
source of national distinction or as an occa-
sional visitation of no particular CONSEQUENCE
On sunshiny day he has been known to pre-
tend that e very name Of fog was unknown
to him Hereafter subterfugs of this sort
will be necessary. The fog ID blessing the
proudest boast Of the British metropolis 1t ia
the chief cause OF the low death rate
The authority for this statement is no
less the president Of the Institute of Civil En-
gtneers He says that 1t is sulphur emanating
from com bustion OF coal which causes fog: that
in London about $50 tons are thrown into the
n ar il . LII
large quantity of sulphur which counteracts the
effects of the death-laden germs discharged
from refuse heaps and sewers, by its deodoriz-
ing and antiSsptic properties. The groper in
fog, therefore. must not complain of its dirt or
its odor, but il he b wise, will inkale as much
of the smutty and sulphurous compound as his
lungs Will hold and be thankful Truly, science
is great
The PUBLIC has very little idea of the amount
OF leakage" that goes on in the transmission
Of telegraph messages. An operator NAV be
carelessly lounging in the vicinity of a wav
station or railway office with his hands In his
coat pockets, one hand being busy in taking
down with short pencil on a pad information
OF the utmost Importance which the noisy
sounder is ticking off, and which may be used
to the serious detriment Of the interests of the
sender. With view to gauge the extent TO
which such eavesdropping could be carried, an
expert operator was employed a short time ago
to call at some of the Wall street brokers'
offices, as well as at some city hotels of New
York. or some dozen Offices he visited no was
able in this way to obtain information more or
less important from every one, aad in the
hotels it was found perfectly EASY TO
take any and every message. By way of
remedying this very serious drawback in GER
tain classes OF telegraphic work. secret"
telegraph receiver has been devised. This in
strument is fitted with a special resonator of
aluminium, Of extreme sonopousness Al
though the Instruments, as generally con-
structed, may be kept so adjusted that no
movement of the armatures can be detected
with the naked eye, and that no sounds can be
heard without holding the ear close to the in
strument, this resouator, even under such con-
dtions, transmits the message to a receiving
tube from which the signals can be easily read