The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE LARGEST LIBRARY in the world is that at
Paris, which contains upwards of 1000. 900
printed books and 10000 manuscripts Be
tween the Imperial Library at St. Petersburg and
the British Museum there is not much difference
In the British Mureum there are about / 800 600
volumes. The Royal Library OF Munich has now
something over 800, 900, but this includes many
pamphlets.
THERE is only one refinery in the world that
makes absolutely pure sugar. Tho maun-
factory is IN Germany. and it supplies chemists
ana druggists with sugar for solutions which
must be unclouded The chemically pure article
would not find much sale for table use, it is a
dirty, graylsh-white in appearance. When dis
solved 1t gives a clear solution, there being no
artificial coloring matter in suspension.
PERSIAN HATRED of Europeans, just now Gre
ating some stir in Teheran, is always latent in
that fanatical community. A New Yorker. who
spent winter in Teheran. says that this feeling
was displayed by natives on the slightest prov
ocatlon. He met i'll looks and threatening faces
at every turn, and found that when he handled
fruit In the market no native would buy it, and
the merchant had to make at least a pretense
of destroying it. Whatever a Christian touches
IS polluted. Tho same thing is met with in
British India, where even servants are known to
destroy cups and glasses from which Christians
have drank. Anglo-Saxon race prejudice is as
nothing compared with the oriental loathing
for the Christian European.
"THE Oldest gunner in the United States navy,
the venerable George Sirlan, died in Portsmouth,
Va, on Monday before last, says the New York
Ardrdd. His life was full of romance and
adventures. Born in 1917 on the Greek Isle of
Ipsala, he was made a homeless orphan by the
attack and massacre by the Turks Of the inhab-
itants OF that island in 1896 The bombardment
of the Turks by the old Constituton-'Od Iron
sides'-saved the lives of a large number, aud
he was among eleven boys who survived and
were brought away by that gallant old vessel.
He was brought home by Lieut.. Randolph of
RlChmOO1 executive Off1pa- OF fha chi In
Later he was taken by Mr.. Marshall, gunner in
the United States navy, from Lieut.. Randolph,
and by him taught gunnery and pyrotechnics.
Al the age OF 20 he entered the navy as 4 gun
ner, and in many a hard-fought battle after
ward showed that the blood or the Greeks
famous at Narration and ThermopylR. at Platea
and Mycena still lived in his VEINS"
THE AMOUNT of ingenuity expended upon the
invention of new devices for the destruction of
human life is wonderful. Capt w. f Peel of
the British army has new weapon whion he
calls the magazine rife attachment for caval-
ry." THIS continuance is to be fastened under
the horses body. with the muzzle protruding
between the animals forelegs, and is to be dis
charged by the rider at short range when
charging infantry. The captain maintains
that fairly accurate and destructive fire could
DO delivered in this manner with most de-
moraliZing effect. In short he believes that
cavalry thus aimed would be irresistible
GrOtesque as the ldea seems at first sight il has
been thought worthy of a trial by the military
authorities. and Gen. Wolseley ordered a spe-
cial committee to report upon q series Of px-
periments IN Ireland These do not appear TO
have been brilliantly successful, but Capt
Peel in no way discouraged. has started for
India with the view of introducing his system
there.
ONE OF the most ingenious. instructive and in
teresting electrical toys devised recently is like
the slanting top of school desk with bell
where the ink well would be. Il has ~ small
brass pins, over which is paced sheet of card
board marked off into ~ squares, the squares
having holes to fit the pins. In the SO squares
on the left-hand side are 50 questions and in the
squares on the other side are the &c answers to
the questions. Two flexible wire cords termi-
mating ID wooden handles with copper
pointers are attached to the desk one
left is placed on the pin in question
square, and connections are so arranged under
the desk, as In telegraph or telephone switch
board, that when the other pointer touches the
pin over the answer to the question the bell
rings, but it rings only when the correct answer
Is found. a greet variety Of question boards
are furnished geographical. historical, stats
tical, arithmetical, fortune telling, conundrums
and every possible kind OF amusing or
instructive subject on which questions can be
asked. It is charming as we'll as amusing to see
the confounding of positive convictions that the
toy produces.
ONE OF the handsomest silver wedding
present received by the Empress Of Russia is an
HGrper's Bdzdr. IL was presented to the
czarina by the nobility of the province of Kher-
son, but was up in Paris, for the makngup of
furs has been for years and remains still pre-
emnently Partisan art. Par sian furriers are
almost always intrusted with the manufacture
of splendid fur garments that become herlooms
in the greatest families of Europe Ermine
beside being the emblem of royalty is also that
of purify and stainlessness; but it is, neverthe-
less, so delicate a fabric that no white fur
gets SO easily soiled. Very few people
know how to clean white
furs, and it may, therefore, be of interest to
New York elegdnteS to learn the method recon-
mended to me few years ago by the famous
st, Petersburg furrier, Paul Cubacus The furs
must first be washed with tallow SOAP and
lukewarm water and then rinsed with a weak
solution of crystals Of soda all the soapguds
being removed from the fur with q hard brush
Should there be dark stains, such as are made
by carriage grease or other fat substances. on
the fur, it will be necessary to rub them with
benzine few hours before wash
ing it. 1t sometimes happens
that in spite of this treatment the furs
retain yellowish hue; this can however. be re-
moved by bleaching them in the following man
ner; whilst still damp, the articles must be i'm
mersed in very cold water, in which four pounds
OF sulphuric acid Of natron have been diluted
After an hours soaking, four pounds OF salic
acid are added to the mixture which must he
well stirred. Whilst the furs in the fluid the
vessel containing them should be tightly
covered, so as to exclude the action of the air
on the acids. Lastly the furs must be riused