The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE work Of digging up a well-mncadamized
road is ordinarily laborious and expensive. The
macadam is pressed so hard by the steam roll
erS that the task OF breaking up the surface
with pick by hand is most tedious. new
steam road pillow has been brought into requisi-
ton and is found most valuable adjunct to
the plant OF the street members, says the Chi
cago NetCs Record. The pillow is harnessed to
powerful traction and Is thus dragged up and
down the street easily and rapidly, tearing
open the surface as il goes. In its path follow
the carts laden with metal, which are tipped
and spread. After this comes the steam roller
and the work is completed in less than a quar-
ter OF the time 1t used to occupy.
SOME IDEA Of how it rains in the tropics may
be cleaned from few items in late West In.
dian newspapers relative TO the autumn
showers d" One day 1t is noted that on the pre-
v1ous evening "a block occurred on the car line
at North street, one OF the cars being unable to
cross the gully, down which the water was rush
ing like q river" Another day several gangs of
men we're reported out repairing the damage
to the car track by the showers of the previous
day" Next day the city had men out clear
ing up the debris washed down by the show
ers." At celebration the people were detained
in the building over three hours by the showers
The children Were kept from school one day.
And there have been times when the showers
have developed into heavy rains" and bust
ness has had to suspend in Kingston, even to
the extent Of newspapers suspending pubica-
ton. But The marvellous way the country
freshens up after the showers makes them not
only welcome, but simply delightful.
WRITER on the subject OF simple remedies
for every day ailments renders public service
in pointing out that while people may still rely
upon arnica and other applications in the form
| OF liniments in the treatment of bruises and
sprains, that most efficient and simple remedy
OF ell, hot water is comparatively ignored.
| There is no medicine known that approaches it
in value in injuries, such as those in which the
skin is not broken. It is strange that this
remedy is not more IN vogue on the foot ball
and base ball fields, where rVises and sprains
are frequent Professional players are often
| disabled for weeks by effects which ought to be
| counteracted in few days. II an injury is so
located that treatment can be conveniently APP
| piled, as on the hand, the arm or the leg, the
affected parts Should be instantly plunged into
water as hot as can be borne and kept there for
| hall an hour, and twice that length of time IL
| the accident is serious. When the bath is dis
| continued the injured parts should have water
dressings applted, and these also, should be
| kept so, until all the tenderness has been drawn
out. Bruises, wrenches and sprains are more
| quickly cured in this way than by any other
| known means, and the suffortngs Of the patient
arc infinitely Less than where hniments, lotions,
ETC., are used. In such injuries after the sore
ness has been relieved, there is generally some
/ swelling or pufflness of the parts to overcome.
and IL is in allayiug this that the superiority of
| the hot water treatment is markedly manifest.
The first cattle that we're brought into the
| American colonies were landed at the James
river plantation In Virginia, in the year 1907,
| says the New YORK. Journal. They came from
the West Indies and were the descendants of
| the cattle taken TO these islands by Columbus on
| his second voyage, ia the year l495. In 1910
| several COWS landed, and again, 1911, about 100
head more were brought to the plantation.
| This, therefore, was the genesis OF the cattle
| business in America. In order to encourage the
/ industry TO the fullest possible extent an order
was passed forbidding the slaughter Of any an
%sl Of the bovine spd under pssy Of death
| of cattle increased to $4,000 in
/ 1919. The first cattle brought into the New
England colonies arrived at Plymouth In 1924
and were imported from England by Gov
| Winslow. Three heifers and bull made up the
cargo: in COLOR" the old record says. "thoy
were black, black and white, and brindle." In
| 1926 twelve cows were sent TO Cape Ann, and In
| 1929 thirty more. In 1883 about 100 were i'm
| ported ''for the exclusive use of the colony OF
| Massachusetts Bay" During the same year
| 1903 we're sent from Holland to New York, SO
| that by the year 1880 there were a good many
| head of "horned cattle" in the different colo.
MES. The reader naturally thinks of these ami
mails as superb specimens of the bovine race
| but they were not. History that is the curious
and interesting part of history, tells us that
market as late as 1910 was only $40
| pounds What an evolution in 1872 years!
THE most universally colored article is butter
says Food Drugs and Drink and it may with
| great confidence be asserted that there is
| hardly pound of butter sold at the present
| time in this country which has not been doc
| tored, mostly by the aid of a harmless vegetable
| colorinS matter-annatto-n order to impart
to such butter a rich golden color Butter
naturally varies much in color, according
! TO the season, the breed of the COW, and
mainly its food and 1t is but rarely the natural
but butter possesses the color to which
| of those who introduced this admixture was OBJ
| viously to make their product appear richer
and more entcing 20 the eye than nature had
| NJ I'D nnA fhA OIL $50 -.
butter merchants had to follow suit. Milk 10
| also generally colored by the milkman. Here
| the object is plain. Watered milk assumes, az
is well known, the tell-tale sky blue color which
at once betrays that the milk has been tam
pered with. To hide this the blue milk is again
artihcially provided by means of a yellow solu-
s slop To hide the o S1samy
fraud the second deception is practiced.
| Mustard, especially that which has been
| adulterated with -four, which 10 consequence
| also would look sickly pale, Ia brought up to
| the original color OF genuine mustard by the
| addition Of turmur1c, ana similar practice is
beginning to be adopted in the pepper trade.
| Sausages, both meat and skin, are dyed with
aniline colors for the purpose OF hiding the
color of unhealthy or stale meat which may
have been used: Jams especially plum jam,
| are generally dyed with analiue colors and
sugar confectionery is hardly ever without
| such artificial dye. Ale ia darkensd with burnt
| sugar, as also are brandies and WHISTLES.
| 1t must be admitted that in by far the ma
| iority of these cases the color used Is entirely
harmless, and has no influence upon the health
| of the consumer. Yet there are a number of
anime colors which are positively poisonous
| even when pure. Such colors are picric acid
and its salts, Martius yellow satranine. methylen
| blue, dintrocresol, and aurantla. Others, I'M
| Objectionable in themselves become poisonous
| owing to their mode of manufacture. which
| leaves in the products poisonous impurities
such as arsenic rarely, salts OF copper, tin or
| zinc. The manufacturer OF sausages or Jams has
not the least idea whether the colors he uses
may not belong 20 ono or other OF the above to
| which doubtless many others could be added
and even II the quantity of color consumed by
| one individual may be exceedingly small IL is
| probably evident that no such manufacturers
should have the right TO use such colors. Almost
every civilized country has passed legislative
| measures regulating the use OF colors such as
those referred to, but England, the mother of
all adulteration acts has done nothing and has
in this, as in many other points concerning the
sale OF food and drink remained far behind