The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-15
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To HASTEN the cure of burn or a scaId there
is nothing more soothing or effective than the
white of an egg 1t is contact with the air
which makes burn so painful The egg acts
as varnish and excludes the air completely
and also prevents Inflammation.
IN MAINE physician made gestures when
giving nurse directions for patient, and his
horse, noticing them from the street, made
straight for the window, thinking himself called
TO share in the consultation. nc broke several
panes of glass before he could be controlled.
FREIGHT CAR ninety-six feet long has been
built Of steel in Manchester, England. for the
Mexican railway. 1t is no heavier than the
34foot wooden car used here and will hold
nearly three times as much with no more dead
weight. Such a car could not be used on ine
with short curves, says the Philadelphia Press.
but II 1t proves successful it is certain to be-
come the rule western roads, which often
run from end to end with no large degree
curves.
TIE RUBY is valued highest when 1t contains
the least azure. The largest ruby that history
speaks Of belonged to Elizabeth of Austria, the
wife of Charles TX 1t was almost as big as
hens egg. The virtues attributed to rubies are
to Danish sadness, to repress luxury and to drive
away ANNOYING thoughts. At the same time it
symbolizes cruelty. anger and carnage, as well
as boIdness and bravery. A change in its color
announces calamity, but W en the trouble is
over it regains its primitive luster.
THE word calico has a queer origin. says the
Boston Globe. Many centuries ago the first
monarch of the province of Malabar gave to
on of his chiefs as reward for distinguished
services, his sword and all the land within the
limit OF which a cock growing at a certain tenn
pie could be heard. From this circum stance
the little town which grew up in the center OF
this territory was called Callcoda, or the ''coc<
crowi ng." Afterward 1t was called Calicut
and from this place the first cotton goods were
imported into England, bearing the name
calico.
MANY, perhap most, Of the ush-bottomed
chairs manufactured in New York are supp led
with the rush seats by few families over ia
New Jersey. Ons such family of Huguenot
extraction, and locally believed to be descended
from Admiral CliRny, though the name has
been corrupted, has been making these rush
bottoms for many years. perhaps for genera
tons, past. The work is done entirely by hand.
and it is one demanding considerable experience
and skill, though it is taught to children, and,
DOUBTLESS, thus handed down IN families. The
important thing is to have toe rushes properly
dampened, so that they shall not be brittle, and
then TO twist them into cords of nearly uniform
thickn- S. The work, though not laborious, Is
extremely dirty, since the PUSHES always retain
more or less dust and mud. When well made.
rush bottoms will last for generations.
THERE have been many vain attempts to
manufacture in this country the silk plush Of
which the conventional tall silk hat ia made
| French manufacturers began rather less than
half century ago to substitute for felted beaver
| the silk plush now in USE and even yet there are
| only few factories IN France and England that
| successfully manufac'ure this material. So
persistently di the OLD idea of Telling hold on
that It IS only few years since the best matters
| quiL using felt as a body upon which to sinner
| npose the silk plush 1t is asserte that n silk
| manu- -cturer in business near New YORK sank
| SuO,OOO in trying to produce q silk fit for
| hat making. He even went so far as TO i'm OF
not only skilled workmen, but even water from
France because he came to believe that the
| quality Of water with which the material was
| treated had something 20 do with the success Of
| the French manufacturers.
MRS E. s. P. WARD has computed that there
are several thousand women physicians in the
| United States. ut is impossible TO average
their incomes correctly but they probably run
from $500 to $4,000 year. The last figures
are, of course, rare. They are the great liRhts
| OF the profession even among men who earn
from $4,000 to $50 900 year and upward; and
women are still crusaders and reformers.
$4,000 income for a well ed lcGted, gifted and
healthy woman doctor is less rare. Five thou
sand, think. is not at all uncommon, and so on
down. I knew one woman an invalid who
earned $4,000 the first year that she practiced
The next year she received S5,000 and main
tanned a growing success until she dropped dead
one night and put an end to calculation on what
promised to be brilliant career. But this
woman after graduating from the medical
school, and before she began to practice spent
for several years eight hours day in severe
private study.
ODD as It may seem, especially when we con-
slider that there wes no reciprocity" bet 4een
the United Statos and Brazil at that time, the
first pair Of arctics brought into the United
States were imported from Rio de Janeiro In
1880. They were rough pair OF india rubber
''Runboats, painted and gilded like q Chinese
pagoda, and were sent as curosities to New
YORK gentleman by a representative Of a
wholesale house doing business in
what then the great Ameri.
can empire. Friends OF the gentleman when
osR1d
sire to own pair Of such oddities; and in 1882
twenty seven pairs were imported by New York
| and Boston people. The price vas something
terrible to contemplate but they were soon sold
out and orders placed for more From this
small beginning the rubber boot and shoe trade
began. In 1888 500 pairs were imported and
from that time forward until Goodyear's ia
nous ''vulcanizing" discovery and the complete
revolution Of the rubber trade from 900 to TO-
600 pairs Of rubber shoes were annually inn
ported from South America.
Do YOU KNOW the story of the miraculous
Banner of Dannebroy?' asks the St. Louis
Republic. Dannebroy is q Danish word signi-
flying the Daues stronghold d, " and the legend
concerning the standard itself is as follows:
WI nile Waldemar the Victor was battling
against the heather Livonians, there came a
turn in the strife where all odds were against
him. He had but handful of men compared
with the hordes of heath n which assaulted
him and his troops from all sides. At last,
when everything was lost save honor Andrew
archb shop of Lund, was seen to ascend an
eminence, stand still and perfectly erect
with his hands raised to heaven. Instantly as
If by magic, the tide of bat le changed. Wal
demar's Christians. thanked the heather legions
snd pressed them to the very brink OF an awful
precIpice. By this time the good archbishop's
strength had failed and he was forced to discon-
tinue his duplication, his hands having fallen
nerveess TO his sides AS soon as heavens
authority was no longerrecognized,t the heather
rallied and quickly regained all the ground they
had lost during the time that the archbishop
had stood with his hand raised TO God. The
aged prelate noticed this and again DO we'd his
head and extended his hands in reverence The
effect was it had been before and in so
marked degree that the dullest soldier In the
ranks began TO feel the presence Of the Almighty
in the conflict When for a second time fatigue
forced the archbishop to drop his hands, and
the heatuen again rallied their forces the
priests rushed 70 the assistance OF their cham
piun and held his hands upward, the fingers
pointing TO the blue canopy above Soon word
came that though the Waldemarlan forces
were gaining IA all directions their standard
had been lost in ths strife. The Archbishop
prayel ana Immediately a Tag with a white
cross IN a red feld was seen descending from
heaven. The Danes Appropriated the sacred
banner and we're ever afisrward successful ia all
contests 10 which IL was carried. From that
day 70 this the Daaisl flag has been q red dsld
with white cross uponik