The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IHE value OF the words mot transferable ~
| usually printed upon season tickets, has been
tested in an English court, and it has been de-
clded TO be unmpeachable. A lady loaned two
OF her servants couple of season tickets to
the Crystal palace. They were suspected and
questioned and the fine imposed by the court
amounted in all to about SIS.
THE largest band saving machine in the
world has recently been completed in England
and sent to Tasmania. The machine can saw
through maximum depth of seventy-fiye
inches, and the carriage will accommodate LOGS
nifty feet long and weighiny about fifty tons Il
ID asserted that this saw cuts even faster than a
circular saw, while wasting rs per cent. less
wood.
THE Provident Surgical Society of Lon
don distributed last year 6,233 artificial
arms, legs. teeth and noses One of the
noses was brought back to be exchanged
1t was pronounced Roman nose that he had
caused the young woman to whose face it
She was given in place of it a pretty little nez
retrousse, which secured her an offer of mar
riaRe.
HERE are the latest statistics Of the Protest
ant Episcopal church. In England it has 43
bishops and $4,000 other clergymen; in the
United States, 81 bishops and $500 clergymen.
in Ireland, 10 bishops and 1907 other CLERGY.
men, and in Canada, "a bishops and / 500
clergymen; in Asia, Is bishops and 7l3 other
cIergymen; in Africa, 10 bishops and $50 other
other clerEymen; and in Scotland II bishons
and $50 other clergy men; in scattered dioceses
bishops anc lsO clergymeu-a grand total Of
1o9 bishops and 49, 29 other cergymen
LIKE most things in China, the practice Of
surgery differs considerably from that in yopue
in less enlightened western countries. SAYS the
Hospital. Bonesetting in the Celestial emrire
Is a complicated affair, and doubtless much
more etficacious than European methods. In
setting fractured limb the surgeon does not
ATTEMPT to bring the hOnaa h,,t
wraps the limb in red clay, inserting some
strips OF bamboo into the CLAY These srrins are
swathed in bandages, and in the outer bandage
the head Of a live chicken is placed. Here comes
in the superior science of the Celestial After
the bandage has been secured the fowl ia he
headed and its blood is allowed to penetrate the
fracture, for it nourishes the fractured limb and
ID heap good medicine
THE kaiser has different notions from tboso
his forefathers had about the treatment of
civilians by soldiers An oil order by King
Frederick william III. of Prussia has been nm
earthed, in which the king says: "I have heard
to my great displeasure. that young officers
claim privileges over civilians No soldier ~
whatever rank shall dare to snub one Of the
least OF my citizens, for it is they, not l. who
maintain the army. They give the army it's
shall be expected by those who act contrary to
my wishes in thiS matter" 1t was under the
rule of such kings that Prussia grew great
But the present kaiser, despite his hatred OF
have changed all that
THE largest block of asphaltum ever mined
in one mass was recently taken from the
mines of the Santa Barbara Asphalt COMPANY
California. 1t weighed two and a half tons
The mine in question has only been opened
about one year. ,ouRh chiefly used as is
well known, for street paving, its employment
is increasing for other purposes large GUAM
Titles being now consumed in making floors
for warehouses, cellars, wineries, breweries
etc, as 1t renders floors absolutely watertight,
besides being unaffected by acids or gases
For lining dams. levees, and reserving a thin
coat of the article put on In a melted state
presents a perfect watering surface preventing
loss by seepage, even when backed by only an
earth enbankment. 1t is claimed 20 make oon-
dults Of wood almost if not quite as durable as
iron.
BEFORE the Deacon trial was over Alexandra
Dumas was asked what verdict he thought the
jury would arrive at He said: Even IL Mrs.
Deacon was really guilty, what excuse had her
husband, coming from land where divorce