The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FAGoT PARTIES are all the go in Boston, says
the New York World. The company must be
select and coneenial; then, after dinner has re-
freshed and wine has stimulated and cheered,
the hearth is piled with pine faRots, the light Is
put out and the moment is waited for "when
the blaze Is blue" to tell stories. Ghosty tales
are first brought out, but when these are ex-
hausted those of other sorts follow or the talk
settles down into little confidential utterances
that persons will only make by the freight
ONE of the latest implements added to the
thief's kit of crooked contrivances is a walking
cane with spring clip at the end in place Of a
terrule, opened by pressing the handle end and
closing itself, Identical in principle with the
pally for use by shoplitters With It articles
can be lifted from behind the counter when the
salesman's attention is elsewhere, or from all
all sorts OF places and in all sorts OF ways. IL
is known as the lifting stick"
IT may not DO generally known, even to
Biblical students, that St Paul is accounted the
patron saint Of uphosterers Such is the fact
in England His credentials are probably sup
piled by Acts xviii, 8: 'sHe came into Acouila
and Priscilla at Corinth, and because he was of
the same craft he abode with them and
wrought, for by their occupation they were
tentmakers." The festival OF the apostle of the
gentiles occurs on Jan. p, and it is profession
ally COMMUNICATED by the upholsterers of
England, who hold banquet in the evening
and after the usual loyal and patriotic thaSts
have been duly houored the craft drink ito the
memory OF st. Paul.
A SIMPLE SUBSTANCE for flre-proof1nR COM
bustible materials has lately been brought for
ward by a Russian inventor, and its efficacy
tested with very gratifying results under the
auspices of the Moscow Imperial Society of
Agriculture, says the New York Sun. At the
public trials made O shanty was built entirely OF
straw, and, after being covered with the paste
was subjected to hot fire, the straw, under
this operation, merely changing from q yellow
to a reddish brown color, without igniting or
even CRACKING. The society in question has, it
is stated decided to INTRODUCES this new fnVen-
ton or process throughout the empire, consid-
ering that it must prove of the highest value in
villages where the houses are thatched with
straw. The cost OF this preparation, as well as
of applying it, is said to be very slight.
A NEW ZEALAND boy of Is has his face nearly
covered with tattooin2. says the New York
LEDGER. The New Zeaanders tattoo the face
and hands, but very rarely ever touch the body,
Their method OF tattooing Is peculiar and diff
fers from that Of any other tropical country
The work Of tattooing is done with a shartly
pointed instrument, which is dipped first in "A
colored fluid. The point of the instrument is
placed on the face and is driven into the skin
by sharp blow from piece of wood This is
repeated again and again until the tatooing is
done The process MAKES the skin very sore
and only little can be done ct a time The
New ZealRnders tattoo in rings And the girls
are even more gorgeousg decorated than the
boys Tattooing is nearly always done before
the boys and girls have completed their growth.
so that the colored pigment becomes firmly
fixed in the texture of tie skin.
STRICTLY SPEAKING, witch the tip of the tongue
one cannot really taste at all If you put a drop
of oil of bitter almonds on that part of the
tongue you will find that it produces no effect
of any sort. You only taste it when it exins
slowly to difuse itself and reaches the trua
tasting region in the middle distance. But il
you put little mustard or cayenne on the same
part you will find that it bites you Immediately
while if you put it lower down in the mouth on
will swallow it almost without noticing the
punRency OF the Stimulant. The reason is that
the tip OF the tongue is supplied only with the
nerves OF touch, not nerves of taste proper
They belong TO totally different main branch
aud they go to different center in the brain.
together with the very similar threads which
supply the nerves of smell for mustard or oen-
per. That is why the smell and taste of these
pungent substances are SO much alike, as every
body must have noticed, good sniff at a mus
tard pot producing almost the same irritating
effects as an incautious dose.
A TYPICAL tall building in this country may
be considered to be the Masonic temple, Chi
cago, which has 20 floors above ground and n
hight from sidewalk to roof coping of 274 feet.
says the Engineering Record. The New Meth
eTlaEds hotel, New YORK; will have II floors and
will reach to a hight of 210 feet above the side
walk. Among the newer buildings erected in
Chicago are the Katahdin and WRchusett each
OF II stories and 200 and 205 feet high respect
lively from the sidewalk to the top of the roof
The Old Colony, another History building will
ne sly AoeC hiEu IRON slueWaIK 70 roof. The
Hartford and the Ellsworth buildings each of
IA stories, will be, respectively, ;G5 and 170 feet
high from sidewalk to roof The law
relating to buildings in New York CITY
imposes no restrictions upon the hight of
buildings for Office purposes. An older law
limiting the hight of dwelling houses in New
York city prescribes their hight in accordarcs
with the width Of the street upon whc the
buildings front. On streets and avenues not
exceeding 90 feet 10 width the hight shall NOT
exceed 20 feet. and on streets and avenues ex-
ceedng 60 feet in width. the blight shall not ex-
coed 80 feet. The Chicago building ordinance
adopted last month establishes the maximum
hight of buildings at 100 feet. The state law re-
lating TO the construction, maintenance, ana
inspection of buildings in Boston, which went
1875 feet for all buildings except the spires of
churches, and further restricting the hight to
two and half times the width OF the widest
street or square upon whcl they stand, meas
ured from the face of the building to the street
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