The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a farmer near Port aerNis, y. y, ls SAID 70
employ his twelve children as scareorows.
In Corea every unmarried man is consid-
cred a boy. though he should live 20 be one
hundred. No matter what his age. he follows
IN position the youngest Of the married men,
despite tho fact. perhaps, OF having lived long
enough to be HIS father
when the neglige shirt first became popu-
lar" says The Philadelphia Record, 1T ives a
flannel or silk shirt, with a soft collar and no
cuffs 20 speak OF. Its object was 10 relieve
man Of wearing starcheG bosofns and collars
ana cuffs In hot weather, when they are not
only uncomfortable, but likely to wilt down
from perspiration and give the wearer a SLOW
emily appearance. Now. however, the only
difference is found in the color. The neglige
shirt is as stiff as boaa1, and the collar even
suher; so are the cuffs. In fact. il isn't neg
ige at all. The same thing applies to the rus
set Shoe When IL first came out its chief
advantage lay in the assertion that II wasn't
necessary to have il shined up every day or
so. Some one. however had 10 invent pat
ent polish for the neglige shoe, and il costs
more 70 shine that than it does regular
black shoe"
Cases are not infrequently reported in
which children, and sometimes grown per-
sons, are poisoned by the free use of nutmegs
IL not being generally known that this article
OF common household use Is really a deadly
poison. says the Albany Express. This Is
true in fact OF most common condiments; but
when ullSuSbu, bnbSb dFblCleS, Sucl rs pepper,
capsicum, etc, are so obnoxious to the taste,
excepting when taken in very minute quaint
ties, that the consumer is warned in a very
positive manner before he has had an oppor-
tunlty todO himself serious injury. This is
not the case, however, with the nutmeg. This
nut, which contains poisinous principle of a
very deadly character, may be consumed with
out inconvenience in quantities sufficient to
produce fatal consequences; and IL is sur
pfising not that death occasionally occurs
from its use, but that deaths are not more fire.
quent. A fatal case was recently reported in
which boy Of years fell into a comatose
condition after eating two nutmegs and died
within twelve hours.
The famous Rock Of Horeb," anciently
called the Rock Of NASSAU" and at present
known throughout the Orient as the Stone Of
the Miraculous Fountain, being the identical
rock which Moses struck with his rod in order
to give water to the children of Israel, is re-
ltgiously preserved and guarded even down to
this late date, says the st, Louis Republic.
352. says: 1T is block of granite about six
yards square lying tottering and loose in the
middle of the Valley OF Rephidim, and seems
to have originally been part of Mount
Sinai" The action of the waters Of that
miraculous fountain, as related in the
18th chapter of Exodus followed a channel
about two inches deep and more than twice
that broad across the face Of the rock this not
upon unsupported testimony, but upon the
word of such men as the Rev. DR.. Shaw DIR.
Pocock Lieutenant Clogher and other emf
nent scholars and travellers. NJ. Beaumgor-
ton, German nobleman who visited the
Rock Of Horeb' In the year 1907, declares
his belief in the generally accepted story Of tia
being the rock Of Moses famous fountain.
Few people In this country imagine what
terrible work volcano OF the regulation size
can do when 1t once gets fully aroused says
the Philadelphia Times. In 1888 Cotapax
threw its fiery rockets more than 800 feet
above the crater, and in 1857, when the
blazing mass confined in the same mountain
was struggling for an outlet, It roared so loud
that the awful noise was heard for distance
Of 600 miles. II 1877 the crater Tunguragua
one Of the great peaks of the Andes flung
out torrents Of mud and lava which damned
up great river opening new lakes besides
making a deposit of seething mud, ashes
and lava 600 feet deep over the whole area of
a valley which was twenty miles long and
averaged l 900 feet in width The stream of
lava which flowed from Vesuvius in 1897 and
passed through the valley Of Terre
del Greco is estimated to have
contained 333 100000 cubic feet Of solid
matter. In 1850 Etna poured out a flood of
melted stones and ashes which covered
eighty-four square miles of fertile country to
depth of from ten to forty feet. On this
occasion the sand scoria, lava, etc., from the
the burning mountain formed Mount Rasini,
peak two miles in circumference and over
1900 feet high. In the eruption of Vesuvius
in the year 70 A. D., the time of the destruc-
tion of Pompeii, the scoria, ashes, sand and
lava vomited forth far exceeded the entire
mass of the volcano itself while In 1860 Etna
disgorged over twenty times its own mass.
VeSuvius has sent its ashes into Syria, Egypt
and Turkey. 1t hurled stones of 800 pounds
weight to Pompeii, distance of six English
miles, during the eruption OF 70 A. D. Gotta
paX once projected block Of stone contain
ing over 100 cubic yards, distance of nine
and half miles.
Aniline colors, soluble In benzine, are used
in giving brilliant hues to India rubber.
Thirty-eight steamers are employed in the
business of furnishing submarine cables the
most Of which are made in England. Rubber
exporting countries are beginning to adopt
the metric system of weights to supersede
the clumsy and inexact native systems. Oils
soften rubber and render it unfit for use.
Consequently rubber goods should be kept
away from grease and oil and in cool place.
In steam hose the amount Of rubber between
the piles Of duck should be considerable,
otherwise it would dry out and the hose open
between the piles. The rubber tree displayed
In the window of many rubber houses is not
the true rubber tree but is the Ficus Austria
liants. and produces resinous rub
Der that has no commercial value.
In the manufacture Of rubber hose the
duck should be closely woven, in order to give
the hose proper strength the rubber being
frictioned into the interstices and the piles
wrapped together so that il will not blister
A good elastic cement for joining rubber or
leather may be made with bi-sulphtde of car
bon, four ounces; india rubber, in fire shreds
one ounce; isinglass, two drachms; gutta-
percha, one-haf ounce. Dissolve, and apply
thin coating to the parts to be joined, which
must be well hammered together after dry
ing and remelting the coating. The business
of making rubber tubing was very small, I'M
der the old and awkward method of wrapping
around long rods or poles. Then the tubing
machine was invented, which takes up the
rubber dough and presses 1t through dies into
lengths illtmitable This so cheapened the
product that in the line of syringes alone
tons are taken every day.
An official of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie
road who recently returned from Europe
referring to railway practice in Germany
said to a writer for the Railway Review:
The roadbeds are about perfect, while the
stations are simply magnificent even in the
most insignificant places being very fine.
The roadbeds are quite rigid, but this is
mainly due to the iron and steel cross-ties
that are used. The locomotives are fine
pieces of mechanism, but their capacity is
scarcely equal to those on this side Of the
Atlantic. The entire passenger equipment is
away behind that in use here. Their trains
however run like clOckwork and the connec-
tionS are perfect The method of starting
trains is altogether unique and peculiar and
will cause American agents and trainmeu TO
smile. The agent is an imposing, dignifled and
solmn- looking Official attired in elaborate uni
form, literally gilt-edged, and he acts as mas
ter Of ceremonies on imposing occasions
When the train arrives at the station he Is
standing bolt upright in an almost military
position, and he is on dress parade. One min
ute before the train starts he reaches up and
taps gong three times Then strange
scene takes place, and II would seem that he