The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| substitute was recently put on the market nv
| a manuia cturer. who. according to the New
! YORK Evening Post evidently thinks there
| IS fortune in the passion which BOYS have
| Tor initiating their elders. The substitute is
| me cinnamon cigarette which does not
| contain any tobacco, and therefore does
/ not violate the law. IL IS made Of
| cinnamon bark. shredded when wet so as
/ 70 resent le tobacco. The smoking OF
| these cigarettes. which have a not npieas-
| ant Taste. has become q fad with the Cen
! nectlcut youth. 80 common is the pr0ctiae
/ mat oys OF ana years are-seen putting the
| cinnamon substitute. Parents. however. re-
| gard II as only little less Objectionable than
| the tobacco cigarette. because it creates in
/ the BOY fancy for smoking TO viii h he will
almost inevitably yield when be gets out Of
| knit kerbockers. In Hartford a remonstrance
/ against the sale Of the cinnamon c igarette
/ mas been made bv the principals of schools
| 10 whom complaint was made by parents and
| In some instances the dealers have promised
| TO stop the sale o, it.
Of the late great scientist. Prof, Tyndau, a
Philadelphia paper says that the railing mot
/ I've of his character was striki7gly shown by
| the act thai after his lecturlaC tour IN the
| Cnlted states IN le7- he returned to England,
| out gave the money he had made on that tour
| 70 the founding of scientific scholarships at
Inree OF the leading colleges in the United
| states IN this act he gave notice not only
| that he had not come here for the usual pur-
pose OF foreigners, but at once revealed to
| those who did not know him well the supreme
| interest ne felt in science as study. This
|
| stand the assaults which grew out Of his
| so-called theological writings which were
| interesting chiefly as Indicating the trend OF
| decidedly brilliant, but uuorthordoX school
| OF which he became the acknowledged head.
| HIS manner and methods as a speaker laid
| ueep hOtd on every one who heard him. He
had the happy faculty of gathering profound
kuOWledge on many subjects and OF impart-
ing that knowledge to a popular audience in
language which charmed the ear while en-
Tightening the mind. He had even more than
1t ssafa . H.,
me- hods OF ascertaining the truth he seemed
also to possess the intuitive faculty to an IN
usual degree and hence of reaching conclu-
slons by quicker processes than are common
to even great men.
Two young men of Boston. while on a
journey through India last summer wit.
messed an exhibition by 4 fakir in q small vii
lage outside Of Calcutta. The fakir was per-
forming the usual experience of making
rope descend from the!clouds and nan,come
down the rope. who assembled by the same
route after having his head cut of, says the
calcutta Mirror. The exhibition was in an
open square before loo spectators Every
one saw plainly what was mapping. The two
bostalus had cameras withthem, and took
numerous snap shots of the exhibition in its
| various stages. They intended to write a
subject for magazine, and illustrateit direct
from photographs. they developed the
plates with much interest upon their return
| 10 Boston recently. They were nonplussed
Whenthey saw the results. The photographs
| revealed the falUr, surrounded by the crowd
pictured on their faces; but the extraordinary
decaI lat!on they had witnessed did not show
upon the sensitive plates. he crowd stand
lns around were apparently looking at moth
ing IN the photographs. What they saw had
not happened at all hut they merely saw il in
their mind eve. While In ere is nothing re-
markable in The force of suggestion, when ap-
piled to one person, IL would not be irIDoSSi-
bic for an impression. such as the event which
the Boston men saw, to be conveyed to one
person IN hypnotic condition. . he circum-
stances at the Indian fakir exhibition were
however, entirely different. Here were /. 900
people, fully awake, VINO all saw in their
mind eXa lily the same picture and had no
doubt that the wonderful events actually hap
pened.
Ninety-nine out Of a hundred druggists
handle cigars and tobacco to a greater or less
extent. But few of them realize, however,
the necessity for caution as regards the
proper car G OF the articles of mere handise
which this character of the weed itself re-
qu1res on account Of its pershabienegs 1t is
perhaps not generally known, says Pharma-
ceutical Era, that tobacco is more susceptl ME
to injury from climatic Influences and contact
with foreign substances than any other plafib
known; more particularly when manufactured
(elther in plug form or in the shape of tnecut
or in the cigar itself tobacco will take up and
absorb any foreign flavor. scent or character
which Will entirely change its aroma or e.
For instance, If cigars are kept in a da M
place, they will absorb the moisture in
the atmosphere, and as a result there is
bound to produce strong, rank and disagree
able taste and flavor. no matter how well il
may haye been previously seasoned. For
this reason, cigars that are sold for use at
the seashore are selected from the Oldest or
Z best seasoned stock. No experienced dealer
or smoker would think of taking a fresh
cltar on board an ocean bound steamship
lnaSmuch as the ordinary domestic ''twofOr'
would smoke and taste equally as well as the
finest imported Key West cigars on board
, the ship. Cigars and tobacco should be kept
a. -, 49,
with such articles as camDhor. ammonia.
vinegar, coffee, spices. and similar substances
The above hints, if observed. will avoid and
prevent many complain IS from dealer or CON
sumner as to brands of cigars and tobacco
which are known to have standard value
for quality, and which under proper treat
ment have heretofore given the best Of salts
faction.
The production of ozone has hitherto been
so expensive as to greatly limit the use Of this
most valuable deodOrizer, says the Pittsburg
Dispatch. An attempt is now being made in
London to produce ozone on such a scale that
1t Will be available for innumerable hygienic
and commercial purposes. The apparatus
used Is electrical, the oZonizer consists of a
number of serrated strips formed up into
PrldS ana separated from each other by
plates OF glass. On connecting these grids
with opposite terminals of q high potential
alternating current, what is called brush
discharge takes place on the glass from the
point OF the serrations, and the characteristic
smell of ozone is quickly apparent To make
the ozone in still greater volume a large
number OF these plates are so arranoed
III suitable case that when the DISCHARGE is
established q current of air is passed through
the apparatus, whence it emergeS heavilv
charged with ozone. Before the air is passed
into the ozonizer it is filtered cooled and
dried 50 that its purity is insured. One of
the mdutrleS into which this commercially
produced ozone is likely to be introduced Is
the bleaching of paper pulp 1t is stated that
this process can thus be reduced in cost nv
threeeighths to one half of what il now en-
tails. 1t is also suggested to use the ozouizer
In the preparation Of oils for painting. fine
same result as to drying properties being oh
tanned as by boiling the oil with the added
advantage of great improvement in its clear
ness and color. In one branch OF the wine
and spirit trade, the ozonizer is sure to he
widely used. When subjected 10
the action Of ozone raw spirits
or new wines acquire in d few
hours the same mellownsss and bouquet as IL
they had been kept in the cellar for wears In
the bleaching of sugar and the oxidizing Of
Varnlshes ozone will prove of special servIee
Another use OF zone is the removal of tannin |
from tea, and company has ueen formed for
operating the process AS O disiufectant
ozone will have before it specially wide
neld OF usefulness, as a gaseous disinfectaDt
which has not the unpleasantness Of sulobirr, !
Gus acid and chlorine, is still wanting 0zon-
tied air will kill bacteria. and the number ~
bacteria In the air of a room can be apnrecia |
bly, diminished by working an ozonizer 1be
statistics quoted by Mr.. AndreoH the fnvep-
tor OF the new method OF producing ozone
electrically. To a1at{