The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IL Walkertown, Canada, q woman, Miss
Roether. is superintendent of the jail, and very
favorable report of the Bruce county jail has
be n rendered by the Ontario prison inspector.
The STRENGTHENING and sprinkling business Of
Newburg, n. Y, has been conducted with profit
and success for the past seventeen years by q
woman. She employs twenty men, but does her
own collecting and superintends the work.
VERDI's new opera Of "Falsta T." to be pro-
duced in Milan. Feb. 2, has ten principal parts:
Two sopranos, one mezzo. one contralto, three
tenors. two baritones and one basso, Verdi
himself has selected the singers. and will go
over the opera with them. He is said to be ex-
ceedingly anxious for its success,
BRAzIL and other parts of South America
are being rapidly settled by Italians Portu-
guese and Spaniards, the Italians predomi-
alone, from 1879 60 1888, GA per cent of the
immigrants were Italians The proportion Of
English, Irish aud Germans is very small
THERE are sixty four countries in which an in
vention may be patened. sixteen in urope, eigh-
teen In Africa four in Asia, twenty-seven in
America and nine in Oceanica. Two French
gentlemen recently had a hypodermic syringe
patented in each oneof these countries at a
total cost. according to a writer in lie Fin0dro
of $4,000.
'IF pound of coal is subjected to a dry dis
tillation and the products and residuale treated
chemically by the processes for obtaining the
well-known coal tar colors" SAYS the A0e IF
Steel of ST. Louis. 1.-THE one pound thus treated
will yield enough of magenta to color 500 yards
of flannel, vermil on for 1850 yards, aurine for
100 yards and alizarine sufficient for 1855 yards
OF red CLOTH"
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ago Mrs. Bates, the
daughter of Sussex farmer, received as gift
a single lily bulb. When this had increas d to
sixteen, they bad outgrown the window and
were planted in the garden. Ten years a 20 one
of Mrs. Bates daughters sent soms blossoms to
the London market, and was 80 successful in
dispos1ng OF them that, with her sisters, she
went into the culture of these flowers as a reg
ular business. The average weekly oduct ia
now 800 dozens and the Bates lilies are famou
for their beauty and perfection. The work is
all done by women, even 10 packing and ship
ping
THE Baltimore Sums rural readers will be in.
terested in the success OF young woman who
has in the comparatively urban SURROUNDINGS
os Staten Island, succeede / in keeping a hive OF
bees in her bedroom during the cold weather.
says that papers New York correspondent
She says bees are the most unobjec:ionable OF
companions. They are quiet orderly, and at
tend strictly to their own affairs. When the
warm weather comes they will be sent out
doors. where there are beds OF mignonette and
other sweet scented flowers, which the bees
fully understand are planted for tneir especial
use. This hive OF bees is the nucleus OF her
contemp plated bee farm. Last summer they
supplied her weekly with thirty sir pounds OF
honey. For each pound OF honey she received
80 cents. This young woman says that her
bees know her, and are as tame to her hand as
doves. The occupation of honey-making has
proved pleasurable and profitable.
The department Of agriculture is not behind
in its preparations for an exhibit at the Column
bian worlds fair, says the New York suns
WASHINGTON correspondents. Four carloads,
altogether. have been shipped so far. and Mr..
Willis, the representative Of this department
on the government boar as well as chairman
OF the board itself, expresses the hope that not
less than one-half Of the material for the entire
exhibit will be shipped to Chicago before Feb,
IS. about which time the actual work of installa.
ton will begin. Probably { 70 most interesting
portion Of the fab exhibit will be that iIlustrat-
ing the methods employed by the scientific
branch OF the fish commission In iuvestI Eating
the habits of fish, and it will include specimens
Of deep sea dredging, casts Of fishes and collec-
tions Of various kinds. A space 60xSO feet will
be devoted to an Illustration OF the methods now
used in Matching trout, salmon. whitefish, cod,
maokere and other fish. The only exhibit Of
OF live fish will be Of those which are Matched
by the devices used In the fish culture exhibit,
and they will be kept only long enough to dem
onstrate TO the public how the work is done
Between fifteen and twenty carloads Of exhibits
will be transported to Chicago by the fish COM
mission.
PRoF. CoNN's remarkable article entitled
Bacteria in MIX" according TO
the Philadelphia Press. gives more
bacteria, etc.. than can be found 10 auy pro
duction of equal length. From a general
synopsis Of items collated from it l have COM
piled the following: The number OF bacteria in
milk depends chiefly upon the length of time
that the milk has been standing, and upon the
temperature. Estimates made upon milk in
different stages OF fermentation nave shown
from 300 900. 900 to 100000, 600 OF these micro.
scopio organisms to the quart! The effect of
temperature is shown by this experiment:
specimen of milk which had been standing for
four days in a cool milk cave was found to con-
tain about 100000 bacteria to
each quart. When taken out Of
the cool temperature and exposed TO light aud
warm winds for less than day and half il
collected more than 800, 600 900 additional
microscopic organisms. Between forty and
fifty different specimens of bacteria have been
found In pure ~ milk at a normal temperature
This large number is due TO the feet that milk
is apt to collect almost any species of air-flyinQ
creatures that may be afloat; this is especially
true as regards cream and unskimmed milk
Tho individuals of most OF the species found in
milk in its normal condition are comparati yelv
few in number and are really of little signif-
canoe; a few species are almost universal and
extremely abundant. 1t is these creatures that
cause milk to sour. Soms OF them do this by
secreting or venting a kind of fluid; others
curdle the milk by causing ferment, like that
in rennet. By way of giving reinsurance TO
the milk-loving readers of the Press would
add that Prof. Conn acknowledges that "all Of
them are more iags harmful ~