The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

During the last Paaguayan war il was
noticed that the men who had been without
salt for three months and who had been
wounded. however slight died OF their wounds
because they would not heal.
Most Of our perfumes come from flowers or
are made in imitation Of the scents Of flowers,
so altar OF roses, by a common consent, ranks
at the head OF the list of perfumes. Other
preparations from roses, too, hold high
place and have long been esteemed. Rose
water Is historic When Salad1n entered
Jerusalem in the twelfth century. he had the
walls OF the Mosque OF Omar washed with IL.
But altar or oil OF roses is by far the most
precious and most priced OF all An Eastern
Prince viii present to an hOnored guest rich
jewels, rubies. and diamonds, and then add as
the rarest Of all crystal bottle filled with
this priceless essence.
Some ingenious fruit dealers Of Paris have
invented way Of coloring their wares in or
der to improve their market value, says Lon
don lld-BltS. They color ordinary oranges
deep red, making them look much like man
darins; which fetch much higher prices.
They also tint pineapples TO make them look
more attractive, and dye the common white
strawberries lovely red. Melons are now
being treated a similar way and tinted fine
orange, their flavor being increased by inject
ing an essence of lemon. The latest dev elop-
ment OF this business is in connection with
pears, which are dyed red for third of their
size and blue below, thus presenting the ma
tlonal colOrs when peeled. These are said to
be in some demand for dessert on account OF
| their novelty.
When Macmillan was Emperor of Mexico
the country was overrun with train robbers,
says the Globe-Democrat. They marched
| about in large bands, tore up the tracks. and
robbed everybody One day the train from
Vera Cruz to the City OF Mexico was bounding
gayly along, the five coaches filed with hidal-
| goes, poems, market women and farmers.
| Suddenly it came to a standstill. The train
guard cried out "Bandittel" Sure enough,
on either side of the road the ragged but deS-
| perate ruf1ans were lined up. Suddenly
hidalgoes poems, market women and farmers
arose, there was a binding fash and q deafen-
ing volley from both sides of the car, and 100
OF the bandits fell dead, while the 800 zouaves,
disguised in the costumes of the country
| turned out of the cars, pursued the flying rob-
bers and killed them every one.
Reports from Avessa in the province of
Naples, describe the horrible death of a
woman named Anna Vale Immediately after
childbirth she was seized with an acute at
tack OF gastro-enteritis, and the doctor issued
certlhcate or death. She was put in cOftin
the lid was screwed down and the coffin taken
to the chapel of the cemetery to await burial.
Next day, just before the time fixed for the
interment an old woman who was passing
heard sti1ed cries proceeding from the in
terror OF the chapel and tried TO find the
guardian, but he was not at his post Then
she warned the family, who broke open the
tacle, as the result Of the desperate efforts of
the woman who had recovered from state
OF syncopel to release herself from her terri
BILE position. The inhabitants of the village
were enraged at both the doctor and the
guardian of the chapel, and the aid of the po-
lice has had to be called upon to protect
them.
AS the tunic came to be worn tight and
close-itting, says Scribner's, an important
change occurred in its general cut. 1t is hard
to get into a tight tunic, unless it be very
elastic-harder yet to struggle out of it. To
facilitate these processes it has always been
necessary, when the tunic was high in the
neck, to cut IL open for little way down the
front, and to fasten together the opening
thus made with buttons But when tunlcs
came to be worn very tight, about the time Of
the Renaissance, the opening was extended
to the very bottom of the tuntc. After awhile
it became the fashion to leave the tight outer
tunic altogether unbuttOned. except in cold
weather. Thus the garment which had been
worn from the earliest times and called by a
hundred different names, such as chiffon, tn
MICA, Gotta without any change Of general
character, suffered its first essential modih-
cation and became the modern coat. The
same garment when short is the
jacket; when short and sleeveless the waist
coat.
Uncle Jerry Rusk's mistake in getting the
ames of toadstoos and mushrooms mixed up
n one Of his annual reports has been outdone
by the minister Of agriculture OF France, says
the Boston Herald. Owing to the dearth of
fodder for the horses and cattle, caused by
the prolonged drought the minister issued
circulars which have been posted in every
town and village of France, recommending
the farmers and peaSantry to make use of the
foliage and boughs of certain trees as a sub
Stitute for the customary food of the live
stock. Among the trees mentioned as par
ticularly adapted to this purpose is the acacia.
Now it is well known to everyone who has the
slightest knowledge of forestry that the bark
of the acacia contains the most virulent
poison and the result has feen that from all
parts of the country are coming complaints-Of
cattle and horses haV ng succumbed to the
effects OF eating the foliage of the acacia. The
war office has been notified of an entire
squadron of cavalry regiment being dis
mounted near Dion, owing to the loss of their
horses by this cause.
A process has been devised by some ingen-
ious Frenchman, whereby glass may be Sc
curely soldered to metals. 1t is said to be
exceedingly valuable from its simplicity and
the many important uses to which it NAV be
put The portion of the glass tube or other
article that is to be soldered is first covered
with a thin layer of platinum. This deposit
is obtained by brushing over the slightly
heated glass a very natural chloride of plati-
num- mixed with essential oil of chamomile
The latter is slowly evaporated, and when the
white and odoriferOus vapors cease to be
given of the tenn ecature is raised to red
heat; the platinum is then reduced and covers
the tube with layer OF bright metal. Plac-
ing the metalized tube in a bath of sulphate
OF copper. and connecting the tube to the
negative pole of a battery of suitable energy
there is deposited on the platinum ring of
copper which will be malleable and very ad-
hesive If the operation has been properly
performed In this state the glass tube top
ped with copper can be treated like a genuine
metallic tube and soldered to iron copper
bronze, platinum or any other metal that can
be united with the solder.
The Chicago street cleaning department
seems to have successfully solved the prob
lem of economical disposition of garbage,
with their peripatetic garbage crematory. A
careful test Of the machine was made the
other day. and according to the report of it in
a Chicago paper 1t was triumphantly success
like one of the tar-boilers seen upon the
streets, with short Smokestack on top, and
fire box beneath. A door at the rear allows
the paper, wood and other easily combustible
material to be thrown upon the fire and i'm
mediately burned. On the top near the rear
is funnel-shaped receptacle into which the
garbage proper is thrown. This Sits down
upon a CRATE. where it is dried. 1t is then
pushed into the fire, This machine kept six
men shoveling garbage into 1t as fast as they
could work. Two men went ahead of it and
tipped over the garbage boxes, then sorted
out the combustible material proper. Four
others ran the machine and dumped the garb-
age into the fire. So rapid was the combus-
ton that the horses attached to this perambu-
lating crematory seldom stopped Superin-
tendent Welles watched il ten minutes, and
in that time it consumed the material which
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