The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Fish Commissioner Follett OF Connecticut,
F according 20 the Norwich Bulletin. found out
definitely that trout will not thrive-indeed,
will not liye-in ponds where the temperature
OF the water gets as high as 70. That degree
4 is reached. in summer. in many trout ponds
In Connecticut that have been made with
/ great care and at some expense, and the
/ owners have been puzzled to account for the
I failure OF the trout. In a running brook, tle
/ trout can stand, for little while, tempera-
/ ture OF 10, though probably the water in most
I brooks does not attain that temperature, for
/ in running brook not only is space OF such
/ tepld water likely TO be quickly replaced by
/ cooler but the trout can at Will 90 10 the
4 spring holes and cooler places which natu-
rally suit him A temperature at 5O' does
/ very well for a trOdt; but he can stand the
| tepid water of summer, in even the clearest
| and most carefully made artificial pond when
/ the temperature Of the water reaches 70.
The London Graphic gives some interesting
/ pictures from the hotbeds Of Asiatic cholera
in the great HindoO bathing festival, at the
/ confluence of the Ganges and Jumna rivers,
at Allahabad. The festival takes place ear
/ her in the year than this and lasts about six
| weeks. Further IL is often visited by about
100000 pilgrims from all parts of India. Not
few are on their way for weeks, and the
| whole Of the main roads leading to this point
/ literally swarm with pilgrims. One little de-
tail is significant. There are 1000 BARRIERS
! busy at work in special Enclosure from
| morning to night shaving the heads of men,
| women and children after bathing and dress
| ing their hair. OF buildings there are none in
| the neighborhood of the bathing places save
/ the fort. and the people therefore erect tenn
| porary huts of reeds and grass in which they
encamp.
The paper bottle works at Glassboro, n.
j., have shut down and it is rumored that OPP
| erations will not be resumed. This establish
ment is the only one Of its kind in America,
| and with the closing of the doors unique
| industry will be abandoned. Paper bottles
| are comparatively a recent invention and
| their market is limited principally TO two
| ounce ink bottles. The company was in
duced to locate in Glassboro about two years
ago, and, although the trade was small at the
| start, II gradually increased and the manu-
| facturers confidently expected that the bot
| ties would find a wider field for use when
| they became more extensively known. They
| are largely used in export trade, where duties
are levied according to gross weight as they
only weigh one-third as much as glass and
| are non breakable. The bottles are made by
| machinery and but little hand labor is re-
| Qutred in their manufacture Dr. l.. H.
| Thomas, Chicago ink manufacturer, began
| some years ago to experiment, first making
wooden bottles and afterward paper bottles
lined with a water proof composition. The
present company secured the patent from DR..
| Thomas and set up an establishment to place
| the bottles on open market.
No one who has ever stayed at a Chinese
hotel, says a London paper, is likely to forget
his experience. They are all built on the
same plan--a large court yard, around the
four sides of which are built rows of small
| rooms, the restaurant and office being in
| front. The buildings are built of sun-dried
/ bricks, and are usually in the last stages of
| dilapidat1on. Each small room contains a
| brick bed in which fire can be lighted for
warmth in winter. There is no furniture but
a rough chair and perhaps a table while the
windows are nothing but frames covered with
paper. The average Chinese inn is usually a
menagerie and geological garden combined.
4 In the yard can be seen and heard mules,
! UOQkeES. dogs cats. fowls of all kinds nigS
and camels, while in the rooms where the
weary traveller is supposed to rest is also a
rich variety Of the scorpion and at times a
small variety of the centipede, often taking
singing measures to repel any attempts at
friendship. The chief glory, however, OF the
inn is the waiter. This important functionary
in China has that patronizing air which dis
tlnguishes his confreres of the profession in
other countries. The inevitable napkin al
ways accompanies him. With IL in summer
he mOpS his sweating brow or bare shoulders,
while in winter, wrapped around his head, it
protects him from rain and wind At all sea
sons Of the year it is the only article he has
vi which to clean tables and chop. sticks.
Chlnese landlords are reasonable in their
charges, which to some degree offsets the
unpleasantness of living in their inns.
Mr.. Lawson TAFT, the well-known medical
speeiahsRof Birmingham, England, writes an
interesting letter, in which he brackets THE
Use Of Alcohol and the Plague OF Wasps."
Mr.. TAFT says Il have been fully persuaded
|
as full of responsibility as we'll could be, that
the moderate use of alcohol is a necessity in
our modern life. The second is that for the
treatment of disease alcohol is OF very little
use, and what is said on the subject by doc
tors to the contrary may be entirely dis
counted. Every man of mature years
IS doctor enough for himself to know
whether IN moderation alcohol is
Of use to him or not, and his
neighbors will soon judge for him in the mat
ter OF It's 1mmoderate use. What doctors say
nj n Flarav
often lied about by their patients and My
| doctor ordered me- is very frequently a quite
mendaclous statement. l have on my desk
| as write a letter to which there is a name
| but unfortunately no address blaming me in
! very strong language for making friend of
| the writer drunkard by advising her TO
orlnk spirits l never gave woman such ad-
| vice in my life, and l don't think anyone
| ought to give 1t. But to come to alcohol and
WaSpS The argument against all and every
| use OF alcohol which we used to hear much of
| years ago was based on the statement that it
| was not product of nature, and not used in
any natural condition. The argument itself
is very unsafe one, even if the premises
| were correct but they are not,
and the plague of wasps has proved it.
have been watching the wasps with
great interest and have noticed the avldity
| with which they attack certain fruit when
fully ripe, rotting, in fact, and l have also
noticed some OF the peculiar results of their
! doing So The sugar in some fruits which
are most attacked by waSps has a tendency
( ordinary process Of rOtting, a fact which is
| easily ascertained by the use of still not
| large enough to attract the attention of the
| Excise authorities. On such fruits Darti-
| cularly grapes and certain plums YOU will
| see WaSps pushing and fighting in numbers
| much larger than can be accommodated
and you will see them get very drunk crawl
! away In semi somnolent condition. and re-
| pose In the grass for some time
| I'll! they get over the bout. and then they
| wllIgo at 1t again. 1t is while they are thus
affected that they do their worst in
| singing, sboth in the virudlent nature
| or the stroke and the utterly unproyoked
! assaults Of which they are guilty I was
| stung last year by drunken wasp and suf-
| Tered severely from symptoms of nerve pois-
| on Tor several days. In such drunken pecu.
| iiafitieS they resemble their human CON
! temporaries. 1t is evident therefore that
| those who use the argument about alcohol to
| which have objected must give il up: the
| more that we know that there are CERTAIN
| plants (orchids) whose cross fertilization is
| secured by regular system of public houses
| IN which bees are made drunk for with.
| out 1nebrlattoa the bees would not go through
| the antics by which alone the orchids can he
| feruhzed. L am quite sure however
| that our tetoOtal friends will de-
| rive arguments enough and awfnl
| examples quite sufficient from drunken
| wasps without the use of the argument I have
| disposed Of. l can furnish them with one
| Having found out how fond they were of alec.
| hol l provided them very abundantlv with
| free pubs with swing doors and unlimited
| beer and now we live in comparative comfort