The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the integrity by which it was established will
be devoted in future to more charitable pur-
poses. Its abolition recalls curious story.
Slr Richard Guyer, seventeenth century
lord mayor, was once travelling with a cara
van IN Arabia, so the tale runs, when he was
attacked by a lion. He fell upon his knees,
and vowed to devote his life TO charity if
spared from the lions jaws. The lion there
upon turned tail. and in pursuance of the vow
thus made, the lion sermon has been regu
IarIy preached on "Providential Mercy
The natural method OF striving to keep up
supply Of food fishes is to find out, as
preliminary how they take care of them
selves in their migTations and what their
nOurlShment is. OF all fish the herring should
be best understood, as it has been the pur-
! suit OF fishermen during centuries. Yet
| there are stlll many mysteries TO solve in its
/ mlgratlOnS. 1t is a well distributed fish IN
/ EurOL can and American waters, both in the
/ Atlantic and Pacific. The Scotch have taken
| to trying disks with bit Of aluminium wire
tothe dOrsal fin, in the hope of following up the
| migrations round the British coasts but thus
| Iar- out OF 5OO thus decorated. not one has
| againSOme into the nets 1t is not impossi-
! Bile that metal disk on the back renders
| them brighter mark for the maws OF their
| enemies. There seems to be no doubt that
| the herring does not fOrsaEe the British
J coasts altogether at any part Of the year.
| The shoals either make tour Of the islands
! or are strictly local They. can always ne
/ caught somewhere north or south. The mi
gratiOns of the herring in san Francisco bay
/ and in the Pacific are deserving of study by
/ out by fishermen, who are eminently practi-
cal in their fishing, like the seafowl.
! One of the most ingenious expedients for
/ overcoming the difficulties of sinking shafts
! for mining or other purposes in wet meas
ures' is the freezing process" says the
! Pittsburg Dispatch Surprising that the
| bottom of the shaft is so continuously hooded
! that the miners are unable to use their picks
| or in any way proceed with the excavation.
/ pipes are run down from the surface TO the
| flooded locality, and through these pipes Is
! forced a powerful freezing mixture. The
| consequence is that the impeding water be-
! comes sOlidihed and the workman can quarry
! his way through the ice, which now becomes
/ a protection from the body of water beyond,
and the sinking of the shaft can be continued.
! A process somewhat akin to this Is the new
| method of grOuting up quicksandS. etc, Of
/ Neukirch Where QuickSands or damp and
unstable strata are encountered, powdered
| cement is forced in by air pressure through
| pipe lowered IN the sand The pipe is about
| Ia inches in diameter, but IS drawn TO point
at its lower end. where there are three open
| ingS, each % Of an inch in diameter The
| upper end Of the pipe is connected to an air
| pressure supply by rubber hose. An in
| jector is provided, to which the cement is fed,
| and meeting with the air blast is driven with
| considerable pressure into the sand. The &C.
! ment is retained by the wet sand. forming
| kind of concrete with it. The introduction of
! the tube is facilitated by the use Of the air
! Jet which clears the sand away from the
/ point Of the tube When the pipe has reached
a firm stratum the cement is turned on and
the pipe slowly raised to the surface
The more ants are studied the more human
like appear their ways, says the Philadelphia
| Ledger Reference has already been made
/ to certain species that carry on agricultural
! pursuits, raising grain planted by the busy
! insect and care for herds OF aphis or ant
| cows, and the investigations made by entO-
/ biologists OF other species are equally IN
tereSting. In Brazil, for instance, are four
| species that seem to be devoted to mushroom
| culture. These ants gather green leaves,
AZ uT frarUAntG
| into a soft. spOngy mass within their nests,
as the foundation of the bed. From this the
/ fungus the ants are fond of grows luxuriantly.
| II other xmas than the one desired spring
/ into being, they are as carefully weeded
out as human gardener would
nOEious weed from his flower beds. some
times the home of these ants contains sew
/ eral mushroom beds, but in all cases a small
/ space is left between each and the outer wall
of the home. When they take journey. the
| ants, 1t is said, carry with them the material
| of the garden, even to the smallest frag-
ments, and rebuild the structure in their new
abode In another part of South America are
six other species Of ants which cultivate muSh-
rooms, but instead of leaves as a bed use
wood, gram or dung -Four species of these
ants cultivate one sort of fungus and the
other two second. II Is stated as a curious
fact that, although these fungi all belong to
one group, the ants. even when hungry, are
found to refuse disdainGully the food Of an
other genus. Even the species Of ants OF the
same genus which cultivate the same species
of fungus, produce by different methods OF
| culture a difference in the nature of their
special food bodies.
Did you ever stop to consider where all the
little things used on railroad come FROM
asks Harper's Young People Where the en-
gineer gets his oil cans and oil and waste, the
| brakeman his flags and lanterns. the station
agent his envelopes and pencils and glass to
| replace broken paneS, the car cleaner his
| brOOmS ana SJonges and soap? The men
might buy all these things themselves, but
that would be very expensive way. for some
! OF the great railroads spend $5.0O0000 year
| for these apparently little things. Every
RAILROAD has an officer called the purchas-
ing agent, who buys all the articles that are
constantly needed. He has nothing to
cars or rails t is only the itte|
things that he has to spend some
times 100000 a year for. On the first OF
| each month the head OF each department and
requlsition upon the purchasing,agent for sup
! plies that they Will need for that month; that
iS,they make out list of the articles and send
1t to headquarters The purchasing agent
looks over these lists, audtts them as il is
called land strikes out some Of the items when
he thinks that too much has Leen asked
| When the list is cut down to what he thinks
Is right he puts his initials upon it and it is
sent to one of the principal officers of the
road VINO also approves 1t. When it comes
| Dack II the purchasing agent approved, he
sends an order to the supply department and
! the goods are shipped to their destination
But this is only one part of the pur-
supply department always has the goods on
hand. He huys oil by the 10000 barrels, rope
by the hundred coils, and paper and envel-
! opeS by the dozen tons. Buying in such large
quantities. ht, OF course, gets his goods much
cheaper than most people can; but he is al
ways watching for still lower prices It
takes smart man to keep the run of the
many kinds Of stationery needed. to say moth
ing OF the other things. One big railroad
uses 10000 different forms of envelopes alone
The variety of things that the purchasing
agent has to buy is shown by two
acquisitions taken at random from
among thousands received by one agent
IN this city this month. One was for three
dozen red globes for signal lanterns $50 bar
relS OF oil. 100 barrels of signal oil 20 gallons
! turpenllne, 10000 seals and wires for sealing
freight cars, | coil OF rope inches in circIlm
| ference, ! dozen brooms. half dozen sponGes
100 pounds OF waste for cleaning chfmnevs
gallons OF soft soap for cleaning caboosSs
4 kegs Of nails, 500 envelopes / 600 paner
clasps, gross OF pens, gross of pencils and
10 yards OF flag bunting. Another re1uisition
from an office in the interior Of New York
state, where there must be great MANY
clerks, called for 10000 large envelopes %
900 small envelopes 500 small pads 5000 let
ter heads, 10 gross of mems
800 application forms 300 monthIv ra Peps'
blanks, 10 gross of pencils 10 gross of cIaSns
100 large sticks Of red sealing wax. 500 heo ~,
manila envelopes, dozen oil cans doze2
lanterns, 10 signal lamps dozen red piofcS
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