The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Democrat. After the silver pieces are coined
| a small number are examined and weighed by
| the supervisors ONCE before the lot IS re-
| ceiyed. Then two pieces are sent on to the d.
rector at Washington, by whom they are
| weighed. Out of a lot of 5000 10-cent silver
! pieces recently coined in this city Supervisor
| Smith failed to draw from the lot any that
was not 10 the requirements IN every way, ana
| accordingly drew out of the lot two more
| dimes, and then sent them to Washington
| There one Of them was found to be sixteen
| one-hundredths OF grain light, of which fact
/ DR.. Smyth was accordingly notified. This
necesSitated the reweighing of the whole lot
1 IN which only dozen or so were found not to
| be in compliance with the weight regulations
Boston is in state of mind over the ap-
| pearance on her streets of a number of prom
| inent ladies arrayed in a wide departure
| from the conventional feminine costume Of
| the day. There are said to be at least a dozen
| of the advanced thinkers of the female sex
/ VINO nave appeared In public In the new cos
| tune which they have determined to adopt.
| The things might be called "bloomers'' or
| divided skirts, but they are simply pants,
| cut very full and gathered at the ankle, but
| still pants Among the more prominent peo-
| pie who have appeared in these garments are
| Mrs. B. O. Flower, wife of the editor of the
| Arena, and Miss Laura Lee a prominent
artist. Both have been shopping in their
| Syrian trousers, and they call them by that
| name. They both say that their unique attire
| has caused them no other annoyance but to
J be stared at They like 1t and mean to stick
/ to it.
| A case of radical displacement of the heart,
and the patient still alive and able to do
! good day S work, is causing much stir in med
| ical circles in this state, says a san
| Antonio Tex dispatch About year ago A.
| L. kinsley. young druggist of Waco, Tex,
became afflicted with pleurisy and as the dis
| ease progressed his heart was forced from
| the left to the right side and it is now stu
| ated on the extreme right side of the body,
| and so near the surface that the pulSatiOns
| are remarkably strong. The pressure of the
1 o.
! shortness of breath. but otherwise k1nsley
| suffers no inconvenience. He recovered from
| the attack OF pleurisy eight months ago, but
| the heart still remains on the right side. he
| has been examined by many physicians and
| his case is tho only one known in the history
| of medical science Mr.. Klnsley IS now en-
| ployed in drug store.
Nine. Vincent, prolific writer on historical
themes, has recently completed sketch of
| Napoleon Bonapartes matchmaking proclivi-
| ties. According to her researches, il would
seem that the general was the greatest match
| maker that ever lived. After repeated refus-
| ais the doughty little soldier himself finally
| won the hand of Josephine, and devoted his
| matrimonial instincts to the affairs of others
No excuse was admitted from bachelor. TO
| officers who pleaded that they might be killed
| in battle he answered, THE more reason for
| haste" To those who urged that they could
not find wife. BE that my care" he said
| and the same evening the affair would be ar
| ranged. The poor received dowries and trOus-
seaux. One day by decree the emperor mar
| ried of 5000 soldiers at once. Another day
| his great court dignitaries were obliged en-
masse to marry. While the general was still
| in his apprenticeship one might have day
| in which to fall in love and court his bride of
| Napoleon'S selection, but later there was no
question of night for reflection or an hour
| for wooing. No sooner thought than said; no
sooner said than done
Naturalists have generally deemed it i'm
possible to keep truly migratory British
| bird through the winter saws a writer in the
/ Tom Tor thn los fK4yfN
| however, a bird lover in Norfolk has sue
ceeded in rearing several nightingales during
| the time of the absence OF the species from
| England. He confined them In cages, but
! found that when the migration fever came
| upon them they invariably beat their heads
| to pieces against the top of the cage and died
| miSerably. Determined not to be vanquiShed,
| he hit upon the plan of suspending a ceiling,
as 1t were, of linen tightly stretched under
| the top of the cages The birds knocked
| themselves against this innOcuouSly, so that
| in 1882 he succeeded in saving three
| throughout the winter; but this last winter he
| only possessed one. 1t. however, lived
| through the cold weather when the rest of its
| kith and kin were far absent in Egypt and
| Arabia. This is an interesting item of bird
| news, as showing that the longing to migrate
| in a bird is actually a fever in the blood,
which works itself off in fortnight or so if
| the bird be unable by stDess OF circumstances
to leave the country with its congeners.
Wooden money, in the shape of exchequer
tallies, was, prior to the establishment of the
| Bank of England in 1894, current in this coun-
/ try, says London Tit-Bits. Tallies was the
| name given to the notched sticks formerly in
| use in England for keeping the accounts in
! the eXchequer. They were square rods of
| hazel or willow, inscribed on one side with
| nOtches indicating the sum for which the
tally was an acknowledgment. and on two
other sides with the same sum in Roman
characters. When the transaction was com
pleted the tally recording it was split length
wise. so that each section contained a half of
each notch and one of the written sides One
half, called the tally or check, was given to
the person for whose service il was intended:
the other half, called the counter tally was
retained in the eXchequer until its CORE
spending tally should be brought in by the
person who had last given value for it, 1t
thus became current token representing
cash. After the establishment of the Bank of
England. government payments were made
through its agency. The use of tallies in the
exchequer was abolished by statute %, George
! III. The old tallies were, by the act I and s.
William ", ordered to be destroyed, and it
was burning them that caused the confiagra-
ton by which the old houses of parliament
! were demolished.
Experts seem to be divided as to which Of
the two hard woods-jarrah and karri--of
western Australia is the more durable saws
| the Chicago Times Jarrah wood piles two
feet two inches square driven thirty three
years ago at the Largs bay pier, were
found, on examination, to be as sound as the
day they were put in. Some specimens of
karri wood. taken from fence. were recently
been underground for twenty-five years, it
was perfectly sound. specimen of iarrah
wood, under similar circumstances showed
serious decay. Timber Of the tamarisk or
shittim wood has been found perfectly sound
in the ancient temples of Egypt in connection
with stonework which is known to be at least
1000 years old. In some tests
made with small squares of
| various woods buried one inch in the ground
| the following results were obtained Birch
| and aspen decayed in three years, willow and
horse chestnut in four years maple and
| beech in five years, elm, ash. hornbeam and
Lombardy poplar in seven years; oak, Scotch
| fir, Weymouth pine and silver fir decayed to
| q depth of half an inch in seven years. larcb
| juniper and arbor Vita were uniniured at the
expiration of the seven years. The redwood
of California has the quality of being nearly
proof. The root of the brier is the only
wood which does not burn when exposed to
fire. Cocus wood is the hardest known wood:
oak is the strongest. The heaviest British
wood is that of the box tree, which sinks i'm
water. Hornbeam is the strongest and
toughest wood for mechanical use
The strongest American wood is the mt
meg hickory; the most elastic the lamar
oak; the heaviest, the bluewood of Texas In
situations so free from from moisture that we
may practically call them dry the durability
of timber is almost unlimited. The roof Of
Westminster hall is more than $50 years old
In Sterling castle are carvings in oak well
preserved over 800 years of age. Scotch fir
has been found in good condition after a known
use of 300 years, and the trusses of the roof az
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