The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A slgn bearing tho words. Flirting is Pro
/ hiaited" has been placed 90 the entrance az a
/ Germantown PA cemetery.
A prayer book wns found the other day In
/ the stomach of an ostrich that was dissected
/ in London The New York Tribune thinks
/ this would indicate that the big bird is beast
I Of pray.
The executors OF the estate OF tho late Mrs.
! Theresa Fair. Of san Francisco ,ntend to erect
/ 70 her memory in Holy Cross cemetery. San
/ Nateo county. mausoleum 10 cost not less
than $50, 600 The decorations will be very elab-
CRATE
There is an omnibus running IN Glasgow
| the wheels OF which are furnished with pneu-
matte tires. which are protected from injury
by sharp stones or glass by canvas and wire
woye netting. There is no iOlting or larring
and the noise is reduced 10 minimum.
John Varyan, OF Indiana, is probably the
| Oldest legislator III the world, and has the
honor of being the author Of the first law
enabling married women in Indiana to hold
property and make a will. He is in his
ninety-hrst year but is in full possession of
his bodily and mental health. He has voted
for eighteen presidential candidates.
An old programme Of the Harvard COM
mencement exercises for 1901 records that on
that occasion there were oratiOns in Latin.
Greek and Hebrew English poems, forensic
d1sputattOns, collOquial discussions, and dta-
lOgueS on questions OF Jno udy, DeSlQeS q num-
Der of English oratiOns, An account of the
exercises says that the house was crowded
in every quarter, and the circles Of ladies
were brilliant and animating. The perform
anceS were received as the evidence of solid
learning and useful application, and the ap-
plause they met was ludictOus and sincere
There are two classes of people," says
social philosopher in the New York Tribune,
''of whom the world grows little impatient,
the man who take pains to prove things that
QFnn oh lionel frNn Nhn 1aA rNwfVu1
just as hard to prove what is obviously un-
true. You will meet these two classes of
men in every walk of life. The first will
sPeno % NUN Clle IN SAVING, aSseIt WIthou5
two make four, While the second tries to
get the world to listen to him as he soIemnly
declares, There is no honest man who will
deny that two and two make FIVE If we
could eliminate these two classes of wellin-
tentioned men the progress of the world would
be much advanced"
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~ We" " Ulio az vnaV NO iioUh Vi 0Helii-
cal analYsls is available Tor determining the
quality Of vulcanized india-rubber, a series OF
valuable experiments have been mazda nv
Vladimiroff al the st Petershuro TechnicaI
Institute nv which the followin0 concIusions
are arrived at; First. India-rubber should
give no sign of sunarfciai cracting VrbeI Sept
10 an angle Of 1SO deorees after n We boI,1ei az
posure in A closed air hath tn a temneratnre
of 1875 degrees G., the test pieces To he s1x
centimefres thick. second Tuhber that docs
not contain more than half it's y1siobt of me-
taIIfc oxides sbonid stretch 70 Avs tiroes lie
length without breaking: third caoutchonc
free from ali foreign matter eTcent the sIII
pbur used in vulcanizing II should etretcb az
least seven times its length before rTptTre.
fourth. the extension measured immediateIv
after rupture has taken place should NOT ex.
coed 70 per cent Of the original Length of tho
test piece OF rubber, this test piece to be from
VI. 70 W 'We1ve nm Ion tnree en- Woe ana
NAV he determined nv 1oaas,,i 81 @
centage OF ash formed on Incarceration. and
may form the basis for deciding between
different grades OF .ubber for various pur-
poses
A ,,,,ta,, o,,,a. ,o. a.. ,-.,. $500
n ii'AAHs 0APoiU oonU W IuVesOlsaGe Sohe
Arizona properties Tor some Denver capital
lists recently, returned and reports the find
ing of a most remarkable natural bridge
formed by tree of agatized wood spanning a
canon forty feet in width The tree has nj
some remote time fallen, when It became
tmbedded in the silt of some great inland sea
or mighty water overflow The, silt BECAME
in time sandstone, and the wood gradually
passed through the stages of naturalization
until It is now a wonderful tree of solid AGATE
In after wears water washed and ate awoT the
sandstone until a canon forty.fye feet
in width has been formed the
flinty-like substance Of the aoatize6
wood having resisted the erosion Of the water
flow Fully 80 feet of the tree rests on one
side and can be traced but how far it's other
end lies buried in the sandstone cannot he
determined without blasting away the rock
The trunk Visible above the canon varies in
size from four feet to three feet In diameter
Where the bark has Eeen broken and torn
away the characteristic colors of iasper and
agate are seen. To the naked eve the wood
is beautiful Under a micrOscODe' or rniner's
iinaghlIylng glass the brlIllancy OF the color
dr6nS boontvS oi0us ~ ou' III al 'IolI "on
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nc OoilIololi o0'"eeh 'ne Nlctorla ana the
Gam perooWh mas directed attention toward
the use of cellulOse on war vessels as a water
excluding substance and its volue in casa of
such accidents Naval eynerts maintain that
its use on the Victoria wonld NOT have saved
the shin. but might have assisted her 10 re-
main ahoat possibly n few minutes longer
| The Victoria was without this Tnater1a1 ana
| even had she cofferdarns running 10 the how
! of the vessel where her belt left of and
| where the blow was struck IL is moi believed
/ il would have availed in keeDing her afoat
| Naval Constructor Hichb6rn II 8 n
| states he is confident that nothing known in
| naval construction could have prevented the
! vessel from going down. and that ali the eel
| lulose and water-tfpbt commandments
| whether longitudinal or atbyTortshins'
| ever invented would NOT have
prevented the sinking. Advocates NJ The
| celluloSe have never held that il would nre
| vent a shin from sinking when the bIow Was
| &C IT, ~, a.. IL -