The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ USED only IN the body OF the texture. and not
! on the upper surface 1t is said that 30 per
cent. of carpet may be made of paper with
/ out customer suspecting it.
| A steel barge has recently been tried on the
Ohio river, in the coal traffic this being the
first experiment in that line. AS a wooden
| vessel costs only 1880 or 81 400 and steel
/ one OF the same dimensions about So 5OO or
| 5000, there would be no economy unless the
| latter would last longer: but il Is believed
that II Will last about three times as long, and
| VII not need any repairs during the first half
| OF It's lifetime. A wooden barge after each
| trip may need repairs to any amount, and
| always must be caulked, at a cost OF from $50
| 10 SO. The most important advantag 9
| claimed for the steel barge is that it does
! away with pumping, which is a constant ana
large expense to the coal trade,
The Presbyterian church in Paris has
emerged victorious from protracted legal
conflict with the city authorities. The French
law gives Christian sects a grant from the
state IN proportion to their members, and in
view OF the nigh cost OF living IN the capita,
an extra sum is allowed to ministers of reli-
glon residing N Paris for their lodging ex-
penses. The project Of The seine refused to
honor the draft of the Presbyterian consist
ory on the ground that the balance sheet did
not prove its necessity. The church con-
Tended that such condition was never con-
templated by the law, and after eXhausting
every legal process the city has been com
PEELED TO pay the sum Of 173,00o francs year,
together with arrears
People often wonder why hen does not
fall off her perch when she goes to sleep.
The fact is, she cannot. AS long as a hen
is standing up or walking about the ten
dons OF her toes are relaxed, but by very
curious arrangement, natural mechanical
grip. the moment she sits down on her
perch the act of bending the kneejo1nt
tlghtens the toe SIneWs and they are drawn
taut, thus clasping the foot around the perch
with a vise-like clutch. She can only loosen
1t by rising. and that is the reason why a hen
or bird that has been frozen to death is found
nrmly hxed on the perch. Hens or birds
that die IN commissions stand up or try to
fly, and so fall. but a bird that has been
frozen slowly to death remains on the perch
Says the Pail Mall Budget: Wynn Moles-
worth has invented and constructed very
ingenious celestial clock" The entire face
OF the clock rotateS under wire bar, repre-
lated to perform one revolution In % hours
% minutes and seconds, this being the time
IN II, which the earth turns once upon its axis.
The apparent annual motion of sun, moon
and planets in the opposite direction is
effected by movable pins, while the north and
south polar stars. that do not rise or set for
US, revolve simultaneously with the rest by a
separate movement. Thus may be seen the
entire heavens with sun, moon, planets and
consultations in their actual places ever
rising and setting as they rise and set in the
heavens.
The first white person lawfully cremated
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according to wishes and desires expressed by
himself, was Col. Henry Laurens. one Of the
revolutionary patriots. saws the ST. Louis Re-
public. He was born in Charleston, S. C., in
the year 1924, and died on his plantation near
that place on Dec. s, 1892. His will which he
he had requested them to open and read the
next day after his death, was supplimente
with the following II solemnly enjoin il
upon my son, as an Indispensable duty. that.
as soon as he conveniently can after my de-
cease, he cause my body to be wrapped in
twelve yards of tow cloth and burned until it
De entirely consumed" The request was car
ried out to the letter and was the beginning
OF cremation in America.
Dogs in Belgium, it appears, from a rather
singular case that has just been heard before
the law-courts Of that country, are raised to
the dignity OF passengers, If their owners
choose to take them into railway carriage
with themselves, says the London Standard
The point on which opinions differed has lust
been settled, the question brought under the
notice OF the law courts being whether a dog
whose master has duly taken a ticket for
him is entitled to a seat, or whether his
rights be limited to a place on the floor
OF the compartment, at the feet of the
human occupants. A sportsman, we read
was not long ago travelling in Bel
GUM with his dog, fine retriever, whose
+ place had been paid for. However, in spite
| OF this, there being at station on the line no
| room for traveller, railway employee
| turned the dog off his seat Probably the dog s
| feelings were not hurt, but his master pro-
| bbSJ6u Indignantly. anu subsequently dp-
| pealed to the administration of the state rail
| ways for decision on the subject. II has
been given. and is in favor of the dog. it being
| decreed that he is as much entitled to a seat
as his master, and that where compartment
| has room for ten passengers and there hap
| pen to be five men and five dogs therein, it
| must be considered as full, tickets OF course
| being taken for the dogs.
A story comes by mail from the far East and
tells one more of the wonderful things which
J IN rub bsaxy I,air u
great waters, says the New York Tribune
| The story concerns the big four-masted iron
! ship Lucipara. She halls from Glasgow, and
recently made voyage from Sharpness to
Sydney, N ). w. While sailing along he
tween the Cape of Good Hope and Australia.
| the ship ran into q hurricane, or was over
! taken by one about midnight. Suddenly the
| sea, which had been dangerously high, be-
came calm and to those on the ship it seemed
| as II the surface of the ocean had been SUP
Jected to an enormous pressure, by which the
waves were stilled Without warning the
men were almost blinded by a sheet of flame
which enveloped the ship from stern to stern
and reached half way up the masts.
| IhlS wave Of flame Surged back and forth
fore and aft, for few seconds. and was then
snuffed out as suddenly as it bad appeared.
leaving captain and crew cropping about in
extremely painful to the eyes. but caused no
damage either to the men or to the shin
Capt Witt said it was his first experience of
the kind and he hoped it would be the last.
Even in things so slight as corns, saws the
Youths Companion, we may find ample illus.
tration of the laws of cause and effect upon
| which disease is dependent The first change
| consequent upon an irritation of the surface
! OIL the foot is perceptble increase IN the =,
amount OF blood supplied to the part This
| Snce there Is no rupture of the surface re-
| suits in undue activity Of the tissue changes
| OF the epldermis, and we have thickenine of
| the superficial parts of the skin. 1t is obyious
| that this only aggravates the difficulty mas.
| much as the danger of irritation is greater in
| a raised condition Of the skin than when the
| surface IS fiat. 1t is now that the painful
| period In the growth of a corn begins. The
| deeper layers OF the skin in their turn undergo
| precisely the same operation of excessive ac-
| tlVlty and the consequent thickeniug of the
| tissue AS corns usually make their appear
ance over Joints, no cushion is afforded nv soft
! TISSUES beneath them, on which the swell
| ing may rest On the contrary the deener
and sensitive portion Of the corn is caught
ana squeezed, as 1t were, between two hard
| plates the thlckened epidermis on one side
and the surface of the bone on the other. The
increased activity continues, however and
with it the pain and dlscomfortis estabI1sbed
which is significant OF the fully deyeIoned
corn. The appearance of a corn when a Ver
teal section of it Is made, shows us as might
be expected, the button-shaped callous rest
ing upon the cOncave surface of the deener
growth, which 1T has followed out by its own
pressure. This constitutes the core" of the
corn The treatment OF corns NAV be gath
cred from what we have learned of the growth
and consists solely in keeping the Gallons soft
and restricting the activity of the tissue
changes. 1t Is obvious that the Irritation