The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| IN CONSEQUENCE OF movement inaugurated
| by the editor Of the amateur Photographer, it
was officially announced on Oct. 90. by the
official photographer OF the worlds Columbian
exposition, O. ID. Arnold, that on and after that
date hand Gamer as using plates up 70 and IN
Guiding 4x5 inches. without tripods, will be al
lowed within the grounds OF the world 8
Columbian exposition on payment Of fee OF 81
in addition TO the regular price OF admission for
each day. Cameras using stereoscopic lenses
will not be admitted. however small the plate
may be-"
INRoME, according to the Scientific american,
eighty-two miles of new streets yielded the fol-
lowing "dugups': COS amphore, 1850 terra
Gotta lamps. 1924 inscriptions on marble. ~
columns rare marble. 313 pieces of columns l57
marble capitals. 1i8 bases, $50 works of art in
terra Gotta, $40 works OF art in bronze, I'll in
taglios and canoes, Is marble sarcophag l52
bass reliefs, 1872 marble statues q marble figures
of ANNALS 266 busts and heads, 81 pictures in
polychrome- mosaic. AZ objects OF gold, SO OBJ
jects OF silver, So 67o coins Even this astonish-
ing list does not cover everything, but embraces
only those objects which were worthy OF
place in the museum.
ONE Of the worst occupations in former days.
says the Baltimore Sun, was file cutting, until
Charles Reade. in one of his clever novels, drew
attention to the brutality which compelled men
to breathe polluted atmosphere and work
hard under the slow effects of lead poisoning.
At that time files were cut by being set In
leaden plates hardened with arsenic and anti
mony and the worker breathed not merely the
minute chips of steel which his chisel struck
out, but also the still more minute and poison
Gus particles OF the metal which made the bed.
Happily invention has come to the aid OF the
file workers and few files are now cut bv hand,
and the few handmade files now cut are made
in we'll ventilated rooms.
COMMENCEMENT has been made In En- gland
within a comparatively recent period, upon the
manufacture of what is regarded as an impor-
tant new fabric, that is, an inexpensive weft
pile plush, with either single pile or pile on both
sides. reversible pills plush has in time past
been made in the factories of Germany, with
hand looms at the rate of some SIX yards TO she
loom per week; but by means OF the newly con.
trved apparatus which has been devised by
Bradford manufacturer and eau be fixed to or
binary dress and coating looms, it is said to
operate at seven times the speed ofthe German
hand loom and to make GOODS at an equal
quality at O less price, The new goods have
weft pile, and consequently a very much
| cheaper yarn can be used.
FACTORY for the manufacture of petrifed
human corpseS has, it is alleged, been discovered
in Fresno Cal. At least four petrif1ed people
| are said to have been manu- featured and shipped
to museums from this place. 1t may be re-
membered that petrif1ed man created con-
siderable talk in Utah last fall, and that reports
of the curiosity were printed in eastern papers.
| The thing was seen by natural history experts
and pronounced fraud, out it netted consider
able money for the miners" who discovered
| it. The objects were very carefully made, the
| bones of the arms and legs being followed out
| and in one case one arm and foot was broken
off to show the internal structure The fake
| factory, It is said, stole genuine mummit1ed
| man. a dried body found the plains. from
| the health officer of Fresno, fixed it up little
| and shipped il to museum in the east.
ZONE of the apparently mysterious incidents
| OF this climate" says a well-known physician
| to St. Louis ReDublfc writer lis the widespread
existence Of tapeworms. You needn't laugh.
It's very serious matter, and you would be as
! tonished to learn of the many cases now in
| charge Of st. Louis physicians. What creates
| them? Well, the climate has nothing to DO
with tits the diet. The commonest produc-
ers of these foreign reptiles are milk, half
| cooked rabbits and snipe. Raw or exceedingly
| rare meat will often result in the creation Of
these disorders. And the tapeworm produces
| the most contrary and opposing conditions
| One patient will eat abnormally and be always
I hungry, while another will starve and waste
| away to a skeleton, having no appetite what
| ever. The worm does not feed directly upon
the food taken int the stomach. Our food, as
| everybody ought to know, is transformed by
| the acids and alkalis OF the stomach into the
blood which flows through our veins. The
| worm intervenes between the stomach and
! veins and absorbs the incipient blood produced
by the action OF the stomach. That results in
failing health and weakening of all The It's
| sues. The curef Well, there are number of
them, but the nearest to q specific thus far dis
covered is turpentne, but know Of at least
| one specialist who is coming money with a
|
| tapeworm case is not properly diagnosed ct
the early stage, and the patient is too often
wasted away before the real condition is learned
and the remedy applied"
THE British museum has been enriched by O
remarkable gray granite shrine from the Island
of Phile, south Of the first cataract, in Upper
Egypt, presented by the Egyptia government
says the London Standard. This relic was
originally in the great temple there, visited by
Strabo, who says that he saw on q shrine bird
which the priest called hawk, but, he adds, It
was larger than and different from the native
hawks, and had distinguishing plumsge. TIE
Bird too, was sick and nearly dead. There is
no absolute proof as yet that this was the very
shrine, but 1t is highly probable, and the holes
sunk in the sides Of the open part would have
served for an iron or bronze bar grating such as
would have been used for the cage Of a large
hawk or eagle. The worship of Egyptian gods
continued al Phse until $50 A. D., or about
seventy years after the edict of Theodusus
when he attempted to abolish the old gods
of the country About that time this
shrine was vas, thrown n &c down w and after,
on its side, was made to form the base of the
altar in the succeeding Coptic church. The
sacred shrine of the old religion was thus EN-
bedded in the chief feature OF the christian
church which followed. 1t is interesting to re-
member that the date Of Strabo was aJout the
/ beginning of the present era. The shrine ia
about ten or eleven feet high, and weighs some
six or seven tons 1t is an exceedingly valuabIs
relic, as there is nothing like it in the British
museum collections. The co.or Of the stone
would seem to Indicate that it had been spe-
cialy brought from some distance as the local
granite. and. indeed. all that rock in the AS
souan district, is red. IL is remarkable too
that tie hieroglyphics are in relief, and not
| sunk, as is usual. The Ptolomies were the great
| builders in the Pnilae Islands, especially the
sec md, fifth and seventh Of those kings; and
| the temple may, therefore, be of some date be.
| tween 800 and $50 b. c., but on these aud other
| interesting points we shall expect some valu
| able information when DR.. Budze, the keeper
| OF { Q department, snail nave had time 20 De.