The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-11
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| TIE Lotus Club of New York will give din
ner to Mayor Gilroy on Saturday eve ming
! Jan. IA.
| A COUSIN Of the late Baron Renach. the inter-
medary in the Panama canal corruption, said
| of him that outside the family circle he did
not know the difference between right and
| wrong and that his greed for money was in
satiable.
Nor long ago the inhabitants Of the town of
Salt, in Sardinia, petitioned the Austrian gov
| eminent for separate municipal existence.
| IL oeinE part OF Buddeso which is forty miles
! away, a commissioner was sent to make inqui-
| ries, and this remarkable report was made
the people OF Salt have no town council,
no police, no clergyman, no physician. The
/ town possesses no post office, no church or
chapel, no school, no registrars office. On the
| maps of the kingdom, although it contains
| l.SOO Inhabitants, it is not marked. Yet the
| state receives taxes from the people, but sends
| no tax collector to receive them. The tax
| payers journey sixty kilometres once in every
! eight weeks to pay taxes. Once a year, in May
| all the children born during the year are taken
| TO Buddeso and there baptised The dead are
| buried in the most primitive manner and with
| out any trace OF religious rites. Marriages are
conducted on the same system, without any
| formalty or ceremony, and are declared later
| sometimes long after they have been blessed
| with ISSUE Vaccination and medicines are only
| known from hearsay. The children grow up
without schooling or instruction OF any kind
D. JoNEsco has compiled statistics concern
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riveS at the 70 lowing interesting conclusions
which are given in the last issue OF the
| Electrical World. It has been supposed for a
| long time that certain kinds Of trees are par
ticuarly subject to destruction by lightning
| while Others are quite free from danger.
| Among the first is the oak and among the lat
| ter the laurel. An investigation Of this state
| ment led that writer TO the following con-
| cluslon; AT very high potential of electrical
discharges all kinds of trees may BE- subject to
destruction from lightning. Trees containing
| oils are less subject to be struck, those con-
| tanning very much oil being protected the
| most Lightning appears to prefer those trees
| which contain oil to a slight degree only in
summer. The quantity of water contained in
the trees has no effect on their liability to be-
| Ing struck. Dead limbs OF trees, OF those con-
tanning starch as well as OF those containing OIL
| are particularly subject to being struck. Cam
| blum, bark and leaves do not alter the con-
| ductivity Of trees. The nature Of the soil has
no connection with the frequency of destruc-
| tion OF the trees by lightning"
| GRANITE for columns, balustsrs. round posts
and urns is now worked chiefly in lathes, which.
! for the heaviest work, are nada large enough to
| handle books rs feet long and feet in dame
| ter, says the WGUerlv Magazine. Instead of
| being turned to the desired size by sharp-cut-
| ting instruments as in ordinary machines for
turning wood and metal, granite is turned or
| ground away By the wedge-like action of rather
| thick steel disks rotated by the pressure of the
| stone as it slowly turns in the lathe The disks
| which are six or eight inches in diameter, are
| move with on automatic carriage along
| the lathe bed. Large lathes have four
| disks, two on each side, and column may
| be reduced some two inches in diameter the
| whole length of the stone by one lateral move =
mont of the carriage along the bed The first
lathe for turning granite cut only cylindrical or
| conical columns. but an improved form Is so
| made that templets or patterns may be inserted
| TO guide the carriages, ana columns having any
| desired swell may be as readily turned For
| fine grinding and polishing the granite is trans.
/ fArral 10 anOthar iafha yxhpFa fna L.
| chinery used is to produce q simple turning or
| revolution of the stone against iron blocks car
| rytng the necessary grinding or polishing ma.
terisl.
soxE time ago there was a movement inaug-
| urated in Paris to establish drug stores where
drugs could be had at q small advance over the
cost price. This did not suit the established
druggists, and their opposition has several
times gone as far as rioting in some of the new
establishments. This state of affairs has
| brought out some very interesting statements
as to the profits made by the old time drug
gists. With them, it appears fixed prices are
unknown and the profits may vary between
| 80 per cent. and several thousands per cent
according to the kind of goods sold, or the
presumed social position OF the purchaser
Antpyrine costs at Wholesale 100 francs rer
tnno aGn 70. while the retail price varies
Donate Of soda costs 10 confines. and ia sold
for francs, francs and more; bromide of
potassium is francs to the dealer, and IS
also l6 francs to the public, although it costs
only francs 25 confines; sulphate Of duipiue
is 20 francs or thereab uts, but by the time the
public get it it is $50 francs. Prescriptions
| yield, OF course, even more profit No charge
| less than ~ franc is made, even if rhe bottle
| contains nothing but distilled water OF course
| such extortion is unknown on this side of the
| Atlantic says the New Orleans PicdyLne
| though it is very costly thing TO be sick. even
here.
SOME time ago the suggestion was made in
one Of the London newspapers that a society
should be formed to suppress the growing evil
and scandal of street profanity, says London
cablegram. It was generally admitted that
| English towns were dsgracefully pre-eminept
In the matter of cursing and swearing in public
places, and that English street loafers possessed
| probably the foueSt mouths in all christendon
The proposal came TO nothing for various rea-
cons, one OF which wSs that it would be as IN.
popular and dangerous TO interfere with the
English workman privilege to curse whenever
he felt that way inclined as to NEEDLE with his
right to get drunk. This week it has been
tardily discovered that the statute book act
ually contains an act. passed in the reign OF
ami the law vas put in force on last Wednesday
at Wisbeach. The act is delightfully."- unpre-
! hensi e, the only defect being the absence Of A
| schedule OF oaths and an appraisement of their
posed according to the social position of or
| lenders The scale Is smiling per oath when
uttered by labOrer. 2 shillings when the sinner
is above a lsborer and under the degree of A
| gentleman and shillings when spoken by anv
one above the degrees of gentleman The
| punishment is applicable whether the ofYense
| be committed in the public streets or in a
mans own house. which seems somewhat
restrictive OF the liberty Of the subject and
opens up possibilities OF domestic complica.
| tons. The Wsbeacl case, however, was per-
| fectly simple. The prisoner uttered four wicked
words in a public street. and being a mere
| 10 hd yUa 10 nav