The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The worlds tunnels are estimated to num-
! Der about tl42, with total length OF 5l4
miles There are about 1000 railroad tun-
nels, and twelve subaqueous tunnels. having
an aggregate length OF about $50 miles,
seventy miles, eighty i've miles, and nine
respectively.
The Philadelphia Record has found
| chemist who believes that meats Of all kinds
| will eventually be make arti6cally by chem
1cal process Within the century he says,
i expect to see synthetic steaks, Foasts and
chops entered upon the bill Of fare at our
leading hotels and restaurants. and they viii
De prepared so artlStlcally as 10 appeal 10 the
sense OF beauty as we'll as to the appetite
AT hrst, OF course, in order to appeaSe the
natural preludices against anything so
novel choice will be affored between the
real and artificial; but eventually the killing
OF animals for food will be regarded in all
civilized countries as harbarOus. That this
IS not an ABSURD prediction Is well assured TO
those who have observed what synthetic
chemistry has already done in exactly re
producing mustard, sugar, butter. ice lemon
Juice and f1avoring essences, besides nader,
turpentne and many other compounds used
extensively in commerce.
A case was tried in Soegel. Hanover. a few
DAYS ago which is of general interest to Ro-
man Catholics and Free Masons. A business
man OF the town and a member Of the Roman
Catholic church. had been called a Free Ma
son by rival. The former brought suit for
hbel against the rival in the civil courts. The
head OF the town cathedral was summoned as
an expert witness, and testified as follows:
To call another Free Mason per Sc cannot
be defamation of character, as, with the eX-
ceptiOn Of Catholics no confession forbids its
followers to become Free MasonS. But 1t is
defamation for a Catholic to Le called a Free
Mason, hecause the church not only forbids
Its members to be Free Masons. but where
the membership is admitted and is notorious
the person is excluded from the sacrament.
Other members Of the church, therefore, look
with suspicion upon Catholic who pretends
to lie a Free Mason" The court after this
testimony, fined the defendant, and ordered
him to pay the costs of the suit.
A single seed OF the common sweet pea of
the Emily Henderson variety has been known
to produce stalk yielding 1000 flowers per
month during the Towering season, which
generally last from June Is to Oct. l. says the
St Louis Republic. A record of the flowers
cut from row of these peas sixty feet in
! length plants or vines standing a. distance
OF nine inches apart, shows that the trst
| flowers we're plucked on June II and the last
| on Oct 20 Even though badly mated (Which
| made close cutting almost impossible and al.
! lowed many thousand to go to seed, the
| slXty-foot row exhibits the following remark
| able res ord: Flowers removed during June,
! 2O,OOO; July, 1900; August $4,000; September,
| $500; October (up to the evening of the 18th,
| $500. Total, 70 400 AS noted large num-
| Der went to seed, besides the buds that were
! smothered out on account of the vines being
| so badly matted. There is scarcely doubt
| but that the rows would have yielded above
! 100000 flowers during the season mad the CON
| ditions been more favorable.
A man with a perplexed and disguised look
laid his gold watch on the counter Of a jewel
er's showcase on lower Broadway anG COM
| planned that although he had paid to have it
| cleaned within month. it would not keep
| time, saws the New York Mail and Express.
| The clerk asked whether it was not magne-
| tiZed. lie then took little compass as big
| as cuff button and as sensitive as a photog-
! rapher's plate, and passed it over the eX-
| posed works of the watch. The compass,
! like kipllng s, chased its tail like a cat at
| play That showed that the steel in the
| works was magnetiZed, tor otherwise il would
| not set the needle dancing like that Most of
| the big Jewelry stores now have demagnetlz-
| ing plants. The plant consists of little cleo
! trio motor, TOO small for its.potency 10 be ex-
| pressed in horse power 1t may be
! estimated at one cat power. The motor
! is to revolve a machine for reversing
| an electric current a great many
| times a second. AS the machine revolves the
current runs first in one direction and then
| IN the other. And there is coil of wire in
| the form OF cylinder. through which the cur
rent passes first in one direction and then
! in another. Through the center Of the coil
the watch is passed slowly again and again
while the current is performing its CREATIONS
After the watch has been several times ex-
posed to this violent alteration the magne-
tiSm gradually dist p bears from IL. deadened
by the swift changes in the current flowing
around it, A watch that is very badly mag
netlZed has to be put through this process
many times. We nave TO SET the motor
buzzlng pretty often observed the clerk.
Five or six watches day are brought in to
he demagnet1zed. Probably good many
watches are magnetized whose owners are
not aware of the cause of their trouble. and
try in vain to regulate them, wondering WHY
the watch wont keep time.
Wasps act as architects, builders, carpen-
tiers, and paper-makers, says the Chicago
| Times. They go abroad into the fields and
! gardens in search Of provisions; with ex-
] 9 nj fort he lrs for
out the sunny side of your peaches and carry
away meat from the lamb chops In your
| larder. Man. base man, who robS the busy
| Zee OF its hard earned honey and slaYs the
| gentle calf for the production Of veal outlets
! usually speaks of the socialist insect as rob.
! bers and depredatofS But he forgets that
! the generous and philosophical wasp does
| not levy tribute on his aprcots for itself
| alone. 1t is the comm1SSary of the republic.
| Each worker hurrieS hack to the nest the re.
| suit of his fruit hunting or his marauding
| expeditions, and shares them among
his fellow subjects with that distrioutive
| justice which Aristotle preached and
which notody in our human communities
practices. He carries out the principles of
the aOlan Society. Every successful wasp
when he returns 10 the nest with piece Of
prime beef or wingless fly, or a cargo OF
sugar saved for the community from the gro
Ger barrel, perches on the top of the dome
among his assembled fellows, and, disgorging
all his spells, divides them equally among
nurses and paperLaakers. His tN main doc.
I
| neither shall he eat" and Every wasp to
labor according to his capacity and receive
according TO his nee Is in a free community -
Division Of labor, l believe, goes a long wav
IN the nest. Some of the workers seem TO be
specially employed as foragers and soldiers:
others appear to be told off as nurses and
guardians, while yet others are engaged as
paper makers and masons. 1t is even said
that these last work by definite shifts II
know not by what authority and that they
each have a space of about a square inch
allotted to them o fill with cells, on which no
neighboring worker is permitted to encroach
with impunity. But these are perhaps the
rate the eight hours act is not vet in oper
alton; wasps work early and late of their own
mere notion.
The butter aroma appears in the butter as
the result of the ripening process. says the
Springfield Republican. Sweetcream butter
continues a Storrs experiment station bull
letin. does not have this delicate flavor and
while there is a demand in our market per
haps growing demand, for sweet-cream
butter, it never develops the delicate flavor
known as the butter aroma. During the
ripening certain changes take place in the
cream some of which we understand and
others which are al present beyond the reach
OF chemical knowledge. The com position of
cream is essentially the same as that of milk
except in the higher proportion of fat 1t is
made up chiefly of butter fat in the form of
gloluleS Of casein, partial suspension in
the LIQUID Of milk sugar in solution and of
a small amount or albumen, probably partly
in ma 1y in ba fo~ .