The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Park. The customs inspectors are busy pack
ing and marking the goods for their speedy
removal to warehouses.
An interesting account is given in the Lon
don newspapers of a great dredger that has
just teen Constructed in Scotland. Formerly.
when it was needful to make channel
through rock, it was customary to shatter the
o stacle by blasting and then dredge out
the broken material but recent dredgers
are powerful enough to cut the way through
rock without any preliminary blasting. A
little While 20 new channel into the har.
Dor OF Alexandria was cut IN this fashion.
1t IS 800 feet wide and runs through solid
ROCK. Lately II was decided to make a new
channel at Bermuda, and for this special pur-
pose the new dredger just referred TO has
been constr cted. II is the largest in the
world, having displacement OF 200 tons.
ana IS built ectlreiy Of steel ITS length is 2 8
teet, beam 30 feet, and its death seventeen
feet three inches, dimensions which will en-
a9Ie II 10 go anywhere and face any weather.
The dredging gear and bucket chain
are the strongest ever made. and weigh about
100 tons. mis- gear has such an excess Of
strength that II will pull up the engine If
Gny lnsuperable fmpediment is met with in
avoided The bucket la ider is fitted with
ten powerful buffer springs, to cushion
any shocks that NAV be experienced when
tne dtedger is working IN q seawall. The
vessel will dredge to a depth of forty-1ve
feet below water level. and will be able to
cut her own 1otatton"--that is cut her way
1t is probable that the days OF the second
class carriage upon English railways are
numbered, says the New York Post For
many years there has been tendency on the
part OF the public. especially in local traffic,
TO economic by riding in the improved third
class carriages, and OF late the second-class
carriages have been comparatively deserted.
In the old days third-class carriages were lit.
tie better than horse boxes. and there was u
large class OF travellers unwilling TO ride in
tnem ald yet unable 10 pay first
class fare. For these persons the
second-class carriage was provided,
and by them, for a time it was patron
lzed most literally. Nowadays. however, the
third-class carriage is on decent springs and
is often comfortably upholstered, particularly
on the longer lines. and is used by a large
majority OF travellers of moderate means.
Inc problem to be solved by the directors
was whether, if there we're no seconded
carriages, the people who used to ride in
them would go into the first or the third
class. At recent meeting of the Great
Eastern Railway Company. Lord Claud Ham
ilton, the chairman, observed that the
second-class had now been abolished
for year on the main line, and on the
branches in the country districts, and the re-
suit had more than exceeded the expectations
OF the directors If the whole of the second
class passengers had gone into the third class,
the company would have stood to lose e22 600
In the year. but nearly one third had gone
into the first c.ass, causing an increase in re-
ceipts OF more than cal 900. these figures
probably Will seal the fate OF the second class
carriage.
Rubies are now the most expensive kind Of
jewels, says the New York Tribune, and .
very wealthy man said the othe- day that he
was going to buy his wife set of rubies, as
he wanted some investment for his money
and was sick of land His wife seemed i'm
menseIy pleased with the idea, for nothing is
more exquisite than fine rubies surrounded
with pure white diamonds. In respect of
Jewels men are as extravagant as women. A
clsa cite case recently made to order for a
wealthy cluDman was of oxidized steel and
studded with diamonds Of the first water. 4 he
cost OF this toy was 1900; and yet men laugh
at women who have diamonds inserted in the
lace OF their fans, where they are certainly
more appropriate than In cigarette
stop at trites that can be carried
on the person OF the sterner sex
There is well known young London "ex-
qulslte who is the happy possessor of a
shaggy Irish terrier, called Tim, and around
the little animals bristly neck is a gold col
lar with his unartStocratic appellation done
in red enamel and diamonds and the young
mans crest and monogram similarly exc
cuted. 1t is quite possible for woman to
wear too many diamonds. There are 1t is
true stately dowager duchesses and magnif-
cent marchionesses to the manner born who
adorl, rather than are adorned, by the costly
jewels they wear; but, on the other hand
there are faces pretty enough but lacking
that essential quality OF high breeding and
refinement without which a splendidly lew
eled woman becomes mere background for
an ostentatious display, her beauty being in
measure obliterated by her jewels.
The hair OF man is gradually disappearing
before the march of civilization says the
New York Sun. Nature, who is an economi-
cal dame, has gradually removed tha hair
from the top of the head where 1t is no longer
useful. Still, kindly intentioned a decora-
tive fringe is left fer ornament. Man himself
would have gladly compounded with nature
and biC 70
far few handfus OF hair on his head. Ma
ture, however, knew the value Of shaving as
discipline and refused to interfere, Now, it
appears, man sees the way to establish per
manently clean face for himself. No more
early rising for a mututtnal slave nor dal-
lying in barber shops awaiting turn. The
method is simple but expensive. 1t is done
with the electric needle-at a cost of about "A
a hair, a decline from The first rates The OBJ
Grafton takes time. Owing to the strain on
the operators eyes the removal can be done
only in pat, hes unless relay of physicians
be provided The operation is painless as
the ground has been prepa ed by cocaine
With the later improvements in electric
lights and magnlfylng mirrors the time may
come that man will eradicate the brambies
of his face as easily as a farmer mows
down hedge row A Roman youth
day OF his first shave. The occa,
sion was a fete. Cornelia Lesbia Fla
via. and the. rest had been hemstltchin and
feather stitching his toga in secret moments
=
sion will doubtless be the same The girls.
hav ng save their pocket money, Will have
ready an electric needle. ivory mounted or in
re pousSe silver with MONOGRAM when the
youths first growth is sufficiently sighted for
removal Thus far it is easy to predict an
aristocracy of smooth faces. Even at whole
sale rates the ehaeement of the beard is
bound for long time TO be beyond the reach
of the multitude. This of itself is certain to
make smooth faces fashionable.
One Of the most interesting exhibits in the
museum at Ghizeh is the iewclry OF Que en-
Abotpon of the seventeenth dynasty (about
b. c. lsbO taken from her majesty person
when her mummy case was opened by Mari
etue Bey, says the Cornhlll Magazine. Among
the most beautiful objects in this very an
Gent collection is gold chain or necklet
with a SCARAB pendent as its entral orna-
ment On the other hand of the kings had
their names engraved on sacred beetles the
sacred beetles in return gave their names
to mighty kings. The very word for beetle
was so holy that II enters into the compost
tion of many royal titles. Just rs elsewhere
great princes des rtDed themselves as lions
or wolves, or bulls, o. deerhOunds so in
Egypt they described themselves as beetles
of the sun god. Strange to say, some OF the
latest scarals bear Christian emblems Sew
eral of them are inscribed with the cross and
one In Mr.. Lofties's collection, is adorned
with n well-marked crucifX This Oueer
lumbling up Of Christian and hea hen vm-
bolism may seem incredible to those who do
not know Egypt or early Christian
art, tut TO students of the hrst few
centuries OF Christendom 1t is no
isolated example. In the Ghizeh museum
there are many otLer works of the transit
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