The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


in British Columbia 10 sons OF English
men sent there to learn farming. They
go about in knickerbOckers, big shoes.
cloth caps and eyeglasses, painting things
red as long as their remittances last. For
two weeks before the next check ar
rives they keep quiet, because they nave
no money for making a noise"
The flag of China is one Of the gayest
among the ensigns. The body of the flag is
a pale yellow. In the upper left-hand
corner is a small red sun. Looking IN
tently at the sun is fierce Chinese dragon.
The dragons belly is or brilliant red ana
white His green back is covered with
stln knobs. He is standing on his two hind
paws and the left fOrefOOt. His feet are
five-tOed and slightly hooked His long,
five-forked tail stretches away in the
rear. The dragons neck Is arched back
His mouth is wide open, and he looks as
is he was about TO swallow the red sun.
About one thousand years ago the Chinese
made war on Japan, and prepared grand
invasion To symbolic their anticipated
victory they adopted the flag of to-day.
They took the sun of Japan and made II
small and put il in front of the dragon S
mouth to express the idea that the Chinese
dragon would devOur the Japanese. 1t
happened. however. that the Chinese fleet,
conveying an army OF 100000 men, was
wrecked on its way to Japan by a great
storm, and all but three of the 100000 per-
ished. Despite that unlucky beginning in
the use of the flag, the Chinese re-
tanned il.
The holy coat of Argenteuil, in France,
is one of several venerable relics which are
declared and proved TO be the identical
seamless robe that Christ wore when
he was led to Golgotha to be crucihed,
says the New York Tribune 1t has numer-
Gus stains upon il, which the faithful be-
lieve and declare to be the stains of
Christ's blood. There are, however. many
in the church who doubt the genuineness
of the relic, and to satisfy them the
submit the stains in the coat to scientific
tests, to be made by NM. Lafon and
ROussel, two eminent chemists OF Paris.
Their report, which has just been pub
lished, concludes as follows: ITO sum up:
From the portion of the coat marked
with rust-cOlored spots We obtained Cd a
faint green coloration, with the tincture
of guaiacum and the essence of turpentine (;
% the revival of the red globules of
blood with the artificial serum; 90 the
formation of crystals OF haemin or or
carbohydrate of haematin. These indi-
cations are sufficient TO enable us to af-
firm that the spots examined are actually
due to blood-and to human blood Judg-
ing by the whole of our analysis, we pre-
sumo that this blood is very old
One of the great mistakes of parents and
those who have charge of children is
that they are likely to allow the little
ones too little time to sleep, says the New
York Ledger. With one excuse and an
other the youngsters are up later at night
than they should be, and, as they must
be off to school betimes in the morning,
and there may be duties to perform, they
are called long before they have finished
their morning nap. Children, as a rule
ought to sleep ten or eleven hours, and to
do this they must be put to bed early
enough at night, so that they may get
this amount of uninterrupted rest. But
it is a difficult thing to give the children
the amount of sleep they require, because
there is almost always something going
on in the evening that interests them
some one comes in, there is a new paper
or book or something that is being talked
of that they like to hear. They plead and
qntrp1t To CfaV inst q 1iff1p Iouupr
and, with spirit of indulgence, the par
ents yield. OF course, this means but
one thing-too little repose and a cur
failing of the hours of rest that nature
imperatively demands. 1t is no wonder
that children are nervous, fretful and
difficult to get along with. Their nerves,
inherited from dyspetic parents, are keen
ly alive to every sound, and their tempers
none the best, or they would not be the
children of their parents, are irritated
by being called out of bed when they so
years of children, whatever else may be
done, there should be ample provision
for long and undisturbed sleep. 1t means
health and strength in later years, clear
heads, good dispositions and well-regu-
lated mentally. -.-,'.t.
By agreement. the fire companies doing
business in New York all issue policies
identical in phraseology, SAYS the Phfla-
delphia Press. Before this agreement was
made there was much rivalry among COM
panies based upon the wording of policies
anu insurers nave llelE patronage 10 the
company which by the form of its policy,
made recovery easiest in the event of loss
Since the agreement went into effect the
changes which have been made in the
wording of policies have been uniform
among the companies. one recent i'm
provement is the lightning clause Here
tofore the injury provided against in fire
insurance policies has been loss by fire or
as the eminent legal authority Blackstone
once quantity defined it, the damage bv
lanes. IL became a serious question
whether damage caused Indirectly by
lightning could be recoverable under an
ordinary policy, these exemptions being
usually made to protect the company from
payment: Loss by invasion, insurrec-
ton, riot, civil war or commotion or milf
tary or usurped power, or by act of the
elements lightning being inferentialIv in
cluded; The addition of the present light
ming clause in a policy leaves the matter
IN no doubt. Here is how il reads: This
policy shall cover any direct loss or dam
age caused by lightning (meaning there
by the commonly accepted use of the term
OF lightning) and in no case to include loss
OF damage by cyclone, tornado or wind
storm. Probably no one but a LAWYER
I l an insurance company would fall into
the error of supposing that any insurer
would not know the difference between a
tornado and stroke of lightning, but to
prevent any misunderstanding it is clearly
put in the lightning clause
THE fruit growers out in nv copntr1,
are in fever of excitement over the die.
CoVery or a new and simple means Of
preserving ripe fruit indefinitely said
Mllliam L. ellis of California to the
Washington Star. "SteriIized air is tbe
substance used in the new system. which
is the result of the study and experiment
or an Episcopal ministeT-Dr. PerIinsN-of
Almeda. The doctor began his exDerjl
ments upon the basis that the decay Of
frult and the mold that DESTROYS Other
perlshable articles are due to the pern1e
that are present in ordinary air. and de-
clded that no decay could ensue If the,
were kept in an absolutely pure atmos-
phere. His ideas have been proven 70 he
practlcally successful and are now heinz
applied to cars which carry fruit lonS
distances. An air compressor is attacbad
10 the locomotive, in which the pressure
Is eighty pounds to the square inch Al
TINS density air becomes so heated that ali
the germinal life it contains is destroved
II Is thus sterilized. After being cooIed
IN receiver It is conducted to the car ana
introduced, with the result of drivinu ali
the impure air out. In the pure atn,os
phere thus established ripe fruit has neen
kept without giving any sign of decav for
month. The general adoption of the svs-
TEN on trult cars will revolutionize fba
INDUSTRY IN California, as it will admit Of
our marvellous pears, grapes, peaches otto
Deng shipped after they are perfectIv rine
anu nave reached the full of their az
qulslte flavor, instead of being picl5ed &c
they now are, in a half green state ana