The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
DR.. Chan Guam Hing, graduate Of the med
icaI college at Canton, has got out his single
in Detroit, with his name modified to Joseph
F. Chan. NJ. D.
Although French woman's legal and civil
rights are extremely circumscribed it has al
ways been advanced in their favor that they
are absolute mistreSses n their own domes-
| tic circles. Therefore it is with a feeling al
! most amounting to CONSERVATION that they
! learn that IN the matter of d1smiss1ng ser
I wants it is the husband alone who has the
/ power. A case in point came before the courts
/ the other day, and the magistrates ruled that
| legally wife cannot dismiss her servants
without her lord and masters consent.
! A Nevada paper says that an entirely new
metal has been discovered in that state. A
| wood-chopper in the Pine Nut district, it as
| serts. wishing to mend his oven, took some
| clay from a large deposit near by, mixed 1t
| uD with water, and did the requisite patch
| ing. The next morning. when he went to
| build fire. he noticed that his patch had
| disappeared and found in the ashes white
! clear metal, with scarcely any weight to 1t.
| He put it on an anvil, and tried to break it
| with hammer, but found it impossible TO
! break or crack it. He found that IL would
| stand high degree of heat, is very strong
and flexible, almost transparent, and very
| light. 1t is extremely easy to reduce from
| the ore, only small degree of heat being
requisite, and the man says that he knows
where an tneXhaustible store of the clay is to
be found. All this is very important. if it be
true, which there seems some reason to
doubt.
1T is singular fact, says correspondent
of the st. Louis Globe Democrat, that the
reign of every queen in modern times has
been attended by a wonderful advancement
in the material, political literary, and even
military progress of her country. The reign
Of Catherine the Great of Russia Witnessed
the widest extension of the Russian empire
that had been known up to her time and the
greater part Of the Russian conQueStS were
accomplished during the time of the other
Russian expresses. The reign OF Maria
Theresa was period Of prosperity for Aus
trla-Hungary, in spite Of the seven years war,
while the reigns of Elizabeth and Anne in
English history were eyes of glory in letters,
arts and war, and that OF Mary might have
been but for the unlucky foreign alliance she
formed with Philip of Spain. Great Britain
has never seen such an age as that of Victoria,
and perhaps will not again for centuries. The
| presence of queen on the throne as SOW
ereign seems to inspire all the poetry and
chivalry there is in the nature of man, and
perhaps that fact furnishes an adequate ex-
| PLANTATION"
| Working hours in Germany are, as a rule,
very long, and are subject to great fuctua-
| tions, says the London Times. The chief fac
| tory inspector of Bavaria says that in many
factories the hours OF labor are not the same
| every year, or even day by day, but are sub
| 1ect to manifold changes. Strikes are most
| frequent where social democracy is most pow
erful, and 1t does not appear that wages are
| especially low in the districts in which they
| thew are most frequent. They usually begin
| in the spring when the seaSonable trades are
making fresh adjustments of wages. Negotia-
t1ons prior to the strike are usually fruitless;
but about the second week both sides begin to
give way At the end of each successive week
| the number Of men out dlminishes, and when
| the strike funds give out both parties agree to
a compromise. The membership of the local
socialist body usually shows a great increase
| just before strike. This IS the course Of a
| typical German strike. As a rule, strikes are
| in agriculture, and are rare in trades like
| baking, where the assistants often live with
| their employers and look forward to becom-
| ing employers themselves.
| One of the most interesting objects shown
in the Pennsylvania railroad exhibit at the
worlds fair, says Cassel's Magazine was a
! model illustrating what appears to have been
! an old system of block signaling used on the
| New Castle and Frenchtown road. This prim-
| tive single track railroad connected the
| towns of New Castle, on the Delaware river,
| with Frenchtewn, on the Elk river, stream
! flowing into Chesapeake bay, and formed an
| important one of the many links in what was
| then practically the only chain Of communion
| ton between the northern and southern cities
! of the Atlantic seaboard. 1t was opened for
traffic in 1882. The five signals used on the
| road were on posts about four miles apart. or
| only so near together as was necessary for
| distinct vision by means of a spy-glass, for
this was in pre-telegraPhie days, and this
| railroad, like the coach Victory with its
| barroom, had to be content to borrow ideas
from the marine as we'll as from the coaching
| world. Each signal post was provided with
| two large balls. one white and the other
| black, which were raised and lowered by
! ropes, the relative positions of the balls in
! dicatlng whether train had passed the
| posts carrying them or whether it was ap-
| preaching.
Palladium is one of the least known but
| nsaful nj min md ba r1sa RI
which it is put would make an interesting
| story, says the Brooklyn Eagle. 1t belongs
| to the platinum group, and is found with that
mineral ia the Ural mountains, Brazil, Peru
and in the Hartz mountains. 1t first in
| troduced by a chemist named Cox. 1t is sim
| liar in color to platinum, and is very MALE
| able because of its fiexibllity. 1t is a great
| absorber OF hydrogen gas, but is principally
| used in the production of alloys 1t is
| used in a thin film to protect silvered sur
| faces. A very close inspection of most silver
ware will reveal a thin coating of it on the
| articles. which protects them to a large ex-
| tent from furnishing. Mirrors have been
backed with it. 1t gives an ally with zinc,
| nickel and tin Palladium and silver form an
alloy which is used by dentists in filling
teeth. An alloy of palladium, gold, silver and
| copper is used to make bearings for the
| works of watches. In that use. one part pal
| ladium, three parts gold, two parts silver and
| four parts copper form body which pro
| duces less friction for the working parts of a
| watch than the gems which are more com
| bined TO make the most delicate of surgical
| Instruments. 1t can be utilized more compre-
hensvely with good results than any other
| mineral known.
Mrs. Ibbie Gordon, Of Clarksville, Tex,
who was born in 1906 was once introduced to
| David Crockett. says the Galveston News.
| Describing the incident, she says: 1T was
| in the winter of 1884 not long after Crockett
! had cen defeated for congress in Tennessee.
| We heard that Crockett had crossed Red
| river, and fearing that he might not come
| through Clarksville, but keep on the old
! Trammen trail, we intended to, meet him.
| Jane Latimer. then girl of IS, rode behind
me, and Betsy Latimer followed on a pony
| We overlook Crockett and his party az the
| house of Edward Deem, about four miles
| from Clarksville. It was early in the morn
| ing, and when Mrs. Deem saw us she said :
| Mrs. Clark, what in the name of God brings
! you here at this time of the day. My horse
| brought me- answered, and then l told her 1
wanted some breakfast. We went into the
| house, and friend, who had known Crockett
| in Tennessee, introduced us. Crockett was
| dressed like gentleman, and not as back
| woodsman. He did not wear a coonskin can
| 1t has always disguised me to read these ae-
| counts of Crockett that characterize him as
/ an ignorant backwoodsman Neither in dress
| conversation, nor bearing could he have
! created the impression that he was ignorant