The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The announcement was lately made by the
/ paymaster general OF the supreme court Of
I England that the total amount of dormant
( iunus lying In Chancery Is s5,OO,0O0.
; A beggars strike is perplexing Bucharest.
/ The police having prohibited mendicants
/ from fre9uenting certain quarters where
! they caused great annoyance. all the beggars
/ IN the town assembled and drew up a notice
mat unless the prohibition were Withdrawn
: they would strike and take by force the tread
/ tneY were not permitted to beg The town
authorities are considering their demand.
writer in the New York Press notes a
valuable suggestion with reference to the new
asbestos cloth which it has been proposed to
/ use as a material for hremen's uniforms
/ samples of the cloth which have been sub
mitted show it to be quite as light and pliable
as ordinary wooden cloth of close texture and
neaVy weight. There Is 40 doubt aboutit
| being practically ire proof, and its cost is
not prohib itive. .-
The st. Louis Republican notes the singu-
lar fact that 'sneezing may be averted by
pressing firmly upon the upper lip with the
! hngers. The why OF this is that by so
| doing we deaden the impression made on a
certain branch Of he NTH nerve sneezing
| being reflex action excited BY some slight
impression made upon that nerve. Proof Of
| this is seen in the fact that sneezfnC never
| takes place when the nerve mentioned is par
retained. "
The Congressional Record Of the second
session of the fifty third congress will not be
! the largest volume of the Record vet pub
nshed but 1t Will not be far behind that size
! Inc nrst session Of the Fifty-hrSt congess
| hled up lOl0J pages. The FIRST session q
the Fiftleth congress filled up ten books or
parts that OF the first session OF the Fifty
| hrSt was bound in eleven parts. and the Fifty
! third congress, first and second sessions. will
! NIL fourteen parts the Record Of the first SEES
| sion being included in three bound volumes.
Frog catching is a leading industry along
the river, says the Toronto GLOBE. and the
| most successful operators work all night and
| sieep IN the daytime. Their tents along the
! river are silent during the sleeping hours of
| the forenoon, but at night the swampy shores
| are alive with the moving lanterns of the
| hshers, or rather the frOgGers. The frogs are
! caught with an ordinary tshhOok, ana the
most successful bait is a small piece OF red
aannel. The operaioc has rejecting lantern
| fastened IN the bow of his boat and It IS
! claimed that the light makes the frogs snap
| plsh without discrimination. The bated
hcoSs are passed freely among them as the
canoes 599 pupts skihs and RATS are pushed and
catchers do profitable business with the
| toronto restaurants.
Prof Petrie's recent excavations on the
shores Of the Red sea throw good deal of
light on the origin Of that most interesting
! people OF antiquity. the Egyptians. and 90 to
snow, according to his explanations, that the
early inhabitants Of Egypt were not print
| i've people. l. e. OF pure blood but was a race
| as badly mixed as the English are to day. He
| mas marks OF more than one invasion OF the
/ country by races who came by way Cf Arabia
ana the lSthmuS of Suey from Asia Minor or
India, Just as the northern balharians over
| novel Europe time and again during the
middle ages. he COnCludS that the ruling
. race there in the remote antiquity of some
/ 4UtO CT 800 b. c. were of the same stock as
settled Phoenicia and later Carthage The
! Egyptians OF the time OF Moses, he thinks
] were a cross between the rl4cy of a,
/ original Africans and the white invaders
from the north.
Matrimony in Germany is a singular insti-
tuition, says the Pittsburg Dispatch There
are so many restrictions such a comDIement
OF iornautleS to be submitted to, that mar
rlage is rather unpopular than otherwise
/ The prevailing idea is TO keep money in the
| family. and to attain this end the peOple so
sensible and levetheaded in many respects.
are willing to go any lengths. A man may
! even nave for his wife mis- cousin. his aunt
! his stepmother and his sister in-law com
blned-he doesn't care so long as he has a
hold on the money. The NUMBER OF MARRIAGES
among hrSt cousins Is countless, and the
results appalling. How many idiots there
are in the tatherand l should not like to
say So that he may keep the money in his
family it is quite common occurrence for
an uncle to marry his niece, and a man will
sometimes wed his brother widow. in
/ Bavaria 1t Is legal tor bow to
marry at II and a girl at - a sol
der may not become a benedict until he
! IA reached the age of 3C-l most unpopular
| condition and one which causes very disa-
| greeable consequences. / heard of a case of
man who married his first cousin. He had
/ four children, one of whom became a leper
ana TWO or them idiots. Three committed
/ suicide. the fourth married his cousin ana
| had an idiot child. In another family the re
! suit OF an intermarriage between cousins was
Two lmbeciles OFT of three chidren all three
| died young. In one district numl e s OF peo-
! pie with dreadtully swollen neckS NAV lie met
/ In the valleys of the Alps some of the most
deformed idiots on earth are TO be found
/ lney are the CretlnS and live by be gging the
hideousness of their looks bringing them in "a
| good deal OF money from the charitarly dis
! posed And vet these poor creatures inter
! marry and spread the SCourge. The mar
| rage knot does not require any great effort
| IN blelklng 1t in Germany. Chronic mutual
dislike and lncompatibility of temper are suf-
/ hclent reasons for divorce
Claude Meeker consul at Bradford, Eng
land, has sent TO the State Department at
| Washington, report upon the attempts that
| are now being made to manufacture artificial
/ silk The inventor of the process Is Or. Fred
ertck Lehner Of Zurich, Switzerland The
| consul gives the following description of the
| process of manufacture. All vegetable dbers
may ny treatment by a'ids and alkaIiss be
reduced to cellulOse. 1t is this material which
is the basis Of artificial silk. By direct com
bination with nitric acid, il is converted into
nitrate, and if a small quantity of sulphuric
acid lie also added the latter combines with
the water, and. to use a well understood chem
lCdl pHTdSG. SDlIJS on. 0N the addition of
diluted sulphuric acid TO the alcohoIether So
luton, he breaks down the nitrate into bodies
OF different physical character. but of the
same chemical character, and consequently
is able to obtain - per cent. solution which
is perfectly mud and workable under the sim
plest conditions. The process Of the prepar-
alton OF this fluid is a purely chemical one
| The subsequent treatment of this
fluid and its conversion into a tex
tile fiber IS shown in operation
! upon a machine which is mod
ihcation of the ordinary flyer spin
! ming frame. The fluid is contained IN a glass
ilr, from which it is conveyed through pipes
! 70 a small row OF small bent tubes each hav-
ing an extremely fine nozzle or ortnce These
tubs are arranged in a shallow trough OF wa
ter the orihceleing Ueneath the water level AS
the fluid leaves the nozzle the water removes
| 60 per cent of the solvent. and the fluid i'm
mediately eoagulates and is drawn of in a re-
markably fine tilament of trillianC luster and
| when dry. OF great tenaity. Half dozen
such hlaments are gathered together and
| spun precisely as silk or wool is spun only
without the deattng arrangement In
| passing through the spinning frame il rapidly
! dries ana becomes quite solid, and in the
! process Of drying the remainder of the sol
| vent is removed. Chemically the yarn when
denitrated approximateS very closely TO silk
/ itself. The artificial silk materials will stand
j washing and ironing without losing their 1t s.
! ter or without any impairment of their col
| ors.' The Consul adds that Manchester man.
| ufacturers doubt the utility of the counter.
! felt