The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

900 are in chronic poverty.
The Bank OF France is guarded by soldiers
who do sentry duty outside the bank, watch
being likewise kept within its precincts A
former practice OF protecting this bank was
to get masons TO wall up the doors of the
vaults in the cellar with hydraulic mortar so
soon as the money was deposited each day in
these receptacles The water was then turned
on and kept running until the cellar was
flooded
Hundreds Of Afghans with numerous camels
have arrived at Cashmere from the Puniab
and Cabul to buy and export grain and fruit
Ior sale IN the Punjab Fearing that this
drain would produce scarcity in the country
the Tnaharalah has given orders 10 expei all
OF tnem from the Cashmere and stop their
coming again with the exception of 400 men
ana eOO camels. who are especially wanted by
capt Yielding for the Gilgit transport.
Mayalipmam. India. has seven Of the most
remarkable temples in the world, each OF
these unique places of worship having teen
fashioned from solid granite powders Some
idea OF their size and the task of chiseling out
the interior may be CLEANED from the fact that
the Sma EST Of the seven is "A feet Ugh. II
feet long. and L feet wide. Travellers who
nave carefully examined them are OF the OpiD-
Ion that 1t took centuries o. work to carve
these graceful ediEces from native rock.
Fish-eaters will be interested to learn that
fishes are undergoing a constant process of
evolution. Prof. David Starr Jordan has dis
covered that the higher the rank of the fish
tne fewer bones 1t possesses. Deep-sea
nshes nave more VerteO ra than fishes of
shallow waters, and the tnuy dwellers in salt
water have less than their cousins of the
fresh lakes aud rivers. In almost every
group OF non-migratory marine fishes. the
number Of bones grows smaller as we az.
proach the equator fish which has IS YER
tetrde IN Philadelphia latitude. would
boast so OF St Johns and only 2s OF Pensa-
cola In view OF this FROG sssive reduction
OF verteDrR, the lchthyophagous epioure may
nope one day to enjoy his second course
without the trouble Of picking the bones
Sleep as prolonger of life is upheld by a
curious calculation which appeared in a re-
cent medical work on the digestive orIans
and faculties. The duration Of human life
may be ascertalned by the pulsations of the
body Say man lives 70 years his heart
beating 60 to the minute: the pulsatlohs in
that time foot up 2, &01 $50 00C If by intern
perance or any other cause he raises pIlsa-
tlon to IS a minute the same number OF pull
SatiOns would be finished in Sc years thereby
abbreviating his life by IA years. And as the
number Of pulsations is less in a sleeping
than in waking state, It stands to reason
that long sleeper has a much better pros
pect OF long life than person who Is sat
lSded with short maps Napoleon l, who slept
very little, did not attain old age. Gen. But
Ter. who could sleep at will, rounded out a
good ripe sheat of years.
An inventor claims to have constructed a
machine which will accomplish not only the
work of an ordinary typewriter. but Is
adapted for successful oreratiOn in the case
OF 6ound looks of apv size as the device can
be readily clasped pom book OF anv breadth
or thickness for tie recording OF deeds and
| other Instruments OF writing says the Indian
apollS &c ltlnel. In this mechanism there
are "a characters. inclu1ing all carried by
the usual machines while there are but q
keys to be operated, and in its movement it
strikes downward and travels over the page
of paper from left to right. along q spacing
bar. the printing contrVance which moves
along the bar weighing only four and one
nall pounds. while the clasps and the entire
apparatus weigh only nine and three fourths
pounds. here is also provided an ingenious
kind OF lining arrangement-su suitable fer ap.
pncatton likewise to other typewriterS-in-
surfing perfect regulation of the distances te-
tween lines until the machine is finally worn
out.
The navy has decided to purchase a semi
folding boat of German manufacture for use
on torpedo boats. 1t is canvas affair stiff
fened wi clshions of reInoe5T hair. which is
not easily rendered useless ny machine gun
ire. 1t has been a serious problem to secure
small boats for use on tOrpe do vessels. as it is
not possible to use the ordinary wooden or
metal gigs on account OF the difficulty OF car
rYing them about Boats on daVits a in or
binary service, would lie rendered Worthless
IN engagements. and as it is essential that
means be provided for the escape Of the crew
in case of laundering folding canvas boats
similar to those used by sportSmen. have been
Used heretofore. The new German invention
dpptdIS 10 bG peculiarly adapted TO the
vice, ana Great Britain has recently pur-
chased forty Of them, giving rise to an ex-
ceedingly animated debate in parl ament
when the government was compelled to 81
lence the opposition by confessing that no
device other than the reindeer hair cushions
met he requirements of the service. The
Cushing will be provided with the one now
ordered by this government.
1t is noted as a somewhat singular fact that
there are not more than two processes for
,,1lf, tit
amount of ingenious effort put forth in this
direction. says the New York Sun One of
these is the hot process, in which the iron.
heated TO a vivid red. is powdered with a f1ux
powder, boroSilicate OF lead, distributed with
a sieve, then heated, and. when the f1ux fuses
it is powdered afreSh with glass more soluble
| forming the glaze OF the enamel, but this OPP
GRAFTON is attended with danger, and is not
adapted to large articles or for decoration.
The second process, which meets the obiec-
lions named, consists In dressing or coating
the article first with magnetic oxide. then
dipping it in boroSilicates OF lead colored
by metallic oxides, to which is added a little
pipe clay in oroer to give rather more body
The article thus covered cold, by dipping or
with brushes, is put into the furnaceGthe
enamel adhering and vitrifying at the usual
furnace temperature used by enamellers: and
by putting a coating of colored enamel with
brush on first coat simply plain. it is pos
sibe to make any decorations desired. which
may be burnt in at one operation for outdoor
vases, etc.
In this part ofthe country. where wood is
| comparatively inexpensive. says the St Louis
| Globe Democrat. the railway companies do
not find it necessary to treat all
their croSs-tles by some process
which will lengthen their period of service
ability. but out In the somi-arld and arid reg
| ions, where crosstle are costly the case is
| different. Nearly 370O,O00 crossties in use
| on the lines sof the Atchison, Union Facif C
| and Rock Island systems have been treAteC,
| at cost of IL cents to 20 cents each bV
| a process which consists in first injecting
| chloride OF zinc with glue into the timber
and then forcing solution of Jannn into it.
The tannin fixes the chloride so tuat is is nc
| washed away by the rains or removed more
! slowly by the standing water in damp local.
| ties. he distinguished past president OF the
| American Society OF Civil Engineers Octave
| Chanute. S ates that on the Atchison system
! tie renewals have been largely reduced by
! this treatment. In 1890 It abandon ed the pro-
! cess and injected chloride OF zinc only. but in
| 1873 the ztnc-tannin treatment was resumed
/ and Is now operated. The Onion Pacific
| stopped operating its works in 1887 for finan-
| cial reasons, and they have not been opened
! since then. on the Rock Island lines pracli-
| cally no ties treated by the process were re-
| newed until 1892. after six years Of service
and at the commencement of the current year
! over 30 per cent. were still in service.
At distance of about three kilometers
| from Santiago. Atatlan, in Guatemala, at the
the base Of the Volcan dc Aqua, excavations
! are carried on which seem to prove that a
| sudden eruption covered up the habitatious
] of men the neigh borhoOd of tho rnpuvtaF,