The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Tho striking painters in Chicago have or
ganized bicycle brigade OF thirty wheels to
use in hunting down non-union painters.
There is newspaper in Southern Missouri
that Is still runnin; railway advertisement
cago.
An actress who was struck on the head by
a block Of wood while playing at the Chicago
opera house was thereby deprived Of the
sense OF smell and has sued the manage Tor
eoJ.OJO damages.
Shad-hatching has been suspended at the
government hatchery near Eayrs de Grace
on account Of the foods. Some
100000 frY had to be liberated and
naH million undeveloped eggs were lost
A very much worn and sadly dlapidated
carpet says the Philadelphia Record. Gov
cred the floor Of the cashiers once in the
mint A new one involved the expenditure
OF perhaps rs. and forrweeks Superintendent
townsend has endeavored to secure permits.
sion from the department at Washington to
ouy one. The mass OF led tape and the diff
Guilty OF attaining money for any purpose
DaIked him, but he pegged away patiently,
ana day or two ago, had the satisfaction Of
gaining permission TO buy the needed carpet,
which cost him a little more than $40. The
wretched old covering was burned: the ashes
of gold.
The recklessness and avarice OF the India
rubber CATERERS Of Brazil IN destroying the
trees IN order to obtain all the sap they con
tain is already being felt, and they are com
PEELED TO go farther and farther into the forest
each year TO secure what's needed. II is onlYa
question of time, and few short wears al that
"n3n even the vast valley of the Amazon
Will be stripped Of native rubber trees, as has
Deen the case with The cinchona or ouinine
trees OF Peru. The native forests Of that
country were formerly the chief source of sup
ply OF what used to be termed Peruvian bark
uQt very little is shipped from its ports to-
DAY. Most OF the drug now comes from Cey-
ION y ava ana other islands of the East Indies
IN Whlch trees were transplanted from Pera
many years ago under the direction of Sir
William Spruce, director of Kew botanical
Gardens, near London. The cultivated trees
yleld a much larger percentage of quinine
than the natural growth of the Andean for
ests, ana better quality. and, from expert
mentS That have been made, it is believed
tRat similar results Will follow the cultivation
OF rubber. although it has never been at
tempted upon large scale.
Among the ancients shaving the head was
a very common mode Of expressing great
GRIEF or sorrow, says the St. Louis Republic.
Sometimes i was done by the priest or some
olher religious functionary Iormality, cut
tlng on the hair, sometimes by violently
pIucklng 1t out by the roots In extreme
cases among men the beard as we'll as the
halr was either cut OF or plucked out. The
idea seems to have been that mourners
lAll
under ordinary circumstances was con
sidered most beautiful Ornamental
ana becoming. Lucian and he
writer's by any means who gives points on
this queer mourning custom SAYS that the
Egyptians expressed their intense sorrow by
cutting OF the hair upon the death OF their
god Apis and that the syrians acted in the
same manner al the death of AdOais. GYM
pladorus remarks concerning JOB j. 20, that
the anclents, among whom long hair was re-
MT tnF IN . fVra,- f,F
mourning, but that those who commonly
wore it short suffered 1t upon such occasions
to grow long
1t is estimated by Prof. Langley, of the
Smithsonian, that the waste of force in FRO
ducing light by means Of gas is over 80 per
cent OF the energy expended, whereas the
nrehy wastes none at all. His liCnt is with
out heat-a cold light. 1t is the result Of some
sort Of obscure chemical action which s.ien-
lists are trying to initiate. They have an
IDEA that there is a combustion of a sort of
tuel secreted Ly'the phosphorescent animal
Life has nothing to do with the production OF
the light itself The eggs OF firehies become
luminous If moistened under certain con
ditlons. Dried and powdered in "a mortar
they still give out light when moistened
1 he luminous beetle is still luminous twelve
hours after being killed. The flashing of
electricity through rareded gases is our only
means of producing light that resembles
the tirehys glow in being unaccompauied
with heat Ordinarily we require ? 90 de
EACCS VI uCdG " pIOQuC6 q WlltG llg hit. but
the most delicate Thermometer detects no
heat in the most brilliant phi sphorescent sub
stance. The chemist who can discover a pro
cess for the manufacture of the CUBAN cucu-
JOS lllumlnant has fortune in prospect.
If the demand for buttermilk increases
each year as in the last few years. said the
proprietor of one of the largest bars in the
city recently to the New York Telegram. 1T
will soon be rival to beer as popular drink
Never before has the demand for this cooling
beverage been so great as it is this year 1t
is not heralded and advertised by signs in
saloons for the reason that there is more
money in beer; nevertheless, one would be
surprised at the large quantities consumed
one bar gets away with ten gallons a day
while another that 1 know of uses six gallons
IL Is the great bug bear to the bars now and
the demand makes them keep it, no matter
how they may seek to hold ii IN the background
Buttermilk is destined TO be the drink Of the
future; for, among the many advantages
which are claimed for it, is one that appeals
to the vanity Of men--it will not cause a
flushed face nor red nose as other drinks
do, but, on the contrary is considered a good
specific for both. Any afternoon YOU NAV
lind what are now derisively termed butter.
milk brigades' lined up in front OF any OF he
larger bars guzzling buttermilk happy in the
knowledge that it will soon erase the expen-
slve coloriug on their face which old king
alcohol has painted-not in water coors,
either. The COW may yet, In way, take the
place OF the brewery
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