The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

pOSt II was 10 revert 10 MS heIrS. 4 ne CITY.
some years ago, erected the new city hall on
the land, and now the heirs come forward
with claim for S30,0OO which the city is
about to pay.
Doyou know that ants have COWS, from
which they draw milk? You can see the
cows if you look for them, says Demorest's
magazine. Sometimes you see the ants run
ming up and down small bush. You may
wonder what they can be doing. Look closely
at the bush and you will see number of green
bugs on the leaves. These are the plant-louse,
or the ants cows. The ants run a out among
the bugs. touching them with their feelers.
ana seeming very happy indeed. They are
milking their COWS when they do this. Ants
keep other insects besides the plantlouse,
which they feed and are kind to, and their
prisoners seem contented. Sometimes they
keep large blind beetle, which is never
allowed to leave their cell. They bring it
such food as it needs, and kindly put the
same into its mouth. The beetle, in return
Tor such careful attention, throws out from
its body fluid which the ants are fond of,
and which they lick up greedily.
The ideas OF tipping vary the world over,
says the New York Tribune. In Paris the
waiter considers that he has a legal claim to
tip equal to per cent of the amount of the
bill If man eats a luncheon which costs Is
cents the waiter Is perfectly satisfied with
tip which, in American money, would
amount to cents. OF course he will gladly
take more but he is content with the cents.
Ii man gave dinner which cost 500 the
waiter would expect $50. He looks upon that
5 per cent. as his unQuestionable right IL is
as If there were a law upon the subject of
tips" In New York there is a character
lstically careless American amiability about
tipping. In the fashionable restaurants
men who spend money freely give tips
Wnlcn amount to about ~ per cent. of their
bill II the bill is SO the waiter gets 81; il it
is 10 he gets ~. etc. But Americans who
patronize the so-called swell resorts do not
follow percentage rule in giving fees where
the amount of the bill is small. For the most
trivial service they give 10 cents, 10 cents or
quarter OF dollar wealthy Frenchmau,
following the custom of his beloved Paris,
gave d waiter Of the best-known restaurant
in this country who served him Ii ght lunch
con the Paris per cent. fee. The bill was
20 cents and the PariSians fee was cents
The waiter was so astonshed that he stood
stock still and watched the Frenchman till
he left the room.
A reduction of the cost of casting steel, iron
and other metals by 80 per cent. great saw
ing in time the production of castings free
from oXldi2ation and blowholeS and, most
important OF all, the production of pig iron in
mountainous and remote districts having
water power and ore, but no coal-all these
things may result from the application OF
electricity, according to a new process de-
scr1bed in report to the department of state
by United States Consul Mason, al Frankfort
Germany. The process is known as the 1aus-
sig process, and provides for melting and
casting metals y electric heat under the
influence OF rarlheu air. An alright furnace
lined lined with glazed friedrich has its
which the fused metal flows by
gravltation. The nrebrick lining forms an
emclent insulation and the electric current is
sent through the charge directly without the
use o. any fuel or the employment of carbon
electrodes Thereby the fused metal is nearly
pure ana free from carbon, and the continued
exhaustion OF the air and gases produced IN
CreaSes the fuidity of the molten material
prevents oxidation and ulister4ng, aad pro-
duces dense. smoo'h castings OF the highest
mechanical qualities. In a small experiment
Tai furnace ton and half Of MO
smelted in fifteen minutes by a current OF
thirty thousand amperis and fifty volts
ABOUT two thousand horse power
With water power the cost is very low
and even using steam to generate the cleo
trlc current, there is an economy in fuel
IN smelling of 30 to so per cent. The cost of
pig iron with ore at g. 40 per ton. it is said |
would not exceed IS per ton with motive
power of one thousand horse power.
The peculiar, little light colored. horny
lizard OF the south and southwest, known to
the unscientiic as the horned toad. " has a
peculiar habit and one perhaps, not pos,
sesSed by any other creature on the foot |
stool'-that of ejecting blood from its ewes !
says the st. Louis Republic The genus name |
OF the horned load, which is really lizard |
as noted above, is Phrynosoma and one of |
the best articles on its blood sprinkling pow
ers that has ever been published appears in a |
recent ofhclal publication of the National |
Museum. The article is by o. P. Ray. It
appears from Mr. hays observations that !
irritation causes blood to squirt from lust |
above 10th eyes. For what purpose the little |
creature thus Sprinkles It's enemies with
blood the source of the sanguine jet and how
1t Is expelled with such force. are the cues.
tons that are now puzzling the naturalists |
IL mas been suggested popular Science
monthly that the purpose of the election
Is TO defend the eJector from attacks
OF enemies. although it seems improba
bic that the discharge would seriously
pam or even impede the enemies
subsequent actions. Mr.. Hay Is of the opln.
lon that the blood Jet is directed toward the
eyes OF enemies. He says: "A discharge
square into the ewes of some pursuing bird or
snake might so seriously interfere with lis
clearneSS OF vision as to enable the toad to
make his escape The determination Of the
hculties to the investig ations of the
biologists, but the most probable the.
DRY Is that 1t is lodged in blood
SINUS on each side of the head a portion of
the wall OF the sinus lying on the inner sur
lace OF the eyelid. I his sinus is supposed to
be surrounded with muscular tissue of suf-
hclent strength to hold the blood in place
but so thin that it burs and is thrown out
around the eye in times of anger or excite. |
ment. MeMcans call these little lizards
sacred toads, because they weep tears of
blood
Queen Victoria gets more tips than anv
other functionary in Great Britain, and, what
is more, she insists on getting them OF
course they are not called tips. They are
called perquisites; but II is all the same An
eX-attache. writing in the New York Tribune |
says that among the most curious Of them is |
her right to every whale or sturgeon captured |
on the coast of the United Kingdom and |
brought TO land. Both of these perOuisites |
date tack to the days of the Norman kings |
and 1t appears that in the case of the whale |
the monsters were divided between the SOW |
erelEn and his consort, the queen taking the |
head in order that her wardrobe might be re.
plenlshed With the whalebone needed for the
stlf1enlng of her royal garments. Another of .
the queen s baksheeSh is a certain number of
magnificent Cashmere ShawlS which are dis
patched to her every year from the Kingdom
OF Cashmere. They vary in value, as a rule
from 1900 TO Sl.2LO apiece, and the queen Is a.,
customed to present one OF them as a wed
ding present to every young girl of the
aristocracy or in whose future she is in
any way interested. Every tailor holding a
patent OF 'Purveyor to Her Maiesty'' if he
conforms to ancient tradition and usage
should present her with a silver needle each /
year. Another class of royal purveyors is /
called upon to present annually to her table
cloth while from other sources again she il
entitled TO an annual contribution of such
varied tips as white doves, white hares. cur
rycombs, hretongS, scarlet hosiery night
caps, knives, lances, and cross bows. More
over, at the coronation, the Lord of the
Manor OF Arlington must present to the
sovereign dish OF pottage" composed Of
almond milk, Drawn of capons sugar, and
spices, chickens parboiled and chopped "
At the same ceremony the Lord OF the Manor
OF Hayden is obliged by virtue Of his tenure
from the crown to present the monarch with
towel. the Lord of the Manor of Worksbon !
f a anz 4.