The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

d piuS ule derived from tetrapheulyetetra
mldodlnaphtylemethane and forN a sui stan
tive trlsaZoic blue black dye derived from
/ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and naphty-
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS acid.
A New York salesman, whose trade Is with
| dry goods houses, says he has noticed a grow
| ing habit east Of the Bowery on the part Of
! women TO wear Wigs. The wigs are OF no
| particular color, but all of one style. They
are not short and curly, but are designed to
/ give the effect Of straight hair, parted in the
middle, drawn tightly across the temples,
| ana confined in a net behind. Some are
made OF hair, but others are of dyed linen
| threads.
who is not Philadelphian or. at least. we'll
! acquainted with that citys social peculiari-
! JleS- IL causes people to pay twice as much
| rental in the downtown resident district for
houses not half as good as could be gotten up
! town, not 10 say anything Of the questiona bic
| pleasure OF living among saloons. groceries
ana shops OF all kinds. Instead of diving out
| as one Wou d expect 1t to DO in this enlight-
| ened age, this feeling regarding the difference
| one place OF residence makes upon his So
cal standing is positively becoming more
Ditter. Thls Is one of the peculiarites that
| Philadelphia will retain as long as il exists
| ANY attempts that have been made to obliter-
ate the dividing line have only ended in dis
MAJ failure, leaving the situation much worse
! than before. 1t seems that common sense
was not dispensed with very free hand in
| Philadelphia. at least on this one point.
You can now purchase solid silverware
made up into forks, spoons, etc. which will
! weigh much more than the silver money you
| pay Tor It said leweler to the Milwaukee
| Wisconsin. In other words, you can buy
| slIVer with less silver than is contained in
| your purchase, Notwithstanding the fact that
| a certain amount Of laCor has been nut upon
| u TO shape II into forks, spoons. etc. Silver
| ware was never cheaper than it is TO-DAY.
! why, the prices are so far down that it is
| almost Jolly to buy plated ware, as YOU can
! purchase the sterling article for the same
| price. In eastern houses all fiatware is being
J sold by the ounce. If you ask the price of
/ FORKS or spoons the dealer does noe name the
hgure per dozen, but tells you that the ware
| is SO much per ounce. The fact of a person
| using solid silver upon his table is now no
| criterion OF his circums tances for it is almost
| as cheap as any other"
| Philadelphians well deserve their reputa-
ton for slowness. Progression is an IN
known word in the Quaker city. The fashion
! aole people scorn anV innovations as they
| desire to continue to do as their fathers did.
| when you look upon the number of slow and
| uncertain horse car lines, and the aggravat-
| ing speed OF their cable cars, says a writer in
the Plttsburg Dispatch, you can wen judge
| the temperament of people who will stand
py and suffer such things Philadelphlans
are perhaps the most peculiar, ciannish IN
changea6le people that exist in any city Of
the country They possess certain traits of
character and ideas regarding sociology
when Will probably be found still thriving
! and strong by any one going to PHILADELPHIA
| a hundred years hence. The effect of the
| absurd idea OF the eligibility to soar in the
|
| to determined by the answer to the cues
| ton whether he resides uptown or down
town can never he appreciated by one
An English scientist, Prof. Prestwitch.
at late meeting O. the Society of Arts
| OF New Castle, read a paper on the food
| he said that for many years he had been
| making careful study of the geology of
| Europe. and that he has found many phe-
| nomena, which can only he explained on the
| hypothesis of a very general and brief sub.
| Inc whole Gr1p n
| mersence would be destructive to large popu-
! latlOnS OF men and animals. he few who
| reSorted to mountain nights and mountain
SUBMITS could alone have escaped. and from
| these centers people afresh the surrounding
| areas. Although their knowledge of all these
| phenomena was still imperfect II was re-
| markable how, in all their leading features
| they agreed with the tradition of the flood:
ana II was not unreasonable 10 suppose that
| IN each area the few snrviVers might in their
| limited world have looked upon the Hood as
/ universal
| Writing from Round Knob N c. a CORE
| spondent of the Springfield Republican saws
| that he finds the ante-bellum negroes in a
! better mental, moral and material condition
| than the post Dellum negroes. He saws that
| the eX- slaves many of whom he has inter
| viewed, look with contempt upon the rising
| generation. One old darky told him: we
| slavery negroes were armed to work: and we
| knows how. and likes to- We had TO work
| loss, whether we wanted to or not: and
! twas a good thing for us for now we knows
| now 10 lake care OF curse YES. But the Young
| negroes are a pO' lot; they's lazy and shIf less
| and thlevin. Oh, yes. they goes 10 5 hool,
some on EN-, and they gifts an edicaton tut
| that's all they gifts An when they've got
| that it sort o spileS EN- for work: thew less
| all wants ter teach and preach ana git dere
| Twin easy like" The correspondent saws
the press-gang at Asheville are negroes.
| young men between the ages of
| lS and %. Most OF the Migrants and begears
he also found TO be colored. IN the towns the
| condition of the negroes is At
The young men are fascinated and attracted
| by the artificial life of the centers Of popula-
ton; and m, no indgcement can keep them on
| the farm. The result is that not being skilled
| laborers, they find nothing TO do and degen-
erlte into loafers, gam blerS, and criminals
| Summing up his observations the -cOrreSnon-
dent says: The conspicuous weaknesses. of
| the southern negroes are lazlness, tilthlness.
ana moral obtuSenesS. The majority of them
| live In squalor and confusion that are
| simply unapproachable: and the hopeless
| feature of 1t all is that they appear to enjoy
| this state Supremely, revealing and increasing
| in it like rabbits. The lower class of foreign
| erS In our northern cities and the noun
tanners of North Carolina are certainly bad
| enough In this respect; but the southern
blacks bear off the palm IN this particular
| respect
! Nothing has been heard lately OF Mr.. Edi
| sons attempt to make the roar of sun spots
| audible by means of an electro magnetic de-
| vice connecting the earth currents with a
! telephone says the New York SIM Tho idao
was that the impulses believed to be tran &
mitted from the sun to the earth when great
| spots are forming on the solar surface might
! be translated into sound waves thus as n
sense. enabling us to listin TO the voice of
| the god OF day when his temper is disturbed
! Recently an experiermcnt of a similar nature
| has oeen tried in England by w. H. Preece
| and apparently with success During the
| magnetic storm of last March which seemed
| to be connected with disturbances in the sun
| telephones were inserted in some of the prin-
| clpal telegraph circuits, and they gave ont
| various sounds Sometimes the noise was
| like the twang1ng Of musical strings or wires.
| then again it reSemDle1 whisting. Some on.
| servers heard reverberations in the telephone
| like the rum6ling of heavy carts
| Occasionally, high pitched notes and
! screeches were emitted followed bv low
musical sounds like the laps Of waves upon a
| beach. While these strange noises were
! given forth from telephones attached TO
! telegraph lines one was the Liverpool Ham
! burg wire-auroral lights, white green and
| roSe-colored. were seen in various places
| playing up and down the sky and the earth
! appeared to tie tlngling with electric chr
| re ats. Evidently there is still a great on
| pc tunity for discovery concerning the origin
an nature OF such magnetic storms and their
! relation. II any, TO the sun. So far specula-
| tion has held the field in this direction, hut a
! rev Facts are beginning to emerge and any
| daJ brilliant discovery may illuminate the
! whole mystery with a food of light Then.
! perhaps, we shall know whether it was the
! earth or the sun that made Mr.. Preeoe's teIe-
u