The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

furnishing of house In the second term
the study of wafer, food and clothing from
scientific point comes up for attention, the
subject Of diet is considered and food adul-
teratlons are investigated. The third term Is
devoted to domestic economy, when Students
give their attention to the administration OF
the household.
Upward of 100 years before Christ the
Chinese we're people ruled by dynasty OF
kings but there is no authentic history Of
them prior to the Chow dynasty. says the St.
Louis Republic. The Celestial empire has
in its time borne many odd names. for IL was
formerly the custom TO change Inc name OF
the country every time new dynasty gained
control Of governmental affairs. Thus IN the
ancient writings we find it referre1 to as Hal
que, Cham-que, Hanque. etc, according to
the name of the ruling monarch. he true
name, according to oriental scholars, Is
ChUu-que. which means the center kingdom
Of the world" The early European explor-
ers, especially the Portuguese, corrupted
''Chum- lue" into "Chin-que" and from this
word later navigators 'evoluted' the word
China"
The eyeball is white because the blood YES
sells which supply its surface are so very fine
that they do not admit the red corpuscles OF
the blood, says the Brooklyn Eagle. The
covering OF the eyeball, the tunica sclerotica,
thus named for its harness, is the largest and
stronger coat Of the eve, and covers the whole
ball except the PARTS occupied by the en-
trance OF the optic nerve behind and by the
running IN every direction, and closely inter
woven with each other, and has few blood
vessels compared with the choroids. The
tendons of the four recti muscles OF the eye
are fixed to the forepart of the tunlca sclero.
tea. These, or the cellular vagina covering
them, have been supposed to give an addl-
tional whiteness to the eye, and the part Civ
ing such whlteneSS has been termed tunlca
alOuginea, but the sclerotic coat is every
where pure white, and can receive little ad-
ditional brightness from any such covering.
In the prosecution at Pittsburg of a man
charged with cruelty to his horses in making
them draw heavy loads several witnesses
testified as experts. A teamster said that he
had often hauled $500 pounds with two horses
on level, and twenty tons with sixteen two
horse teams. The loads which the defendants
horses had drawn averaged 5,065 pounus. An
other witness thought that from $500 to 1900
pounds was decent" load. stone con-
tractor said that one of his teams had hauled
5000 pounds on the levelt and that at times
one horse had pulled 1000 pounds 1t appeared
that the defendant was engaged in eXcaVating
q bank, and had given orders that his teams
should draw fifteen loads OF dirt a day He
testified that in his opinion from $500 to 5000
pounds was proper load for two-horse
team. The Witnesses generally thought that
he had overworked his horses in giving them
fifteen trips day; twelve in their OPT ZION
was sufficient, and one teamSter said that a
draught horse should never be urged beyond
a walk. Decision in the case was reserved.
looms in the sale of soft drinks, says the New
York Sun. This is due not only to the great
| difference in price, but to the prompt service
in drug stores and the far better quality of
drinks they serve. In the vicinity OF Madison
| Square there are four or five drug ores
| which employ bartenders to look after their
! fountains A soda lemonade which is a pOpu-
| lar drink in hot weather costs 25 and 35 cents
! in the expensive cafes and bars up town. The
| apparatus for squeezing the lemons is not
always modern in the barroom, the sugar is
| often left in the bottom Of the glass, and at
times the club soda, is fiat from al ork2ge or
| some other cause. In the drug stores the at
| PENDANTS use lines or a superior quality of
! lemon. serve the lemonade in long and very
| thin glasses which lie paci in ice on the
! counter, and the charge is only 10 cents.
| Viewed from a critical stand point, the drug
! store lemonade is a superior article to the
| lemonade of the saloon, and the prices appeal
! to consumers in these times. There are in
addition to lemonade, great number of other
| drinks from callsaya cocktails to frozen alb
! slnthe, which can be had at drug store foun-
| tain.
The greatest evil which ever befen New
! York was the division Of the blocks into lots
Of 25xlL0 feet, says Scribner. So true is this
that no other disaster can for a moment be
| compared with it. Fires pestilence and finan-
| clal troubles are as nothing in comparison,
| for from this division has arisen the New
! York system of tenement houses, the worst
! CURSE WHICH ever 1ullCLeQ any great COM
munity. The fact that so much of the land is
held in such parcels is our misfortune, but
! the obstacle is not insuperable, as shown by
! our ONCE buildings. The difficulty has arisen
and persistently fourishes. owing to our lack
! of knowledge Of the art of scientific planning
! For who would waste money in erect
ing unnecessary walls, halls, etc,
II he knew how TO obtain
the same amount ;of rentable
| space much better lighted without them? By
the present system the ground is incumbered,
the light INSTRUCTED and the structure rend-
| cred unhealthy and unit to live In, and all
| this Is accomplished at a vastly increased ex-
pense over what the same rentable space,
well lighted, might be obtained for. Great
sums Of money are yearly squandered upon
making the structures unfit to live in. Then
other great sums are contributed by charita-
Bile people to relieve the dis tresS which these
| horrible structures engender. Hospitals are
kept full. children die, misery, disease and
crime flourish, because the people are hud-
died together without light and air, and all
this happens simply because the principles of
economical planning are not understood.
AS deserted by H. Pemberton, Jr, and
George P. Tucker, there exists a deposit of
sulphate of soda, locally known as a lake"
about fourteen miles southwest of Laramie
| Wy. The depos it is composed of three of
| these lakes lying within a stones throw of
| one another-the Big lake, the Track lake
and the Red. lake-having together a total
area OF about sixty.1ve acres They are the
pany are connected by branch of that road
| with the main line at Laramie and are gen
| orally known as the Union Pacific lakes In
| these lakes the sulphate of soda occurs in
| two bodies or layers, says the Popular
! Science Monthly. The lower part constitu-
| ting the great Uulk of the deposit is a mass
| Of crystals OF faint greeniSh color mixed
| with a considerable amount of Dlack slimy
! mud Its known as the solid soda. and is said
to have depth of some twenty or thirty
! feet. Above this solid soda occurs the super.
! fetal layer OF pure White crystallized sulphate
of soda. his is formed by solution in water
] OF the upper part Of the lower body. the crys-
| tails being deposited by evaporation o. by
! in the spr ng and autumn furnishes this
water, besides which innumerable small
! sluggish-howing streams are present in ali
the lakes but on account of tine dry air of
| this region the surface is generally dry or
nearly so, and in midsummer the white
| clouds of etfloresCent sulphate that are
whirIed up by the ever blowing winds of Wv
| oming can be seen for miles. The laver of
white sulphate is from three to twelve inches
| in thickness. When the crystals are removed
! the part laid bare is soon replenshed by a
new crop.
There is mighty good lot of beer in that
! go-cart,' said Charles H. Levy of New Or
leans in front of the Ebbitt to a Washington
Star man as an itinerant Italian fruit ven.
der pushed wagon load of nearly rotting
! bananas down F Street. Banana beer h
not very well known in this country that
am aware Of, but in the West Indies
| where it is also a comparatively new bever.
| age, good deal of il is now icing made
0fan Of hav.1 dot.