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

, across he Brooklyn bridge the other day
The fashionable fad in Chicago of the red
parasol is now defended on che ground that it
is an efficient freckle preventer-the actinic
rays Of the sun. which it is claimed are the
cause OF the augmentation. being intercepted
in passing through red medium.
Mexico will bring out its first series of pic
torial stamps in September, an especially
attractive design having been chosen. The
various denominations will represent the
growth OF mail transport in Mckee, ad-
vancing from man and mule to stage and
railway.
a suit for divorce before Newark N. j.
Judge developed the fact that the complain
ant. the wife sought divorce upon the ground
that the errlng husband had ceased to call
her Pet. and now invariably addressed her
as You red-headed thing The Judge mer-
cifully allowed the separation.
Three thousand three hundred and forty
one ships, OF 1853 coo tons, passed through
the Suez Canal in 1898. yielding sos .O0O( 0 } in
dues. Three thousand and eighty-two of the
ships, or 9244 per cent, passed through by
night, As to the nationality OF the vessels,
the English were 2.405. German 272, French
1870, Dutch l7s. Austro Hungarian II, Italian
81. Norwegian 80, Ottoman "a, Spanish %
Russian "a, Portuguese 10. Egyptian ;, Amer
lean 3, Belgian !, Brazilian l, Japanese l..
A unique piece of work about to be erected
at Cleveland is a 7Ofoot perpendicular
sewer, right in the center o. Fetrie
street. Is feet in diameter, SAYS
the Invention. Its base will connect with the
Morgan run and the top with the sewer in the
new street. The torrent of water running
into the shaft and dropping 20 feet would in
time destroy the strongest masonry. so at
frequent in ervals Tagging Will be put in the
shaft, after the style Of shelves, each flag eX-
tending half way across the shaft, so that
the water viii be com PEELED to jump from
shelf 10 shelf until II reaches the stream be-
low. The shaft will be constructed as the
NIL progresses. and Will he entirely under
ground when 1t is completed.
At Winger, in New South Wales there is a
burning mountain says the New York TriU-
une. 1t is / $50 feet high and is supposed to
be large coal seam which has in some IN
accountable way become lgnlted, and has
Deen burning Tor many years, certainly long
before the advent Of the white man in this
portion OF the colony he course OF the fire
can be traced a considerable distance by the
numerous depreSsions or chasms occasioned
by the falling IN of the ground from beneath
which the coal has been consumed. Smoke is
continually issuing from the sides Of the
mountain, and in the vicinity OF these open
ings the surface is hot. and mas dry. parched
appearance. while sticks thrust into these
openings arc readily ignited.
The sign in front of a Georgetown MD
store. says the New York Tribune reads as
follows Born with brain within a brain
can kure every kind Of misery in a short time
with only the best erbs to be used" A Chi
cago store announces Pickles and NeWNOrk
Papers, and a store in a Georgia hamlet has
a sign reading AK Handles. Ink. Pens and
| Cheese In Philadelphia there is a sign
reading 'Ho Made Pies, and the sign Of
taroer shop in the same city reads q. Wash
lngton Sml b, TCnsOrial Abattolr.' A farmer
In Western Massachusetts recently displayed
the following warning on his place. Motifs
know kows IS aloud in these medGers, eny
man or women lettin thar kows run the rode
wot gifts into my medders aforesaid shall haV
his tail cut of by me. OBADIAH Rogers"
The nest OF al orang- outang has been
placed in the Natural History Museum at
Berlin, ty Prof. E. Salenka and Prof
Mobius has discussed it in the Berlin &C
ademy, says an English paper, Prof. Sa-
lenka removed the nest himself from a tree
in BOrneo. The nest which was situated
about thirty feet from the ground. in the
crotch of tree forty five feet high and about
one foot in diameter, measures Az 1eet long
and one to 2i2 feet wide, by about seven
inches high 1t is made Of twenty to twenty
five branches locked and twined together
and is large enough for a fully grown orang
to lie in II at full length. though this mon
key PROBABLY always sleeps as 1t does in
captivity, with legs drawn UP and arms
crossed over its body. Tle SO called SIS of
the orange are not SkiIlfuily built huts or
closed shelters for newborn young but
simply sleeping places as many careful OBJ
servers OF these monkeys in Borneo have
esta bllshed
A Chicago man has invented a chemical
solution by which he claims that wood can be
rendered freproof, says the Southern Lum-
herman. If saturated in this solution he
maintains that it is impossible for a piece of
/ lumber to burn. even if il should he soaked
/ in cCal oil The wood or infiammahle ma
/ terial OF which houses are constructed is first
/ immersed in the solution of chemicals for a
/ period of twenty four hours. The lum Der
/ thus treated is said to be dreproof. and will
/ burn no more than piece of iron or stone
! BY means of the chemicals, the wood he
/ comes so dense that heat will decompose it
/ by charring only, but will not cause any
! flame. The substance produces an inert gas.
which prevents combustion. BY this scientific
/ process OF making wood nOn-intiammable,
! the inventor believes that thousands of fires
! may be prevented. He also thinks that after
/ the invention is thoroughly known many
/ railroad coaches will be built of wood so pre-
pared.
The United States fish commission calls at
tention to the food value of the ancovy of the
/ waters of the northwest, which it is pre-
/ dicted will displace the Sandman sardipe as
/ a small tsh canned in oil. 1t is said 10 far
surpaSs the sardine in favor and richness
/ Russian fishermen on Puget sound have al
ready tried the experiment of putting these
/ ancovies up with venegar and spices and
have found a ready market for them. II have
/ known them, Mr. Swan says, Ito be in such
/ masses at Port Hadlock az the head OF Port
! Townsend bay, that they could be dipped up
! with a common water bucket, but as there has
! been no demand for them, the fishermen do
!
! their nets for smelt they generally let the an
/ Coyy S ape. The anCovy of the sound is
! seldom more than six inches long and it is
/ much better adapted for canning than the
/ PASSPORT Me- variety OF "Sardne - which is
/ either young herring or the small fry OF other
! fish. A test OF the havors Of the Pacific coast
/ ancovy as fish canned in oil was recently
/ made, and experts pronounced them d de-
/ licious. They were put up in California olive
/ oil.
Some singular facts have been developed in
I regard to the influence of musical notes upon
/ explosives, says the Philadelphia Record
/ When an intense explosive is approaching
/ the critical stage and its molecules there
| fore are in a condition Of very unstable eouil-
! ibrium, the sudden emission of a musical
! note will frequently bring matters to a climax
! and induce defamation. 1t has been fOund
| that of certain samples OF dry illuminate of
/ mercury the lowest temperature at which il
/ wO Ii explode was 342 degrees Fahrenheit
/ and portions exposed to a heat Of 1886 degrees
| for some time allowed to cool and again
/ heated to that degree these alterations be-
! ing several times repeated, remained with
! out change. y ct PARTICLES of the same fulmi-
| nate, placed as before on an iron plate but n
/ a temperature of 80 degrees to 800 degrees
| only, would generally explode sharply
when certain notes were sounded near
| human voice it was much more didlcult to OBJ
/ tain an effect Of this kind. but occasionally
! such experiment would succeed. Similar
| results were noticed with most of the
! nitro-compounds, blasting gelatine in
! cluded while ChOlOrida ;odt5o