The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ authorities and the public owing TO the threats
Of a strike on the part OF the travelling sorters
/ who work in the mail trains. These men COM
| plain OF overWOrk, especially at this time OF
] the year and also OF the insufficient pay for
/ this additional labor. The authorities, al
! though they cannot easily replace the SOrterS
! or ambulants, have refused to listen to their
/ grievances, and hence the threat Of a strike.
The great Partisan dressmakers have a
! custom of charging a married woman more
for her gowns than an unmarried woman is
| asked. An American woman in Paris re-
| Gently commented upon this difference, which
| she had observed to the extent OF so in two
! dresses identically alike" All exclaimed the
! great modiste, why not? Madame has hus-
! band to pay her bills, but mademolselle's dot
! must be looked out for, so that she may get
| husband
An idea of the enormous number OF fur
bearing animals annually slaughtered for
| their pelts may be gained from the following
| figures of skins to be offered for the January
sales at London: 100000 muskrat, $4,000
| Australian opossum, 220,000 raccoon, 100000
| skunk, 10000 mink, 10000 opossum, 10000
walla0y &c. 800 fox SO 900 marten. 80, 900 nutria,
| 10000 wOmbat 1900 beaver, 5000 cat, 5000
bear, 5 600 kangaroo. 5000 lynx, 5000 Thtbet
lamb, 3,4OO wolf, $500 dry-hair seal, LOO
badger and l0)0 Russian sable, total Of
nearly 10000 900 skins. This is exclusive of the
regular offerings of seal skins on Jan. Is.
which, according to adV1ces received by the
Furrier, will comprise 2S. 500 skins all except
The park police of New York are said to be
very uncomfortable, and very mad, and all be-
cause recent order OF the authorities com
pels them to wear a very natty bit Of uni
form. The Objectionable articles are skin
tight, gray buckSkin breecheS trimmed with
pearl buttons. They are said to be very
handsome to look at, but they are so tight on
the Stouter members of the force that they
complain that they cannot stoop or sit down.
One member of the force said that he could
fraN1 h IT,
and how he was going to get of them of he
could not tell, They tit so close that under
clothes are out of the question, and IL is pre-
dicted that the most of the men will be down
with the grip inside a week. When the men
complain they are reminded that Its Eng
lsh. you know, but an Englishman says that
nothing OF the kind is to be seen in that coun-
try.
most interesting development of British
paternahsm in India. says Harper's Weekly,
is the governments farthing packet of qui-
nine. The average duration of life in India is
twenty four years, as against forty-fou years
In England. The main cause OF the difference
is the prevalence in India of malarial fevers.
Quinine is the specific for malaria, and the
government of India determined thirty years
ago TO make 1t cheap and abundant, To that
end IL established cinchona plantations.
which passed through many vicissitudes. and
have at length o far succeeded as to make il
possible to offer the population of Bengal
quinine put up in 5grain doses at pice "a
! ldl IulllsJ d uOs6s Inc Qulull6 up III D.
grain packets, stamped with the royal arms,
is sold at all the postoffices at Bengal, and the
demand for 1T, increasing month by month, in
the month OF September reached 10000
| packets. This amount is in addition TO what
| is served out to crowds of fever patients at
the villages and district dispensaries, and
represents, says correspondent, only
small proportion Of the relief which before
| long will be rendered available to the popu-
latlon of India as whole.
Many attempts have been made to sup
| plant the glass blower by machinery, says
trade journal but up to this time none have
| attained commercial Importance. Either the
| cost OF production has been found to be
| higher than by the time honored method or
| the ware produced was not of a quality up to
| the demands OF the market. This is more
! especially the case in the kinds OF bottles
used to contain effervescent drinks, which
must be capable Of withstanding a pressure
| OF several atmOSphereS without failure. T ais
in fact, is the critical point IN the automatic
| manufacture OF bottles, since the dtff1culty
| has always been to obtain distribution OF
| the glass forming the walls of the bottle as
| uniform as in the hand work. The attempt
| has been made to press the body and tottom
! separately, and to unite the two by fusing
| them together but the bottles made in this
manner were very heavy and Of a poor APP
| pearance. The bottle machine invented by
Ashby, England, aroused much interest and
was much talked of. several companies being
| formed to engage in BOTTLE manufacture by
this method, but none, If they still survive
have succeeded in putting any great amount
| OF ware on the markets OF the world
The long, almond-shaped eye with thick
eyelids covering nearly half of the pupil
when taken In connection with the full brow
| is indicative of genius, and is often found in
artists, literary and scientific men, says the
| New York Weekly. 1t is the eye OF talent or
| impressibiltty. The large, Open transparent
| eye, Of whatever color, is indicative Of ele-
gance, Of taste, of refinement, OF wit OF intel
! ligence. Weakly marked eyebrows indicate
feeble constltutitution and a tendency to
melancholia. Deep sunken eyes are selfish
while eyes in which the whole iris shows in
| dictate erraticism, il not lunacy. Round ewes
| are indicative of innocence; strongly protu-
| berant eyes are indicative of weakness of
| both mind and body. Eyes small and close
| together typify cunning, while those far apart
and open indicate frankness. The normal
| distance between the eyes is the width of one
| eye; q distance greater or less than this in
| tensities the chara ter supposed to be sym
| bollzed. Sharp aagle, turning down at the
corners OF the eye are seen in persons of
acute judgment and penetration. Well
opened, steady eyes belong to the sincere
! Gray eyes are supposed to be the strong.
est, blue the weakest while large ewes are
most subject to the defect known as near
| sightedness.
An interesting note about the weight of bees
appears in an American journal devoted TO
agriculture, writes DIR. Andrew Wilson in an
| exchange. 1t seems that an ordinary bee
| not carrying any load of pollen, weighs the
| one hVe-thousandth part OF a pound. Five
| thousand bees thus make a pound weight
| When, however, the bee is CARRYING his load
| Of pollen or honey, as he returns from foraQ-
ing amid the flowers, his weight Is increased
nearly three times de carries thus about
| twice his own weight, result not surprising
to those who have studied the muscular now
ers and ways OF insects at large When bees
are loaded 1t requires only eighteen hundred
OF them to make up the pound Details are
also given regarding the number of bees
which may exist in hive. From four to five
pound weight Of bees are found in an ordinary
| colony. This means in figures OF population
! some 10000 to 5000 individuals A bi0
| swarm, IL is said, will often double this
estimate. Talking OF bees If any of NV
! readers wish to indulge in a very curious and
! fascinating bit Of geological study, thev
! should read the story OF what is called mar
| thenogenesis' in bees and other insects such
! as the aphides or green flies of the roses and
| other plants. For such eggs Of the queen bee
! as are fertllized when laid turn out workers
| Tor neutersl or queens, while those which are
not fortified at all develop into males or
| drones This is very singular, because fer
| ttllzation OF an egg or seed is regarded ordi
narlly as necessary for its due DEVELOPMENT
know OF nothing more extraordinary than
the story biology has to tell regarding this
curious by-way Of animal development
Horse racing has long been an established
and popular pastime, and now dog racing is
coming to attract some attention. lad
named Willie ketehum, OF Ontario is said
| by the Utica Press to have been the pioneer
| in this line OF sport In 1887 he showed his