The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-05
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hotel which sings "Larboard Watch in
a deep bass voice, and winks when the
song is finished. This means that the
bird wants drink of sweetened claret,
OF which he is very fond.
In a new process for coloring leather by
electrical action the hide is stretched upon
a metallic table and covered. except at
the edges, with the coloring liquid.
dinerepce of potential is established be-
tween the liquid and the metallic table.
The effect of the electric current is to
cause the pores of the skin TO open,
whereby the coloring is enabled to pene-
trate deeply into its tissue.
". K. Davis, United States postage
stamp agent, thinks that the revenue of
the postoffice is a pretty fair measure of
the financial prosperity of the country,
and says that Judged by that standard,
things were seldom better than they are
now. Says he: Three weeks ago 35,000,-
900 stamps were ordered of the bureau of
printing and engraving. Two weeks ago
the puDnc demand increased to 1000 900,
and last week Sc, 100000 were issued by
the bureau. This clearly shows that the
times are improving fast. It is but Just
to state that the experiment of manufac-
turing postage stamps at the bureau of
printing and engraving has been marked
success II lHe perfection OF engraving
and the finish of the stamp the workman
ship is all that could be desired, and 1t
does not matter how heavy the public
demand is, the facilities for supplying IL
are fully adequate.
No orthodox, respectable Briton would
ever dream of going to church on Sunday
in a straw hat or a derby, SAYS the New
York Tribune. Tall silk tiles are de rig
ueur, and ever since that inconvenient
headdress came into fashion at the be-
ginning of the century it has always been
a problem as to how to dispose of it in
the most convenient manner during di-
vine service. If one puts it on the floor
beneath the seat it gets covered with
dust; while if it is placed on the seat il
is likely to be sat upon, to the invariable
delight and satisfaction Of ones fellow
worshippers. This being the dead season
in London, the metropolitan newspapers
are devoting columns to discussion as to
the best way of solving the difficulty, and
one ingenious correspondent suggests
that the collapsible gibus, or opera hat
should be adopted in lieu of the silk hat.
But imagine the irreverent clatter which
would be created by the simultaneous
opening up of several hundred opera hats
at the conclusion of the benediction!
Says the New York Herald: To one who
has not given the subject thought it
would seem that the most useless coins
ever issued by the United States were
the silver Scent pieces. They were small
as thin as sheet of MANILA paper, and
before they finally disappeared from cir
cuiation they came to be regarded as
nuiSances. Although there is much to be
said against these annoying little coins,
they were, as matter of fact, of far
greater utility, as far as circulation is
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gold dollar, which experts in the treasury
say has never served any useful purpose
said Maurice Muhleman, cashier of the
sub-treasury, recently: From the mutt
lated condition of the gold dollars sent
here for redemption it is positively shown
that the public do not regard them as
coins. Their only use appears to be for
bangles, necklaces, watch charms scarf
pins and the like. 1t is doubtful If one in
thousand ever really passed in circulation.
With the Scent piece 1t was different
When first coined the country had moth
ing in the shape of a coin between the
huge copper cents and half cents and the
silver half dime. The small coin was
hailed as blessing, and became popular
Tor its issue also. Strange as II may SEEM
It was not provided for by coinage act
but an act revising the postal rates. This
law lowered the cost for transmitting the
unit of weight for letters from to
cents It was deemed advisable by con
gress, thereupon, to issue coin of COR
responding denomination. The coin was
of great utility, and circulated freely
until the advent of the nickel.
The body of child buried forty-three
years ago was unearthed by mistake in
the Springfield cemetery recently, and
to the establishment of all the features
We're found well preserved, says the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The child
was buried in metallic casket, and al
though the glass was not removed to
make close examination, the body
seemed to be intact and only slightly dis
COlored. The coffin was reached because
a foot stone stood over the center of the
perintendent had a force excavating for
new monument, and as they had no idea
of finding a coffin, supposed when the
spade struck the metal that 1t was a
rock. The hinges of the coffin cover had
rusted so 1t fell off, revealing the form of
the child under the glass. The child ac-
cording to the inscription on the head
stone, had died Aug. "a, 1851, at the age
of years, months and II days, and had
thus been buried forty-three years. The
face nevertheless appeared full and plump
and only slightly discolored, and the eyes
We're still firm. The hair was undisturbed,
and the appearance of the child so little
altered that he could have been recog-
nfzed by his parents. 1t has been claimed
by makers of metallic collins that they
would preserve the body from decompo-
sition, but it was generally supposed they
would only retard it, Messrs. Dickinson
& WaShburn the undertakers, who Wis
tied the grave, said they considered the
case a most remarkable one, and had
never believed IT possible for the body to
defy decomposition in such way. What
renders the case more remarkable is
that it could not have been preserved by
an embalming process, as embalming was
only imperfectly practiced fifty years
ago.
1t has been the custom at the Denver
mint to make quarterly house cleanings of
the assaying and refining departments,
says the Denver Republican. At such
times the operating rooms were care
fully swept and all of the machinery
busted. The dirt and dust thus collected
has been washed and the tailngs thrown
into bin back of the mint building,
where for years they have been accumu-
lating. At each quarterly cleaning gem
orally about 800 in gold dust would be
washed out and saved. Only a few pounds
of tailings would be left in the pans to
be dumped into the open bin, but during
the years this stuff gradually accumu-
lated, until now it amounts to about four
tons. A few weeks ago Assayer Pickett
went out into the bin of ''tailings" with
pan, which he filled and began wash
ing" The result was surprise, so large
was the quantity of gold he washed out
Without further ado Mr. Pickett hired
an expert and started him to work wash
ing out these tailings. Mr.. Pickett also
had some old melting pots that had been
thrown out ground UP and washed, and
the result was that from the scrap pile
over $1,000 in gold had been panned out
by one man in thirty-eight days These
tailings, after second washing, have also
been saved, and Mr.. Pickett says he has
refused an offer of $1,000 from one of the
shelters for them. He expects to receive
at least $1,000. In arranging for the inn
provements to be made at the mint Mr.
Pickett concluded to have the chimney
of the furnace swept, In doing this fifty
seven pounds Of SCOT was secured This
SCOT was sold at So per pound to one of
the shelters, and the smelter authorities
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