The morning news., 1894-05-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


cigar There is Scent brand which sells
more rapidly than any other in the senate
restaurant, and which is in great demand for
commtttee-room lunches. it is rather curl
Gus tha6 the southerners, who as a rule, have
TO i've on meager incomes, are the most eX-
penslVe OF all in their taste for tobacco.
curious organ is to be seen at the Jesuits'
church at Shanghai. China. 1t was manufac-
tured by native, a brother coadjutori' OF
the jesuit order. The pipes of the instru-
ment are in bamboo wood instead of metal,
and the sorority is of incompa rable sweet
ness angelic and superhuman, says a cor
respondent, and such as has never been heard
In Europe.
Australia is greatly bothered just now by
an Indian question akin to our Chinese prob
lem. The Chinese immigration evil has been
checked by stron@ restrictive measures and
the imposition of heavy head tax. There is
now great and owing influx OF Afghans,
Panthans and othtr Asiatic tribes from the
ODD corners OF Ind a. and these people have
become peril and nuisance in many ways.
The so-called rice paper is not made from
rice, as its name implies, but from the snow
white pith of a small tree which so far as is
known. grows only in Formosa and elongs Q
a genus represented in the United States by
the common sarSaparilla and the spikenard.
The stems are transported to China and there
the rice paper is made, which is used by
native artists for water color drawings or
DYED OF various colors and made into artin-
cial flowers.
The practice of throwing overheard from
ships letters inclosed in sealed bottles is CEN
turies old Hollow copper spheres and oaken
oarrels nave also been used as sea letter car
rlerS IN attempts to trace the direction of
ocean currents or to send word from persons
at sea to friends on land. Barnacles readily
attach themselves to these drifting letter
holders and sink them. Only very few of
the many messages that have been thrown
into the sea have ever Eeen recovered.
Growing wheat is a vegetable that is not
readily affected by a nipping frost In fact it
Is hardy plant, and thrives when the tenn
perature Is several degrees below the freezing
point. When only three or four inches high
snow ana the mercury l5o or thereabou
above zero for day or two does not kill it.
When the stem has reached six or more
lncneS' ana becomes joined it is more suscept-
Die 10 the cold, and a blizzard is likely to
WORK damage, but even then only in patches.
On Easter day at Abazzla the German en-
peror brought out the presents and Easter
| eggs in great glee to his boys and set them
looking for the eggs, which he hid under
bushes. He was as bright and Jolly" as the
children. Sometimes little prince would
crawl under bush and bring out some glori-
GUS Easter eggs, painted and be-ribboned or
only a nest with colored hens eggs. For the
ladies' there were tiny eggs with Jewels for o
surprise The emperor decided to stop at
Aoazz1a until the middle OF April, After the
Austrian emperor's visit he will undertake a
trip to Venice.
About twelve years since young girl the
| daughter Of well-to-do tradespeople in Lon
don, lost nearly $50, which she had saved out
or very liberal allowance. The money was
taken from a drawer in her bedroom and the
thief was never detected. A day or two ago
the glrl-now fine young woman-was mar
RED. ON her wedding morning she received
an anonymous letter stating that the writer
was the person who stole the money when she
was yet in her teens. and inclOsing bank notes
representing as nearly as possible the amount
stolen, with com pound interest added OF
course the bride was delighted, and no ef-
Tort has been made to trace the anonymous
writer.
The habit OF taking headache powders" is
increasing to an alarming extent among a
great number of women throughout the couu-
try. These powders as their name indicates
are claimed by the manufacturers TO be a
poSltlVe and speedy cure for any form Of
headache. In many cases their chief In
gredlent Is morphine, opium, cocaine or some
other equally injurious drug having a
tendency to deaden pain. The habit of taking
them is easily formed, but almost impossible
TO shake OF Women usually commence
taking them to relieve raging headache
and, hnding It successful soon resort to the
powder to alleviate any little pain or ache
| they may be subjected to, and finally like
the morphine or opium flend. get into the
habit of taking them regularly, imagining
that they are in pain if they happen TO miss
their regular dose.
At Dunmow, Scotland, Parish church re-
Gently the wedding of coal porter with a
young woman formerly employed at the vicar
age, was interrupted in curious manner.
Ihe bride and bridegroom were kneeling at
the chancel steps for the first part of the cere-
mony, and as they rose to go to the COM
munlon rails to complete the rite the hest
man. thinking 1t was all over hurrledlv
snatched kiss from the bride, in accord
ance with an old custom which is still OBJ
~ In anu nfNV VTv,fr
ing clergyman. Rev. c. c. Matters curate in
charge, was indignant and ordered the wed
ding party to leave the church for half an
hour The partially married couple fingered
about the precints for that period of time
when the offended clergyman returned, and
after admon15hlnS the best man who is the
brides hrother-in law, for his levity in inter.
rupting the service in the manner he had he
proceeded to finish the ceremony.
The use of BRICK dust mortar says the New
York Sun, as a substitute for hydraulic ce
ment, where the latter cannot be obtained. is
now recommended on the best engineering
authority, experiments made with mixtures
of brick dust and quick lime showing thar
blocks of one-half inch in thickness after i'm
mersion in water for four months bore with
out crushing, crumbling, or splitting a
pressure of 800 pounds per square inch II
is considered. too, that the addition of even
as small proportion as one-tenth as much
brick dust as sand to ordinary mortars is pre-
ventive of the diSlntegration so often ChaTac.
terlZlng mortarS used In the maSOuery of
public works. The use of brick dust mixed
with lime and sand is said TO be very gener-
ally and successfully practiced in the Spanish
dominions, and is stated to oe in all resneris
superior TO the best Rosendale hydraulic ce.
ment In the construction of culverts. drains
tanks, or cisterns, and even of roofs whether
for setting fat tiles or for making the usual
tropical fiat roof The proportions used there
in the manufacture are, approximately. one
OF brick dust, one of lime. and two of sand
mixed together dry and tempered with water
in the usual way.
Comparative experiments. made with brass
and phosphor bronze are said to demonstrate
the fact that while the ultimate strength of
the former is from ls. 900 TO %, COO pounds ner
square inch, that OF phospor bronze is I5' 5'OOO
pounds per square in h. AS how produced AZ
the best establishments, phosphor, bronze is
composed OF alloys OF copper, tin, and phos-
phorus. the tin being mixed with the conner
in alnerent proportions according to the do
gree OF hardness or toughness required the
harder the metals containing, of course the
larger per entage OF tin-the phosphorus he
ing ad led to clarity or thorourhly deoyiidza
the metal AS all metal in a molten condition
contains moro or less ocCluled gases nrinci-
pally oxygen, and fas PHOSPHORUS has an
enormous affinity for oxygen, the c emicai
action which takes place can be readily mn.
derStood; and as these gases are the prin
clpal cause OF weak. spongy castings the
enect OF the phosphorus Is to eliminate this
defect so that castings which are made from
bronze properly phOsphurized have the adj
vantage OF being sound and free from spongi-