The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-03
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The Governor Of New Zealand was recently
compelled to pay fine OF FIVE shilIings at
( Christchurch because his coachman drove
too fast while going through the streets.
All the asphalt that is laid upon the streets
Of Philadelphia comes from the Island Of
Trinidad. Of whose remarkable lake Queen
Victoria is so lucky as 70 be sole owner. But
this monopoly is likely to be soon broken. a
whole mountain of asphalt has been discov-
cred near MaZZarelh. a Spanish seaport. and
cargo OF II IS now on its way to Philadel-
phia in British tramp steamship. to be fol-
lowed by other cargoes If the new asphalt
shall be found successful. Astonishing stories
are told Of the cheapuess OF the MaZZareli
| material but Its adaptability to the sudden
changes OF the American climate remains to
be seen.
The largest piece Of cut-glass ever made in
America is now on exhibition in New York
1t was made at the pioneer cutglass factory
or the United States now about forty years
running The piece weighed seventy pounds
before II was decorated and lost about twenty
pounds In the cutting. 1t is a punch bowl
eighteen inches high and twenty-fOur inches
IN diameter. The actual cost of production
was nearly S4OO, and five men were busted Il We
Gays IN decorating II. American cutglass
makers admit that one English house sur
| passes them In some kinds Of work, but
insist C.1that the continental glass
| cutters do not equal their American rivals.
English glass cutters earn very moderate
wages. but the pay of skilled men in the
| United States is from sos to S35 per week.
strange TO say, American inventors have not
| greatly improved the machinery for cutting
| glass. II still consists OF the iron wheel fed
| with sand for the first rough cutting; III
stone wheel with water for the next process;
| the wooden wheel with putty dust for the
next, and the brush wheel for the final pol
lshing. Many native Americans are now
skilled glass cutters.
For the few persons who drink too much
water said a physician, the other day, ac-
cording to the New York Times, there are
the very very many who drink too little
1 hree plntS daily are necessary, absolutely
necessary And writer in a medical
journal, Dr.. Yorke Davis, says, with emphasis:
VI all FOODS requlred-water is a food-to
keep the system in healthy working order
! water is the most important; a man may live
| without any one particular kind of diet.
whether it he flesh, fish. or vegetable but he
cannot live withou. water. 1t enters into the
composition OF every tissue and fluid in the
| BODY. Digestion cannot be carried on with
out It, and Then food has accomplished the
nourlShlng Of the different tissues, it is by
meanSOf water that its waste is carried away.
Indeed, without water, dry fCol would lie
poison and the digestive apparatus as useless
as miller wheel with no stream to turn it.
There Is not one hour of our existence from
the cradle to the grave, that it does not fill
an important part in the operation OF our
nVeS. On TINS proposition he bases the lOgi-
cal sequence OF the imperative demand for
pure water. and Condemns the inconceivable
Ignorance and Indifference Of those persons
who, because they cannot taste. see. or smell
impurities IN water, assume that they are not
there.
That the Japanese bamboo can be grown
with profit in Louisiana seems to be shown
| by the result Of some experiments that a
planter of Marksville has made saws the
New York Post. He says: Three years
ago bought ten plants from a San Francisco
| importer. They were not received IN the
| best condition. Only one plant out of the
| ten lived and grew. The first year the shoots
| or canes came out about the size Of a pencil:
| tne second year 1922 the canes came out the
| size OF mans thumb, ten feet high. This
| the third year, they came out as large as big
| cornStalks. The plant has grown twenty
| feet high and spread over fifty feet Of ground
A furniture man from New Orleans was here
| this past summer. and says there is a fortune
! Tor any man who will grow the bamboo to
| supply the furniture manufactures and he
| engaged all could grow at a good price.
inquired out what an acre would bring me. If
were TO put 1t down, no one would hardly
| believe my story. Suffice 1t TO say that there
Is nothing that grows from the ground that
Will pay better. Merehantable canes are
| grown in one season from i've or six-vear-
old set plantation large enough to make bed
steads' chairs picture frames. etc. The canes
| come out Stouter each wear ultil they get
| large enough TO split in four and make a good
fence, and as the canes are cut down from
year TO year, new shoots constantly come up
which grow with increased vigor and phe-
| nomenal rapidity. Gen. Kirkham has a
record OF eight inches per day attained in his
California plantation. My plants have not
yet made such rapid growth, but from tndica-
lions of their past growth expect to see next
year even more rapid growth"
A correspondent writing to the Portland
Oregonian, from Fort Cudahy, Yukon River,
N. w. T.. says: I like this climate, and
have better health than I have had in twenty
| years The cold does not trouble me at ali
| l enjoy 1t. We had seventy degrees below
| zero last week and was out every dav so
| was eEeTVL OdV else. The pbita
| at this place take a ride with dogs and
| sleigh every day. and enjoy it, The
| whole trick is in knowing how to dress for
| the colo. I he Eskimos have taught US We
| dress as they do, and seventy degrees below
| don't hurt US lit. We have also learned
| from them how to build houses to keep out
| the cold, You can't do it in any way but as
| they do II. Even they with their centuries
| of experience and experiment however have
| not discovered means by which to keep the
cold from the cheeks and nose. Anv sort Of
| covering to the face does not protect IT, the
| moisture from the breath will cover every-
| thing 1t touches with ice, and in a few min
utes the ice is worse than the frost in the ar
| If one could hold his breath he would be ali
| right. The natives seldom go far alone i'm
| co-d weather. With two together. each
| watches the face of the other, and with the
| first indication of freezing, snow is rubbed
| on Oriskly and the frost is soon gone There
| is no danger when the thermometer does not
! show more than 40 below. and there are not
| so many days Of this kind IN winter that
| one need to expose himself at all then N
| takes one winter to become acclimated I
| felt the cold last winter some but this win
! ter l have not. This is the country for
| old men. There are more of them here than
any place 1 ever saw, and 1t agrees with
| them"
In the case Of all hunting dogs. such as fox
hounds or wolves, which pack together the
tail is carried aloft, and is very free in move.
| ment, says the Contemporary Review II is
| also frequently rendered more conspicnouS
| by the tip being white, and thsis almost in
varlarly the case when the hounds are ~
| mixed color. When ranging the long grass of
| the prairie or jungle, the raised tips of the
| tails would often be all that an Individual
/ member of the band would see of its feliows
| There is no doubt that hounds hal ftualIv
watch the tails of those in front of them
| when drawing covert. If a faint drag is de.
! tected suggestive Of the presence of \ fov
! but scarcely sufficient to e sworn to vocallv
! the tail of the finder is at once set in motio1
! and the warmer the scent the quicker does in
! wag. Others seeing the signal inst antlv ioin
| the first, and there is an assemtlage of wa wing
! tails before even the least whimper is heard
| should the drag prove a doubtful one the
! hounds separate again. and the waving
ceases; but II 1t grows stronger when followed
! up, the WagSlng becomes more ana more en-.
! phatlc until one after another the hounds he.
| gin to whine and give tongue and scream an
| IN Indian ME along the line of scent Wben
! the pack IS IN full cry upon a strong scent
! the tails cease to wave but are carried aloft
/ IN tull view The moment when the dog most
/ enjoys life is the moment when he sights
! game. That moment is the time -.