The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


/ noise is called the horsefsot snipe, be-
or horseshoe crab. Il Is called also the
| turnstone. from its habit of overturning
pebbles IN search Of food. The teltale
snlpe bears that name because il always
! sounds note of alarm at the sight Of a
! gunner. Chesapeake gunners believe that
/ a single telltale can clear a whole region
1 OF game birds. The Widgeon is locally
/ called the bald pate, and the wilIet is SO
/ called because of its cry, ll-Will-willet!
The Ohio state food commissioner has
] uecidFed that patent eggs shall not be
/ sold in the markets of that state, and
l has seized a shipment of them in tran
J SIT from the manufacturer in New York
1 to Cincinnati dealer. The dessicated
/ egg has sold at IS cents per pound, and
[ one pound is equivalent to six dozen eggs.
/ The commissioners chemist says the al
bumen in the dessicated egg is obtained
] from the eggs of fsh-eating sea birds,
/ %hlch can be secured by the million on the
! low, uninhabitable islands along the At
4 Iantlc coast. They are not fit for food,
/ ana the albumen alone is taken from
/ them in making dessicated eggs. The
/ patent egg is largely used by hotels and
/ bakeries.
From Turkey comes intelligence Of in
/ creasing intolerance on the part of the
( Constantinople and provincial authorities
/ toward foreign missionaries, official ami
/ mostly being particularly directed against
| Ihose OF American nationality, who, as
representatives of a republic and Of de-
! m9cracy, are suspected by the Ottoman
ponce or promulgating opinions among
| the subjects of the Porte politically hos
| nle 10 the Ottoman Turk and the present
! dynasty. OF course. there is no fonda
| ton for any such suspicion. but this does
not prevent our missionaries from being
SUBJECTED at present to more interference
ana persecution than at any time since
throne. ~ INC
Ever hear about my deal in turkeys? ?"
| Sald man whose home is in a little vii
| lage OF Northern Delaware Il bappened
70 De IN a little mountain town Of Vir-
gina When an acquaintance asked what
TrrgN Fr.-r a-T-y
/ d BUY car load of turkeys and thought
no more about it until next day, when
turkeys began coming into the railway
Stauon. There was nothing for me to do
put buy those turkeys, and when left
town had $50 of them brought them
up mere, ana when they were let out of
Ihe cars TO be driven to the place where
/ qeclded to keep them it looked as if the
little state wouldn't hold EN- nv actual
count, there was a turkey apiece for every
man, woman and child in my village, but
sold EN- off in lots of twenty-five fifty
ana a hundred to the farmers around and
the Joke turned out pretty well, though I
expensive bit of fun
aQnre OF the most ancient examples of
fiction in the world is a manuscript now
| repoSlng IN the British museum 1t is A
romance entitled THE Tale of Two Broth
eIS. II IS written on nineteen sheets of
papyrus! in a fine hieratic hand and it
was written some 5000 years ago by a
Iheban scribe named Ennana He was
nprariah OF the palace to King Mer-
enptah, the supposed Pharaoh of the Ex-
ouus ana ne appears to have written the
tale by order of the treasurer for the
entertainment of the crown prince. Seti-
Seu H. This prince has signed his name
IN two places on the back of the rnan11s-
cript, these being probably the only auto
graph signatures of any Egyptian king
Mhlch nave come down to our time This
was purchased in Italy by Nine dor
biney, who sold it in 1857 to the authorities
or the British museum and it is now
. known as the d'Orbiney papyrus.
Although the difference between q eood
ana bad sponge is very marked, but
lew people seem able to appreciate it.
says the New York World. The first re-
qulsite of good sponge is that it should
De dark IN color: The beautiful yellow
, spongeS commonly seen in druggists
windows are delusion and a snare The
natural color is light to medium brown,
h ana me yellow sPonges have been
thelr elasticity and makes them wear out
much sooner. The feel of a sponge should
be VelVetY, it should compress into a very
. small bulk by squeezing. and it must be
OF uniform color The best and most ex-
pensive are Levant sponges. They come
from the eastern Mediterranean. The
t Dalmatian sponge is next in quality and
price. There are very many others, how
ever known to the trade as horse sponges
yeIoW, velvet, Sleeps wool and glove
sponges. The prettiest and at the same
Tune the cheapest is the grass sponge
Whch IS made up of myriads of small
hlaments and looks like a ball of yellow
2 wool The majority of sponges used in
2 this country come from Florida Cuba
: also supplies a good many The sponge
j | after being detached from the bottom,
elther by dredge net or an instrument
something like a sickle, which is made
Tor the purpose, is allowed to lie in the
: sun until the. flesh decomposes. The
: | sponges are then trodden under foot in
: | running water until the flesh is all washed
) away, leaving the skeleton, which is the
r sponge as we know it, If the decomposi-
: ton is allowed to go too far yellow spots
Will appear upon the sponge and damage
5 | II. They are then packed up and sent to
i | the dealer, and, after a further washing
| of
New York in sponges is very large and
Europe.
9 The manner in which slate is mined and
! cut up for purposes to which it is applied
is process that is known to only a few
people in this country, its principal sources
: being in Upper New England and East
| ern pennsylvania, says the New York Ad-
| Veruser. 1t is not taken out of shafts
but it is quarried out of big holes in the
( earth. Some time ago, when the writer
was at Bangor, Me, he was invited to go
down into one of these quarries about
200 feet deep hand and hand on a rope but
| he declined the invitation, as 1 think most
! Inexperienced persons would do The
slate is blasted out in huge blocks and is
= | hoisted out by steam and turned over to
the men who know how to reduce it to
> | the proper size. Huge blocks of 1t are
taken in hand by these workmen. who cut
: | a notch into one end of each piece Then
| they take a chisel and a mallet and thew
: are so skillful in directing their blows
that they can split the blocks of slate i'm
almost any way they please If you watch
the SLAB on which one of them is working
: you will see little hair running through
| it, and presently the block will fail apart
/ on either side of this mark. The work
man will make this line go straight
! through the middle. or to either corner
! just as he likes. / do not know Just how
| he does it, but he invariably accompIishes
what he sets out to do. The smaller pieces
thus produced are taken in hand bv an
other set of the men, who split them up
into sheets of the proper thickness for
=. | roofing slate. This they do with a Ions
bladed instrument about the shape Of q
| putty knife, but many times larger and If
| you saw them do it. you would marvel
how they got the sheets onIv
an inch thick and split Il
| thirty-two times The usual r,,,,I
Der of divisions is sixteen. These sheets
are taken and cut into squares by ma
| chinery. Wherever there are slate oIIar
ries you viii find a great many Welshmen
for the best skaters come from Wales
Boys follow the trade of their fathers
and there are whole families and settie,
ments who know no other means oF
| earning a living AS VI