The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Z A nose is fIrsl modelled 70 the proper shape
3 IN papier-mache. ana then It's Is Waxed and
vanished 10 tle tint OF the complexion
Z OF the noseless person Ordinarily it is
tas tened on by means OF pair OF spec
/ lacies, 70 The nosepiece OF which Il Is
! hrmly attached In some cases, however
where the rl maining stump j. Ia &c emu 3
u Il ciamped in place and the speetacles
are not necessary. An ear Is made much
In the same way, but Il il far more diff
cult 10 attach Most frequently small
springs fitting into the ear duct are used,
impair the hearing. Other physical de-
nciencies are remedied BY wigs, false teeth
ard glass eyes. The last are made almost
exclusively IN Thuringia. Germany, and.
the WOrkmen are marYelOusly.
Congressmen are just beginning 10 IND
Out that the tlanklng pr4Vhege was revived
when the printing bill passed last ses-
sion. ana they are beginning TO avail
themselNe IS Of the new law with q ven
Seance, says the New York Suns Wash
ingtOn correspondent. The only restric-
ton put upon this Is the letters sent free
or postage should pertain to the congress
siOnal business and be limited TO one
ounce. When the law was under Discus
sion It's opponents said that as letters
could not be opened to see whether they
come within the law, congressman would
frank everything. and this is lust what
they are doing. PostOfice officials, how
ever, have too much regard for their
ofnc4al scalps to go proWling about to
ma congressman violating the law, so no
| prosecutions have been or are apt 70
be made One frequent violation of the
| law has already come to light IL is that
| one OF the most prominent representatives
| from New England who franked strict
! " personal note not in any way relating
/ 10 congressional matters. A political Op-
/ ponent knows the facts and may use them
n the next congressional campaign IN
| Massachusetts.
It has always been a mystery why so
| many New York society people learn the
/ Spanish language, says the New York Ad-
| tefuser. There are Spanish schools in
| almost every street. and they are always
/ very busy. Their tutors work overtime
/ ana their pupils are of all ages from the
l young swell to the old beau. the debutante
| 20 the doWager. A new discovery may
/ throw some light on the mysterious sub
! recently put upon the market. Only the
/ otner day 1t was announced in the Cham
| Der OF Deputies In Madrid that twenty
/ two noble titles of Spain had been sold
/ II is understood that they went. at rea-
| sonable figures, and that the most eager
| purchasers were Americans. It Is more
/ than limited that many of these patents
| or nobility We're laid in by foreign agents
/ on commission for New York purchasers.
J A few have been traced to Brooklyn
/ Heights, and a least one went to New
/ Jersey 1t is said that parchment gene
| alogy has been thrown in with each title
/ to attest to It's genuineness. This Is the
| usual custom. For manv years impover-
| ished mobiles of the south of Europe have
| sold their pa tents of nobility and family
trees, and there are London tradesmen
! crusaders.
one recalls vaguely that up to Christmas
We taiheu aDOdL an eAceJt.OIlaly mIu
| "inter, ana We were even ldtnsr Unhappy
! aoouS ~, says a LONDON caDae IN the A,JW
OAK 1.tn,s. t1eas en- forgive oUr tOhyi
! AT new ears SNOW came anu ti-.nLs
/ Iroze, and, with trivial eACe9tlUIs, nave
remained lrOZen eN er slnce. lac PAST ten
Gays constituted the longest Sustained
| geI .Od OI extreme cold known since 1915,
wnan an Ok was iVast-u entire on the
! frozen Inames, ana lar was held on the
zee Tor three gifts. Inc meiCury has
/ fallen below zeIo IN some districts as far
| as Y deslees. When It Is RENE mDered
/ tnat the ordinary English thermometers
are oniy maue to go GOWN to ~ degrees
/ above. ana that tAe lreSent generation
OF brtons count from the lreeA.ng point
ana hafuiy know that there IS such
/ thing as zero, one can imagine the general
CONSERVATION and eXcItem mt that TINS
/ long Arctic wave has produced. Stoves
ana anthracite are unknown. and every
| water pipe in the land has been at the
| mercy CT frosts, with the result that
| houses are flooded, plants are destroyed,
ana the entire domestic economy OF the
| country is upset. Every day brings re-
/ ports Of people frozen 10 death or dying
| of heart disease caused by the cold
! Thrushes and start nPs have died in myri-
| ads, and tales are told in the Highlands,
| where numerous trans are imDedded IN
arhts OF WHO deer driven from the passes
| by cold ana hunger to come and warm
| themselves by the locomotive fires and
| beg food from the passengers. The sea
| is heavily fro zen over in " Unstable Bay
| beds there are destroyed. The panic
/ about catching typhoid fever from the
/ oysters had nearly wrecked that business
! earlier IN the season; this new calamity
| threatens to crush 1t altogether.
When nation noted for its language
Tor the hrst time, says NJ. Noyicow,. a
/ French writer, IT made pure phonetic
| ism, since it had no reason ,to do the
| contrary. But spoken LANGUAGES modifies
every day; BY the fact even that it is in
! corporated in something material, the
sign written language has more fixity
| Too often nations consider the orthogra-
| ply Of their fathers as something ex-
| tremely holy. They think they are commit
ting. sarciege by accommodating it to the
needs of present times. Then. little by Ut
| tie, writing becomes less and less pho
/ netic, and finally arrives at the oldest
! alterations. The same letters are pro-
/ nounced i'm a different manner, each
! sound is not represented by an identical
! letter. and a great number of letters cease
/ to be pronounced. These last constitute,
] therefore, a veritable waste. Without
counting the silent ''e" and the IS of the
| plural, when they are required for eu-
/ phony, the French language contains IS
! per cent. Of useless letters. Let us calculate
| what their suppression would bring in.
| Six thousand and eight hundred journals
| appear in the French language. There is,
| perhaps, an average OF 100000 letters in
! each OF the nl-the Petit Journal" con-
/ tains l15C00, the # CARO- 122,000-and there
| is an average of 49, numbers d year. This
! gives 1885, 100000 Of letters in year
! and of these the useless Il per cent. makes
| on and the interlined words come to
/ about $1.29 for every 10000 letters. This
! makes a useless expense of 81, 1888 900 for
! the journals printed in French alone.
/ Those printed in he English language are
more numerous (there are HOOD, and they
| are larger, We must estimate the number
/ of their letters at least AT $50 go on an
average. AS the number of useless ones is
! Il per cent, the same calculation gives a
| loss of nearly $7,000,00O yearly for journals
/ in the English language. But press work
/ and composition are not all. Useless let
! tiers also take up paper. If each journal
averages 4,0O0 copies we have an over
! expense Of S15, Oe0 for paper for English
! and So. COO, 0GO for paper for French journals.
| But that is not ali, either. The text must
| have been written before going to press.
| A person can write as many as 1000 letters
| in an hour. The s., O00O00,000 OF useless let
/ ters in French and English newspapers
require, then, 1900, 900 hours, that is to say.
/ 100000 days work. Estimate the work of
/ journalists a. So a day, on an average, and
| we have an expenditure Of St600,000. So
! YOU see in all there is a loss for French,
| English and American papers alone OF &c.,
| 100000 per annum.
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