The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A new imitation OF gold is made of
ninety-fOur parts Of copper and six OF
anthony with a little magnetism and
carbonate Of lime added, while IL is melt
cd. It is said that 1t preserves its color,
is an almost exact imitation Of gold and
that II costs only shilling pound 10
make it,
According to Cardan. a medieval
writer. the air is full of devils. who feed
on human souls. 1t will not do to be hasty
in judging such theories by the extreme
absurdity OF their appearance, for Para
celsius asserted that the entire air is fun
OF devils, who are too small TO be seem
He declared that these same devils are re-
sponslble FOR all human diseases ana 50
say all our doctors now. Only they call
them microbes instead of devils, which
may not make much real difference after
all.
The making Of artificial noses and ears
has become a good business within the
last Few years, says the Chicago Record
A nose Is first modelled to the proper
shape in papier-mache. and then IL is
waxed and vanished to the tint OF the
complexion OF the noseless person. Ordt-
Marty II Is fastened on by means Oh
pair OF spectacles, to the nose-piece Ct
which IL is firmly attached. In some
cases, however, where the remaining
stump Is large enough. II is clamped in
place and the spectacles are not neces-
sary. An ear Is made in much the same
way, but is far more difficult to attach.
| Most frequently small springs fitting into
the ear duct are used. but they are likely
in the end to seriously impair the hear
ing. Other physical deficiencies are rene
died by wigs, false teeth and glass eyes.
The last are made almost exclusively in
Thuringia, Germany, and the WOrkmen
are marvelously expert.
Superintendent Byrnes tells me. says
New York Advertiser writer that viewed
from the standpoint of criminal records
the Chinese are less trouble to the police
than the people of any other nationality
hV1ng IN this big metropolis. They are
peaceable, and fights among them are of
rare occurrence Their method of fight
| ing consists in grasping the enemy's pig
Tan hrmly in the left hand. and clawing
his face with the right. When a China
man attempts to fight with a white man,
he grasps for the pig-tail and not finding
II there, is disconnected and loses his coJSr-
age. Among themselves the Chinese In
New York are kindly, courteous, garruh
Gus, even jolly; with strangers they are
| reserved and solemn to the verge of melan-
| choly. They feel with some caase, that
| the hand of every Caucasian is against
them, and it is not until they are con-
/ WINGED that the stranger is a thoroughly
/ good Fellow, that they admit him into their
/ confidence. Then he finds them to be
amiable in disposition, courtly in man
her, shrewd in business matters, generous
I and hospitable. There are a number of
/ very rich Cinnamon in New York four or
/ I'VE, at least, who can draw their check
/ Tor from two to three hundred thousand
| dollars each. Most of New York's Chinese
| citizens are well to do. II one of them
! mas a streak of bad luck, his countrymen
! help 10 put him on his feet again.
! III lHh latest war news be true, and
| the mlkado IS to have his dominions in
| creased by the addition of Formosa, we
| may expect to have lot of new and pretty
/ things from that wonderful island in our
markets, says Chicago paper. one of
/ the most attractive of the whole number
are the fans made around Tai-wan-goo
| and Ta-kow. OF these the fan proper is
! cut from a palm leaf peculiar to the dis
/ trict. 1t is light, strong and perfectly
smooth IN shape it is like shield, with
] the point toward the handle, although
/ any design can be had upon request The
/ women artists sketch on both face and
PACK some pretty picture in outline, birds,
! landscapes, warriors, Chinese beauties,
| flowers, vases, temples, dragons and wild
/ animals being the favorite subjects. The
man or woman of the family goes over
the outline with a White-hOt iron, and
! thus burns the figure into the fiber 1t
/ IS atterward polished and finished. which
brings the pyrographic picture out into
Deaqtitul relief. The edge OF the fan is
braided in either silk. silk cord, silv er.
! gold or strings of pearls, and a hanCle
/ is affixed of bone and horn. of tortise
/ smell and ivory, of silver and tortoise
/ shell or Of carved ivory. Although the
amount of work on each fan. is very great,
can be secured for or 10 cents, while
the handsomer can be secured for a couple
! OF dollars. They are greatly priced in the
! far east, but apparently have never vet
found their way to this country in any
quantity.
1t is a mystery to enlightened west
ern nations how the Hindoos
ever managed to evolve such
a wonderful and frightfully exaggerated
idea of hell-as much of an enigma, per-
! maps as our fantastic ideas of the Internal
! regions will be to the more enlightened
believe in plurality of hells 1876 in all.
/ Ihis gigantic apartment house which has
| been especially prepared for the souls of
! the damned, is of unthinkable length and
breadth, and has walls more than 100
! miles in thickness. The intense heat of
! the interior keeps these walls at a white
fhTO1IQh their hn1
| shines light of such intense brightness
that It bursts the eyeballs of all who look
| moved FROM the fires by a distance of 400
| leagues" AS each soul is taken from one
| apartment to the other it is invariably
| met by Yamal1i, the Hindo Plato an ex-
aggerated devil 240 miles high, who has
hairs on his body which stand out like
palm trees. In each of these subdivisions
/ the tortured one is treated to something
! new and unique in the line of misery. In
! one he has his toe and finger nails plucked
| out, and the empty sockets, which for
| merly held his eyes filled with melted wax
and then has horns inserted in the places
| which in other days were occupied by the
organs of vision. In another he is forced
I to have his teeth pulled and heated to
| white heat, and is then compelled to swal-
low them along with large quantities of
/ pepper cakes and boiling oil.
Here is a little story from the Phila-
! delphia Press which seems to indicate that
/ the pretty girls business prospects are
| hampered by her prettiness The secre-
| tary OF large eastern insurance company
/ decided short time since that it would
| be better for his office work to introduce
| half a dozen or more women as tyne
! writer's, operators and assistant book
! keepers He had noted that of the femi-
nine employees in his office the pretty ones
were the least effective and attracted the
/ most attention, to the detriment of the
1 work of the other clerks. So he decided
/ to engage only women who were of mature
/ years and experienced in office work First
he advertised, stating that applicants.
] should give and her. Of
! perience. He did not succeed in getting
a single satisfactory reply. Then he went
| to well known business college and told
the manager that he did not suppose he
would have any trouble in aiding him, as
| he did not want young or attractive
looking woman. The manager listened to
him while he explained his wants. and
! then going to a desk took out a file of
! letters with a smile and laid them be-
! fore his visitor. There were upward of
half a hundred applications from banks
] and commercial Institutions. and auaru