The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I this color have been fOud by experiment
I to be stronger and more enduring than
I the brown ones now used.
! "A recent invention in Germany looks
I TO the direct production OF electric energy
I from coal. The device is gas battery"
I working with carbonic oxide. air and
I chloride Of copper. Ii has been received
with some enthusiasm in the country OF
I Its inventor. but in England it's practical
I utility Is still in question.
/ There is, Of course. quite as great
temptation 10 coin privately American sill
yer dollars as the Spanish peseta. Of
which 24,e0,0g0 are reported to have been
put into circulation from private minis.
I The American inventor of a machine for
I casting jewelry undertook to demon
strate the excellence of the matrix by cast
lng several silver dollars, and the result
was a coin that, seemingly. differed in
/ no way from the minted dollar save slight
( ly in the ring. The inventor asserted that
I the casting Of a dollar would give a profit
OF nearly 100 per cent
The influence of diet on the growth Of
/ hair has often been discussed. 1t has been
shown that starchy mixtures. milk and
many other foods recognized as being
/ highly nutritious, are, in fact. sure death
to hair growth. Chemical analysis proves
that the hair is composed Of per cent.
OF sulphur. and Its ash; of % per cent of
silicon, and 10 per cent of iron and man
ganese. The foods which contain the
larger per cent of the above named ele-
Henry pointedly says: Nations eat most
meat have the most hair"
Kate Fields Washington SAYS that
some genius has devised for sleeping cars
q system OF beds made of rubber bags,
which are to be stretched over steel
frames and inflated with hot air from the
locomotive. In fifteen minutes an entire
Ger can be made ready for the night. In
the morning, when the hot air is turned
on, the mattresses and pillows will I'M
| mediately collapse. Such beds, il is
more comfortable than those made now,
and could be tucked away in far less
space when not in use.
A bee expert says that when the wea-
| Their is fine a worker bee can visit from
! forty to eighty flowers in six or ten trips
ana collect grain Of nectar. II it Wis
| its 200 or 400 flowers IL will gather five
| grains. Under favorable circumstances
1t will take a fortnight to obtain fifteen
grains. 1t would, therefore, take it sew
| eral years to manufacture a pound of
! honey, which will fill about 1900 cells. A
| hive contains from 10000 TO $4,000 bees,
| half Of which prepare the honey, the
| hive and the family. on a fine day 5000
/ or 10000 individuals will. in six or ten trips,
| be able TO explore from $1,000 to 100000
| flowers, say several hundred thousand
plants.
The japanese language has some fea-
| lures which puzzle beginners in its use,
| says the Troy Times. In English when
/ one has learned the name of rice that ends
/ II. Not so in Japan. Begin with cooked
| rice meshi. When eaten by a child il is
| called mama In speaking to another per-
| a merchant sells it, uncOOked, ii is kOme,
| and as IL grows in the field it is inc. SO
/ EaIpeHlSI IooI' or shak9 Is ABOUT WE'VE
| inches, but tailors is fifteen. kin or
! pound of beef is fourteen ounces. of flour
| twenty-One. of sugar over thirty. The ri
| or mile varies in different provinces, and
/ on the Fujiyama ascent half ri is marked
a ri, because it's so much harder work
| going up hilli
London is watching with considerable
| interest just now the doings of a hypnotist
! at the Aquarium, who put his Subject"
into trance for a week at time, during
which period he takes no food, is uncon-
| Scous of all external happenings and IS,
in fact, practically dead to the world. The
| hypnotist says there is no reason why the
trance should not be extended almost in
definitely. Humorous commentators sug
geSt that in this way many of life's evils
might be avoided one who hates travel
by railway might be hypnotized al the
station, and, with a label bearing the
name of the town where he wants to go
upon his back. be packed away in train
| like q side of beef. Those subject to sea-
| sickness would find the process a most
| useful preparation for crossing the chan
mel, and workmen with no employment, re-
! jected lovers, or men sent up for ten
| days, might all derive advantage from
dreamless sleep, prolonged to any nee,
eSsary extent.
To-day Paris, regarded as a fortified
center is an intrenched camp upon the
| margin of which are numerous new per-
manent forts, says the National Review.
| The circle formed by the line of these
| new forts, which are tdr outside the forts
| Of 1870, is about IS miles in circumference,
| and it contains about $50 square miles.
not more than one-seVenth of that area
| being built over. 1t is a region nearly as
! large as Monmouthshire with a popula-
| ton of 5000, 900 The smallest possible cir
! cult to be formed around it by an invest
| ing army is 100 miles, so that a least $780,
| 600 men actually upon the spot would be
| required to undertake any serious opera
| tions for the reduction by seige of the
! French capital. In practice no fewer than
| I 00O(M would he necessary. And fortified
! Paris although so much more extensive
! than it was in 1870, can, nevertheless, be
| defensively held at present by 100000 men,
while-i if 100000, or even more, were called
for they could without detriment to the
| field armies, be provided out of the g. 700,
| 600 trained soldiers whom France now has
at her disposal.
-Engravings by dynamite, by which such
exquisite tracings Of delicate leaves grass
| es and ferns are made on metal surfaces
| through the explosive force of the material
| was discovered accidentally Some Of
| ficers at the naval station at Newport were
testing a new fuse. In some way small
dried leaf had slipped in between the dy-
| Mantle cartridge and the iron block on
| which the charge was fired, and a perfect
| imprint of the leaf was left in the metal
| The discovery was afterward utilized in
decora tive work, and the process is found
| so accurate in operation that even the
| veins of the petals of flowers can be re-
produced in metal; writer IN an engl-
! neering journal calls to mind another SER
vice of unusual character into which dy-
Mantle has been drafted namely, the
| driving of piles. Some years ago the
foundations were being prepared for a
public building in da-Pesth, and the
/ preliminary work of pile driving had
| been finished 1t was however, discovered
that a change in the construction of the
building would be necessary, which would
| add considerably to its pressure on the
| foundations. The piles, therefore, had to
be driven in further. The expense of
bring a pile driver to bear on each pile
/ for so small an amount of work would
have been very great, and it was decided
to try dynamite. The piles were cut
square and capped with a wrought iron
! Mate about fifteen inches in diameter
! and four and one-half inches thick. In
| the center of this plate was placed a
! cake of dynamite, six inches in diameter
| and about three-quarters of an inch
| thick 1t was wrapped in parchment
paper, covered with clay and ignited. The
| effect of the explosion was equal to five
| I,louvc from a 1 5N0-pOund monkey falling