The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Several New Workers on Wednesday
saw 90 loaves OF bread made from Two
barrels OF -four BY a process Wholly new new
ed. hghtened and baked without being
touched BY human myers DR.. Guy u
London whose name has been made IA
nous BY Guys hospital. has announced
thar he discovered among III jOurnsymzn
bakers Is diseases, or more than one dis
ease for each Of the men employed IN
mixing and kneading the dough from
which bread IS made for the greatest
city In the world The new bread. thas
Is now being Manufactured by the ideal
process, IS aerated, and all is done BY ma
Ch.nery-
The Derivation Of Fad-The deriva-
ton Of this word is possibly traceable IN
the Welsh language, says Notes and Quer-
les. BY the law OF mutation OF initial
cOnsonants peculiar TO that tongue, the
root words ffedd and medd are convert
bic terms. Their essential meaning is pos
session transitive or intransitiVe, posses
sion OF something or the act OF being
possessed or engrOssed by some occupa-
ton or vice. Welsh medd. and Irish San
skirt, and English mad have similar
meanings. and are probably kindred words.
The word mad is not common in Teutonic
idioms. so that the AnglosSaxons prob
ably borrOws II from the Welsh. Fad IS,
therefore. equally derivable from ffedd.
Fortunately. Of course. IL comes from the
Midland dialects and ultimately from some
root word common 10 many members CT
the Aryan family Of speech II would be
strange IL the two words, mad and fad,
having similar meaning, should be trace
able 10 the same root.
Letters in the China papers refer 10
the beginning Of the * tie season." says
the London Daily News. A correspond
ent al Chinanfu writes: Il have been
more than usually interested this season
in noticing the various shapes of the
kites flying in the air or exposed for sale
at the city gate. The most artistic J
have seen was in the shape Of a bril-
liant red butterfly two feet or more across
the wings. which was really beautiful as
il gracefully flOated high up in the air.
Another which struck me specially was
spindlng body and broad. spreading
wings. The serpentine kite seems to be
common nerd consists OF representations
OF human figures shapes or flies, beetles,
cicadas, etc. The other day, returning
from the city. / saw for the first time
a small kite made 10 simulate mud tUr-
tie. Imagine such a grOveling creature
soaring alOft as a light and airy thing!
Perrin is preparing 10 fete the Tooth
birthday 6i, ;, Of the house number, says The
Paris OF q century ago C4phered- houses
did not exist The coat of arms the house
name or the signboard were the only in
dicatlons TO guide our ancestors wander
ing feet by day or dark. Waterman.
what Of the night, and where the deuce
am r. must often have been the cry OF
these bewildered minds. Berlin began 10
number houses in 1875. Starting from the
Branderburg Gate, the Prussian edilas
counted straight on to inhnity, neither
beginning afresh with fresh streets, nor
numbering the houses by odds, and evens.
Vienna adopted the latter reform in 1906,
and Paris followed in 1905. The ciphered
house came 100 years ago; the ciphered
citizen is surely coming. Already a postal
society is being formed in Vienna TO sup
press all names and addresses, and TO de-
liver letters by a system of private marks
and identity tickets Our familiar ad-
dresses viii look 100 years hence ike
the beginning Of an algebraical problem,
and our personality viii be reduced-liNe
the government majority-to mere ex-
preston OF naughts and crosses.
"A precious stone, which at the pres
ent time is very valuable because IL is the
stone OF the hour, is the peThlOt. or even
ing emerald, says the Montreal Star.
II is a lovely stone, with its exquisite
shades of transparent green, the best
suggestion of whose hue is the effect
produced by looking at the light through
a delicate leaf. jewelers. say that the
peT.dOt is a species of Divine. of the same
class as the beryl, aqua-marine, and the
topaz, and that II is in fact the ancient
'topazion,' otherwise known as chryso-
lite. 1t is found in Egypt, Ceylon and
Brazil, good crystals being exceedingly
rare. OF rhe various shades of green
olive, leaf pistachio. or leek, the clear
green leaf is the most admired. OF all
these precious stones the peridot is the
most difficult 10 polish. The final touch
is given on a copper wheel moistened
with sulphuric acid a process which re-
quires the greatest care, for if dipped into
of becoming soluble. Sometimes IL is cut
in rose form, or like a Carbuncle, but il
IS better and more valuable when worked
IN small steps, as the brilliance is thus
increased. Owing 10 the quality Of soft
ness, the peridot has been considered of
little value, but now that II is the fash
ion fabulous prices are charged for the
stone.
The smallest commonwealth of the
world is tho little republic Tavolara, upon
tne little island Of the same name, sit
of the Island of Sardinia. Tavoiara Is
an island about one mile in diameter,
ana inhabited al present by % people.
men. women and children. In 1886 Kari
Albert, then King Of Sardinia, bestowed
the supremacy over this little isle upon
the BartoIeOni family, and for IS years
King Paul l. reigned in peace in his do
main. he died on May 80, 1882. and
shortly before his demise called all his
falthful subjects to his bedside and de-
clared II. TO be his earnest desire that
none OF his relatives could succeed him
as the head of the government in the ISL
and, but that he considered it for the
pest that the good people of Tavolara
should govern themselves After this
last wish no candidate for the vacated
throne could be found among the family
OF the deceased, who were used 10 con-
sider their kings wish law, and the lit
tie island remained ungoverned for four
years At last, in 1856, the little island
was declared a republic. Their consti-
tuition gives elective franchise to both
TO serve six years. None of their Off
GERS receive any compensation.
Mr.. Andrew Maxwell, a well known
merchant in Glasgow, was in the Island of
Arran some years ago with his mother and
sisters, says Good Words. The weather
was unusually warm, and his venerable
mother suffered so much from the heat
that her hands became swollen, and as
her marriage ring was fretting her finger.
one OF her daughters, after no little coax
ing, persuaded her to allow its removal
10 the dismay of the daughter. the ring
was lost, but she procured another so like
the old one that the change was not no.
tlced when II was placed on her finger
Next year the family went back 10 the
same house, and in the autumn, when the
farm servant in neighboring building
having boiled potatoes for the pigs. was
crushing potato in her hand she felt
something hard, and on looking al this
thlng inside the potato, she exclaimed to
one OF the Maxwell servants, who was he
SIDE her: Here's a ring in the pota To ;,
ana showed thin, worn, marriage hoon
pelleVe, said the other, lit is my mis-
tfess ring, and we can find that our he
cause her initials were inside the hoop -
On examining it there were the initials
ana the lost ring was identified, II had
evidently been swept out among the ashes
the aSheS thrown upon the ashpit the con-
tents or the aShpit on the nofat 10 6e15