The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

10000 was given 10 charitable and educa-
tiOnal institutions.
in one Of the school districts OF Bos-
ton, containing over a thousand pupils
70 the several grades, not more than
dozen Of the children are Americans
or Of American parents In one grammar
school, numbering about eight hundred,
there is one American boy. What is more
hardly per cent. Of these little foreign
eTs speak the English language. The work
oil making them over into American citi-
zens, therefore, begins with the very fun
damentals Of speechs
England consumes 10000 pounds or
about 100000 gallons of tea every day.
which is as much as is used by the rest
of Europe, North and South America, At
RIGA and Australia combined. The green
tea OF former days has almost ceased to
be known, while the Twankay. HYsOn
and gunpowder teas are seldom heard
from. China only supplies one-tWelfth of
the quantity. the rest coming from India
and Ceylon. The Indian tea goes half
as far again as the Chinese. as regards
color and flavor.
An Italian paper says that the violin
cello upon which Signor Pratt plays is
valued at 5000 1t is a Ruggueri instru-
ment According to this same authority
all the prominent fddlers have small
fortunes invested in their violins. Ysaye
has Guardagnini worth $500. and Jean
Gerardy plays upon Guarnerius valued
at $4,000 Dr. Joachim has large col
lection of valuable Violins. The Stradi-
varius that belongs to Ernst and said to
be worth $4,000, has come into posses
sion of Lady Halle.
hours. or two hours a day. from the age
of to II. He probably considers these
six years as time wasted Our severe ill
| nesses are estimated at one hour a day
/ 2O.015 hours. our unhappiness and moral
sufferings deprive us of TWO hours day
| f0,150 hours. These little tribes subtracted
/ from the grand total of life leave 2'S.SjO
/ hours, or thirty-two Yeas, three months
/ and one day, more or less, as the time
man of 50 years lives only fourteen or
/ fifteen years; the one who dies at 70 lives
| only eight or nine years.
| Big sleeves are not a new thing, az
/ will be seen by the following ordinance in
regard 10 them adopted by. the town of
/ enacted. That hereafter no person what
/ soever shall make a garment for women
| or any other sex with sleeves more than
| half an ell wide in the widest part, and so
prOportionate for bigger or smaller per-
sons. And for present reformation of inn
/ moderate great sleeves and some other
/ superfiuities which may easily be re-
/ dressed without much prejudice or spoil
/ OF garments, 1t Is ordered, etc.
In view of the fact that so many peo-
/ pie are prejudiced against muskrats, says
1 the Baltimore American, ii is surprising to
/ Know that from five to six hundred of
/ these animals are dressed and sold in the
! Baltimore markets every day, bringing
/ or 10 cents apiece. The market for
/ muskrates is now opening up, and visitors
along Light and other streets in South
Baltimore, where commission houses are
! located, see barrels of the rats in front
! of the stores. and the air is filled with the
/ perfume of musk. A great many of the
rats came up from the eastern shore
/ yesterday. One commission man sold a
/ barrel in less than half an hour. Musk
| rat hunting has become quite an industry
/ along the eastern shore in the early spring.
! They are caught especially for the hides,
which bring from 10 to 40 cents apiece
according to size, etc. The Nanticoke
river is said to be the best place for the
rats, but they are also quite numerous
in the little creeks and small rivers which
/ make into the Chesapeake Bay from
the different sections of the state.
The output of bicycles in the United
| States this year is estimated at 100000 and
| it may reach 10000, which may be dou-
| BILE the production of any previous year.
| We now import very few wheels; tbs
| imports this year may not exceed 5000.
| The exports are increasing. We shall
| probably send to France this year from
| $500 to 5000 bicycles. We have made a
| beginning in England, but the business
has been slow there, as ii was expected to
be. Half a dozen American manufacture
| erS now have agents in Europe Only
wheels of the highest grades are export
ed. American wheels are 'supplantng
the English in the Mexican cities where
| wheels are used, and in Havana there
are three or four agencies of American
| wheels. The remarkable increase in the
number of bicycle riders Is due, of course,
in large measure TO the many and great
Improvements made in bicycles. Many of
the best riders, desiring to ride up-to-date
wheels. buy a new one whenever new
Improvement appears. Sooner or later
! of course the wheel will be approximate
~ perfected and the number of bicyclists
will have reached a limit; but manufac-
turers do not look for any diminution in
the interest in wheeling.
Common soap has just been discovered
to be the best antiseptics, says the New
! York World. For years scientists have
sought an antiseptic which would be al
the same time cheap and effective, and like
mo n M D. or IA hN
finding the looked for object under their
noses. Recent experiments made in Ger
many by Prof. Max Jolles have proved
that a solution Of soap is perfectly capable
of killing the microbes of typhoid fever
and cholera. With one per cent. Solu-
ton twelve hours of contact are neces-
sary. but with a solution of from seven to
10 per cent. only few minutes suffice to
destroy the germs of disease. Thus the
hands or clothing washed in soapsuds and
nothing else would etfectually be freed
from the possibility of spreading conta-
gion Prof. Jolles also asserts, as the
result of his Investigations, that it is not
Indispensable to kill the microbes at once
in order to render them harmless, but
that substance capable of DISCRIMINATING
them in shorter or longer time com
mences its action by alternating their
virulence and rapidly causes them to be-
come innocuous.
Nine tailors make a man. This express
sion, says the Chicago News, brings us
TO the consideration of the universal Gus
practice regarded as almost sacred in
most minds as being one of the ceremon-
les attached to the Christian faith. Its
origin however. is a very supersttious
one. and the ringing of bells was former
| ly practised from belief in their efficacy
to drive away evil spirits The "tailors'-
in the above phrase is a corruption OF
| the word "tellers,' or strokes toiled at the
end of a knell Immediately on the death
of person a knell is tolled. the ide.
having originally been, as previously On
served, to keep off hostile spirits from
the now departing one. In some places
the departure of adult was announced;
by nine strokes in succession; six were
rung for woman, three for child. Hence
II came to be said by those listening for
the announcement, Nine teliers make a
man As this custom became less gen
eral and this allusion less generally ur-
| derstood, there was an easy transitior,
from the word "tellers' to the more IA
miliar one "tailors" At the present day
at Wimbledon it is still the custom 10 toil
nine times for a man.
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