The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-03
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There are in France two brothers with
the surname of Assassin. who recently
obtained the necessary permission from
the high functiOnary called keeper Of the
seals TO change their name 10 one less
offensive.
in England credit over the counter of
a public house is not recognized in law,
and the publican who allows his customer
10 drink without paying for what he or
ders cannot subsequently recover the
amount.
The Russian workman spends very
little for food, lodging and dress, as COM
pared with the foreign artisan. In Mos
COW, Tor example, the board Of work
man amounts to not more than ten shil-
lngs per month.
As a remedy for infantieide in Paris,
NJ Louis de GrammOnt proposes that
DaDy market be established where par
ents too Door or too Indifferent to take
care Of their children may sell them 10
IhOse VINO VIII look after them.
In 1898, when the Boring sea arbitration
took place, in Paris. Sir Charles Russell,
then attorney general. received with his
Driet a fee of 1900 guineas, an equal sum
being paid to Sir Richard Webster. This
IS one of the largest fees-prObably the
largest-known to the English bar.
Aluminium is not proving to be of
such value for surgical instruments as
was expected" says the Medical Times.
To be sure, 1t does not oxidize but il is
deficient in elasticity and stays bent after
pressure. 1t is also so light that the sur
geOn does not feel as if he had hold of
anything when grasDing a knife made of
"A saucerful of shaved ice may be pre-
served Tor twenty-four hours with the
thermometer in the room at 30 degrees r.
II the following precautions are observed:
Put the saucer containing the ice in a
soup plate and cover it with another.
race the soup plate thus arranged on a
good heavy pillow, and cover it with an
other pillow, pressing the pillows so that
them.
-Bicyclsts in the region round about
81 Jonn $, Mich, have a queer but sub
stantial grievance. The fields and farms
heItdbouts are bounded and guarded by
qulck-set hedges instead of by fences. At
inns time of the year the farmers trim
Jhelr hedges, and, as a consequence the
roads are strewn thickly with boughs
Iuli OF briars, sharp slivers Of tough wood
ana snort snippings of hedge points
which puncture bicycle tires.
An ingenious application of the horse
shoe magnet is found in tack hammer
recently invented. The head of the ham
I Iil5r rs Oh the ordinary shape, but the
nearly touching each other and fiattened
az the tip. These prongs are magnetized
llAe the poles OF an ordinary horseshoe
magnet anqawhen-ths hammer is intro
duced into d box or pal per of tacks it
P1chs UP one and holds it with the head
against s,l the tattened tip. the point of the
tack directed outward A light blow fixes
the tack in the wall, and it may then be
urlVeh IN with the other end of the ham
neT. rms does away with holding the
fingers.
One of the most remarkable organ
lZalons in the United States is the So
la la. Science club of st. Louis. Its mem
pershlp, says the Post-Dispatch. con
slsts of clergymen,i Unbelievers. orthodox
CHRISTIANS of every denomination. athe-
ISIS lnhdels, socialists, doctors, lawyers,
and single tax advocates There are also
number of ladies in the club. Freedom
OF speech is exercised in every discuss
ION ana the most radical differences of
Ollnl0n are a, matter of course. The
president OF the club is the Rev. DR..
X. A. Holland, pastor of St. Georges
episcopal church, and formerly stationed
IN IN New orleans. He says that during
the TOUR years existence of the society
religion has more than held its own in
the general results obtained. There are
over 400 members, representing almost
very religion and cult practiced in ST
Louis. The average attendance at the
meetings is about 100, while audiences
OF 100 and 200 have not been infrequent.
Inc cluO meets every two weeks during
the winter, and usually adjourns for the
summer.
Says a New York correspondent in the
Baltimore Sun: There is one thing that
It is almost impossible to find in New
York nowadays, and that is a bargain in
Old furniture, brass or antiques of any
description. twenty years ago, when
people placed little vlaue on articles of
furniture or adornment simply because
they had survived from prereVolutionary
days, there was many an old garnet in
the town that was rich in furniture that
had long been deemed out of fashion but
which would receive high honor in any
household of to-day. On the east side OF
the town there are dozens Of stores de-
voted to the sale of real and bogus an
tiques of all kinds many of which can
be purchased for two or three times
what would be asked for them if they
We're brand new. 1t is the custom to es-
tablish these antique shops in out-of-
the-way streets and to arrange the goods
In such a way as to suggest as far as
possible the mold, CRIME and cobweos
of bygOne years. The more dusty and
hlapidated an antique is the higher viii
be its cost, and at the same time the
purchaser viii have greater assurance
that its antiquity is genuine. There are
very few parts of the country that have
not been thoroughly explored by tho
searchers after old furniture. There are
still some remote places in Long Island
and Southern New Jersey where q bar.
gain may be picked up now and then, ant
certain parts of the south are said to be
still rich in old mahogany, but in New
England values are even higher thar
they are on Fourth avenue"
The gold which is taken from teeth
which have been filled or which is filed
or Scraped from the gold used in making
tooth-crowns or new gold filings is nc
inconsiderable item for dentist to con.
slider, says the New York Tribune. A
dentist recently said that the sweepings
from his carpet had netted him $35 in q
single month The little scraps of golc
that remain alter many operations are
gathered in bottles and sold a a fair price
to the dealers from whom gold is OBJ
tanned. In some cases the gold is mixed
with some other metal, or with dust, but
all of it has a commercial value. The
price paid by dealers is, of course, much
less than that asked for the sheets OF
gold bought by the dentist. Gold USED
| in dental operations is of several degrees
of fineness. Fourteen karat gold has it,
uses in the making of tooth plates. anG
other finger gold to the value of severa
hundred dollars at one time is not un.
usual with busy member of the profes.
sion. Where assistants are employed by
a dentist in the manufacture of teeth
the amount which they are to use Is
weighed out to them and a record is KEPT
of the amount which is used. The sweep.
ings from the laboratory often contain
much valuable metal Even the coats OF
| those who are at work on the gold are
carefully brushed and many particles Of
the precious metal removed and preserved
A vial containing bits Of gold mixed witt
other metals did not present an attractive
appearance when 1t was recently shown iT
a New York dentists Office, but the con.
tents of the vial were said to be valued
at S25 The dentist, of course, does moi
allow any reduction in the amount OF
his charges on account of the small bits
of gold which he fvo