The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The bill Of fare al the recent dinner Of
The Lord Mayor of London was truly Gar
gantuan. To say nothing of the colossal
baron or beef, the fancy dishes, and the
sweets, there We're $50 gallons of turtle
soup, nifty Holsters. 30 large sOles, $50 tur-
Keys, partridges, pheasants. plOvers and
chickens, to be washed down by ESQ bot
ties OF wine among S56 guests. The rem
nants OF the feast went to the subordinate
officials. bandsmen, walters, etc, with a
goodly portion for the poor.
There are, according to the Washing
ton fost, Is lawyers in congress, forty
one farmers, twenty-seven editors twenty
eight manufacturers. one railroad mana
ger, two steamboat owners. fourteen
teachers and college professors, twenty
HNS Dahkers, twenty merchants, one house
Dulluer, three clergymen, seven who say
they are engaged in business eight
doctors, one architect, one music teacher
one owner of oil wells, five miners, two in
suranee agents, one theater manager one
manufactures of ice, three civil engineers,
nine lumbermen. two owners of stone
quarries, two real estate agents, one phar-
macist. and one steamship captain.
Cut flowers petrifed by a process
which preserves their color and then i'm
Dedded in a hard, transparent substance,
the composition of which is secret, is
now used Tor decorative thing or floor
ing The Upholsterer says this of it: "A
material has been discovered combined
with a process. which is the inventors
secret, for completely hardening and, so
TO speak, petrifying natural flowers land,
what is more wonderful, preserving their
colors), and Embedding them flush into
the surface of kind of liquid marble, or
alabaster, the whole receiving several
coating of a transparent polishing sub
stance, and drying hard a rock. Some
dadoes and friezes in a new house were
made by this method with sunfiowers
peonies and dahlias, and are said to be
very handsome. The London residence of
one of our cOuntrymen, whose identity
is concealed by the description " veal
thy American gentleman" has the con-
servatory, floor studded by this new pro-
cess with chrySanthemumS of every
known variety and color. Another floor
is deep-water effect, with white lilies
and with minnows swimming below a
transparent surface. The treatment is
beautifully applied, it is said to table
tops and small panels for decorative pur-
poses.
Wigs are supposed to have derived
their appelation from sour milk, says a
London cable letter. Politically the for
mer are hardly now recognized as a
marketable commodity, but sour milk
still commands a brisk sale, and is even
OF suihcient Importance to become the
subject of dispute in the Lambeth county
court. The case of Ruth VS.. Solomons
arose out of sour milk, and when the
facts really emerged from the speeches
Of the lawyers Judge Emden expressed
astonishment to find that a ready market
exists for such an uninviting commod-
ity- What on earth do people want with
it?'' he asked. The answer was supplied
by a witness who was described as one
Of the largest sour-milk contractors in
he explained, Gin the manufacture of
butter and cream cheese particularly. 1t
is also largely used in the manufacture
of biscuits" For the inspection of the
judge he produced, carefully wrapped
up in a piece of old newspaper, a piece
of superfne cream cheese made from sour
milk His honor looked at ii obviously
and merely expressed the hope that wit
ness washed his hands before engaging
in the manufacture of the ant fcle. BLESS
you, it doesn't matter" replied the gen
tleman cheerfully. English people don't
cat it. Oh no. 1t is the people who come
over here. The English won't touch it,"
Foreigners will therefore see that our
manufacturers consult their tastes in ev-
cry particular, and endeavor to satisfy
them, even to the extent of cream cheese
made from sour milk. Ultimately. the
dispute, whatever il was, ended in judg
ment for SIS, or half the amount claimed.
The amount of power expended in
playing on piano has recently been
figured out in a way which, If not alto
gether accurate, is at least interesting.
Commenting on the statement made that
1T requires more force to sound a note
gently on this instrument than it does
to lift the I'D of a kettle" the Ameri-
can Art Journal says that this is easy
to verify If one takes a small handful
of coins and piles them on key of the
piano. When sufficient quantity is
piled on TO make a note sound they
may be weighed and the figures will be
found to be true. If the pianist is play
ing -fortissimo, a much greater force is
is thrown upon single key to produce
a solitary effect. With cords the force
is generally spread over the various notes
sounded spontaneously, though a greater
output of force is undoubtedly expended.
This is what gives pianists the wonderful
strength in their fingers that is
told Of Paderewski that he could crack
a pane of French plate glass half an
inch thick. merely by placing one hand
upon it,, as if upon a piano keyboard,
and striking it sharply with his middle
finger. Chopin's last study in C-minor
has a passage. which takes two minutes
and five seconds to play. The total pres
sure brought to bear on this, it is esti-
mated, is equal to three full tons The
averase tonnage of an hours piano play
ing OF ChOpinS music varies from twelve
to eighty-four tons. Wagner has not yet
been calculated along these lines
"A new industrial departure of great
interest has been taken in Servia, where
a society for Bee and Fruit Culture has
been established. This society seeks TO in
troduce system of Bookkeeping On scien-
tiflc principles, and of developing the in
dustry on profitable basis throughout
that country, where until lately the peas
ants have been in the habit of keeping
their bees in conical straw skeps daubed
with mud or plaster and estrovine the
bees to obtain the honey 1t is DroDa HE
that the society will provide the peasants
with cheap straw skeps with supers as
well as bar,tramed hives and other desir-
able agricultural appliances, rays the ST.
Louis Globe-Democrat. The farm of the
society contains about 200 hives, placed in
regular rows over the ground feet 6 inch
es from each other. facing north. These
hives are all on the bar-frame princi-
pie, and of the pattern generally known
as Dzierzon hives, and they contain about
eighty pounds of honey in the comb when
full. They are made of wood, with straw
sides, and cost about s.. % each The bees
appear to be a species of the common bee
(apis mellifica), but are rather small in
size and unusually tractable. The Italian
bee (apis ligusticaD does not succeed well
in Seryia, becoming quickly merged into
the indigenous stock. The bee farm is pro-
vided with two centrifugal honey cxtrac-
tors of very simple design. but perfectly
practical. After extraction the honey is
put into glass bottles, with neat screw
tops, imported from Austria, containing
respectively half-pound, one-pound and
two pounds. The price of the honey is
about IL cents a pound, exclusive Of the
bottle for which an extra charge is made
The wax is sold to the wax dealers for
making into church candles, and realizes
about 80 cents a pound. The Importance
of encouraging bee culture is evidently re-
allied by the members of this society and
others interested, and the introduction of
law is in contemplation obliging ali
PRIESTS. SclOOlmaStprS and parfoi.,