The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


"A correspondent of the New York Sun
declares that war between the United
states and Great Britain is sure 10 come.
Last year the seventeen-year locusts had
a great W on their wings. ! never knew
the sign TO fail. Before the civil and 1872
wars they also had a W."
You have no idea" said a woman
whose winter livery has, for years been
sealskin, according TO the New York Sun,
how many times 1 am conscious that
the quality of my sacque is being tested.
In other words, how many people there
are VINO IN a crowd, be it in a shop, at a
railroad station, along the street, or even
IN churcn, make practice of feeling my
se .:.t.A. zsacque that happens to be
and again has it happened 10 me. and a
curious sensation il is, too. Sometimes
II upon my back, sometimes it's along
my sleeves that / feel a stealthy touch
and then good solid plunge into the fur
IL dOesn u last more than a minute or
Two, and, OF course. / have the felicity of
knowing that my sealskin rings true eV-
cry Time; that after the first touch there
can be no chance of mistaking il for plush
-, tS.sVI u any Olher imitation, buI Tor
an that, II 8 queer sensation. I'm get
ting accustomed to it. though. Why, a
Few years ago, when sealskin plush was
so much worn, the coat / was wearing
then was felt at least fifty times a. daV
by some INSCRIPTIONS stranger, who
merely wanted TO find ont if in was real
SEAL "
There is a new disease not down in
the catalogue of the latest medical ex-
perts. Street railway conductors saws
the syracuse Post, are the persons af-
naI dozen employees of the Syracuse
street Railway Company have lately been
al1lcted more or less with a swelling of
the eyes, accompanied by partial blind
ness. The conductors in question with
out exception, stuck to their work, but
one OF them was forced to undergo med
lcal treatment He had observed from
time to time that his hands grew black
from contact with the brass ratings of
the car when he jumped on and off In
WINDY weather he had to wipe his eyes
more or less to brush away the moisture
Ihese two things he only observed after
ne was well along in the stage of the eye
trouble. he consulted a physician and
was treated for metallic poisoning lin
any recovering without difficulty Then
ne came to the conclusion that the con-
tact with the railing was responsible for
the trouble. Since that time he has worn
gloves and has not experienced the dis
ease. But those conductors who do not
man was afflicted for four weeks Motor
men are not troubled with the disease, as
they wear gloves.
WITHIN a short time the old home in
Klchmond of Jefferson Davis will be
thrown open to the public as a confed-
crate museum. The ''White House of
the Confederacy," as the mansion is call
ed, has been the property of the city of
richmond for many years, and lately has
been used as a schoolhQuse. In 1890 an
organization known as the Confederate
formed, and soon after made a PROPOSE
ton to the city which ended in that So
clety securing control of the house for
the purpose of opening therein a museum
ana library. The necessary repairs have
been almost completed, and the building
is as nearly in the condition it was at
the time of the fall of the confederacy
as IL is possible to make it. 1t is pro-
posed to assign room to each of the
seeding states for collection of rel
les, and in addition, there will be a large
FOR library. AmCng the relics are the
cape, gauntletS and sword of Gen Lee.
the plumes from Gen. Stuart's hat the
Spy-glasses used by Gen. Beauregard at
the battle of Manassas and the collec-
lions from the various soldiers homes
established through the south, including
the Lee Camp Soldiers Home collection
which contains, in addition to very many
rare and interesting relics the skin of
Stonewall Jackson's charger. There are
also number of manuscripts and pri-
Vate papers.
"A practical acetylene lamp has been
constructed by Mr.. Trouve, a French
chemist who has paid considerable at
tention to the new -illuminant 1t is well
known that acetylene gas is generated by
the immersion into water of carburetted
calcium. The new lamp is constructed
newly invented gas. Into the body of a
glass vessel, another cylindrical glass
bottle is placed, which may be hermeti-
cally closed on top, and which is supplied
this cylinder a round wire basket is
placed, which is filled with small pieces
OF the carburetted calcium. This BASKET
is introduced through the top of the cylin-
der; when the lamp is to be used, the out
er vessel is filled with water and the gen
Grafton of gas Immediately begins, and
there is soon sufficient pressure to give a
beautiful white flame The metal cover
of the VesseIis handsomely nickeled and
ornamented, and the lamp looks quite
neat in study or library. Through the
glass receptacle the bubbles of the gas
are seen constantly rising up. The lamp
is lit like any ordinary gas lamp, the gas
being turned on by means of an ordinary
! gas-cock. The light is strong. but of a
beautiful white color. and burns steadily
and without pickering. Acetylene gas
| generated in this lamp is perfectly color
| less, but if allowed to escape, fills the
room with a disagreeable odor. This dis
advantage can be entirely obviated how
| ever, in well constructed lamps.
Two Hebrews of Bagdad have bought
| the site of the ancient Babylon, where
| their people were once held in captivity,
| and beside the water of which they hung
| wept as they thought of the woes of Zion
| says the New York Tribune 1t is dificult
| to conjecture the object of these investing
| lsraelites; it cannot be for the purpose of
! getting even with the depressing Baby
! lonians, for there are none of them left,
| and have not been for nearly 1000 years
/ So far no real estate boom along the tt
! girls or Euphrates, or the Shaat II Arab
| has been reported, nor is there a sign of
| any. The object of the Bagdad Hebrews
/ in putting their money into this unim-
! proved Mesopotamian real estate must
! be left to conjecture. but the incident is
/ full of interest and shows how the whirl-
| igig of time brings in his revenges 1t is
| what Nebuchadnezzar would never have
1 dreamed of, and the Prophet Daniel would
! hardly have the courage to proclaim il
even If he had forboded it. According TO
/ the testimony of its clay tablets, some of
] their race held mortgages on a good many
! of its corner and other lots in it's most
/ staggering period but that was a very
/ different thing from owning the entire
! site, as their successors are now said TO
! do. 1t is possible that they merely intend
! TO make a corner in its archaeolo gical re-
mains, hitherto the spoil of any excavation
who came along. But time alone will re-
| veal their purposes. There is no Monroe
! doctrine there to prevent such territorial
| transfers, and no inhabitants to set up a
remonstrance. So that the change of own
ership VIII not occasion any local agita
ton. The region has been the abode Of
the desert lion and the jackal since the
campaigns of Hannibal and Crassus and
Nalerian, and there is little prospect thai
the new landlords will evict them or
/ make any other revolutionary changes in
nelghborhood arrangements.
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