The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

come drops OF such magnitude that they
ran 10 the earth because Of their weight.
There is a limit TO the quantity of water
which the air Is capable of absorbing and
retaining as invisible vapor. Warm air is
able 10 hold more than cold air. Hence,
when the air which is saturated with
moisture becomes cold for any reason
whatever. il can no longer retain its mOis-
lure portion must, under such cOndi-
ton, accumulate into drops. These fall
10 the earth in the shape of rain.
The exchange in the city Of COpenha-
gen, says Tft-BHs. with its curiOusly
fashioned tower and spire is deemed one
Of the sights OF Denmark's capital 1t is
one of the most remarkable examples
Of eccentric architecture, although the ar
chitect, in his desire for originality, has
not sacrificed the grace of form. The
lower part IS Octag0nal in shape but the
upper part consists Of four carved drag
ons, whose tails. gracefully entwined
gradually taper away and form the Spire
OF the exchange. The tower is 165 feet
high and was erected about 1915. The
most eccentric church spire is that of the
parish church (Al SaintsD of Chester
neld, with its curious spire 22S feet
nigh. and six feet of the perpendicular.
Whichever way the observer looks at
this curious spire it appears TO bulge out
in that direction.
Japan, with territory not quite equal
IN area to that of California, has a popu-
latlon of 100000 people, with wages
averaging 10 TO 20 cents day. California
has population Of only 1.200.O CO., with
wages for unskilled labor avera ging from
Sl0U TO = day. In California the eli
mate is similar TO that of Japan and it
costs a japanese only $50 to change his
residence. These facts lead the San
Francisco Bulletin to anticipate an un-
welcome addition to the population of
California, with results disastrous to the
interests of Wage-earners. unless immi-
grafton Is restricted. Labor Commission
er Fitzgerald of California reports that
japanese laboFers can now be hired in
that state from 40 to 80 cents a day. on
the other hand, Fresno grape-raiser re
ports that he will pay such labOrers $50
a day, but cannot secure them.
The habit of carrying matches loose in
a pocket is always condemned by sensible
people, but many smokers carry matches
mus ana never dream of danger, says the
Philadelphia Record. a young man of this
nature lazily walked through the doorway
of the controllers office one day last week
and the door, swinging back. closed On
his coat. With a smOthered imDrecatiOn
he released his garment and proceeded
down the corridor. He met some friends at
the eastern end and chatted for few mo-
mentS before one of the party noticed
smoke curling about the mans collar. He
called his attention to it. and S the man
threw open his coat ii burst into flames.
He had it of in a second, and the flames
were eXtinguished before the outside of
the coat was injured. although the lining
was entirely destroyed. The slam Of the
door had ignited the matches and the fire
had smOuldered on the inside. bursting into
flames as soon as air was admitted. 1t is
safe to say that this particular young man
will carry matchbox after this.
Electric locomotive No. 2. the latest
electric giant put on the Belt railroad,
added new laurels on Monday night to the
noteworthy performances of locomotive
No. !, says the Baltimore Sun. No. haul
ed % loaded cars, two dead engines and
a caboose, a total weight of about 400
tons, through the tunnel at the rate of
q miles an hour The train entered the
tunnel at the speed of 20 miles an hour.
a stop was made in the tunnel. and with
all drawbars stretched the start was
again made without a slip of the wheel.
In doing this and accelerating the train
up to the speed of % miles an hour a
drawbar pull of $3.50 pounds was exert
ed. With this tremendous strain the
engineer say the least jerk would have
snapped coupling pin and broken the
train apart. From one of the locomotives
on the rear end of the train. where a
jerky motion would be felt the greatest.
an entire absence of such a Jar was
noted. During the work an imput of 4, 100
amperes al a pressure of 800 volts was
measured. The test is regarded as the
severest yet attemptd by such a locomot-
i've.
A communication was lately present.
ed to the Statistical Society of Paris in
which the budget of well to do private
family was carefully analysed. The fam
lily consisted of a father and mother,
three sons, aged from 10 to a. two daugh-
ters, of 16 and II and two female servants.
The total expenditure of this family in
1894 was S,l40. The particulars were set
forward with the greatest fullness and
the taxes on each item of expenditure
computed. The expense of the family
habitation was $500 and the taxes were
29.45 per cent of this. on food the taxes
were 2O,65 per cent, on heat and light q
per cent, on transportation % per cent,
on clothing II per cent, on entertain
ments SO per cent. Upon $2.779 expendi-
ture the average tax was % per cent.
Upon expenditure for repairs. domestic
service, doctors, education and wages
which amounted to Sl.3l1. no attempt to
compute the rate of taxation was made
items as belonging to the budgets of other
families, so far as the incident of taxa
ton is concerned. 1t would seem, there
Iore, tnat not lar from one-quarter of
the income of the Well-tO-do bourgeois
French family goes to meet the exactions
of the government.
Mr.. f. G. Jackson has marvellous tales
to tell of the reindeer. their speed and
endurance as animals of draft-so mar
yelous, indeed, that he must forgive us
Tor suggesting that he has made a mistae
in his figures. q have myself" he writes
in the London Spectator, driven three
reindeer distance of 12O versts within
twelve hours without feeding them. and
heard OF a case where Zirian deer from
Ishma, on the Pechora river, to Obdorsk
on the Obi. distance of 300 versts, with
in twenty-four hours. - reindeer
or Samoyed verst. by the way. is equal to
four Russian versts." In other words
Mr.. Jackson says he has driven three
Deer 9..i lor WE'VE hours at the rate Of forty
RUSSIAN Versts, or twenty-seven English
miles, an hour. And the Zirian, with a
similar team, covered 10 miles in twentv-
four hours. The latter. by the way, must
have crossed the Ural mountains ana
one or two rivers in the bargain. Surely
there must be some mistake. There exists
1t IS true. well-known tradition of a
reindeer which once-about 1900 we believe
carried important dispatches for the
King of Sweden 800 miles in forty-eiebt
hours, and, dying in the service Of The
KING, Is still preserved-in skeleton form
In northern museum. But that. after
all, is only a tradition Better authenti
Gated records do not give a higher rats
or speed than $50 miles to nineteen hours
which is considerably higher than What
Is attained by any other animal
When tumbler or other glass ,,essoI
is broken, says the New York Times a.
you think its usefulness is gone? If is NO.
by any means 1t is tossed into The asS
barrel indeed, but 1t is pretty sure 10 re- re-
appear in another form on the table II
making glass it is usual to melt tho No
terials together with a quarter or haif
their weight of "cullet"-that is brolra,a
glass of the same kind. This uses m eeraot
quantities of broken glass which the rsot
pickers carefully sort out from the barrels
and dumps Some of the coarsest glass is
melted and colored in the paste, Wban IL
is cold 1t is broken into Irregular niecas
and sold for cheap mosaics in the 6eeoro
tons OF shops, while the broken bottles
are ground up to make sand or glass no
per. Bones have q long caraar. of - -