The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Arthur Hopper. a laundryman Of Lon
don. England, has a daughter Wao re-
Joices in the possession OF . given names,
one for every letter in the Alphabet
This wonderful aggregation OF praeno-
mems, which taken together. make the
ever been bestowed upon any civilized
pfrsCn, is given: Anna Bertha Ceceiia
Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypaihla
Inez Jane Kate Louise Maud Nora Ophe-
liza Pearls ounce Rebecca Sarah Irixy
Inice Venus Winifred AenOphon Aeola
Zeus Hopper,
Rio de Janeiro. the capital Of Brazil,
has q VIGOROUSLY bad climate. ana the
government has resolved TO change the
site OF the capital. A scientific commits
sion has been appointed 10 select better
place The commission have selected a
plateau which should be a real land G
promise to the transmigrauts from The
coast The spot is between the parallels
OF 10 degrees 40 minutes and 10 degrees
s seconds south, and the meridians Of ~
degrees 20 minutes and 81 degrees west.
II is over 400 feet above the level of me
sea and its temperature resembles thar
OF middle France. There Is plenty CT
water for agriculture and no yellow fever.
The journey by railway from the coast is
a matter of some eighteen hours.
If the conclusions of NJ. Jauffert, the
great French scientist, are to be relied
upon, there is no reason why the skin
of the African should be black and that
of the Scandinavian of milky fairness
that is to say, there are no apparent eau
seS for this wide variation in color. Jauf-
fert says: The skin of the African negro
Is OF exactly the same anatomical Struc-
ture as that of the fair-skinned, fiaxen-
haired Norseman. 1t may also be shown
that in the mucous layers of the skin
OF dark Accomplishment whites. pigment
cells similar to those found in the Negroes
skin are developed in exactly the same
way they are in the blacklist African.
Moreover. freckles are of the same ma
ture as the blackness which has suffused
= nf of hn ina Al
barbarian tribes"
The Legrindo Valley Tropical Fr1it
Company of Palermo, Jamaica, recently
made one of the oldest exhibits ina gina
ole, says the ST. Louis Republic. 1t was
nothing more nor less than a perfect min
iature church of oranges. an exact model
i'm every particular of the Church of 81.
Francis, the oldest Catholic edifce IN the
valley. In carrying out the details of this
unique design model of old St. Francis
was made of boards, the size being one
seventh that of the original. Workmen
from the inside worked several days in
driving rows of spikes through the
boards. When this was was finished he
piemy church looked like some mon
strous freak of the porcupine tribe.
closely covered with bristling iron points
from foundation to the apex of the we'll
proportional spire. Every orange-grow r
in the valley contributed from peck to
nVe bushels of oranges. These were care
fully sized and slipped over the nail points
ana in a very short time the unsightlY
structure became a small but beautiful
church of golden yellow oranges not a
nail or section of framework being vis-
ibie, Every morning during the ten days
OF festivities which followed, the oranges
OF the day before We're replaced by fresh
ones. 1t is estimated that upwards OF
1908 bushels of fruit were used for this
purpose. This appears to be a great waste
of oranges but the exhibitors are of the
opinion the adv ertising will repay the loss
several fold.
Ono, f.FF -, .
weather was to cause an unprecedented
rush of orders for electric motor fans,
says the New York Times. one New York
firm alone had a demand for over 400 a
day for a whole week, and in the first
three days of last week alone IL sold over
? 100. There IS just now more activity in
the sale of motor fans than in any branch
OF electrlcal business, and electric fans
VIII soon be more common than sewing
machines. The public is beginning to real
lie how much exemption from discomfort
in hot weather depends upon this handy
little appliance. In offices il quickly pays
for itself, for it enables a man to do his
full share of work on days when the peo-
pie down in the street are hopping their
brows and blocking the sidewalk around
the thermometer. In a private house it is
useful in dozen ways, and if placed at
night in a bedroom, it brings refreshing
sleep, instead of the weary. wakefulness
of close, sitting atmosphere. A restau-
rant proprietor of Los Angeles gives to
the electric fan the credit of saving him
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smell of his kitchen became so perVasiVe
that II was driving all his customers away
After yainly trying different remedies, he
had large fan so fixed that all the fumes
of the cooking were drawn up a shaft and
passed into the outer air. The difference
in the atmosphere Of the restaurant was
not lost on the public; the business re-
turned, and soon went beyond all former
records. A writer in an electrical journal
tells of an experience in a factory gallery
where huge watts were Smmering The
coolest man in the factory was the atten-
dant standing over the vats who was
briskly blown upon by little fan motor
In another case valuable cook had given
notice to leave, in consequence of the heat
of the kitchen. The master of the house
was disconsolate, and told his plight to an
electrical friend who suggested. putting a
fan motor in the kitchen. This was done
and the cook is there yet and vows, more
over, that she will never leave except to
go to some other kitchen where a fan
motor can be found. What between cleo
trio cooling fans and electric heating de-
vices, we shall soon be able to take anv
kind of weather provided by the meteoro-
logical department. either in summer or
winter with perfect equanimity w II
Preece, the well known English telegraph
chief, dwelt in recent address, on the ex-
tent to which the creature comforts of
this generation are being increased nv
electric heating. During the last winter
he had his office kept constantly at 60
degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature which
the Englishman considers ideal in cold
weather, and all through the exceptionally
severe winter his office was ALWAYS COM
Portable, and its air was always fresh and
wholesome, thanks to his electric r9dia
tor. Mr.. Preece gave a humorous account
of some of his experiences in domestic
electric heating and cooking In his own
house he has an electric oven and the
dishes cooked in it are a perpetual nleas
ure. on his breakfast able is an electric
warmer that keeps the breakfast dishes
hot. Curiously enough, he had the warmer
fixed almost solely to accommodate his
boys, who would invariably lie i'm \hed in
the morning, and always come down IN n
cold breakfast. After vainlv irving for
years to break them of this bad habit he
got the electric hot dish so that nj ali
events the meal might be kept warm Tba
hoe plate kept the dishes in perfect order
but as showing the contrariness Of Tho
boyish race, the moment the bovs lost
the charm of the cold dishes. they came
down punctually to breakfast. and in fact
since that time he has been the last a,,j
they have been the first His dauobters
curled their hair with electric cnrIirt5
irons, and ran their sewing MACHINES rs
electricity, and in the kitchen the eiectrigg
current washed the dishes. cleaned tbe
knives and turned the ice cream freegar
Electric heating and refrigerating deNicas
were so distributed about the hOiIse itsoif
that in winter there was not a corner H.
was not cozy, and In summer not a snott
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