The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Is strange, by the way. how inconsistent
people are In their way OF looking al
things II some one were to bride the Gu
rator Of a modern cemetery 10 let him
nave two dead bodies. and were then to
pace these bodies in a public museum;
there would be howl OF Indignation all
over the country, and the peTpetrator OF
the deed would be called a ~,iOul But
these princesses lived a long rue ago,
anyway, no one objects to their Geing
taken from their resting-place. Besides,
now could we study archaeology II we
didnt rife the graves Of the venerable
In Los Angeles. In A jewelry store, a
three horsepower motor is used in the
worked by the motor is described as a
new invention. and is said 10 be the only
one Of the kind in the country. In the
old method Of cutting the stone was
centered on the end of a stick or piece Of
prass and held by the end on the grind
ing lap. In the electrical y-driven ma
chine the stone is held by a quadrant,
which is adjusted by a set screw TO its
required position on the lap. As many
as % stones can, IL is stated, be cut at
one time, and the method Of adjustment
IS so accurate that in no case would there
re the slightest possibility of over-grind-
ing even II an attendant were to leave
the machine TO look after other duties.
/ This enables the cutting to be done with
certainty and minuteness. The quadrants
are all indexed TO cut any style of stone.
The vervain humming-bird is the small
est bird In existence. says the Philadelphia
Times. 1t is very little larger than our
familiar bumble-bee. It's plumage is very
brilliant in cOlOring. Two specimens are
on exhibition in the national museum at
| Washington. and the tiny balls Of bright
colored feathers average about 1-3 Inches
IN iength- The nest is a frail and almost
perfect piece of bird architecture II is
composed Of mOsses, vegetable fiber and
Wild cotton, with a delicate lining of spi-
DER webs. In gathering the latter mate
rial II Is no uncommon occurrence for the
little birds 10 become ensnared in the webs
or the larger spiders by which they are
killed. The size of the vervain's nest is
three-fourths of an inch in diameter across
/ the cavity, and slightly more than an inch
IN total diameter The eggs. always two
| in number. are pure white. They never
measure more than one-third of an inch
! m length by one-ffth of an inch in width
Ihese dimlnutve birds are found only in
! the island of Jamaica.
Everybody has heard OF strawberry rash
ana Shad rash. but Quinine rash is some
| thing new, SAYS the Philadelphia Record.
| a prominent manufacturer told of its raw
! ages at the Union League yesterday after
noon Said he: 1T broke out on me like lit
| tie water-blisteFs. and becoming alarmed
consulted my doctor. he knew / had Deen
IN the habit of taking large doses of quin-
| Inc, ana told me IL came from that. Well
stopped the Quinine, and the rash disap-
| peared. Last week ! decided to change my
| barber, and went 10 q new shop. The next
| day the rash broke out again, as bad as
/ ever. l knew l hadn't taken any quinine
| Tor month, and I couldn't account for It,
1 went back to the barber shop, and after
shaving me the barber began using some
STUN on my head. got Whit of 1t, and
| then II all became clear to me. What is
| that you are putting on my head?' | asked
| ON, that's just a preparation Of quinine
10 lnNlGorate the scalp, he replied. That
settled It, and the mystery was cleared
away. The quinine from the hair inviRor-
atOr had gotten into my system and
brought out the rash. Funny. wasn't it?'
In the Massachusetts School for the
| Blind is little girl named Edith Thomas,
| says the New York Times. She is deaf and
| dumb, as well as sightless, but thanks to
admirable training received at that mag
nihcent Institution she is as intelligent
| as any child of her age, can read and write
| and enjoys multitude of pleasures and
| taxes part IN multitude OF activities that
| a rev years ago, were far beyond the reach
| of such unfortunates. In a report Just re-
| cetVed by her teacher appears a pathetic
anecdote. Edith was reading-with her
! nnger tips, of course-a paragraph in
| which were several difficult words She
| stopped to inquire what the first of them
meant, but passed the others without ques,
| ton. A moment later, when asked to ex-
plain one of the long words she confessed
| her complete ignorance as to its signin-
canoe, but added quickly, Il do not care II
| not, the teacher says, an expression of
WEAKNESS or mental Incidence. Apparently
1t was prompted by mingling OF philo-
| sophie resignation to inevitable limitations
| and of considerate hesitancy to give trou-
bic when the necessity for it was not quite
| obvious.
! Oldest and most widely diffused order OF
plant, says Good Words While other or
ders Of plants have died out and become
| mere FOSSIL remains in the rocks. this order
! has survived the geological changes of
many different periods, on account of its
| power of adapting itself to those changes
/ And these changes in their turn have only
made II better suited for all the varied soils
| and climates of the earth of the present,
| day. We find members of this order In
| every part of the globe, in places as far
| apart from each other as they can be- II
| is the prevailing and dominant order of
! vegetable life, and the most highly finished
| and the most successful family of plants
| And the dandelion is one of the most per-
| feet forms belonging to it. II is the head
/ and crown of the vegetable kingdom, as
| man is the head and crown of the animal
| creation; and it is curious how this high
| est type of plant always is found only
! where man, the highest type of animal life
! IS found, and where he dwells or cultivates
| the soil. 1t is never found apart from him:
/ 1t follows him wherever he goes--to Amer
| lea, Australia and New Zealand; and there
| IN the new home II becomes a silent but
! eloquent reminder of the dear old land he
| may never see again.
"A new invention for the production of a
| fabric for window blinds is reported from
| Yorkshire, England, says the T'pholsterer
| The material and apparatus employed and
] the process adopted in the manufacture
| give fabric that is transparent from the
/ room, but opaque from without The fabric
/ contains linen, aluminium, isinglass, DO
| raX, tallow, etc. The apparatus contains
! cylhoer lllled with patent classifying
! compound in which bobbins of linen warn
are placed. The yarn is saturated and coat
| ed with this compound as it is wound off
the bobbins, and drawn through an opening.
| at the top Of the cylinder; it is then passed
| over a roller situated above this opening
! and down to a series of heating and dry
| ing plates; then around another roller TO
| the rewinding arrangement of the anna
| ratus, where the yarns are wound lIpon
| the bobbins again, and are then ready for
| a knitting machine. The inventor claims
| that this blind is so flexible that If can he
| easily rolled up and down; that il is so
! transparent that a room is not darkened
! when II IS drawn; that while those inside
! a room can see through the blind almost as
/ perfectly as though it were glass, those
outside cannot see inside the room, nm
| less the latter is lighted most brilliantly,
and darkness prevails outside, and that II
| Is artistic, and therefore pleasing TO Tho
/ eye. The blinds shown are hand-painted
| but 1t Is expected that in the future If viii
! be possible to print them by nachfnerv
] and thus reduce the expense of productiop,
/ so that the cost of fitting windows will not
I be much greater than that incurred by or
in NV nd