The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-03
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/ assistants. When business is llgnt ne runs
/ out steady old ballads. and when Il IS
I brisk-as on Saturday nights, for instance
the music box keeps the razOrs flying 10
! the time OF jigs, reels and quictsteps---
A notable case of hlial love came TO
I light in Pittsburg a few days ago, says
4 the New York sun, when a 16-year-old
son came TO the Office of an aid society
I to claim his mother. who is two years
I had been separated by the long Illness OF
/ both. Ii was shown that the man had re-
manned a ba chelor all his life in order 10
| care for his mother. They came from Ire
land thirty years ago, and had lived 10
gether since that time, as they had prevt-
ously in the old country, until i've months
ago. when both were taken sick and had
to be removed to an hospital.
An army OF black worms invaded the
town of Thomaston. Me, few days ago
and seem to have taken complete, though
doubtless temporary. possession OF the
place. They have entirely stripped the
foliage from the elm trees that border
the streets, as well as from all the
apple trees in the suburbs all Of which
are now as bare as in midWinter. The
worms fall from the trees in showers.
and women walking in the streets carry
umbrellas for protection from the un-
pleasant pest. The worms have also
invaded the houses, to the dismay of the
housewives. An odd feature of the visi-
tation is that Thomaston is the only town
in the county that has been thus invaded.
From Cairo TO the Pyramids by trolley
car is one of the probabilities of the near
ders for the concession are under cOnsio-
Grafton by the Egyptian ministry, says the
Philadelphia Record. But the audacity of
the Frenchman who applied in all serious
ness for permission to build a cOrkscrew
railway to the top of the great Pyramid
of Cheops was too much for the staid gov
eminent officials. and il failed to secure
their attention. The screech of the loco
motive is heard throughout the Valley of
the Nile, and the clang of the trolley car
will soon resound through the streets of
Cairo; but tourists who wish to chip frag-
ments from the apex OF the Great Pyra-
mid will probably have to Chamber labori-
ously to that hight for years to come, as
people have done for centuries past.
Cans made of paper pulp are being in
! troduced to take the place of tin cans
GC be Ee% york gaa TSd
occasional cases of poisoning from canned
| goods are due to the contents becoming
| tight Many millions of tin cans are used
| annually by canned goods factories in this
| country and such cases of injury from
! tainted goods are comparatively rare; but
! because it is possible, through slight de-
| fects in the solder, or minute breaks in the
| cans, for such dangers to result the can
ners have been looking for a satisfactory
/ substitute for tin. 1t is believed that this
has at last been found in the paper pulp
cans. They are oil-proof as well as water
/ proof, viii not expand or contract, and
| will stand as much rough usage in ship
ment as tin cans, and perhaps more.
The claim of the eagle to She title of
king of birds seems to be slightly clouded
| by an incident reported from Stafford
| county, Virginia, says the New York Sun.
| A gentleman down there was watching
an unusually fine bald eagle grandly sail
ing around in the air a few days ago,
I when he noticed a little bee martin rise
| in the air and make straight for the eagle.
! He wondered what the martins object
/ could be, and was surprised to see it sail
/ in boldly to tear the feathers out of the
! big eagle. But he was amazed to see the
eagle, after a few moments Of effort at
beating off the little bird, sail away in
| tull night, making every effort to escape
! from the martin. The martin followed up
closely Tor a while, making a savage jab
az ano Inc , cage every lew Yards, but was
retreating powers of the big eagle.
The electric organ has been developed
! INTO marvellous instrument. says the St.
! Louis Globe Democrat. Its distinguishing
! feature IS that by using the console" a
/ keyboard on a movable stand, the organ
can be played from any point, or several
/ organs can be played at the same mo-
ment, and by the same touch of the keys.
| SO that. If the service of half a dozen or
more churches could he so timed as to ex-
actly correspond in the length of the re-
spectiVe parts OF their ritual one organist
would suffice for them all. He would sit
at the keyboard and perform his offertory
anthem, or hymn, as the case might be,
| and the pressure on the keys would make
an electric contact which would open the
| pneumatic valves in the pipes Of all the
| instruments connected uD by wires The
| largest organ is controlled electrically with
a simplicity. ease and absolute command of
all its resources that is simply astounding.
| The organist touches button, and the
electric motors start the blowers. which
are operated automatically, and which
VIII continue to supply all the wind needed
until they are stopped At one time or
gan playing was ant TO be an exhaustlng
gymnastic exercise; now the player ac-
tuates any or an Of the stops by stop
keys little ivory levers just over The
| keyboard, which are moved by a light
touch OF the finger, even without raising
the hands from the keys Heretofore the
organ has had its limitations of touch ef-
fects; the latest electric organ has what
is termed a double touch" an action of
the keys which is so quick and elastic that
| pianoforte music can be played by it eff
fectiyely, and so delicate that il is capable
OF the finest expression The wires
connecting the keyboard with the organ
are run on cable, and 1000 are held in a
conductor of IL inches diameter.
The wine in Switzerland is left in the
casks tai the following spring, and il is
here that fermentation takes place and the
mOut is converted into wine saws the
| Cornhil Magazine. The change begins al
most Immediately; the liquid becomes tur-
bid, carbonic acid gas is evolved a scum
is thrown up on the surface, and the tenn
perature rises. climax is reached; the
intensity of the fermentation diminishes
subsidies; the scum settles as a Shiny de-
post at the bottom of the caSk and clear
yellow liquid is left above The Crane
sugar has almost entirely disappeared a
corresponding amount of alcohol has
mout has given place to the characteristic
Vinous flavor of the wine. In the early
stages of fermentation enormous quanti-
ties of carbonic acid gas are given off, and
huge fires are made in the cellars to drive
1t away. But at the time write of Octo-
Der, 1893, when the vintage was the finest
of the century, when barrels to hold the
mout could not be purchased for love or
money, when every cellar on the lake from
Geneva to Vileneuve, was packed with
casks of mout, so great was the amount of
carbonic acid gas in the air that, in spite
OF every precaution, several deaths from
suffocation took place among the workers
In the spring the wine is drawn off clear
into other barrels. then bottled; vim or
dinaire IS not bottled at all, but simply
drawn from the wood. This is the wine
SOLO at all the little wineshops with which
Switzerland abounds 1t is drawn off into
quaint little glass decanters containing
half liter each, and so served to the nm
hurrying Swiss who drink it round little
tables under the trees on the sunny path
ways, or over wooden benches inside the
red curtained wineshops. '--'