The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Not only IS diamond cutting rot a spe-
cially higii paid occupation, but il is one
involving a most humiliating system OF
espionage 10 the worker Each man IS
held strictly TO account for the stones he
receives on going to work IN the morning,
and the count has to be carefully taken
when the unfinished work - turned in al
night to be locked up in a safe. against
the return Of the wOrkmcn the next day
The possibilities of theft are great, though
a dishonest workman knows that an at
tempt 70 dispose of an unfinished stone
would bring suspicion upon him wherever
the attempt was made.
"A new method Of manufacturing glass
pipe has been discovered which promises
TO reyolutiOnize that industry 1t has
hitherto been found impossible 10 mold
large glass tubes of any great length, be-
cause the glass would cool while running
into the mold and the structure Of tho
tube was not homogeneous. The new
method consists Of using mold with a
movable piston. The piston Is just enough
smaller than the outer shell of the mold
to allow for the thickness Of the tube -
be made. The piston is placed at the bot
tom Of the mold, and as the molten glass IS
poured in the piston is forced upward
by hydraulic pressure. Pipes are made
by this process in sections six feet long
and are used for sewers and water pipes
The last and most ingenious resort of
the dental surgeon is implanation,' l.
G., the setting Of lew teeth into the jaw,
says tho Cincinnati Commercial. For this
purpose real teeth are employed, and not
artificial ones. Cocaine having been first
applied for producing local anaesthesia,
a hole Is drilled in the 1aWbone, and into
this socket a good tooth newly drawn
from somebody's jaw is set. II the pa
tient is young and vigorous the osseOus
structure soon closes around it, and by
the time the gum is healed, the tooth is
ready for use. II should last from three
to ten years. In the case of an elderly
or feeble person. il may be fastened in
place by silver wires passing around the
iawbOne. The root of "a freshly extracted
tooth is covered with a delicate mem
brane called the "pericementum,' the Vi
tality Of which materially assists the
wshed-for combining of the tissues. Tn
less the grinder is directly transferred,
the vitality of this membrane must be
is to graft the tooth temporarily into
the comb Of q cock that part of tine fowl
being well fed with blood, as may be seen
from its redness. When wanted for use,
1t Is cut out. Ordinarily the patient is
obliged to wait for awhile until the dent
list has a suitable tooth freshly extracted,
unless he chooses 10 hire somebody 10
sacrifice one.
The bread which has al
ways been known as Boston
all over New England long before &c the the
graham bread" came into use there and
was not a substitute for Mr.. Graham's
| sun. The Boston brown bread, according
to the almanacs of the Vance farmers.
is composed of these materials: Rye and
Indian. with a very little molasses" and
!
dark color. 1t is a wholesome bread when
rightly prepared. In all the old-fashioned
houses of Yankeeland the baking used to
be done in big ovens. 1t was after every
thing else had been cooked that the
brown loaf, the Indian pudding, the plum
pudding, and the red jar of beans We're put
in the oven, where they were left for the
night. There are plenty of people vet
living WHO Stoutly maintain that the
primitive way of preparing these nutri-
clous articles of food was far better than
any of the new ways. Graham bread is
another kind of thing, and is made sim
| ply of unbolted flour, like the wheaton
| bread which was eaten ages age 1t is
| called after the American diet reform
! err the Rev. Sylvester Graham who be
1 gan TO advocate the use of it in the first
| half of this century, and created quite
/ stir by his arguments against the ordinary
| white bread of the bakers shops In 9TH
| er days Graham bread was often spoken
! OF scornfully IS bran bread" and the
/ people who ate IL or upheld II were dubbed
! 'bran-bread philosophers" Horace Gree
/ ley was one of these people The old
! Boston brown loaf was never popular be-
| yond the boundaries Of New England.