The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The simplest and best way TO test
black silk is TO burn a small piece II II
burns out quickly, leaving a clear, crisp
ders and leaves heavy red or redish
F brown ash. ii has been treated with chem
. icals and will not wear well.
The following. says the Cincinnati Ian
! cet-Clinic. are a few theses, authenticity
I titled, that will serve to give some idea
I OF the curious thoughts Of former Paris
healthy iy' than Wi iwsis' 1923 Robert Deb
. Onnaire: Are infants born with a caul
/ the HAPPIER G657) Andre Gudget: Are
heroes not born at the tenth month 2,
O6i3D rs music eficacious in disease2''
T N624) SHOULD young girl n love be
bled?" O639D rs getting drunk once a
month healthful2" Oei3) rs woman an
imperfect work Of nature tl6io)
Should literary men marry?" d745)
The Chicago Tribune says. John
1 O'NeiN, the boOkmaker, has received
that his fashion bet of $1,000 with leo
| Mayer has been decided in his favor. Dur
ing the last grand opera season Mayer
I appeared down town with an evening suit
and with a Fedora hat. O'Neill declared
/ that the hat was mot in line with even
ing clothes, while Mayer held that II was,
and offered to bet 5000 in support of his
opinion. The bet was taken and the ques-
ton referred to three New York newspa-
pers for decision Those papers have
/ decided that Fedora hats are mot in line
with evening dress, and O'Nefli wins the
money.
The Independent has gathered figures
/ to show the contributions to churches in
/ the United States for all purposes during
/ 1894. All the leading denominations are
included, except the Unitarian. The total
amount of these contributions IS $Sl,gOl-
30. This sum was contributed by lO,767-
6s6 members Of churches, which means
an average contribution Of $S.16 from
each member The largest average per
member is found among the Universalists.
who each paid s32lS while the Protestant
/ Episcopalians paid $20.71. the Congrega-
tionalists slS44, the Northern Presbyteri-
ans $685. while the African Methodists'
average is only S2.70, and the Cumberland
Presbyterian 1897
Wills were at first oral, says the West
minister Gazette, as were also gifts of
lands, and We're only morally binding on
the survivors. Origen and other fathers OF
the early church credited Noah with hav
ing made a will, and in the fourth CEN
fury the Bishop of Brescia declared all
those heretical VINO denied Noah's divia-
ion OF the world to his three sons by will.
The oldest known wills are those of Egypt.
Both oral and written Wills not infrequent-
~ contained imprecations on those who
| should neglect them. The earliest written
VIII IN existence Is mat OF SennacherlD
which was found in the royal library or
| kOnyunjik. There is a great SameneSs
about our own royal wills. They mainly
relate to beds, clothes, personal ornaments
gold and silver cups and payments for
masses, and are generally as prosaic as
one could contrive.
Some of the new electrical processes
for removing wrinkles do produce remark
able results" said physician the other
day says the Philadelphia Press, but
they are too dangerous to receive the com
I mendation of any reputable physician,
and as a matter of fact, the result, though
so remarkable is not at all what the vic
tim hopes There is Mrs. ~, she has
! really had her wrinkles removed. but you
would hardly notice it, except as she told
you so. The curious thing is that she
does not look year younger. say curl
Gus, but il is only so to a person who has
not correctly analysed the look of age.
Wrinkles may be the most obvious thing
about it, but they are not the main thing.
| What makes any one look old is, first,
the change the decline of all the chief
1 modelings Of the face, the falling of the
| cheeks, the heaViness or the Scragginess
Of the throat the settling of the flesh
about the mouth The pain that is given
in removing wrinkles increases all this,
and is likely to count more than the amel-
iorative process, Cleopatra says in the
play, that she is wrinlSled, and Shakes
peare was probably a good judge of
beauty. She, to his mind kept hers and
! her youthfulneSs, because she was vital,
so WELL so alive, that her face had the
general contours of youth. Women are
on the wrong road when they do anything
painful to make them look young"
The mode of punishment for robbing
churches i'm former days was OF the most
inhuman and barbarous nature-haying
the offender alive and affixing the skin
to the church door. In the rural ham,
let of Hadstock, in Essex, England, is
a little church. regarded by some as of
Saxon origin. On the north door of this
antique pile might once have been seen,
beneath the massive clamp and hinges,
a relic of pirate Norseman, whose skin
had been fastened to the door "as a
CHASTITY memorial of the ecclesiastic ven
geance, and a warning to others who APP
proach the church with like unhallowed
intention" At Copford, in the same
skin, under an elaborate ironwOrk i'm
$780, and it was found to be tanned and
doors of Worcester Cathedral, also, have
been believed by common report to have
a coating of human skins. The date of
these doors is of the fourteenth century,
and DR.. Prottington, the Worcester an
tiquary, found. that the skin was that
of a man who had stolen the sanctus
bell from the high altar in 1886. Pepys,
in his Diary Q661), says he saw the
doors of Rochester Cathedral covered
with the skins of danes who had been
punished for sacrflege.
More than fifty years ago a student
from Greece came to the academy Mon
son, Mass, bringing with him from his
attached hood made of asbestos, says the
! Philadelphia Inquirer 1t long remained
= in the mineral cabinet of the above insti-
3 tuition an example of fireproof cloth
= ing made from the flexible mineral sub
stance. Improvements have been made
in the methods of spinning and weaving
asbestos fiber, so that now it is practical
Bile to weave cloth of asbestos as fine as
cotton cloth. This, of course, is not very
SUOuSs Dul ny SplluluE thicker llfedQS
! and doubling them a cloth can be made
that is strong enough for most purposes
and is still flexible. 1t is now recommend-
ed that this cloth be used a protective
dress for firemen, and al a meeting of the
National Association of Fire Engineers
at Montreal last summer a representative
of the company that is exploiting this idea
; demonstrated how it could be carried out
Clad in a suit of asbestos cloth he entered
burning frame building especially pre-
pared for this test and remained there
several minutes, during which time he
gave an exhibition of the utility of the fire
proof asbestos rope for life saving, etc
I The asbestos suit which was worn con.
| sisted of pair of boots, protected by
} iron soles; CATERS pantaloons, Jacket
( apron, gloves and helmet the last being
provided with eye pieces of mica Inside
Of the Jacket is carried a respirator which
cools and purifies the hot smoky air
and allows the air breathed to be properly
expelled. The efficiency of such suit de-
ponds not only upon the non-combusti-
bility Of the material, but also upon the
Of iC A.