The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In Great Britain weather forecasts
/ are extensively telegraphed throughout
the agricultural districts during the hay
/ and harvest season.
An important change in the military
/ system of Switzerland is soon TO be made
/ through a revision Of the constitution
| just decided upon by the Swiss assembly.
Under the present system the army IS d.
Vided into two classes, the troops OF the
/ confederation and those of the cantOns.
| The entire military administration is to be
transferred TO the confederation
"A French photographer has arranged
mersed. he can throw powdered magne-
SUM into the fame and thus secure a very
/ brilliant light under water. In this man
ner ne has been able to obtain some clear
and beautiful photographs of the bed of
the Mediterranean. Oxygen is carried
bustion.
Seal fishing has been abandoned by
some OF the sealing schooners, because of
the. unsatisfactory business in recent
years; but they have resorted TO hunting
sea offers along the Northern Pacific
coast. This is more uncertain of results,
perhaps, than sealing, but in the event of
success, II is vastly more profitable. One
schooner was very successful this year,
some of the single skins secured selling
for from $3.50 to $3.50 each.
Preparations are being made at Long
Cove. Me, for one of the biggest quarry
object of attack is a miniature mountain
Of granite, seventy-five feet in perpendicu-
lar night. In the face of this ledge, at
the loot, tunnel is being driven, which,
When completed, will be T-shaped. the
main stem ffty-five feet long, with two
cross arms some thirty feet in length,
| each. Eight tons or more of powder are
| 10 De put IN these side tunnels.
An immense quantity of music. some
! OF which had not been disturbed since the
| time OF Frederick the Great, was disclv
/ cred in the royal castle at Berlin about
n
| comprise almost the whole of the, music
performed at the Prussian court from
| the middle to the end of the eighteenth
century, says. the New York sun. The
/ work of sorting and editing the collection
mas Just been completed, and the cata-
/ loGue consists of nearly 400 pages. It in
/ cludes many forgotten operas a qauntity
/ OF ballet music, early symphonies ana
| chamber works, folk songs and dances.
! and a splendid collection Of military mu-
| sic.
! DIR. Thomas Holmes of Brooklyn has
maze discovery says the Pittsburg Dis
! pacth. he claims that human bodies can
| be petrified, and that statues in future
may be made without the labor of a
sculptor For many years the doctor has
scheme, and will soon exhibit convincing
! specimens in Bellevue. He shows to the
curious forearm in a glass case, whicn
| at first glance looks like pure marble. IL
| was petritied by an antiseptic gas, which
can be manufactu red so cheap that any
man can become his own petrifier IL he
]
| go burials at sea will be barbarism of
the past and sculpture will be only of the
| ideal sort.
Bids will be opened this week for one
/ of the biggest contracts ever made by this
/ city, says a New York letter New York
/ has resolved to build a new storage reser-
voir for its water supply. and 1t is to be
| the largest in this country. 1t will cover
| an area of nearly 800 acres, just beyond
land Is now being determined by a COM
! mission and will probably amount to more
| than S,OOOOO0, which, with the expense Of
construction, will bring the total cost to
about Sl0OOO,000. A long time, however,
| will be taken in construction, so that the
! expense Will be spread over a number of
years. The reservoir. it is interesting to
! note, will completely cover the site of
| the celebrated Jerome Park race course.
| Its capacity will be about 1000, 900 gall
Ions of water, double that of the Central
| Park reservoir.
| Columbian centennial coins not here
tofore circulated have been found fire.
| quently in change of late. They are the
J0-cent pieces of 1898 and the reason given
| for their appearance is that many coin col
| lectors and other believed that immediate
| ly after the Columbian exposition they
would nave special value as rarities, and
so boarded them for premium, says the
| New York Sun. They were so held for the
| better part of two years, but no apprecia-
| tion in value followed, and now they have
| freely circulated. They have a more at
| tractiVe appearance than the regular 80
| cent pieces, out TINS superior attractive
ness has not, to any visible extent, miti-
| gated the regret which collectors have
had in parting with them. The silver
| coinage of the United States in use varies
| from time to time according to no definite
| law, with which the treasury officials are
| familiar. At times silver dollars circu-
| late with much ease and freedom and
there does not seem to be any serious de-
| mand for greater number Of the smaller
coins; Again. Decent pieces seem to be
| greatly in demand, and the dollars are
|
panies and in the treasury vaults, and are
| grudgingly received by business men, But
silver half dollars always circulate freely.
| -Phrenology, chiromancy and graphic
| logy are apparently to be superseded as
| sciences of character says the Westnin-
ster Budget. From America comes Stoma-
| tOlogy, or the science of the mouth in
which organ, if we may believe the profess
| sors, Turk all the possibilities of ones be-
| ing. SO far, stomatology seems to con-
| fine itself TO imparting information about
| celebrated people which we have already
| derived from other sources. 1t must not.
of course. be despised on that account, for
| IL is always desirable to have ones facts
| verified by the labors of specialists What
| for example, could be more interesting
than to be assured that George Sand s
| mouth indicated that she must inevita bly
| become novelist, that Nine Sarah Bern
| hardts points with equal certainty to her
| greatness as an actress, and that Mr.
Gladstone's bears the unmistakable marks
of an eminent statesman? From the
| mouth of a certain actress we may even
| read the difficulties which 1t was to be
her lot to surmount before reaching her
| present eminent position in her profess
sion. The new science, it will be seen, is
| capable of disclosing much from exceed
| ingly slender date. Stomatology on the
other hand, will bring disillusion to those
| of the fair sex who have hitherto prided
| themselves on the smallness of their
| mouths. In this department, that form
of mouth, which is admired because of its
| resemblance to the rosebud, is particularly
| dangerous. Let us beware" says the
| stomatologist, 'of the rosebud" I1crezia
| Borgia had a mouth so formed. 1t is plain
| ly undesirable for any man to fall in with
a Lucrezia in his walk through life The
| perverse qualities which accompany this
| rosebud mouth are not to be lightly con-