The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| many pieces
"A ton OF good coal is said to yield
about $500 feet Of purified gas
A novel exhibit viii be seen at the
/ Berlin Industrial Exposition next sum
mer. A Polish engineer has invented an
ampulant crematOry for military pur-
/ poses The object Of this invention is 10
/ make use of the hygienic advantages of
I crematlng for the disposal Of the bodies
/ OF dead soldiers on battlefelds, instead
OF ourying them in numbers. thereby
/ creating me danger Of epidemics. The mill
/ itary authorities of Germany have shown
great interest in this invention, and IL is
very probable that the apparatus will be
/ introduced into the German army each
! army corps being supplied with one am
/ Dulant crematory. They are mounted on
| low Wheels and have the appearance Of
| the portable army baking ovens, only
I they are higher and heavier. Eight horses
| ana SIX men viii furnish the equipment
Tor cdcn crematOry.
What imagination will do, can show
/ from my own experience. says a writer in
/ Good Words. When a boy in the Pyrennes
once crank from a spring, and saw TO
/ my horror, when i had already swallowed
/ a mouthful, that the water was alive with
SIHall letcnCs. l had a bad time of il
/ Tor two or three days. I firmly believed
had leccnes alive and sucking nv blood
INSIDE ne; / felt them. 1 became Ian
! blood away. Happily, my father heard
] what was the matter with me and ex-
/ planned TO me the corrosive nature Of the
] eastrlc uuld, ana assured me that nothing
/ living and of the nature of a leech could
! resist II. My dear boy said he, from
/ personal observation OF your proceedings
| at meal time, / am convinced you could
| digest pair Of boots and no leeches
could stand a moment against the force
ana forgot all about my imaginary NAL
ady.
The Boston Globe tells about certain
stores in Boston where a commission is
| paid to the shopgirls when they succeed
| in selling goods at a figure above the reg
| uiar price. "Inis commission il says, lis
| known among the girls as 'spiff.' In these
| 'spin stores, which are so called 10 dis
tlngutsh them from what are known as
| honest stores, the wages paid the help
| are much lower, but the places are always
| i'll great demand, because a good salesgirl
| can make nearly twice as much in COM
missions as she would be paid in store
| where there is no 'spin.' These girls are
/ among the most expert in the trade, and
| in time they acquire the greatest facility
| in swindling innocent shoppers They are
| good judges of human nature, and can tell
TO a nicely just how much can be squeez-
| ed out OF each customer. The silk counter
IS always in charge of the shrewdest girl
/ FOR only the expert can distinguish be-
| tween the different grades. and the ordi-
nary shopper can be charged couple of
dollars extra on q single sale without
arousing the least suspicion. Most of the
'spiff however, is made from the disposal
OF dead stock
Jerusalem is competing with Mexico
and California for the orange trade of
Chicago. says the Chicago Record. The
other day five cases appeared in South
/ Water street, the appearance of which
soon attracted the curiosity of the com
mission men, who had never before seen
any such packages. To the ordinary spec
tator they were simply wooden boxes Sc
cured with strips of green timber; to the
! experienced handler of produce they diff
fered entirely from the usual run of cases.
4 g na off nT fret ~
and the yellow fruit came in view a South
Water street wag was heard softly sing
ing: Jerusalem, the Golden" Light IN
color, OF oval shape, ana IN the finest con-
[ dition, the fruit was packed much more
| carefully than that from other countries.
The cases We're first lined with white
paper, and sheets were placed between
every layer of fruit. Each orange was
separately wrapped in the ordinary man
ner. Oranges from the Holy Land never
have been seen in Chicago before, and
these attracted much attention. They
We're grown in the district between Jerus-
allen and Jaffa. They are worth from 81
to $3.50 case.
Water that is now in the ocean and in
the river has been many times in the sky.
says the Museum. The history of a single
drop taken out of glass of water is re-
ally romantic one. No traveller has ever
accomplished such distances in his life.
That particle may have reflected the palm
trees of coral islands and have caught
the sun ray in the arch that spans a
cloud clearing away from the valleys of
| Cumberland or California. 1t may have
been carried by the Gulf stream from the
shore of Florida or of Cuba, to be turned
into crystal of ice beside the precipices
of SpitZenbergen. 1t may have lowered
over the streets of London and have form
ed a part of the murky fog and have glis-
tened on the young grass blade OF April
in Irish fields. 1t has been lifted up to
heaven and sailed in great wool-pack
clouds across the sky, forming part of a
cloud-mountain echoing with thunder. 1t
I h- In mil ng
above the earth at the close of long sea-
sons of still weather. 1t has descended
many times over in showers to refresh
the earth, and has sparkled and bubbled
in messy fountains in every country in
Europe. And it has returned to its ma
tive skies, having accomplished its pur-
pose, to be restored once again with cleo
tricity to give it new life-producing quail
tiles and equip it as heavens messenger
to earth once more.
in answer to the question, What is
the most peculiar case of partial mental
arrangement that has been authenticat-
ed?" Pearsons Weekly says: THE de-
lightfU instance quoted by well known
doctor of a man who, although otherwise
| perfectly sane, thought he was q fire eS-
. ! cape, and always turned out at the sound
of an alarm, will never be eclipSed. The
most delicious part of the hallucination
is that the eccentric was perfectly alive
to the impdssibility of a man being a fire
escape: He was, in fact, everlastngly
puzzled to discover how it was that the
combination came to exist in his own per-
son. Apart from this one flaw, he was
in undoubted possession of his entire men,
tai faculties. A scientific contemporary
quotes a case of defective memory that
also deserves special mention, although
1 confess 1 should like to know the man :
name and address before becoming spon-
, sor for its accuracy. 1t appears that he
was business man, well educated, ana
l to sum up in one word, essentially level
headed. one day he suddenly showed him.
self unable to recognize the letters d, G.
Q, X, and Y, and the numbers 6, z and s.
without any apparent reason for no cause
that could even be guessed ait, these eight
symbols suddenly became so much Greek
to him Any words that contain the fore
going five letters he cannot read; any
: problem involving the use of g. Z and s
he cannot solve. To add to the inconven-
fence. he can no longer tell the time by
his watch. In the meantime he has per-
force resigned his position in the city,
: fectly balanced mind, he awaits the return
of his memory before he can really enjoy