The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

gina anu Olere1 SIX DOully.
The city OF Sydney, Australia. has i'm
posed a fine OF one pound upon any per
son convicted Of splitting upon the floor
Of public buildings, or upon the street.
"A western genius has APPLIED for a
patent on corn planter. which consisted
OF two boxes attached to the forelegs of
a horse, just above the fetlocks, in which
was the corn TO be planted Cords passed
over puileys attached to a saddle, down to
the hind legs, so that every time the horse
stepped the Tightening of the cord would
open the boxes on the fOrelegs and some
corn be shaken into the holes made by
the front feet.
AN American lady who recently visit
ed Para. Brazil, was invited while there
to dine at the house of a wealthy mer-
chant. Everything was very gorgeous
and lavish in South American style, but,
on leaving, she was amazed TO hear her
hOspitable host say to her: IF you have
any washing, send il here" 1t is the Gus
tom there, II seams for wealthy house
holds TO take in laundry work as an en-
ployment for their large retinue of SER
wants. 1T did, however, said the relator.
give me a turn at the end of a formal
dinner party TO be asked for my sOiled
linen"
Should not something more be done
than is being done. experimentally if not
practically, in the use of glass for bear
ings? asks the American Machinst. Some
experts speak highly of it for woodwork
ing machinery. 1t is said to require less
care than any other material; running
with little oil and keeping cool. In meth
DDS OF shaping and cutting glass, such ad-
Vances have now been made that it should
be now a comparatively simple matter
to adapt it to general use. Glass sleeves
could, OF course, be easily furnished, per-
fectly true, both inside and out; and there
are numerous places where such sleeves,
bushes, thimbles, or whatever they might
be called, could probably be employed with
great satisfaction. Glass would probably
be better adapted to high speed than to
heavy loads.
"A gentleman once laid wager with
George " that geese would beat turkeys
in a race, says School at Home The king,
thinking that such a wager was already
as good as won, willingly made the bet.
and the gentleman was left to choose time
and place and distance. Being well ac-
Qualnted with the habits of the birds he
accordingly chose for the time the even
ing, just before sunset and for a mile
the distance. The time came, and each ap-
peared with his flock of birds, and the race
began. Long ere the end came the sun
set, and Immediately, true to their in
stincts, as soon as the sun had quite
disappeared, all the turkeys flew up into
the nearest tree to rooSt, and no persua-
sion could induce them to bulge an inch
further-and the geese, which had been
slowly toddling on behind, quietly cackled
in-the winners.
which preserves their color, and then i'm
bedded in a hard, transparent substance.
the composition of which is secret is
now used for decorative thing or floor
ing, says the Upholsterer. A material
has been discovered, combined with a
process, which is the inventors secret,
Tor completely hardening, and, so to
speak, petrifying natural flowers (and,
what is more wonderful, preserving their
colors), and imbedding them flush into
the surface of a kind of liquid marble,
or alabaster, the whole receiving several
coatnSS OF transparent polishing sub
stance, and drying hard as a rock Some
dadoes and friezes in a new house were
made by this method, with sunflowers,
very handsome. The London residence of
one of our countrymen, whose identity is
concealed by the description, "a wealthy
American gentleman" has the conserva.-
tory floor studded by this new process
with chrysanthemums of every known
| variety and color. Another floor is a
| deep-water effect, with white lilies and
| with minnows swimming below a trans
parent surface. The treatment is beau
IL tifully applied it is said. to table tops and
small panels for decorative purposes.
Chicago may have a Paderewslxi of its
own soon if little Ruben Demarest, the
| 7-year-old boy pianist, lives and continues,
| says the Tribune of that city to progress
| in the art of piano playing. The Tribune
| adds: This little fellow was put to the
| severe test of playing for Paderewsld on
"A
| ditor1um and the boy acquitted himself
| marvelously we'll When he had finished
| playing Paderewski took him in his arms
and kissed him over and over again, saw
ing: Thank God first, and then yollr
! teacher, for some day you are going to
| be great artist Not content with this
tribute 10 the boy pianist the great mas
| ter turned to his trunk, and selecting some
| musical studies, went to the piano anG
| with one arm. around the little fellow
| showed him how they ought to be played
He then examined the child's hands with
| intense interest, exclaiming, All he has
| the true musicians handsr Then he kissed
! him again. The little fellow seemed to
| take a great fancy to the artist, and asked
| him If he would be his teacher. Yes re-
piled Paderewskt. if you are a good boy
| and work hard, you shall come to Paris
and | will be your teacher, and one day
/ all the world will come to hear YOU
| Paderewsh also selected some pieces he
| wished the boy to practice and be ready
/ to play for him upon his return to Chicago
in the spring"
Near Cheyenne Wells is a long stretch
| of level prairie, which suddenly termi-
mates in "a precipice, making a perpen-
dlcular descent, says the Denver Field
| blizzard ragged for several DAYS, The snow
| was driven at terrific rate before q
hurricane of wind, and the buffalo were
| obliged, in self-preservation, to turn their
| backs and run with the wind The re-
| suit was that vast numbers of the buffa Ii
were carried over the precipice, and their
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thirty feet of snow. For many years peo-
| pie visited the spot to look at the bones
| which lay in piles ten and fifteen feet
| high as far as the eye could reach along
| the precipice and it was commonly es.
| timated that 10000 buffaloes found a
grave on that fatal spot Sand storrns
in those days were so destructive that
| it was not unusual for freighters to lose
I their entire outfit. During the prevalence
| of storm no attempt was made to move
| forward, and drivers cleared the sand ont
| of the nostrils of the horses aAd oxen. and
! otherwise the animals were threafened
| with death from suffocation A sand storm
| usually lasted only two or three hours
| but its effects were felt for DAYS by men
| and animals exposed to the fury of fhe
| blast. A curious phenomenon noticed i'm
| different places on the plains was the i'm
| mense excavating power of the wind in
| sand storm. There were areas of three
| or four acres where the wind scooped ont
| the sand forty or fifty feet deem and
| whirled it away in the air 1t seemed as
| If the work began at a central spot NO
| larger than could be covered with a mans
| hat In an incredibly short time a round
| hole would be excavated. The wind then
| took hold in real earnest, and the proh.
| abilities were that an entire sand hill
| would be leveled down in the next thirty
| minutes.
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