The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the injurious candy along with other kinds
I OF food Being a Heterogeneous mixture.
| there can be no standard OF purity for
candy, and the only test used is TO de-
| termine whether IL Is dangerous TO health.
A few years ago there were many prose-
cutlons Tor the sale Of injurious candy,
/ but complaints are now very rare. Among
| the reasons for the change is the growth
Of the public taste for better candy. the
/ work Of the state health board, the efforts
| OF the National COnfectioners' Associa-
| ton, and the cheapenins Of the materi-
ais The national association has a stand
/ ing Oner Of liberal reward for sthe con-
| Vlction of any offender against the law
prohibiting adulteration- This honest pol
| Icy pays, the confectionery business in
| the United States having more than doub-
led since its adoption.
Few persons have a clear notion Of the
magnifying powers that have been or can
be obtained by means of the microscope,
| says the Popular Science Monthly. The
| following will be found trustworthy: A
| common hand magnfier one inch focus,
/ magnifles ten times; small glObule lenses.
such as were sold for about . cents,
about % TO Is times; the most powerful
single lenses that can be generally used,
/ I'D times; the most powerful single lenses
ever found available, 800 times; ordinary
compound microscopes. highest power,
| from go to so times; highest power, or
/ dinariiy obtained with the best micro
scopes, 1000 times; highest power yet OBJ
/ tained, giving fair light and definition,
| 1000 to 5000 times. Claims have been
/ made for much higher powers, but such
| claims are generally ignored by the best
mlcroScOptstS. BY times. mean in all
cases, diameters. Sidewalk opticians gem
/ orally mean areas when they speak Of
| times. Areas are found by multiplying the
/ dlameters by themselves. Ten times. mem
| toned above, is 100 areas. The cheapest
| microscopes said TO magnify 1000 times,
magnify about 80 diameters.
Although it is generally understood
that the Russian government contem-
plates the Introduction of the Gregonan
| calendar at the close of the century, il
| has not yet been decided whether the re-
| form shall be effected suddenly and en-
tirely, or by a gradual process, says the
| London News. The latter scheme con-
| sists in emitting the first twelve leap
| years after 1900, and the change from
| the old style to the new would in this way
| cover period OF fOrty-eight years. There
| are now twelve days difference, but in 1900
| there viii thirteen days, and this unlucky
| or tatalistic number has put little
| weight with superStitiOus SlaVs. who have
| hitherto been opposed to a reform of the
| Julian calendar. If the gradual plan be
| adopted there viii be only nine days diff
| ference on the LIST of March, 1908 on the
| same date in 1912, eight days, and so on
! during every recurring fourth year until
ISf4' Wheh the reform will be accomplish
! ca. II IS, however, by no means certain
! whether this plan will be adopted, or the
| more sudden and radical change. The
| majority are in favor of the latter while
| the former scheme promises to receive
| less opposition from the ecclesiastical au-
| thorities, and is not calculated to shock
| - i'NRNiAt sentiment 50 NlOleultN as the
sudden reform.
AT the home of a well-known electri-
clan in London, Eng. we are told. where
some believers in spiritualism were spend-
| ing an evening, not long since, one of them
| began 10 play the pianoforte accompa-
| hlment OF a hymn which is commonly
| sung at spirtualistic demonstrations
| When the room was mysteriously filed
| with voice singing the words saws the
| Boston Journal of Commerce. There were
IA ru-lf .t, 81.
| spiritualists present looked upon as con-
| nrming the genuineness of their commu-
nlcation with the spirit world portraits
| sung IN the natural voice of their or
| iginals, who We're not in the room: ques-
| tons were answered, and sometimes the
| reply was given by voice as well as rams
| The enthusiasm produced bv these nbe-
| nomena was somewhat dampened, how
| ever, when IT was pointed out that tele-
| phone receivers which were placed inside
| the piano and behind the pictures on
! the walls, were connected with a loud
| speaking transmitter in a distant part
| OF the house. Another transmitter, fixed
near the piano, was connected with a re-
| eetver at the ear of a distant Operating
| spirit" who was thereby enabled to keep
| time and tune, and to hear everything
| said in the room. The raps were given
| by using the armature of an electric bell.
The throne of Napoleon is among the
| assets of the late Cardinal Bonaparte
and, with tho rest of his effects is to be
| sold to the highest bidder, says the New
| 1Ofh tribune. IL is a decorative article
of furniture, but was not found comfort
able by its occupant, being defective
among others, in the point of stability.
| An analysis of thrones shows that they
| are made of boards and velvet and that
| there is no real reason for regarding them
| with superstition. They all come to the
| they are of Caesar, or Napoleon or Charlie
| mango, or Attila, or Aurun gZebe-all is
| one in their ultimate destiny. That of
! Bonaparte was more than usually daZ-
| cling for while, shedding rays that kim
| died all over the world, not like a bene-
! dictory and fruitful sunrise, but as a
| destroying upbreak and flood of the neither
| fires; but it died down into a compare
| lively dull afterglow long ago, blown on
by biographers and memoir magazine
| writer's, who could not brighten it into
| its old radiance for all their endeavor 1t
TOO, ike the rest, is of boards and velvet
| being thus quite commonplace in its ele-
ments and no longer worthy that any Sc
| rious TODD should be made over it. F,lI-
rope does not want it. 1t had enough of
II before IL became vacant of its turbu-
lent occupant. Perhaps it may find its
way over here and be set up in some mn
scum where it will not be without inter-
est as an example of chair building in a
style now going out.
-"One of the most wonderful occurance
happen in Leedom carpet mills, at Bris-
tol, Pa, a few days ago." says a cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Record
which shows that the old saying that a
Cat has more than nine lifes And this
one we speak off has a hundred lifes In
the Engine Room of the mill where the
large flywheel is station which wheel
measure IA feet in diameter At the noon
hour few days ago when the Engine was
Stopped a white kitten which was a pet
in engine room crept inside of
the wheel. When the whistle of
| the mill blow for the Engine to
start at 20 minutes of 1 o'clock the Fire
man and Engineer not noticing the kitten
in the wheel And the Engine was Started
at its wonderful rate of 80 Revolutions in
a minute Shortly afterward one of the
Bosses of the mill in that Department
happened to pass in the Engine Room And
notice the white object in the wheel which
was thought was a Small Piece of Pa
per. He mention to the Fireman and
Engineer when the Engine Stopped to-
night to take out the Piece of PAPER AS
it was a bad omen sometimes to be in
wheel When the Mill Stop its DAYS work
for the day a t 20 minutes before six O'Clock
The supposed Piece of Paper to be taken
out was a White Kitten 1t was soon care
less and brought to, and soon hon about
agan The Cat in that time is Supposed
| TO travel over 200 miles -