The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-10
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When anything Is very round IL IS Of
ten said 10 be as round as Giotto's o.
GiOttO was a E1Orentine shepherd boy IN
the thirteenth century and in after hfe
rose 10 eminence as a painter. sculptor
and architect. While still az his home his
local reputation attracted the attention
OF S-rnabue, who was searching for artists
and architects to adOrn the cathedrals OF
Pope Boniface VIII The pope asked GiOttO
70 give some evidence OF his skill rs a
draughtsman and artist. and Giotto aston
lshed the messengers BY striking on az
once In a free-hand way circle 50 nearly
perfect as 10 be marvellous.
A novel ineandescent lamp has just
been devised in Germany. which, accord
ing to the Review Scientific, requires no
system Of gas pipes for its supply. but
produces a vapOr which heats TO white
ness an incOmbustible mantle. the heat
ing agent employed being crude alcohol.
The lamp is at once gas generator and
burner. The generating portion con-
tains two tubes fitted with Wicks and
joining at the upper part. Between them
IS placed a small burner which evapOrates
the alcohol drawn up the wicks. while the
VapOr thus formed is mixed IN a Bunsen
burner with a certain volume Of air and
burned, bringing 10 a high temperature
a netting Of metallic oxides and prOduc-
ing beautiful white light. Precautions
have been taken to preserve the mantle
for the longest possible period. they last
ing through 800 hours Of lighting.
Among the many international con-
crosses which Will be held in Paris dur
ing the exhibition, will be one which Is
to consider the advisability of making a
complete change in the calendar. 1t is
proposed to abandon altogether the pres
ent astronomical calendar and to adopt
one which will be framed from a strictly
practical and commercial Npoint of view.
by the new institution the year will have
twelve months of exactly twenty-eight
days each and one Of twenty-nine days,
the latter to have thirty days in leap
year. With this system the days will
come in each year always on the same
date, Jan. being on a Monday, as also
Will be the 9Th, 18th, 22d and so on. But
II this is to be the same for each year the
week in which the twenty-ninth day OF
the thirteenth month falls will be obliged
TO have an extra day with a new name.
"A strip bother has improved upon the
prison lesson Of Bruce, says Science. He
has taken the spider into partnership in
the working Of one Of his most important
departments. Flies, cockroaches and
other insects, attracted by his sweets and
encouraged by the genial air of his bot
ting room, used to interfere with his
work, get into his bottles, steal his goods
and worry him to death" Some 5000
spiders now make their home on the cell
ing and walls of his bOttling department
said the bother to an interviewer: These
creatures know more than a great many
people. Spiders do not care for sweet
Things and never drop into my watts or get
into my bottles. never disturb them ex-
cept 10 feed them occasionally. They ap-
pear to know my call and will come out
and feed from my hand or take a fly from
my finger. They shut themselves up dur
ing most Of the winter months in their lit
Tie nests you see stuck like daubs Of mud
about the ceiling. When winter comes 1
orush away all the webs. They prefer
70 weave new ones every spring. l have
been running this spider farm only two
years, but find my little partners indis-
pensable They will not endure in the
place single fly or insect that is a plum
derer of sweets and sirups."
The women who are fighting for the
Cuban cause are not the first women who
have fought the Spaniards in battle. saws
the Philadelphia Times. During the iniuui-
Ious oppression Of the Netherlands by the
Spaniards in the sixteenth century It was
no uncommon event for women to fight in
defense of their native town When in
I0fz Don Frederic, at the head of a large
army, 0esieged Haarlem, among the gar
rison that defended the town were three
hundred women, "a most efficient CORPS >"
says Morley, armed with sword m1lske,t
ana dagger. Their chief Kenau Hasse-
laer, was widow of distinguished family
and unblemished reputation. about A years
or age, who, at the head of her Amazons
participated in many of the fiercest con-
tested actions of the Siege" Seven years
later, ait the siege of Maestricht the wo-
men were OF great assistance in making
mines, enrolling themselves into compan-
les under the direction of officers or "mine
mlStresses, as they were called. The SER
wee they rendered was inestimable. At
the repulse of the Spaniards from the
walls of Alkmaar women, and even chill
dren, exhibited a like courage, assisting
their husbands and fathers in the desper-
ate defense, while at Antwerp 'multitudes
n of s1l II nh
the lines marked out by the engineer"
History indeed, gives many examples Of
SUCH heroism, among which may be men,
TONED the brave conduct of the women at
the defense of Sarragossa, in 1905 when
they took the place of their slain hus-
bands or brothers. at the cannon side
Everybody is familiar with the candies
which are solid on the outside and yet con-
tain a quantity of sweetened LIQUID saws
the Chicago News, but every body is not
acquainted with the secret of their man
ufacture. 1t Is a simple one, however. and
the process is used in others of the arts
beside that of the confectioners. For the
beneht OF those who visit the porcelain
work at Sevres the guide explains how the
delicate cups are made. He takes in his
hand a mold, fills 1t from a tank of porce-
lain mixture, holds 1t for a moment or
two and then pours out the mixtures from
the mold. The solution is a saturated one
-that is to say, given quantity of the
liquor cannot contain any more of the
solid than is actually in it. But the mold
being porous, withdraws some of the LIQUID
from the mixture and a portion of the
solid part having lost the water which
belongs to 1t. is deposited in a thin layer
along the surface of the mold. This is the
cup, and, after a number of strengthening
processes, it becomes the delicate, egg
shell porcelain cup. In much the same
way the candy drops are made. The LIQUID
is saturated solution and will not dissolve
any more sugar. The sweet mixture is
poured into molds of absorbent material
starch, for example, which at once be-
gins to absorb the water. That part Of the
sugar which has been robbed of its water
Is deposited against the mold, Just as the
porcelain was, and the result is the LIQUID
drop. The liquor which is confined within
uhe drop has already all the sugar it can
possibly mold, being saturated, so it can
not attack the sugar walls which confine
IT. II; and remains inclosed in its prison cell.
me wnole process is a simple and inter
estlng experiment in absorption.
-Projectiles, says Harper's Round Ia
Bile, are of three kinds; the armor-pierc-
ing. the semi-armor-piercing, and the or.