The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ten due 70 the excessive use OF meat.
Date vinegar has been made BY the
Arabs for ages. II has recently been put
on the English market. and the English
say II Is far superior to any other vine
gar.
Most OF the railroad stations in Russia
are about two miles from the towns which
they respectively serve. This is precau-
ton against FIRE. as many OF the Russian
dwellings are matched with straw.
"A perilous feat was performed not long
since BY a bicyclist IN Lyons. France. He
rode his wheel over the coping stone OF
house. fifty feet from the ground, in the
presence Of an immense crowd. The track
is only TWO feet wide.
A species Of frog in Borneo has very
long tOes.and these are webbed to the tip,
II can leap from a high tree. spread its
toes and is thus supplied with four little
parachutes. which enable It TO easily des-
cend. For this reason it Is called the fy-
ing frog"
A New York man took his two dogs
10 the North river TO give them a bath.
In their eagerness TO get in they pulled
their master into the water. He could
not swim and shouted for help. young
man sprang TO his rescue, Whereupon
| the two dogs, thinking the rescuer meant
/ harm 70 their master, attacked him fierce
/ ly. Other people then appeared on the
I scene and with difficulty drove the dogs
I away and pulled the half-drowned man
I to the shore.
/ The experiments of NJ. Moissan with
/ the electric furnace have led, it is stated,
1 to the discovery of an important sub
4 stance in the shape Of a compound Of
! boracic acid and carbon which will even
| cut a diamond. The compound Is said to
/ be black, not unlike graphite. and can
i be produced in pieces Of any required
4 size. If the statements are verified the
/ new material will be very useful for Dor
ing rocks, etc, but how is the compound
/ to be shaped?
An English journal says that a fu-
neral is regarded as a very high festival
in rural Yorkshire. A poor woman was
lately heard complaining Of the fare pro-
| vided at one side had attended: "A paltry
| concern" she said, scornfully, ''Nobbut
cakes and such like. Now, I've buried
five, but I sided EN- all off with am ~
| And this: "A farmer was assisting his
| daughter in the choice of a dress, and
| seeing her fancy incline to a blue one,
| said remonstratingiy: Nay, lass tax the
I black one; happen tina might have the
! luck to be axed 10 a funeral" and his
counsel prevailed.
The London correspondent Of the Man
chester Courier publishes a remarkable
account Of a new flluminant, which. if all
that is said Of it is true, will push both
gas and electric light very, hard. For its
| production no machinery is required save
that contained in portable lamp neither
| larger nor heavier than is used with COLA
oil or paraffin. This lamp, it is declared,
generates Its own gas. The substance
| employed is at present a secret, jealousy
guarded by some inventive Italians. The
cost is declared to be at most one-fifth
of that of ordinary gas. and the resultant
light is nearly as bright as the electric
light and much whittier. A single lamp
floods q large room with light The an
paratus can be carried about as easily
as candlestick and seems both clean
and odorless.
A curious custom prevails in certain
parts of India which may be called SYM
bolical marriage. In families where there
are several daughters the younger sister
may only marry after the older sister is
married. That, Of course, is not always
the case, but the obstacle can easily be
| surmounted If the elder sister declares
| herself ready to marry some tree or a
large flower or some other lifeess object
In this way the disagreeable consequence
of disregarding the time-honored custom
may be avoided and the younger sister
can safely be welded to her living choice
The elder sister must, however, take care
not to choose a poplar tree, an elm tree
or pine; If she chooses a plum, apple
or apricot tree, she may get a divorce
that is to say, shake it off as soon as a
real man viii ask for her hand-while ii
| she marries one of the first three named
| trees she cannot easily shake her marital
| bonds, for these trees are sacred and must
| not be trifled with.
A French culinary review has publish.
ed an interesting list of notable French
men and women who have given Their
names in celebrated dishes between the
reigns of Louis XIII, and Charles X tt
Richelieu belongs the credit of having in
vented the Sauce Nationalist, while the
regent was the sponsor of the Pains a Ia
d'Orleans and his daughter of the Filets
de Lapereau a la Berry. The Marquis d.
Bechamel would have been long ago for
gotten, but for his Morue a la Creme
while Nine. de Pompadour can claim
credit for the Filets de Volatile a la Belle
vue and the Palais de Boeuf; and tbs
Cables a la Mirepoix, the Poulets a l.
Villeroy, the Chartreuses a la Mauconsei
and the Poularde aux Cerises a la Mont
morency are all named after great ladie.
of their times. The Potage a la Xavier
was invented by Louis XVIII, while hi.
brother, Charles Y, discovered a new
! mode of cooking sweetbreads, and tn,
Prince de Condo was the creator of tn,
soup bearing his name. Nor must Mime
de Maintenon be forgotten for her recip,
of Cotelettes on Papillote a dish so highl,
appreciated by Louis XIV.
The Austrians run no risks with theil
BARRIERS, says the Hartford Times. The,
must De good, ana the BARRIERS and Wig
makers Union of Vienna sees that the,
are. Provision is also made in their cod,
for women BARRIERS who desire to carr
on the business of their husbands in IN,
case of the latter's death or illness. Bu
In order to do this the wife must hay,
been enrolled in the union as an appren
tice for three years. Apprentices. by tn.
: rules of the union, must appear in vi
: emma, in the presence of judges of tn.
union, and show their skill before the,
t are allowed to open shops of their own
A properly certified barber must have ,
knowledge of and pass an examination
in shaving, hair-cutting, hair-curling an,
wig-making. At the examination tn,
young men or women have their razor
dulled by four strokes in a pine Dlank
and they must then sharpen them. 4 sun
; ject is assigned to each, and the victim
must be tonsorially perfect, in the onln
( ion of the judges, when the apprentic
has released him. After this a certifcaf
is issued, and the apprentice serves tv,
! years as a journeyman before permissio,
is granted to open a shop as an employer
Inc average age of apprentices when the,
begin to learn their trade is Is years.
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