The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An immense rink of artificial ice was
opened TO skaters at the beginning of last
week in London. 1t is the property oftthe
Princess Club, one of the most aritto-
cratic clubs in England, and will be uSed
only by the members and their friends.
Admiral Moxse, the president of he
Princess, who is said to be the originator
of the scheme, has taken for his moiel
the Pole Nord of Paris.
The story is told in La Medicine Nd
erne, of seamstress who was in tie
habit of allowing her dog to lick her fad.
She was attacked one day with a sevek
inflammation of the right eye Oculiss
were consulted, but their treatment Wa
unsuccessful, and owing to the fact that
Inflammation of the left eye was begin.
ming the right eye was cut out In it was
found tape worm, which the dog ha 1
probably picked up while licking SOM
less pleasing object than his mistress
face. The danger of the transmission o.
parasites by dogs, who are well-knoWn to
be indiscriminate in choosing objects for
the exercise of their tongues. to the
hands and faces of their masters, would
seem to be a great one. 1t is remarkable
that accidents of the kind related happen
as rarely as they do.
A blacksmith is thus quoted in the
Washington Star: $50 far there have
been nearly 200 patents issued for horse
shoes. Every one of them was supposed
to have merit. "A large number of them
were supposed to be of value, for the
reason that they could be put on horses
by bands or clasps, and thus save time
and the expense of horseshoers. Six thou
and dollars, therefore, have been paid
into the patent office by inventors OF
horseshoes. Not one of these inventions
was ever used, and to-day, as during the
past, horses are shod. The only shoe that
can be put on horse must be nailed or
by blacksmith. There is no royal road to
wealth, and there is no way to shoe a
horse except to nail on the shoe. This
$4,000 is but small part of the money plid
out in connection with patented hofe-
Shoes
The best grades of pepper come from
Singapore. The next best in quality Gomez
from Sumatra. White pepper is the ke1
mel with the shell removed. Pepper is
otten adulterated with charcoal and buck
wheat. The best red pepper comes IRON
Natal. A lower grade is marketed at Ian.
zlpar. The brown nutmegs from Penang
are the best, as are also the cloves. 4
cheaper grade of the latter comes from
Zanzibar. Alspice comes from Jamaica
as does also the best ginger. Jamaica sin.
ger is bleached white, and Borneo ginger
is often chalked to make it look the su.
perlor article. African ginger is dark in
color and poor in quality. CevIon CHINA
mon is the best, but is so expensive that
very little is used. Cassia, the outside
bark of the tree, is the substitute. 1t costs
about one-tenth the price of the genuine
article.
One of the most unique methods NJ
mo t.fn
gent-on-the-Marne. near Paris. the other
days, says an exchange. There are 2
great number of cooper shops at this
place and the men and women of the
town united in a rolling contest. The race
course was fine, level bit of road. Dor
derlng the river Marine and the huge
casks which the coopers had Just com
pleted were to be rolled on their edges in
the same way as they were handled in
the making. There was no dearth of en-
tries for the first race, in which both
hands could be used in the sport. but
when 1t came to using only one hand and
nnalIy to rolling two casks at the same
time, with a hand for each the contest
narrowed considerably and the matter be-
came of intense interest to the spectators
lining the road. The sport closed with y
contest among the different bands Of
workers as to which could give most
tremendously the distinctive cries Of his
own particular company. The French
papers, IN commenting on the new fun
remarked here at last was a sport which
had not been borrowed from England.
The sewing machine does not occupy
the position in domestic life that it did
ten years ago, says the New York Times.
There has been great revolution in the
sewing machine business in that time.
The evolution which began when the
foremothers of the country gave I'M their
hand looms and sent their spinning and
weaving to the factory is still going on.
Inc appearance of the sewing machine
marked one stage of the evolution. and
lts disappearance as one of the most i'm
portant assistants in every family marks
ahother. The sewing machines are su.
perlor now to those made ten or twenty
years ago, and they are made to do bet
ter and a greater variety of work but the
great demand for them comes from dif-
ferent quarters. One large sewing ma
chlne company which has an OUTPUT of
over 4OO,ON machines a year, in this
country alone manufactures fiftv distinct
types of machines, and with the variations
OF the types there are several hundred
Inherent kinds of machines. Many of these
go into factories. A woman can buv nm.
than
she can buy the material and make them
herself This is owing to the factory
work, where each worker makes a mart
OF a garment which has perhaps been cut
out by die, fifty pieces at a time. The
lack of room in city apartments makes
economy of space a necessity. and fine
housekeeper for the periodical vistations
or the seamstress or dressmaker hires a
machine from places where a speciality is
made of that branch of the business
outside the large cities this practice is
not so common. The manufacturers saw
that the family trade they lose is made
up not only in selling to manufacturere
but to the many foreigners In the conn.
try, who. in city like New York do
great quantities of work for manufactur.
ers on their own machines in their own
homes. 1t is estimated there are OO0 an
machines sold in the United States an
nually. The statistics of the census os
1880 showing the number of manufac-
lures on which machine sewing is ueed
are interesting. They also show that tbe
production of mems clothing in factories
was nearly double that of the TAILORING
establishments. While the actual num-
Der OF machines sold annually durino tba
last ten or twenty years has NOT variad
greatly, considering the increase of tbo