The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Marshal Bazaine's two sons enlisted
in the Spanish army, and were sent to
Cuba short time ago. One has lust
died of yellow fever, and the other Is
slowly recovering from the same disease.
The Iron Gate mot Gates of the Dan
ube was undoubtedly 50 named because
Of the hardness of the rock which shut
in the river. Even modern science found
= almost impossible to blast. The con-
tractors at one point in three days had
5000 worth of black diamonds crushed in
drilling. How Trajan, or rather his engin-
GERS, managed to cut a path along the
clln 1t is impossible to guess. The inscrip-
ton cut in the rock opposite Ogradena
reads Qn Latin) as follows: "The EN-
peror Caesar, son of the immortal Nerva,
Nerva Trajanus Augustus Germanicus,
high priest, holding the power of pontifex
for the fourth time. Father of the Father
land, consul for the third time, has had
the way prepared by hewing through the
chfts and the bases Of the Balkans"
The West Indies are very rich in for
est trees. Many of these are turned to sin
gular uses, says the Pittsburg Dispatch
The bark of the prune tree is used in the
making of a liquor suggestive of cherry
brandy; the wood of the ironwood. which
sinks in water, is turned into massive NAL
lets for the heavy work of the carpenter;
the rubber tree is tapped by the negro boys
and its oozing juice is made into balls for
their games, or, if near the seaside, for
dressing the oakum which the cracks in
the fishing canoes are callxed. The Gala
bash bears a fruit, the skin of which, when
dried, gives the natives drinking vessels
and water bottles; the fustic gives a beau
tiful yellow dye, and the lOgwood dyes
rich purple, and is much used in the man
ufacture of crusty old port. The West In
dian negro is a born poacher He catches
the quail by the cruel eXpedient of streW
ing finely powdered cayenne or bird pepper
in the little dust pits where the birds
wash" The burning powder gets into the
eyes of the bird, which, confused and help-
less, is then easily caught. When he wants
wholesale supply of fish, he explodes a
piece of dynamite, which was probably
intended for the making of new govern
ment roads, over a hole in a mountain
stream, and the fish are killed by the con-
cussion. But his favorite resource is the
bark of the dogwood, one of the most plen-
tiful of the forest trees. This he drops
into river hole, and the mullet, intoxicat-
ed comes to the surface of the water
old shoes are not waste from the
standpoint of modern industry, says the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat. After they
have done their service and are discarded
by the first Wearers, a secondhand dealer
their former appearance and they are sold
again. to be worn a little longer by poorer
people. When the shoes are finally discard
ed by them they are still good for various
purposes. In France such shoes are bought
up in quantities by rag dealers and sold
to factories, where the shoes are taken
apart and submitted to long manpula tons
which turn them into paste, from which
the material is transformed into an im-
tation of leather, appearing very much like
the finest morocco. Upon this material
stylish designs are stamped, and wall pa
pers, trunk covers, and similar articles are
manufactured from it. Another French
industry is using old dilapidated shoes in
the Transforming of old into new footwear.
This is the principal occupation of the
military convicts imprisoned in the fort
ress of Montpelier. There the shoes are
taken apart, all the nails are taken out,
and then the leather is soaked in water
some time to soften it. From those pieces
that can be used are cut the uppers for
children's shoes and parts of the soes are
similarly used The smallest pieces of
leather are applied in high Louis ". heels,
which were in style few years ago. Even
the nails of the old shoes are used again.
They are separated by a magnet which
attracts the steel nails, while the copper
and brass nails are carried on further. The
price received for the old copper nails
alone almost pays for the first cost of the
old shoes. Clippings and cuttings of the
leather are also used, being turned into
paste, from which artificial leather is
made, and what is not good enough to
serve for this purpose is sold with the
sweepings to agricuturists in the neigh
borhood, who use this paste with great
success as a fertilizer.
What becomes of all the handker-
chiefs? That's as burning a question as
where do all the pins go, only that a hand
kerchief can be worn out, but with pins
the mystery deepens and we can only in
dulge in vague surmises as to their fate
says the Philadelphia Times. Now, with
handkerchefs it is different. They are
large enough not to slip away from us,
but they DOLBY hundreds, fairly. We are
buying them constantly and when we con-
slider one has only one nose
to buy for it seems i'm
possible for us to need so many. And
the cost! For any sort OF one we pay so
and so cents and 80 cents-well, it counts
up nightly at the end of a year. To be
sure, there are cheaper ones, but after
being washed once they come out an ugly
yellow or gray, just because they are not
linen but poor cotton instead. They are
uncomfortable things to carry about, too;
they are 50 undeniably shoddy. If you do
get economical and use an inferior quail
ty in this article; that cheap ones will be
plenty good enough to lose, you will lose
them without doubt. But, like bread cast
upon the waters, they will return to you
every time to confound and confuse YOU.
1t will happen in this way. While calling
on friend with this miserable little piece
of cotton kept well out of sight, as you
suppose, you yet manage to drop it, A
week or so later your friend will be a t
your house and, producing this hated hand
kerchief, will say: I'm sure this must be-
long to you. l found it by your chair the
other day after you left. 1t really must be
yours, for it does not belong to any of
my family" OF course it is yours and Won
shamefacedly acknowledge the ownership.
but that is the last cheap lot bought and
instead you buy fresh supply of good
ones and fondly hope to lose one where
you did the last. Trust on. if you will. No
such luck will come. Your pretty, expen-
sive handkerchiefs will melt away. but
you will never have an opportunity TO
proudly claim one as your own. 1t is only
the ones to be ashamed of that are brought
back