The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-05
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solves cotton, then evaporates and leaves
pure cotton behind in an amorphous pulp.
The pulp may be rolled Just as paper pulp
Is rolled, into a homogeneous fabric of
any thickness required. All the attempts
10 dissolve cotton hitherto have been I'M
successful. The nearest that has been at
tanned is the conversion of the fiber into
the anonymous condition known as celiu-
lose, from which gun cotton and zylonlte
are made. These notifications of celluIose
are nightly dangerous being subject to
J spontaneous combustion. The new solv-
en- however, does not change the chem
lcai nature of the cotton fiber-it is cotton
though not flbrous, after deposition from
| solution.
The difference between India rubber
and gutta percha are thus pointed out by
a scientific handbook: India rubber is of
a sort gummy nature, not very tenacious
| astonishingly elastic. Gutta percha is
| hbroUs, extremely tenacious and without
| much elasticity or f1exibility. India rubber
once reduced to liquid state by heat, ap-
| pears like tar and is unfit for further use
| Gutta percha may be melted and cooled
any number of times without injury for
| 1uture manufacture. India rubber coming
in contact with oil or fatty substances is
| soon decomposed and ruined. Gutta percha
is not decomposed by coming in contact
with oily or fatty substances. India rub
l
| sulphuric, muriatic and other acids. Gut
ia percha resists the action of these and
| nearly all acids. India rubber is a con-
| ductor of heat, cold and electricity. Gutta
percha is a non-conductor of heat, cold
| and electricity.
In a recent editorial the London Tele-
graph reviews the long reign of Victoria,
| and enumerates the distinguished men
| who have passed away since the time of
her accession. She has survived the mem
| bers of the privy council who were alive
in 1887; the peers who held their titles in
| 1897, with the exception of the Earl Of
| Darnley, who was 10 years of age, and
the Earl of Nelson, who was IA. She has
also outlived the members who sat in the
| house of commons al the time of her &C
cession, except Mr.. Gladstone the Earl of
Marlborough, the Duke of Northumber-
| land, the Earl of Mansfield and Mr.. John
Temple Leader. Her majesty's reign has
covered the terms of eleven lord chan
cellors, ten prime ministers, six speakers
of the house of commons and five arch
bishops of Canterbury. She has ruled
contemporaneously with seventeen Presi-
dents of the United States, ten viceroys of
China, fifteen viceroys of India, and has
| seen France governed by one king, one
emperor and six presidents.
There is the most remarkable sheep in
|
says the Philadelphia Record. He isn't a
sheep, either for his gender precludes the
possibility of such a classification, but he
is known as the "black sheep and even
the "Hot Stuff" of Playwright Hoyt's
muse could not surpass him in pure cuss-
edness. Nobody knows just how old he is
but he has occupied his present position
in the stock yards for over eight years.
1t is a well-known fact that a flock of
sheep will follow a leader, and drovers
will tell you how hard it is to get flock
started into slaughter pen. The duty of
this particular black sheep is TO act as
"capper" for the drovers. He is always
sent ahead to lead the van, and his foolish
| followers are thus led like lambs to the
| slaughter. AS soon as he is in the pen the
knoWing leader makes a break for a secret
exit and proclaims his readiness to take in
another band of innocents. The old rene
gade is an inveterate tobacco chewer and
| the employees of the stock yards see that
his needs are well supplied. One of his
front teeth is loose and there is some talk
of having it pulled. Then he will be en-
abed to squirt a stream of tobacco fluid
in true Kentucky style
1t is easy to discover domesticated
animals first state, says the Chicago
Record. We know the cats ancestors
dwelt in forests because every kitten
takes to a tree as a duck takes to water
All forest-dwellers are notified in color
so as to be less distinguishable, and most
cats have this popularity. In spite OF
| the domestic character the cat has ac-
| quired it is in reality the least tame OF
! our pets. AS for duties, man has taught
| ii practically nothing and its methods or
catching rats. mice and birds are pecu-
| liary it's own. 1t is, in fact, wild ami
NAL which for its own purposes has taken
| up it's residence in our houses. Every one
has noticed the varnish-like coating on
| the buds of the horse-chestnut and other
trees. This varnish not only protects them
but adds to their appearance. When
this varnish is yet soft the bees flock in
great numbers, collecting it for their own
use. Bees were expert varnishers long be-
| fore man learned the art. There are in
sect upholsterers, too, the leaf-cutting bee
being most prominent 1t bores a cylindri-
cal hole and constructs from this Thin
| ble-shaped cells, which are stored with
| its honey. In each cell is also laid sin
gle egg and then each hole is covered with
| three layers of leaf cuttings so exactly
cylindrical in shape and fitting the hole
| so perfectly that no compass could have
defined the margin more accurately. The
number of seeds produced by weeds is
something enormous. one plant producing
| half a million in a season, or enough to
| produce a plant on every square acre or
100 acres of land, if each seed grew. Ac-
cording to an authority, a roadside null
| lem plant VIII produce oOU,VO SEEDS. Inc
little snowbirds eat up most of these
| seeds, thus saving the country from be-
Ing overrun with the weeds Here is an
instance of practically making three birds
ffcm one. A taxidermist killed a game
| bird, cooked the flesh and made a good
meal. He then articulated and set up its
skeleton and afterward made an arti-
ncial wire skeleton over which he stretch
ed the skin and feathers At another
time, having a tiger rug to make up ana
also a tigers head to furnish as trade
mark, he ingeniously supplied both from
one pelt. He cut off the head of the ami
NAL from the pelt and then from the
white hair on the under side of the body
shaped and made new head, which he
painted or dyed in the correct colors.
Places where the hair was worn away he
covered by setting on hair after hair with
some adhesive preparation. This head
fastened to the rug could not be detected