The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Moscow TO build all their houses in strict
ly Russian style This. he said, would give
the city an original aspect that would at
tract thousands OF tourists. and bring
money for public improvements.
The following formula shows how to
ind the day OF the week of any date.
Take the last two figures OF the year, add
quarter Of this, disregarding the frac-
ton; and the date of the month and 10
this add the figure Of the following list.
one ngure standing for each month: SIS
-6-2-i-0-2-5-1-3-S- Divide the sum
by seven and the remainder viii give the
number of the day in the week. And
when there is no remainder the day Will
be Saturday.
The supreme court of California has
decided that the contract entered into in
joining secret order-in the case at bar
the odd FellOWs-is legally binding upon
the individual who makes it, Sick bene-
nts were refused a member of an odd
Fellows lodge, who demanded an inves-
tigating committee. He failed to appear
before the committee, and before the lodge
TO stand trial on a charge of violating its
rules. and was expelled. He brought suit
Tor reinstatement, and the lower court
decided in his favor, but the supreme court
reversed this ruling, on the ground that
the member had broken his contract en-
tered into when he subscribed to the rules
and regulations of the lodge. and that not
until he has exhausted all the opportuni
ties which the rules of the order afford to
justify himself. can he appeal to the
courts.
New York city will have a great cleo
trical exposition, commencing on May
next and continuing until June l. The
exposition is to be held under the au-
spicies OF the National Electric Light As
ISOLATION, in connection with its nine
teenth convention, and promises to be the
largest al most interesting display of
electrical apparatus of all kinds ever made
in this country. The exposition will be held
in the great Industrial building which
occupies the entire block on Lexington
avenue, between Forty-third and Forty
fourth streets Many novel and unique
features in electrical displays will be in
troduced in connection with the eXposi-
tion. There will be given a series of pop
subjects by eminent scientists, also after
noon and evening concerts by famous mil
ltary bands, and special spectacular eff
fects, all of which will be open to the gen
eral public.
Between Fourteenth and Twenty-third
streets. on Sixth avenue. says a New York
letter. there is a man who conducts a
business that cannot be duplicated in any
other city. He calls himself a finder
Between the streets named more women
pass in day than in like number of
blocks in any other portion of the city
in fact, this portion of Sixth avenue is
conceded to be the busiest place for women
IN the United States. The finder" a
shabbfly-dressed young man, walks up
and down the avenue, keenly watching
the thrOngs. Whenever anyone drops any-
thing he runs and picks it up and re-
stores II to the owner. making a charge
for its return. For handkerchiefs he gets
cording to their value. Within those few
blocks" he said to me- women lose on
an average of seventy-five handkerchiefs
a day, and very often valuable articles of
| jewelry and wearing apparel. Some DAYS
l have made as high as So while on
Others l have failed to make cent
The great works of Krupp at Essen
| were founded in 1910, says London Inven-
ton In 1911 the first glass furnace was
erected, in 1918 more of the old works
| steel making were erected, in 1S47 was
| begun the construction of steel cannon,
after which the works grew. until 1893
| no less than 25,30l operatives, forming a
| collective family, as it We're, comprising
| 6O,2l9 persons in all, were dependent on
| the krupp works at Essen. OF these A.
| 1Ol live in the krupp colony at Essen.
| The works at Essen consume annually
| ,203, l6l gross tons of coal and coke There
are - kilometers OF electric lines, so kilo-
| meters of telephone, 1904 incandescent
| lamps, 573 arc lamps 80 141 horsepower is
employed in the steam engine. The in
| ternal service for transportation at Es-
| sen is effected by 30 locomotives with ,207
| trucks; IS kilometers of railway are en-
| ployed each day in transporting 80 trains
| The largest steam hammer has a strik-
| ing weight of 1885, $50 kilometers. There
| are more than 5000 machines of various
| sorts and over 1900 fires in daily use. The
| manufacturers of Krupp besides those in
! Essen are located in Magdeburg West
| phalia and in Spain at Bilbao, and Mep-
| pea, Hanover.
in France we find that the potato was
| placed on the royal table in the year
1916. but it was Parmentier, an apothe-
| cary, who really introduced it, and did
| all he could to get il generally cultivated,
| though without the assistance of the gov
| eminent. In III a high prize was Of
| fered by the Academy of Besancon for the
| discovery of a new food which would fill
the place OF cereals in case of a famine,
| says the Journal of the Royal Horticu:-
! tural Society Parmentier showed his po-
| tatoes, and Louis XVI gave him so NOR
| gen of land to plant them on. When show
| ing the first flowers of his potatoes the
| king used them as a button-hole bou-
| quet, Queen Marie Antoinette had them in
| tne evening in her hair, and at once
| princes. dukes and high functionaries went
| to Parmentier to obtain such flowers. All
Paris talked of nothing but potatoes and
the cultivator OF them. The king said:
| France will thank you some time hence
| because you have found bread for the
poor" And France has not forgotten Par
| mentier, for L saw myself. in 1882, pota-
| toes growing on his grave in the grand
| cemetery of Paris, the Pere la Chaise, and
l, was assured that they We're planted
might never be forgotten by Frenchmen
The hardest body known to science is
the diamond, which has been used for a
Ions time for cutting, grinding and drill
| ing other hard substances. Diamond DOW
! der is of great Importance in many
] lIdutS, anu GLASS cutting, engraving and
| kindred trades could not possibly get
along without the diamond and diamond
| dust. The general use of diamonds for
these purposes has made them costly
| and the scarcity of the material has set
| the scientists upon the search for a
! suitable substitute. y Such a one mas
now been found by the French physician
| Moisson, who has recently succeeded in
| producing artificial diamonds with the
help of a high tension electric current.
Moisson has found combination of
| boric acid and carbopized sugar. which
| results in new stone quite superior to
| the diamond in hardness. 1t cuts the
diamond without difficulty, and can he
made in any size or shape. The combi-
\ nation of borium with carbon occurs
| when the mixture of boric acid and car
BOMBED sugar is heated in electric fur
naces to a temperature of about 3Ob0 de-
! grees the result is a black mass similar
in appearance to graphite. The new stone
will certainly be of considerable irnnort-
| ance in the quarrying of stone in min
| ing, in the boring of wells, and in many
! other trades where heretofore the exnen-
sive and much softer black diamond has
| been used.
| Awarded