The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-26
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water by means of a sponge. The material
is mainly intended for portieres, shades,
umbrellas, etc. The patented process con-
slsts IN filling, up the meshes of a wide
meshed fabric, such as muslin, with
chrome gelatine, or a similar substance,
and rendering the chrome gelatine insolu-
bic by exposure to light The stuff is
then coated on both sides with boiled lin
seed oil or fat varnish, and the treatment
with chrome gelatine and Hnseed oil is re-
peated several times The fabric is dec
Grated by printing.
What fools some men are. They i'm
agine that hair and beard trimmed in the
latest style and dressed in eau de quinine
or brilliantine will capture the hearts of
the fair sex, says the Pttsburg Dispatch.
They do not know something else besides
mere comeliness and hair oil wins the wo-
man. Some of the ugiiest men the world
has known have been the greatest favor
ties of the fair sex. Portraits of Vol
taire, Sidney, John Wilkes or Dean Swift
will show a quartet of homeiy men, though
this same group fascinated the entire cir
Gle of female acquaintance. Wilkes was
the ugliest man in all England, while Swift
was savage tyrant. Yet the most beau
tiful and intellectual women of their day
languished al their feet. Caesar, Areti-
no. Paul Scarron, Rousseau, Trenck, all
homely men, were "deevils amang the
weemin.'
The invention of an expanding auger,
by which a hole may be bored larger at
the bottom than at the top, was for long
time thought impossible, but it has been
successfully accomplished aud has simpl-
fed many of the operations of building ana
other systems of construction. AS the
auger enters the wood movable side Bit
or cutter is forced outward from the bot
tom of the cut by turning thumbscrew
on the body or stem of the borer. Thus
the hole may be made a third larger at
the bottom than at the top if wished.
The advantages of this are apparent. In
securely fastening the tenon or piece which
enters the hole all that is necessary is
simply to check its end and insert or
merely start a wedge. In driving the
piece home the wedge strikes the enlarged
bottom of the mortise or bore and expands
the entering piece to a complete and wat
er-tight juncture.
"A Springfield oculist tells curious sto-
ry which illustrates how the total destruc-
ton of a nerve sometimes saves much pain
in an accident says the Springfield Re
publican. A boy came into his office one
day and asked him to remove some dust
that had gotten into one of his eyes. The
doctor looked at the organ, and was start
led to find that the eyeball was broken in
and totally destroyed. The boy said that
he had been walking on the street and
wagon passed close to him. He felt
some dust get into his eye, he said, and
not being able to get it out, went to the
oculist The dust did not hurt him, but
he couldn't see very well. The oculist
made thorough examination of the eye,
and inside the eyeball found the knot
which had come off the end of a whiplash.
1t was found that the driver of the wagon
had cracked long whip so that the knot
struck the boy in the eye, Embedding the
knot in the ball, where it broke off The
boy at the time felt no other sensation
than what a speck of dust or a cinder
might have made.
-Soya, pant from which is made the
| food of several Eastern peoples, Yields
a superior quality of oil that bids fair
| the supercede olive oil. sauce used in
the preparation of all Japanese dishes
| is made by mixing it with barley and
fermenting with water. One town alone
has works turning out yearly 1900 tons
of this syrup or sauce. Bread made from
| this soya is as good as cake without
| sugar and very appetizing. It is twice
as nourishing as wheaton bread having
only one-tifth as much starch and being
| ten times as rich In fattening Qualities
| 1t is especially recommended to debili-
| tated persons and convalescents. BY
| crushing the grain and pouring water
| over ii a product with all the qualities of
milk results and in China soya is the
natural milk. Cheese made from the
grain is delicious. The uses TO which
| soya is put are numerous it makes a
| poultry food; a good fodder both green
and dry; an excellent substitute for hay
| cows feed on it, yielding 20 per cent
more milk than when hay fed; the seeds
| resemble beans and are served with
meat; and when green are readily eaten
| by all animals.
1t becomes more than ever apparent
that The Central American parrot did not
cut its eye teeth yesterday, and that it is
really bird of remarkable sapience, put
ting this and that together with force
| of logical cohesion equal to that exerted
| by the best prepared glue or canned Rhode
| Island honey. One of them in a Ninth
avenue store the other might screamed
| so persistently for the policeman that he
| came at last from several blocks away and
| discovered that full pathological burg
| lar, David O'Brien by name, had obtained
| entrance to the emporium and hidden him
| self under the bed intent to steal and
make away with the conversations bird
| as soon as the coast was clear. The pene-
tration of this beauteous isthmian visitor
and its explanatory talents blocked this
little game, and the culprit was carried
off and locked up to answer This par
ticular parrot has without doubt future
before it, and will be hear from, not only
| by the constabulary and the ancient and
dishonorable guild of house breakers, but
other people as well. 1t is not one of the
brooding, communicative kind, which
interrogated as to its talking power re-
spends, Talks cheap. I'm thinking
parrot but is of another sect altogether
doing credit TO the region of it's nativity
as well as to Ninth avenue, the social
| conditions of which it so cheerily enlivens
--latest among marvellous discoveries is
la Femme Rontgen," a woman who is
described as being able to read with ease
through Opaque bodies, says Paris letter
in the London Telegraph. Such, at least
is the story gTavely related. We are told
that DR.. Ferroul of Narbonne has found
and has introduced this phenomenal lady
TO his colleague, DIR. Grasset, professor al
the medical faculty at Montpelier. "All
this is quite impossible" exclaimed DR.
Grasset when he was informed of the new
wonder We'll, you will see" was the
quiet reply. Then the demonstration was
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