The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

textiles, ranging over several centuries of
European and oriental manufacture. The
collection was purchased from Signor Sal
vador of Florence, Italy, by whom it was
collected, and, ii is said, cannot be dupl-
Gated.
Water works disinfection on a whole
sale plan was tried al Maidstone, England
according to British journals which state
that DR.. Sims Woodhead treated the reser-
voir and mains of a district of that city
with heavy dose of chloride of lime
About ten tons of lime were mixed with
10000 gallons of water in the reservoir
and the solution allowed to flow into The
mains. At a certain hour it was turned
into all the house connections in the dis
trict, and what did not escape in this way
was eventually blown off through hy-
drants. The disinfection was done to de-
stroy typhoid germs.
DIR. B. Kossman of Charlottenberg,
Germany, has secured a patent for the inn
perial government covering a rust pre-
venting paint composed of the peroxides of
earths of the cerium group. The oxides
in question are Incorporated with linseed
oil Varnish, to which is added as a drier
a portion of linseed oil boiled with mix
ture of boric acid and the peroxides. The
resulting paint can be colored with gra PHI
lite, lampblack, heavy spar, etc, and lie
said to fulfill all the requirements exact
ed OF such composition, a sufficient oXy-
gen content to insure the Identification of
the linseed varnish and freedom from any
metallic base capable of setting up an
electrical action with iron, and so caus-
ing the formation of rust
There are fully 1900 hides tanned
weekly in Newark n. ]. About half of
these become shoe tipping and vamp lea
III ~. ,tet.f, 1a-I ffr~-
niture and fancy leather: More horse
hides are tanned than in any other place
in this country. Cordovan vamps are the
product. Chrome tanned sole for bicycle
shoes is made and the manufacture of
kangaroo and kangaroo kid is an mpor-
tant interest All kinds of bag and book
leather are produced The tanners are
said to get more money out of a hide than
anywhere else. Three, and sometimes
four, splits are made and finished. 1t is
estimated that SIC is realized per hide, and
the yearly business done amounts to &c.,
100000
The draining of pond at the state
hatchery, st. Joseph, Mo-, few days ago
for the purpose of removing the bass to
another pond furnished a surprise to
Fish Commissioner Yenawine and Super
intendent Carson. So few bass were found
that they suspected some thief had cap
Iufed the former 1nnd DlLdllS Oh the water,
but a short time after the pond was drain
ed, one of the men stumbled onto a fish
in walking over the partially dry bottom
of the pond, and, upon picking it up, he
found a bass, and investigation revealed
a large number of the fishes ensconsed
in the mud, some of them twelve inches
below the surface. Commissioner Yena-
wine thinks this experience should set a t
rest all doubts as to whether the black
bass hibernates in the mud in the winter.
The corrosive power of pure water on
new or unscaled boilers was well Illus
trated in the city of Glasgow, when
new water supply was introduced from
Loeb Katrine, one of the purest waters
in the world which are available for city
consumption. The former supply had been
poor and calcareous and old boilers were
much coated with lime scale. To the dis
may of the users, those who had put in
new boilers or new tubes found them rap
idly corroding, while the old scaled and
coated boilers remained as before; those,
100, who had removed every possible
trace of old incrustation from their old
boilers by mechanical or chemical means,
intending thus to get, as they expected,
the full benefit of pure water, were also
badly troubled by corrOsiOn, and even the
old boilers, as the scale was gradually re
moved by the unvarying soft and pure
water from the lake, were more or less
corroded when no means were taken to
prevent it.
Fruit cures" just now a fad in con-
tlnental Europe with people having real
or imaginary diseases, is by no means a
new thing. In the tenth century an inves-
tigator has discovered, many medical au-
thoritieS become enthusiastic in their writ
ings over the remarkable curative virtues
of grapes, while a certain Van Swieten of
a more modern date is said to have re
commended in special cases the eating of
twenty pounds of strawberries a day"
The same gentleman also reports a case
of phthisis healed by strawberries, and
cites cases in which maniacs have regain
ed their reason by the exclusive use of
cherries as food. These instances rather
SAVIOR of the miraculous but there is no
doubt that the so-called grape cure, for in
digestion and other evils. is carried. on in
many places on the continent and that
people betake themselves to Meran, We
way, Bingen, or to Italy and the South of
France with the intention of devoting six
weeks to the cure during which time they
are expected to have gradually accom-
plished the feat of consuming from three
to eight pounds of grapes daily, as the
case may be. Grapes are said to exercise
a salutary action on the nervous system
is to say, when fruit of good quality is
employed If the grapes are not sufficient
ly ripe and are watery and sour the pa
tent may lose rather than gain in weight.
The valuable results obtained by a fruit
diet in cases of biliousness are due to the
fact that noXious germs habitually present
in the alimentary canal do not thrive in
fruit juices.
1t is not generally known, says the
Boston Transcript, that over 90 per cent.
of wood may be converted into LIQUID.
The strongest hydraulic pressure would
not squeeze one-half of one per cent of
moisture from dry wood. but by putting
the same material into an iron retort and
converting it into charcoal by means of
heat, the gases and smoke, to the extent
of fully s. per cent of the weight of the
wood, may be condensed into liquid called
pyroligneous acid, and from ii are OBJ
tanned wood alcohol, acetate of lime and
wood tars. A cord of wood weighing 1000
pounds produced about 1850 pounds of pv-
roligneous acid and 700 pounds of char
coal. The pyroligneous acid from one cord
of wood produces nine gallons of 50 per
cent crude wood alcohol, 200 pounds of
acetate of lime and about twenty-five gal