The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

After the German invasion an officer
of the Turcos could not settle down into
civic life. bur went on to Africa on an ex-
p4orlng expedition, says the New York
Tribune In one of the native villages
on the Niger he saw an intelligent, bright.
looking lad tied up, and on inquiry found
Inat ne was being fattened for a feat
winch was in contemplation in which he
was 70 appear roasted. He bought the
lad Tor case of Old Tom gin, and brought
MN back TO Paris, where he was sent "a
school, astonishing everybody by his ca.
pacity He has just died in that city,
closing a history in which his rescue
SHINES as the most memorable incident
The Portuguese shoe has a wooden sole
and heel, with a vamp made of patent
leather, fancifully showing the flesh side
OF the skin. The Persian fOotgear is a
raised shoe. and Is often a foot high; it is
made OF light wood, richly inlaid, with a
strap extending over the instep. The Mus
coFlte snoe Is hand-WoVeh. on a wooden
frame. and but little attention is paid tc
the shape of the foot; leather is some
times used, but the sandal is generally
made OF silk coTdage and wooden cloth
Inc Slamese shoe has the form of an an.
clent canoe, with a gondola bow and an
open toe; the sole is made of wood. the
upper or lnlaid wood and cloth. and the
exterior is deliberately ornamented in col.
ors with gold and silver.
The socialists of Leek. Staffordshire
England, have purchased an old Quaker
meeting house, and turned it into a. labor
church, says an exchange The edifce
is two centuries old and stands in a well,
tufIed Enclosure, surrounded by tall old
trees, Wnere open air meetings will i e
neld IN summer Designs for wall decor.
atoms have been contributed by Walter
crane, and the work of identifying the
interior has been carried on under the a.
rection of Larner Sugden. Sidney XVebb
IN letter to the promoters thinks the
memorial cannot fail TO exercise a most
N.aa va influence on life and character.
lt WILL he adds. "be source of in
splration, bidding men and women to be
OF good cheer, for love and brotherhood
are stun power in the land"
"A new danger confronts the pyramids
Of Egypt, and it is a matter of doubt
whether they will continue to maintain
that composure for which they have be-
come famous through Gov Leedy's bril-.
nant eplgram about their Indifference 10
me parking of the Egyptian dogs, says
me New York Tribune. They will be
trolley-victim No. 147, 365. In a word. this
wicked capitaliStic age is going TO RIM
a trolley through the Nile valley to the
pyramids. What a passion of eloauance
Ihls news must arouse in the populistic
Demosthenes of Topekal With what i'm
pa Iehce must the people of the plains
nay OF the entire world, await his next
puDhc utterance, when the figure of The
oogs snail be revised and adjusted to mod.
ern condltlonSi When the first trolley.
car warning gong rings on the Egyptian
centuries which have been engaged for
some little time past in looking down upon
p psld IRON the pyramids win gather up their
more secluded spot.
"A proof of the remarkable ease with
which dry coal dust may be brought tc
ignition, even by exposure to the suns
rays and also an explanation of MANY
a Hre at similar surface buildings in col.
a ile.les ana elsewhere, in which timber
etc, covered with coal dust may be in in
innate connection with heated meta
plates, has been afforded in German col.
merry says the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
are made chiefly of iron the galvanized
corrugated sheets which form the walls
on the building being supported by strong
par a pipe passing through one of the
sheets forming a wall facing the south
"A nechanlc, on going to remove the Law.
Fl OF coal dust from girder close to the
Sheet, burned his hand. The official in
quiry showed that the layer of coal dust
when contained large proportion OF
pulVeTized rock, had become ignited along
the whole length of the metal wall The
neat of the sun had struck right through
and the coal dust, as was proved by tbs
layer OF white ash on the top, had beer
burning for a considerable time.
Cold storage companies, according tc
the New York Sum- derive a large income
in summer from keeping valuable furs
woollens, and rugs. which might be iniur.
ed by the larvae of clothes moths clothes
beetles, and other insects which feed or
such goods 1t has been the common prac-
ice or the companies to keep the goods al
temperature of y degrees to 20 degrees
tahrenhett during the summer. Dr. L. O.
howard, entomolOgist of the United States
department OF agriculture made a number
OF experiments with destructive insects
and troze them to death al various tenn
peratureS up to 40 degrees or so degrees
As the insects died al a moderately low
temperature. il is evident that ba col
storage companies which put their stores
IN ~ degrees or u degrees Temperature are
wasting good deal of energy, 5 a 40 de-
gree temperature is low enough to protect
tne goods. The insects which shiVered in
the interest of science and cold storage
companies were the clothes moth, the cab.
met beetle, the black carpet beetle the
dark meal worm, and the leather beetle. II
IS said that the black carpet beetle. or
FEELING the temperature going down
wrapped itself in a Turkish rug hoping n
weather the unusual frost. 1t was fr0zer
sim in the rug, having the general appear.
ance OF mummified beetle when unWrap.
ped. The meal worm was equally unfortu.
nate. 1t tried to keep up its circulation
by eating wheat.
Recently published statistics have
thrown deep gloom over the French Anti.
Tobacco League, for they show An enor.
| nous and rapidly increasing consumptfor
OF the narcotic weed in that country. saws
the New York Times. In 1896 French
smokers threw 993COO,OO0 francs into The
treasury, of France by the patronage
which they gave the governments 10.
bacco shops, and this is 1900. 900 francs
more than they spent for that purnose
the year before. The president of the
league finds in their excessive use of the
weed the chief reason why Frenchmer
are not increasing in number. and wher
an interviewer asked him how il was thai
smoking did not seem to produce The
same effect in Germany, he took refuge
IN the more than dubitable assertion thai
in Germany the people bought good TO.
bacco while in France they were prac.
ucally forced to buy the Wretched stufi
prepared in the government factories
Leaving aside the question of the excel.
lence OF German tobacco, cigars and
cigarettes, the presidents theory is weak.
ened by the fact that good English and
American tobacco is now sold ali over
Paris. II was recently rumored that the
government intended to stop this general
sale, but such is not the case. Holders
of the BureauX de Tabac are still EN-.
powered to supply the Englishman OF
American with smoking material from
Bristol or Virginia, but they must not
Vaunt its merits or display in a conspic-
nous manner any foreign specimens OF
the weed. The first place must be given
10 the 'caporal' and Maryland" pack
cts, both blue and yellow