The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ always tell the girls whose parents have
risen from the humber class to wealth by
the superior qualiay of their hair.
"A new German barrel is made of cor
rugated metal, the corrugation running
! lengthwise Of the barrel. It is rolled out
| in sheets, which are shaped in genuine
! parref-cylinder form, that the barrels
! may be rolled easily. The edges are seam
ed, or Tapped and riyeted, and soldered.
In Canadian patent for folding doors
the doors may consist of a number of
sections controlled from the top by levers
or lazy longs" which are joined at the
! top in the center, one-half of each being
| attached at the bottom to the top of
door section. The doors will be in a
straight line when closed, do not bind and
| lock easily.
"A combina ton of clays has been hit
upon that will produce an absolutely IN
descructible fire-proof brick. 1t has been
| subjected to a white heat that will melt
solid rock and iron, and though wholly
! submerged in such fire for long time,
it came out wholly unaffected. A thou
sand ordinary fire brick will weigh three
| or four tons, while bricks made from this
| combination of clays will only weigh
| about one-sixth as much. This is an inn
| portant discovery, and it will not be long
until there viii be a big demand for fire
brick TO line smelling furnaces, etc.. in
treating mine ores. r
A curious discovery has been made in
the archives of the Spanish navy, says
the Echo de Paris. 1t is that of the pay
sheets of the crews manning the fleet of
caravels which sailed under Christopher
Columbus from the port of Palos to the
shores of America. Considering the enor-
nous wealth obtained from the new world,
it is matter for surprise to find that the
| discoverer of America and his cornpan-
ions were paid a miserable pittance. Thus,
the seamen received from 10f. to 12f.50c.
per month and their food The captains
of the three caravels only had a monthly
salary of SOf., and as for Christopher Col
umbuS himself, who bore the rank of adj
miral, his salary was fixed at 1,6O0f per an
mum.
"A Frenchman has devised a means for
converting grain into dough at one opera
ton without milling, an invention, which,
| if the claims of the originator are veri-
| fed, will not only effect a revolution in
| bread making, but also make the miller's
| occupation, like that of Otheio, only
| memory of the past. The grain, which
| is first soaked, enters one end of the ma
chine, where it is crushed and dislnte-
| grated, the paste passing to the kneading
| machine in the other end of the appara-
| tus, where ii is aerated and kneaded into
| dough which may be preserved indefinite
| ly without injury. All the nutritive quail
| tiles of the grain, the bran included, are
| preserved, and the bread possesses great
er nutrition and is more easily digested.
The Memphis Scimitar says: "since
the first case of yellow fever was report
ed in this city hundreds of people have
tried hundreds of preventives, but the one
| that has had the greatest popularity is
! that kind which comes in bottles labelled
| Gin. The man that sprung the gin idea
| is regarded as a public benefactor by
| many men who have been looking for an
| excuse TO drink. The news that gin is
preventive spread like wildfre. An hour
| after it was sprung the barkeepers were
| handling gin bottles almost exclusively,
| and since that time the trade has in
creased rather than diminished. At one
| of the most popular bars in the city more
| gin than whisky has been sold in the last
few days, and this is something hereto
| fore unheard off,
Writing in the North American Re-
view of the productive power of the
United States, Prof. M. G.. Munharl says:
1t appears that, as regards quantity, three
| Americans now export as much as five
| did twenty years ago, which suffices to
! show how groundless are the predictions
of some writer's who tell us that as pop
| ulation increases so the surplus products
of expectation must diminish. In the last
| twenty years population has risen from
100000 to 100000 souls, an increase of
| IS per cent and at the same time the
weight of exports has risen IT'S per cent. ;
| that is, three times as fast as population.
The quantities of food yearly exported are
| sufficient to feed 30O00,0 600 persons in Eu-
| rope from which it appears that Ameri-
can farms raise food for 100 100000 of peo-
| pie yearly. The western prairies are ca
| pable of carrying double the present num-
| Der of live stock, and producing ten
times as much grain as they do, so that,
| for at least a century to come, there is
| every proba bility that the expectation of
food will increase with population. The
same is true as regards cotton, the crop
| having risen 125 per cent. in twenty years.
| The world is only beginning to have evil
dence of the enormous productive power
of the United States.
The use of paper IN the manufacture
of high grades of bricks for interior
homework, house trimmings, facings and
! for decorative purposes is evidently much
on the increase, says the Philadelphia Re
! cord. Already some very good samples
of enameled paper brick have been shown
! In the latest process of making and en-
| ameling the paper bricks the bricks are
object of making the brick hol-
| low is practically the same as sought
in the making of hollow forged steel
| shafting. Not only is a defective center
| removed, but t is possible to put a man
drel into the hollow, and by applying
pressure the walls are operated upon
both from the inside and the outside
| When a solid body is heated the tempera-
ture of the interior always varies from
that of the outer portion at first, often
| resulting in an expansion of one or the
other that causes defects. For these rea-
| sons the plan of forming the bricks uDon
the hollow principle, plugging them after
wards, is recommended. Sawdust is
| found to be a good filler. Ut is first fire.
| PROCEED. as is also the paper pulp used in
the bricks. Then 1t is mixed with cement
and pressed into the hollow OF the bricks,
| smoothed and enameled over, making a
| perfect shape.
In Finland, East Turkestan, Iceland,
Nova Zembla, the north part of Siberia.
as well as all places in the extreme north.
says Tit Bits, a clap of thunder is an I'M
In It'll