The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


made Of asbestos and intended for work
inemen employed in fOundries and smelt-
ing works, instead of the hob-nailed shoes
now worn. A great many articles are
made for shelters use, such as aprons,
leggings, face guards, etc, and sometimes
whole suits of clothes; and now the de-
mand for a supply of asbestos shoes mas
grown to be so great that their manufac-
ture on a large scale is to be begun. The
leather shoes now worn in smelling works
cost probably about $3.50 a pair on an
average and wear out in two or three
weeks, whereas asbestos shoes, it is claim
ed, will cost less money and will wear in
definitely,
For some time past experiments have
been made in Germany for the purpose of
discovering some definite method by which
adulteration in the manufacture of silk
and wooden goods may be positively de-
termined, and the following method, de-
scribed in the Tradesman, is claimed to
detect per cent. of the authorizations COM
monty employed, such as cotton, linen and
China grass. The material is first well
cleaned and then subjected to a suiphuric
acid bath for about ten, hours. The sur
plus acid is poured off and the goods plac-
ed in an alkah solution to which has been
added archil or orchil, a violet dye obtain
ed from several species of lichen. This So
luton is then heated and if no spurious
matter is present the violet color of the
archil will disapper On the other hand,
if the violet effect remains it is consider
ed to be absolute evidence of the addition
of vegetable hbres as an adulterant of the
material tested.
"A rare old curiosity is in temporary
ciety at Frankfort 1t is thus described
49, lie Cr,11 IL
made of two slabs of cedar about three
sixteenths of an inch in thickness and bent
into a funnel-shaped horn. The bell, or
mouth, is thirteen and one-half inches in
circumference. 1t is hoped with cow
horn rings and iron bands. The bugle
is the property of Mrs. Anna Mayhal
granddaughter of the late Capt Robert
Collins, who was a soldier in the war of
1S12-15. 1t was in the campaign of Col.
Richard M Johnson and was at the death
of Tecumseh. Capt Collins was a bugler
for the regiment, and this is the Identical
instrument he used during the war and
which ordered the famous charge of Col.
Johnson. Capt. Collins was a mechanical
genius and with his own hands made the
instrument. Every morning at sunrise
he walked the neighborhood for miles
around with his reveille call from the bugle
until his death, in 1854
are the most accomplished in the world,
and who in any case devote the most
care and time to the acquisition of ac-
complishments are the Japanese geishas,
says the New York Tribune. From the
earliest age they are trained in every con-
ceivable particular for the purpose of rem
dering them proficient in those arts and
attainments which are most highly priced
in social intercourse. Virtuous as a class,
in spite of all that has been said to the
contrary, they are an indispensable feat
ure at every grand entertainment, where
it is not so much their dancing or their
singing that is in demand as their CONVEX
sation. So superior is their education in
every respect to that of the ordinary Wo-
man in the orient, or, for that matter in
the occident. that many of the greatest
statesmen and dignitaries of the realm of
the mikado have preferred to seek their
wives from among the geishas, rather
than from among women of their own
rank and birth, finding that these dancing
girls, by reason of their accomplishments
are the only women in whose society they
can find congenial companionship and en-
tertainment.
An interesting offer has been made to
the British Museum by one of the numer-
Gus inventors of the living photograph"
illusions. 1t is an offer of a number of
the celluloid strips of photographs which
have been taken of such popular events
as ''the Derby" or "a member of the
Royal Family Laying a Foundation
Stone" The British Museum does not
quite see it's way to accepting the gift
owing to the difficulty of preserving the
strips of celluloid-which have a knack of
shriveling, and so spelling the appearance
of the photographs. But the idea of the
laying of foundation stone as a subject
likely to interest future generations, sug-
gests another use for them Why not
encase them in alright tubes and lay
them in foundation stones, instead of the
customary coins and newspapers of the
day? Then generations unborn might haye
an opportunity to seeing us in our habit
as we lived and moved Imagine their
interest in looking al the action" of Per-
Summon in winning the derby in 1896 or
of Sir William Harcourt in denouncing the
Tory government from the opposition
benches in the aerly years of the twentieth
century!
There was a trial before Justice Cave
last week, says London Truth, which,
if correctly reported, shows what is the
profit of the shareholders of the Times.
Mr.. Adams bought one-fourteenth of two
thirds of one-ninth of two-sixteenths (or
1-l0l2) of the Times, from Mr.. Brodie, for
t353 on the assurance that this minute
share, he found it only to be worth III
cording to him, after he had purchased the
share, he found it only to ge worth f17
year. On this he asked for damages.
A jury assessed the damages at SIS. AS
Stunning this share to be worth Els per an
mum (Which seems about the average val
ue), it is clear that the net dividend on
shares is f27216. Mr.. Adams, believing it
to be worth 1858, paid for it al years
purchase. The jury valued it at f2ss.
which, taking the annual return at f1S,
would be sixteen years purchase, making
the Times worth f4S5 456. This, however.
does not quite correctly, believe, repre-
sent value for Mr.. Walter, as printer, de-
rives large profit on an old contract.
This contract, in point of fact, represents
what may be called preference shares.
while those of the shareholders may be
termd ordinary shares, the value of the
Times being the sum total of both
In itself asbestos is a physical para
dox, a neurological vegetable, both
fbrous and cuptalline, elastic yet brittle.
a floating stone, but as capable of being
carded, spun and woven as fax, cotton or
silk, says the Railway Review. 1t Is APP