The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27
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cup is bowl-shaDed and simple in design.
1t is of ordinary red lacquer, and has no
ornamentation except a gilt likeness OF
the imperial crest, which is stamped in
the bowl. In Japan no article bearing the
imperial crest can be purchased. The
cup was sent to Prof. Todd by the Japan
csc minister at Washington, to whom it
had been directed by the emperor.
A proposal for compulsory insurance
against accident is at present under con-
sheraton by the Belgian authorities, a
plan having been framed by a special com
mittee appointed for that purpose. Min
ing and metal industries, textile, ceramic
and chemical indutries, rubber, leather
and paper industries, manufacturers of
food and building Industries al being in
cluded in the list The employers are to
pay one-half and the men the other half.
Special boards comprising both master
and men, are to be formed, and the mas
ters are responsible for the premiums and
for the insurance being effect ted.
Just what it is that induces poison ivy
to play its injurious pranl1s on some peo-
pie at some times and not at others is
still profound mystery, says Meehan's
Monthly. One thing is certain, that the
number of people susceptible to the pois-
oning influences must be extremely scarce,
from the fact that, in the vicinity of Phil
adelphia, the highways and byways are
overrun with the plant to an enormous
extent 1t is frequently impossible for peo-
pie to go by without brushing against it,
and, if it is the vapor or some exuda-
ton from the plant which causes the trou-
BILE, thousands of persons must be under
the influence of every one who suffers
from it.
There are now six sanitariums in Ger
many at which consumptives are treated
by constant exposure of air at a low
temperature. Currents of cold air are al
lowed to pass through the bedroom at
night, and during the day as much of the
time is spent in the open air as possible.
The pure cold air quiets cough, lessons
temperature, arrests night sweats, i'm
proves appetite and modifies or arrests
the course of the disease. Observations
made in these sanitariums have develop
ed the interesting fact that it is exceed
ingly rare, indeed, that infection of
healthy persons by contact with con-
sumptive inmates is observed.
While the New Jersey mosquito is re-
garded by those whose experience is con-
fined to warm climates as the most ag-
gressive and Industrious of his kind, it
is said that he is a mere stripping when
compared with his big brother who grows
in the Polar regions, says the Philadel
DEld RECORD. odlOIS on Vessels WHICH
trade between this port and Greenland as
sert that the common idea that the in
sects flourish only in warm weather is a
fallacy. They say that the Polar mosqui-
to is as large as a horsefly, and has a bill
like a darning needle. He rests on a con-
venient glacier or a floating iceberg in the
daytime, and, girding up his loins at
nightfall, flies away to prey upon the
crews of passing ships. The sailors wear
netting over their faces to protect them
selves, for once the Arctic mosquito sinks
his bill in human flesh he never lets go
unless he is killed. Peary, Nansep, De
Long and other explorers who have met
the pest have a high regard for his abili-
ties.
In 1879, says Carroll D. Wright in the
Atlantic, there were u, sos 1928 persons en-
gagged in supporting themselves and the
remainder of the people; that is to say,
1924 per cent. of the total population were
so engaged. In 1889 the number of bread
winners was II 1872 099. In 1890 this number
had risen to 22,735,651, or 1851 per cent.
of the total population. By "bread-win-
ners'' is meant al. who were engaged eth
er a 5 wageearners, or salary receivers, or
proprietors, of whatever grade or descrip-
ton, and all professional persons-in fact.
every one who was in any way employed
in any gainful pursuit The figures quot
ed show that the proportion of the total
population thus employed is constantly
increasing Analysing the statistics, we
find some remarkable results, and, in gen.
eral, that the number engaged in the low
est walks of Observation-Disclosures and the
like-is decreasing in proportion while
those employed in the higher walks are
increasing in number relatively to the
whole population.
The pension office is to have the larg-
est palm ever grown under artificial con-
ditions says the Washington correspond
ence of the New York Tribune There are
now two mammoth palms in the Botanical
Gardens. These growths of the south
have been placed in the dollhouse at the
gardens having the highest roof, but so
high have they grown that it has be-
come necessary constantly to trim them al
the top. They have attained a hight of
forty feet, with a trunk about a foot in
diameter. Their beauty has been largely
destroyed by the necessity of constant
trimming. The officials of the pension Of
flee have, since the incoming of the pres
ent administration, sought to secure
tropical growth about the fountain in the
great court of the pension office, and,
learning of these mammoth palms, have
taken means to secure them if possible.
They will doubtless succeed, as the trees
will be destroyed if not removed from the
Botanical Gardens. One or both will be
they will have room to tower up 100 feet
or more, and to spread their foliage with
out hindrance. 1t is believed that within
few years they will become one of the
great sights of the capital, for nowhere
else are such plants grown in captivity
to such proportions, and there are few
places where they could attain the size
which can be permitted in the court of the
pension office.
One of the most important and at the
same time most difficult feats in the world
for the baker to accomplish, especially if
engaged in fancy lines, says the National
Baker is to keep everything in and
around the establishment neat and tidy
and the goods looking fresh and inviting;
and yet this is very essential to success
in the business. There was a time not
long ago, when it mattered little whether
the workroom was down in the cellar or
up in the garnet; whether the journeymen
were clean, healthy samples of young
manhood or begrimed, slovenly or sickly;
whether the dough was kheaded by physi-
cal labor or by the clearly and effective
process of mechanical apDliances. but