The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07


and suitable for sizing paper and finish
ing textile fibre, says an exchange. Inc
sea weed is first liXiyiated in water, and
the iodine obtained by a secret process
from the solution the resulting stuff be-
ing capable of being used at once as an
inferior glue. The precipitated acid rs a
good substitute for glue, starch, ana also
for soap, which will take up to 80 per cent.
of this acid, and bleached and CHARMED,
the fucus acid resembles, ana IS 10 pc
equal TO gum arabic solution. In the new
process discovered by Kretung, the fucuS
or sea weed is treated with sulphuuc
acid which extracts the lime, and then
with cold soda solution, which BINDS the
new acid to. soluble soda salt; the hpre
disintegrates and can be filtered off and
out of the filtrate Sulphuric acid preelpl-
tates fucus acid which contains no nitro
gen.
Among the many new things sIarIed
recently by the Glasgow corporation is
family home,' says the St. James Ga
zette. 1t is intended mainly for widow
ers and widows, who go out 10 work;
There are a hundred bed rooms, each OF
which contains good bed for the father
or mother and broad cot for the young
er children. For these rooms the par
ents pay 5s sd a week. and that sum in
cludeS the lighting, heating and clean
ing of them. Clean linen is supplied
once a week In the home also there are
dining, recreation, and nursery rooms.
The children are looked after and cared
for while the parents are at work for an
inhnitesimal sum The cooking washing
and bathing arrangements are excellent;
and a ; the. thing is done on a large scale
and economically arranged, the establish
ment is expected TO pay for itself. Glas-
gov beneVolence is nothing if not prac-
teal, and this new home seems a most
admirable institution.
TO Tip" or not to tip" that is the
question, and like a good many more of
the public. have been somewhat startled
by the announcement that the waiter of
to-day is dead against the practice, says
the editor of London Truth. 1t appears
that he is more in favor of a regular
wage, which would render him free of the
caprice or meanness of those upon whom
he has TO wait. But, as far as can be
gathered this is a view which does nOt
commend itself to the employer, because,
in the event of his being called upon to
pay regular wages. he will be compelled
to demand higher prices for his dinners.
! suspect that. whichever way the Ques-
ton is eventually settled, it will be the
public who will have to pay the piper.
Many years ago attendance" was not
charged in the hotel bills. but travellers
objected to being laid in wait for on de-
parture by waiter, chambermaid boots,
etc, and the system of making a charge
for servants was adopted, with the result
that nowadays one first pays the proprie-
tor for the use of his servants and then
tips those eXpectant individuals them
selves.
Stories of toads Enclosed in solid rock
are not at all uncommon, but of all the
reported cases not one has ever been sub
stantiated. When investigated it is found
that they are made-up stories, or that
there was no toad or no rock or that
there was a way for him to get in or get
out says the Milwaukee Journal. People
who find tOadS in solid rock must under
stand that it is an important matter. If
ever there is one single case verified he
yond dispute of finding a toad or any other
living animal in an absolutely solid rock
science n will hsa- fro
the realms of belief The doctrine of evo-
luton will crumble to airy nothings Half
OF the exact sciences will have to be re-
organized on an entirely new basis Ac-
cumulated human knowledge will have to
be revised from the bottom, and most of
what is so called rejected entirely So the
man that finds the toad had better be pref
" sure that it is toad in a solid rock
and while he is about it he had better
have witnesses and photographs and ev-
erything possible to be had in proof of his
assertion, for it will be doubted. If he
proves his case no man ever known will
nave such enduring fame. Just find the
toad, gentlemen.
Ever since the late cold snap in Neva-
da the Indians there have been selling
jack rabbits in great numbers and a low
prices, says the New York Tribune. 1t
turns out that they have not shot them
but that the animals have been frozen to
death. The Indians prod around in the
snow for them and pick them up by the
SCOIt IIOZtn ndTO as stone. A hunter
that he saw hundreds of the little fellows
huddled together in Kings canyon Just
after the blizzard, and was surprised that
they should allow him to approach with
out stirring. He blazed away into the
bunch, but the rabbits did not run, and
When ne came up to them he found that
they were all frozen stiff.
Herr H. Molisch has found bv exDeri-
ment that alum in the soil Invariably
changes the naturally pink color of the
Movers of Hydrangea hortensis to blue,
says the Chicago Inter-Ocean. The eff
Gent constituent in the alum is the alumni
mum sulphate. Ferric sulphate produces
similar results. Other salts of iron are
generally negative. The cause of the nat
ural pink color in the flowers is anthoc-
yam. This, chemically combined with the
salts in question, produces a blue flower
Inc stamens are most sensitive to change
in color.
"A novel wave motor pumping water by
the rise and fail of a floating buoy sliding
on an upright tube was some months ago
designed by B. Morley Fletcher, an Eng
hsh engineer, says the Indianapolis Jour
naL large experimental apparatus is
now being practically tested, a dismantled
vessel having been moored a half-mTe
out to sea as workshop The motor
WIN total weight between eleven and
IWelye, tons; is kept upright by sub
IN diameter which is provided with suit-
able mooring chains, and from this base
TO night of ten to thirteen feet above
w iioi mai water level. The OSCili9 ting
buoy, made. from steel boiler p.ates, is Of
cylindrical form, about ten feet in dame
ter and five feet deep. The piston Is
ntted TO the tube few feet under water
tne tuDe serving as a practically station
airy piston rod. and the pump cylinder has
a. miXimum stroke equivalents to ten feet
rms. apparatus delivers water for DRYING
IuIplnes or other purpose with a pres
S s6n se equivalent to that of a fall Of fully
oUV teet Among the many uses for
which it is believed this motor VIII nroN,a
1 EaIuaple IS that of automatic fog horns
k kept IN constant action by air compressed
pts me pump, and that of light blioys or
power station on the buoy Itself II Is esl
t.lhated mat with a wave oscillation az