The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

poses that three-fourths of the state con
victs and all of the county convlcts he
taken out and worked on the farms, in
the brick yard and cotton factories be-
longing to the state. The theory is that
the new plan Is more humane and more
equitable because the convict competition
is distributed and will in the end be more
profitable financially.
AT a recent meeting of medical So
ciety in Germany a physician reported a
curious experiment made by him with the
X-rays. He had heard of another man
who had become bald by exposing his
head to their influence. Not long after
ward the doctor had a patient, a child,
who was bothered by an excessive growth
Of hair on its back. Thereuoon he en-
ployed the x-rays for depilatory purposes
and secured gratifying results. Photo
graphs We're exhibited to che society
showing the condition of the patient be
fore and after taking" this novel treat
ment. The physicians name is Freund.
e. A. Fitzgerald. who recently at
tempted to ascend Mount Aconcagua, in
South America, but was obliged to aban-
don the task while 1900 or 5000 feet be-
low the level of the summit, had previous
~ announced his intention of making this
trial with view to watching the effect
of various attitudes on the human sys-
TEN, for guidance in making still higher
climbs in the Himalayas. Unless he shows
greater power of endurance elsewhere than
in the Andes, he is not likely to do any
@@"A
who did reach the top of Aconcagua, has
also reached loftier nights in Asia than
Fitzgerald has attained.
Its a burning shame, the way hos
pital clinics are abused" remarked a
staff physician connected with a promi-
nent local hospital, to Philadelphia Rec
ord writer. People who are perfectly
able to pay tor treatment come
TO us and take up our Tune
and attention which should De
o. n ICiK nlINr to hz IL.
In my clinic the other day l noticed a
boy, or rather a young man, whom 1
knew, His father is Well-to-do, and l was
rathed surprised to see him there, logged
out in an old, shabby suit of clothes He
was as much surprised to see me as l
was to see him, and he was very much
embarrassed when j asked him what he
wanted. He had come to the hospital
to have his eyes examined. l made in
quiries and discovered that his father had
given him $50 and told him to consult a.
ply pocketed the money and gone TO the
hospital clinic. This is only one of num-
erous cases might cite, and L think
something should be done to stop a rapid
~ growing evil.
You would hardly believe, says an ex-
change, that moles, clumsy, almost blind.
little beasts as they are, become perfect
demons when they quarrel. No one knows
what they quarrel about, but if they once
start nghting. one has to die. They will
Keep on IN the. presence of any number
of spectators, hanging on to one another
like bulldogs, and burying their enormous
~ strong jaws and teeth in one another
nesn. Hedgehogs, another type of the
quiet inonensive animal, not only fight,
but always to the death, and when one is
Killed the other generally devours him
Hares, on the other hand, are proverbially
the most timid of creatures. Yet they cal
tight. a fight between two hares is a
ludlcrous sight, as they skip and iump
oyer oyer one one another But blow from the
hlnd foot OF hare is no joke to his oppo-
nent. Amongst birds, robins are the most
puShdclouS. More than one case could
be quoted of two cockrobins so franti-
cally set on killing one another as to have
allowed themselves to be picked up in the
hands of looker-on, and there have lain
with peak and claws deep buried in one
another's plumage.
1t is noted, says a Chicago special of
wednesday, as a somewhat significant
sign of prospective conditions that the big
SILK Jobbers and retail houses are laying
IN larger stocks of dress silks than has
been the rule at this season for severa
years past. A representative of a big New
YORK domestic and importing silk house,
VINO last October went away empty-hand-
ed so far as orders were concerned. said
On Wednesday that he was simply para
iyzed at the success that had attended his
week 5 explorations among the iobbers md
retailers In one single case he had sold
$bO,OO0 worth of a single dress pattern that
nobody would have handled last fall at a
IlSufe 1ltteen to twenty cents per yard be-
low that which he obtained at this time
tie also narrated several similar eXDer-
fences. The dress silk trade" SAYS the
same correspondent, lis generally consid-
cred as a barometer of existing or pros
pective financial conditions, retailers be-
ing very slow in laying in stocks unless
they nave confidence in the future based
upon inside information; and the readiness
of the trade to lay in large stocks at this
Juncture may be taken as expressing the
belief of the trade that, after the cold
weather, a general business boom will
make itself manifest"
-Glass-making is said to have history
at once very long and very short; lona
because it reaches back to the most an.
Gent civilization; short, because though
known for forty centuries, glass has beer
utilized only for about a century and q
| haf, and also because the art of glass.
making has remained almost stationary
| depending chiefly as it does upon secretly
| states that the struggle between capita
and labor, so fierce in the depths OF Goa
| mines. is more bitter still in the furnace
| rooms 10 glass works, and the glass i'm.
| dustry each day assumes a more import
| ant place in the industrial occupations OF
| the present time. Two processes are en-
| ployed in glass manufacture The Older
and most used, known even in the time Of
| the Pharoahs, is the blowing process
| Casting is the other method, and the one
| which now seems inclined to DEVELOPMENT
| near forests when wood was used a.
| fuel; now sites contiguous to coal mine:
| are chosen. Most people know that glas.
| is a mixture of silica, potash, or soda
and lime or oxide of lead, changed bN
| the application of intense heat into
| transparent mass, brittle and insolubl,
| in water or acids. The secrets of manu-
| facture lie only in the use of tools, anC
| the long heredity of skill which is said tC
| hover over the factories. Nevertheless
| the industry is surrounded by an infiint,
| number of jealous precautions and per
| mission to visit a glass factory is very
| difficult to gain. In, France there arr
about go glass factories, employing NOR,
| than $4,000 workmen and annually dis
| tributing over 100000 in wages.
"A correspondent of the New York Post
quotes an old American lady who has Ions
lived in Rome as saying that she had
known but one marriage Of an American
| girl to a foreigner which resulted hap.
| ply The young woman who is handed
| over, along with her fortune, to a titled
| foreigner after she settles down TO her
| new life finds, doubtless, that in parting
| with her old. free life she has parted
! with something for which even a title is
| but small compensation. Many of these
| marriages have ended in scandals and di-
| vorces and not infrequenty the unfortu.
nate woman and her credulous parents