The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

~ OiueI mas Deeu patented IN the United
States by a Berlin inventor 1t is de-
scribed as resembling a carpenters bit
stock. Dimples on chin, cheek or elbow
may now be had for the asking-and the
price. Whether the manufactured dim
pies will degenerate into wrinkles ike the
real ones time will develop.
The Hindoos had a very curios custom
until the English put a stop TO it in 1851
1t was 4 sort of judicial suicide. The
person who had been injured by another
or to whom another owed money, would
seat himself on the others doorstep and
stay there until he starved to death or
was given satisfaction. To make this a
more serious matter, a Brahmin was Of
ten hlred to perform this ceremony, it
being mortal sin to cause the death of
Brahmins, who, fo- the same reason were
exempted from capital punishment by the
English until 1917. The mendicant fakirs
often took advantage of this custom TO
eXtort money from the wealthy Hindoos.
Recently it has been discovered that a
somewhat similar custom prevailed in An
Gent Ireland.
"A famous French actress once said
that each of the well-known perfumes of
commerce had its special virtue or evil.
Musk, she said, predisposes to sensibility
and amiability; rose to audacity. avarice
to mysticism and piety; benzoin to dreams
poetry and inconstncy; mint and verbena
to taste for the beautiful arts; camphor
to stupidity and brutality; Russian heath
er to Incidence; while, ylang- ylang lis the
most dangerous of ALL" though she does
not explain in what respect. 1t NAV be of
interest in this connection to state that
some people are believed to exhale a natu-
raj perfume. Alexander the Great was
such person, and Dumas, pere, tells of
a beautiful countess who left a fragrance
in the room she passed through.
The San Francisco Examiner tells
about a man who has invented an appara-
tus to turn him over in bed The man is
Walter Hyde. He lives in Alameda Cal
Mr.. Hyde is quite old and is troubled with
an incomplete circulation of the blood,
causing sleeplessness. If he remains in
one position long mild form of paralysis
follows and he cannot sleep at all. Mr.
Hyde concluded that if he had some me-
chanical means to turn himself over hour
ly at night he could go to sleep and not
be under the necessity of awakening Be
ing somewhat of a mechanical turn of
mind, MIR. Hyde concluded to experiment
The result of his tinkering and thinking
is the mechanical contriVance which hour
ly turns him over without awakening him
from his slumbers, and which he saws
works so charmingly that his PARALYSIS
with accompanying sleepness is a thing of
the past. The frame on which the mat
tress rests hangs from the bedstead by
means of pinions, one at the head and the
other at the foot. The frame is kept in
position by being secured at the sides to a
clock-like apparatus with cogs and levers
TO tilt the mattress frame, the motion of
the rocking being governed by the clock
and spring apparatus. The fitting of the
frame is so nicely graduated that the
sleeper is unconscious of the change but
continues undisturbed in his nights sleep
as the mechanism attached to the frame
automatically changes his position during
the hour to the right or the left side as
the case may be.
"A suggestion for laying gas pipes with
out disturbing the surface of the ground
is offered by the Scientific American. It
says; Mr.. Lurcott was DESTROYS of putting
IN the gas in his amateur workshop.
which is twenty-four feet distant from
the mousse. To avoid digging the custom
airy trench across the lawn, and the per-
manent Disagreement which follows. he
determined to bore a hole through the soil
from the cellar to a point below the floor
OF the shop. The boring apparatus was
eXtemporized out of a piece of three-six-
teenths-inch fiat iron, a three-fourths-inch
par some six-foot lengths of piping and
carpenters brace. The fiat iron. three
sixteenths by one inch and two feet long
was bent cold with a twist of half a turn
IN SIX lncheS at one end, the other end be-
ing scarfed and riveted to a six-foot length
OF three-fourths-inch round iron. The
opposite end of the three-fourths-inch iron
was threaded into three-eigbths-inch
pipe and couplings and with the addition
OF three siX-foot lengths of three-eighths-
men pipe and couplings, the apparatus was
complete. 10 connect the carpenters brace
win each piece of pipe as the boring pro-
ceeded, a short length of one-fourth-incb
pipe was screwed into three-eighths-inch
cap It's other end being filed square so as
TO enter the brace. With this simple and
cheap boring machine completed, all that
was necessary was to remove a stone in
the cellar wall and commence boring. The
duger cut Its way readily through the soil
ana III just hfteen minutes hole large
enough Ior half-inch gas pipe was made
LOT the required distance of tWenty-four
feet. The auger cut it's way without anv
tendency to swerve out of line, and had
any rocks been encountered it would have
Deen easy to dig down and remove them
IL should be added that the ground at the
time was frozen and covered with several
inches of snow, and any one who has bad
to dig trench under such circumstances
VIII appreciate the saving of labor attend
ing the methods of pipelaying emploved nv
Mr. Lurcott. -
"A New York dispatch to the San
Francisco Chronicle says: when 7 die
l am going to have one Of the finest
mausoleums in the country and one that
VIII make those now in Woodlawn ceme-
terry look cheap in comparison" was the
remark the friends of the late John Stet-
son used to hear him frequently make
Inc idosyncrasies of the famous theat-
real manager and finaneier were so M
merous that this announcement never
occasioned any special comment. His
project now seems in a fair way to be
carried out, and that very soon. as the
plans for the mausoleum are now being
considered by the executors of the Stet-
son estate. The principal epochs in the
lives of two of the most remarkable in
dlviduals in their peculiar spheres who
were ever joined together are TO be he
rolcally depicted in the decorations of
the mausoleum. 1t is to be erected TO the
memory of Stetson's wife and himself
Inc feats of the once-famous Queen of
the Sawdust Arena and the great pro-
Jects OF the theatrical manager are 10
i've In sculpture. Before his death John
Stetson gave his friends general idea
as TO what he wanted his memorial 10 he
like 1t is TO be of granite, and will have
ponderous bronze doors. On the paneI