The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

breakfast and eight for dinner A bath
is free, but not obligatory. The house will
contain 100 beds.
"A barmaid in Eastbourne, England,
helped the India famine fund the other
day in novel way. She placed a money
box on the bar, and intimated that every
one who put a shilling in it might have
kiss within half an hour. She was kissed
by every man who entered the saloon, ac-
cumulating twenty-three shilings for the
fund. But this novel mode OF collection
drew such a crowd to the bar that the
proprietor put a stop to the entertain
ment, though not until the barmaid, as the
money-box proved, had been kissed eighty
seven times in less than three hours.
"A correspondent Of the London Daily
Graphic in Syria writes: "At a village
on the east of the Jordan half way be-
tween Salt and Kerak, a large piece of
mosaic pavement has been discovered
that is, a floor made of different-colored
tiles, each about two-thirds of an inch
square. 1t is about thirty feet long and
fifteen feet broad, and is supposed to
have been the floor of a chapel of the
Fifth century. 1t is map of the country
from Egypt to the Lebanon. Everything
is dreadfully out of proportion. Jerusa-
lem is enormous, and has streets marked
The Dead sea swarms with fish although
none can live in it on account of the
bhumen with which the water is mixed),
and some of the fish are longer than the
width of the Jordan"
The animatographs or Giving pictures
of interesting or historical events which
the trustees of the British museum have
undertaken to preserve for the benefit
of posterity include rolls of films showing
Princess Maud's wedding ceremony, the
Princes Derby, and several typical Lon
don street scenes. Animatographs will
also be made of the principal events at
the coming queens Jubilee celebration
Each roll of films will be inclosed in a
sealed red glass tube, so that if exposed
to the light there would be no danger of
the photographs fading. The glass will be
placed in a cast-iron or brass tube closed
with an air-tight screw, and the name
and date of the scenes recorded will be
engraved upon the metal. The films are
or celluloid, and when protected as de-
scribed 1t is believed they will resist the
action of time almost indefinitely They
may be used in the ordinary way for re-
producing the scenes which they record
400 or 500 times without appreciable de-
terioration.
The effects of hardening, tempering
and annealing. familiar to the world
doubtless for several thousand years, have
only recently been partially lifted out of
the mysterious class by researches of a
ike nature to the preceding, says Cas-
sier's Magazine. There are many other
mysteries of an analogous kind waiting
to be cleared up. We should like to know,
for example, what is going on month af-
ter month, in a hardened steel armor-
piercing projectile which frequently leads
finally to a violent disruptive explosion
of the mass, and also what causes a sword
to lose temper by lapse of time, while the
edge becomes sharper. Why, again,
should the tough and hawless bar iron
suspension links which had carried the
Hemmersmlth bridge successfully for over
sixty years snap in two by the dozen dur
ing simple transport to Edinburgh, al
though in every case the halves of the
broken links, on being thrown down 800
feet from the top of the Forth bridge onto
the rocks below, bent like a cork-screw
without fracture?
One Of the diversions at Ocean City,
says the Baltimore Sun, is hunting Tor
Spanish coin on the "Silver Beach,"
Years ago a vessel with a great quantity
of Spanish silver coin went down off this
beach, and during the last twenty-five or
thirty years a great many have been
picked up in the sand. An old colored
woman used to live near the place. and It
is said that she found nearly enough Of
them to support her. One of the men
in the life-saving station has found in the
last eight years coins to the amount of
$50 and many other persons have found
them in considerable numbers Only a
few dollar coins have been found, the rest
being smaller ones, mainly quarters and
halves. Lately very few have been dis
covered, and the finding of one by Mr..
Samuel Maddox recently excited consider
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very black and they are less than half
their original thickness. And yet the in-
scripuonS and devices upon them are as
clear and bold as ever. This is because
the sand or corrosion, whichever it is,
wears it down equally all over the sur
face.
That dental operations were unknown
among the aneients has always been
claimed by scientific writers, says the
Philadelphia Record, yet Dentist A. c.
st. Armand of Fortieth and Pine streets
claims to have positive proof that such
a belief is unfounded. DR.. Harry Jeffries,
a friend of Dr. st. Armand, has been in
Egypt for several months, where he has
been travelling in the interest of an his
torical society. Knowing of his friends
interest in anything pertaining to dem
tistry, DIR. JeffrieS has been on the look
out for curios in that line, and has al last
secured a novel one, which was forwarded
with a letter, the following of which is
an extract: Myself and two companions
were sent to look after some newly opened
tombs that had been discovered near a
village called Delur. The mummies found
within were in fine condition, and think
ing 1 might find something of interest to
you, l examined the teeth of one that
had been unwrapped. Close scrutiny show
ed me four teeth that were filled with
some substance hard as iron. However,
l send one of the teeth, so you may judge
for yourself. If you find what it is let
me know, as am anxious to know what
kind of filings were used 5000 years ago.
All attempts made by Dr. st. Armand to
drill the teeth We're futile and although
exhaustive tests were made, nothing was
found that would act on the old filing.
w. Obrutscheff. the Russian traveller.
in his recent book. Aus China" relates
a curious experience Of his stay In Pekin
After referring TO the fact that genuine
Chinese music does not offer any charm
to European ears. he shows how the Ce-
lestials have succeeded in securing for
themselves a kind Of music OF the
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