The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

posed OF eight negro women. They clean
streets for ten hours a day.
During the past year !, 920 acres of land
were planted to canaigre in Arizona, ana
the acreage will be much larger the com
ing year.
According to a writer in the Independ-
ent, only four of the states of the union
use officially the term commonwealth.
these being Massachusetts, Pennsylvania,
Virginia and Kentucky
The threatened strike of the English
postoffice telegraphers has been averted
or postponed. The postmaster general.
wholly declining to increase salaries from
$500 to $780, agreed to enlarge the force
and to abolish technical examinations in
the cases of candidates for senior clerical
grades.
Paper submarine cables are looming
up as not far distant possibility The
outer cover is lead and the insulation
effected by thin spirals of paper around
each stranded interior wire. A 100-pair
paper-insulated, lead-cased cable would
cost 50 cents per foot, while the rubber
electrical effectiveness of the paper ca
bic is immeasurably superior.
-Waverly station Edinburgh, boasts of
the largest railroad signaling apparatus
in the world, $50 interlocking levers be-
ing combined in one continuous frame
Isl being in use and others brought into
service as required. Five hundred trains
OF which 500 are passenger, pass the sig
nal cabin daily. Every modern improve
ment finds place here, and the protection
against accident is complete.
Numerous electric light companies are
in
ment is busily establishing telephone ex-
changes and long-distance telephones.
Miners are endeavoring to have power
transmitted from five to seven miles, and
the Hiroshima Water Power Company
will establish the first long-distance pow
er transmission plant. Telephones, cables,
multiple switch-boards and solid back
transmitters are in demand, and the
American electrical manufacturers should
find in Japan a good market for their
wares.
"A new pavement called granite as
phalt is being tried in Paris, says an ex-
change. 1t is a concrete composed of
crushed granite and melted asphalt. When
used for paving it is spread upon a found
alton bed of beton. The first layer upon
the beton is thin coating of asphalt
alone, followed by a thicker layer of
crushed granite-not pebbles-followed by
a groutng of liquid asphalt mingled with
finer crushed granite, and then rolled as
usual. This pavement is said to possess
all the desirable qualities of asphalt, to-
gether with a surface which does not be-
come slippery in wet weather, and which
is entirely impervious to all deleterious
absorption.
Prof. Luedtke recently made careful
examinations of the distilling apparatus
employed in sea going steamers for the
purpose of providing drinking water for
the passengers and crew, says the Phila-
delphia Record. Apparatus of tin-lined
copper is the best in the long run, and is
vastly superior to the made of iron or
steel. The precaution of allowing the wa
ter distilled during the first quarter or
half hour to flow off is not only advisable,
but positively necessary for the well-being
of the people partaking of the water. The
addition of very little carbonic acid to the
water much improves its taste The con-
dition of the distilling apparatus is of the
greatest hygienic importance to both pas
sengers and crew, and its presence should
be made a law by all seafaring nations
for all vessels allowed to carry passen-
gers. Considering that it is cheaper to
distill water aboard of a steamer than
to take water in the several ports, the
general introduction of distilling appara-
tuS should be matter of course, par
ticularly since the change of water at
each port is anything but beneficial.
The temperature of the things we eat
and drink is hardly ever noticed; still, it
is of considerable Importance that food or
drink should be of the right temperature
says the Philadelphia Record For healthy
people hot articles of food should be seTv-
ed at a temperature about that of the
blood, but for infants it is imperative that
milk should be given at blood-heat. Drinks
intended to quench thirst are about right
at a temperature of from 50 to 70 degrees
Fahrenheit. Drink or food at extremely
high or extremely low temperatures may
do great damage, and are most harmful
when swallowed rapidly. Drinking water
Is best taken at SO degrees, settlers and
soda water should be slightly warmed and
beer should not be cooled to more than 60
degrees; red wine is best at Go degrees;
white wine at so; champagne is the one
liquor which is best at the lowest tenn
perature allowed, but should not be taken
colder than As degrees. Coffee and tea
should not be taken hotter than from 105
to 100 degrees; milk is considered cold at
go degrees, but is best at about 80 degrees
when it will be found to have the best
aroma.
Mrs Edward Rosenberg is wearing a
handsome pearl which was found last
Sunday al Broad Ripple by Frank Dalton
says the Indianapolis Journal Mr.. Ros-
enberg is one of the members of the In
dianapolis Tent and Awning Company
Sunday he gave a picnic for his employees
at Broad Ripple, and Frank Dalton was
among them. He opened a few mussel
shells and found two or three very small
pearls, and was told by Mrs. Rosenberg
that, if he found one as large as a diamond
she was wearing she would give 81 for
it.. He very soon earned his money. The
pearl is oblOng in shape and rather fiat
at each end. 1t has a rare and beautiful
color. It is of a blush and pink cast col
ors apparently reflected like those from
changeable silk. 1t was set by Gardner
Son & Ross. Mr.. Gardner pronounced it
one of the finest pearls he had ever seen.
IF thrown upon the New York market it
would bring almost nothing" he said, 'ow-
ing to its shape. But to a person who
wants a pearl to wear it is very valuable.