The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A storekeeper in Bath. Me-, says that
rats never gnaw hemlock. He keeps all
his grain in hemlock chests.
Two hundred years ago, on Aug. 9.
Peter the Great became a shipbuilders
apprentice at Saardam, a little village a
few miles from Amsterdam. 1t is trim
and picturesque. In a narrow lane by the
waterside is the hut in which the czar
lived the life of a workman. Nicholas II
recently inclosed it in a new building of
brick and stone in the Byzantine style.
Among the Roman women at one pc
Rod there was morbid ambition to grow
boards, and they used TO shave their faces
and smear them with unguents to produce
these inappropriate appendages. Cicero
tells US that at one time to such an extent
did the mania for boards grow upon wo-
men that it was found desirable to pass a
law against the "adronment"
There is perhaps no tenant who is so
completely at the mercy of his landlord as
the occupier of a house in London which
belongs to one of the great ground land
lords. His is an absolute prisoner within
the four corners of his lease. The slight
est deviation is accompanied with pains
and penalties; but, on the other hand, the
landlord reserves all kinds of privileges to
himself.
When the council of ten ruled Venice
they issued a decree regarding the art of
glass making. 1t runs: IF a workman
carry his art beyond the limits of his
country to the detriment of the republic
he shall be desired to return. If he dis
obey, his nearest relatives shall be impris-
oned. If, in spite of their Imprisonment,
he remain obstinate in his wish to live
abroad, an emissary shall be told off to
kill him.
"A Chicago boys ingenuity has brought
to light the fact that an ordinary chair
serves for a convenient bicycle rack In
cleaning a wheel most people find it diff
cult to keep the machine steady, and at
such times a rack is badly needed. This
little chap has discovered that to turn the
chair over, hook the handle of his bicycle
on the rear legs and rest the saddle on
the back, he has access to all the working
parts and can manipulate it at will.
"A writer in a leading magazine has
made the prophecy that in 800 years from
now the world will know only three Ian
guages-English, Russian and Chinese.
The English language will be spoken all
over North and South America, in Austria
liza, India, Africa, New Zealand and the
islands of Australia and the Pacific. The
Europe except Great Britain, and all Asia
except India. Chinese will hold sway
over the rest of the world.
The natives of Venezuela and adjoining
countries on the north side of the ANA
ION often avail themselves of the services
of a native crane to care for their poultry,
and also, in the place of collies or shep-
herd dogs, to herd their domestic ami
mails. This remarkable bird which the In
dams cal "yakamik," and naturalists
psophit crepitans is found in a wild state
in the great forests that lie between the
northern coast of South American and the
Amazon river
The electric machine for hollystoning
the deck of a ship has found its counter
part in an electrical appliance for the
scrubbing and hopping of floors, and
"housemaid's knee" will soon be a thing
of the past says an exchange. The new
machine is fashioned very much after
the model of lawn mower. The operator
pushes it along and three revolving
brushes, turning at the rate of 400 times
a minute, make short work of cleaning the
dirtiest floors. A hopping adjustment can
take the place of the brushes when nee
essary. The machine is actuated by a
small electric motor, which it carries.
This motor can be attached to the street
or other circuit wherever there is an in
candescent lamp. The brushes cover a
space twenty-four inches wide, and the
motor develops one-half horse power. The
inventor says he can sweep and scrub
1900 square feet in three hours, which is
less than one-third of the time usually
required when the same area is cleaned
by hand. The machine also renders pos
sible a great reduction in the amount of
help required
The manufacture of ozone is being
greatly cheapened by improved electrical
methods, says the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat. a new company makes it on a COM
mercial scale out of atmospheric air,
dried by being passed over quicklime
which frees it from moisture and carbonic
acid. The drying is of great Importance,
since dried ozone does not attack metal
and therefore the fittings, pipes and hold
ers can all be made of metal and the
trouble, expense and insecurity insepara-
BILE from the use of glass are done away
with. The final process is an electric
one. Ozone IS now largely employed in
the thickening and bleaching of oils re-
ducing the time of preparation of the old
manufacturing processes very considera-
bly,, and giving remarkably good results.
Another ozonizing process is the curing of
shrinking beer casks. Formerly such
casks, foul from long use, We're fit only
for firewood; now, after being steamed
pressure, and thus not only be rendered
perfectly sweet, but at the same time be
bieached. The difficulty of obtaining
ozone without expensive apparatus has
under the new process the raw material
air, costs nothing, all the lime necessary
costs about 20 cents a month, and power
a mere trifle, so that the apparatus. fit
tings, buildings and labor are practically
the only expenses.
"A Los Angeles father, whose daughter
went through the ceremony of marriage
at sea, proposes to test the legality of
that form of marriage. When the mar
riage-at-sea business is looked into il an
pears to be very hollow ceremony, saws
the San Francisco Bulletin. 1t simply
means that male and female have trav-
eled outside of the jurisdiction of the state
TO go through a ceremony that has no
other force than that derived from state
laws. Outside the three-mile limit there is
no law governing marriage and conse-
quently no law against any particular mar
rage ceremony. Parties go 10 sea to es-
cape the conditions attached to the per
Torrance of the marriage ceremony with