The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


lngs are colored, and represent animals
performing curious antics. In one pic
tufe a rat, dressed as a grand lady, is
waited upon by cat as ladys maid, who
holds up mirror to her mistress. In an
other, rat appears as a young Egyptian
oanoy, whose ceremonial peruke is being
dressed by an obsequious cat as barber
In third, a cat figures as a nurse ten
oerly carrying a rat in her arms. In n
fourth, two jackals wait upon a COW; one
Jackal carries two milk pals suspended
from yoke across the shoulders the
otner empties, pail into trough over
which the COW is bending.-New York Sun,
"A rather curious instance of how rem
edies are stumbled upon some times is re-
ported from England. 1t seems that a wo-
men who had been a victim of the NOR
phine habit for a long time took some
eighteen drachms of sodium bromide by
mistake within As hours OF course, this
was followed by profound stupor, but five
days later the bromide was resumed and
continued for three days at the rate of
two drachmsy per day. She did not recover
from the profound bromism for ten days,
but al the end of that time found her APP
petite for morphine entirely gone The
doctor who attended her case remarked
the effect it had upon her and deliberately
stupeiied his next case of morphiomania
with bromide, with very happy results, the
patient entirely losing his craving for the
drug.
The civilization OF to-day develops in
queer directions. The aim Of wat is to
destroy not only life but anything else
belonging to. the opponent. The more de-
structive the invention the higher it's val
ue. 1t is a strange fact when we recollect
that Louis XIV of France refused to al
low the use of an invention of one of his
subjects because its destructiVeness would
be against the general interests of hui
mainly. native of Danphing, named
Dupre, had invented fire. rapid and de-
vouriug, which could neither be evaded
nor quenched. Experiments made on the
canal at Versailles convinced everybody
that Dupre could destroy an enemy's town
or fleet at7will. Yet Louise forbade that
the invention should be made public for
the reason already mentioned, and Dupre o
great secret died with him. If he had lived
in the present time no honor would be too
great for him.
Speaking of bell-ringng recalls to the
Pittsburg Dispatch the curious custom
which Robert Dove, a phllanthropic Eng
| lishman, founded by the donation of $50
| to the Church of ST. Sepulchre, near old
Newgate prison. By the terms agreed
upon the SEXTON of the parish was to
| stand under the window of the condemned
criminal the midnight before his execution,
and, while he rang a hand-bell, deliver the
following address:
All you that in the condemned. hold to lie
Prepare We, for tomorrow you shall die;
| Watch all and pray, the hour is drawing
| near
That you before the Almighty must ap
pear; ...s-..
Examine well yourselves, in time repent.
That you may not 10 eternal flames be
And when st. sepulchre's bell tomorrow
The Lord above have mercy on your
SUNS l+7s s41 tat
Then on the next day. when the dismal
| procession was on it's way to Tyburn. the
bell OF the church tolled all the time.
In an old manuscript found a few years
ago is given the details by which the
famous Damascus blade was tested in
ancient times. When the sword was about
| TO be finished a negro slave was fastened
TO block, with his head and neck pro-
| Jectlng beyond the end Of it, "Then $50
! runs the chronicle) let the master work
man, having cold-hammered the blade to
! smooth and thin edge thrust il into
| the hre OF cedar wood Goals, in and ont
the while reciting the prayer TO the God
Bal-hal, until the steel be of the color
OF the red of the rising sun when he
comes up over the desert toward the
east and then with a quick motion mass
the same from the heel thereof to the
point SIX times through the most feshv
| poruon or the slaves back and thighs
When IL shall have become the color of
the purple of the King. Then, If with one
SWING and one stroke of the right arm
OF the master workman it sever the head
OF the slave from his body and display
not nick or. crack along the edge ana
the blade may be bent round about tha
pody of man and break not. it SHAH
| pc accepted as a perfect weapon. sacred
TO the service of the God Bal-hal."
AT last use has been found for the
unburnt ends of carbon taken from cleo
trio arc lamps, says Casters Magazine
Mr. Johnston, the foreman of the smiths,
| ana Woodworking shops of the BALDWIN
| Locomotive Works, in Philadelphia has
recently instructed the man who changes
these carbons in the lamps THROUGHOUT
the works, to save the partly cons1,noa5
pieces and bring them to him daily He
gets IN this way some sixty or seventy
| CARBON stumps, which he utilizes for MAX
| ing small charcoal fire of great heat and
purity, suitable for any kind of sneciaI
small work not interferred with nv the
| copper coating on the outside of the car
bons. Mr.. Johnston having shown the
way, Others engaged in kindred lines of
| work ought to follow his example II
stands to reason that. carbon prenared
| with so much pains to keep il pure ana
| homogeneous must be serviceable for some
OF the many uses for which charcoal is
required. The copper coating might he
an objection for some things, but if the
collections of stumps were large enough
1t might pay TO remove the copper with
nitric or sulphuric acid, thus getting an
absolutely pure nitrate or sulphate of CON
por, for either of which there is ALWAYS
practically unlimited demand in the
| arts.
The ring treasured by the descendants
of Franklin Pierce, President of the Tinted
States. is interesting for several reasons
For one thing, it weighs nearly a no,nd
1t was presented to him by his friends, in
| California, and has no equal in the world
II is of gold, dug from a California mine
the circular portion is cut into SQUARES
or ria