The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ing more nor less than the manufacture OF |
real kid gloves, the skins for which come |
from France, Italy; SPAIN Mexico and |
South America, says the New York Post |
| In France the cruelty is revolving Great |
care is taken in raising kids, even they
are seWed in a cover TO keep their skins |
in perfect condition of sOftness. The Kid
grows. but the cover is not changed. I'm
told pain is inflicted on the little animals,
till they writhe in the torture Of the I'M
| yielding jacket. France alone makes
| more than 2i,O00,0O0 pairs Of kid gloves a
year.
In one of the great insurance offices OF
Berlin, says the Pan Mail Gazette, num-
Der of petty thefts have lately been COM
mitted. some person or persons unknown
! visiting overcOat pockets and abstracting
! cigars and small change. The Berlin po-
! lice have not yet their Sherlock Holmes,
| but science they have, science ranging over
| wide field, and quite capable of setting
! a trap to catch a thief. Therefore, the de-
| tectives referred the case to the grave pro-
! fessor, who chose so many cigars and plac-
| cd a certain aniline powder in their mouth
| pieces, carefully concealed under the COW
| ering leaf The cigars were then restored
| to the oveTcoat pockets. The next day
| general review OF all suspects. SHOW your
! tongues and let's seeAf your lips are blue
| one unhappy youth presented himself smll-
| ing with aniiine jaws. Mouth discolored,
| and it was shown he mad been buying
! large quantity of alum as a antidote.
| HOw's that, umpire, as a case of circum-
] stantial evidence?
The rare operation of craniotomy was
performed for the first time at Bellevue
| Hospital yesterday, says a New York
dispatch of June Is. 1t consists of taking
| away parts of the skull crushed by an
| injury, sponging out the injured region
the skull which hold the brain in place.
| The subject was Minnie Sheehan, 4 years
| old, who fell out of a window yesterday
morning and was picked up unconscious.
The skull had been crushed in near the
left temple and several splinters were
pressing on the brain, lacerating the out
side Hgament The scalp was laid bare to
the skull and the broken pieces of the
skull were raised and removed. The
brain could plainly be seen pulsating be-
low DR.. Birge washed the exposed part
of the brain with cotton soaked in an
antiseptic preparation, and the operator
drew together the ligaments and sewed
them, spending over half an hour in the
process. In a few minutes the child gave
a sigh and opened her eyes One of the
doctors felt her pulse and found the
slightest approach 10 fever, but in a short
time she was sleeping soundly. The doc
tors believe she will recover.
| II VI NtLlblu STRUCTURAL purposes tic
combination of iron or steel with concrete
mas in various instances been successfully
resorted to by builders, but not until re-
Gently. as at San Francisco, have these
materials been used in such relations as
basis for pavements, says the Boston Jour
nal of Commerce. According to this meth
cd a very thin sheet of steel Is slit per
pendicularly in short lengths, say three
inches, these Sits running in straight lines
down the sheet, each new one beginning at
about half an inch from the point where
the preceding one ended, and the lines be-
ing about one-half an inch apart the meth
cd thus leaving the sheet slotted, but con-
neCted as a whole. The steel is then pulled
apart or expanded and then presents the
appearance of a sheet perforated with dia-
/ mond shaped holes, resembling somewhat
| a wire grating. On the earth of the street,
graded into shape and bedded over with
4 sand, is placed the sheet of expanded steel
and over this Is laid a layer of concrete,
the latter being so stamped into the mesh
: es of the steel so as to form a perfect
} bond. Upon this foundation can be laid
: asphalt, bituminous rock, basalt blocks,
brick, or any kind of surface pavement de
/ sired, the pcrmanency of the entire pave
ment depending, of course upon the char
acter of theNop work.
An expensive and most thorough inves-
/ tigation was recently made under the di-
rection of the New York Central Railway
Company to ascertain what parts of an
y engine wear out most quickly and in what
ratio the several parts wear out, says
the Age of Steel For this purpose the
famous engine $40 was taken into the
: | shops and completely overhauled that is,
l it was taken apart and every piece of the
/ | engine from the ponderous driving wheels
to the smallest bolt and nut, was sep
arately weighed, the greatest care being
faly IN na oicrloi ta
| When all the parts had thus been weigh
| ed skilled mechanics went to work to
| rehabiitate the engine and when COM
pleted it was again put into active serv-
ice as before Some months afterwards
!; it was taken back to the shops and COM
+ pletely dissected again, once more every
part being separately weighed and the re-
suit compared with the former one, thus
. | enabling an exact estimate to be made
= of what the engine had lost in weight
through the wear of a known amount of
work The records of the weights of the
several parts at once showed which of
them were subject to the most wear. In
o both instances the small parts were
Y weighed on pharmacists scales
For many years naturalsts like Audi
q bon and Wilson studied and wrote of this
= bird before 1t was known that there were
n robin roosts," as well as pigeon roosts
q says LpplncotI s. Ohly WlIhln the laSl
f few years was the fact brought out that
! a bird more Familiarity known than the
Il passenger pigeon followed this mode OF
: spending the night, although IL adopted
+ spring instead of fall for massing by hun
! dreds in a high sheltered wood for a
q nights protection from cold, or because
= it is the period before pairing time or fol
4 some other reason at present beyond mans
r ken. With what stealth must this we'll
a known and much-observed bird have
found it's way in such numbers to the same
!, patch of timber night after night in the
q early months of the year. according tc
: locality, coming from all directions sc
4 swiftly that a secreted observer could moi
), count keeping up chatter that could be
n heard for a long distance, until the last
& bird, somewhat belated perhaps found
II shelter in the darkening grove, when al
A became silent as thousands of wings were
y folded to rest Another peculiar trait Of