The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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This is the Official style in which "The
Army and Navy Journal announces the
disaster 10 the Maine: Maine. ten guns.
Capt. c. D. Sigsbee IN. a. s.. Sunk By
an explosion in the harbor of Havana.
Cuba, Feb. Is. Wreckers are at work saw
ing government and private property and
recovering bodies from the wreck Mail
should be addressed care OF navy depart
ment."
"A ship-bottom paint, consisting of sea-
weed, which, while green and moist, is
ground in oil and mixed with Htsarge, lead
acetate, turpentine and hnseed oil, has
been patented in England says the Farben
Zeitung. The coating is said 10 be not
only a good protection against the adher-
ing Of shells, but also prevents worms from
entering wooden ship bottoms or any
wooden submarine constructions.
The cutters of the great glove houses
at Brussels and in France earn even
higher wages than the cutters of the most
fashionable taiiors in London and New
York. So difficult is this art of cutting
gloves that most of the principal cutters
ara known to the trade by name and by
fame, and the peculiar knives which they
use in the business are so highly priced
that they are handed down from genera.
ton to generation as heirlooms.
-Sulphate of quinine has some very Gu
rious properties, one of them being its
power to impress an image of itself on
sheet of sensitive paper in the dark, says
Harper's Round Table If a design be
drawn on sheet of paper with suIphate
of quinine, exposed for a few minutes 10
the sun, then placed on sheet of sensi-
tive paper, put in a book, and left for a
few hours, a perfect image of the draw
ing will be found impressed on the sheet
of paper. Writing may be copied on sensi-
tive paper in this way, but ii must be re-
versed, or the writing will be reversed
on the sensitive paper.
Few persons are aware the Northwes-
tern Lumberman says, of the vast and
increasing amount of wood which is used
up in Industries that cannot properly be
classed as lumber business, but depend on
the latter for raw material Inlaid work
| is among these-a small item, compare
lively, unless one becomes acquainted
with its extent by a study of its details,
| figures, etc, when its importance is made
| apparent. An industry of this character
is the manufacture of parquet floors, or
wood carpet, and, though one of compar-
| atively recent date now reaches, it is
| said, to the sixth figure in the value of
business transacted yearly; in fact, mil
lions of feet of lumber are used from all
parts of the world, and one Chicago firm
| that consumes more than 100000 feet of
strips annually in the manufacturing of
this flooring, ships its products to almost
| all countries.
| The perfection to which the quality of
cast plate glass is now brought In our
| great manufactories-that from which
mirrors, shop windows, etc, are made-is.
| says the New York Sun. due to few
| simple requirements carefully observed
the material being prepared from the
whitest sand, broken plate glass, soda,
| small proportion of lime, and much
| smaller amount of manganese and cobalt
oxides. When thoroughly melted the
glass Is poured upon an iron table of the
| size required, the thickness being regu-
| lated by strip of iron placed down each
| of the four sides of the ia ble Immediate
| ly after ii is poured out the operator pro-
! ceeds to fiatten down uniformly the mol
| ten substance by an iron roller. which
| lowers the glass to the thickness of the
strips at the sides; it is then annealed. or
tempered, for several days. and then
| ground perfectly level and polished to a
transparent brilliancy.
A rock and a fish saved the good shin
Nelson from sinking. The Nelson is an
English vessel, which recently arrived at
Wellington. New Zealand, after a ninetv
seven days passage from Liverpool. When
| off the New Zealand coast she encoun-
| tered heavy gales and was driven on a
| rock She Immediately got off, but water
began to rise in her hold despite the crews
eXerhons at the pumps. After great diff
| Guilty the vessel entered Wellington har.
Dor and extra pumps were brought into
| play. Still the water rose and the CAP
| tain and crew removed their BELONGINGS
to land in expectations that the Nelson
| would sink. Fortunately, their fears were
not realized, for with better working OF
the pumps the rush of water was finally
| overcome. The vessel was subsequently,
| examined by a diver. In his report he
| stated that in one of the holes a piece
of rock was damned and in another a FISH
was squeezed tail first, and both were re-
sponsibe for preventing the water flowing
| into greater extent.
In Russia the wages of a horse. as It
were, are higher than those of a man and
| hence, Of course, very much higher than
the wages of a woman says Gunton's Mag
| azine. Thus, in the Nishni-Volga section.
| we find the average pay of man and horse
| to be about z cents per day; or man alone
| "a cents; that is, IS cents for horse and
i "a cents for man. The women receive
| from 10 to 20 cents. In the central agri-
cultural region the average is: Horse, %
| cents; man, 20 cents; woman, 10 cents In
| the southern steppe: Horse, So cents; man.
50 cents; woman, 16 cents. This is an in
teresting commentary on the standard of
| living of Russian agricultural laborers.
Its meaning is, simply. that human beings
| are cheaper there than draft animals. In
| other words, il costs less to keep them
alive. In the southern steppe five women
can be employed more cheaply than two
| horses Is it difficult to imagine the con-
dition of home life, the dearth of refining
influences, the sodden. hopeless stagnation
that such a state of affairs reflects? Is
it any wonder that the products of such
| wage status as this are individual deg
radiation, social barrenness, meeger edu
cation, political despotlsm, religious intol-
erance and. generally. a type of civiiza-
! ton scarcely above balbarism?
No reliable statistics on the cost of
maintaining and operating motor cabs
have yet been collected, but there is no