The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| in Spanish towns. One, found in the viii
| lage of Santiponce, was contained in a
| copper vessel, and the gold coins bore the
! various imDrints Of The Emperors Nero,
! Galba, Nitellus, Vespasian, Titus, Domi-
tian Trajan- Hadrian Sabinus, Antoaius
! Plus ana Marcus Aurelius, and OF Faus-
tina Senior and Lucilla. There are also
some of the time of the Emperor OtnO,
which are extremely rare and valuable.
| Half the value of these coins goes to the
finder and il is a pathetic touch that the
| only concern of the farmers wife was
| whether the sum they would receive would
! buy her son out of the army in Cuba.
The trolley car has been utilized for all
sorts of local announcements. with excel
lent results, especially in small communl-
ties, doing in its way much of the work
| that the old bell crier was supposed to
| exist for, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. On
rair% days a village car will often save
| the school children a useless tramp by
| carrying a p.acard with the inscription,
mo school to-day and in some places
| the local weather bureau now notifies the
| road of prospective meteorological changes,
| and the cars, as they go out of the car
barn, mount the appropriate signal in the
shape of a flag, flying between the trolley
| pole and the car. People can thus tell
! by glance at the passing car whether
j sort Of am overcoat to put on.
The budget of the gambling establish
ment at Monte Carlo Is instructive reading,
as showing how ruinous a course of punt
ing must be to the ordinary gambler, who,
if he may once in a blue moon break the
| bank" is doomed by an inexorable logic
of mathematics eventually to be broke"
himself says Household Words. Last sea-
| sons expenditures of the principality,
| apart from maintenance of the Casino,
| which was $4,000, amounted to $4,000, of
| which sum the Prince of Monaco had $780,,
| 900; the courts, police, etc, 10000; clergy
and schools, f9000 charities &C.,
900; prizes for sports, FL coo;
and the postoffice and losses $4,000. The
dividends on shares absorbed 1918 Co., MAX
ing a total revenue of n,5i0,O00, which the
fools of the world left at the Monte
Carlo gambling tables.
Few persons are aware, the Northwest
ern Lumberman says, of the vast and in
creasins amount OF wood which is used
up in Industries that cannot properly be
classed as lumber business, but depend ca
the latter for raw material. Inlaid work
is among these-a small item, compare
lively. unless one becomes acquainted with
IFS extent by study of it's details. figures
etc, when its importance is made appar-
ent. An industry of this character is the
manufacture of parquet floors, or wood
carpet, and, though one of comparatively
recent date, now reaches, 1t is said, to the
sixth figures in the value of business trans
acted yearly; in fact, millions of feet of
lumber are used from all parts Of the
world, and one Chicago firm that con-
sumes more than 100000 feet of strips
annually in the manufacturing of the
in Chi re 1r0fe to lf1-nC al
countries.
1t is only few years since the manu-
facturers of cork shoppers and life pre-
servers threw away their chips. Now
every particle of the refuse is carefully
saved and utilized, first having been pull
verified by special machinery, says the
New York Tribune. In fact, owing TO the
| constantly increasing number of uses to
which this stuff can be put the price of
which was once waste product is stead
lily rising. One of the ingredients of lin
oleum is cork. The latter is also employ
ed extensively in filling the hollow walls
of refrigerators. The manufacture OF a
light porous bicycle handle opens still an
other field of usefulness, and it is now
proposed to mix pulverized cork with
plaster of paris in holdings in order TO
render the latter cheaper and lighter. The
article is placed on the market in about
half dozen different degrees of fineness,
ranging from a hourlike powder up 20
grains as large as split peas. The price
varies from to cents a pound, and
depends on the fineness of the product.
An apparatus for purifying the air of
buildings by means of what is termed the
plenum system has been brought to pub
lie notice by the inventor, Charles J..
Woodbury., of Lynn. Mass, says the New
York Sun In such a system the external
air is drawn into a flue by means of a
blower to a box of heating coils, and
thence forced through a hot-air shaft,
whence it is conveyed to the various rooms
of the building The arrangement for cor
rying out this principle consists of an air
cleansing apparatus composed of one or
more vertical portable tubes or bags nav
ing walls of a porous fabric located at
the entrance of the air fue, the upper
end of each tube being open to the exter7
nal air and the lower end being closed so
that the air will enter the tubes and pass
through their walls into the flue. The up
per end of each tube is distended by means
of frame and held to the under side of
a frame secured to the sides of the verti-
cal portion of the f1ue. Each tube is dis
tended near the lower end by a hoop and
maintained taut and steady by cords.
which hold the tube to a cleat at the bot
tom of the flue. When the air enters and
passes down tube ii, with any foreign
substance, as dust, lint or carbon particles
from coal smoke, strikes against the in
ner wall of the tube dagonally the air
passes through while the foreign matter
drops, by its gravity, to the bottom OF the
tube.
Friday is, by a great many people in
America, regarded as an unlucky day.
The Spanish, however, look on it with
very different feelings; Columbus sailed
from Palos on Friday, Aug 3, 1892; the dis
covcry of the new world was made on
Friday, Oct r. 1892, and many of Spain S
noted victories in war have been achieved
on this day of ill-omen. Columbus start
ed on Friday, the fourth of January, 1885
on his return to SPAIN to announce to
Ferdinand and Isabella the glorious result
of the expedition. and on March 10, in the
same year, also a Friday, he disembarked
in Andulasa He gained his first view of
the American continent on Friday, the
thirteenth day of June. 1898. Americans
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