The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-18
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were fingers that they can fling the lasso
and even pick pockets with them. Some
tlme~ago Frenchman who was fishing in
one of the rivers Of Buenos Ayres was
warned 10 be on his guard against the
Hght-dngered natives. He forthwith
kept vigilant watch upon his compan-
ions, but, nevertheless, one day when his
attention was closely riveted on his float
willy GauchO drew near and, delicately
inserting his foot, extracted the French
mans hooks and other valuables from his
pocket.
in 1745 the button industry took a fresh
start, especially steel button making in
Birmingham. says the London Queen. In
the Georgian period men and women alike
sported gilt buttons. Great was the ap-
probation shown when Jhe shank was first
appended to the metal button; its inven-
tor realized fine fortune. Now a vari-
ETY. of materials are called into play
glass, bone, horn, papeir mache, stones of
all kinds, enamel, china, gutta percha,
ivory and xylonite. More than a hun
dred years ago buttons were made of
cloth. Bohemia is famous for glass but
tons, Paris for painted china, cloth and
metal being mostly British productions.
Some ingenious people collect buttons as
curiosities, and some employ them for dec
orative purposes. News comes TO us of
a garden where the flower beds are bord-
cred with buttons set in cement.
Even after tea was introduced into Eu-
rope, and had come into general use, says
the jewelers. Weekly, teacups were
scarce. At the same time coffee was in
PRODUCED, but. apart from Constantine
pie, the first coffee cups in Europe date
back only as far as 1915 in Venice, 1859 in
Paris, 1862 in London and 1904 IN Leipsic
From the first, however, the conventional
! oriental coffee cuD " &10ut Stano ar n
die, was little used, and in Germany not
| at all. The Chinese tea cup was used for
+ tea, coffee and chocolate as we'll Speci-
| mems of porcelain were undoubtedly intro
| duced into Europe in the middle ages, yet
| not till the sixteenth century were cups
| imported from China in any great ouan-
| titles, and even then it was as articles of
| venu. Most of those found their way back
| into China again, as collecting porcelain
! Is lasting fad there, and high prices are
! paid for good specimens. The collections
! of Chinese porcelain, if only the genuine
specimens are desired, requires immense
| study and knowledge, as the Chinese are
| sklIfuI lmltators and put numerous falsi-
| fcations on the market.
M. Croft the Egyptologist, writes to
the Paris Register from Gizeh appropos of
the recent discovery of Pharaonic re-
mains: History has but few instances of
| stranger vicissitudes than those of the
| royal mummies of Egypt. In antiquity, as
! Wcl as at present, these mummies were
! carried from place TO place for conceal
ment or safety; but they seem destined to
| show how hopeless it is in this world to
! find place of lasting repose. The mum
mics of the kings that have just been
! found in one of the chambers of the tomb
| of AmenoDhis ii were, with the greatest
! care, transferred to a boat to be trans
| ported to Gizeh Museum. After all was
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to the surprise and regret of all an order
| was received from the government to
| take all the mummies back, replace them
| in the tomb and wall il up as it had been
| found. But it is of great interest TO stu
dents of Biblical archaeology to know that
one of the mummies apparently is that of
! Mer-en-ptah, the Pharaoh under whose
| reign, according to tradition the Exodus
took place. 1t is probable that when the
| mummies were put in the tomb of Amen
! ophis II the names of each of the SOW
| ereigns were written on the mummies so
as TO prevent any mistake. IL is a WELL
known fact thai a form of the name of
| Mer-en-ptah was Ba-ep-ra, as, for ex-
! ample, in the AnaStasi Papyrus II and in
that of Turin When the mummy was
| first found it was identified with Rhu-en-
| stem, Amenophis "; but this reading has
| since been corrected, and probably before
long we shall be able to gaze on the fea-
| lures of Pharaoh of the Exodus.
-Shavings are one of the comparatively
few things that are given away, says the
New York Sun They are not however
given away when they can be sold, as tf7ey
sometimes may be; but there are times
when they can't even be given away, when
it costs the producer money to get rid OF
them. In factories using many wood
working machines and producing great
| quantities of shavings, the shaVings are
gathered together by means of mechani-
cal appliances Over each machine is a
flaring hood of metal al the end of a pipe
which runs up into a larger pipe along the
ceiling. Other pipes with hoods at the
| end, over other machines, run up 70 the
big pipe in the same manner. Attached
to the big pipe is a blower or fan, which
| creates a suction and draws up the shaw
ings through the several pipes over the
machines into the big pipe, through which
they are discharged into a bin in the COR
ner of the room or at some other conVe-
nient place. In some woodworking fac
tories the shavings and refuse are used
to fire the boilers, the shaVngs being con-
| Veyed into the boiler room by mechanical
means. If factory rents power instead
of running boilers of its own it dispose
of it's shavings otherwise There may be
a steam plant contiguous or nearby TO
which the shavings can be transferred
| conveniently and cheaply, and to which
it can sell the shavings If the distance
is such that the cost of transportation
amounts to- much, the shavngs must be
given away. Otherwise it wouldn't pay
the user to take them. If the shavings
cannot be given away the producer de-
stroys them. If the factory is so situated
that there is a spot available in the neigh
borhood the shavings are taken there and
burned.
The worlds annual consumption of ivory
is estimated at somelhing like 5O0 ono
pounds, valued at 81 100000, and to supply
this amount 10000 elephants must be kill
ed. says The Philadelphia Record. The con-
sumption in Sheffield alone requires the
annual slaughter of 22,000 animals. Africa
supplies the great bulk of ivory, the In
dian wild elephant having become so scrace
of late years that India is now obliged to
import considerable quantity of ivory. A
vast amount of fossil ivory is also export