The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the increase among women, and that Vari-
Gus branches of the trade have started to
cater TO women smokers The advanced
female of the beginning of the next CEN
fury may be expected TO take to chewing.
Scientific investigations show that the
green color for which Parmesan and other
Italian cheeses are remarkable is due to
the fact that the acid milk is allowed TO
stand in copper vessels, twenty-five sam
pies of green Parmesan cheese showing
for each two pounds of cheese from 0.S to
S.3 grains of copper.
The first bridges were of wood, and
the earliest of which we have any account
was built in Rome ffty-five years before
the birth of Christ. The next was erected
by Julius Caesar for the passage of his
army across the Rhine. Trajan's great
bridge over the Danube, Alto feet long,
was made of timber with stone piers.
Sir Robert Peel Bart has not only
been enjoined from selling his family por-
traits and other heirlooms by the Court
of Chancery, but has been ordered to put
back those that he had already disposed
of The court, moreover made the UNI
usual order that he should pay the costs
of the motion for an injunction against
him.
Wallpapers third centenary, which
comes next year, is to be celebrated by the
Madrid Academy by the erection of the
painters statue in front of the National
Museum of Painting. Hard times prevent
the academy, however, from offering
prizes for competing plans. The only re-
ward will be the honor of having the APP
proved plan selected.
"A remarkable incident is reported to
have occurred at the Trinity Methodist
Episcopal Church. in New Haven, Conn,
last Sunday. The choir was rehearsing,
and was singing: ooh, That Had the
Wings of a Dove when carrier pigeon
flew in at an open window. The bird,
which was exhausted, was caught by the
| sexton, but, after being fed, appeared to
be in fair condition.
Prof F. F. Pipher has recently
measured the FRACTIONAL effect of moving
trains upon the air near them" says the
| Scientific American. His apparatus cen
sisted of a hemispherical cup. which he
could fix at distances up to thirty inches
| from the window of a railway carriage.
| The mouth of this collector. was turned
| towards the direction in which the train
was moving a. the time of observation;
| and the pressure due to the motion was
| conveyed to a pressure-gauge by means
| of an india rubber tube attached to the
back of the collecting cup. The results OBJ
| tanned showed that a large amount of air
| is dragged along with a rapidly moving
| train the motion being also communicated
| TO air many feet away. Most people be-
| lieve that it is dangerous to stand near a
| train going at full speed, and Prof. Nipher
has now proved that the moving air is a
real source of danger. The air not only
IT. IN
| topic over, but it also communicates a
spinning motion tending to roll a per-
| son under the train, if the nature of the
| ground does not prevent such result
"A Scotch artist has discovered that a
pigment of great beauty of color and fast
ness can be made from the smut of the
oat. The color is a deep, rich lumber
shade, sometimes approaching to sepia in
| tone. The smut is a fungoid growth,
| which is often seen in the shape of deep
| brown or sepia-colored spore dust on cats
and other cereals. Specimens of the pig
ment painted on paper as a water color
| have withstood the exposure to direct sun
| light for many months, and shown little
| change in strength of color when suisse
quently compared with uneXposed dupli-
! cate specimens. In mild, diffused daylight
the color remains quite fast and unalter-
| ed The brownsh black powder taken
! from smutty oats is very dry and light in
| nature, but when moistened with a few
| drops of alcohol and then mixed with mu-
| cilage and water it can be effectively han
died. In its deepest tones it is of a fine
| sepia shade, deepening to a brown black.
| When diluted with water or Chinese white
| it gives pleasing tints of a fiat brown of
the pheasant-egg cast. The new pigment
has been received with much approval by
| artists.
The year 1898 is the time appointed for
the return of a number of periodic COM
cts and though many of them doubtless
will not be visible, nevertheless it is inter-
estlng to konw that they are in our neigh
borhood. According to Popular Astron-
omy the following list embraces those that
are due this year: Winnecke's comet IS
due al perihelion, March 20, but was bet
ter situated for observation in January
and February Enckes comet has pc
Rod of 3,3 years and will be seen best
from the earth in July and August,
though 1t is nearest to the sun in May.
Prof. Barnard in 1892 discovered the comet
1892 V, which has period of 63 years,
This is due in April, but will then be on
the farther side of the sun. Denney's
comet 1881 V is due a little later in May
and will also be behind the sun. The same
is true for comet 1899 VI, discovered by
Swift, which is a it's perihelion in June,
VOLTS comet is due to return in June,
but may be seen in May as well. Brooks
comet 1886 ", comes in August, but will
moi have as favorable a position as in 1886
| Comet Temple 1, which has been observed
at an interval of So years, since its discov-
cry by Tempel in 1867. is nearest the sun
in October, but may possibly be found
when near opposition in February and
March. a faint comet, discovered by
futile in 1858, was found to be periodic
within a period of SCI years, though ii
has not since been rediscovered. This
comet was due at perihelion about jan
uary l, but in an unfavorable position.
in the stone quarries of ST. Triphon,
in the Rhone Valley the stone is sawn by
means of continuously running steel wire
cables kept moist with wet sand, says the
Pittsburg Dispatch. The wire, which is
about a quarter of an inch in diameter. is
an endless rope travelling over a system of
pulleys. 1t is so arranged as to be either
a driver az one end or a tightner at the
other and one part of the rope is always
being pressed against the portion of
stone from which the block is to be cut
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