The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


German chemist, Prof H. H. Schwartz. in
a mixture of five parts OF a moderately
thick gelatine solution with one part OF
potassium chromate. The fracture is
mended with this mixture, which becomes
hardtand InsolcaO Ole on exposure to light
Not even hot WAFER win affect the harden
ed cement. Fabrics in which some stiff
ness Is not objectiona BILE can be water
PROCEED by painting with the hot chrome
gelatlne and afterwards exposing to light.
There are few articles of export from
the United States in which trade has in
creased so rapidly as n parafIin wax.
Twenty-Five years ago IL was unknown 70
commerce, and only fifteen years ago it
began TO be exported. In 1884. 100000
pounds of il were exported, of which 49,
OO0,OOO went to Great Britain In the
hscal year 1887 the American exports Of
paraffin wax reached about 6,OOO0O0
pounds, of which Great Britain took 81
Ooe,OO0. In this country the consumption
OF paraffin wax has increased at a still
faster rate, but The production has even
outgrown Il,
The largest British oak is the Major
or Queen" oak in Sherwood forest
Cwhere Robin Hood and his merry out
laws shot the Kings deer and robbed the
rich, and helped the poor, and held their
revels meath the greenwood tree) and is
supposed TO be one of a forest planted
100 years ago. The Isle of Man has the
largest fuchsa tree in the world and it
constitutes one of the notable sights of
Ramsey England's largest willow tree on
record was grown at Boreham, Essex, and
the smallest British trees are the two
inch dwarf willows of Ben Lomond.
Clwnag, whose photography proclaims the
land of the leek, boasts of tree without
roots, and the Oldest trees in Britain are
the famous Bentley and Winfarthing oaks
which were two centuries. old when Will
lam the Conqueror's oak at Windsor burst
from its acorn.
The Ohio food commissioner, notes the
Homeopathic Envoy has stirred up the
proprietary medicine men as they have
never been stirred up before. The law is
that the druggist must affix poison labels
(death-head and cross-bones) to all arti-
cles the ''indiscrimnate or careless use
of which would be destructive to human
life" 1t is found, after analysis, that
there is scarcely a proprietary medicine
of any note that does not come under
the poison category, and the manufac-
turers of soothing syrups," "pectorals"
"emulsions of cod liver oil,' "catarrh
cures nerve medicines" "vitalizers,"
etc. are in a high state of indignation,
but the analysis, so the commissioner
says, demonstrates that all the curative
elements in their supposed-to-be different
preparations is either morphine, cocaine
or choral, all very dangerous drugs to
turn loose in a community.
According to recent statistical returns
the total number of women over the age
of Is employed in factories and workshops
in the British Islands is a little over a
million, of which about IL per cent. belong
to trades unions Most of these have a
membership in common with the men, but
there are some separate women's unions
organized, differed and conducted exclus-
lively by female members. Among these
are the Felt Hat Trimmers' and Wool
Formers Association, with 2,4S6 members;
the Female Cigarmakers' Protective
Union, with membership of a little over
thousand, and few other associa lions,
with still smaller list of members The
great bulk of the women workers are in
cluded in the mixed unions, showing a
disposition to work out her industrial like
her other problems in company with the
men, rather than separate from them a
token that the working British female is
endowed with sound and discriminating
judgment, and knows perfectly we'll on
which side her bread is buttered..
"A score of years ago the early history
Oh NT6eCG was DOuuQGO by q t1OnG1lC log
thousand years or so before Christ,
says Science. Then came the brilliant re-
searches of Schliemaun at Hissarlik,
Tiryns and Mycenae and the fog lifted
to reveal the vivid and potent Mycenaean
culture at its acme. about 1900 B. c.. Now
once more the clouds have rolled away,
and investigations on the islands of the
archipelago and the mainland of Greece
have disclosed to US with abundant clear
TV0anaaan'' aV1f1
tending from about 1900 to 1900 B. c. It
is simple and rude, that of the Grecian
folk before they had been touched by. the
Promethean fire which transformed them
to the noblest artists of all time The
statues of stone are misshapen and in
complete; the pottery is generally coarse,
and it is doubtful if it's moders knew
the potter's wheel; its decoration is in
lines and spirals only, animal figures be-
ing unknown; neither the sword nor gold
had yet been discovered; tattooing was
common and the general condition was
that of barbarism.
In the island of Barbados large ouan-
titles of a mineral have been found which
the native call "manjak" 1t is of a
bright black color and occurs at a very
shght depth, sometimes on the surface in
beds one 70 two feet thick 1t generally
appears under an angle of about 40 de-
grees, and in the immediate vicinity of
rock II is presumed to be solidified ne
troleum which is often seen there exuding
from the earth or floating on the water
In its composition this mineral is similar
to the pitch of Trinidad, to the Gilsonite
of Utah ard the Canadian Albertite but IL
is of much better quality. The best va
rieties of ''manJak contained 2 per cent.
of water, 70.S5 per cent. of volatile organic
| substances, 26.97 per cent of ditto solid ones
and OILS per cent. of mineral parts. Trim
idad pitch contains from q TO
80 per cent of water and
about SS per cent. of ashes. Hence
the manjak mineral is much richer in nat
ural bitumen. 1t is used, among other
purposes, for the insulation of electrical
conduits, for varnIsh, bituminous concrete
and for fuel, mixed with peat, etc. II NAV
to some extent suppiant gutta percha as
an insulating medium.-Scientifc Amer,
can.
lis that a new watch chain you're
wearing?" asked one man of another on
Chestnut street, according 10 the Philadel-
phia Record. We'll, it is and it isn't. I
don't suppose that chain looks to Won IN
be worth much, but / wouldn't take thou-
sands of dollars for it. This is the onIv
relic have of my mother, who died some