The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

iih mania paper as now being used
for making tubes for bicycles. according
TO an English exchange The process Of
manufacture is ingenious, the paper being
wound upon mandrel, and coated nv
means OF glue from a spray, thus insur
ing the absolutee joining of the Das,ar
Whlch rs made solid by means of great
pressure. When the tube has been con-
structed, some forty layers of paper he
ius lequired Tor this purpose, it is sub
y9Vteu 20 great pressure from the inside
dI1er the mandrel has been removed and
the tube placed in a very strong mold
ms pressure is derived from a Nv
ofduhc machine. The outer LAYERS oP
paper are acted upon by means of a roll
lng machine, which hardens them and
1iIe tupes are then polished In a lathe and
shlned to the desired color. when tbev
are vanished and are ready for usa W.
nave no verifcation of the strength or
ourapllty OF the paper tubes in practi-
cal use.
The departure of an unusually largo
number of Chinese laundryneu from, New
nsldho 10 their home country this sum-
nler Is reported by the Springfield Repub
mean. The majority Of these laundry
workers go home once in three or four
years, but why an unusual number should
go TINS year is not known. The inference
IS that 1t is because of better arrange
AtASHtS 1O4 Inns class or travel. Formerly
the Cinnamon went singly and because
of the hostility shown them and the IegaI
provisions governing their residence here.
they got Into much trouble. Now the
Canadian Pacific Railroad makes a spe-
cialty of caring for them They are
gathered up by an agent of the railroad
who agrees to set them down in China for
500 This agent pilots them through the
custom house on the Canadian border and
sees to it that they are provided with the
legal papers and photograph necessary for
their expected re-entry into the United
States.
when L was In Santiago said gen
tleman who has recently returned from
that port, according TO the New Orleans
Ilmes-Democrat, Il was told by promi-
nent American army officer that large
quantity of cheap jewelry and watches
had been sent down from New York in
pressed beef cans. The consignment was
supposed to be part of a supply of food
for the hungry natives, but instead Of
being turned over to the regular distriD-
utlng agents was claimed by a certain an
dividual whose eagerness excited sus-
picion, and the discovery ensued. The stuff
was all confiscated and put in charge of
one of Gen. Woods aides, pending a thor
ough investigation, which is now quietly
in progress both by the military officials
and the Red Cross representatives. The
man who claimed the shipment insisted
that he was merely acting for others, and
although he was at once arrested he was
subsequently released and lost no time in
hurrying over TO Kingston. The facts of
the case were hushed up as much as
possible to avoid clouding the really noble
relief work with a scandal"
In shedding their skins, an operation
which is gone through annually snakes
experience no difficulty while free. In cap
tivity, however, the reptiles for some rea-
son are unable to so readily rid themselves
of the cuticle. An Australian diamond
snake in the Bombay museum, which ap-
peared likely to succumb, was blind and
refused all food. A European sympathizer,
therefore, pressed the native snakekeeper
into service to hold the snake, and him
self, with pair of sharp-pointed scissors,
performed the delicate and risky opera
ton of clipping away the membrane which
adhered to the eyes. J. M. Phipson, edi-
tor of the Journal of the Bombay Natural
History Society, performed a far more dan
gerouS operation a couple of years ago.
His patient was a large hamadryad, or
king cobra. the most vicious and venom
GUS of all Indian snakes, and a most pow
erful creature, TO boot. Mr.. Phipson grip
ped the king cobra round the neck and
native literally held on for his life farther
down, and when the reptiles struggles
geon's scalpel, removed eight layers of
membrane from each eye.
Drug stores are decreasing in number
in the United States, notwithstanding the
increase i'll population. That was the
conclusion of a statistical demonstration
made by Joseph Fell of Cleveland al the
annual meeting of the American Pharma-
ceutical Association, held in Baltimore
this week. The decrease varies in differ
ent parts of the country ranging from
1.8 per cent. in Pennsylvania in the last
two years to 246 per cent. in Texas. The
total number of drug stores in the United
States in the years 1896 1897 and 1898 was
shown by the paper presented to be, re-
spectively, 1864, &C. 463 and 35,467. Within
the same period the number of wholesale
druggists also decreased from 296 to 2S4
1t was Mr.. Feil's opinion, in which the
other druggists concurred, that the rea-
sons for the decrease were the competi-
ton of the department stores, particularly
in toilet articles, and the wide practice
of price-cutting on proprietary medicines
In concluding his paper, Mr.. Fell said he
believed that when the retailers number
about 25,0O0 and the wholesalers about 200
equilibrium will be established and the
decrease cease
What nonsense medical experts are ca
pable of getting up at times, exclaims the
Springfield Republican. The London Ian
Get has declared that biography is ex-
tremely detrimental because while nor
maliy 100 Determinations per minute may
be made of varying sensations, the tele-
graphist never does less than 49, and may
do 49," Therefore undue nerve stimulation
leads to all sorts of ills, from heart dis
ease TO consumption. This shows the
worthlessness of laboratory tests unless
they are regulated by common sense. The
normal number of syllables that can
be distinguished in a minute may be 80,
but people jabber away at 300 words a
minute, if they are women, and never suf-
fer from it. 1t all depends on whether one
knows the language. 1t must have been the
same doctor who discovered that bicy-
cling is injurious because of the mental
strain of making the adjustments reduir-
ed to keep a balance! The only mental
strain in bicycling is in lodging careless
truckmen and hair-brained scorchers. The
balance takes care Of itself During the
atrocious six-day race in New York some
OF the men drODrppd as1aaTD in tba eaHdlo