The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

nitrate or nitre, sulphur and carbon in the
form of charcoal, the proportions depend
! ing upon the use for which it is intended
For the United States military service
/ there are seVenty-six parts nitre, fourteen
carbon and ten sulphur; for sporting pur-
poses there are seventy-eishG of nitre,
Twelve OF carbon and ten of sulphur; for
blasting purposes, siXty-twO nitre, eigh-
teen carbon and twenty of sulphur. The
process of manufacture, especially of mix
ing ana drying the powder, is attended
with much danger and should not be at
| tempted by those moi familiar with its
technical details.
Reciprocity seems to be the order of the
day, in language as well as in commerce
| says the Youths Companion. For years
mere mas been an incursion or adoption
! OF French words and phrases into English
| speech. Now there is similar incorpora-
tIon or English expressions into the cur
rent speech and literature of France
While We speak of THE beau monde"
Farisians speak of 'le high life" as often
as we mention a ''sOiree" or a matinee"
they tell of "une five o'clock tea" and
When we pronounce a thing very chic"
they respond that it is indeed tres
smart" Is this an indication that the uni
Versal language of the future is to be a
polyglot?
The weight carried by our infantrymen
In heavy marching order, says Capt. Har-
ris in the Journal of the Military Service
institute, is considerably less than that
Dolhe by European soldiers, eXceDt psr-
maps, the English, who carry 40 pounds
about the same amount as our men. This
IS exclusive of the clothing worn. The
GERMAN soldier, including clothing on his
person, bears between 81 and 70 pounds
Al the latter weight he carries a coffee
mln hatchet and spade The French
solder, 81 pounds, including a camp lxet-
Tie perched upon the top of his knapsacI.
RUSSIAN soldier, "A pounds, also including
camp Kettle, fastened TO the end of his
coat py the handle. The Italians like
WISE, are addicted to the camp kettle.
The British consul-general at Frank
tort-on-the-Main describes a curious craze
now prevailing in Germany for sending
trends post cards with views of picture
esque places that have been visited. These
catdS are Kept 5 souvenirs and many per.
sons collect them. Albums are made for
such collections and they are ''the rage"
recently the government of Saxony offered
pflze for the best series of 20 postcards
with views of Saxon scenery. ANYBODY
mat climbs hill and gets a good picture
must send 1t to his friend ana so the ma
per-makers, manufacturers and the gov
ernment are all getting rich. over a mill
lion cards We're sent from Berlin during the
recent exhibition and 36 600 from Heidel-
berg Castle. The Hamburg Horticultural ex-
hipition is credited with 572. 600 cards. There
Is money in it perhaps for American manu-
I@cIurers Il they can import the fashion.
An exchange relates this queer story
from Berlin A German landlady had a
physician for a lodger and he owned only
one pair of boots, which one night disaD-
peared. The landlady was the cause of the
disappearance. Perhaps he owed her money
perhaps she was afraid that he would
shoot the moon, or that he would be low
cred, like st. Paul, in a basket. The doc
tor, remembering the famous worm, turn
ed; he claimed damages from her on the
ground of unjustiliable imprisonment She
mad interfered with his liberty, even if she
had saved thereby the lives of his patients
The court was called upon to decide this
question: THE bootless man,is he morally
or materially hindered from pursuing his
daily work and aVocation? The first trib-
unal held the hindrance TO be a material
one; the second tribunal decided the boot
was what logicians call a separable acct
dent in the making up of man" The doc
tor lost his case, which leads an English
commentator to observe: HE had not a
leg to stand upon, no need, therefore, of
boots to put them in. Q. E. D.
Timed meat still holds the record for
the case of that preserved mutton vouch-
ed for by DR.. Letheby in his Cantor lee
ture, which had been timed forty-four
years, and was still in condition at the end
of that time. Those tins had an adventur-
Gus career. In 1924 they We're wrecked in
the good ship Fury and cast ashore with
other stores on the beach at Princes In
let. They were found by Sir John Ross
eight years afterWard in a state Of perfect
ro1-fa ha ole
ing variations of temperature annually
from 90 degrees below zero to- so degrees
above-and withstood the attacks of saw
age beasts perhaps of savage men. For
sixteen Years more they lay there, broil-
ed and frozen alternately; then her ma
jestys snip Investigator came upon the
scene, and still the contents We're in good
condition. For nearly quarter of a CEN
fury they had withstood the climatic ri
gors, and as was but natural some of
them were brought home again, where
they lived on in honored old age, till they
were brought under the notice of DR.. Leth-
ebV.
The Mauser bullets which officers
stopped in Cuba and have brought back
to this country are proud trophies, par
ticularly in the eyes of the fair sex, says
the Washington Post. Surgeons say the
Spanish ammunition must have been de-
tectiVe, else the Mauser bullets would
have had much more force. These deadly
missiles should kill at $500 yards, but
some of the bullets that hit American
officers al 500 yards failed to pass through
their bodies. At any rate, a very large
proportion of American officers were
wounded al Santiago and very many of
them have brought the bullets back with
them. Lieut.. Winthrop S. Wood of the
Ninth Cavalry, who as the Post stated,
the other day, is a native of the District
and now registered at the Ebbitt has
two of these trophies. He was wounded
in the mouth on the first day of the fight
at Santiago and the bullet that knocked
most of his front teeth out is now in the
chest cavity, near his heart. For fear
that it will work downward from riding
horseback, the physician will soon cut the
bullet out. Lieut. Wood already treas
ures one of these bullets, which he wears
attached to a string about his neck 1t
struck him in the ankle after he received