The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The japanese dentists. perform all the

/ operations IN tOOln drawing Win tiS
thumb and forehnger of one hand The
skill necessary to do this is acquired only
after long practice, but when once it is
obtained the operator is able 10 extract
| half dozen teeth in about thirty seconds
without once removing his fingers. from
| the patients mouth.
There are COS women engaged in
trade in Germany, the number having
doubled during the last thirteen years. All
| branches of industry show an increase
| in this line of employment the higher
| classes of labor even more than the lower
ones. The greater gain, however, is ap-
parent In commerce, the percentage of wo-
men in this line being l to 4.
"A patent has been granted in Germany
for new method of writing on glass, US
ing an aluminium point. The glass which
| is to be written on is first moistened with
vinegar and the writing or drawing made
with the point. Fine particles of alum
inium adhere to the glass, which when dry
shows the marking in silvery lines that
cannot be readily removed by friction.
According to a report made to Con-
gress last year. "a per cent. of the petty
officers and 80 per cent. of the enlisted
men in the navy of the United States were
| of foreign birth, and some of them had
| never taken out their naturalization pa
| pers. The percentage of sforeign-born off
GERS is very small, a fraction of 1 per
cent and every officer in the service Is
a citizen.
1t is the intention of the United States
Fish Commission to present to number
of educational institutions collections of
| fishes to be available not only for zoo.og-
ical study, but also for practical piscicul-
| ture The first of these collections has
hapf craxrp To
sity, and includes between four and five
| hundred thousand of both fresh and salt
water fishes At this institution the speci-
| mems viii be studied in connection with
the work of the College of Forestry, where
a course in pisciculture and venery is TO
be introduced.
On his trip through the Holy Land,
Emperor William will enter Jerusalem
from the Jaffa road. His first view of the
Holy City will be from the nights of Mount
Olive. Near that point on the Jaffa road
there is an olive tree of great age. Ira
dition places the age of the tree at more
than 1000 years, but botanists believe it
no more than fifteen or sixteen centuries
old There are many legends connected
with this tree. Quite near there is Mo-
hammedan chapel of octagon shape, but,
owing to the holy character of the ground
an impression in a stone there is shown
as the spot whence Christ started upon
his ascension to heaven-Christian are
permitted to read mass in the yard of this
little mosque on certain days.
The time of the day when the greatest
number of deaths and births occur is a
question frequently heard and which has
been answered recently in the British Med
cai journal by Prof Raseri, who has
carefully investigated a large number of
statistical reports for information bearing
on the problem. With the statistics of 25,-
474 cases of death and 36,5l5 cases of birth,
he has found that the maximum number
of deaths occur between 2 and O'Clock in
the afternoon, while in the early hours of
the morning there are the greatest num-
Der of births, and in the early afternoon
the smaIlest number. The coincidence of
the time of the maximum number of deaths
with the hours when the pulse rate and
temperature are at their highest point in
health, and when there is a febrile exa-
cerbation in case of Illness has been offer
ed as the explanation of this fact.
1t is pointed to with pride by the
merchants in Havana that during the long
struggle for supremacy in the island there
was not a large financial failure in Ha-
vana and perhaps none in any of the
larger cities. None of the important COM
mercial houses went down. The eXplana-
ton given is that the commerce of Ha-
vana is established on a cash basis. If a
man or a firm has a. $500 900 business he
has S5OOOOO in cash. The banks do not
make a practice of giving lines of dis
count. 1t is done, of course, in special
cases, and to some concerns, but it is not
the financial custom of the city. Neither
is it the practice 10 pay with notes or to
allow long time on local commercial trans
| actions In this respect it is said to differ
from most countries of the South. If a
Havana house purchases a lot of tobacco
from a plantation cash down is paid. II
a sale is made to a local house it is a
cash transaction. When goods are sold
to New York or London thirty or sixty
days is given. Although the commercial
men are inclined to deny it, perhaps it is
true that long credits are given to South
American houses The tobacco trade with
Ruenos Ayres is very large and the South
American dealers are apt to require Ions
credits.
"A new and valuable product is being
derived from acetylene gas, which illus
trates the constantly increasing number of
uses that are discovered for any newly in
vented process or substance. In this in
stance it has been found that the SCOT
produced when acetylene gas is burned
with a smoking fame gives carbon of a
high grade, and it is stated that three or
four times as much SCOT is obtained as
from the same quantity of mineral oil.
The acetylene SCOT is very light, absolute
ly black, and in particular free from any
trace of brown color. In addition, it does
not contain any tarry substances or other
impurities ordinarily found in lampblacl1
and it is extremely valuable for the manu-
facture of India ink, and also inks used
in printing and TYPOGRAPHY. A patent for
the manufacture of this black from acety-
lcne gas SCOT has recently been issued
in France and describes the details OF
the process. The acetylene is kept in a
steel cylinder under a pressure of two at
mospheres and then ignited by an explOs-
ion. The final pressure of the resulting
, hydrogen does not exceed twelve atmos-
pheres, so the only precaution to be OBJ
served is the use of cylinders of suffi-
Gent strength. In this method the theo-
retic yield of carbon is obtained from the
acetylene. and the product is of the high
est purity.
Strange as it may seem, even Kings