The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


higher classes of the profession have
started a movement to elevate and dignity
1t by securing legislation that will cor
rect some of the evils from which they
are now complaining and restore 10 it the
honorable distinction which BARRIERS en-
joyed in the Old days, when they took
rank with physicians and musicians and
artists. They propose TO carry on cru
SADIE that will result in the regulation
of the tonsorial business by legislation in
the different states. They propose to be
gin in New York, Massachusetts, Con-
necticut, New Jersey and other thickly
populated communities where the system
they propose may be tested before they
attempt to secure its general adoption.
They want a system of licenses to be is
sued by the municipal authorities to those
who prove their qualifications TO practice
the BARRIERS profession after a proper eX-
animation or the presentation of evidence
that they have served an apprenticeship
for a certain number of years.
Some interesting facts bearing on the
size and weight of the brain were given
recently by Sir William Turner, says Pub
lie Opinion. In the case OF Europeans the
average brain weight is from forty mine
ounces to fifty ounces in man. and from
forty-four ounces to forty-five ounces in
woman. 1t is interesting to note that
even in newborn children the boys have
bigger heads and heavier brains than the
girls. The brains of a number of men of
ability and intellectual distinction have
been weighed and ascertained to be from
fifty-five ounces to sixty ounces. In
few exceptional cases, as in the brains of
Cuvier and DIR. Abercrombie, the weight
has been more than sixty ounces, but 1t
should also be stated that brains weighing
sixty ounces and upward have occasion
ally been obtained from persons who had
shown no sign of intellectual eminence.
On the other hand 1t has been pointed out
that if the brain falls below a certain
weight it cannot properly discharge it's
functions. This minimum weight for civ
illzed people experts have placed at thirty
seven ounces for men and thirty-two for
women.
-'Some of the shrewdest tricks ever
played are by the smugglers of opium"
said Fl. "A. Flaming of Seattle according
to the st. Louis Globe-Democrat. "a very
unique smuggling scheme was unearthed
few years ago by United States secret
service officers in North Dakota It was
noticed that an unusually large number
of cattle were being driven across the line
to the North Dakota markets, and the
secret service men planned an investiga-
ton. For some time their work was in
vain, and they had about given up hope
Of discovering any unlawful operations,
when an accident revealed the fact that
the nostrils of the cattle were stuffed with
opium wrapped carefully in tin foil In thi
way each steer was worth twice it's nor
NAL value. Hundreds upon hundreds of
animals had been driven across the Dor
der with their nostrils loaded with opium
and it was estimated that the smugglers
had cleaned up a profit of $4,000 before
the discovery was made. But the SNUG
glers were sly, and they escaped and were
never captured"
The stone carvings about the pillars
and corridors in the City Hall are so nu-
merous and varied that the artistic skill
and conception of the work is scarcely
ever noticed except in a general way.
and its clever details are practically IN
appreciated, says the Phladelphi Record
OF all the millions of people that have
passed through the south entrance at
Broad street since the City Hall has been
open, probably only few hundreds have
noticed the amusing study of a cat chas-
ing two mice carved on the walls of the
lofty vestibule. There are eight repre-
sensations. The first shows a mouse ap-
pearing out of flower to the right, and
the cat, with paw extended is waiting
its chance. In the next the mouse is
safely in the cats paw, but another one
has appeared to the left, and the cats
attention is distracted. The remaining
six groups show the various stages of the
game, the cat letting one mouse go to
catch the other, and eventually both mice
disappear down the holes, while the cat
in a. last vain attempt, has its front paws
spread, but cannot reach its prey The
expressions of the animals are remarkably
well portrayed.
The first peanut oil factory in the
United States will be established at Nor
folk, Va, says the Scientific American.
The oil is highly valued in Europe, as 1t
is stated that fully $5,OOO,OOO worth of pea
nuts are taken into Marseilles annually for
the manufacture of oil, which is used in
toilet soaps and for other purposes. The
peanut flour is quite extensively used in
Europe and made into bread. cakes, bis
cults, etc. 1t is one of the favorite articles
of food, according to consular reports, in
hospitals in Germany. The capital stock
of the new neanut company is $60,0O0 and
1t will operate under the patents of Mr.
Wcatherly, which cover the machinery
and methods of decorticationg the kernel
of the inner skin. According to the esti-
mates made, the cost of a plant for treat
ing five tons of peanuts daily is as follows
Machinery, $1,000; building, $6,000 while
the expenditures, including labor insur-
,ance and taxes amount to 1887 per day. In
a prospectus issued by the company. it is
calculated that the receipts from five tons
of peanuts will amount to 235 gallons of
refined oil at 81 per gallon, IT'S gallons of
crude oil at so cents, $3.50 pounds of -four
and meal at cents per pound, and $3.50
pounds of stock feed at so cents per 100
pounds, making the total receipts $415 80
per day. which, it is estimated, would give
a yearly profit on a five-ton factory of
$19,725
-Generalarzt DR.. Scholer publishes in
the Centrablatt zu Gesundheitsphege a
collection of Hints for Smokers" which
are founded as the doctor states, upon his
professional observations for many years
of the mouth teeth. stomach, lungs, heart
and skin of the deVotees of tobacco. The
first and foremost rule is never to smoke
before breakfast, nor. as a rule, when the
stomach is empty; this custom is the worst
possible foe of digestion. Never smoke
during any exertion of great physical en-
ergy, as dancing, running, cycling, noun
taln-climbing or rowing and especially If
IN n contest Never follow "the had ~,