The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-22
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Kansas City Journal. After the brush
had been found the lola boy learned that
its native name was "tapoknos tampulse,"
and now he is afraid to use it for fear
it will break his teeth. This. same lola
boy dispels the notion that the Fiipinos
have no conception of gratitude. He
pulled a Chinaman off a native one day,
when the Chinaman was trying to do
murder, and ever since the native has been
bringing him fruit, cleaning his gun and
serving for him generally.
The London World says that during the
winter months the little colony of sixty
or seventy English people at Teheran or
ganize concerts for one another's amuse-
ments; there is a dance now and then at
the legation, and on Christmas night every
Englshman in the place is a guest of Sir
Mortimer and Lady Durand. When the
weather is cold, of course, there is skat-
ing. Skating is the greatest marvel Of all
to the Parisians. A few years ago the late
Shah, Nasr-i-Din, saw twenty skaters
twirling and curling and spinning grace
fully on the ice. He was amused; he
thought it wonderful. The next day he
sent to the legation and borrowed a dozen
pains of skates. These he made his min
listers put on and attempt to skate on the
lake in the palace grounds. The poor min
listers were terribly discounted, but it
was twice as much as their heads were
worth to refuse. His majesty was more
| amused than ever, and he nearly had an
apopiectic fit from laughing.
The first time remember seeing Dan
iel Webster" says Senator Hoar in Serb
| rer's, was on June n, 1913, at Bunker
| Hill. The students of Harvard, where
was a freshman, had a place in the pro-
| cession. We marched from Cambridge to
Boston, three miles and a half, and stood
in our PAGES for hours, and then marched
over to Charlestown. We were tired out
when the grafton began. There Was
little wind which carried the sound of Mr..
Webster's voice away from the place
where we stood, so it was hard to hear
him during the first part of his speech.
He spoke slowly and with great delibera-
ton. There was little in the greater part
Of that weghty discourse TO excite
youthful auditor, but the great thing was
to look at the great orator. Waldo Elmer
son, who was there, said of him: His
oountenance, his figure and his manners
were all in so grand style that he was,
without effort, as superior to his most en-
inent, rivals as they were to the humblest.
He alone of all men did not disappoint the
eye and ear, but was a fit figure in the
landscape"
According to a French publication,
Science pour Tous," in many English
houses, "on the table by the side of the
pepper box and the salt box is placed
sand boX-a little receptacle filled with
very fine sand, as fine as flour, which is
sprinkled all over the food. A medical
journal has advised dyspeptics TO adopt
this remedy The sand mingling with the
alimentary mass, renders it less compact
and makes digestion more easy This has
become the fashion, and since the English
have begun to eat sand, it is certain that
French snobs who initiate their neghbors
| across the channel like monkeys will
soon be devourng it. Besides, gravel for
digestive purposes has been in use by os-
triches for a long time" Discriminating
readers will take this sand story with
many grains of salt, says the Baltimore
| Sun. Whatever else the English constitu-
ton may require, it does not need sand
Everybody is supposed to eat a peck or
so of dirt in the course of his or her life,
and unsuccessful politicians frequently
have to dine on crow, but sand as a
daily diet is not likely to become popular
among Anglo-Saxons until they develop
| chicken craws as well as chicken hearts,
of which there seems just now little in
dication.
"A natural soap mine and paint mine
| are two of the latest mineral discoveries
in the Northwest, says the Chicago Rec
| ord. Several sode lakes have been found
in the foothills near Ashcroft, B. c.
Their bottoms and shores are encrusted
with a natural washing compound con-
tanning borax and soda. No two analysis
agree exactly as to the composition of the
material A New York analysis gives 26
per cent. borax, while a Montreal chemist
flN 71rN1a rn9xf ot,k
| borax. An Ottawa analysis showed only
a trace of boraX. Tests prove the sub
stance to be equal to the washing pow
ders in common use for cleansing pur-
poses. Trials by blacksmths and farm
Workmen show that ii will remove grease
and dirt quicker than soap After many
such tests a syndicate OF British Column
bia men has been formed to put the prod
uct on the market. One of the members
is now in New York for that purpose
About two hundred and seventy-five tons
of the compound have been cut and taken
out of the lake. 1t is handled precisely as
ice is handled The blocks are more than
| nine inches in thickness, are sawed in
| blocks fifteen by eighteen inches, and
weigh fifty pounds each. 1t is estimated
that this lake alone contains twenty thou
sand tons, proving that the industry if
successful, will reach large proportions.
| "A Chicago dispatch says: The finest
| gun camera ever built is being constructed
in Chicago by William Gaertner for the
| Smithsonian Institution at Washington.
| The specifications for this splendid instru-
ment require that it shall be capable of
making a successful exposure in one six
| hundrcdth of a second, and it Is hoped
| that this speed will be so greatly increased
that good negative may be secured by an
| exposure of only a thousandth of sec
ond This marvellous rapidity in photo
| graphing has never been approached save
| by one camera, which is said to have Sc
| cured a negative by an exposure of one
| five-hundredth of a second, but the his
| tory of this instrument is a matter OF
| tradition rather than of actual record. Its
origin and ownership seem to be unknown
in the circles of scientific photography. Be
| yond all question the gun camera for the
| Smithsonian Institution is by far the best
| telephotographic instrument ever attempt
ed and surpasses an others of its kind. A
! better appreciation of the marvellous alert
ness of this mechanical eye is to be gained
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