The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Telephones are TO be- fitted with a san
itary guard to protect he user from in
haling microbes from the mouthpiece, The
guard being OF TIE proper shape 10 II The
interior of The transm.tter and faO OYER
the edges, making it easily removable fvr
cleansing.
For accurately truins The pulleys Of
machinery a newly patented machine has
a shaft on which the pulley is mounted,
with a friction wheel set I'm a frame, TO be
revolyed by contact with the pulley driv-
ing q grinding wheel to act on its surface
and edges.
Ladies who kiss their pet dogs are
warned by no less an authority than DR..
Magnin of the Paris Academy of Sciences
that the httle pets are one Of the great
agencies n spreading disease, especially
consumption.
A process has been invented and pat
ented in Brazil for preparing coffee in tab
lolds by a system of compression. 1t is
argued that not only viii there be less ex-
peuse in exporting coffee in mis- form but
that the customer will be more certain of
thus receiving for his use the pure, una
duherated article.
AT a recent meeting of the German
Authropo!ogical Society, Prof. Ranke read
a paper on the relative weights Of the
brain and spinal cord in man and the
iloihsS' ne e-gPHant an" "'!e nv
nav el ~ di'i9 ''il ',i''il' .Ii, me- l'.''
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hedNler brains Jul Proio' tI'n 10 'Ile si5 ~
Oh 'tle oo'S 'iill man ~ d0Goi ulii7 ~
ha"Ae' We "SlsL' "l ''.S - Gu II, plo ~,
ion 10 me "elsHO u 'l'T 9ll,iol W, =
greater III man 'l'H III amy o'iIe' aii''ii'i'
At the last meeting of the Paris Acad-
or,,. of saia,oo Prof Nfofssar described
a combination of boric acid and carbon
lied sugar which forms new stone quite
superior 10 the d!aiheud IN hardness II
cuts diamond without diillcuiy' ana can
he made IN any size or shape. Inc com
binauon OF carbon with bor-um occurs
when the mixture of bOric acid and car
bon sugar is heated in electric furnaces
by a temperature of about 5000 degrees.
The new stone will be OF considerable inn
portance where hitherto the expensive
black diamond has been used
"A very interesting ad"i mas just "eei
made to the exhibited anthropological col
COTTON in rho Natural History Museum Of
I ondnp IT il nerfec+ skeleton of an
ah,,iei,ol s-aer9orian ONLY four com
,,fo+, el-lla,o,,s Of ME o,tinct race ar.
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3,5 1tioi, ,riIs7 a,,,
them. it is very doubtful whether any
others will now he recovered. The last
maze OF me race dIea IN March' l0o9' ani
~. - l''o IN. t,.,i.h
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oI'ei " al" o''i-0t "0 "H' ~
.dst SUI ElNoi % 'I9 l"Ce' Gnu ms -
ienuS "uiI'lo''al me- SV 10 ule Po9S9s
| by lhe museum o. au'neulic pus'S OF Hef
and htf HuspaiH' Iiloueleu oy MI murray
oil HOBART Town.
r1e1an I-a11ar the daaf dumb and
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Oil"u sHi whose "eqU'l eii'e"'9 nav d..
| tracted the attention Of all students OF
! tducauChdl methods, Is spending the sum
| mer at Nrentham, Mass, as the guest
| of Mrs. J. l.. Chamberlain, says the New
! YORK Illouhe. She Keeps up her STUDY
of Greek and Arabic, ana writes her eX-
erciSes on tYpeWritnS machine especial
| ly designed Tor these languages with IN
! terchanseaDIe cylinders. by way OF eX-
| ercise she dehShIs IN climbing trees
! Every morning she taxes SWIM IN the
! lake winch she vastly enjoys. Helen puz-
! zles new visitors by telling the color OF
| distinguish a white and yellow pansy
from a purple one and a red from a white
rose Her explanation Is that the petals
" .ilt 20. ne 800 '-''o N'
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Every visitor to Paris has noted those
ragged individuals who steal about among
A., 4a,.,o ,. oL,r, 80 A.. ,,o,,,.,...
'i'o 'o'-07 w '''- a. y
cafes IN quest OF cigar ana cigarette ehds,
Whlch they oeI'ly narPooh by the use OF
pent pms on the ehds OF SUCK, says the
| FhiiadeIphla fIeSs. me genus Is not I'M
known IA fhliadeiphla' Ven the "a
rlslah mesotuers' as they are termed
nave now formed trace union Tor pro
tectlon against the interfering police Inc
latter ore hostle enough al al! umes, but
IN summer Wheh lnlhgs are duIl ooth win
them ana the megotuers' they render this
peaceful business wei nigh Impossible
Inc trade gives employment 10 three sets
OF men p-ckers, cleaners and statesmen.
Ihey hrst bflns thelr treasures troVe to the
second, VINO await them in the low Wine
SHOPS OF the taupoufg du Temple. There
lhe TOBACCO Is pulled 10 DTS ana thence
taken to the salesmen VINO get rid of it
The nolice have hacop,e 80 I'eI1, 49,