The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Children in the Sandwich Islands have
raised $4,000 with which to inaugurate
missionary work on the Island of Minda-
mao, in the Philippines Some sentiment
enters into their gift, since they aim to do
for Others what missionaries from the
United States have done for them. They
have asked the American board to under
take the administration of the proposed
Philippine effort, but that body has taclt-
1y Promised not to enter upon Philippine
work at present, but to confine itself to
the Caroline Islands and the Ladrones.
Notwithstanding The enormous amount
of business with which she has to deal,
the Queen is to a large extent her own
houSekeeper. The first thing every morn
ing a paper of suggestions from the clerk
of the kitchen is placed before her from
which in her own hand she orders the
menus of the day, both for herself and
such of her grandchildren as may be with
her The Queens chef receives a salary
of 1900 per annum, and has as satellites
four master cooks, two yeoman Of the
kitchen, two assistant cooks, two roasting
cooks, six apprentices and six kitchen
maids, besides pantrymen and other lesser
lights.
Prince Ruspoh Di Pogsio Sausa, May
or of Rome has publicly and officially
announced that the Eternal City is gong
10 have worlds exhibition, which will
be the first held in Italy, and will take
place in 1911, the fifteth anniversary of
the proclamation of the United Kingdom
,.ne ParIianoart ebortI,, befora bo diad
II viii I've asl,od WI announce an o,-b:-
bition twelve ,,ears Hefora IL to1-es ,1aeeo
Tho answer Ifes in ,bo ri,.aIr,, which I'm
e,iets batuvaar H. larqe Tta1ian to,,-ns
Rome wishes to have it decided that the
Ill9t g -. OF me K,44 must take
cornneti+or Of P,la b.. aS,,tiror..
call the virtual capjtal of Ttalv-had al
ready spoken of having one in 1904. for
the opening of the great Simplon tun-
mel.
ne We" aoid9iNe' drooruhuum' now
belhg manufactured in such large quaint
ties at Niagara is about to be app'ied 10
the same purposes a. emery. to be offered
TO the public spread upon Goth paDer
and possibly leather. and in view of This
important extension the facilities of man.
ufacure are beng greatly increased saws
the New York sun Of course. this appli-
cation of carborundum places the latter
in direct commercial cOn1netition 1vitb The
emery garnet and flint cloth producers in
the United States of within there are some
seven or eight While il has long been
understood that great possibilities for oar
borundum were presented IN this field
the wheel and kindred industries have
heretofore engrossed exclusive attention
on the part of manufacturers. The Dros-
pect now is that. in this additional field
the consumption of the article will exceed
the amount used in wheel and other spe-
cjalties. and probably lead to a largely
increased CAPACITY of the Niagara Fails
plant.
Inc current NUMBER OIL La SCIENCE
Franchise contains a curious article deal
ing with the employment OF electricity in
bleaching the skin; IT has been noted"
Of eIectricity the color Of tbe sCi1 has
been changed and there Is no doubt that
the electric current has a direct action
on the coloring matter or pigment of the
epidermis. In the deepest ana third layer
of cells of which the epidermis is com
posed is found the coloring matter to
which the skin owes It's hue. The pig
ment exists in all races in the form of
brown granules mingled with the cells
of the mucous laVer' The only differ
ence in this regard between a negro and
a white man is that in the negro these
granu,ations are more numerous and lar
ger. If we could by any process whatever
destroy or disorganize these Elementary
infiitrations, which are as ii were. natural
tattoo marks. the skin would present in
tit Spots so treated, even II IL the
skin of a negro, the characteristics of an
Albino's skin, whose popularity is that
il lacks pigment altogether Now it is
neither impossible nor even improba bic
that electricity acts on the pigment We
have a right to suppose that it does, since
1T always leaves behind it light-colored
scars. Hence. if you wish to bleach d
kaftir or a Zulu. Yolof or an Abyssln-
ian, instead of running yourself by buying
soap and rice powder, set to work to
dep.gmentize him electrically"
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-, 90 - '0' 'eu 'oii III Aiilu on
the human race Blackmaii cheerfully paid
10 rats is, however, something new to his
| tory and a tribu to their great abJ.
ties. SAYS the Chicago News. They had as
Iaoilshed themselves under a meat mar
~, ''t I'aed - riai " Sie owner me way
| flu" When two carcasses Of mutton ,ya1a
available they would cat the prime and
| leave The poorer. The best was hardly good
enough for them, and they Were Cumming