The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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situations than any other state in the
Union. The banks, however, are generally
small.
"A Western photographer advertises
that he is adept in taking exterior or in
terror views of houses, dogs and horses. -
His work ought to be valuable to the sci
entific world.
Three German Courts recently decided
that if the Berlin police should judge any
particular color scheme of house to be
improper or TOO gaudy they could order
the painter to change it.
The Massachusetts Horticultural So
ciety is to hold its annual exhibition of
spring flowers, plants, fruits and vegeta>
bles in Horticultural Hall, Boston, from
March 20 to March % inclusive Prizes to
the amount Of $1,000 are to be distributed
among the exhibitors.
The women of Marmaton, Kan, five
miles west of Fort Scott, has organized
themselves into a band of laborers for the
building of the United Brethren Church
there. Twelve of them donned old clothes
the other day and began the work of eX-
cavating for the foundations. Enough
money to build the church could not be
raised. so the women determined to take
up the work and do it themselves rather
than let the project be abandoned.
The government of Ontario. Canada,
proposes to make a survey of large por-
ton of the land lying between the forty
seventh parallel and Hudson bay. The
tract to be surveyed comprises about 1885,
600 square miles, and while it contains
much valuable timber, 1t has been but
little explored. There are also said to be
indications of valuable minerals, and the
plans for the survey seem to look towards
an ultimate Hudson bay railway scheme.
The bark of the ii tree and the outer
bark of the Melaleuca leucodendron is
now used as packing for fruit which is
shipped from New South Wales. The bark
is shredded to a sort of coarse chaff, and
is packed around the oranges with the
| object of preserving them While in tran
sit. The effect is attributed to the elias
ITCHY of the packing, and the fact that it
permits of ventilation. There is said to
be no sweating unless the bark is cut too
fine
The care that the watches of railway
men receive is shown in the regula lions
recently adopted by a Western railway
for its employees. Seventeen jewelled
watches are required, and they must be
supplied with Breguet hairsprings. The
watches must be inspected every three
months and must be submitted to the in
spector once week for registration. No
empoye is permitted to set his watch or
to change its movements unless it should
chance 10 run down.
The first law of Congress fixing rates
of postage was passed Feb. 20, 1892, and
went into effect June /, 1892. The charge
established for transmitting letters was as
follows: Not exceeding 80 miles, 6 cents;
and exceeding 1O0 miles
cents; over 100 and not exceeding $50 miles
1917 cents; over $50 and not exceeding 200
miles, 10 cents; over 200 and not exceeding
$50 miles, II cents; over $50 and not eX-
ceeding $50 miles, 20 cents; over $50 and
not exceeding 450 miles, % cents; over $50
miles, 25 cents.
The introduction of acetylene gas into
France is said to be making progress
and a recent report states that pine
wood proprietor has demonstrated that by
combining rosin oil with the gas it does
not eVaporate so rapidly, and is less ex-
plosive, while a pleasant odor is impaired
TO the carbide. The calcium carbide used
in the manufacture of the acetelyne is
for the most part imported from the
United States and Switzerland. but several
manufactures are reported in the course
of erection in the neighborhood of Lourdes
(Hautes Pyrenees).
An interesting piece of apparatus has
recently been patented by firm of VI
emma manufacturers to be used for the
purpose of rescue in coal mines 1t con-
sists of an India rubber cloth receptacle
made in the form of a collar and closely
surrounding the Wearer's neck, which
serves as breathing bag and contains a
supply of quick-lime for absorbing car
bOnic acid and water VapOr A mask is
worn over the face tightly enclosing it,
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container, so that man possessed of this
apparatus can remain in a place which
is filed with irrespirable gases.
1t seems impossible to build too
many flats in New York" said real es-
tate man, according to the New York
Commercial acres of them have been
going up for years, and yet they are filed
with tenants about as fast as they are
finished. But the business of building
skyscrapers is being overdone. There is
no doubt about that. Only a few of the
tall buildings are paying anything like a
fair rate of interest. 1 know of several
that are not earning one per cent on the
investment. Strangely enough, the best
paying real estate on Manhattan Island is
the East Side tenement property Some
of the most wretched tenements Yield the
biggest returns. This may suggest that
the poor are ground down in the wav of
rents. forced by hard landlords to nav
more in proportion than the rich Be this
as it may the tenement houses are earn
ing the largest interest for their owners"
Col Dulier who says he is the in
ventor of the khaki uniform, is a native
of Belgium, and has lived in England
for the last twenty years. He served in
the English army in Egypt in 1879 - |
he says, Il was attached TO the British
cavalry staff in Egypt. Ii was while
holding this position that l invented
khaki. Necessity was the mother of this
as it has been of all inventions. I was
robbed of all my uniforms. and I cast
about in despair for a substitute. Good |
luck would have it that came across the
very material of which this coat here is |
made. 1t is, as you will see, kind Of |
whipcord, and though il is not exactly |
the same color as the stuff worn by our |
troops. 1t is, to my mind, even better in |
that respect. being more nearly the color |
OF African soil. This stuff 1 gave to a |
little Italian tailor to make into a uniform |
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