The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-1Here Will De over 1,UOO exhibitors at
the Paris Exposition and the United States
Is in the first rank of the exhibitors. The
display will be strictly representative and
will show in an adequate manner the ex-
cellence of our productions. In 1873 we
had less than a seventh as many exhib-
| itors.
An agricultural expert ventures to
prophesy that before the twentieth CEN
fury reaches middle age farming in Eng
land viii be mostly carried on by syndi-
Gates. His conclusion is that the labor
ers dislike to the soil is rooted and per-
manent and that the only way to get on
will be by cultivating large areas and
making free use of machinery.
"A Boston cemetery company has decid-
ed to exclude automobiles from it's bury
ing ground lest the horseless vehicles
should cause runaways, which might ere
ate havoc among the tombs stones and mon
uments. There are many costly monu-
ents in the cemetery, and as these are in
sured by the company a runaway accident
might result in a serious financial loss.
In the laundry of an insane asylum
at Pontiac, Mich, electric irons instead
of gas irons have proved to be peculiarly
adapted for insane asylum service where
most of the work is done by the patients.
thing on fire with the irons, and as the
irons are kept at an even temperature,
they do not require the exercise of judg-
ment in changing them.
Electricity is employed for guard duty
in the Cincinnati geological garden. A
fence of fine wire mesh about eight feet
high surrounds an enclosure in which
there are a number of fine game birds.
1t was found that rats, cats, etc, climb
ed over this, so that two copper wires
were stretched all around the top of the
fence about an inch and a half above
1t and some distance apart. A switchboard
was put on the side of an attendants
house and at dark the Waterman turns
on the electric light wires. The silent
Waterman accomplishes remarkable re-
suits in killing predatory animals.
1t has recently been ascertained in Ger
many that Illuminating gas of a low can
de-power when used with incandescent
burners, will give extremely good light,
and in some cases even better than rich
er gas. So extensive is the use of the in
| candescent NANTES that in certain cities,
such as Magdeburg, it has been proposed
to gradually reduce the candle power OF
the gas from IA, the present value to 10,
and then to s. AS the poorer gas con-
tains a considerable amount of hydrogen,
it is quite as useful for this purpose, and
as there have been devised recently i'm
proved methods for making water gas,
which is particularly rich in this sub
| stance, it is believed that the cost of gas
can be considerably cheapened.
Concerning titles, it is said that the
kaiser, not content with the extraordi-
nary number already in existence in his
| dominions, has just created a new one,
namely that of Doctor Engineer which
f- forl,n 60. ~,
graduates of the three Prussian royal
polytechnic academies. Prince Henry the
sailor brother of the Kaiser, is the first
| person to receive the title of doctor en-
gineer," and his consort, therefore, be-
| comes, ipso facto, Frau Doctorin Ingen-
ieur," wives of German dignitaries inva-
| riably sharing the titles of their hus-
bands, no matter whether official, judic-
| ial or professional. The wife of a post
| master, for instance, will be a frau post
meisterin," while the wife of justice will
be addressed as Mrs. Judge"
The allegation that ancient Egyptians
tempered copper and bronze TO carry a
razor edge is not borne out by investiga-
| ton, says the American Manufactures
| Thomas Harper of Bellevue Pa, chal-
lnges any one to produce a pieces of me-
| tai tempered by the ancents that cannot be
more than duplicated by any metal work
|
dreds of specimens alleged to have been
| tempered to the degree that steel is tenn
pered he failed to find any, nor had he
| discovered any one who had seen such
| work, and the fable which has been inn
| pHcity believed for centuries is being shat
| tered in the light of modern research. This
is not the only story believed for centu-
ries tending TO belittle the man of to-day,
| to make him the inferior of his fo-efathefs
which failed under the searchlig ht of in
| quiry and science. The ancients were
| children in mechanical knowledge as COM
pared to the people of to-day, and If there
| was a demand for any particular building
or piece of work such as was produced by
the ancients, it could be duplicated and
| improved on by the skilled artisans of the
nineteenth century.
| "A great sensation has been created at
Munich by the discovery that at the last
court ball several ladies belonging to the
| half world had managed to obtain adj
| mission, says a correspondent. Two of the
| women in question were recognized while
the entertainment was in progress, and
not only quietly expelled, but also placed
under arrest until it had been ascertained
that they had obtained their cards of ,ad-
mission by purchase. This led to an in
| vestigation during the course of which
| the fact was brought to light that in a
| number of cases where the mobiles and Of
| ficials invited were unable to obey the
royal commands the cards of invitation
were purloined by their servants. who
subsequently sold them to the highest bid
! Ger. In this way all sorts of people have
| obtained admission to court bells who
had certainly no business to be there. The
| fact that they should have escaped de-
| lection by the officials and dgnitaries of
the royal household was due partly to the
! great crowd of guests at these entertain
| to he afv ,o-
that the numerous members of the royal
family of Bavaria are in the habit of OBJ
tanning blank cards of invitation for their
friends, while the cards of Invitation for
the officers of the various regiments of
the guard are likewise sent to the colo
nels of these corps in blank.
One of the results of the war in South
Africa is a renewal of the old discussion
as to the exact status I'm time of war of