The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-08
ITEMS or INTEREST.

"A Missouri paper. driven to despera-
ton. offers cash for the remains of cam
paign poets, but stipulates that certif-
Gates must accompany all consignments
showing that death was not due TO nat
Cral causes.
The largest balloon ever constructed,
and capable of lifting over six TONS viii
asce nd from Berlin shortly to make mete-
geological observations. 1t will be sup
Piled with provisions for several weeks
and with two beds.
Proximity to a fire engine house does
not insure one against Danger from flames.
A woman in Chicago recently moved near
a west side engine house, and the very
next day her gasoline stove blew up and
set fire to the house, which burned to the
ground.
TO prevent the destruction of the asst
areas of forest land in the northern part
of Ontario the Canadian government has
issued a card of instruction to campers,
telling how and where to build fires and
how to prevent damage, an ounce of pre-
vention being apparently properly va,ued
in that region.
The mania for riding on railway trains
is now known as chuchuitis. A physician
in Chicago has invented a word to efes-
cribe a patient whose mania is riding
upon the trolley cars He calls him troll
lac, which is very expressive term. The
doctor says that trolleyitis is becoming
very prevalent in Chicago.
1T is not generally known, but the
name Kearsarge, applied to the mountain
and the warship. is not of Indian origin
at all. An officer of the photographic Of
flee says that 1t is combination of let
tiers formed from the yankee name Heze-
kiah Sargent, an old farmer. who livei
near the New England peak.
Pearl fishing is said TO be falling Off
In Ceylon, short time ago, it was found
that immense banks of oysters had abso-
lutely disappeared, and now at Mergui,
across the sea from Madras, the Mergui
pearl fishing is reported 10 be declining,
because returns in the shape of valua BILE
pearls are decreasing, while, on the other
hand, the cost of pearling is greater than
il was.
The pay of the Chinese soldier indi-
Gates that he must be an even more eco
nomical person than the New Zealand
bushman who was able to live on "a los
tertained). The Chinese private, at e. IS
per annum, is extremely inexpensive COM
pared with the Englishman at Ell, the
Russian at f4S and she Italian-the cheap
est of European soldiers-at f4l.
News of rich turquoise find comes
from Cerrillos, N. NJ. The strike was
made in the mines of the American Tur-
quoise Company al a depth of 300 feet.
ha
ever found, as well as possessing the
greatest purity, with the most beautiful
tintings. Most of them will easily polish
to the size of small hens eggs, which
easily ranks them as the largest in the
world.
Needles are made by machinery. The
piece of mechanism by which the needle is
manufactured takes the rough steel wire,
cuts it into proper lengths. files the point.
fiattens the head, pierces the eye, then
sharpens the tiny instrument and gives II
that polish familiar to the purchaser.
There is also a machine by which needles
are counted and placed in the papers in
which they are Sold these being after
ward folded by the same CONTINUANCE.
IF a spray of liquid air is applied
to the skin." says Omega 1.-The part at
once becomes anemic and perfectly color
less. If the application is made only
for few seconds, the color as quickly
returns and the skin is congeEted for
some minutes thereafter. Within much
less than a minutes time, by means of a
spray, the part is frozen as hard as ice,
but, strange to say, in a few minutes cir
culation returns without injury to the
tissue. providing the part is not in the end
of some extremity. There is no pain in
the application excepting at che very be-
ginning; but there is a slight burning IT
tingling II also completely anesthetfzes
the part to which it is applied without
freezing it solid.''
The acceptance by DR.. Pritchett,
| superintendent of the Coast Survey, OF
the presidency of the Massachusetts, In
| stitute OF Technology, is an instance, we
are reminded by the Popular Science
| Monthly, of 'the fact that the only pro-
motion possible to men of science or uni
versity professors is an executive posi-
| ton. The type of the German Gelehrte,
| still current in literature and on the stage.
| is not common in America. The modern
| methods of advancing science-the labora-
| tory, the observatory, the museum the
| expedition, with their complex equipment
| demand administrative ability of high
order. Science has been able to supply
pttSldeiltS, not only 10 the great technl-
| cal schools, but also to Harvard Johns
| Hopkins, Stanford and other universe
| ties. Still, II is unfortunate that the man
| OF science can not look forward TO pro-
| motion in the direction of his own work -
David Beswick, formerly of Philadel-
| phia, has just returned from Tien-Tsin.
| where he went some time ago to set up a
WOODEN mill at the invitation of a Chinese
! mandarin. II greatly regret the troubles
that have arisen" he says, ''for l saw a
| bright futrue there for American capital
and skilled labor. especially mechanical
| and civil engineers. Tien Tsin, with mills
would become great manufacturing cen.
| ter because from there are shipped vast
| quantities of wool, much of il to this CITY
| for making carpets. At present ii is one
of the main shipping ports of China, somt
| of it's products besides wool being hides
| peanuts br'stles, and furs of all kinds
| found the natives to be a very Intelligent
| people and splendid imitators. The eli
| mate is cold and healthy, well suited tC
| Americans Living is very cheap Duck
| wild boers, deer. pheasants-in fact al
| game-is the cheapest kind of food. whilt
| mutton, beef and canned goods bring high
| prices. There are no factories north o,
| Shanghai except the one / ran. do moi
| yet know wine Their to go back. The cause.
| OF the uprising are so complicated that No
one can define the real origin of the
| trouble"