The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OARAA Az aSOS lldS D6Gn lduBnlHS
at locksmiths, but he may now put in a
little while smiling at grocery en-
ployes. Some time ago big firm of
grocery dealers in Liverpool forbade
any OF their employees marrying with
out first asking and obtaining the
firms consent. The penalty for Vio-
lation of this rule was dismissal. The
giving out of the order was also made
the occasion of a Sermonette on i'm
proVident marriages calculated to
awaken anxious thought. When the
news got abroad, however, of the firms
cruel action, whether or not the whole
world loves lover, a particular section
of Liverpool showed it's fondness for
him and Immediately began a boycott
of the offending establishment. This
measure on the part of their customers
soon brought the unsentimental firm
to it's senses and the antiwedding
ukase was soon rescinded, an event
celebrated by several of the clerks at
once taking an option on the services
of their favorite parson.
Musical pitch has a curious ten
dency to creep up, says writer in
Pearson's 1t is said that Bach's music
sounds much differently now from what
1t Gid when Bach wrote it, because the
dIe HOW pllCnCQ AihS54ACl-
In 1882 it was found that the pitch of
high A at the Vienna Court Opera had
orept from the prescribed ABS double
vibrations a sec6hd TO 4f3, and in 1885
this number had further increased to.
$50. Accordingly, a musical conference
was held. and a resolution was taken
to re-establish the old pitch of ABS vi
brations per second. Upon this an
no0ncement the Refchsanstalt, the I'm
perial Physical and Technical Institute
Of Germany set up standard instru-
ments, and has since tested and cor
rected many hundreds of tuning forks,
shortening them if they are too high.
All the military orchestras of Germany
are pitched alike, and the Reichsan-
stalt keeps the tuning forks correct.
And this solicitous care of the govern
ment in preserving standards is one
reason why the world now goes to
Germany in musical matters.
The utilization of the metals in the
thousands of tons of tin cans thrown
annually into the rubbish heap has
long been a dream of the metallurgist.
Not only is it desirable to save the tin
coating, but this must be done in such
a way that the iron plate that it COW
ers is available for soldering, hammer
ing and all the ordinary metallurgical
processes. The Lambotte method, used
in Brussels, changes the tin, by the
action of chemicals, into a Chord,
whence the metal is recovered as If
from an ore. By a new process the tin
coating is attacked by a mixture of
nitrate and sulphate of soda, into
bath of which the cans are plunged,
being afterward heated to assist the
chemical action. The chemicals do not
attack the iron. so it can be utilized
as if ii had never been timed. Another
process still destroys the iron, but has
the advantage of bringing the tin into
the metallic state without any supple
mentary smelling. The old tinplate is
treated with sulphate of copper. This
throws down its copper in the metallic
state and forms sulphate of tin, but as
soon as the iron is laid bare the tickle
acid drops it's tin, also in the
metallic state. and seizes on
the iron, Transforming it into sui
phate of iron. BY one or another of
these processes the tin from any old
scrap heap may be obtained as the
pure metal, in a commercially valuable
form.
Nothing contributes more to the
highest success than the formation of
a habit of enjoying things, says Sue
cess. Whatever your calling in life may
be, whatever misfortunes or harships
may come to you, make up your mind
resolutely that, come what may, you
will get the most possible real enjoy
ment out of every day; that you will
increase your capacity for enjoying
life, by trying to find the sunny side of
every experience of the day. Reso-
lutely determine that you will see the
humorous side of things. No matter
how hard or unyielding your environ
ment may seem to be, there is a sunny
side if you only see it. The fnirth-pro-
voking faculty, even under trying cir
mstances, is worth more to young
man or woman starting out in life than
a fortune without it. Make up your
mind that you will be an optimist, that
there shall be nothing of the pessimist
about you, that you will carry your
own sunshine wherever you go. There
is longevity in the sunny soul that
eases our jolts and makes our sides
shake with laughter. There is WON
derful medicinal effect in good cheer
Good news and glad tidings have a
magic effect even upon invalids. We
often see a whole store or factory or
home transformed by one sunny soul
On the other hand, we have seen them
blighted and made dark by a. gloomy
morose, fault-finding person.
In SOllnSen, the OHSlllelu VI 0rl
many, an individual was declared the
other day to have committed mis-
demeanor for having walked bare
footed through the STREETS, wearing
a top hat, says the London Telegraph.
A party of wine friends made a bet
that one of them, Rudolf Beck, would
not walk a certain distance through
the town in this eccentric guise. Herr
Beck, in carrying out his plan, so edi-
fed the youthful population that they
assembled in crowds around him, and
followed him, cheering and screaming,
until he had finished his promenade.
The police. not being of a humorous
turn OF mind objected, charged him
with a misdemeanor. and sent him
mandate calling upon him to pay a
fine of 30s. This Beck refused to do, de-
claring that Germany was a free
country. and that If the proletariat
were allowed to dispense with boots
and shoes and stockings he could act
likewise So the case had to come be-
fore the Sheriff's Court. and the mon
of the law acquitted him forthwith
and without the slightest hesitation
The Public Prosecutor, however, ap-
pealed to the Criminal Court. and the
case was tried before a bench of five
Judges" The bench came to the de-
cision that Herr Beck had disturbed
order in the public thoroughfares, had
excited considerable sensation, and
had annoyed the public" so he was
condemned to pay fine Of los and