The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


An engraving company of New York
issues a sample of miniature engraving
that is rather an interesting piece of
work, says the jewelers. Review. 1t is
duplication of the Lords Prayer from
larger design and is engraved on a pearl
button on a space Observation-Disclosures of
an inch wide. In the composition there
are fifteen lines. There are twenty-four
letter spaces, making each letter approx
mately ten one-thousandths of an inch
high and five one-thousandths of an inch
wide. Notwithstanding the slallneSs of
the letters, they are perfectly and ac-
curately formed as the letters of the large
original, and it is even possible for per-
son of keen sight to read the composition
without the aid of a magnifying glass.
Mr.. Watson-Armstrong who has just
presented the Newcastle Infirmary with
100000, is the great-nephew and heir of
the world-famous inventor of the Arm
strong gun, says the London Sketch. The
late Lord Armstrong, who was justly in
cluded among the nations Grand Old
Men, for he was 81 years of age, had a
much-loved sister, Anne Armstrong. This
lady, who died very shortly after her
marriage to the late Sir William Watson,
in due course, became the father of Mr..
Watson-Armstrong, who since 1889 has
borne his grandfather's name. Mrs Wat
son-Armstrong, who is closely associated
with all her husbands good works, was
daughter of that famous soldier, Sir
John Adye. She is a clever and charming
woman, much loved on Tyneside, espe-
ciahy in the neighborhood of Cragside,
near Rothbury, a lovely place where
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Jokes about dressmakers' bills have
been threshed out by the comic journals
time out of mind, says the New York Sum-
but recent report of profits made in the
English newspapers by a well known Paris
| establishment, one though by no means
among the most famous, would seem in its
| Anaschar proportions to justify them ALL
To be sure, it is report to shareholders
and its publication is in the nature Of an
advertisement, but the figures given are
astonishing. The concern started mod
estly in Paris ten years ago, and the
| profits of the first year were s., $50; they
| jumped in the following four years to the
| following figures: $4,000, 5000, 1854, 600
S234,000. II was then thought best to
turn the establishment into stock COM
pany, with limited liability, capitalized at
S25Oo,0O0 The profits of the company for
| lile last IOuT years were $Zb4,U0U, SZS6,UUU,
1922, 900 and $4130 900; that is to say 81 800 900
net profits, or more than half the amount
of the nominal capital in four years. One
cause for the amount of business is, per-
haps, the practice of giving credit to Gus
toners, the books showing an indebted
ness to the company of $ST8, 600. There is
no doubt that the business is profitable,
and the bills proportionately high.
"A New York plumber was the victim
of a startling error the other day, says
the Philadelphia Record. Having been in
jured in the left side, he applied to a char
ity hospital and was tod that an oper
alton was imperative. He was placed un-
der the influence of an anesthetic, and
his side was opened and sewed up again.
When the bandages were removed he
found that the right Cor rather the wrong
side had been opened instead of the left.
The surgeons were dis,nayed and offered
to cut into him on the left side;f but he
declined The plumber brought suit
against the hospital authorities for SIS, 600,
but the court has decided that a claim
on account of negligence or inefficiency
cannot hold against charity hospital.
This ruling might prove to be a great
hardship to the poor who are compelled to
go to such institutions for surgical treat
ment. If the plumber did not pay for
pathy, since he confessed to an income of
5000 a year. The abuse of the free dis
| pensaries and clinics of New York by
| well-to-do persons has become a scandal,
| even a multi millionaire having been &C
cused of getting medical treatment free.
London during the past decade has in
creased in population by more than $780,
900 souls, but the increase has been by
no means evenly distributed over the
| twenty-nine metropolitan boroughs, says
the Pail Mall Gazette. Seven of these
have actually declined in population, one
| of them, Westminster, by more than 49,
600, the total decrease amounting to over
| 66,O0O Among these, naturally, one finds
| the city, which actually contains less
| than 1000 Inhabitants after business
| hours. If you look at the names of the
| boroughs where numbers have decreased,
! and compare them with those in which
the increase has been the largest-as, for
example, Westminster on the one side
| and Wandsworth on the other-you can
| not fail to perceive that the tendency of
| the currents of migration is uniformly
centrifugal, that the central districts of
| the metropolitan circle are losing their
| population, while those at the circumfer-
| ence are gaining. That, of course, is pre-
| cisely what might have been expected.
| The whole tendency of the age in Lon
| don is toward a state of things in which
| the central districts will be occupied by
| huge shops, warehouses, offices, public ed.
| ifices, and, in short by business rather
than residential buildings. Increased ia
| cilities of transit by cheap train and
| tram services tend to make the transition
| easier and more rapid from the old order
to the new. Time was when it was an
| innovation for the city merchant to live
| in the suburbs instead of over his office;
nowadays not only the master, but his
men too, come up to business and go
down of nights by the daily bread train,
and the caretaker alone, the Alexasder
| Selkirk of the twentieth century, remains
| monarch of all he surveys when Office
hours are over. The centrifugal force of
| modern conditions is, then, the fact that
strikes us in connection with London life
as revealed by these figures.
The London Lancet says: 1T seems
that sweets are made to glitter by means
OF splinters Of glass, so that the sweet
has the appearance of consisting of
sparkling crystal sugar. We have in our
laboratory at the time of writing some
specimens of even high-class confection-
cry, said to be of French make. which
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