The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the society CneInlCdl INDUSTRY
vice president of the Royal Institution,
the Davy-Faraday Laboratory which
he founded and endowed.
Pupils of the public schools in most
large cities of France receive their noon
day meal free says the New York Tri-
bune, the expense being met by the mu-
alcipality or by private generosity, par
ents who can afford it contributing small
sums toward its maintenance. Not until
recently, however, has any provision been
made for country children who live at
distance from the school. But M. Mo-
reau, school inspector of the arondisse-
ment of Confolens, has originated a plan
which is said to be proving most salts
factory. Each pupils brings every morn
ing a handful of vegetables, and these are
all washed and prepared by the older
pupils, who take the duty in turn. They
are then put into a kettle with water
and a piece of pork, and while the les
sons are being prepared and recited the
cooking is going on. At the luncheon each
pupil has bowl of hot, savory nourish-
ing soup.
Preliminary plans for the proposed
| Carnegie Technical School, in Pittsburg,
| have been made. They provide for six
| large buildings grouped around a central
courtyard. The course of instruction in
the school will extend through nine years.
| The first four years will be devoted to
preparatory work, and the second four to
the regular collegiate work of the engi-
neering schools. The ninth year will be
| the postgraduate course, which all fin
| ished engineers desire to take before they
| enter practical business. The buildings
were planned with this long and thorough
| course in view, and the idea was the re-
suit of long study of the conditions and
hnip tn lNaef al eaIoo o1c
of the old world. Foundries have been
! provided for in some of the smaller build
| ings, carpenter shops, machine shops,
! chemical Laboratories and every facility
for the practical application of the theory
! advanced in the sc'hoolrooms. Facilities
are 40 be offered for obtaining the mastery
of any chosen trade or the grouping of
| all for thorough training of engineering
| as a science. All of this is to be coupled
with practice.
To the various sorts of glasses de-
signed for drivers use have now been
added automobile glasses, especially de-
| signed for the use of the automobile driv-
er, says the New York Sun. These are
not worn in the city, where with the re-
| strictions on the speed of automobiles
| they are not needed; but they are worn
| in the country, where the automobilist
| unshackles the machine and let's 1t go at
| forty or fifty miles an hour more or less
| Going at that speed his eyes need pro-
lection; and this is afforded by the au-
| tomobile glasses. These glasses are fitted
with very large shell-shaped or convex
| ed glasses, the size and the shape giving
a large field of vision. Attached to the
frame is mask that projects high
! enough above the glasses TO GOV er the
| forehead of the wearer, up under the
| peak of the cap, and that extends below
the glasses and out at the \sides along
the spectacle bows, sufficiently to cover
the entire fall, front and sides For win
1 ter wear when some warmth in it
! would be desirable, the mask is made of
suede leather, lined with silk; for sum-
mer use these glasses are made with the
| mask of unlined silk, either of the gray
suede color or of black. Automobile
| glasses are a French notion, and origi-
nally all those sold here were imported
from France. Now they are made here
Lots of them are sold. They cost. accord
ing to the material the mask is made Of
from 81. so to So a pair.
Mr.. Elson. writing of Chinese vocal
music, says, according to the Musical
Record, that the voice in China is trained
to much f1exibility by the exigencies of
the language. The Chinese is in one sense
the most musical of languages, as a word
|
tons according to the pitch or infection
with which it is pronounced. A spoken
word in the Chinese language has differ
ent meaning according to the infection
with which IL is pronounced The number
of words is small, the ideas that may be
conveyed by them are many. Thus for
eigners are led into endless complications
and MISUNDERSTANDING; for example, the
word tchu, pronounced clearly with the
vowel of medium length means INA
but by extending the vowel a triie 1t
signifies hog it also means column"
and cookery" The syllable "po' has
eleven different meanings-"glass," boil"
Captive" prepare, and so forth, each
of which must be pronounced with diff
ferent pitch and infection. Among the
original words are some which decidedly
are taken from nature, such as "tchung,"
bell "miau," cat" but these are very
few. Some authors have endeavored to
show from these facts that the Chinese
is in ALI respects a musical language; but
this can hardly be conceded, for the in
Elections spoken of are so slight as to es-
cape the European ear which surely
would not be the case If they were really
musical notes. 1t is we'll known that Fa-
Their Periere, in the last century, was able
to note down at first hearing and initiate
any Chinese song
Pope. and his mastery of the game is said
to be complete. says the New York
Press. A Roman priest. Father Guila,
has the honor of being his usual fellow
player. and he has fulfilled this high
function for thirty-fve years, or since
long before Vicenzo Gioacchino Pecci be-
came Leo Kill When the Cardinal
mounted the pontihcal throne Father
Guila was in Florence The new Pope
called him to Rome and gave him his
lodging in the palace of the Vatican. His
skill at chess is marvellous; but he is
credited with a strangely irascible tenn
per. At times when the contest is going
against him he works himself into a ter
rible passion. On these occasions the
Pope stops the game and delivers TO
Father Guila a neat little discourse in
praise of Christian renunciation and the
conquest of self. The most expensive
chair in existence belongs to the Pope.
II is made Of solid silver and cost $4,000
An American banker presented IL to the
Pontiff, and many persons believe he was
no other than our late fellow-citizen, Eu-
gene Kelly. BY the way speaking of the
Pope, did you know that large staff OF
women is employed at the Vatican for
the sole purpose Of keeping in perfect con-
dition the wardrobe OF His Holiness? No
spot or stain may dshgure the garments