The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

says. An accldeHtal discovery Oh E<iHler
McCroy promises to uevolutionize tool
manufacture throughout the world. For
years scientists and others have been en-
deavoring to discover "a process for tenn
peTing copper Recently Elmer McCroy,
a 17-year-old lad of Hallstead, while at
work in this vicinity, made the dfscov-
cry. How IL was done or what the pro-
cess is will not be told until such steps
have been taken as will Insure to MCCOY
the benefits of his discovery. Friends of
McCroy say that the government has
standing offer of 5000 for the man who
will furnish it with a successful formula
for hardening copper and Mccoy intends
to win this prize.
in producing certain delicate colors in
silk, chloride of Tin is used as NOR
daunt and it is said that unless great
care is taken a large proportion OF it re-
mains in the completed fabric. In the
case of stockings or any garment next the
skin the perspiration may dissolve the
tin, and it is then absorbed by the skin.
A case is reported from Vienna of a wo-
man who suffered from attacks of paraly-
sis in the lower extremities, with numb
ness, a sense of GOODNESS and peculiar
jerkiness of the legs in walking. She no
ticed that whenever these symptoms were
the worst her feet were colord yellow,
and it was found that this staining was
caused by light yellow silk stockings
which she wore. They were analysed and
considerable quantities of tin found. The
obvious moral of this, says the Hospital
is that ladies should not wear pretty silks
next their skin in hot weather unless
then can be sure they are not mordaunt-
ed with tin salts. ColorS which are fast
in relation to ordinary washing are fire.
quently readily soluble in perspiration.
The Ostasiatische Lloyd has collected
and translated from the native newspa-
pers some curious information as to the
life of the Chinese court al its new capital
in Sian. Over the main entrance of the
palace is a signboard bearing the words:
Temporary Palace" and all the rooms
in that building are lighted by European
safety lamps and candles. The Empress,
it appears, is dyspeptic and suffers from
insomnia, but the Emperor is described
as stronger and in better health than
he enjoyed in Pekin. During the first few
weeks after it's arrival at Sian the court 5
diet was restricted to ducks, poultry and
fish, but lately some special Chinese dell
cacies have been secured, such as birds
nests and sharks fms. The Emperor,
however, eats very little meat, but is ex-
tremely fond of cabbage. Some expla-
nation of the cause of the Empress dys-
pepsia may perhaps be found in the SEN
tence: THE Dowager Empress prefers
pastry The London Spectator, COM
menting upon this statement, remarks;
1T is an appalling picture, that of
sleepless and dyspeptic Messalina devour-
ing pastry by the light of patent petrol
cum lamp"
The Bay Counties Power Company has
recently completed high power transmits
sion line from its power houses on the
two branches of the Yuba river, in the
Sierra Nevada Mountains, to the shores
of San Francisco bay and the city of
Oakland, a distance of 140 miles In the
building of this line, along which a cur
rent of 50. 600 volts is to be sent, number
of unusual engineering difficulties had to
be overcome, among them the crossing
of the Straits of Carquinez, twenty miles
from Oakland a deep, swiftly moving
waterway. about $500 feet in width. II
was decided to make an aerial crossing,
a submarine cable necessitating lot OF
transforming machinery. Two steel tow
ers were erected, one on each side of the
straits, and four cables stretched between
them, which not only serve the purpose OF
suspension cables, but are also used as
electrical conductors. They are eacn
composed Of nineteen strands of galvan-
lied plow-steel wire, and have diameter
of seven-eights of an inch. Their elec-
trical conductivity is equal to that OF
No. copper wire. Owing to the con-
formation of the land it was necessary
10 place the towers some little distance
back from the water, so that the actual
distance between them is 44Z feet. max
ing. undoubtedly the longest span of the
kind in the world. The span between the
Brooklyn bridge towers is only 1900 feet.
1t is generally understood that the
practice of cigarette smoking by women Is
confined to two classes of the fair sex.
says New York Tobacco Leaf. One is
the lady Of wealth and luxury, whose po-
sition in society is so surely established
that she can, fguratively speaking, blow
her dainty clouds into the very faces or
her stiff backed critics without fear OF
losing caste-the other is composed OF the
disreputable class, who do not care Hip
what the world may say or think. But,
according to a dealer, who keeps store
away down town, there is third set of
female indulgers, and he claims that 1T
is growing rapidly in numbers. 1t might
be graded as the middle class, the work
ers-for it is made up of girl stenogrpah-
ers who are employed in the law and
business Offices in the lower part of the
town Most of the smokers in this grade
are surreptitious indulgers. These girls.
so far as my friend knows, are of good
repute, but their very position makes 1t
necessary for them to exercise circum-
spection. You see," he says, 1.-The girls
are afraid to buy in the neighborhood of
their homes, because they are too well
known. Again they dare not patronize
the Broadway stores for fear Of meeting
their employers or other men with whom
they come in contact in business circles.
They usually select a store on a side
street and one that is never crowded with
men. ave twenty or thirty regular girl
customers. and the funniest thing is that
each of them seems to think that she is
about the only girl who buys from me.
The typewriter girls. as a rule, smoke
Egyptian cigarettes-in fact, have only
two girl customers who content them
selves with the cheaper Virginia article.
A Milwaukee dispatch to the Chicago
Record Herald says Some Of the newly
married couples in the state have been
put in a flutter of excitement by the an
nouncement that the Legislature passed
a marriage law last winter which is not
being properly observed. The question
was brought up in Judge Halseys court
recently through a wedding which took
place there. The parties were Miss Clara
Fahrestock and Frank Braitsch They
came here from Wichita. Kan, supposing
there would be no trouble In getting mar
red under the laws of Wisconsin. But