The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| ed steam pumps on the Jordan and is
supplying churches all over Europe
with genuine Jordan water.
"A large Dublin manufacturer has
a room entirely furnished with Irish
peat. The carpets on the floor, tile
curtains at the windows and paper on
the wall are made from this substance.
1t is not whisky in the stomach
| that makes a man drunk, but its fumes
in the head, says Victor Smith in the
New York Press. Therefore, l have in
vented a new drink for burnt-out to-
pers, whose Innings have been so
charred that that happy tingling sem
sation is no more felt when fierce,
liquid balls are rolled under the belt.
One ounce of fine brandy, three ounces
| of pure water; mix; keep in an atom
izer, and when you feel in the humor
spray the nostrils, inhaling briskly SO
| as to dispense the active principle
throughout the right and left halves
| of the rhinencephalon. The instant
the diluted brandy reaches the Schnei-
dorian membrane the most hardened
| topper braces up, and when it strikes
the base of the cribiform plate of the
| ethmoid bone, which is the ground floor
of the brain cavity, he touches the
drunkards heaven. This invention
| IldhGS d DOIIl6 OIL brandy last ID
month, and preserves the stomach.
Patent applied for.
-Paguin, the leading man milliner of
| Paris, was a clerk on the bourse a
| few years ago, with no knowledge of
| dressmaking. He is a very handsome
man and when he met a pretty dress
maker who had a small shop he mar
| ried her. Gradually the two extended
/ flA.as. III sesl,,- H. /,
| are the joint autocrats of fashion,
standing easily at the head of all
| dressmakers in the French capital.
| Once thoroughly established in a prom
| inent way, the clever and ornamental
| young couple inaugurated a new re-
| gime. No naughty seclusion, no barred
| doors at the Maison Paquin. Madame
was met at the door by monsieur him
self, and to be met by Paquin was a
| treat. The most beautiful of Partisan
| elegantes and the homelest old dowa-
| ger received the same f1attering well
| come, the same tender interest. The
| charming woman, the handsome man.,
| both so deeply interested both so def
| erentials, both so intelligent. This was
a new experience and the Parisienne
| smiled and purred, bought more than
| she intended and came again.
in the United States steamers New
York and Brooklyn and H. M. S.
Blake and Blenheim a method of
| engine design is used by which the
| gain in economy is unquestionable,
/ says the Engineering Magazine. These
are all large vessels with engines from
| 900 to 10000 horse power, and they
were designed with two complete
| triple-expansion engines on each shaft,
| the idea being that at anything below
1,,1 H. - ~,
each shaft would be used, and this is
actually the practice in ordinary
cruising. Special objection to this type
! of engine was developed at the time
of the naval battle of Santiago. On
| both the New York and the Brooklyn
there was a comparatively simple cou-
| ping for connecting the two engine
| shafts, but it required about half an
| hour to perform the operation. During
| the blockade both the New York and
| the Brooklyn had been kept under half
| power, using only the after engines
| When CerVera'S fleet came out so IN
| expectedly, it was not deemed wise
| to lose half -an-hour in coupling up. so
| that it was possible to work the en-
| gines up to half power only. The poor
| work of the Spanish engineers rendered
| this lack of efficiency less important
| than it would nave been had the en-
emy's fleet been possessed of skilled en-
| gineers; but the lesson was learned
| and this, added to the other objections
| already mentioned, renders it unlikely
| that this type of engine will again be
| used.
! I'm the amount of product and the
revenue yielded the brewing business
| of England is not very different from
| that of the United States, though the
excess is on our side, says the New
| York Journal of Commerce. In 1901
| the production in the United States
| was 40517, 07S barrels, and in England
| 1921, $3.50 barrels, described as actual
and not standard The revenue in
| this country was $74956, 593, and in
England little under $70,000000. There
the tax per barrel was about $1.S7.
Here the tax, undeR the war revenue
act, was So, subject to a discount, re-
| duced last year to $1.60, and to be re-
stored soon to the old rate of 81. In
| England one brewery produced over
| 100000 standard barrels. Since 1888
the breweries producing over 10000 bar
rels have increased from POI to 346;
at the earlier date none produced over
| LOO 900; now three do. But the
breweries that produce between one
and ten thousand barrels decreased
| from 1892 to oil, and those producing
| under 1000 decreased from 1854 to
| 4,448 The largest of all the breweries
used no substitutes for malt, and the
| little breweries that produced under
| 1000 barrels only used GA per cent. of
| malt substitutes. But one brewery
whose output was 426,0O0 barrels used
substitutes, equal to S6.9 per cent. of
| the malt used, and all the breweries
! used substitutes amounting to 1871 per
| cent of the malt used. The substi-
| tutes were chiefly glucose and rice.
1t is one of the curiosities of he
redity, says the Chicago Evening Post,
| that while the children of young par
| ents are usually brighter than the chill
| dren of old parents, the children of old
| parents develop into the most intelli-
| gent men and women. A good illus
| tration of this is to compare the saw
| age races, which marry at very early
| age, with the white race, which is the
| latest in marrying Of all races. Teach
| ers among the negroes of the South, in
| the Philippines, in Polynesia and in
| Australia tell us that the dark-skinned
| children in their schools are brighter
| than the white children. yet we never
| look for great men among these races,
| and we would not find them if we did
| look. Many of the great men of the
world, like Aristotle, Bacon, Cuvier and
Franklin, have been sons of very old
men. When eminent men like King
David, the Catos of Rome, the elder
William Pitt and certain branches of
| the Dana, Lee and Livingston families
of America have sons late in life, the
eminence is continued to the next gem