The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-25
ITEMS of INTEREST.


reformation, but actually harmful TO
the prisoners.
When a native lady enters a Japa-
nese railway Carriage she slips her feet
from her tiny shoes. stands upon the
seat, and then sits demurtely with her
feet doubled beneath her A moment
later she lights cigarette or her little
pipe, which holds just tobacco enough
TO produce two good whiffs of
smoke.
To preserve the features of the
dead it is proposed by a Russian to
embalm corpses by casting around
them a solid mass of glass. The in
Ventor of this process hopes that some
day we will have large museum filled
with the perfectly preserved bodies of
the great men of their time for future
generations to gaze upon.
The solid silver casket presented
in 1889 by the city of Edinburgh to
Charles Stewart Parnell. which was
recently found exposed for sale in the
window of a London pawnshop, has
been purchased for $3.50 by a Mr.. Wal
she, of the Irish Club, High Holborn,
who intends to present it to some
representative Irish institution.
The steam turbine principle has
been adapted to a centrifugal high
pressure pump. The action is revers-
ed, however, the water entering at
what would be the exhaust end, grad
ually accelerating as it passes
through the several fixed and NOV
able Vanes, until it acquires a high
velocity at what would ordinarily be
the outlet end.
The savage tribes in the interior of
Brazil are exceedingly fond of roast
monkey. Humboldt estimated that one
small tribe of 200 Indians consumed
over 1,2OO monkeys during a year. 1t
is said that until recently monkey
meat was for sale in the butcher shops
of Rio Janeiro. Mr.. Wallace, when in
the Amazon region, had a monkey cut
up and fried for breakfast. The flesh
somewhat resembled rabbit in flavor,
and had no unpleasant or peculiar
taste.
For many years the old deposits of
Trinidad have attracted attention, but
until recently explorations have been
confined to the surface. Now three
or four borings of considerable depth
have been made and an attempt is
being made to place the project on a
commercial basis. Oil of first rate
Audl4lJ AldS Deeu lOullQ, ana II is SdlQ
to contain much larger portion of
naphtha than the oils found exposed
on the surface. A Canadian syndicate
is now working this property.
The up-to-date song of the shirt
lasts just six and one-half minutes,
according to factory inspector out in
Chicago for whose edification the fore
man of shirt factory started a piece
of cloth IN I1a :
come out ready for a customers back
before the second hand on a watch
had revolVed seven times. In this
time seven girls had contributed their
efforts to the finished product. One
machine in this shops makes $500
buttonholes day, or tWenty-eight in
a minute, and in a ten-hour day a
man can cut 250 dozen shirts.
The Leicester Hosiery Trade Jour-
nal contains an account of an enter
prise in Algeria to manufacture nat
ural soap on a large scale from a tree
known as "Sapindus Utilis." This
plant bears a fruit of about the size
of a horse chestnut, smooth and round
The color varies from a yellowish green
to brown. The inner part is of dark
color and has an oily kernel. The
tree bears fruit in it's sixth year and
yields from 55 to 220 pounds of fruit,
which can easily be harvested in the
fall. By using water or alcohol the
sapOnaceous ingredient of the fruit is
extracted. The cost of production is
said to be small and the soap possesses
no alkaline qualities.
AT Bingham, Utah, recently, Adloph
lessen and Hugh Alfred, surveyors,
were accidentally eletrocuted. They
were running a line for a placer craim
on the hillside above Bingham canon.
Nearly at right angles to the line were
strung the wires of the Telluride Pow
er Company, which supply the town of
Bingham with light and power At
the time of the accident lessen was
standing on the hillside, his feet be-
ing about on level with the wire. ALL
red was below the WIRE his head be-
ing lower than Jessens feet. The
steel tape was stretched on the ground
between them. 1t became fastened in
clump of bushes near the wire and
in attmpting to loosen the tape Jes-
sen gave it a jerk. Instantly the tape
rose from the bushes, and came in
contact with the electric power wire.
There was a bright flash at the point
of contact, the two mems bodies form
ing short circuit. lessen received a
sufficient amount of the 5000 voltage
to cause instant death. although he
upon wet ground, received the majority
of the voltage.
"A dispatch from Madison N. j.,
says: A tale of an albino robin comes
from Chatham, and only the fact that
citizens of known veracity have seen
the bird saves the story from being
stamped as myth. The robin made
its home in Chatham in the spring of
1903, and that is cited as a vindication
of the veracious residents. because
persons of alcoholic imaginations do
not generally see white robins two sea-
sons in succession. AS a general rule.
they are booked to see two camels
crossing yellow bridges the second
season. The albino is said to have
been ostracised by all the self-respect-
ing robin redbreasts, and lives with
the vulgar, low-down swamp robins.
1t shuns human beings, and generally
breakfasts on the golf links near the
ninth hole about o'clock and at dusk
makes for the woods on the Fuller
property. The bird resembles the or
binary robin in size and form, but in
stead of the red breast it has a broad
dash of white, while it's wings and
head are covered with feathers fiecked
with the same color in abundance. 1t
is said by those who are versed in
bird lore that this is what has made
It parah among its kind and forced
it to live practically alone.
The oil output in the Kern River
fields of California has so overlapsed
the consumption that 1t has been