The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

house, 1870 feet above sea level, and put out the
! light When they tell a yarn in Oregon they
| tell 1t for all they are worth.
DETROIT has organized and had incorporated
a club with the express purpose of manufac-
turing Presidential boom for Gen. R. A. AL
| gier. Next summer these numerous Presiden-
! tial booms-a large and varied assortment OF
| them-are going to look as if they had come
| into contact with club.
FRANK PRATHER, of Butler county, Nebraska,
who has been deserted by his wife, inserted the
regulation advertisement, beginning, Whereas,
Ida, my wife, has left my bed and board, etc, "
and then appended to it the following: Il am
| the third man she has tried to live with, ana
this is the second time she has left me- The
best trait that Ida seems to have is an itching
| to leave.
Mr.. BAKER, of Embry, Kas.. sent word to his
doctor one night that Mrs. Baker had severe
! attack of cholera-morbus, and he wanted him
| to come out at once to relieve her. An hour or
! two later the doctor relieved her OF nine
pound baby. much to her surprise and that OF
| her husband neither of whom had any idea,
they said, that such an event was about to
| happen.
The imperial crown of all the Russias is the
finest ever worn by sovereign. 1t is in the
form of a Bishops mitre and carries on its
| crest a cross composed of five of the most beau
| titul diamonds ever cut supporting the largest
| ruby in the world, Eleven great diamonds in
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| a crown support this cross and ruby, and on
either side is hoop of thirty eight pearls
| han which there are no handsome known.
THE enchanted rock, in the San Saba Texas
valley, rises 300 feet from the plain, and can be
! seen for distance of several miles. In the
| moonlight it presents a striking resemblance to
an immense castle with its many windows
| brilliantly lighted, this effect being caused by
| the reflection of the moons rays from numer-
| GUS polished surfaces of quartz and pyT1tes OF
| copper The Comanches believe it to be one of
the abodes of the Great Spirit, and regard it
| with much reverence.
| Fort SMITH, ARK, has very muddy streets
but the mud is of the nutritious kind. Says the
| Tribune of that place: I'VE saw little darkey
yesterday in front of our office deliberately take
! a handful of fresh mud from the street and eat
| il with as much gllsto though it were candy
| He came originally from the clay-eating and
| and turpentine district of South Carolina, and
| said Yes, boss, this is just as good as de clay
we ulster eat in old Carolina Fort Smith beats
| the world in natural resources, and can even
| furnish food to those who like it from the very
mud in her streets.
| HUMAN EXPERIENCE does not cover a single
case of dead mans ordering twenty five cents
worth of sauerkraut delivered to his widow
! Were it otherwise young Bohemian girl in
| Cedar Rapids, Ia, might not have gotten into
| trouble. She started down of the principal
| residence streets delivering a few cents worth
| of the luscious decayed cabbage at each house.
telling the ladies that their husbands had or
| dered it, and that the charge would be only a
quarter. The girl did quite well until she struck
| the widow. Now she is under arrest for OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses
THE distinction of having the largest grave in
the world, if we except those buried at sea, be-
! longs to dead PinkneYville Ill, man. Some
| years ago the deceased and his sons were ope-
| rating coal mine over there. One day the old
man went into the pit alone to inspect it,
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| of the mine caved in and the waters of
subterranean stream flooded the mine which
| is about ten acres in extent. 1t was of course
| impossible to recover the body of the drowned
miner, so his sons simply closed up the shaft
| and erected the headStone sacred to their
| fathers memory.
| A BOON has come to the counting couples of
| Chattanooga, Tenn The hydrants of the town
| have suddenly become so many veritable soda
| fountains and the young men can now treat
| their sweethearts without mourning any ex-
| pense at all. A few days ago the water as it
| came from the hydrants was noticed to be
| almost milk white, effervescent and opaque.
| People afraid to drink it, thinking it con
| tanned some poisonous substance A chemical
| examination was made and revealed the fact
| that the water was charged heavily with car
bonc acid gas, and that instead of being iniu-
riOus to the system, 1t was healthful rather
| than otherwise.
THE eucalyptus or rubber tree of Australia
has been introduced into California, where it
thrives and grows very rapidly. There are sew
eral varieties of this tree one of which. the eu-
/ calyptus glObulus, reaches in Western Australia
/ the enormous height of 800 feet The euca-
| lyptus callosa sometimes attains the height of
| 400 feet. These, however are both eclipsed by
4 a fallen giant in Victoria. eucalyptus amygda-
| lima, which measures 4S0 feet. In contradis-
| tinction to these monsters is the dwarf eucalyp-
tus called the malice small tree only fifteen
| or twenty feet high The stems and branches
| often are very slender and the foliage close and
| overhanging. AS it grows in immense forests it
| becomes very serious matter to Lose ones way
| among the malice scrub and travellers fate
would be somewhat precarious in such a case.
THERE is a Philadelphia firm, dealing in
notions, which has received order which it
cannot fill. A woman who keeps a small shop
| in a New Jersey town came in the other day, in
troduced herself to a salesman and asked the
| prices of umbrellas She went away without
purchasing and the next morning the clerk
| who waited upon her received a letter reading
as follows: Respected Gentleman-I did not
! wish to buy any umbrellas from you when l
| asked for your address. l know you are gen
| tleman. and am going to ask favor of you,
| i. e., if you iii your travels come across an
| elderly gentleman with means enough to keen
| a wife, a lady, sincerely beg of you to remem-
| Der me- am of a good family, and can give
! very best reference, and would like to marry a
gentleman. Now, l am sure you will regard
| this private matter, and that it will never go
| any farther. l will repay you well for all your
| trouble" This was signed by the lady, and a
| postscript was added, stating that she was "a
| lone widow" The head of the firm wrote to the
widow informing her that he didn't keep them
| in stock" but would fill the order If possible
CoTToN-sEED OIL enters even more largely into
the adulteration of olive oil than of lard, of
which, as now put upon the market it consti-
tutes fully 40 per cent. according to Mr. Fair
banks recent testimony. The refining of cotton
seed oil is now carried to great perfection, and so
clear is the color thus insured that in using il
for the adulter ion of olive oil there is no long
er any reddish tint to indicate its presence.
which can only be proved by chemical ANALYSIS
The extent of this admixture is sometimes found
| to reach and even exceed IS per cent One mode
of readily testing for this adulteration
| is by the use of nitric protoxide of
mercury, the yellow simple basic salt of
| this chemical combination being en-
| ployed. About one-seventh to one-sixtb of
an ounce of this is dissolved in cylindrical test
glass in about one sixth to one-fifth of an ounce
| of nitric acid. On this solution the oil to be
tested is poured in such quantity that the test
glass is about two thirds full; the two fluids are
| then shaken together for about five seconds
| the change in color being at once noticed
! Treated in this solution cotton seed oil becomes
dark brown or almost black, but after short
| time the solution becomes colorless and clear
| Pure olive oil has a greenish or light yellow
| tinge while the solution under the layer of oil
| assumes dark red or brown color. Mixed with
| so per cent of cotton seed oil the olive oil as
sumes in this process brick red to brownish
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