The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-15
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1rezs;
PaosABLT he Oldest timber in the wor1.
w1l1h ms teen z155ec-sd to tls USE Of man, is
caz; found II the accent tempe 4 Egypt, in
connection With stone vock. -lc1 Is EcoFn T.
/ ce 81 less: fJJJ years Old. This, -ns only 40 d
tlsez in t. lc-iCn o: the tempe : il tae
| form OF t.@, holding the end ot D-e stone %
acJ-he- When ty5 oIocxs were laii in Place
/ an excavation about Al inca ep vas mad IN
each D.occ- ia winch a t.S. SHAPED x. an cour-
| 10 force any st.ue from is positiPn. Inc ti7s
APPEAR 70 have beea OF the tjmarIaz or ShlEtun
Wool, Of which the ARK was constructed
TEE Plant from which the Chinese and Japan
| csc obtain the tea IS called by Ootaaists Thea
| bebea- Il is a small evergreen tree or SHRUB,
closely allied % the camelia-indeed, one Of the
latter, called waTatah, IS also said TO furnish
| certain class OF tea The bush OF tie genuice
tea plant grows from three 70 six feet high,
bushy, branches numerous, l4afy. Tue young
shoots. finely 81 Ky. are evergreen The flowers
ara white and not unlike the myrtle, but longer
and usually two together; the sntheTg and
stigH ara yellow; il flower in August and Sep
rsIaoel n its native country Il was nrsC in
LrOllceQ INTO BrlLlsQ gardens IN HOS. Inc
black and green teas. as we obtain them, de-
pend for their color upon the process OF dry
ing. Very young leaves and shoots give the
finest tea
GES. J. A. WILLIAMSON Of Iowa, formerly
commissioner Of the land Office. has come into
e fortune in rather romantic way, according
TO the Washington correspondent OF the Troy
TINES. Some years ago, when counsel for the
Atlantic and Pacific railroad, be declined to
prosecute the bondsmen Of a man named
Casey. q contractor VINO had failed to come TO
time. He urged that Casey, whose honesty was
u1gueStlOned, Ue given a chance to retrieve
himself His plea was granted. and Casey
ultimately completed the contract and made
some money. y bich was afterward increased by
other prOfIsb Die contracts Casey has lust died.
and r,t Of gratitude I-ft his fortune said 10 b..
S510 Ql0, 70 Gen. williamson. The latter has
hunted up some relatives of Casey and gene-
0usiy provided for them. but a handsome
balance IS left 10 the legatee's credit.
DURING the past year encouraging progress
has been made IN the WORK Of causing the sub
stituti0n OF automatic couplers for the old link
aud-pin coupler on railroad trains It is est
mated that more than 800 employees are killed
every year Will. using the old cOuplers aud
that ten times as many are severely in iured
After thorough investi cation aud discussion, the
Master Car Building Association re commended
the use Of a certain type Of automatic coupler
as a standard. One railway system controlling
more than 900 miles IF road has recently or
dered that all new cars shall be equipped with
luplarS of this type. The Railroad Gdzetts
says that the type is now in a form SO perfect
AMI its advantages over all other types are so
widely acknowledged that its use has become
rather commercial question than technical
one.
GENTLEMAN residing in Bridgeport, Conn.,,
is the owner OF a remarkable dog The dog
attacked the family cat in the house and was
driven out in the rain. He remained ouside for
some time whining pieousIy to be allowed 10
come in. but no attention was paid to his APP
peal Seeing no relief from that quarter, the
dog proceeded to the hen coop, where The fowls
had sought shelte-. The animal at once drove
out the fowls, and soon had the coop empty.
He next proceeded 10 a basket in the coop,
which contained two china eggs and one real
egg freshly laid. Taking the genuine egg in
| his. mouth, he carried it 10 the house and de-
posted it on tie ground outside the window in
full view Of those inside. He then returned TO
the coop and kicked tn china eggs into q cor
ner and laid down II the basket. II s actions
had been watched with interest by those inside,
and tie housewife came out and. lifting the dog
from TIE basket, allowed the fowls to re-enter
the coop she carried the dog inside and re-
warded bin with a large piece of meat for his
remarkable display Of intelligence,
THE variety Of articles that piano tuners find
in pianos is remarkable. One says he found
four diamonds in a piano and received a very
substantial reward for his discovery from the
lady who had employed him You can under
stand the shock given to a ring he said. when
a lady IS playing and brings her fingers down in
a crescen1O. II stone happen 10 be loose.
away It goes, and with that rare affinity which
valuable things have for getting into strange
places. IL promptly gets between the keys and
works down into the framework of the inStru-
ment. And little things like gems are not the
only ones lost in this way. l have found coins
OF all sorts in loosely set piano hairpins ordi-
nary pins, visiting cards and the like. Where
there are cGlldren around the accumulation be-
comes greater for the little rascals have fash
ion Of stufiiEg pianos full of every small thing
they can get their miscnievous little fingers on
OF course, the tone of the piano is very much
injured BY the presence of anything beneath or
behind the keys, but very few persons who use
the instrument can distinguish when it is a
they are using the piano themselves"
NEW MINERAL has been discovered named
Sperrylite, in honor of the man who found it,
Francis L. Sperry of Sudbury, Ont, chemist to
the Canadian Copper Company of that place.
It is essentially an arsenide Of platinum and of
great interest, since platinum has not been
found before as an important constituent of any
mineral except the alloys with other metals of
| the platinum group. The mineral was found
at the NermIlllOn mine in toe district Of AlgOma
province Of Ontario. Canada q place twenty
two miles west Of Sudbury and twenty-foilr
miles north Of Georgian bay, on the line of the
Algoma branch Of tn Canadian Pacific railway
The mine was discovered in October, 1887 and
| a three stamp mill was put up for the purpose
! of stamping gold quartz. ASS ociated Vita this
| gold ore are considerable quantities of pyrite
| chalcopyrite and pYrrhotite and at the contact
| OF ore and roca and occupying small pockets in
decompoSed masses of the ore, there is a quan-
| tity Of loose material composed of gravel con
| tanning particles Of copper and ron pyrites 1t
was in N ling this loose material that several
| ounces of arseuide of platinum were gathered
on the carpet connected with the stamp mill
| THE Jetellers' Reuielr talking about precio us
stones, says that during the last decade new
ones have come into favor, me neglected ones
have regained their popularity, and still Others
such as the amethyst and canoes have been
thrown out entirely. The latter, no matter how
finely cut would not find purchasers now at
on--hftl OF their former value Rubes were
considered high ten years ago aud a further
rise was not Oo&ed for, bat to-day they are still
higher. 1916 karat stone having been quoted
a. $1,000 There Is no demand at present for
topaz, yet q syndicate of French capitalists bas
been organized To control the topaz mines of
spain, in the expectation that after twenty
years Of disfavOr JniS gem will again be popu-
lar. Coral has felt the change of fashion for
duri1Z the last three years the imports have
heen less than $1,000 per annum. and in the last
ten years IN al So, 9j6 whereas in the ten years
/ preceding S55s, 81 worth were imported The
popularity # amber, on the other hand is in
| creasi1g. The imports Of amber beads for the
| ten years 1893 20 1873 amounted to less than
SOD, whereas during the last ten years S35 Sq7
| worth have been introduced. Amber amount
| lag TO only $1,000 was imported from 1868 to
ls's, but over $3.50 goo worth from 1878 to 1883.
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