The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-20
NATURAL FRUIT FLAYoRs.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
THE EFFORT to employ good looking young
women as account collectors has not turned out
very profitable for the merchants who employed
them. After fortniEhts experience. three Of
the women became engaged 10 men whom they
tired 70 dun, two Of them married, and few
OF the Others sympGthiZed so deeply with the
debtors that they warned them when proceed
ings were Instituted so that the debtors might
escape.
AMERICA is essentially country of fads, and
tie newest Of them all is for young women to
present their husbands and sweethearts with
plaster casts OF their hands and arms An Ital-
ian IN Grand street, near the Broadway, New
YORK, Is doing big business in taxing casts
from fashionable American ladies. who have
adopted this new form Of birthday presents 70
men Fac are t5re1 Of cigRr-ease smoking jack
cts and pocketb0Oks.
OVER g. 900 in greenbsscks has been found
hidden among a lot Of rubbish in the trunk of
en- eccentric widow. who spent her summer in
a cottage near Stonington. Conn, and who died
recently. Always on leaving Stonington at the
end Of the season she left the trunk with a
friend. telling him that it contained nothing OF
account, but that she didn't care TO have burg
lars rum maglug through it. which would be the
c4se II she were 10 allow it to remain in her cot
taze. After her last visit the trunk was slowed
away Ia tie garnet of the friend and he
thought nothing more Of it until some time
after er death His mind happened 70 run on
the old~box aud he opened it. finding the
money. It is supposed tHaE she accumulated It
from allowances made her every now and then
By relatives
The FRENCH are devoting great attention to
the use Of BALLOONS for Geographic and teIe-
phonic purposes on land and sea. Some French
officers who recently made e balloon ascent
from man-of-Tar stated that they had no diff
Guilty IN making out with the aid of telescopes
not only the movements Of all the vessels visi-
bic TO their extended horizon but that they
could even discern their nationaliIias and the
courses they were steering. All this informa-
ton they transmitted 10 their ship below by
means Of & telephone, the wires of which were
strung alongside the rope that held the bal
loon captive. The observers stated that no
building or ship for twenty to twenty
five miles round could escape the notice Of
the oaloon!st, and they also reported that they
could see vertically downward toward the bot
tom Of the sea TO a depth Of nearly 100 feet, the
water, from great hight appearing transpar-
ent. Suca a means Of observation would
Inanifestly be Of the greatest value ia case OF
war. The military naneuvers now being car
red on in France include the use Of elaborate
apparatus in connection with the balloon, tele-
graphic. postal and telephone services. IL is
proposed to provide every army corps with a
complete plant. including a portable steam
engine to work the dynanos, As the result of
greatly improved appliances il is now found that
q balloon can be inflated and provided with
telephone within an hour
B. E. FERSow, chief of the division of forestry.
! has just4nade public e number of data bearing
on the artificial production of rain, which viii
20 far toward correcting the erroneous impress
sion which the reports OF the recent so-called
rain making in Texas have created in the minds
of many Mr.. FeTnOw questions Gen. Dryer
forths ability 20 make rain What Is the use
he asks, "of exploding feT hundred weight OF
dynamite. when 1t is a well Known fact that 100
tons OF powder exploded at the Dupont works
within eight seconds without producing one
raindropt" lie quotes Arago to show that
pei rain and he proves that the popular
idea about rain following great battles is all a
mistake. After dismissing the theory of srti
fetal rain through the use of explosives Mr..
Fernow proceeds to discuss the theory Of rain
and the stimulation of natural causes by human
agency AS air rises 1t expands, as 1t expands
it cools, as it cOols il CondenSeS contained
moisture. Hence. to produce upward or down
ward currents OF air or to produce changes of
temperature. is one chief mode OF making rain
indicated by nature But toe scientist, VINO
knows that the barometer must tall say half
inch over hundreds of thousands OF square
miles before a storm can be produced, laughs at
mans puny efforts 90 produce such stupendous
effects to order. Ii was found that In forty-two
large fires and two serious explosions in Austria
LA during enty-one years there was not one
instance OF rain as a consequence or that cause,
In other suca cases. as the London and Chicago
fires when rain has followed, analysis of the
atmospheric conditions traces the rain chiefly
to them and not to the fire. The fallacy OF a
great deal Of what is being said on this subject
is further shown by the fact, which was satis-
factorily demonstrated by the government as
tronomer OF New South Wales. that TO produce
rain artifcially it would be necessary TO burn
900 GOO tons of Goa daily. thus raising column
OF air over a surface OF ten miles TO the hight Of
!, 500 feet.
A CYCLONE demolished the barn Of Sam Nc
Pherson of Monroe county, Kentucky, on July
"a. SeventY-seven days later the workmen who
were 81 caring away the debris liberated a hen
that had been cooped in narrow quarters formed
by fallen boards and tinberS. In the course Of
her imprisonment she had laid an egg, Matched
it AMI eaten the chicken, ali but the feathers
and bones. Apparently she had had nothing
else to eat Here arises al interesting question
for economists: Did it pay the hen TO hatch the
egg? In times Of dire necessity self-preserva-
ton becomes paramount. Cestaway sailors
kill their weaker fellows and eat them.
Famishei brutes. devour even their own
offspring Probably no fb,. sentimental SsI entail
coolly calculating whether she could
could lenEthen ber days and increase her
chances OF rescue by Matching out the egg and
eating the chicken. or whether her chances
would be better if she ate the egg while it was
fresh. Nobody can say that she did not con-
slider this grave problem IN al It's aspects. and
that her survival during the Seventy-Seyen days
that ELAPSED before she was rescued was not the
result of her decision in accordance with scien-
tihc truths. If there was nothing 70 eat in the
fortuitously improYised crop, did the Matched
chicken contain more nutriment than the I'M
Matched egg II more, was the gam at the ex-
pense of the hen. and did it cost her more than
sne received In the way OF Increased nuThnentf
Warmth is necessary to incubstlen- Heat can
be produced only bv the outlay Of energy. If
there was more food in the chicken than in the
egg was the excess sufficient TO restore to the
hen the energy spared 10 Matching the egg: And
If so was Ibe excess stall great enough to make
up for the loss OF edible substance through the
conversion of part of the egg into benes and
feathers These questions cannot be dismissed
by scientific men as trivial They.are worthy Of
the profoundest thought OF savants- Certainly
no other hen ever was brought lace TO lace with
questions from her point of view more moment
Gus. or which called for greater nicely in the
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