The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE LAsso Is an invention Of the South Amer:
lean Indians and was in use when the country
was discovered by the Spaniards.
MELVIN ATWOOD, the aged San Francisco
mineralogist, one Of the discoveries of the
great ComSuock lode, believes the chances are
excellent for finding in California one or more
OF the volcanic pipes containing diamonds, as
at Kimberly, Du Toitspan and Bultfoutein.
TIE announcement of a Forthcoming
European wedding contains the request that
the old custom of throwing rice and flowers be
dispensed with. Throwing q slipper after the
bride is an old Saxon custom. but throwing rice
is oriental, aud in England dates only from the
time OF the Indian nabobs.
THE RED GLOW of the planet Mars has puzzled
every body but French astronomer, who gives
1t as his opinion that the vegetation of that far
away world is crimson instead Of green. He
| also says that he hasn't the least doubt but
| that there are single flowers on the war gods
surface which ere as large as the incorporated
| limits of Paris
THE railroad postal clerks Of st. Louis are
moving for the purpose Of inducing the gov
| eminent to give them safer cars than the
| ones they are now obliged to work in, which
are almost Immediately broken into splinters
when an accident of any moment occurs to a
| train. The position Of the postal cars next to
| the engine or the baggage car exposes its in
| mates to the greatest danger OF any persons on
| the train, When sleeping cars go through col
| hsious and the occupants escape all injury, the
! postal clerks argue that the cars ID which they
I work ought to be made as safe as the sleepers.
Inc clerks ask that the cars they occupy shall
| be made OF material that will not splinter in
slight crash and then burn them to death.
WHILE services we're in progress in an Ortho.
dox Greek church at Warsaw one day last week
| the congregation was terribly frightened by q
| tremendous explosion in their miost and rushed
in wild panic from the building. After the ex-
| cltement was somewhat allayed the police
| entered the church and found on the floor the
| body OF a man terribly mAngled. IL was thought
at first that he was one Of the worshipers who
| had been killed, but papers found on the body
| showed that he was a Roman Catholic most
frantically opposed to the doctrines and prac-
tees OF the Orthodox church. and that he bad
come there for the purpose of blowing up the
church with dynamite bomb. whose ex-
plosion had killed only himself.
Mrs. W. K. JEwETT of Philadelphia has gone
| in a small way into rather novel industry. 1t
is the raising Of toads. She observed that large
number of tOads gathered around an electric
light near her residence in the evening to feast
on the insects attracted to the light She had
! been very much annoyed by the insects which
attacked the plants in her garden, and taking
the mint she put her rare plants on the lawn In
| the glare of the electric light and was delighted
to find that the toads had effectually cleaned
them OF insects. She then placed lights in her
| garden and the toads followed them there and
| soon the plants began to thrive as they had
| never done before. Afterward she captured
some toads and made friends with them and
will come to her at the sound Of her voice.
The creamery Of the world is situated In the
heart OF the city Of Chicago. near the Wash
ington street bridge. 1t has daily capacity of
1900 pounds of butter and 5000 pounds of
cheese. Everything, of course, is done by ma
chinery. The cream is emptied into an enorm-
Gus vat by means Of a separator, which at the
same time discharges the milk into the tanks
In the watts the cream is allowed to stand
twenty-four hours in order to acquire the right
I RriditV Than IL q I'D tft ~.
churns, which are huge affairs revolving by ma
chinery, and which turn out from 600 to ZOO
pounds OF butter apiece In fifty minutes. When
the butter is taken from the churn it is worked
| by machinery, the only hand process in its
| whole course Of treatment being its packing
| into tubs ready for market This great factory
! originated in a movement Of the farmers TO de-
fend themselves from the irresponsible retail
milkmen Of the city. They established a central
depot for supplying the trade, and the creamery
grew up arterWard as means OF utilizing the
unsold milk.
The REPORT Of the army small arms board.
recommending the adoption of the Krag- Jor-
gensen rife has greatly disgruntled the Ameri-
can inventors whose guns were under consider
| alton, and protests and complaints are pouring
into the war department urging reconsideration
| of the matter. Secretary Elkins has stated to
| several disappointed American inventors that it
is bis desire to adopt the American gun if pos
| sible, and that further tests Of American inven-
gun possessing merit is presented.
| The ordnance and other army authorities
| would also much prefer an American invention,
| but 1t is a question with them whether our army
| should continue much longer with an obsolete
| weapon, while Gil other frst-olass powers are
| equipped with modern guns solely because an
! American has not been able to produce the kind
| OF gun we want, 1t Is said that the secretary
| has promised Lieut.. White Of the marine corps,
| whose gun was not perfected in time for exarni-
nation by the board, a thorough test of 1t before
| acting on the boards report.
| A CORES PoNDENT Of the Cincinnati Com
nierciaL asserts that there is a spring among the
mountains in Eastern Kentucky which dyes any
article soaked in its waters brilliant and per
manent red. He says: THE wafer Of this
spring looks as clear as crystal and is remarka-
bly, clear at this season Of the year much more
so than the water OF wells In that vicinity This
water is much used at the approach of Easter
Sunday to color eggs, and a strange thing about
IL is the difference In color upon articles Of diff
ferent quality or substance. The hair il blon-
dimes, colors eggs, ribbons and dress goods
crimson red, the flesh Of person a light blood
red. The color ls permanent in both cotton and
silk goods dyed by the water. The bondinine
| OF the hair generally lasts about three weeks
while person who battles in its waters is given
a coat that lasts about six weeks. Soap applied
to any articl1s Ndyed by the water but
strengthens the intensity Of the color. People
for miles around come and carry the water
away in bottles, jugs and barrels to use in
dyeinR various articles A mystery concerning
family named Brand. whose numbers are
quite large and whose color has always been a
phenomenon, is now explained, 1t is believed,
by their having always used this water for
drinking and bathing purposes. So long have
they used it that Its qualities seem TO have per-
meated their systems, and its effects are seen
in their progeny up to the fourth generation.
They have known of this spring for years. and
for long time kept its qualities a secret but il
was divulged recently by young man who had
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