The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-03
NATURAL FRUIT FLkvoRS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! THE INCREASE in the value OF Chicago build
| ings last year amounts to moro than SIS, 900.
! 600.
The Duke Of Edinburgh has announced hi.
intention Of sending for exhibition to the worlds
fair some of the almost Invaluable COLLECTION OF
ancient musical Instruments, which ne DOS
sesses. A part OF the collection is now on ex-
hioition at the International music and art
exhibition at Vienna, where 1t attracts much
attention.
IF a cat enters a chamber where a person Is
dying, says the st. Louis Republic, and manages
to pass over his or her body before being driven
from the room, both the dying person and the
cat become vampires, and live ever after BY
sucking the blood from living people. II one
finds piece of bread lying upon the ground he
must pick IL No, kiss II and Try II until he finds
hole into which it can be inserted To step
upon piece of bread or to leave IL lying upon
the ground is one of the objectionable sins and
dooms the offender TO the third hell, where he
is perpetually gored by az OK that has but a
single horn, that in the center OF his forehead.
FRANCE intends to show its skill in landscape
gardening at the worlds fair. A cablegram has
been received from the French commission
asking that it be allowed to do, and to bear the
expense of, the whole decoration of the space
surrounding the horticultural and the woman 8
buildings" This generous offer, doubtless will
be accepted If it does not interfere with plans
too far advanced to be changed. The French
are world-renowned as artistic landscape
gardeners. and it is believed they would hardly
have made the offer referred to unless they in
tend to make q display OF surprising beauty
The commission asked also for 60. 900 square feet
for the French horticultural exhibit.
THERE is a curious snake (Hydraci yeti) in
South Africa that lives wholly upon birds eggs.
1t has no teeth nor signs of teeth in the mouth,
its whole dental array being located in the
stomach Buckland says that they are not true
teeth, but that they serve all purposes. They
grow from the center OF each vertebra. They
pass through the walls OF the stomach and are
covered with enamel. just like true teeth. This
is natures provision for breaking eggs without
running the risk OF losing the precious contents
as would be the case if this eggeating serpent
had its teeth in the proper place. When the
egg is safely inside the abdominabe walls con-
tract aud crush it against that long row OF yer.
tebral teeth.
RICH VALLEY VA, has a vertqb'e dime mu-
scum curiosity in the person of the 20-year old
daughter Of Nathsp Harris. Although little
Miss Harris is now old enough to seriously CON
template the drawbacks OF old maids ex-
iStence she is not as large as the average child
of years. On her 10Th birthday she measured
but IS inches in hight and weighed a916
pounds. She is not stuntei hunch BAGS as
are great majority of tn so.called dwarfs
but is perfect Venus in miniature. pleasing
and intelligent and with beauti u head of
Ear sweeping like a train across the carp It
when she cares to let it down for the admiration
/ CT her many friends. She is the oldest of four
children, all the others being Of regulation
size Her parents as well as herself shrink
from moi oriety. She declares that she would
n go before the public for all the world and
that she expects to live and die in the beautiful
Virginlan valley that has always been her home
IN making railroad tunnels, cuts, ETC.. and in
sinking wells and pits in Nevada Utah and
Arizona, salt strata are often struck at Aaryiug
depths, soneti lies as much as 100 ysrde he-
meath the surface. Humid reds Of fish, perfectly
preserved. arr fOun in blocks of this pure rock
salt. These sat fields are suppose to occuoy
what was once the bottom OF a lake 80 miles
l)ng, Is miles wide and many hundred f-et
deep. The fish found resemble the pike a d
pickerel species, aud are wholly unlike tho fish
found In the lakes and rivers of that region at
the present time. The specimens found are not
petrihed, but are as perfectly preserved in the
flesh as though but recently frozen in block
of ice. When taken out and exposed to the
heat of the sun they come as hard as blocks
OF wood. Occasionally worknen at the sa 1t
works located in the basin" have attempte
TO eat these antediuvian relics. Men OF learn
ing who have investigated the matter say that
these salt preserved FISH are at least 10 006
years old.
PROF DOUGLASS has succeeded in manufact-
uring miniature cyclones and tornadoes by
means OF electricity, thus proving the electrical
character OF the prairie terrOTS," In carving
out his plans he suspend ID a large copper plate
by silken threads and charged it from battery
he then used arsenous acid as, whereupon the
combination of gas and electricity could be
seen hanging from the uaderside Of the plate ia
the form of perfect funnel-shaped cyclone
cloud. When everything was ready, the pro-
fessor swung tae pate and the miniature cy-
cone to and fro across a table Uttered with
, inaHheS, pieces Of paper. pens, pencils etc
The lighter objects were instantly sucked up
the heavier scattered in all directions. The eff
fects were exactly those of destructive cyclones
These curious experiments explain cyclone phe-
nomena Low clouds bscome charged with
electricity, descend and form a connection with
tue earth hen violent electrical commo-
ton ensues. finally settling into whirl which
continues until an electric equilibrium is estab-
lished.
IT is a wellknown fact that milk is especially
apt to sour during the prevalencs of a thunder
Storm and from this it has been surnlsed that
tde electric discharge held some mysterious
sway over the Tactical fluid. An Italian expert
m inter- one Prof G. Toome, has been making
trials OF various sorts, tle object being to
throw some ligat on electric influence over milk
mole ueS In his first exp Renee he passed an
electric discharge from a Hotz machine be-
tween two balls of platinum hanging two inches
apart in a hottie containing quart of fresh
milk; secondly, by sending a current between
two strips of platinum at the bottom Of a Y
tube fled with the same fluid thirdly, by sub
JIG ing milk in test tube to the action OF a
strong battery current through a silk-covered
copper wire wound spirally around the
tube. In each of these experiments
which were as thorough any lover of scie ace
could WISH IL proved that acidulation OF
the milk was delayed instead OF FASTENED as
uau oeeu expected. Inree equal portions of
milk from the same milking, thus treated be-
gan to grow acid on the seventh. the ninth and
the sixth days resueotively; while other
portions of 1t which had not been treated with
electricity was rankly acid on the evening Of
third day. Having thus disproved the popular
theory Of lightning being the direct cause of
the acldlh :atiDn OF m Tx Prof. TolOme tried
ozone and found Ude-ein the my tic a GENT of
milk souring. In his second trial OF ozone be
brought the surface of a quantity OF milk close
to the two balls OF the machine used, and the
fluid almost instantly became acid in con-