The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-16
NATURAL FRUIT FLkVoRS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! ITEMS OF INTEREST.
CATERPrLIARs from six inches to foot long
are common in the vicinity of the Darling river,
| Australia. The natives twist them together
| and boil t2em in kangaroo grease. Travellers
VINO have tasted this delicacy say that 1t is not
| altogether unpalatable.
NATIVES of Africa once a year kill a cobra de-
capello and hang its skin to the branch of a
| tree, tail downward. Then all the children born
! during the last year are brought out and made
to touch the skin This, their parents think
puts them under the serpent's protection.
AN old deed recorded in Pettis county over
fifty years ago contains q good illustration of
| the legal verbiage common In such instruments
| in early times, says the Chicago Herald In
| addition to forty acres of land sold for A CON
slderation of $50 the document conveys ''all and
| singular the appurtenanceS, appendages ad-
voWsons, benefits commons, curtilages COW
houses, corn cribs, diaries, dovecots, easements,
emoluments, freeholds, features furniture
| fixtures, gardens homesteads, improvements
| immunities, limekilns, orchards PARKS pleasure
grounds, pigeon houses pig styes, quarries re-
msinders, reversions, rents, rights ways water
courses, wind mills, together with every other
| necessary right, immunity. privilege and ad-
vantage Of whatsoever name nature or de-
| scription.
| NOTHING of all saw In Europe" said H
W. Crawford to the Cincinnati Times Star,
! impressed me more than the splendid police
| system OF London, The street In front OF the
| BANK OF England Is crowded as a
! street crowded here, but the multitudes pass
without interruption ENHANCEMENT. The
police stand in the midst of the crowd Of vehi-
! Giles and are supreme in authority. If an officer
| tells cabby to stop, he stops. IL he orders
MN TO move on, he moves on, and the luckless
| driver who by accident or design brushes an
officer with his wheel finds himself deprived of
license the following day. In America it
would be impossible te establish such respect
| tor authority, but it is good thing in it's way.
have seen more serappinR on the streets Of
] cincinnati daVa than I Is, khraa
| months in the European cities
THE "MovinR Stone at Lexington is one of
the most remarkable freaks OF nature in the
state of Kentucky, the great caverns alone ex-
cepted. In the rear of the grounds attached to
the nome OF the late Gov. Gilmer Is a huge
| bowlder, standing alone on the edge of a stream
| Resting directly upon this bowlder is another
| weighing at least twenty tons. This upper bowl
DER rests upon stone pinnacle not more than
TWO teet square. and so evenly balanced that (al-
though the slightest touch will cause it to rock
to and fro) a hundred horses could not pul, IL
| from It's socket. GeooglsCs say that it must
| have been deposited in Its present positiou in
! the time OF the glacial epoch and that the
| texture and composition OF the bowlder agree
in favor Of the theory thai it was transported
/ from the Lake superior region to its present
resting place in good field of ice long before
there was single human beidg on the face OF
the earth.
THERE was time 'in the wide revolving
shades Of centuries past" says the st. Louis
heDuotic' "hen our globe was wholly in ths
possession OF walking, swimming and flying
reptiles Being the dominant type, they divided
naturally, into three great classes In the
oceans they became gigantic padding
enaliosauriAns: on dry and, or rather wet land
tor the whole face Of the globe was doubtless q
quagmire at that time), they became monstrous
erect d1iososaurans; some OF which had
length; those which Inhabited the
regio Of the cir were the terrible dying pier
oda ciy!s. For vast, but unknown length of
1lt- ,Na+r -,
earJn. Finally, after they had seen their
lay, they began to grow less and less. One bv
one they died out In the face Of the younger
and more vigorous fauna, until at the present
time only few miniature allgators and croco-
diles, a few toy snakes and reminders of
skulking lizards and geckos remain to remain Of
the enormous reptIlian types that once crowded
land and sea.
THE Japanese, as well as most civilized ma
tions, know that the bodies of cholera affected
persons should be burned, accordingly every
one OF the 456,OS0 people who have died OF
cholera in Japan in the last thirteen years have
been cremated. The process is of course mod
ern and scientific. But the Buddhists burn as a
religious rite, and do it this way: The corpse ia
brought IN square wooden box or barrel (the
regular Japanese cofhn) In sitting position
according to the national custom. hole In
the ground, with sloping sides, awaits IT, at the
bottom OF which are two stones, upright and
parallel; across the top of these stones fire.
wood and charcoal are piled. Around the
corpse. placed upon the pile, a circular wall is
Quiz up, former or rice straw and chah, per-
haps to the hight or five six feet, aud the
wall itsef is wrapped in wet mating, which
during the whole operation, is continually
molstened. The fire is kept up during twelve
hours after which the ashes and bones are
picked up with chopsticks by the Oldest repre-
sentative of the family. inclosed in a funeral
urn, and buried after seven days of various re-
.igious services.
A sTATIsTIcIAN has lately been engaged In
estimating tbs worlds consumption of coal
says the London Iron. He divides his figures
| into four groups, embracing respectively the
| quantity of coal used in heating steam boilers
| in the production of gas, in the extraction of
metals from their ores and for household pur-
poses. 1t may be taken, he says that the total
steam engine capacity of the globe is equivalent
| Co 10.0O00O horsepower, aud that having "a.
gard to the utilization of othor fuels the ouen
tity of coal burned with the object OF produc-
ing steam averages A pounds per horse power
per hour. or an hourly aggregate of 10 600 tons
In all probability, however, this is an underesti
mate, as the efficiency of the world 8 steam an.
gines is calculated by some to be 10000 900
| horsepower. With respect TO the manufact11re
| Of gas. the hourly consumption of the iliuminat
| ing aeriform fluid is given as 5000 OcO cubie
| meters, which would necessitate the distillation
| of at least 10000 tons of coal per hour More
| difficult to calculate is the consumption Of coal
| for the production Of power and heating gas:
| It may be estimated, authority thinks al
| $500 tons per hour. A large quantity of coal
| is used in the reduction of metals from their
ores. IL is calculated that in this way some
| 1900 tons of the mineral are consumed every
hour. A special estimate gives the QUANTITY
| burnt hourly by works and factories al & OOH
| tons. The most difficult calculation ia that az
/ the domestic consumption Of coal II Is esti-
mated at 90, 600 tons per hour or 1,s20000 tons
per day of twenty-four hours This figure
however, appears rather small considering that
10 Great Britain and Germany alone the dailv
output OF coal In recent years has averaged