The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-14
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TIE lace bark tree grows in the West Indies
It is a lofty tree with ovate, entire, smooth
leaves and white flowers. It is remarkable for
the tenacity Of its inner bark and the readiness
with which the inner bark may be separated
after maceration in water-into layers resem-
bling lace.
CATARRH and lung troubles make the resi-
dence Of apes in Northern Europe only brief
pathway TO the grave Edgar Aka, the noted
Paris chimpanzee, has recently died of con-
sumption. and the successor to sally In the
London Geological garden has a cough which is
almost human.
MAI, CARRIES in Morocco are said to avoid the
risk of losing their places by oversleeping by
tying a string to one foot and setting the end of
IL on fire before going to sleep. The string,
they know from experience, will burn so long,
and when the fire reaches their foot it is time
for them to get up.
AN electrical tuning box for the use Of leaders
of orchestras and others interested in music
has been invented by q Frenchman. It consists
OF dry-pile battery connected with an electro
magnet. When placed on a sounding board
the required note is obtained by moving small
commutator located in the box.
THE Sevres vase, given by Louis XVI. to
Tippoo sahfb. was sold in london in 1879 for a
sum equal to 81, 275 in American currency. The
vase is very thin, urn. SHAPED and only eight
inches high. The gold exchanged as the pur-
chase price of this relic weighed upward of
20JO times as much as the vase itself.
FEW DAYS AGO j. L. Heath. a reputable far
mer near Marshall Ind, whhe removing clover
hay from NOV, uncovered a live hen which
he claims had been there since last June, when
the hay was stored. There was no ossble
chance for the fowl to have crawled into the
place where found after it was once closed.
IT is said that engravers in Germany harden
their tools in sealing wax. The tool is heated
TO wilderness and plunged into the wax, with
drawn after an instant. and plunged In again,
the process being repeated until the steel is too
cold to enter the wax. The steel is said to be-
come after this process almost as hard as the
diamond.
THE savaees Of the Amazon region fed the
common green parrot for generations with the
fat of certain fishes thus causing it to become
beautifully variegated with red and yellow
feathers. In like manner the natives of the
Malay Archipelago by q process of feeding
changed the talkative Lory into the gorgeous
King Lory.
SOME AUTHORITIES insist that the great toe
ought to project farthest, others that it should
not project quite so far as the second toe; while
others, again, maintain that the two should be
OF equal length. 1t is we'll known that IN an
tique statues the ssoond toe is usually the
longer Of the two. while the first is longer in
living men.
A PROMINENT HoRsEMAN says that a horse can
SOhNoLAohIiy cob bnChO1-AOuI nOGES CNSTy OdJg
the reason being that Its stomach Is really
small in proportion to the size of its body, and
therefore, it requires feeding often, not less
than four times day, two OF which should be
early in the morning and at night, while hay in
the stall should be always within its reach"
THElargest stationary engine in the United
States, and among the largest in the world, is
at EFriedensville, Pa. It is called the "Presi-
dent" It's driving wheel is IS feet in diameter
and weighs DO tons; its sweeprod is 40 feet long;
its cylinder is 110inches in diameter; its piston
rod 10 inches in diameter and of 10foot
stroke, and it raises II, 800 gallons Of water in
minute.
A CURIOUS BOOK, in which the text is neither
written nor printed, but woven, has lately been
published at Lyons. 1t Is made of silk and was
publish ed in twenty-five parts. Each part con-
ssts of two leaves, 50 that the entire volume
only contains fifty leaves, inscribed with the
service Of the mass and several prayers. Both
the letters and the border are in black silk on
white background.
THE number Of persons in Great Britain who
approve of cremation seems to be steadily In
creasing. From the report of the Cremation
Society of England for 1891, 1t appears that In
1885, the first year the crematorium at Working
was used. only bodies were sent there; IN 1886
the number was 10; in 1887. 10; in 1888, 70; In
1889, as; in 1890 "a; and during the past year
SO. Crematoria are being built in various parts
Of the country.
THE pressure that can be produced by electro
Gently been tasted by French scientist. The
highest pressure heretofore realized was {, $40
pounds to the square inch In this instance the
pressure obtained was between Il, 900 and l6, 900
to the square inch, when the manometer
cracked without any explosion. The liquid
used Was 25 per cent solution of soda The
electrodes we're Of iron, and the current u am
peres.
NJ. j. LAJARD, who has been investigating the
| well-known whistling language of the inhabit-
ants of the is and of Conner in the :Caneries,
has come to the conclusion that it is really the
Spanish language intensified by the aid Of
whstlng. In speaking the Gomerian puts his
fingers in his mouth by twos or tours, and
blows with might and main. The result is a
mixture OF words and whistles unintelligible to
the tyro; but after httle practice one can dis
tinguish the words of the language.
WHILE splitting ash tree into rails few
days ago, Rensselaer, Hopkins of Monument
Creek, Pa, came across a section of the heart
that was decayed as fine as powder. The rotten
part was 31s feet long and the heart and out
side of the tres were sound as q nut below
and above it. There was no hole from the out
side. and in the hollow Mr. Hopkins found q
hatful of dead honey bees and an ounce lead
bullet. The layers of growth showed that the
bees had been there for at least fourteen years.
AN interesting and amusing instance of the
efficacy of the London-Paris tele phone occurred
the other day which is worth recording. The
Salvation Army band were marching from the