The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-31
ITEMS OF INT CREST.

ITEMS OF lNTEHSSC r.
MoRE than 1900 varieties of roses worthy Of
cultivation have been produced during this
| century.
| The SPEED OF the fastest Atlantic steamer is
now greater than that Of the express trains on
| Italian railways.
On THE Royal Sovereign the new English bat
tleshlp, there are 800 electric lights connected
| by thirty miles Of wire.
THE REGION about the Dead sea is one Of the
hottest places on the globe, and the sea is said
to lose 100000 tons Of water a day by evapora-
| ton.
THE greatest stamp collectors In the world
| are Philippe Ferrarf, son of the late Duehesse
| de Galliers, and the car, whose collection is
said TO be worth 100000
A MERIDEN CUTLERY FACTORY has lust finished
a wonderful toy-a perfect pocket knife with
thirty blades. pincers, shears, avis, etc.. which
weighs but one-eighth OF an ounce.
WOMAN mas patented a machine for making
watch screws that is provided with thread
cutter so delicate as to be almost invisible It
Will cut perfect threads on the finest human
| hair.
| Mas. SARAH A. SHADE, living near Batavia,
| o., has one churn she has used steadily for
| ffty-tive years. She estimates that in that
period she has churned in it s. GAO pounds of
|
| AFREIeHT CAR thirty -six feet long has been
built of steel in Manchester for the Mexican
Railway Company. 1t is said to be heavier than
a 34-foot wooden car, and will hold nearly three
times as much, with no more dead weight.
| AN AROMATIC QUEST sometimes pursued by
venturesone souls of the Pacific slope is the
| search Of the lost Peleg u inc in the Colorado
desert a mine REGARDED by many as mythical
| Another expedition has left San Francisco to
| discover it.
A MAN1ToU CMich.) young woman received
letter from Kansas man the other day in
which he devoted seven pages in telling Of busi.
ness, crops and politics. In q postscript be
mentioned the fact that he would like to have
her marry him.
THE comparatively rare metal glucinium has
been suggested a suitable metal for the con-
| struction of electrical apparatus 1t is lighter
than aluminium, resists oxidation, possesses
! greater rgidity, and is even q better conductor
| OF electricity than silver.
THE personal column of q New York daily
contains this golden opportunity: "a we'll
educated young man of good social position
will marry any lady OF means who will provide
| funds for HIM to procure a divorce from his
present wife, whom we cannot get along with ."
THE HILL Jerusalem where the cruel
dxion of Jesus occurred is formed Of limestone
The shores OF theDead sea are lined with pumice-
stone showered out of some volcano that de-
stroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. which cities
finally sank beneath the waters of the Dead
sea.
TIE great organ In the old Mormon church at
Salt Lake City has 2,7o4 pipes, each thrty-two
feet long and large enough to admit the body
Of man Of ordinary size. 1t was bu 1t In the
early days when all freight was hauled from
Missouri river points across the plains with OK
teams.
THERE are "a countries where an invention
can claim protection or rather where patent
fees may be paid. Sixteen Of these are in Rp.
rope, in Africa in Asia, q In America and 9
IN Oceanlca. The total price OF these 81 official
SCRAPS OF paper amounts to the nice Little sum
Of $4,000.
ONE OF the latest applications Of electricity to
miltng operations is seen In a lead mine in Bel
GUM. Each bucket arriving at the ton
| OF the shalt makes an electric contact, and
needle in the office indicates, by red line
upon revolving drum, the number Of buckets
| brought up
BY placing two iron bars at seven or eight
yards distance from each other and putting
| them IN communication on one side BY an insu-
| lated wire and on the other side with tee-
phone, it is said that a storm can be predicted
| twelve hours ahead through q certain dead
| sound heard in the receiver.
GRANITE is the lowest rock in the earth's crust
1t is the bed rock Of the world. Il shows no
| evidences OF animal or vegetable life It ia from
| two to ten times as thick as the united thick
ness OF all the other rocks. 1t is the parent
rock, from which all other rocks have been
| either directly or indirectly derived.
A NEWTON COUNTY (Missouri) woman bas u,ed
the splitlog railroad. based on the following
claim: She was passenger on the road. and
| was accidentally carried beyond her destination
some distance, when the train stopped and she
alighted. While returning she was chased by
bull, and in outrunning him, impaired her
health"
EXPERIMENTS in instantaneous photography
have proved that shots not only spread out
comet-Iike, as they fly, but they string out one
| be ind The other to a much greater distance
| than they spread. Thus, with cylinder eln
! when the first shot of charge reaches target
/ that is ~ yards away the last shot is tagging
! behind 10 yards.
THE smallest wire is 1870 of an inch diameter.
which is of course much finer tina the hair on
ones head. trdinary fine wire is drawn
! through steel plates, but these smallest wires
are drawn through diamond plates and are then
run through machinery which winds { spiralIy
with layer Of silk thread which is IL 900 of an
| inch in diameter.
THE sleep of winter and that of night are
| different in those animals which are torpid for
| months The bat, the he'd ge-hoe the tawria
| the marmot, the hamster the rtoise, the toad
| the snake, mollusca, spiders, bees, flies, bears
| badgers. etc, retire to their close holes and In
various degrees undergo temporary death for
| four. five. six and seven months of the year
! They usually roll themselves up, but bats suS
| pen1 themselves in caves. Those who lay IN
| provisi. ms them before they become torpid
aud on reviving before they venture abroad.
Their tempera ,ure lowers; their respiration is
less frequent, and at times their circulation is re
duced; they lose their fesiinz, their digestive
organs are inactive, and they suffer loss of
weight. The confined air in which they shut
themselves, added to the cold, Is one cause Of
their torpdty. Facts lead to the belief that
some birds hibernate.
LIBERIA, in Africa, has neither clock nor time.
piece Of any sort, says the Gripsdck. the reck.
oning of time is made entirely by the move
ment and sition OF the sun, which rises at s
O'Clock q m. and sets at O'Clock D. N. almost
, 70 the minute the year round, and at noon il is
vertically overheard. The islanders OF the
South Pacific have no clocks. but make q curl
Gus time marker Of their own They take the
kernels from the nuts Of the candle tree and
wash and string them on the rib of a palm leaf
The first top kernel is then lighted
All of the kernels Of the same size and
substance. and each will burn q GER
tain number OF minutes and then set
fire to the next one below The natives tie pieces
Of bark cloth at regular intervals along the
string to make the divisions of time Among
! [ q natives of SinURp in the MALAY arohfnaT.