The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-07

MEXICO, says bulletin No, 9 Of the bureau OF
American republics, possesses q curious physi-
cal formation Rising rapidly, by a succession
of terraces, from the low sandy coasts of the
east and west, it eliminates in central
plateau, running in northwesterly and south
easterly direction and having an elevation vary
ing from 1000 to 5000 feet above the sea. High
above this plateau tower the snow-capped
crests Of several volcanoes, most of which are
extinct. Ten of them are more than II, 900 feet
IN hi ght and three look down upon fertile val
leys from attitudes of II, So 1856 and 49, G0
These are Popocatapetl, Orizaba and Ixtacci
huatl.
ZENAs CRANE of Dalton, Mass, who makes
the paper on which the government prints it;
bank notes and bonds said to New York Pres,
writer: There is too much dirty and worn cur
rency in circulation in the United States. The
Bank of England never reissues note which is
paid in by any of its customers. ant
the result is that English money is always
crisp clean aud fresh. The United States re
| ceives greenbacks and national bank notes and
pays them out again, no matter how filthy they
may be- except, of course. currency that is toe
badly worn for reissue. The damaged currency
becomes loss to the people, and the govern
ment makes large profit on it, which hold to
be wrong policy"
Not mao in a hundred who uses pepsin as
an aid to digestion has any idea where it comes
| from or how it is obtained. 1t is really pre-
pared from the gastric Juice found in the stom
achs of hogs, and the ability of the hog 10
| digest anything and everything that will pass
| down its throat is probably what led to the
| somewhat peculiar idea OF concentrating the
| fluid which makes digestion 50 easy in the por
| cine race. Hogs that are kept without food Of
| water for twenty-four hours before being
| slaughtered yield an immense quantity OF ga
| trio juice, and correspondingly of pepSin. The
fact that this article is peculiarly procured anC
| prepared should be very comforting to THOSE
who find it does not act upon their digestive or.
| gans in the mani er prescribed.
A WESTERN MAN says in the New York Tri
! bune that men have various ways of carrying
money. Butchers. grocers and bakers carry
| it in a big cruInpled wad. Bankers carry it il
NICE clean bills, laid at full length in morocco
| pocket book. No banker ever folds bill
| Brokers always fold their bills twice. The
| young business man carries his money in his
vest pocket While the sporting man carries 1t II
| his trousers pocket Farmers and drovers carry
| their money IN their inside vest pocket, and
| whenever you see man carry lot OF loose
| change in his overcoat pocket, you may know
that he has at some time beel car conductor
| or a curbStOne merchant. NewSp aper mel
| carry their N jney in some good bank, and pc
| cts, well, poets don't trouble themselves about
| such trivial thing as money.
THE extensive production of bricks manu-
| featured of coal dust and pitch in France MAJ
| be Judged from the amount stated to have beer
| used in that country in 1899, namely, "A, co,
| tons. The coal dust is for this purpose mos
| thoroughly mixed in a certain proportion witt
| melted pitch and then pressed into shape anC
| afterward dried. Leaving out the cost of tn,
| dust and the pitch the bricks cost from 30 t.
40 cents per ton to manufacture; the pitch is in
| value 30 cents per ton of bricks and the coal 5
| per ton, carrying up the figures to some 81 70
| per ton. The bricks are formed solid anC
| perforated, about two inches long, the soliC
| ones being used on railways and steamers anC
| in manufacturing establishments, and thu
| perforated ones in houS as, the article burn in
freely and giving.but little refuse
The much -talked-of sapphire and ruby mine
of Montana have just been sold to an English
| company for 100000. One half Is in cash
| and the balanca In paid-up shares. The com
| pany is stocked for &450,O00 %, 00
shares have been taken, besides 400 founders
shares The property originally comprises
| 1900 acres, one-half OF what the deal includes
| making q total of 1000 acres on both sides o
| the Missouri river, and extending a distance o
| fifteen miles. Founders Of the company com
| prise the Marquis of Lorne, Sir Francis Knollys
| the Prince of Wales business man; the Englsi
| ambassador to st. Petersburg, Sir Rooer
| Morier, the Marquis of Breadlebane, deputy
| governor of the Commercial Bank of Scotland
| with capital of $4,000 600, and the Duke o
Portland, the third richest man in England.
A WHOLE BOOK and one of large size, toe
| might be written on the vegetable wonders of tn
| world Even the Malayan savages know tina
| it is possible for plant flower to be rea
oddly. for bQtanists tell us that they have ar
| extraordinary flower which is known to then
by name which signifies wonder Wonder
1t is flower and flower only, having neither
leaves. stems Or roots, II is a giobular parasite
| about three feet across and bursts into dream
| of loneliness from the surface of decaying log
| and stulpS. Tire wonder wonder" is OK
| ceeded ia size by only one other species O
| known flower the Victoria regina Of Cevlon
which is five feet across India, the home o
| serpents. has what is known as the vegetable
| boa constructor" species Of climber which
| twines ahont great trees so tightly as to strnn
gle them to death.
THE CAPTAIN Ola fruiting schooner plyinj
between Philadelphia and the West Indies
tells of an interesting railway he lately saw Il
operation at Barecoa, port on the north Goa a
of Cuba. "Barocoa," said he, ais a place wher
| large numbers Of bananas are shipped from
and they have to be brought down to the town
for the plantations that are in that part of tn,
island are mostly on the mountain sides. Some
clever chap has, at a large outlay, built a curl
Gus little railway on the endless chain principle
and it conveys all the bananas to the wharf o
indeed anything else that is hooked on to the
constantly running cable. A small toll is col
lected for every bunch Of bananas and it mus
be paid before the fruit is sent from the poin
of shipment. The inventor and investor in thi
novel freight railway are both going to make
fortune out of it, and the shippers are alsC
greatly pleased, as the tolls are lower than tn
old way OF hauling cost and the fruit come
more rapidly and reaches the wharf in bette
condition"
SENATOR HUNToN's queer Christian name i
less queer than some of the curious names to b.
heard and seen in his native state, says the New
York Press. A colored man In the senator
immediate nelghborhood had two sons and ,
daughter, who were named respectively: ="
wiz Arise and Go to My Father, " "Only Begot.
ten Son" and Amazing Grace" The eldes
son, after the manner of the famous Puritan
Damned Barebones," was abbreviated I,
"Iwilla" when addressed in a hurry In another
part of Virginia worthy colored couple named
their two boys Orange and Lemon, and thei
two girls Florida and Missouri. They had hearC
OF white people naming their daughters Vir
glnia and Georgia, and college professor of |
distinguished family who bore the name O
Delaware, so the use Of names of states wa
natural enough; but why the boys were nance
after fruits has never been explained, unless il
be that PeachY Grattan, an old time Virginia
l lawyer. made his name famous.