The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-28
ITEM OF INTEREST.

THERE is rec about forty miles from
Charleston, n. { which is 81 feet in circum-
ference near theyrouud and divides into five
enormous brances each OF which would make
a fine tree. Thaips of the branches nearly
touch the grounIat about thirty yards from
the trunk. II is live oak.
THE city of Pas has 81, 645 trees in its streets,
and each tree represents cost to the city of
1;5 francs Thu makes in round number
S3,OUO,OOO worth of trees in the streets, and
every one wh' hai visited Paris will agree that
their cost is more jhan repaid in the beauty
and comfort q thdr presence.
THE coolest egion in the United States lies
along the northern border Of Minnesota, be-
tween the soutern point of the Lake of the
woods and the Dakota border. The temper
AZURE along ina line often falls as low as 500
below zero. In b73 the instruments at Pembina
registered from '6o TO GO below.
The Italian PEASANT probably consumes more
-four than the PEASANT of any other European
country. becaus the manufacture of -four into
various forms olmacaronI is common in all the
poorer Italian heseholds. Italians are pecul-
larly ingenious aso in their treatment of dough-
which they man into many curious and ap-
petizinR forms.
THE DIAMOND to )e cut is mounted in solder
contained in bras cup at the end of piece
of copper wire, which is held in tongs on the
mill disk. The revolving disk is charged with
diamond dust and oil, presenting. so to speak,
diamond surface upon which the diamonds
soldered in a cup, gre cut and polished The
mills run 1000 revolutions per minute.
THOUSANDS of aces of the best lands in Scot
land have been lad waste by mice, and are at
present totally destroyed for sheep pasture
The true bog grass especially, on which the
sheep mainly de1end in April and May, has
been eaten down. the roots; but some of the
hents are almost as much injured as the boys,
and even the young heather has not escaped
altogether.
SILVER THAv is a most curious meteorological
phenomenon that has lately been studied with
much care at the Ben Nevis observatory. BY
silver thaw is meant rain falling when the air
is below freezing point and congealing as it
falls. The phenomenon points TO an inversion
OF temperature at the time, the temperature on
the hill top being considerably lower than at
higher attitudes.
SOME of the Indian girls from the far west
who are now being educated at Hampton Insti-
tute are slowing unusual musical talent. This
Is a matter Of surprise, for, as a rule. the In
dams generally lack taste and talent in this di-
rection. The Indian girls at this school live by
themselves at Winona lodge, on the Hampton
grounds. where they are under the direct su
pervislon OF accomplished teachers.
THE most wonderful woodpile on record is
owned by man of Oxford county Maine. In
the pile of eight cords. all cut from one forest,
wood, viz: White birch, yellow birch, white
maple, rock maple, white ash, brown ash, black
cherry, wild cherry, apple tree, elder, beech,
mooSewood, willow, fir, dogwood, spruce sugar
plum, elm, poplar and hemlock.
In order to ascertain whether bullets fired
from the new German small arms could pene-
trate a wall of snow, some experiments were
lately made at Schrimm, in Germany, with very
successful results. A wall of snow, feet high
and feet broad, was erected. behind which
though the distance was $50 yards, compare
lively large number of shots passed through
the snow wall and hit the targets.
SEvENTY-FIvE MILES an hour is 10 feet a
second, and the energy of 400 tons, or a train of
cars, moving at that rate is nearly twice as
great as that of a 1000 -pound shot fired from
lO0-ton Armstrong gun. This IL the extreme
weight and speed now reached in passenger
service and, indeed, is very rarely attained and
then but for short distances, but 60 miles is a
common speed, and a rate of 90 or so miles is
attained daily on almost every railway in the
country.
A LONDON paper states that pneumatic lin
ner sole, or sock, for boots and Shoes has been
brought out by firm in that city, the design
of the article being to benefit the large number
of people who ara troubled with tender feet
etc. 1t is simple continuance, made of hollow
india rubber, inflated with air gas under
pressure. the external protective covering being
canvas linen, skin, or some other suitable ma
Jeriel to enable it withstand the internal pres
sure Of the compressed cir or gas
The OBSERVATION exhibited bya horse belong
ing to Prof. Romanes is both instructive and
amusing II had horse, " the professor writes
which was very clever at slipping his halter
after he knew the coachman was in bed He
would then draw out the two sticks in the pipe
OF the oat bin SO as to let the oats run down
from the bin above upon the stable floor. OF
course, he must have observed that this was the
manner in which the coachman obtained the
oats. On other occasions he used to turn the
water tap to obtain a drink, and pull the win
dow cord to open the window onhot nights"
THE New York Southern Society has recently
introduced the system Of keeping tab on the at
tendance of members In vogue at many of the
large club houses A check sheet ia kept by the
doormau, and as soon as a member enters the
house the CerberuS iots down the time at which
he entered. When the member leaves the house
a corresponding entry is made, and thus the
doorman can tell at glance whether any par
ticular member is In the house. The scheme
has been tried at many of the clubs and has
proved it's merit not only in the way of saving
fruitless hunts about the house for absent men,
beers, but also in the way of preventing the in
trusion Of persons not entitled to admittance.
In the last two years, and particularly within
the last six months, the Indian schools, as
whole, have filed up with pupils as at no former
time. Almost all the schools are crowded,
many are waiting enlargement, and some reser-
vatonS are in pressing need of boarding schools
among them the Rosebud, the Navajo, the
Apache the Papago the Lower Spokane. On
the five reservations just specified containing
over $4,000 Indians, and a school population Is