The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-28
NATURAL. FRUIT FLANoRs.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
| PAPER MANUFACTURES is one of the leading IN
dustries of Corea. Besides its use for writing
| paper it is employed in q great diversity of
| ways, such as string and in the making of Ian
terms, hats, shoe soles, coats and boxes. 1t is
made from the bush of the mulberry order
which is Indigenous, growing in many parts of
the Kingdom, but thriving best in the moist,
warm climate Of the south.
WHILE Judge Wallber was engaged In hear
ing the assault and battery case of Lena and
Anna Sass, in the criminal court a Milwaukee,
Wis, last week, Attorney Lande rose and said
that none of his clients or Witnesses could speak
English. Both the attorneys in the case and
the judge understood German, and the attorney
thought it would facilitate matters to have the
case tried in German. The court had no objee-
lions and the trial proceeded.
IT is said that when the Dutch ambassa dor
presented to the King of the Netherlands (the
ate William I'LL his japanese majesty ex-
| claimed: Lo 6t So "What good phySioRnomy
! this portrait has" The poor ambassador who
! did not know a word of Japanese, understood
| TooD lie zoo (has he been drinking much p. and
| thinking the emperor made this remark on
| account of the rubicund face of the Dutch
| king. he was 80 bewildered he did not know
| what to answer to the complimentary exclama
| ton of the Shotgun.
THE Interrogation mark or point g? was
originaAyaa ''4',7 and an %" the latter placed
under thFformer They were simply the first
! aud last letters Of the Latin word .'uuestio :"
| So too1 with the sign of exclamation or inter-
| jection6E In its original purity it was a com
| brnation OF, vi and 10" the latter underneath
| as IN, the question mark. The two stood for
| 10, y the Latin exclamation of joy. The para
| graph marx - is a Greek p" the initial Of
| the word paragraph. The early printers en-
| ployed a dagger % to show that word or sen
| tence was Objectionable and should be cut out,
In THEneighboEhood of Burnley the other day
gentleman. looking over wall. saw dead hen
| in the field, says The Leeds {England) E,eaing
| Post. Presently rat ran up, shifted at the
| defuncF fowl with much satisfaction, and went
| awsysinl some haste. The onlooker, who is
student of natural history, knew what that
meantf anu removed the hen from the spot. In
| a minute or ftWolt tine rat came back with half q
| dozen friends, with the evident intention of re-
moving the CARCASS for future use. Arrived at
the spot y here the fowl had laid, the rat raised
| a loud squeak4oe establishment at its absence.
| In q tfiee the other rats fell upon him 80 saw
| agely that 'thsyleft him dead upon the field, as
a wafning MOTTO play practical jokes with his
| friends asa. y5rs,
JACK IRWIN. OF, the Glover's Mill country, says
the Glasgow (Ky.rIimes, bears the distinction
of being, probably, the only living man in the
| United States who has not swallowed a drop of
waterfOr Thirty six years. Mr.. Irwin is now in
| his sQsj and f0r more than an average lifetime
| EasEigQrousiy abstainet from the use of the
| liquid that Nils, but does not inebriate. Neither
| do IS he drink Intoxicating liquors, although
| living quite convenient to a diStilery. At his
| meals Mr.. Irwin drinks coffee or tea or milk
as the notion taxes hi n. Between meals, when
| Mr.. Irwin feels his thirst growing, he gets out
| his pipe and smokes It. While Mr.. Irwin Is In
pretty fair health, his neighbors say that his
LOOKS would indicate that he is pretty we'll dried
up Mr.. Twins freak is about the strangest on
| record 1T" 31t
Fl THE wild HORSES that roomed over Europe in
finhiense f6rds appear to have furnished the
| chief food of early man in Europe Enormous
| refuse heaps consisting mainly of the bones of
| WdIA Horses, have been found outside of the
| caves, as in those at the foot of Mount Pele-
ierlho. near Palermo, where the floor is formed
! of a magma of the bones of wild horses which
| were either sta lked with spears, driven by the
hunters INTO pitfalls or chased over the cliffs
Similar deposits have been found at the cave of
| Thayngenp in Switzerland, and in front of the
rock shelter at SOlutre. near Macon. where there
10 vast deposit, the relics of feast OF these
sayages, nearly ten feet in thickness, and more
than 300 feet in length composed entirely Of
| tla homes OF horses, and comprising the re.
mains of from 10000 to 10000 individuals.
Tue HAMMER with which Mrs Potter Palmer
srfin drive the last nail in the woman's building
I at the worlds fair will be furnished by the wo-
| men of Nebraska. The design for it has lust
I been determined upon 1t will be a typical claw
| hammer'with the national flag aoed in folds
| about It. luTnls will be wrouG1t IN gold. The
| staff of pearl, will be surmounted by the bird
oflibertY. the stars are to be set with diamonds
Land the head of the hammer is to be silver. on
| seal of Nebraska. The handle will be composed
nof various woods of the state, alternating light
and dark, on which will appear. wrought in
high relef. miniature designs Of the state. A
broad band OF gold will enorcle the handle o a
one side of which this inscription will be en-
grsveds 1.-The Women Of Nebraska
THERE is rather common, but erroneous no.
ton to the effect that human body, or even a
ship, will not sink to the bottom of the pro-
founder abysses of the oceans but will on ac-
Af fhn dams Of -
de- tn, remain suspended at some distance
above the surface of the earth, says Prof n s.
Shaler, in Scribner's Magazine. This is en-
error. No other fate awaits the drowned sailor
or his ship than that which comes to the marine
creatures who die on the bottom of the sea: in
time their dust all passes into the great store
house Of the earth, even those who receive
burial on the land. However deep the sea il is but
a few hours before the body of a man who finds
his grave in the ocean is at rest upon the hot
tom; 1t there receives the same swift service
from the agents which, in the order of nature
are appointed5to care for the dead as comes 70
those who are reverently inhumed in blessed
ground. All save the hardest parts OF the
skeleton are quickly taken again into the realm
of the living, and even those more resisting nor
tons Of the body, in time are, in large part an-
propriated by the creatures OF the sea floor, so
that before the dust returns In the accumuiat-
ing water to the firm set earth It may mass
through an extended cycle of living forms. The
fate Of animal bodies on the sea hoor
is well illustrated by the fact that
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stream, where it passes by Southern Florida
there are, in some places. quantities of bones' |
apparently those OF the manatee, or sea cows a
large herbivorous mammal, which like the seal
has become adapted to aquatic life These
creatures beautifully inhabt the tropical rivers
which flow into the Caribbean sea- and are.
though rarely, found in the streams of Soutb
ern Florida. At their death they drift out into
the open water and swept away to the
northward by the ocean current. For some
weeks, perhaps, the carcas5es are buoyed ND by
the gases of decomposition which are retained