The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-03
NKTURAFRUIT FLKVoRS.
ITEMS O.INrHREsT.


HALF century ago1e tomato made its ap-
pearance in the LoDon market alongside its
| democratic congener the sNlanum family, the
| potato, but made verpoor progress in public
| favor until a comTative few years since.
Both came from the estern hemisphere about
the same time.
RUssIA's FANCY is # large yellow diam onds.
China is becoming buyer of diamonds, for
| very recently the euress has broken through
the old custom whtcl prohibited women from
| wearing diamonds / her country She could
| not resist the beautyof asuperb diamond neck
let presented TO her Sh,wore it at court and
| set the fashion.
AN AMATEUR violin makr Of Portland, Ne.
has secured prize in a pruce beam from an
old house at North Ysrmuth. The beam had
been seasoning for moro tan 100 years. and the
| little thin boards sawn frn IL give forth the
| clear mellow sound that's desired in violin
stock. Gemunder, the Ne York maker Of vio-
Inns was in Portland recent and secured some
OF the wood.
| CURIOUS and hitherto s6cely known statue
of the great Napoleon has len acquired by the
| French government. It iiby Rude, and is a
| plaster model. representinghe emperor lying
| at full length, dead. te head crowned
| with laurel wreath, and hs enveloped in the
shroud which covers the Sdy. Tho bronze
| casting Of this important wot is set up in the
| grounds OF family dwellig near Dion, de-
| scendants of one Of Napolcn's officers. who
himself ordered it Of the gret sculptor. Rude
| was in the habit Of destroying his models after
they had been executed in heir fnsl shape.
| hence this exceptionally deserved model is
| regarded with special inherit.
A NEW DEPARTURE in ice utting has been
| proposed by an electrician, who contends
| that it is quite practicable to cut the ice by
| means Of a wire heated electrically. His plan
| is to install a portable steam al dynamo plant
at some convenient point on tA shore near to
| the ice harvesting operations, nd run from the
| dynamo a suitable steel wire the required
length with a proper return. " generating
| sufficient current to maintain ts temperature
| In the wire at about 2OOo, and by stretching the
| wire taut along the surface OF he ice a means
OF cutting through the mass wodd at once be
| established. He forget that the water would
CONCEAL Immediately after the vie had passed.
| leaving the les as solid as ever.
| THE first electric light was used In Liverpool
! The first timsAmercans saw electric light in this
country was at the exhibition of theAmerlcan
Institute. held in New York Sept II b Nov. 49,
| 1878. The first arc light central stathn was In
| stalled by the California Electric Lght Com
| pany Of San Francisco in 1879. The fist Edison
isolated plant was installed IN 1880 iuthe print
ing establishment of the Kinds & Ketcham
| Company, Brooklyn, n. Y. The frE steam
| ship electric plant was one of EdBon's. IN
! stalled with 100 lamps IN the steamship Column
| bia, Of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation
| Company, Jan. 10, 1881. The first Edison CEN
trail station installed with 400 lamps in
Pearl street. New York city. Sept.4, 1888.
The AMOUNT Of energy that is Just now being
| directed TO the furtherance of electric traction
schemes has most significant tearing on de-
| velopments which may shortly bt looked for in
| TINS Held. In addition to the operations which
| are being pushed in this country the direction
| OF establishing locomotives on trunk lines, the
| Stemens conduit system, as used at Buda- Pesth,
| is shortly to be introduced here By a powerful
| syndicate. In England there is equal activity.
| An American enKinser IS now in London organ
| zinK company FOR the purpose o. exploiting
his system OF open conduit for electric traction,
| Besides this, a London firm Is expecting to make
installations Of an excellent open conduit sys-
tenn, and a closed conduit system is very favor
| ably regarded in the same city. Work is also
| being pushed forward In both overhead and &C
| cumulator traction, and altogether the chances
| Of the evolution Of a cheap, clean AID efficient
method of travel, that can be easily adapted &C
the wants of the people, are daily increasing
The IDEA of magnfyirg the indications re
sultinG from the working of an ordinary clooH
to such size as to permit of their being seer
| for a radius of fifty miles around Is being put
into practical shape in England II a rece
| invention the actual time-indicating clockwork
d, which is the same size as an ordinary turre
| clock, is connected to a second train OF clock
| work. controlled by the clock proper. This sup
| Elementary clockwork is put into motion every
| minute, when it whizzes around CIRCULATED BY
| an ordinary fan GOVERNOR and actuatea al
| electric flashing lens, in much the same way
as the striking mechanism of a clock usually
acts. The beam of light reflected In the
| SKY goes through the movements or strikins
| hammer when the clock is indicating the ever
| hour. Besides this, another symbol Is used FOL
every complete five minutes, and yet another
for odd minutes. Thus. supposing the time K
| be 7:Z7, this would be denoted by the sever
| beats In the first instance then five other sign
Indicating 6x5 minutes), then two short sharI
| dashes for the two odd minutes. This operation
4 is gone through with every minute the signal
ing taking, on an average about ten seconds
| 1t is evident that such system can be modified
to suit all sorts Of conditions, and further, tina
| the code has only to be understood to enable
any one to read the SKY clock with ease after
| little practice.
| VISITORS to Mount Washington can hardly
have failed to notice In several places by tn,
side of the road leading from the Glen to tn,
| summit curiOuslY bent and twisted rocks, som,
of which strikingly resemble layers Of rump,et
| cloth, Gays the Youths Companion. The evi
kdence which the forms Of these rocks furnish OF
| the action Of some tremendous pressure in LONG
past times, which was able to bend and fold thu
layers of the earth crust, is kind that appeal
| to the eye and mind of the most uninstructeC
| observer. The geologist sees in the mountain
| themselves far grander proofs of the might O
those forces OF disturbance that have broker
and corrugated the rocky shell of the globe
| The effectiveness of the slow contraction which
! the earth has undergone as its interior
has gradually. cooled off, in upheav
| ing and deforming its surface, has recently
| been beautifully illustrated by the expert
ments of the French geologsI, Prof. A. Dau
| bree. He took a distended ball OF caoutchouc
made to initiate the form OF the earth, slight,
flattened at the poles, and covered it with
| layer Of beeswax. Then the ball was allowed
| to contract a little. Immediately the beeswal
| surface was thrown into folds and fractured
and upheaved in some places and depressed II
| others, the effect being to produce q striking
| resemblance to the surface Of the earth, with il
mountains and valleys and vast beds Of broker
| and tilted rocks. So in few minutes, by thi
| ingenious experiment, geological history o
| the earth in miniature can be enacted, and Will,
watching it, with the aid of a little imagination
| we may behold some of those mighty processes
which, acting through .nillions OF years, have
| gradually brought our planet into the condition
| in which we see il to-day.