The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-01
NATURAL FRUIT FLANoRS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NINE days. four hours and twenty-one min
utes is the fastest time yet made from shore to
| shore by an Atlantic freghter. Il was done by
| the White Star new twin-screw boat Naronic
| last week. She and her sister, the Bowie, just
| launched, are the biggest steam freighters
| ahoat.
AN incidental suggestion of the enormous
volume of San Frsncisco's wheat shipments is
| given in the fact that ships are chartered In
| Calcutta TX months before the harvest for the
exclusive purpose OF bringing over jute bags
ana oagging for the crop. -Four ships were
thus chartered last winter to bring some &c 000.-
900 bags. and at least 10 600, 900 more will have
probably been obtained from other sources.
THAT the proprietorship OF q Newspaper
should pass uninterruptedly from father to son
| for century aud half is a rare and note
| worthy event in the annals of journalism. Such,
| however, is the case with the SctIesische
| Zeitun0, which was founded by Johann Jakob
| Korn at Breslau in 1742, when this province had
| just been wrested from Austria and annexed to
Prussia by Frederick the Great, and is still pub
| lished by his lineal descendants.
IT IS SAID there are at least score of brokers
| in New York who make it a business of making
bets on the races for women. There are many
| respectable ladies among their clientele, and
| perhaps the majority of them are respectable,
| inasmuch as the other class 90 to the races and
| make their own bets, requiring no commission
| merchant, except the messenger who carries
| their money to the bookmaker and returns the
| ticket. 1t is needless to say that the women
| who play the races almost invariably lose their
money.
"DURINo the past three months" says The
! Portland Press, there was listed in Portland
a26, 671 live Holsters and 1850 dozen OF canned
| Holsters. When we consider the fact that IL
takes on an average the meat of so Holsters to
| fill one dozen cans. and that the above figures
| represent the impor tatIon of more than l.
| 100000 Of Holsters in three months ct this
| port alone, we get some idea of the enormous
| consumption of this article of food in
this country, and the old inquiry as to how
| long this drain upon the rich resources OF
the coast can be stood naturally suggests itself"
The most gigantic piece of solid masonry that
has been erected in modern time was finished In
| the Bombay presidency last summer. The city
| of Bombay, which is listed among the largest
| on the globe, having a population Of nearly
| 1000 900, was in danger OF being forced to I'M
| dergo water famine. The wise men called a
| meeting aud decided to build monster dam,
| one that would inclose the entire watershed of
the valley, which drains into the south of
| the city. The plans and specifications selected
| called for dam OF solid masonry, pyraLnidal in
general outlines, two miles long, IFS feet high.
1 lO3 feet in thickness at the base and 81 feet at
the top In its finished condition it is reckoned
| as the acme of engineering skill The top is
| provided with beautiful driveway q feet wide
| protected each side with concrete guards,
| eacn 3 feet in thickness and feet high 1t
incloses lake Of water eight square miles in
| area
IT IS CLAIMED to be possible to demonstrate
differences in the colors of inks which cannot
| be seen. the one Ink appearing light and the
| other dark II is well Understood the tints of
the inks that called black are either brown,
red, green or blue in shad-; such tones have
| but lit tie effect the eye, as it 10 chiefly
| sensitive to the yellow and red rays But the
| chief ensuivenes5 of Photographic plates, on
the other hand les in the blue violet and
| ulC a-vi let As with ordinary sensitive plates
| yellow and green subjects are rendered dark
| AMI blue ones light, the same, it is stated.
I will follow in Photographic inks of various
| h1.~k ~. H., -
| intensified by the use of suitably coIored light
and color sensitive plates In this manner
| marked differences in the various inks be
clearly and distinctly demonstrated. The
| method it is believed, can be made practically
useful in the application Of photography to the
| detection Of the Justification OF handwriting;
that Is in case of that kind the process will be
| serviceaole. as In an enlarged photogre PHO
| picture erasures and alterations can be more
| clearly seen than in the original.
MAN, in the st. Louis Globe Democrat, tells
how to get earth worms without digging for
them. Take strong stick, four or five feet
| long and sharp at one end, and go to some
locality, such as the back of barn, where the
worms are sure to be plentiful Drive the
stick four or five inches into the ground with
hammer or stone, and then begin to twist it
with rotary motion. Every few minutes hit
the top rap to drive the point further into the
groun I, and keep on twisting. In five minutes
the worms will begin crawling out of their boles
and al you have TO do is to pick them I'D and
put them in your can. They hear the grinding
ana tnllk IL Is q mole AFTER them, and know that
only on the surface are they safe. So they
come out, those nearest to the sound making
their appearance first, with every evidence OF
haste and trepidaton. Sometimes they come
up for distance of ten or fifteen feet from the
twirlng st OK; and in places where they are
plentiful as many as hundred can be literally
scared out Of the ground in this manner. Some
people think a worm has no sense, and they
may be right In general, but worm knows that
mole is its deadllest enemy, and will come
squrming to the top of the ground any time it
hears a mole coming in its direction.
A YOUNG French chemist, NJ. Henri Cour-
tonne, is credited by the Paris Figaro with a
| new discovery. Sound being trsnsmissible by
| telephone, NJ Courtoune argued by rigorous
ara ogy that light might be transmitted too. AS
| the telephone consists of a transmtter, a wire
and receiver there was reason to believe that
these three organs might be adapted for trans
hitting light vibrations, aud for this purpose
the transmiUter and receiver should be prepared
chemically for receiving aud giving out light
| instead of sound vibrations This was
done by substituting sensitized photo
| graphic plates for the ordinary telephone
| plate. One of the plates was placed in front of
an aperture through which an image cast,
and this image has been forwarded by wire and
has been seen at the other end The first appa-
| ratuS was very imperfect, and NJ. COurtonne,
| having heard that Mr.. Edison was on the track
of similar discovery, resolved to publish his
experimental description of which he, however.
sent in a sealed letter to the academy in 1889.
This letter is only to be opened at the sender's
request. The ioGro SAYS that the consequences
ed. Tomorrow you will see in Paris the image
of man smoking in st. Petersburg"
THE city of Basic the other day celebrated the
o0oth anniversary of the union of Great and Lit
tie Basic. Early in the morning the authorities
and societies of the two parts Of the city met in
the middle of the old Rhine bridge and congrat-
ulated each other upon the benefits which had
accrued from the union of 500 years. Then
they marched to the minister for q religious
service. and afterward Toasted together. In the
afternoon there was historical play. The
slope of a piece of rapidly rising ground on the
outskirts of the city was converted into
an amphitheater with seats for 1000
persons. At the foot was an immense
stage, upon which 800 characters played their
parts in scenes from the history OF Bias Q. Every
seat was occupied, and there were 5000 other
spectators beyond the barres, who remained
for three hours under a broiliRg sun to witness
the performance. This consisted simply of
four tableaux with dialogue, solos, choruses
and Dances and very effective orchestra &C
Compartment. The tableaux represented first
the Emperor Valentinian founding Basiea out
Of ha half aav fab AZ