The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The pressure that can be produced by cleo
trolytlc generation of gas in a closed space has
recently been tested by a French scientist. The
highest pressure heretofore realized was $50
pounds to the square inch. In this instance the
pressure obtained was between Il, 900 and 49, 900
to the square inch, when the manometer cracked
without any explosion.
BLINDNESS reaches the highest point in civil
lied lands C2l6 persons to 100, 600 of population)
among the Spaniards. who are, proverbaly and
conspcuously. brunettes, while il is much
smaller In Sweden (9l per 900 less than
half, the land of stalwart and rosy checked
blondes. The United States. by the way, has
the lowest ratio of blind population in the
world. Egypt has the highest.
THE curious custom of telling the bees" is
observed In some parts of nearly every country
in the world. Those who observe the custom
always go to the beehives and tap. gently on
each one, then stoop and whisper under the cap
or lid that Mary, Jane, Thomas or William is
dead. This is done to keep the little honey
makers from forsaking their place OF abode
should they have to walt ana find out the news
of the calamity themselves.
THE distressing Illness which aff1icts the labor
ers employed in the construction of the mount
ain railways in South America has recently
formed the subject Of an article by a French
engineer, NJ. Charles Legrand. These railways
attain night CONSIDERABLY greater IMAM thas
reached by the Jungtrau, Matterhorn and
Righi railways, $1,000 feet. long acclmatiza-
ton period ia nee 4ssary, NJ Legrand says, be-
fore physical work can be undertaken.
ONE of the most remarkable instances of dis
celebration of sea water is reported from Port
Jackson, the harbor of Sydney. New South
Wales. Suddenly the water presented In places
the color of blood. This was found to be due to
the invasion and rapid development of a micro
scopic glenodum, which in the course Of a few
days destroyed half of the shore animals.
Nearly all the bivalves in the place which it
affected died, the oyster beds being seriously
injured.
ACCORDING to gypsy ideas the clouds are
daughters of the mist king, and the lightning
flashes the sons of the fire king, who would soar
up high into space, but the wind king comes
and drives them down to the earth, their grand
mother. In their flight before the wind king
the lightning and the progeny very often lose
the road to their father, the fire king, who
dwells deep in the earth, ana fall prosJraJe in
| the wrong part of the earth, where they are
changed TO stone.
THE country of Nottingham is in some ways
an epitome of England. 1t has its black coun-
| try, where a great part OF the people are en-
gagged in mining industries; its forest scenery,
where there are to be found spots which seem
| to have come down unchanged from the time
| when it was hunting ground tor Plantagenet
| princes and their kindred; and on the eastern
| frontier we come upon rich and well-culti-
| waited soil, grand meadows and pastures, where
| English agriculture may be seen almost at its
| best.
THE largest olive orchard in the world be-
longs TO Ellwood Cooper of Santa Barbara
| county, California. Mr.. Cooper purchased the
land occ upied by this mammoth grove OF
| Oriental trees away back In 1871, the entire
| orchard including the portions Of it which are
| devoted to the culture of English walnuts, ia
panese persimmons. almonds, etc, comprising
| LOO acres. Thu orchard now has 10000 olive
trees, 800 in full bearing, the remainder be-
| ing young trees set out during the past year
and half. Besides the olive trees, there are
| 5000 English walnut trees. 1880 Japanese per-
| Summon trees, 10000 almond trees and about
| 1000 other fruit and nut trees. The 10000 olive
trees yielded 10000 quart bottles of olive oil
last year, which found ready market at ST 70
| per bottle; the nut trees bore thousands of
| bushels of nuts, to say nothing of the Japanese
persimmons. Taken all in all, ir has been cal
| culated that Mr.. Co oper's orchard brings an in
| come of not less than $500 per acre every year.