The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-03
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IT is said Of the Chinese coolies that cents a
day is all that is necessary to procure them
food. But the London vegetarian leaders have
made discovery which puts this fact entirely
In the shade. One of them told the London
school board that a child can live on cent a
DAY, and the project is now being warmly
mooted on all sides.
THE greatest work of antiquity on angling,
says the american Angler, is said to be the
Halieutica Of Orphan, Greek poet who -four
lshed in the time of Severus, A, D. 1873, from
which we learn that many articles In fishing
thought to be modern were known to the an
clients. We also learn from Athenus that sew
eral other writer's had written treatises or poems
on fishing some centuries before the Christian
era.
AN instrument named the hydrophone. the in
vention of Capt. MEvry, a well-known sub
marine mining expert, has lately been tested by
elaborate and prolonged experiment. The in
strument is sunk in the water in a suitable local.
ity, and connected by electric cable with the
shore, and it gives warning OF the approach of a
man of war within a mile, and of a torpedo boat
within half a mile. The inventor thinks il may
be utilized as means of warning shipping APP
preaching dangerously near the shore in thick
weather.
THE Buffalo Commercial cautions lovers Of
rare perfumes to be on guard against imposture:
When you sse genuine altar Of roses offered
on the bargain counter for 25 cents half pint
you are justified in suspectiug that article. The
Icdl dktdT comes IN copper c6Qb66n6, winch
weigh about twenty ounces. They are valued
at 500 apiece. The present supply of altar Is
chiefly derived from small tract of country on
the southern side of the Balkan mountains, in
the Turkish province of Roumanis. The prin.
cipal seat of the trade is in the town of Kizanik
and the damask rose is the flower grown. The
peasants plant IL in rows in gardens and fields.
During the month of May the flowers are gath
cred by boys and girls in sacks and clothes
baskets. The flowers are daily distilled that
they may lose none OF their odor by delay. 1t
10 81 aL@
required 10 produce "a pounds of pure altar"
THE speed of flies is something that have
always had a great curiosity to know" said ].
A. Bascomb of Little Rock, Ark, to st. Louis
Globe Democrat writer. II rode out of Little
Rock early one morning over the Little Rock
and Memphis railroad My business necessi-
tated my occupying seat in the engineer cab.
The air was chill and crisp, and as we passed
through stretch of swamp noticed that great
swarms of little green flies that abound in the
Arkansas swamps were attracted to the locomo-
tive by its heat. They appeared almost frozen
They few along close to the engine to keep
warm. Going on down grade of forty-five
miles in length we ran a mile q minute. The
flies easily kept up with US, and really went
faster than we Travelled. I am confident their
speed was greater than q mile a minute, and I
will venture the assertion that they didn't reach
the limit "
TIE sun is a star and the stars are SUNS says
a writer in the Genueman'S Magazine, This
fact has been familiar one to astronomers for
many years That the stars shine by their own
inherent light and not by light reflected from
another body, like the planets of the solar sys
tenn, may be easily proved. That many of
them at least are very similar to our own SUM- is
clearly shown by several considerations. Three
facts prove this conclusiveiy. First, their
great intrinsic brilancy compared with their
small apparent diameter, q diameter so small
that the highest p1wers of the LARGEST
but points of hahI without
measurable magnitude. Second, Their
vast distance from the earth, distance so great
that the diameter OF the earth's orbit dwindles
almost to point In comparison. This accounts
satisfactorily for the first fact. Third, the
spectroscope-that unerring instrument or mod.
ern research-shows that the light emitted by
many OF them Is very similar to that radiated
by the sun. Their chemical aud physical con-
stituton is, therefore. probably analogous to
that OF our central luminary. The red stars
certainly show spectra differing considerably
from the solar spectrum but these objects are
comparatively rare, and may, perhaps be con-
sidered as forming exceptions to the general
rule.
IT seems odd. says writer In the Washing ton
Star that this country. SO rich In other natural
resources, should be comparatively barren OF
precious stones. Some gems are gathered on
the beaches, as the agates and chlorastrolites
of Lake Superior, where they have fallen out
Of the rocks which have been gradually disin-
tegrating. True beryls and garnets are fire.
Quontly Ioun0 lnoldenCally TO the mining OF
mica in Virginia and South Carolina. But the
finest Rarnets in the United States come from
| the home OF the Navajo nation In Northwest
New Mexico and Northeast Arizona where they
are collected from ant hills and scorpion nests
| by the Indians, who dispose of them In barter
These are the most beautiful garnets in the
world, being known as Arizona rubies and they
often yield cut stones weighing two or three
carats. Turquoise, which was worked by
the Aztecs before the Spaniards came ia now
regularly mined in New Mexico by the Pueblo
Indians, who break up the rocks containing the
valuable material by heating them and then
pouring cold water on them. This ia very ant
to destroy the turquoise, turning il green. A
few diamonds have been found in California
North Carolina and Georgia, but they arc rare
accidents. The biggest one, weighing twenty
FIVE carats, was picked up near Richmond, Va
Sapphires, rubios and smeralds have
been discovered only in Montana and
North Carolina, and they are not OF much
value, being Off color and usually fawed badly.
Occasionally superb amethyst is come across
in Delaware county, Pennsylvania. Splendid
crystals of topaz have boon found on cheyenne
mountain, near Pixies Peak in Colorado One
OF them weighed pound. Moss agate occurs in
great quantities in Wyoming, Colorado.
Utah and Montana Il was formerly used In
1ewelry by the ton, but now there is no market
for il worth mentioning. and it is only sold to
tourists Fossil coras are plentiful along the
shores of little Traverse bay, Mich. They take
high polish and make very pretty cuff buttons
and other such trinkets. Amber occurs along
the coast OF New Jersey, but nowhere in sur.
flcient quantities TO MAKE mining for it worth
while.