The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-14
NATURAL FRUIT FLRoRs.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OK the land Of David Gowan, in ."Tonto
basin, " in the northern part of ella county Ari-
iona. is a natural bridge that should be placed
on the list of champion wonders Between the
rock walls more than 200 feet high it spans
cavern 200 feet wide in a single arch. The width
is 600 feet, and the average thickness of the
arch is 40 feet, though In one place near the top
1t is scarcely six feet thick. Here, through
circular hole. may be seen the waters dashing
along so far below From the numerous caves
and cavernS in the vicinity, in which abound
beautiful stalactites and stalagmites il has
been suggested that the now open canyon was
once Subterranean passage, and that the nat
ural bridge ls the last remains of the roof that
once covered the entire passage. The rock is a
limestone.
ATTEMPTS have frequently been made both
on shore and at sea, to transmit signals by
means of a captive balloon. and system which
promised excellent results has recently been
tried by the German navy, says the London
Illustrated NelCs. BY its means the admiral can
signal to his feet at night, or to ships passing
by. at far greater distance than is now posi- e.
BILE, as, owing to its hight the balloon gives a
much wider range than a masthead.
The code adopted is the Morse, and the
different signals are given by means of incan-
descent electric lamps, fitted to the lower
part OF the balloon and worked by wires con-
nected with the batteries on shore or on the
flagship. The balloon can also be used for
lighting up the country around, aud for this
purpose powerful electric lamp with strong
reflector is attached 10 the lower ring OF the
balloon. 1t is not necessary to have man in the
car OF the balloon to work the signals, as the
lamps are entirely worked by electricity, and
only come in contact with the cover of the
balloon when the electric current is turned Off.
Iris rare indeed that the governor of a state
is at once an ordained and acting minister OF
the gospel. But a case In point is found in In
diana, and the parson-governor is the man ele-
waited by Gov Hovey s death 10 the chief execu-
tlveship, Ira j. Chase. While lieutenant COVER
nor, Mr.. Chase did considerable itinerant mis-
sionary preaching, but last Sunday was his first
appearance in the pulpit since being promoted
to the governorship. He preached in Indianapo-
lis, and his appearance is thus described: IN
preaching he stands directly in the center of
the platform, we'll to the front, and his method
of exhortation is that followed by the parsons
or the country villages. He constantly Resticu-
lates, his every word being accom- panied by
some motion of hand, or head or body. Even
during the hymns and solos his body sways TO
and fro in time with the music, and he beats
the time to himself while seated ON the lounge
during the offertory solo, raising his eyes and
head heavenward with great expires
siveness Gov. Chase is very deliberate
IN speech and fond Of using long sentences.
TsHANG YAo, the governor of the province OF
Shantung, who died recently, was one of the
highest dignitaries of the Celestial empire. says
an exchange. He mad a highly adventurous
career. Born in lowly position, he was Obliged
to flee in his youth on account of aving muir
| dered the tormentOr of an old man. He became
/, Yobber and soon stood at the head Of all the
brigands who made the province of Human un-
| safe When, during che rebellion, the chief
| province was threatened, the governor issued a
| proclamatio on In which he promised the hand of
| his daughter to the man who would save the
| town from the enemy. At the head of 500
| bandits, Tshang beat off the attack of the reb-
| els and led home on the next day as a reward
| for his bravery the almOnd-eyed beauty. Then
| he made rapid progress He was not able to
read or write, but Of great integrity and
| died poor he was born. He was called by his
| people on account of his charity, Tshang the
"blue sky" 1t is said however that he was
| not always just toward Europeans, and espec-
| tally the missionaries.
| ALL BILLS are issued by the Bank of France
says La Genie Civile, which carries on the
| that OF the paper on which they are printed,
and the ink used. The paper factory is at La
| Ferte sous Jouarre, where linen rags so
! treated as to produce paper of q peculiar
quality. This special paper is made, inspected
cut into sheets, and sent to Paris under the care
of two of the bank officials, who are held re
, sponsible for every sheet. The sheets are
packed in bundles of 1000 in EACH and are print
cd in the basement orthe bank building in Paris
! A series of bills consists of 1000, and twenty
five series, y, Is, c, etc and tied up together
under the name of an alphabet" After each
! operation the bills are verified by women, who
| sign their names on the bands placed around
! the bundles. AS there are nine operations there
must be nine verifications. and the final verii-
| cation is repeated by fresh set OF inspectors,
80 that nothing can be overlooked. After the
bills are complete they are delivered to the sec =
I Rotary OF Ln6 OaDK, VINO examines them and
gives q receipt for them, dischargin9 the head
| of the printing department from further re-
= sponslbility. They are then placed in the
1 vaults and are withdrawn for issue only bv
| order of the governors of the bank.
THE Japanese horticulturist shows wonder
| full patience coupled with what we practical
| Americans would term il-directed skill, in his
| rare art of propagating miniature trees
| and vines, says the St. Louis Republic 1t is a
| well known fact that both the Chinese and
| the japanese are never satisfied unless they can
| MAIN and distort both nature and art. This
| may be seen in the outlandish cartoons which
| their painters turn out as works of art and In
the deformed buildings fashioned bY their ar
| chtects. But if either may be said to excel in
| these unseemly practices 1t is surely the Japa-
nese. Unlike the American and the European
gardener, who strains every nerve to secure
large and thrifty plants and trees. the Jap loses
sleep trying to devise some plan that will de-
| form, cripple. and stunt the growth of his trees
and vines, and, as general thing, when they
set their minds to do O thing it is usually done
The Japanese art of making miniature land
scapes and gardens consists chiefly in
| starving the plants so as to re ard the crcu-
lation of the sap or life giving Juices Ferguson
who one among the first of English ad
! venturerS to visit China and Japan, mentions
the fact that he saw at Canton "a boxe about
the bigness of ladye's snuffe box. which did con-
| tame llttyl dirt and sixteen tiny littyl trees,
foure of which were in full blow, the whole
boxe, trees and all. so small that a man could
put them i'll hys mouth together" Keampfer
| is also quoted as describing trio of trees he
| saw in a box w inches broad, 4 inches long and
| inches deep, for which the owner asked the
traveller the modest sum of $780, The three
denizens of the box were bamboo. a monthly.
I blooming plum tree and blue-leafed pine, all
| perfectly formed and seemingly enjoying their
dwarfed existence. When Lady Hester Weth-
Grail visited the royal palace at the Japanese
| capital in 1856 she was shown miniature pine
tree growing in a lady's silver thimble SUSPEND
ed by silken threads. The tree was a perfect
forest monarch in miniature, it's branches ex-
hibiting not less than fifty perfect little cones