The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ENGLISH oak is scarce, lots offered for sale
nowadays commanding large prices. At sale
Of some oak trees in Burghley park recently
from ESQ to $50 each were paid for trees, Half
dozen of the best trees sold for 9S1, ESQ., e72,
966, f64 and Sol. One tree, containing $50
feet of lumber, sold for ESQ. year ago an
oak tree sold for &l10-nearly $500.
A FRENCHMAN has recently made important
advances in the work Of photographing colors.
One Of his plates gives view of q stained glass
window containing red, green, blue and yellow:
others show group Of flags. partly colored
paroquet and a plate OF oranges with poppy
lying on the top. The shades of the objects as
well as their colors, are faithfully reproduced.
So GREAT will be the new Cunarder. Cam
pania, that she will measure but % feet less
than the famous Great Eastern, which, with its
o92 feet of length and 50 feet in breadth, was q
gigantic failure and was finally the prey OF the
junk man. Everything about the Campania
will be British make but the rolled steel rudder,
and that will have to be made at the Krupp
works in Germany.
IN the west Of England, particularly on the
borders of Dartmoor and Exmoor, there are
SPECTATORS who earn considerable incomes by
rabbit catching A middleman who bought up
all the rabbits in district on the eastern side
of Dartmoor. and sent them to dealers in the
Midlands and London, earned In a few years a
sufficiently large sum to enable him to retire
and live in a house Of bis own building.
HENRY YOUNG OF 6re6nDubn, NE, was out
blue .berrying near his clearing aud got on to a
large hemlock tree to walk along over a rough
place. The tree lay about -four feet above the
grount in the middle, and at this point Mr..
Young slipped of the tree and fell on to a large
bear that was taking a nap. 1t would be hard
to tell whether the man or the bear was the
mos. frightened, but neither stopped to show
fight
ACCORDING to recent census, Christianity is
the third creed in India IN point of numbers.
And DR.. George F. Pentecost, who has been en- =
gagged In missionary work in that country, gives
a hopeful account of the steady growth of
Christianity in India. He reports q steady
growth of Christianity In India. He reports a
Brahmin as saying that Christianity is not so
much converting individual Hindoos as Chris
TANNING Hinduism.
GEORGE W. VANDERBILT, in increasing his
stupendous estate in North Carolina, Biltmore,
puts together his own and his mothers maiden
name The estate comprises about 10 900 acres
and is about 1900 feet above the sea- 1t cost
$4,000. 1t is drive Of twenty five miles over
hill and mountain to girdle this property. 1t
will take six years to build the house which is
315 by 1872 feet. The ceilings of the banquet hall
will be 65 feet high. The house will have four
floors and 100 rooms, and can't be run by a cook
and boy to chop wood. Indeed, Mr.. Wander
bilt will have about 100 servants about him
when he is keeping house.
AN old almanac for 1914 gives the following
as the rates OF postage prevailing at that time:
For every single letter by land, for 10 miles, 8
cents; 80 miles, 10 cents: 150 miles, 1915 cents;
800 miles, II cents; 500 miles, 20 cents, and for
more than 800 mics. % cents, no allowance to
be made for informed aje miles, Every double
letter is to pay double the said rates; every
triple letter, trigle; every packet Weighing one
ounce, at the rate Of four single cite s each
ounce. Every ship letter originally received st
an office for delivery, cents Magazines and
pamphlets not over so miles, cent per sheet;
over so miles aud not exceeding 100 do, ~
cents per Sheet over 100 miles, cents per
sheet"
RUSSIAN women who respect the old adage.
''De nortuis nil nisi bonum." had considerable
difficulty IN restraining their feelings when
they learned of the results of the examinatiol 1
of the brain of Prof. Bishof who recently died
in st. Petersburg. The professor was one OF
the most ardent opponents OF the emancipation
OF women and thorough believer IN the theory
that women are inferior to men because their
| brains, as rule, are smaller. In his numerous
| addresses upon the subject he was wont to say
| that while the average weight of the male
| brain was 1850 grams, that of the female brain
| was only l,2J0 grams" After Bishot's death
his own brain was weighed aud was found TO
| turn the scales at 1910 grams, five grams less
| than the average female brain, which had SO
often aroused his pity, contempt and satirel
| SOME Australian blacks, who were Imported
for show purposes and are detained at San Fran
cisco. are wonderfully clever with the boone
rang. One of their most interesting perform
ances is the throwing OF the boomerang so as to
describe the figure & One line crosses the other
as quick as flash, and the boomerang goes
Whlstltng through space and finally comes back
after having proceeded many yards Its move
ments are faster than that of q flying fish and
1t strikes at the end Of its journey with tremen-
dous force. At fifty yards or more the boone
rang is deadly in their hanis. They claim that
they can throw it with such ingenuity and force
as to enctrcle the spire of the Hottest San Fran
cisco church. and that the movements of the
weapon around the spire will be far swifter than
at point midway between the thrower and the
steepe.
Two YEARS ago, says the St. Louis Republic
Victor Meyer, the eminent author and lecturer
of Heidelburg, Germany, in q public address
delivered before the students of the university
at that place, said: Chemistry is the great
unraveler the revealer Of hidden mysteries
We may even reasonably hope that ere
long II will teach us to make the fiber of wood a
source of human food. The fiber OF wood con
sists essentially Of cellulin; can this be made
into starch? If it can the food problem of the
nations is forever solved. st rch has about the
same PERCENTAGE composition, ETC. wher-
ever found, but it differs very
much in its properties. and the nature
OF its molecules has always been one of the
greatest enigmas to the chemist But a new
era is dawning, we are beginning TO read eel
lulin molecules like an open book, and would
not be at all surprised to hear that some sayant
had manufactured a nice food from what was
once the most unruly elements" His cola
bOrers took the cue and have industriouslv
worked to prove the dreams OF the master
mind; and they have, IL the popular scientific
writers 60 be relied upon, made cornstarch
from cellulIn, and bread from the Chemically
pure" starch, which is said to be more nutri-
tious than that made from either barley or rye
II this is all true to the letter, as we hope IL ia
secondary importance, as the supply will be
practically ineXhaustible