The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-11
NATURAL FRUIT FLNoRS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


A GOLD COIN passes from one to another
1000 900 times before the stamp or i'm
preston upon it becomes obliterated by fric-
tion, while a silver coin CHANCES between
| $1,000 goo times before it becomes entirely
effaced.
THE capital of the column OF polished syenite
from Haynes, Egypt, in the museum of
Archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania
is in the British museum. The column is II
feet iu hight and is engraved with hieroglyphs
giving the names and titles OF Rameses II.
THE two longest words in Worcester. Webster
or the Century dictionary are said to be psla
topharingeolaryngeal and Observation-Disclosures
aliSts. longer one is noted in American
Notes and Queries" it is methylbenzome-
thoxyethyltetI OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
A TELEPHONE up the volcano on Hawaii is the
latest novelty for jewellers onsthe island. In the
old days men rode on hors back ahead OF the
lava flow to let the settlers know there had been
an eruption, but hereafter it will be necessary
| only to turn the crank and caHNp Central"
ARIZONA has one of the greatest copper mines
in the world. The Copper Queen is one of
world wide reputation, and 6pEing 1884, with
copper down to ridiculousy low prices and the
cost of development work runaing up into the
mil ions, the mine paid dividend Of $3.50 900.
CELLULosE. the new fiber material found TO
close upA wound in ships side made by q
missile of war, is TO be used in the construction
of five new war ships. Recent experiments
| justify the use as contempiated9th though its ut
most efficiency can not be determined until the
| test Of war.
THE alleged connection between gypsies and
the nails used in the crucihxion has frequently
been referred to. 1t is said that the Iinkers are
| descendants of the one who made the nails for
| the cross, and are condemned to wander con-
tinualy without rest This tradition is very
| common in the highlands OF Scotland.
''IF every human being on the American con-
tinent we're to be taken out of existence" said
the late Prof. Asa Gray, and the whole work
! of his hands were cleared away, 80 that no
| trace remained. subsequent historians could
| prove that the Caucasian race existed upon
| it by the flowers that would be found growing
| there"
! SOMETIMES families who desire to bury their
dead in the clothing worn in life-in evening or
| wedding dress, for MISUNDERSTANDING less
! costly limitations for the jewelry worn in life,
| partly from motives of thrift aud partly from
| a superstitious fear that anything taken off a
| body when 1t is ready for the tomb will bring
! ill-luck to future wearers.
| THERE is no European country in which wo
men clerks are more employed than in France.
Indeed. it is rare to enter French shop and
| find man serving as an accountant. Book
| keepers are paid from $40 to &120 year, and
| acc luntants much the same. In the CONNER
| Cial houses where the women clerks are also
employed, they often have an interest In the
. business.
| The Chinese in America say that it is the Gus
tom in China to burn old worm. eaten wooden
idols and cast the ashes into the river, in order
| to prevent the possibility of the idol being pro-
| famed by being trodden under foot. Old idols
| of Kwanyin are said to be an exception and are
| retained. 1t is also the custom in India, among
| the BrahminS to throw their marble idols in
| the river when they become broken.
A SUBMARINE TELEPHONE has recently been
invented and a number of experts have ex
| amned it critically. The manner in which It is
| operated has not been made public, but the San
| Francisco Coll states that it is applicable for
| communication with ships below the horizon
| as means Of indicating submerged wrecks, ice
| bergs or approaching vessels as far distant as
ten miles and for signaling the approach Of
| ships to besieged ports. .-3'
In the year 1887 the French engineer, NJ Jus,
demonstrated that that portion Of the Sahara
! desert Included within the area OF French
| Algeria contained large underground supplies
| OF water, and the number of wells bored since
| that time in the departments 81 Algiers, Oran
and Constantine amounts to mere than 1900.
| These wells vary from 100 to 4Qphfeet in depth,
| and the pressure Of the water forces 1t q coupls
| of feet above the surface of the ground. It's
| then led into bitches and is camisd in this way
| to the vineyards. date trees apds wheat fields
| No fewer than 1870 900 acres Ok barren land
has been make fruitful in thfsI@sy and enter
prise representing perhaps tha most remark
| able example OF irrigation, by means of
artesian wells which anywhere be found.
| Algeria owes to this method OF cultivation that
| it is becoming most important wine -produc-
| ing country, as may be gagged from the fact
that it sent to France in 1885 10 500, 900 gallons.
| BY FAR the greatest number of flowers have
no smell at all-for instance, of the 4 200 species
Of flowers in Europe only about 10 per cent. are
known to give forth any odor, says the Brook
| Ign Eagle. The commonest flowers are white
ones of which there 1,l9J kinds. and of
| thes one sixth are fragrant. OF the 951 kinds
| of yellow flowers II are odorleSS of the 1923 red
| kinds "a. Of 594 blue kinds 81, of the 308 violet
| b ue KINDS 10. OF the 240 kinds with combined
| colors. % ara fragrant. The various delightful
| and disagI eeable odors of plants generally re-
side in the flowers, though in some their seat is
in the leaves stem; but IN either case the odor
is due to the presence of volatile essential oils
| of more or less resinouS nature The num-
! Der Of eSe is unknowa. and their nature is so
complex that any slight variation of the TEN
perature or in the amount of light falling on
one OF them is sufficient, as has often besn
| experienced in the laboratory to cause a
! arrangement of its component elements.
resulting, SO far as smell is concerned in an
| entirely different compound. Prophyc ether
| which is an example Of these unstable com
! pounds. can by slightly different arrangement
| of Its elements be made to yield the odor of
pineapple or of bad fish The reason, there
fore. why each kind OF plant has different
| odor is the ease with which one perfume can be
transferred into another. Sufficient cause for
| such transition is found in the mode of life Of
each variety of plant and the difference in their
chemical constitution. Whatever in any way
affects the life and growth of a plant rapidly
shows its effects upon the flower and its per
fume The nature of the soil and its humidity,
the variations in temperature, the intensity Of
the sunlight, will sooner or later transform the
nature of plant. For one plant to produce the
! same perfume another il must live the same
life, absorb the same elements from the earth,
| as also from the air; it must breath the same,
| which necessitates similar leaves it must build
up its tissues In the same manner; in short 1t
| be the DlaQt.