The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-29
NATURAL FRUIT FlEYoRS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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/ TIE fume which conveys the water from the
mountains 70 the reservoir az san Diego, Cal. q.
Is said by those who .Eow whereof they speak
( u be the largest and longest thing OF the Kind
IN the world It g t-lrtyfive miles long, and Is
composed almost wholly OF redwood.
4 HORSE EEL into q water course near Law
renee, Kan, and could not get out \ friendly
dog ran 70 the stable. made another dog under
stand the situation and then took his master to
the scene. There he found the second dog
licking the horse 5 face ami wagginS his tail for
encOurag cement.
II Is SAID that when Col. John Thompson, a
prominent New York lawyer, goes TO Washing.
| ton he Is kept busy explaining 70 the people,
| who think they know MIN. that he Is not ex-
/ Congressman Phil Thompson of Kentucky. The
resemblance IS marvellous, even to the tone Of
| voice, gesture and carriage.
BEES will never thrive in g quarrelsome
family. Many think that bees only thrive when
they are stolen, while It is generally considered
unIucEy 70 purchase bees, and that the only
way to get tnem-n they are 70 DO wells 10
| haze them given, catch wiik swarm, or 70
! steal them, leaving some goods in exchange.
WITH regard to the influence of electricity
on the growth Of plants, a series Of experiments
made by Prof Aloi on Lactuca Scariola maize
wheat, tobacco ami beans, Indicate that atmos-
pherlc electricity exercises q beneficial infu-
ence on vegetation that the electricity Of the
sD4 Las q sll4lAdE lOQueuCS on the geFmlQaCiOD
Of seeds and that the less luxuriant vegetation
Of plants which grow in the neigh borhood OF
trees is in great part due to the diminution Of
temperature.
a CONVENIENT automatic appliance Is being
adopted in some Of the rail manufacturing
establishments; an apparatus by means of
which the number of rails rolled Is st once and
accurately recorded. The device for accom-
pLshing this result is q very simple counter,
| but the method by which it is scsusted is quite
nj of md ,t-Sar
fact that this end Of the apparatus has to be in
close proximity to hot rail, the conditions
! under which II operates being therefore very
severe. AS the rails pass from the SAWS they
strike small lever, which Is thus N owed out Of
its normal position and this aceuates a contact
piece within a case which thoroughly protests
the mechanism from all heat and moisture.
The electric circuit is carried from this contact
mechanism to the recording instrument-an ar
rangement by which the record can be easily
read at any time, and the precise amount OF
production be at once known.
AN original method has lately been proposed
by a New Hampshire inventor for the ex.
tinguishment of fires. To accomplish this pur-
| pose a chemical generator as large as may be
needed for the case in hand is first provided.
and pipes run from this into each room in the
building; at the top is a jar in which acid is
stored, inside OF which is a cartridge; an open
/ circuit battery is used. The thermostat in ca CHI
room is set at whatever figure is desired per-
J haps at 609. On the occurrence OF fire the mer-
/ curry runs up to this figure. and the circuit is
closed; this explOdes the cartridge in the lar,
| valve drops down, and the chemicals are sent to
/ the room through system Of sprinklers. In
connection with this device there is a system OF
: dry pipes and in case it is found that the caern-
| icas do not eXtinguish the fire an attendant on
| the outside Of the building is able tell by the
! enumerator in which apartment the fire is To-
| Gated and by turning a switch can food the
| room with water
| IT is not generally known that one Of the
| most successful fnancers in New York to-day
was once Secretary of the Treasury for tie con
| federate states. This is W L. Trenholm. once
! a prosperous merchant in Charleston, S &. lie
| has lived in New York since the war. during
| which he served as a private. Mr.. Trenholm
| was appointed controller of the currency by
| President Cleveland in 1885, and held that posi-
! ton until 1889, when he resigned and accepted
| the presidency Of the American Surety Com
| pany o. New York. Since then he has also be
| come first vice president of the State Trust
| Company and a director in the Mechanics
| however, TO lend material aid 70 the scientific
| movements and is a member Of the Institute of
| Science, the Social Science Association, the
civil service reform, the Southern Society, also
| many social and political clubs in New York and
| Washington: Like many other southerners,
cotton gave him q start in life.
THE Italian never buys a stiletto," remarked
a local police official last Saturday to a New
| York Advertiser writer, but manufactures il at
home out Of any mat rial that he can Law his
hands upon. There are two distinct brands of
| the article, the ty and the suburban, the first
being made by the geutlemanly member of the
| the Malta, who resides in town, and the second
by his brother, who tolls far from the maddin9
| crowd. have about sixty of these pleasing
weapons in my collection, and fine that those
stations are made OF old table knives as
a rule that have been sharpened and
ground down to half of their original
size. The blades are sunk into handles of soft
: pine, which ara wrapped in turn with fine brass
wire. When the suburban Italian sets out to
| build one of these pleasing weapons he quietly
| breaks off the prong of a nay fork, polishes up
| the point until il would penetrate ANYTHING blit
| 1t with wire. One lunge from this delightful
tool is more than enough for the plain, ordinary
man.
Nor only In our own country, but in France,
| Germany, Russia and other nations the use of
! cellulose for ship armor has been introduced,
| and, as an illustration Of its effectiveness one
| of the Danish warships was equipped recently
| with a belt of the material, and a shot fired at
| 1t tore hole away through the whole vessel
| the action OF water on the celIulose however
| closing the hole up very soon, letting in but
| few gallons of water. In ordinary manufacture
| for realizing this result, the article is the
! ground fibre OF the cocoanut. which has been
| treal ed for the removal of the glutinous asso-
| Citations. 1t has the appearance OF brown
ish meal and its peculiar value is that, upon
! contact with water, its tendency is to swell
| quickly, rendering an orlice or hole made by
the pouring in of water as tight as need be in a
short time. In al uncompressed state it burns
slowly but when compressed it is almost totally
incombustible. Its specific gravity is very low.
a cubic foot OF the ordinary article weighing
! but D pounds. while a briquette of a cubic
| foot weighs little more than eight pounds
| When packed in compartments it is preserved
| from direct contact with the metal OF the ship
! ter-as if dampened from leaks or otherwise.
| the portion In contact with the metal will