The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-15
NATURAL FRUIT ELENoRS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TEN MILES from Lexington, N. c., Is a cave
once used by Daniel Boone as retreat and re1-
| devious. and near it stood the mighty hunters
| primitive cabin. When this cabin was destroyed
some years ago the hearthstone was saved, and
| it will be sent to Chicago to form part of the
states exhibit at the worlds fair.
AN ingenious apparatus for ascertainlnE the
| depth of rivers and smaller streams has re
| Gently been successfully tried on the Elbe. It
consists of q curved arm, hinged at the upper
extremity and of a length sufficient for the
| lower curved portion to trail on the bed of the
stream. The greater the depth Of the stream
1 the more will the arm be inclined, and hence
| by suitable recording mechanism the depth can
| be automatically registered.
TAPESTRY came originally from Byzantium,
where its weaving was brought to a high state
of perfection. Its expense. like chat of all wall
\ carving and stucco, was very great Stamped
leather, which, in measure superseded il, was
also costly and possible only to the very wealthy.
| This stamped leather consisted Of the skins of
| goats and calves cut into rectangular shapes
| and covered with silver leaf. then vanished
\ with yellow lacquer to give the appearance OF
| gold.
| "SoBBINo STAYS" or corsets "a sanglots,"
| are French addition to mourning outfit.
| With his knowledge Of the niceties of his pro-
| fession 1.-THE French dressmaker understands
that when a woman sobs unrestrainedIy her
| frame undergoes certain physical convolutions
That mig ht be detrimental TO her toilet If stiff
| unYlelllng stays were ner support. 10 permit,
| therefore madap's grief TO expend itself nat
1 urally and still protect her costume from any
danger therefrom these stays are provided A
triangle of elastic is set in at each side. which
gives with every violent outhurSt of grief and
| no harm is done. The art of the French man
| milliner approaches sublimity.
| The holy rose, which the pope bestows every
| year upon some Roman Catholic princess 'for
virtue.'' fell this year to the Queen of Portugal.
The estimated value of the jewel is $1,000
| francs. The jeweler who made it is a member
OF an ancient family of goldsmiths. which has
| worked in the neighborhood of St. Peters for
| the past 20) years. His fee was 5000 francs.
| The stem of the rose is of solid gold and meas
| ures metre 60 centimetres. The cup of the
| flower is of the most delicate workmanship,
! and is set with magnificent precious stones.
The leaves are similarly set with small gems, TO
represent dew drops The whole work OF art
! lies in a magnificent case of white satin,
mounted with silver stuff.
! SPEAKING of the traits of Prince George Of
Wales and his recently deceased brother,
Prince Albert Victor, a writer in the English
Illustrated declares that the former was
| always stimulus to the latter
in all their sports. ''Were they fol
lowing the hounds together as boys" says this
authority, lit was Prince George who's pc y
| had to take the fence or led e the first and
! give Prince Eddy the lead; were they bathing
| together in the sea, il was Prince George who
was the first to leap off the ship or yachts side
into the water aud not till he was swimming
| around and encouraging his brother TO follow
| him did the elder ia e the inevitable plunge
| 1t is suggested that the heir apparent derives
his intel ctual gifts largely from the prince
| conSorv and from the royal house of Denmark.
81 WAS recently in Japan" says an American,
| land met there several American and Ger
man doctors who were getting rich by straight
, ening the slant in the japanese eye to make it
| look like the beloved Caucasians optic. The
| Japanese you know show the traces of their
| Mon. oian orr lin more plainly in tle shade of
their eyehds tnan in the color Of their skin, and
| those who can afford it are Kidding themselves
of this unmistakable evidences of their deSpised
| parativey painless surgical operation, which
consists in the surgeon Sitting the outer rim Of
the eyeildS In n straight line for the barest in
f1nitesimal part of an inch The wound is then
covered with a thin piece of chemically pre-
| pared sticking plaster. the faithful subject of
the mikado goes or about his business if
| nothing had happened. aud 10 few days the
| wound Is healed and he looks on his envous fell
| lows through lids as straight as the Ameri-
| cans
The latest craze in Boston is the compound
| oxygen drunk. There are a half dozen estab-
lshments in the Hub that are doing rushing
| business in catering to this form of dissipation
They are patronized exclusively by men and
| women OF the highest socialiposition. the women
! Outnumbering the men. The sensation pro-
duced by the inhalation of compound oxygen is
described to me by those who have tried 1t. as
ecstatic. There is nothing known to science of
| medicine or pharmacy that equals its delights
Big quaffs Of it that fill the lungs air cells are
! said to set all the nerves OF the body atingle
| and the brain in a delicious whrl. The effects
last all the way from five minutes to an hour.
| according TO the person, and is said to have no
| apparently deleterious results, except a pecul-
| iBr mental collapse, from which the dissipator
| doesn't recover for several hours While under
! the strange influence Of the stuff one feels
completely lost to the world and Obvious to
everything terrestrial. That is tue reason IL is
called the compound oxygen drunk
TIE ORIGIN of the old imperial standard yard
measure was recently discussed in the British
| VGrehousemdn. The present measure of
| thirty six inches seems to have been adopted
| about 1888 The WdrehoUSemdn says: In 1855
| or sixteen years after the Royal society had
| Initiated the inquiry, committee of the House
| of Commons was appointed to INQUIRE into the
| original standards of weights and measures in
the kingdom The committee in their report
| recommended that rod, which at their order
had been made by Mr.. Bird from that OF the
| Royal Society. and marked standard yard
| 1888, should be declared the legal standard of
all measures of length. This rod-which is one
OF those now in the custody of the clerk of the
| house-consists of a solid brass bar OF inches
| square and 1906 inches long. At about 116
inches from each end gold pin or stud is in
serted, in which pins, at the distance Of Sc
inches, are two points intended to designate
the length of the yard From a
reference to the journals, it was proposed that
this rod should be kept in safe custody in the
| exchequer Office, but it ordered for the
time being to remain in the care of the clerk of
the house." In the following year a second
standard was constructed similar to the former
of which, indeed, it was intended to be a COW
This standard of 1850 was declared by the act Of
1924 to be the legal standard yardstick of the
kingdom. The clerk of the House Of Commons
is the safeguard of weights and measures and
as the matter of a yardstick had not come up
for many years, the inquiry Of July. 1891, W as
undertaken. The American yardstick SO IA
miliar to every carpet retailer, is 36-ipch rod
and some of them are highly finished by their
makers. On the other hand, some Of them are
very common, and are given away with the ad-
| Of dealara hurned tharaip