The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA produces 10000 900
oranges a yesr-not enough to give three
oranges to each inhabitant of the United States
In one of the public schools of New York city
there are no scholars, all but ten of whom are
of foreign birth and language. They are not
taught in English.
THE Republican party has nominated its Presi-
dents in the following places, barring 1856 and
1884, when the candidate did not become the
President: Fremont, Philadelphia 1856: Lincoln
Chicago 1850; Lincoln. Baltimore, 1864; Grant
Chicago 1858; Grant, Philadelphia, 1872; Hayes
Cincinnati. 1873; Garfield Chicago 1880; Blaine
Chicago. 1884; Harrison, Chicago 1898,
A FRENCH DOCTOR has evolved the theory that
the color and nature of the hair has an influence
the pursuits of man. Thus, he declares that
red WHISPERED men have O. tendency toward the
race track and the hunting field: men with
straight black hair are apt to feel that they
have call to the ministry, while light-haired
men are natural travellers and Adventures.
R. R. BOWER, the microscopic and general
investigator. says that wool is kind of hair,
and that hair is simply a species of plant rooted
IN the skin Of animals. Through the whole
range of human plant, goats hair and sleeps
wool, however, nature shows such close
gradations that it would be difficult to draw an
exact Inc or to distinguish beyond question Of
doubt between wool and hair.
IN walking through the Central park one day
last week Boston naturalist was surprised by
some of the trees shrubs and flowers he saw
there. He says he found even sugar naples
Norway naples and swamp naples He found
moss pnks, Asiatic magnolias, lilacs, the
forsythia, the corueian cherry, and other
charming things that are familiar to New
Workers who stroll through the park
QUILL PENS are still much in use in Great
Britain. A tradition exists in the law courts
there that no document would be strictly legal
II written with any pen other than q Quill A
similar tradition used to obtain in parts of New
England. and il is notable that Gov Russell of
Massachusetts follows the precedent of his pre-
decessors and signs all legislative bills with a
new quill pen-used once for that purpose and
never again.
A STEuBENvILLE (O) MAN had cat and two
kittens which he thought great deal Of The
other day he found the cat in desperate battle
with large blacksnake which Rad killed the
two kittens. The cat was holding the snake at
bay and had inflicted several scratches on the
snake, when the man arrived. The snake sprang
at him and buried its fangs in his wrist before he
could kill 1t. The reptile was nearly seven feet
long.
WHILE gathering flowers in the woods, a
farmer recently stirred up a snake, which he at
tempted to kill with q stone Contact of the
stone with the snak g body gave back metal
lie sound, and thereupon he hammered the rem
tile upon the head until it was dead He then
discovered that two-thirds OF the snakes body
was encased in section of gas pipe one inch in
diameter. Whether the snake had crawled into
the pipe when young and grown fast or was
wearing it for self-protection. is conundrum
FREAK OF nature is reported to have come
TO light in the county jail at Fort Worth, Tex
His name is James Lee, aged IS years Turn
the boy IS face so that strong light may shine
into his eyes, and a phenomenon is seen
Around the pupils of the eyes, in the iris are
the twenty letters of the alphabet arranged
Systematically. There are thirteen letters in
each eye, those up to IN" being in the left eve.
and the remaining ones in the right Lee saws
his father and four brothers are similarly ar
fected
A REMARKABLE TOKEN Of the Importance of
the toy industry in the ancient of Nuremberg
is affored by the great gathering in one of the
public halls, at banquet in celebration of the
completion Of the 300, 000th model steam en-
CINE by q well known maker Amopg the guests
were the heads Of the municipality and of
several industrial and commercial CORPORATIONS
The little model which marks this stage in the
toy making industry of the Nuremberg firm
was constructed with the latest improvements
1t was adorned with laurel wreath and ev
hioited in the hall side by side in order to show
the progress In construction, with a model of
the date 1915. 1t is said that this factory alone
has also out more than $4,000 magic lanterns
ARTHUR J. WEsTERMAYR, New York lawyer.
has secured the control in the United States of
German invention which is likely to revolu-
tionize the undertaking business. The rights
under the invention have been allowed in
process Of organization to put the new coffin ON
the market, and it will probably be Completed
this week, The subject matter of the invention
that is the ingredients of which 1t is composed
have not been made public, but it looks not m
like plaster of Paris and has various chemical
components. 1t is called tachyphag If this
material will do what is claimed for il in a short
time collins and caskets will be made of il ex
clusiyely. The compound has many advan
tages over wood, metal or any other Substance
now in use. The first advantage is hygienic In
character. The body contained in a casket of
tacnyphag decomposes in one-fourth of the
time that 1t would if buried in a wooden one
This has been proved by perfect test. Two
dogs we're buried one in a wooden coffin and
one in tachyphag. In the last the body seeneG
to dry up, and 1t became entirely dried nm ha
fore the other was half decomposed AGAIN
tachyphag is susceptible of the highest deqrea
of ornamentation Imitation of any kind az
wood or metal can be produced to perfection
according to the taste Of the purchaser ItsS
durability has been thoroughly tested 1t will
carry twelve times the weight of heavy human
body, and the jar of shipment has no effect on
1t. II is very strong 1t is non-porous. and cot
fins and baskets made of this compound can he
Theoretically sealed, a fact which will stronqIv
recommend it to the board of health saws the
New York Press. Tachypha9 means an era Of
cheap funerals, and from a sanitary point ~
view the benefits likely to be derived Iron. ire
use will be great. Mr.. Westermayr is yerv cor
fdent that it will prove public boon as we'll ss
a prOfta able nFOiept for 80 ~