The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A young woman of San Diego Cal, who is
noted for her pretty feet. goes barefooted
about the house and tells her friends that
health.
Few persons suspect that the common moth
may be utilized as sidecorative artist. but he
NAV be, if ony one be watchful patient and
acquainted with the creatures habits. saws
the New York sun. The larya OF the moth
mas habit OF spinning about itself a sort OF
sac from the mater al hpon which it feeds.
AS the worm grows IL eRlarges this sac by the
process OF splitting il and inserting new ma
terlaI; NOW, II the moth worm that has in
closed itself in red flannel be afterward trans
terred, sac and all TO white flannel the grow
ing insect viii slit its red flannel covering and
enlarge 1t with portion Of the white flannel
IL then the worm and the sac be transferred
TO blue flannel the creature will in course of
time enlarge the sac with blue a mel and
thus cIothe itself periodically in red, white
ana blue Entomologist Southwiek, of the
Fark department, says that ii is no great
trouole TO put moth-worm through this per-
Torrance,
some gentlemen who see snakes now and
then and go to a certain drug store in Jersey
City for brOmo-seltzer were confronted with
a spectacle yesterday that produ ed impress
slohs not easily forgotten. says the New York
Advertiser. These gentlemen, in trying to
escape from ordinary snakes with one he
eacn, ran upon Wriggling, striped, fantastic
snake with two heads and two forked tongues.
Inc snake is alive. and was captured by DR.
4. B silver, proprietor OF the drug store.
week ago last Friday, near Charlottesville,
va IL Is about eleven inches long. the sepa
rate heads and necks being nearly one inch
long. The snake is black. with white stripes,
the BODY being hardly more than three
elghths of an inch thick in any part. 1t was
photographed by the learned men of the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington and
mas excited no little speculation. 1t is
thought TO be baby king snake. The two
heaC are perfectly formed, and e lch is. to an
extent, independent of the other. At times
one head appears to be asleep while the other
is awake and active. The snake seems to be
milk.
The elephant, says the New York Ledger,
although a very large animal is not
good fighter. A lion can jump upon his
way which will make the elephant roar with
agony, and the tiger and the panther can do
the same to him. Even the kangaroo, whose
front legs are mere paws has the Advantage of
the elephant, for it can jump underneath him
and scratch vigorously with it's two powerful
mind legs, while its fore paws dig deeply into
his sensitive trunk So the elephant. in war
rare, has to resort to strategy. One Of his
tricks is to stand very still until the lion
or the tiger, as the case may be,
has jumped upon his back, and then, before
there has been time to do much damage Mr..
Elephant lies down and rolls over, crushing
his enemy. There is pretty story told by an
African explorer of how an elephant killed a
whole family Of lions by backing with them.
one by one, into deep water, until they were
so far IN the stream that they could not swim
to the shore. The elephant who was a cum
ming fellow would dip very low into the water
and the lions would have to give uD their grip
upon his back. Elephants are very intelligent
fellows, and good hearted, too, II not pro-
voked.
Aluminium is beginning to be utilized for
roofing in sheetslike tin. the cost Oft for that
purpose being about the same as copper. says
the Washinhton Star. 1t NAV be rolled down
to a thickness of 5-lO0JO of an inch. Thei eaten
leaf Is now employed to q considerable
extent in decoration. 1t is thus used in lead
ing hotels of New York and other cities. All
the ornamental work OF the transportation
building at the Worlds Columbian exposition
was on base of thin aluminium foil The
metal takes oil cOlOrS well and sheets and
plaques of it are being manufactured in great
quantities for artists. One of the most impOr
tant of future uses of aluminium is for kitchen
utensils. The heavy iron pot which the cook
can scarcely lift of the fire will be superse-
ded by vessel OF the white metal that while
equal in capacity and strength may Ue raised
with finger. This new material. remember
is as light as chalk. At the same time it is so
strong that any kind of hollow ware formed
of 1t may be knocked about to any
extent and bent into all sorts Of
shapes without breaking. An aluminium
pot costs no more than copper
one. and unlike'the latter. it does not have to
be lined with tin for culinary employment
because it does not eorrode For tea Kettles,
coffee pots and covered dishes intended to re
tain heat it serves admirably Slate non lis
are among the novelties made OF it, The soft
aluminium wire, with sharpened point works
admirably upon school states. Such pencils
are much more durable than the old fashioned
kind, suffering less wear and tear. Shoes or
this metal are now employed for race horses.
Not only do they pOsS eSs the advantage of
lightnesS. but they are said to preserve the
feet OF the animals remarkably. Racing
shells are formed of single sheets of alu-
minimum, One-nineteenth of an inch thick
weighing less than cedar. One such boat tor
four oarsmen, lowered the mile record
nine seconds on the Schuyllllll river last sum
mer.
A correspondent writes to ask what was the
composition used on the worlds fair build
ings to make them so brilliantly white This
question, the New Or leans Picayunc saws
very pertinently opens up the way to tell
some very interesting facts concerning the
realization Of the dream of acchitecture to
which, by common consent and apprecia lion
has been given the poetic and fitting name of
the White City At all the meetings of the
architects and planners of the eXposition
these gentlemen worked in a unison and mn.
tual sympathy that considering the opportu-
nifty to gain international fame offered them
individually, was little less than pheuom-
email. All plans and ideas, all inspirations"
even. became common property and were
talked over freely. 1t was F. L. Olmstead
who designed the great basin-in fact, |
4u'N wv oShSAAAS "a 4dEOOAS anu ldnO which |
was to be graced by the multitude of |
buildings. The grand entrance or court |
was next decided on as a necessary |
phase of classic architecture The 6rst |
great court Of honor by the way was the |
superb colonnaded piazza before the Catbe.
oral OF st. Peter, at Rene. 1t was then ar |
,anged to lire this court with the great |
buildings. TO place at its hea the admins
tration building and to make that the finest |
and the only one with a dome. The architects |
next decided that all the buildings must he |
classic in architecture and of uniform !
height of so feet to produce n Harmonious /
design, but that their decoration in detail
must be as varied "a possible The admins.
tratlon building was made French in lis
classic form, the machinery hall Spanish
the asri ultural Italian, the manufacturers,
Roman and the electricity French renais
Sance. st. Gaudens the great SCULPTOR 11rc
posed to put on the lake front of the courf az
honor thirteen great columns. surmounted bv
thirteen statues Of the thirteen states ali
linh ed together by chains but at the last mo.
ment Mr. Charles Atwood sketched ont
the noble and exquisite peristvle with
It's casino and music hall And then Mr. Burn !
ham suggested a fountain in front of the adj
mlnlstratlon building. and St. Gaudens ad
VlSed statue Of liberty. and in this noble
way was perfected the perfect pIan Of Tho
White City" But it is not generally known
that the buildings were not designediv white
IN TACT, the scheme had been to color then, !
all Inherently. but it is well known the com !
mission was short OF money; there wee not |
FUNDS enough to bly the paints so thew were |
left white per force. The worlds fair bniid
fngS were made of a coarse rniytura 80 -