The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I divers. A receiver ard transmitfel combined
I is ahiXed 20 the inside Of the helmet near the
diver ear. By a slight turn Of his head ne
can speak into the phone. and he can hear
deep-Sea work for reporting progress or re
CeivinR instructions is clear. Formerly the
only communication was by system OF pulls
/ at a cord.
What Is meant by raising" bread is worth
( few words. says Harpers Bazaar. The in
PRODUCTION Of the yeast into the moist dough
and the addition of heat when the pan IS
! placed near the fire produce an enormous
/ growth OF the yeast fungi-the yeast germ
/ in other words, These fungi effect destruc-
/ tive fermentation of a portion of the starchy
matter of the fiour-one of the most valuable
1 nutrient elements in the -four. The termen-
I tation produces carbonic-acid gas, and this.
having It's origin in every little particle OF
/ the starch, which is itself everywhere In the
/ -four, pushes aside the particles OF the dough
/ to give Itself room. This is what is calleu
raising the bread.
| According to Japanese superstitution, par
ticular trees afford local habitation for spec
ter which "disengages itself from the tree
and walks about in various guises," usually
| in the form of beautiful woman says the
/ Chicago Recorder. The spirit of a tree ''sel-
| dom speaks or wanders far from the tree
and, If approached it Immediately Shrinks
! back into the trunk or the foliage" There is
| belief that II one of these "ghostly" trees is
! cut blood win flow from the cash. In the At
lantic Monthly for July, 1892, Lafcad1o Hearn,
/ describing what he had learned in a Japanese
/ garden tells beautiful story of the spirit Of
| a willow tree in a Kyoto garden. The tree
/ was saved from destruction by knight, and
! its spirit, changing to a beautiful woman, be-
| came his wife, but when the tree was finally
/ to be cut down she vanished forever.
There will be no further experiment with
girl ushers in the Duryea Presbyterian
! Church of Brooklyn. The first and only trial
! of the novel plan to attract young men to the
| services of the Christian Endeavorers gath
] erlng one night last week was complete fail
/ ure and it will not be repeated. The Rev.
John e. Fray the pastor of the church, now
| denies that he ever contemplated such a
! thing as the organization of corps OF female
ushers, and says that he has been entirely
misrepresented in the matter. He said:
| THE rules of the Presbyterian church would
| not permit such thing, and, even If they did
/ would not give my consent to it. 1t was the
| young people of the Christian Endeavor soci-
| cites themselves that decided to have female
ushers at their annual meeting, and saw no
/ reason to object to the plan, but there will be
| no female uShers at any of our regular church
| services"
The sting Of bee is composed Of two
spears of polished horn held in a sheath. says
the Washington Star. One gets a notion of
the sharpness Of the weapon by a very sim
| pie comparison. The edge of very keen
| razor, when examined under good micro
scope appears as broad as the back of a thick
| knife, rough, uneven and full of notches. An
| exceedingly small and delicate needle SINH
! larly Scrutinized resembles a rough bar from
| a smiths forge. The sting of bee, viewed
| through the same instrument shows a flaw
less polish, without the least blemish or inc
quality, ending in Q point too fine to be dis
each of which has nine barbs and is grooved
| with a channel for the passage Of the poison,
| emerge from the sheath. One Of them is
plunged into the flesh of the victim, the other
| following, and alternately they penetrate
deeper and deeper The venom is forced to
the ends of the spears by much the same pro-
cess as that which carries the poison from
| the teeth of snake when 1t bites.
The extensive use of wood in making the
cheaper grades of paper offers one of the most
| serious obstacles to forest preservation, says
the New York Post. In the last two or three
years the growth Of the wood pulp industry
has been enormous, dozen great mills, each
| manufacturing from 80 to 300 tons of pulp a
| day. having been built on the Hudson river,
| to feed principally on the Adirondack forests.
The wood chiefly used is spruce, and the es-
| peCiallY disastrous effects of the industry on
the forests results not only from the extreme
| demand for lumber, but from the fact that
while the demand is especially for trees of
thirty to thirty-f1Ve years growth, the young
trees are also cut. In 1881 the capacity of
the pulp mills IN the United States was about
720OO tons per annum. The present Ca
pacity is 100000 tons And In this re-
| marka5le growth the industry has been ac-
| Companied by these three desirable things:
| increase in quantity, decrease in price, and no
| diminution in the compensation of labor. The
| sound of the axe, the barker, and the grinder
| is heard in twenty-five states The neighbor-
| hood of Niagara and the Adlrondacks in New
| York, the territories of the KennebeC. An
droscoggin, and PenobscOt rivers in Maine,
| the Fox River valley of Wisconsin, the hills
| of New Hampshire and Vermont and the
| natural gas belt of Indiana are the greatest
| pulp-producing regions of the United States.
| About $500 cords of wood are required
| daily to supply the demand of the mills.
The field daisy Is an anomaly in the Ameri-
lean fora, says the Boston Herald Formerly
it was the most despised and detested of all
| noxiOuS weeds. We say noxious, because it
| was the adherence and often the despair of
the farmer His name for it was white weed,
| when. from a certain legend connected with
| it, it was not something worse. 1t was tenas
cious of its place in the soil when it once OF
| tanned place there, beyond any other nui-
| sance of the grass field. Flowing did little
| good. If it did not still stay in the burrows it
would find its way out in the manure next
year and uprear its saucy head more fresh
| and blooming than ever. The worst of it all
was that it was always beautiful. The
| aesthetic sense is not greatly devel-
oped in the average farmer, and when
| il conflicts with his profits it is never any
| where. he could not see It's beauties, and in
| earlier days almost every one else was with
him. But of late the beauty of the daisy has
| Teen too much for the sense of utility. 1t has
| become fashionable flower. Its plenty no
| longer precludes it from this distinction.
| Maidens 60 into ecstasies over it as Oscar
] Wilde not long since bowed down in adOra-
ton to the SunfIower. While it is but the
worst of weeds in one quarter it is enshrined
in another. Here, indeed, is an anomaly,
! and it seems in a fair way to be continued.
| Fashion has put its stamp on the flower to
stay, while those to whom it is a nuts lnce
| will still regard it only as to the grass field
what the canker worm or the caterpillar is to
the orchard. 1t is pity that this pestifer
Gus work should all be done with a face of
| such smiling beauty.
A dispatch from Danbury, Conn, says:
| Nine. de Granville Knox at one time Bar
mum S female Samson" says she owns the
only African python that ever laid half a
| bushel of eggs in one night. This feat was
| performed a few nights ago by her huge
| python Eve. Adam and Eve are said to be
| the largest two Scrpents in captivity and have
| been shown by their owner all over this coun-
| try. DR.. Knox, Nine knoX'S husband. had
| occasion to pass the snake cage several times
| on Sunday, and every time Eve would set up
| vigorous kissing. He was surprised at
| this unusual proceeding, for the serpent
| had never shown anger before. On Mon
| day morning he again passed the cage
| and Eve was apparently uglier than ever.
DR.. Knox investigated the cause and
| found the huge python coiled around a pile
| of eggs which she had laid during the night.
| DR., Knox says pythons alone, of all the snake
| family, incubate. Pythons have laid eggs be-
fore in captivity, but there is no record of any
| having been Matched. Eve laid about one
hundred and twenty-five eggs-more than half