The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Sixty colored people organized class IN
/ German in Chicago ten weeks ago. and the
other night gave an entertainment in that
! language Germans who were attracted by
! the novelty Of the announcement were sur
! prlsed by the proficiency that had heen at
! tanned and their other feelings were too
| much mixed to be described.
An English writer on natural history tells
the following ABOUT a crow which was famous
! in suburb Of London some years ago This
| crow used to be fed on biscuit and water
! from his mistress window. and il w2s not an
uncommon thing for him to seize the tumbler
! in his hill and dash II to the ground. some
! times he would enter room on the sly ana
amnse himself by taking the corbs out OF
/ bottles ana pouring their contents over the
carpet or by scattering pins. papers. letters,
ornaments ana the like on the floor. One day
| he flew away with PENCIL and perched on a
| tree close by. To punish him his mistress re-
fused to know him. and pushed him away
from the window the next time he came for
food. In short time he returned. bearing
the stolen pencil unframed except that the
rubber end piece had vanished. GraTeiy lay
ing it down on the wIndO IS sill he bowed and
| cawe1 in his best style as If to say Come
| now, let US be friends again
Some OF the children who saw the trained
ami mails which were exhibited in the city this
past winter after the season at the Chicago
fair the summer before. seemed TO think il
was much more wonderful that the small ami
mails the seals, the little dogs and the storks.
| should do their strange tricks than that the
lions, tigers, and elephants showed such Sa.
gaclty and knowledge. says the New York
Times. Yet the tiTieSt| insect will show that
II has a reasoning faculty. which naturalists
| call instinct as big as the biggest ele Dhant.
A little ant, for instance. when she is laying
In ner food for the Winter, will bite off the
euu OF every grain OF corn in such a manner
that 1t cannot sprCut. as it otherwise would
when tucked away in her little home in
mole IN the earth II it sprOuted it would not
8 ~ 90 nlhn
not. And what does a raven do when he
finds the hollow in the trunk of tree that
serves him as his home full of water after
storm: Watch one next summer when in the
country, II you can, and you will see him
patiently bring pebble after pebble to the
little pool and drop them in. Gradually the
stones MI 1t up and and the water is forced
out Ihen he goes to work and takes out all
the peoDles, which leaves his nook dry and
ready for him again.
The blessing conferred on the dumb by
such men as Gallaudet making language pos
slGIe to mutes, and even rapid and easy, may
lie appreciated when we read examples Of the
inconvenience these people endured IN olden
times IN the following instances as de
scrlbed, the plntOmime was Ineligible
enough but the whole made a somewhat
comlcal performance. A queer marriage cere-
mony was that in Queen Elizabeths reign,
before the deaf and dumb alpha ct was in
vented, between Thomas FilShy and Ursula
Bridget. Ursula could talk fast enough hut
Inomas was deaf mute, and, as it was re-
CURED that promises should he ex-
changed in spoken words, nobody knew
how 10 manage the thing. Finally the
bishop OF London helped to devise a service
by SLAMS and Thomas proceeded thus: Having
nrSt taken Ursula In his arms, he took her by
the hand and put the nuptial ring on her
finger. He then laid his right hand signiii-
cahtly on his heart, and afterward. putting
their palms together, extended both his hands
towards heaven, Having thus sued for divine
blessing, he declared his purpose TO live with
Ursula till death should separate them by
closing his eYelids with his TIMERS digging
the earth with his feet as though he wished to
make hole in the ground, and then moving
his arms and body as though he were toiling
funeral bell.
Spots have been unusually distinct on the
face of the sun lately, and it is perhaps q sign
Of the times that some OF the daily papers
have been endeavoring to obtain information
by interviewing the aStrC nomerS at Green
wich, and others who. having some reputa-
ton as 'star-gaZers' are supposed to know
something about the subject. saws the English
Mechanlc. The astronomer royal has been
| interviewed. and admitted that a consider
able magnetic disturbance wGs observed at
Greenwich on Feb. 20 and q. e. w. Maunder
was also interviewed, and he seems to have
given the interviewer some information
aoout the spot, which has been visible for
| some days. Mr.. Maunder is reported to have
| SAID that the spot, although large, covering
| as 1t did on Feb. 90 goo 900 900 S0uare yniIes
was much smaller than others which had
| been observed recently. The great spot
| OF eDruary, leS2, contained nearly
| double that area, and the group Of
! Aug. :, 1893, exceeded 100000 900 SQUARE
| miles. The reason the present spot has at
| tracted so much attention was PROBABLY be-
| cause OF It's square and regular form. which
| during the misty morning enabled il to be
| easily seen with the naked eve On the 20th
| 1t attained its greatest size, and on that day
| eleven other spots were photographed but
| these could only be seen with the aid Of a
10 fG fha raV
| PLANTATION: Comparatively little was known
| as to their nature, except that they seemed
| 70 be swallow depressions in the solar sur.
| race, which were apparently filled with cooler
| matter from the outside. The solar surface
| was believed to be composed Of glowing car
/ bon, the temperature OF the sun being so
| hlgh as to reduce all the metals known to rs
| TO permanent gases but ii was possible that
| at the outside the temperature was not sum.
| clentIY nigh to maintain the carton in n
! vaporouS condition When for some reason
| they had a sinking of the cioGd-sphere usu.
| ally called the phOtosphcre and the hollow
thus formed was filled with cOnuaratfvelv
| cooler gases from the outside. an apparently
| dark spot would appear, hU: the darkest part
| of the dark spot really had a very hirh
| degree Of luminosity"
The insect known as the San Jose scale
which for a long time was the pest of The
fruit-growers OF the Pacific Coast threatens
to become equally destructive in the East. If
appeared in Virginia last wear. being found
! on peach trees, and month ago was discov-
| cred IN Charles county, Maryland and at De
| tuniak springs. Florida The suppositlon is
! that the scale was introduced in Young trees
| sent east by the California nurseries The
! Black , artarian cherry is 5ably the only
| declduouS tree that escapes the ravages Of
| this insect. Mr.. l.. Q. Howard actIng en-
| tomCloglSt OF the department of agriculture
! gives the Baltimore sun the following nc.
! count OF the scale: The insect itself is a
small, fiat round scale. little lighter in
! color than the bark Of the tree and will be
/ found most a5undantly upon the vOunoer
! limos ana twlES. 1t is at this season of The
| year out one eighth Of an inch or less in al
| ameter. and there is in the middle Of each
| scale small, elevated. shiny blackish
| rounded point. Sometimes the center Of the
| scale appears yellowish. The wocd nrder.
| meath the scale Is apt to be discolored and
| somewhat purplish When the insect is ahTn,
| dant, the bark is completely hidden by a close
| layer o. these scales. which are then hard -
| dlStngulshaDIe to the naked eve and Give the
! appearance OF 81 hit diScolOration or a
slight roughening OF the bark. No other scale
| upon apple, pear. peach cherry or Mum
! trees possesses these characters les and tho
insect ought therefore to be readily 6istin
gulshed. The tdllgrown insect is motion
less The young animals are active
craWlerS, but even the young would not crawl
more than 100 feet in their life time 1.bn,,
are. however, carried from orchard to orchard
by insects upon which they have crawled
and by birds which fly from tree to tree ,
the department has prepared several washes
TO Re used at various stages Of the blight
caused by the scale. II q tree has bac01ne
thoroughly lncrusted it Is recommended that