The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-27
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Since grass growing has become a science
and an art you may hire man to create a
lawn for you IN q fifth of the time once thought
necessary for such a creation. Thick and
luxurious lawns are produced between spring
and autumn, and lawn Of two years under
the modern forcing process NAV easily rival
one OF five years under the old fashioned sys-
TEN. Artificial stlmulants and ABUNDANT
water are responsible for the new order of
things.
The flash Of lightning which recently struck
the new palace at Potsdam may be congratu-
lated on a measure of tact and consideration
/ seldom seen in connection with the electric
nuiI. Having greatly endangered the safety
/ OF the royal building, the current instantly
/ hurried along the telegraph wires to the tre
alarm and set the bells ringing. Thereupon
4 the palace hremen and the town brigade of
/ Potsdam were quickly upon the pot and the
! hre was nlpped in the bud.
few years ago portion of the pavement
4 IN Groswen road, London, was lifted out of
/ its place in some mysterious way Before
! the wOrkmen were sent to replace II. nuner-
J Gus toadstoolS made their appearance in the
cracks between the misplaced stone and Its
Fellows. investigation proved that the stone.
winch was two feet one way by four the other
ana weighed gig pounds, had actually been
! lltted out of place by the resistless growing
force OF THESE soft, spongy fungi.
The present pope in his younger DAYS was an
ardent Alpine climber. A monument IS now
| teing erected at Pietrastoraira in the ex-
| IRENE corner OF the Parthenian district as
reminder OF his exploits as amountain tourist
IN lo44 Gl0achlmo PeccI was at this place to
| meet fellow prelate. The ruins OF the rob
/ ger castle, that of the Prince of Storno.
winch according to the traditions of time and
/ place no man had assembled for many de-
cadeS, aroused the ambition of Bishop pecci
! For the sum of 20 paoli he secured the loan of
shepherd suit, and, rugged out IN this style,
ne managed to reach what seemed to be an
i q h@rrhF % n
at that time an apostolic legate. The monu-
! ment commentaries the anniversary of these
| exploits.
Dr. Hickman, physician Of the state of
| Washington, has made the discovery that
man is laboratory of poisons The human
| organism, according to this new medical the
| orv- may be poisoned by the products of its
own making. 1t has long been known that in
! the normal process of digestion of ordinary
| foods there are found at certain stages pro
| ducts which, if thrown into the circulation
| VIII cause even death. The value of Dr Kick
mans researches Is his hypothesis that this
Sen-lnfecton is at the basis of man IS so-called
| "bllllouSneSS" The black bile of the anclents
| may prove to be, after all, homemade poi
| SON Modern medicine may develop a new
| field OF progress similar to if not as large as
| that of Dacteriology, and new relief may yet
| be found by weary mortals for many ills.
| from the ordinary headache to the worst case
| of blood poisoning.
Canadian climber, the Physianthus
albens, has received the name of Cruel
Pant" from it's ill-treatment to butterflies.
says Casselts Magazine. 1t flowers in the
! month OF August, and the butterflies. at
| tracted by the perfume. hover round it In
| large numbers and push their trunks into the
| carollas TO sip the honey. A pair OF sensitive
| vegetable plncerS in the heart of the flower
| grips the delicate probosciS, and in spite of
! struggles to get free the butterfly hangs sus-
| pended as shown until it dies. Apparently
| the plant has nothing to gain by the death OF
| the Insect. 1t is not ''carOlrOrOng' no
! Venus t1y-trap In fact, if the butterfly were
| allowed to come and go 1t would tend to foster
the species by assisting cross fertilization 1t
| appears: however, that the cruel plant"
came originally from Brazil, where the but
| terhles are much stronger and extrcate their
| suckers from the trap. We may add that
! another Canadian plant, the Cnlcus discolor
! Is charged with cruelty. The flower has a
| gland which secrets a Viscous LIQUID capable
of lining insects which are fond OF it. More
| over, they seem to be stupehed and poisoned
| by it, and no reason can as yet be assigned
| for the deadly consequence.
A chubby little boy, with several inches of
brown bare leg between the top OF his stock
ing and the bottom of his knee breeches.
passed before the window of my boo.mal,er
on Broadway, says the New York Press He
! was led by his nurse and had evidently spent
summer In the country. II lie looked like a
child who had been born we'll and had been
taken the best OF care of ever since NV
bootmaker pointed him out mournfully and
thus expressed himself! If that child
doesn't die Of consumption before he is
II years old he will grow up to be equity
young man and probably die OF apoplexy
Nothing Is worse or "a child of that age than
bare legs at any time, particularly in the au-
tumn. That's the way fashion kills off its
| victims. Every child should wear boots
mean boots with legs on them, eachiny up
nearly to the knee, and for the matter of that
so should every man. have worn boot legs
all my life, both i'll summer and winter. and [
have also seen experiments made by turning
u draft OF cold air upon the legs of men who
were asleep. The erect is the same as it is
when wet bandage IS applied to the feet OF
a sleeping man. 1t chills the stomach, CON
gests the brain and generally disorganfzes
the system The man who wears high top
boots lengthens his life by ten years, and a
bare-legged child is doomed TO an early
grave"
The Uniting Of flowers naturally white has
already been spoken of in these pages. and
now we have little more to tell our readers
| ABOUT the same SUBJECT. says an exchange. 1t
seems, only natural that that so purely
| among our French neighbors whose
| ingenuity is So well known. A author
ity tells us few of the secrets of the produc-
| tton OF color in flowers and fruit, and we men.
tion them here for the benefit Of any one who
may wish to try such curious experiment
for themselves. 1t is said that to color
flowers through the stalks 1t is necessary to
put tive grammes Il gramme-I5 grains of
| any colortng matter into vessel which will
hold about ten grammes, to bruise he tip of
manner.
and then to put the stalk into the vase for a
greater or shorter time, according to the
| depth of cOloring required Two hours after
| this contact with the dye the tinting of the
flower is &C complished. On taking the bios
| som from the vase II is advisable to cut off
the bruised part of the stalk and soak the
flower for an hour or two in a vase of clear
| water. To tint white bull GUS plants
NIL vase with fifty grammes
! OF clear water and fifty grammes
OF colorlng matter, stir the mixture up we'll
then, after slicing the bulb with a penknffe in
one or two places and cutting off the tips of
The roots, leave it sleeping IN the tincture
| until the flowers begin to color. Then replace
IL on the pot covering it with little moist
earth, and the flowers will finish coloring
| there. Fruits as well as flowers can he ar.
| tihcially colOred, and sometimes this is done
for the purpose OF adulteratOn as for IN
stance, when Tlums are too green thew are
coated with acetate OF copper and sulpha.e of
| copper When too pale, lemons are tinted up
with citrontne and naphthOl yellow. the green
! spots being initiated with diamond green
| Strawberries are cOlored by sprInkling them
| with sulfro-fuchsine, or rhodamiue Peaches
| receive beautiful coloring from mixture of
rhodamtne and citronine, applied with a
! brush, using zinc stencil plate pierced with
| holes In melons tute is introduced through
which atropeline and orange azo with O little
| essence OF melon is put into the center Very
| pretty varieties of apples and pears are con.
| trived by using a little aniine dive These
! devices may make a bad fruit salable but are
/ not examples to be copied. unless for the salra