The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There has been marked auRmentation with
in the last sixteen years attrlbu By some
TO the Suez canal The joining Of the two
seas has steadily and increasingly modified
the climate Of lower Egypt, which has eX-
hibited a greater rainfall. and is, perhaps
little cooler. But il is not clear how it tould
bring more rain to the hills OF Judea. The
rising OF the Nile brings clouds. and the great
white. feecy masses that roll northward
are called at Beyrout the Nile by people
who probably do not know any other signlh-
cation of the term. and certainly know moth
ing OF the mighty river The increase Of rain
fan at Jerusalem noticed by Mr.. GlaiSher
and Others. may be assigned with great prob
ability to The more regular and accurate Do
seryatlons OF recent years. There is now
well-equipped meteorological station at Je-
rusalem, under the direction Of the Christian
Bros
The royal plate at Windsor is generally
reckoned to be worth about $1,000 COO and it
is no unusual thing at a state banquet at the
castle TO have plate to the value OF s2,5JOOOO
IN the room, says the Sketch There are two
state dinner services, one OF gold and one of
silver The gold service was purchased by
George ", and will dine 10 persons The
plates alone OF this service cost over $4,000.
On state occasions there are usually placed
on the dining table some very beautiful gold
hagons, captured from the Spanish Armada,
which are now. of course, of Iriceless value,
while the great silver vine cooler, made for
George ", and weighing 1000 ounces always
adornS one corner of the apartment. A side
board ornaments there are pretty trifies in
the way of a peacock OF precious stones
valued at $4,000, and aUger head from India
with a solid ingot Of gold for its tongue and
diamond teeth. This wonderful collection of
pate Is crown property. which practically
means that II belongs to the country and
the queen has separate collections for use
at Balmoral and Osborne, which belong to
herself.
The man weary of railroads. the telephone.
electric lights, and all the noisy and daz-
cling conveniences of modern progr sss may
md an absolute change and all the Seclusion
he longs for in the heart OF the OZarks which
lie on each side of the Arkansas Missouri
border, says the New York Post. In this re
gloS. settled sixty years ago. some of the
pioneers st1ll survive surrounded by children
and grandchildren who know scarcely more of
the world than they themselves did when
they hrst swung the AK in the virgin forests.
Scores OF people living in Marion county, Ar
kansas, lass the age Of twenty -one. have
never looked upon train of cars Few of the
lnha0ltants have ambitions beyond window
less log cabin, patch of corn and to. a:co.
and a shotgun. They care nothing as a
class, what the world is doing outside
these hills The howl OF coon dog away
back in the timber is about the only thing
that will arouse their enthusiasm. The dis
lance from Yellvllle, the county town of
Marion, TO the nearest railroad station West
Plains. Mo, is seventy-tve miles, and the
only means OF travel is a, lum Lering stage
coach. Gellville is named after one of the
earliest governors of the state and the town
is the oldest in northen Arkansas Many of
the houses are built of logs, unpainted. and
with immense f1replaces and chimneys. The
OZarks have a notoriety for lawlessness.
which, visitor says. is uude served its peo-
pie being scrupulously honest. me-loving
and religious to the point of fanaticism
Bad mem have always existed in this print
tive region, but they are the exception, not
the rule.
An enterprising hair dyer has projected
scheme for making bleached blondes as fast
as the demand MAJ require says the Electric
World. The subject of the opel alton seats
herseH IN an operating chair, some what
similar to that used by dentists and rests
the back Of her neck on metal plate, which
Is The mega i've terminal of a rather strong
battery, the current from which is sufficient
TO exert moderate decomposing action on
solutions of salts. containing a bleaching
agent such as chlorine. The tresses are al
lowed to fall back of the chair and are
dampened with solution Of what the in
ventor terms his secret. A brush composed
OF metallic bristles. which have been
gllded or platinized and which
are electrically connected to the
source of the current thus forming the
positive pole of the battery, is slowly and
steadily drawn through the hair. A slight de.
composition of the salt held IN solution takes
place, the bleaching agent is liberated and
the color1ng matter in the hair is lightened
The discoYerer declares that the color given
to the darkest hair may be varied at pleasure
and may also be carefully regulated; further
more, he states that the color does not re-
semcle that of ordinary "bleached" hair, but
is more natural and in every way able TO de-
celve the most expert in such matters. While
the de a is one which is attractive from an
experimental standpoint. the object at
tanned II his statements are true, is one which
should be pushed into obScurity by a mini
mum amount of praise. still another beau
tHylng (;) erect OF the current is obtained
by this inventor. who seems too fertile in such
vanity promoting ideas. He advertises to
make ladies' lips resemble coral in their daZ-
Zl1hg redness. His process is. of course an
electrical one, and he produces an unhealthy
reddenng of the lips by forcing an inf1amma-
ton by means OF so called Parable current
There is pretty good evidence that his SNOWY
operating rooms are well crowded by '.revy
OF beauties at all times of the day. and il is
quite amusing to watch the silly women who
have much more money than brains at their
dlSposal emerge from this gllded den feeling
their fevered lips with their tongues and try
ing to smile while they are paying too dear
for their WHISTLE
The government scientists arc dreadfullv
puzzled sometimes by odd things sent to them
for identification says the Boston Transcript.
FOR long time they could make nothing out
OF box full of small hard balls Of hbrous
material, stated to have been picked up on n
western prallie, which we're forwarded TO the
national museum. 1t was finally discovered
that they were buffalo cuds. When the ami
mails were killed and cut up on the plains the
cuds we're left behtnd-hard wads of dried
grass made compact with digestive plnten
and calculated to remain intact for an inoeh-
mite period. Another problem was remark.
able stone OF great hardness, which when
Sd"ou through, was very pretty to look at
though 1t smelled exceedingly ad. Itproved
TO be a calculus from the bladder OF a hog
People are continually mlstaking iron
pyrites for gold. 1ncy send in mples TO
the geological survey for assaying 1t Is
an error easily made, but anybody NAV
tell the difference by scraping the stuff with
a knife. II pyrltes II will be hard, if gold, it
will be soft, and the knife viii leave a shining
mark. Quartz crystals pass in similar fash
ion for diamonds, and now and then frag-
ment OF bottle glass rolled to roundness in a
stream will be taken for sapphire or other
gem OF enormous value. Likewise old Stag
from iron furnaces is sup osea to be meteoric
iron. some strange fossil shells forwarded
to Washington while ago were found to lie
old and damaged specimens OF ''pertumed
shells, which used to lie q a1e in molds ont
of scented clay or some such material
Goodies are frequently received by the geo
graphical survey from persons who come
across them, Natures treasure caskets
they might be called. They are noduies
of chalcedony filled with beautiful crvs-
tails. At the beginning there was
cavity in rock. Water percolating into
1t, deposited silica IN crystalline form. Some.
times the silica was stained with iron oxides
and in such cases the nodules are lined with
amethyst. IL often happened that the supply
OF water was cut on while the process was
going on. and thus was produced a nodule
containing water. There are few things in
nature more interesting than geode holding
bubble Of air and perhaps a gill or two OF
water-to be seen through the translucent
coat OF the nodule-which has been shut up in
the little OK for ages When the rock con.
tanning Reode Is broken open the latter falls
In ngr Of am 49, ~ ..s.. 80.