The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Apple was celebrated in Atchison, Kan, last
week.
Adam Higgins OF Montpelier, Vt, went to
Arizona in 1887 to grow up with the country.
He Is now SIX feet seven and is still growing.
The egg product OF the United States is
much more valuable than is generally sup
posed. 1t amounts to 500 10000 per annum,
about one-thtrd the value Of the wheat crop.
During the last three days Of August. 1851,
the sun was so hot in Southern California
that the apples were baked on the trees. They
were palatable and tasted exactly like apples
baked on fire.
Tobacco is one Of the condiments used to
make ish palatab4e in Korea. But the
favorite deicacy on a Korean menu is dog
boullloni in consequence Of which dog meat
costs 30 cents pound.
There are two brothers living in the vicinity
Of Chicago who are exciting great deal OF
interest just now. One is II years old and
measures feet inches in hight while the
other who is 40 years old, measures but feet
inches.
1t is said by recent visitor to the St. Ber-
nard hospice in Switzerland that the cele
brated breed of St. Bernard dogs has become
almost useless for the purpose for which they
were formerly used. The deterioration Is
said TO be due to interviewing.
Cucumbers, cleft lengthwise. are used in
some parts of Tennessee to exercise evil
spirits: They are placed in the sun and
sprlnkled with the dried blood Of a toad killed
at the full OF the moon at a cross roads. The
spell is regarded as lnfsllible by the ignorant
blacks.
The United States consul at Algiers has
sent to the state department an interesting
account Of the immense phosphate deposits
In Alg1ers. The consul thinks that the Al
gerian phosphate will soon become a strong
tnr wi he 4 rfpaD A11gf in ha
European markets.
The executive mansion at Washington will
emerge from its usual summer renovation
more of a white house than ever before.
Heretofore the mansion has been painted
with creamy mixture that placed the ap-
pearance Of the building in conflict with its
popular name. To-day 1t looks freSher
cleaner and statelier than ever before. The
work of thorough renovation is progressing
and will be completed by Oct. is.
BY the following, which the St Louis Re
public says is an exact copy of the first para
graph in the Will Of Henry ". of England
written in January, 140S II will be seen that
| even kin IS are not always good spoilers: In
/ the name OF Cod Fadir, Son and Holly Ghost.
! three Persons and one God. 1, Henery, sinful
| Wrech by the Grace Of God Kyng of England
| ana fraunce, and Lord OF lrllnd, being in my
| hole mynd, max my testament in manere and
! forme that Suyth. F'yrst. l Le1uethe TO All
/ mighty God my sinful soul, the whyche had
Il,
| mercles and hvs erase, whlche lyffe l haveth
/ myspendyed thereof put myseife wholly in
/ his erase and mercye with all myn herte
! Also, thanke my lords threw the peple for
| the trew servyse that they HAYES dune unto
! me, and | ask them fOrgyVnis if l hasth myS-
| entreted them in eny Wyse.' 1t will also be
/ noted that Henry, besides not being up to
! the century Dictionary 5 standard as speller.
| had peculiar habit of spelling one WORD in
| from two to i've different ways
| As regards the languages spoken in Pales-
| tine in the time of Christ, much that is Of
! high im{ ortalce has resulted from recent ex-
/ PLANTATION, says the Contemporary Review. A
/ dedication to Herod was written both in
| Aramaic and in Greek, and there are a great
many Greek texts of this age in all parts of
| the country which show US that the old Cana
! ante religions had not yet died out, but were
| mingled with Greek mythology, so that the
/ names of native and of Greek deities stand
| side by side The region where the Greeks
| were most numerous was apparently DeCapo-
/ lis, east of the Sea of Galilee, and it seems to
/ me probable that the people of Gadara. who
| kept swine, were Greeks for the pig was re-
| garded as an unclean animal by the Phmni-
! clans and other natives as we'll as by the
| Jews. 1t has often been disputed whether the
| Gospels we've originally written in Greek or
! in Aramic; but 1t has now been rendered GER
| tain by exploration that Greek was yery
! widely used in Palestine at this time, and
| that it was understood by the Jews as well as
/ by others. We have recovered the stone
! written in Greek, which warned the GentlleS
| not 10 enter the inner court of the temple
! and have found early Jewish bone boxes on
| Olivet inscribed IN Greek.
| What, asks the st. Louis Republic, do you
| think of the idea of constructing an instru-
| ment OF such delicate exactness as to ac u
| rately record the lapse of one One-mllionth
/ of a secOndT c. V. Boys, f. r. S. who has
! done some surprising things in chronom oty
! has succeeded in perfecting an instrument of
| the kind alluded to, and the object of this
| Note is to explain its workings as thor
! oughly as space Will permit. The instrument
was made for the purpose Of measuring the
time occupied by bullet in travelling six
! feet. The bullet in its fight cuts two wires
one at the muzZle of the gun and the other
! SIX feet away These wires are attached to
! pair OF electro magnets, and the marks
| traced by these one a smoked glass give
| some idea OF the time occupied by the fight
of the bullet from the first to
! the second breakage. But" you
will say, how was the time
calculator" Attached to the carriage of the
magnets is large tunin s-fork, which when
! agitated, vibrates 1000 times a second. These
| vibrations are recorded on smoked glass
| which Is kept turning. After each successive
| brt Kings OF the wires it is noted that there
are on an average. only l25 zig-zag lines
| recorded on the smoked glass, which proves
that the bullet Travelled the distance sepa-
| rating the two wires tsix feet in eight one
| thousandth OF second, or at the rate Of go
| feet in an entire second BY carefully grad
| ing and selecting his instruments Mr. Bows
| has already succeeded IN measuring one one
| milliOnth OF a second, and even hopes to do
! better"
The rice paper tree. one of the most interest
| ing of the fora Of China, has recently been
! sIccessfully experimental with in Florida.
/ where it now tOurshes with other sub
| tropical and Oriental species of trees and
! shrubs, says the St. Louis Republic When
| hrst transplanted in American soil the ex-
| perimenters expressed doubts of its hardi-
ness. fearing that it would be unable to
| stand the winters All these fears have
| vanished, however, and 1t is now the uni
| versal opinion that IL is as well adapted to
! the climate Of this country as to that OF the
| famed Flowery kim dom. 1t is a small
| tree, with a trunk or stem from
| three to five inches in diameter. Its canes.
! which vary in color according to
! season, are large, soft and downy, the
| form somewhat resembling that noticed
| in those of the castor bean plant
| he celebrated rice paper the product
| of this queer tree, is formed OF thin slice of
| the pith, which is taken from the body of the
! tree in beautiful cylinders, several inches IN
| length The Chinese workmen apply the
! blade Of a sharp, straight knife to the cylin.
| ders. and turning them round either by rude
/ machinery or by hand, dexterously pare the
| plth from circumference to center. This opera
| tion makes roll OF extra quality paper the
scroll being Of equal thickness throug bout
| After cylinder has thus been pared is Is I'm
rolled and weights are placed upon IL until
the surface is rendered uniformly smooth
throughout It's entire length il is alto