Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-04-21
Of GENERAL

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Australia has given up altogether
the maintenance Of founding hospitals
and orphan aSylumS and has substitute
cd for this the system Of placing chill
drcn in private homes until such time
as they are able 10 care for themselves
The TyrianS were the most expert
Overs Of ancient times The fabrics
dyed with the famous Tyrian purple
did not assume their proper color until
after two days exposure to light and
air During this time they passed
through q graduation of shades of yell
low, green, blue, violet and red, which
the dyerS understood how TO arrest aud
nv at any moment
South Carolina has a large number
Of cold or blowing wells They
are situated in tho celebrated sand
hills region and the majority OF them
are Of enormous depth. The force of
the current OF air which continually
comes from them varies in intensity
according to atmospheric conditions
being particularly strong for several
hours before and after heavy thunder
storms
Tho Nurses homo Of Johns Hop
ktns university, Baltimore, has re-
Gently received a photograph and stat
uette of Florence Nightingale. The I
siatuette is of Parian marble and it 5
modelled when Miss N~ightiugale's
Early fame was still fresh. The photo ,
was taken in 1892 at the wish of s
Nightingale's brother-in-law Sir p
Harry Nerney, and by him presented to &
he Nurses home. !
Charles A. Platt, who has lust won c
he Wolf prize in the current exhibition 81
4 the Society OF American Artists, ha. :,
lad success in many kindred lines OF IN
His etchings have attracted at OF
entiou, he has written and illustrated q
Magazine articles, and when a student
Paris he was always able to sell even
is slightest sketches, He has been
vice married, and his second wife was -,
he widow Of a brother artist an
A well in Dublin, Ind, has been
Queerly recently. The well is
oont twenty feet deep and contains ~
ght feet of water. The other day it wi
to bubble and boil. A lighted lne
rch was applied, when a loud explo- 81
took place. In a short time ',ct
torch was applied with the PEI
me result, and for half a dozen more dy'
mes when a torch was held over the -
a loud report followed, blowing ,hrl.
everything that was over the well. ISM
lie boiling still continues with no less
rec. ~
of land among the Thou. HoI
islands have a way of making tlA
Fir lands grow, not in numbers but ,
size An almost bare rock of small n
is thus expanded into an III
covered with vegetation and say
wing space enough for a house OF
size. The thing is ac, ~
nplished by riprapping, piledrivina ly
| the Importation of earth. The fioa
TX Is often done gradually, year bv
+, until the landowner has made u,
&c enough for his house. and after s00'
the island Is extended as the need 49,,
III
Every head Of clover consists of y
sixty Hover tubes, each of which S'
talnS an intinitesimal quantity of E
ar Bees will often visit a hundred Nl
rent heads of clover before ~rctir. r,
to the hive, and in order to obtain l..
sugar necessary for a load must Apr
efore, thrust their tongues into
IL SIX thousand different flowers "
&c Will make twenty trims a d,v ~
the clover patch is convenient tci 1
hive, and thus will draw suro {H
one hundred and twenty thou. ~
different flowers in the course of }0
gle days work. ~
The Navajo Indians produce the x
ant red of their blankets from II
ia, a bright scarlet cloth made in }H
cities and raveled by the In. u
Tor the yarn. Their gray is the f3
raj color OF some of their sheep, so "
1eir white and their black. They {6
ice a deep yellow from the alder n
l IN water, and afterward mixed ~
impure native alum. A dull red 10
roduced from the alder bark lei
is also obtained from the arc. A
sumac, yellow ochre and the ~
u a species of pine. The last dive W
entially an ink. Most of these II!
are produced by elaborate and fI
oas processes but the Navajos "
use dyed woods made in eastern }Gtt-