The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


One-half of the fund created by the theater
licenses in New York goes TO the Actors
fund. This year 1t am cunts to over $4,000.
A large number of flowers are bored by
humble bees. They collect the nectar in this
way instead Of entering by the mouth OF the
flower.
A project is on foot to introduce into the
United States the edible lichen of Japan. 1t
is gathered on the granite rocks in the Japa-
nese Mount ains and contains large quantities
OF starch and other gelatinous substances.
Meyer5eers favorite baton, made of ebony
with silver tip. has come to light again. He
gave it as present TO the Danish composer.
CHASER, whose widow the other day sold IL at
auction for the benefit Of famished fishermen
in Jutland.
Although Jupiter is 300 times as large as
the earth, is only $40 times as heavy. In
order to become as solid as the earth 1t must
condense TO one-quarter Of its present size.
Such process of condensation IS now going
on, scientists say.
Mary Jennings, a New York girl, is in
Bellevue hospital under treatment for hys-
terics. Within few days she has five times
gone into tran, state lasting various
lengths OF time The doctors think frag-
ment OF bone is pressing upon her brain and
will operate
Venus is the twin OF the earth, her diane
miles less than that Of our earth Jupiter is
the Goliath OF planets being $500 mi es in
diameter, or about 800 times as great as the
earth in volume. Jupiter makes less bril-
llant appearance than Venus because 1t is ten
times as far away.
Investigation is being made as to the silk
spider Of Madagascar with the object of re
ating new industry. single female spider
gave French missionary 8 900 yards of fine
stlken thread recently in twenty-seven days.
Small textures woven by these spiders are
used by the natives OF Madagascar for fasten-
ing flowers on sunshades and for other pur-
poses.
The greater part of the Desert of Sahara is,
it has been ascertained, from 5000 to 8 900 feet
above the level of the ocean. The desert is
not ralnleSS, hut showers cover it with grass
for few weeks every year, large tocks and
herus being md ntalned upon its borders, and
the GASES are depressions in which water can
be collected and stored. 1t was at one time
believed that the whole of the desert was
below the sea level, instead of only a com
paratively small part of it.
AS to the speed with which the migration
flights of birds are accomplished, Canon Iris
tram, in the British Association, quoted Herr
Gatke as maintaining that godwits and plov-
ers Can fly at the rates of 240 miles an hour
DR.: Jerdon had stated that the spine-tailed
swift, rooStlng in CeylOn, would reach the
Eimalal as. 1000 miles, before sunset In
their ordinary fight the swift was the only
bird the author ever knew to outStrip an ex-
press train on the Great Northern Railway.
There is young man Of good family in
Toledo, o., who is asking the courts to divorce
him for the third time from his wife-the
same woman, He first secured a divorce
after two months OF married life and after a
month OF separation they remarked This
union lasted two years, when there was an
other Sc taration, and after another brief in
terval a third marriage which has continued
four years. Now she has gone on the stage
and he declares he has done with her forever
Mr.. Charles D. Kubach. machinist. who
lives at No. 1858 Elliott street, Baltimore, on
Tuesday last secured a patent on machine
which metal Plates lumber, says the Ameri-
can. Mr.. kdDach claims that the metal
plated wood has stood the tests of fire and
will prevent the spread of flames in anv
structure where the framework is so pro-
tected. This metal protection is piece OF
sheet steel that is drawn over the lumber
like glove, by means of machinery, render
ing the space between the wood and the COW
ering perfectly alright. The thickness of
this covering Is about that of writing paper
and can be manufactured and placed on lum-
Der at less than cent per square foot This
metal-plated lumber is not tire-proof. the in
ventor claims, but will be impervious TO wa
ter, and defy the havoc OF rats
While two wedding professions were fight.
ing for the road at one OF the gates at Han.
kow, China. the chairs holding the brides got
mixed and each lady was taken to the wrong
bridegroom. The gentlemen never having
seen their wives before according to the
Chinese custom, knew no mistake When the
next morning the mothers Of the two brides
went to present the usual hair oil to their
dausht each found stranger installed in
her place. Neither mother, moreover had
any means of finding out where her daughter
bad gone. After a very difficult search of the
city the brides were both found. and then the
idea OF making the best of things was
blocked by the fact that one OF the brides
who was rich and intended for a rich husband
had fallen INTO the hands OF very poor mqn
The problem remains unsoved