The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t requires about 10000 pounds of cork
a year 10 supply the demand in this coun-
Try, and nearly all the raw material comes
from Spain The manufacturing IS done
IN Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and Chicago.
Pittsburg has the most extensive estab-
lishments and does business OF Sl,5OO.Ovl
annually. The poor quality of cork Is used
in making nfe-preservers, ships Tenders.
etc. There is about 1900 invested in this
country In the manufacture Of coTl1s, and
the annual product is worth very nearly
Si,0o9,0oo.
Last year. SAYS the Chicaso Record,
we imported s., 1860 worth OF toys into
the United States. which was a consider
is92 the imports were ere s. fs45Ss. and in 1893
81 81, GA Nearly all our toys come from
Germany-last year more than IS per cent.
Strange to say, France furnished only 49,
Co worth, and that represented French
dolls and doll heads. We got some dolls
from Austria, also, and $4,000 worth of
came from China, few from Ecuador
and a few from Mexico, with 81 worth
from Brazil The total value Of dolls i'm
ported last year was 1874. 269 which is about
the average for the last five or six years
Climbing vines have many different
methods OF attaching themselves TO their
support, says Meehan's Monthly. Some
encircle a branch of the host by tWfning
their main bodies .around the support.
\ hop vine is a iSmiliar illustration of
this. More delicate ones cannot twist
string. or some similar material to cling
TO. The ordinary morning glory is an il
lustration of this class. but there are
some which simply climb by twisting
the leaf stalk around the support. This
Is especially true of the different kinds
OF clematises. yet it is not unusual in
some gardens TO see stakes thick as
walking canes put for the clematis TO run
on; but, as IL is unable to do this. they
nave 10 be tied to this pole by Irvine,
while the leaves go on twisting themselves
in order to find something TO cling TO-
and as consequence the vital powers
OF the plant are exhausted. In many
cases the clematis, especially the variety
known as Jackmanni, will die completely
and suddenly from the attack of a minute
fungus; but Il is more likely that this &C.
ours oftener in cases as described, for
want of the proper means of support
Thread or Irvine for the leaves to twist
around, or even little brush wood,
such as we would give to crop of peas,
is much more likely to produce healthy
and vigorous clematises than when they
are deprived of all means of using their
leaf stalks as tendrils.
in France when a horse reaches the
age Of twenty or thirty il is destined
for chemical factory; It is first relieved
Of its hair which is used to stun cushions
and saddles; then it is skinned; the hoofs
serve to make combs. Next the carcass is
placed in a cylinder and cooked by steam
at pressure of three atmospheres; a cock
IS opened which let's the steam run off:
then the remains are cut up, the leg bones
are sold to make knife handles and the
coarser-the ribs and the head-are made
into animal black and glue. The first are
calcined in cylinders, and the vapors, when
condensed form the chief source of car
Donate of ammonia, which constitutes the
base of nearly all ammonical salts. There
Is an animal oil yielded, which makes
capital insecticide and a vermifuge. The
bones, to make blue. are dissolved in
mur1atic acid, which takes the phosphate
the lime away; the soft element. retain
ing the shape of the bone, is dissolved in
boiling water, cast into squares and dried
L m he Nh. bot. .A,I
upon by sulphuric acid and calcined with
carbon, produces phosphorus for our luci-
/ fer matches. The remaining flesh is dis
titled to obtain the carbonate of ammonia;
the resulting mass is pounded up with
/ potash then mixed with old nails and
| iron Of every description; the whole is cal
1 cined, and yields magnificent yellow crys-
/ tails prussiate of potash. with which tissues
/ are dyed a Prussian blue and iron trans
formed into steel: it also forms cyanide
/ of potassium and prussic acid. the two
/ most terrible poisOns known in chemistry.
! Critics of America, - said a well known
physician 10 the New York World. have
/ poked fun at us for being nation Of
rockers. Americans have been pictured
/ as sixty millions of persons seated in sixty
millions OF rocking chairs-some of them
cradles, of course But now comes Dr.
I Lame, q French West India physician,
/ who says it is good for US. He has been
! talking Of what he calls the good effect
! 1ects affected with atony of the stomach.
| Atony IS want of tone. Lame says that
/ a course of rocking chair after every meal
/ the oscillations being quiet and regular,
4 stimulates gastro-intestinal peristalism,
and that dyspeptics should take notice
/ The chair ought to be light, so that rock
/ ing requires no effort, and sufficiently in
/ clned backward that the person may lie
J rather than sit in It, Physicians viii agree
/ that DR.. Lame has done Americans a real
! service. 1t has always been rather diff
/ cult to explain the national passion for
| the rocking chair, but now il is only too
/ easy. Americans are the worst sufferers
from indigestion and dyspepsia in the
/ world, but It now appears that we have
/ instinctively rushed to what is now proved
to be the best system of relief. The man
/ who lunches on pie and then balances him
| self in a rocking chair is unconsciously
I doing his best to stimulate his CASTRO
| intestinal peristalism;' he is practically
singing a lullaby TO his outraged and in
| jured stomach, which is kept from crying
| aloud only by this method of soothing IL
! Behold in Americans q, nation of invalids
| endeavoring to rock themselves to sleep.
| DR.. LANES theory is too good not to be
The following most curious account of
/ a remarkable discovery appears in the
( Academy of March 16. which says: Mr.
! II. Villiers Stuart writes to the secretary
| of the Egyptian exploration fund from
| Cairo. under date March !, as follows: "A
I few days ago there were discovered at
/ DashOur the graves of two princesses of
| the twelfth dynasty, intact. The collins
/ had mouldered away, and the mummies
! lay each with a coronet on her head, and
| wearing other jewelry When an attempt
to move the mummieS was made they fell
| TO fragments. The jewelry is very beau
| tiful. One of the coronets was, in fact, a
| wreath of forget-me-nots, made of pre-
| cious stones, mounted in goldstems. At
/ intervals occurred Maltese crosses and
| precious stones set in gold. This lovely
wreath was as perfect and looked as
/ fresh as ON the day it was made-a couple
of centuries before the time of Abraham
| more than 1900 years ago. 1t illustrates
a passage in the poetic epitaph on the
| funeral pail of Queen Is-em-Kheb, "she
| is armed with flowers every day. I Wis
| tied Dashour and saw, in stu, the sarco-
phagus in which these treasures were
| found, as also that of the other princess.
She also had a lovely coronet, fitted with
socket in which was inserted a spray of
| various flowers made in jewels, with gold
| stems and gold foliage. Beside these,
there are necklaces, bracelets. armlets,
anklets, daggers, charms, etc. These most
! interesting discoveries are due to the en-
ergy and sagacity of NJ. de Morgan, di-
rector general of Egyptian antiquities.
ably seconded by Nine. de Morgan, his
/ gifted wife. >"
| The legendary belief that the eye of a
| murdered man might retain a permanent
| image. of his destroyer has just received
| something like scientific confirmation.
| According to the Revue des Questions
! Scientitiques, Drs. Deneffe and Clayes,