The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-Parisians are beginning to take kind
~ 10 the American ice-water habit, and
are making a greater use Of carafes frap-
ice-than ever before. The best ice sold
den.
Despite the fact that the season for
strawberries in the east has long since
passed. reports of the berries now mar
keted in the west show that the season
there is at its hight Washington and
Idaho Strawberries measuring from 10
~ lhches IN circumference are common
now; OF forty-three berries picked in one
patch near Kettle Falls, Washington the
other day, none measured less than six
inches.
Prof. Berthelot OF the French Acade-
my OF Sciences calls attention TO the fact
that after the supply of coal on earth is
EXHAUSTED, the heat Of the interior of our
globe may be used as a source Of power.
II Is not impossible. even at present, to
bore holes into the earth 1000 or u 900
feet deep. At such a depth. water OF,
more correctly speaking, steam is found
of a heat estimated at from go to 400 de
greeS Farenheit. which may be used to
drive powerful machinery. This source of
where, and many thousand years would
nave TO pass before a decrease of the i'm
mense amount OF heat stored within our
globe would become noticeable,
On the White river, eight miles from
Camp Apache, has been found remark
able cave, says a Yuma dispatch. For
six hundred feet of the distance the eX-
plorers were Obliged to crawl on their
hands and knees. using candles and bull s.
eye lanterns for light. They found be-
tween 5000 and 1900 human skeletons, in
dlcatlng the bodies of persons who had
perhaps been smOthered to death by smoke
long years ago. Some of them were in
the creviceS just large enough to admit
a human body. The skeletons are of va
rious sizes, some being very small. The
skulls are of a brown color, with the ex-
ception of few that are white The
White Mountain Apaches are very super
StluUOus about the cave, and say that
within 1t there is a large lake of water
The visitors found no water but intend
to explore it further. There are only
two ways Of entering ii.
There are some bad bugs and worms
in the southern forests, but there are GER
talnly none that are quite equal in en-
durance and tOughness to the worm that
developed himself from the great forest
fires OF the northwest. says the Trades
man. Sea RELY mad the fires cooled suf-
hciently for the owners to make inspec-
tiOns of losses when they found that this
new worm had got there first and was al
ready completing the destruction of what
the flames had spared. Both standing and
cut timber were attacked, and the most
vigorous measures have been reSorted 10
ana with only partial success. This worm
seems to have evolved from the heat and,
so far, the cold and SHOWS of the winter
do not appear to have affected his health
or lessened his voracity. He certainly is
new and unpleasant feature in the tim
Der question, and nut that scientists
nave not yet cracked
"A regular pigeon letter-carrier service
is now carried on between Los Angeles
Cal, and Avalon, a summer resort on
Catalina island, about fifty miles distant.
Catalina is visited only once a day by
the steamer ana is as isolated as If in
mid-Ocean. The time to Los Angeles by
steamer and railway is from three to
tours hours; the pigeons take but fifty
minutes. The service now numbers lOO
birds and covers private messages, bust
ness orders and press Intelligence. BY
cable connection word can be sent to any
part of the world. There are several
ways of attaching the message to the bird.
Two methods. however. are most in vogue
one is to fold the slips of tissue paper
on which the communication IS written
lengthwse, wrap ii snugly about the
birds leg and tie securely with a bit of
Irvine. The other way is to roll the pa
per up into a drum-shaped pellet.
-"Pin-money'' is an expression that
came into common usage at time when
a dozen or perhaps twrOb dozen of these
articles were considered an almost peri
lously eXtravagant annual allowance.
This quantity was considered a luxurious
supply for any lady and quite capable
of sustaining and UNFOLDING all those at
taChable and detainable antagonistic ell
ementS of apparel that, made Our grand
danes both ptcturesquely beautiful and
ineXpressibly uncomfortable. Pins were
costly articles in those days, and it is
scarcely possible that the happy pOssessor
range to her imagination to picture the
happy time when her descendant should
strew the earth with a thousand or more
pins year and not remark that they
cost anything at all. a pin was not all
ways an unconsidered trifle by any means,
as the want of one when 1t is beyond reach
proves TO US even in this era of their
abundance.
The ingenuity of San Franciscan is
responsible for marvellous piece of
mechanism, by which ones Dhiz may be
Il rfraHr
as thought, says the San Francisco ChrOn-
icle. Its creation grew out of the prac-
tice of scalping railway tic&l-s. This
business has assumed such proportions
as to prompt railway officials of the large
lines to offer a considerable bonus to
any one devising a plan of perfecting a
method calculated 10 stop it. About two
years ago julius Gregory, an apprentice
in local machine shop, undertook the
construction of an apparatus which with
a simple phot OgrapISic adjunct would
make possible the feat of transferring to
an ordinary railway ticket the portrait
of each purchaser while he is paying the
clerk for his transportation. Success at
tended his efforts-that is. so far the
simple mechanism is concerned. 1t re-
manned for Frank Davey to perfect the
machine. This required a series of baths
for developing solutions, an arrangement
to insure proper dimensions of the ticket
in the baths, and a novel fiash-right at
tachment. In preparing the ticket some
dlft1culty was experienced In securing ma
terials sufficiently sensitized to receive
an ineligible impression with the neceS-
sarily brief exposure, the eastern man
ufactures declaring it to be impossible.
Mr.. Davey, however, was persistent, and
by following his directions the desired
paper was secured. The ticket used must
be of special manufacture, two inches of
the end of each being sensitized material,
which must be kept in light tight paper
case. A purchaser presents himself at
the window and asks for ticket The
sensitized end with it's paper covering is
slipped into a frame The whole is then
inserted in the slot at the top of the
machine. The operator presses a spring
a percussion cap explodes, igniting flash
light, the lens uncovers, shutting almost
instantly, and in the twinkling of an eye
the picture is being automatically de-
veloped. The explosion of the fiashlight
sets the machinery in operation, an ele-
vator draws the ticket down, leaving the
light tight case behind, to a point where
the first bath meets it. This bath is filled
with developing solution. The, first bath
then gives place to the second. AS these
baths recede they empty into the lower
tank, where the development is COM
pleted The elevator then returns the
ticket to the slot and the operator pulls
fit out and presents il to the purchaser
The whole process occupies less than a
minute. Thus. the ticket is made abso-
lutely non-transferable. Any form of
ticket can be thus treated and in the