The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-18
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some who might not have thought of il
otherwise that the essential difference be
tween Ice and granite consider as rocks
/ IS merely matter Of the greater or less
/ degree OF heat 1t takes 10 "thaw' them.
| -Adulteration meets Us everywhere,
/ says the London News. The treatment
/ 10 which otto OF roses has always been
subjected seems hardly TO have been
/ checked by the prohibition imposed upon
/ the Bulgarian government on the impOr-
| tation into Bulgaria of the adulterating
| medium-essence Of geranium. Indeed, says
Vice Consul Wratfslaw. the quantity of
i otto which reaches the European markets
i in pure state must be very small. Last
summer the British chamber of commerce
at Constantinople sent a delegate to the
principal OttO-prOducing center, with
/ view to procuring an absolutely pure sam
pie This gentleman. however, was Obliged
70 return empty-handed, for he ascertained
that, though the otto may not be tam
pered with after reaching the merchants
hands, there is no means of insuring that
| the peasant whose stock the latter buys
| up has not already adulterated it. Super
vision during distillatiOn is no guarantee.
Tor the ingenious peasant is in the habit
OF Spr1nkling essence of geranium over
| the freshly gathered roses before distilla-
ton, IN order to increase the yield.
An enterprising young man, who is
part owner in a bOathOuse down the river,
will be of inestimable value to suf-
fering mankind If experience proves it's
worth, says the Philadelphia Record. The
lnha bitantS of this dOWn-the-rlVer boat
house were nearly torn TO pieces by mos
quitoes every time they attempted to sleep
IN the house at night. Screens seemed to
be of no avail, and it looked at one time
as # the house would have to be aban-
doned. Finally, an old lady, who lived in
the neighborhood, told them that she had
not been troubled by mosquitoes for sever
al years. Her remedy was astonishingly
simple. She discarded all screens, and
threw the windows wide open at night.
Across the open. space of the, window she
stretched piece of red ribbon about two
lnches wide. "A mosquito" said she,
cannot be Induced to pass that ribbon.
why 1t is so do not know, but l know the
natives of India take this means of battling
| the vicious mosquitoes. 1t works to per-
lection here also" The young man fol-
| lowed instructions and now declares that
| there has not been mosquito in the
| boathouse since the ribbon was stretched
across the doors and windows.
Cold storage for underclothes is the
| latest novelty in the big downtown re-
frigerators. One of the warehouse own
/ erS was taken by surprise the other day
when he received an application to cold
| store several hundred cases of wooden
underwear. The application came from
| one of the largest wholesale dry goods
| houses in the city, and the storage man
| was at first tempted to treat the matter
| as joke. He took the goods and later
| discovered the reason for the innovation.
IL seems that this has been an unusually
Disk season for moths The Industrious
| but detructive moth millers had dis
| covered the unsold underclothing lying
/ in the big stores and had proceeded to
| take possession of ii in swarms Finally
| some one suggested that the pesky in
| sects should be frozen ont. Application
was at once made for cold-storage ROOM
| and the goods are now STAGED up in an
| atmosphere where the temperature STANDS
at Y degrees, and where boys play at
| SNOWFALL on these hot July days. If the
| experiment of freezing out the moths
| proves a success the cold-storage men
/ VIII have opened new and profitable
| avenue for turning an honest penny, and
| the people buying clothes Will no longer
1 fear the corrupting moth.
"A very remarkable thing I'm the way of
birds nests is preserved in the Museum
| of National History at Soleure, in Switz-
! erland whittier il was brought by one NJ
| Rudolph Rueder, says an exchange. 1t is
nest made entirely of steel. There are
a number of clockmaking shops at So
| leure, and in the windows of these shops
| there are often found lying dsused or
broken springs of clocks. Early last
| summer NJ. Rueder, one of these clock
| makers. noticed a birds nest of peculiar
appearance in tree in his yard He ex-
amined it and found that a pair of wag-
tails had built nest entirely of clock
| springs, which they had picked UP here
| and there about the village. The nest
| was more than inches across, aud per-
| fectly comfortable one for the birds At
| ter the feathered architects had reared
| their brood NJ. Reuder presented the nest
to the museum of the town, where it is
preserved as a striking Illustration of the
| skill of birds in turning their surround
ings to advantage in building their nests.
Probably next year the birds will build
| another steel nest, and unless the clock
makers of Soleure guard their springs
\ more closely, steel nests will not be so
much curiosity as this first one.
| I'm a learned article on roses, the
| Quarterly Review says: The earliest GER
| tain trace in Greek literature of the rose
as a cultivated flower Is to be found in
| Herodotus in his account of the rise of
| the House of Macedonia. The sons of
| Temenus, he says C3k. viii, 1888, fed into
another 9art of Macedonia and, took up
| their abode near the Gardens Of Midas.
| In these gardens there are roses which
| grow of themselves that is, we suppose,
without much attention to pruning or
! buddinS-"so sweet that no others can vie
with them in this; and their blossoms have
as many as sixty petals apiece" Every
rose grower will at once recognize in this
| the most venerable OF all rose records, the
| original rosa centifoEa, still more than
| 1000 years afterward, one of the sweetest
in many an old English garden-the old
| Provence or Cabbage rose. And it is a
| curious Illustration of Herodotus' accu-
| racy in unsupported details, that Pliny
describes the same rose as found principal
| ly in much the same district, in the neigh
borhood of Phillip, the people of which,
he says, get it from the neighboring Mount
Pangaeus, and greatly improve it by
roses the Provence or Hundred-leaved
rose seems chiefly to have formed the
backbone of continuity.
In the last number of Meehan's Month
ly the editor tells of being summoned Ia
hold an inquest over a dead sugar maple
tree. 1t was supposed to have been de-
SlIOytu ny d leak IN the city gas main,
near it's roots, but an examination con-
WINGED Mr. Meehan that the tree had died
literally from sunstroke. This maple had
been planted on the street about twenty
fve years, and was some four feet in girth
The trunk, however, instead of being cylin-
drical, was shaped like a triangular prism
a popularity owing to the fact that on
three sides of it the inner bark and wood
had been killed, while the outer bark con-
tinued to cover UP the injury, so that the
only living wood was at the angles of the
trunk. Practically, no more than one
third of the trunk was alive, and when the
exceedingly warm weather of last month
came, the limited number of ducts were
not sufficient to supply the moisture need
ed to meet the rapid Transportation from
so large a surface of foliage, consequently
the leaves wilted and the tree died. When
ever the trunk of a tree takes on this an
gular form 1t should be examined under
the bark, and If the fiatter portions are
found dead, the bark and the decaying
part of the wood should be wholly cut
away and the denuded part painted to
| check the rotting. In time healthy wood
may grow over such scar and the life
of the tree may thus be eventually saved