The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Petroleum when burned under steam
boilers. is usually sprayed BY means OF
I Jet OF steam 4 new English burner en-
piOys compressed air for the same purpose.
I The oil is said TO be partially gasined by
heat before reaching the burner
in the observatory at Pekin they have
I them back to 200 c. Again, the chi
nese praying machine. into which one re-
I peats prayers, which are duly given form
again, was but the fOrerunner OF the pho-
1t is often supposed that boys in grow
I ing keep ahead of girlss but recent meas
urements disprove this. The boys, up 10
/ their eleventh year, were found 10 run
/ about quarter 10 half an inch taller than
I the girls. They were then Overtaken pH
/ the girls who surpassed them in hight till
I their sixteenth year. when the boys again
grew faster than the girls and came 10 the
/ front.
BY command Of the car. six milk
4 white steeds" are 10 be purchased to draw
/ the state carriage on the day OF the coTo-
nation. 1t is no easy task TO obtain exactly
I what Is required. but when perfectly
I matched animals have been procured at an
/ almost incredible price, there is sun mucn
| to be done in training them TO become used
/ to their gorgeous trappings, and 10 perform
their share in the pageant without indulg-
/ ing in any undignihed friSkinSs or hlgn
/ spirits which would mar the sOlemnity OF
/ the procession.
There is a remarkable difference in the
/ density Of mahogany as Il comes TO the
| cabinet-maker. a square foot OF Cuban
average six pounds; like piece OF san
| Domingo mahogany weighs four pounds,
| and like piece of Mexican mahoSany
weighs two and One-half pounds The
difference in weight between old pieces
/ of San Domingo mahogany taken from the
| wreck of antique furniture, and piece
| of seasoned new San Domingo mahogany
| is much less than might be expected.
st. Petersburg has now the wonderful
| clock bequeathed by Duke Charles of
! Brunswick 10 the Swiss republic. The
ole .H.s
| time Of day at thirteen different places,
| the movement of the earth round the sun,
| the phases of the moon. the signs Of the
zodiac. the passage over the meridian of
| fifty stars of the northern hemisphere and
/ the date according to the GregOrian,
| Greek, Mussulman and Hebrew calendars.
| 1t took two years to put the pieces to-
! gether when il was transported to Russia.
Moses Niff, of Rose Bank, S. l., has
! curious and valuable Attorney COW. She is
| very large and has hollow on her back
/ which Will hold over a gallon CT water
! and the COW always stands In the rain un-
] I'll the hollow is filled. 1t is then absorbed
| through the pores and she gives that much
additional milk, but. oddly enough, this Gu
| rious phenomenon does not take place if
/ ordinary water is poured into the hollow
! spot Mr. Wifi states that the process is
| even mere strange if there happens TO be
! a ralnA9we qtFpg the shower as in that
| case the cream that rises on the milk takes
on all the Beautiful colors of mOther-Of-
| pearl.
] r. ditnerS nave taken to the bicycle in
/ parts OF Ohio, and they go to town on the
/ wheel instead of driving. They make long
! trips IN the same fashion to cities that
/ hitherto they have seldom visited one
| livery stable keeper in an Ohio town has
/ bought some bicycles to rent. He says that
! everybody rides the wheel while few per-
sons ride or drive horses, so he is gradual
! ~ changing the character of his business.
/ rev people know that the population
| OF Portugal, including Madeira and the
! Azores, is only 5,O49 729, of whom 2619 800
I Of he
! lation are unable to read or write. Lis
| bon has 6i2,0C0 of whom 1894 3SS are I'M
able to read or write. 1t is not surprising
/ that, although the census was taken five
! years ago, the government has only just
/ made up It's mind to publish these fig
! ures, which il would he hard to beat In
| any country of the world claiming to be
/ civilized.
Grape fruit. citrus pomelanus," is just
| known to the Chinese centuries ago.
nograph: The play and the novel were
! now exciting some attention among physi-
| clans a cure for dyspepsia. This fruit is
| naive OF CHINA and Japan. 1t was intro
| duced into the West Indies by Capt Shad-
| DOCK ana from thence into Florida. 1t
| is now TO be procured of fruit dealers all
| over the country. The "Dietetic and IIy-
| gienic Gazette" records four cases where
/ grape fruit diet relieved acute rheumatic
! govt IN a man, dyspepsia in a woman and
| muscular rheumatism in two cases. One of
| the rheumatic men went TO Florida to get
! the truit in its perfection, and returned
cured of all symptoms. Chemists say that
! grape fruit contains the most perfect malic
ACID; and malic acid always cOnquers uric
acid. Grape fruit should be eaten by suck
1 ing the pulp; then the bitter element comes
/ cut with the acid and fruit sugar, and
! rheumatism will leave for parts unknown.
Norwich, Eng, as a city owes it's sue
! cess to mustard The commercial impor-
! lance OF the town was we gather from an
/ article in the English Illustrated, at one
! tlme declining very rapidly, but the map-
/ utacture of the continent by the Messrs
! COlman practically saved it, This indus
| try employs more than 22OO men. women
! ana children, and it is for the making of
horse dTTin sc 81 many hundred hundred
machfHes, are constantly kept going. Mr.,
! CONAN s"wofks have a. river frontage of
| the best +5art of a mile, and cover at least
| % acres Of ground. Under the direction of
| Mr.. j. j. Colman, NJ. F., the mustard seed
mas been grown on an increasing area of
| East Angalia. 1t is also grown in the neigh
| borhood of Selby, in Yorkshire and large
quantities are imported from Holland Two
! kinds of seed are used The brown seed
! has the punSency, and is more EXPENSIVE:
/ the white seed is almost taSteless but nv
! its capacity for fermentation, enables a
little OF the brown to go a long way 1t is
! by the Juqicious combination of the two
! is obtained"
This is the story of a curious mlshap
! which befell a swallow near Cold Spring.
/ n. Y, says the New York World w l.
! Calver was standing in barnyard at
That place. 1t was blustery day, and
/ IN constant motion by the shifting wind
! Mr.; Calver looked at the vane He had
! looked at 1t twenty times before during
| the day, but this time it was different
! Evidently bird had perched upon il. MIR
! Calver thought it the most unstable perch
/ possible. But the bird remained there ali
| day. Toward evening the boys on the
| farm tried to dislodge the bird bv throw
! ing stones at it. 1t did not go away. Next
! day 1t was still there, and then an in
| Vestigatlon was made. One of the bows
| climbed out of the cupola window. and
looking up, found the bird was a swallow:
| that, far from being perched on the vane
| It was impaled. The vane struck right
| through the birds breast. The swallow
was, OF course, dead. Its position made
! reaching it an impossibility, so it had 10
| ne lett where it was. At last only the
| skeleton was left Finally even that fell
| TO pieces. It is thought that in one of the
sudden downward swoops which swallows
| make in flight the bird did not see the
| rapidly shifting Yane, and that the latter
| Veered around just in time to impale the
swallow through the breast.
-haVa Is the native drink and its use
ana the manner and ceremony of its nre
paratlon being among the most ancient
customs of Polynesia. 1t merits, | think a
snort description, says the Westmins-
ter review. Kava is an indigenous tree
more or less plentiful throughout the South