The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

It's an experiment. which If successful will
mean much for the greater development OF
the lumber region about Puget Sound.
The authorities of Pontiac. Mich, have
declared the Salvation Army to be a public
nuisance in that locality. and an ordinance
has recently been passed which prohibits
members OF the army from Parading or
preaching on any but two specified streets
of the town
-AprOpos Of the caterpillar nuisance.
reports have been received from Bismarck,
n D. which state that a new kind OF
caterpillar has made his appearance in
that region, and has proceeded at once TO
denude shade trees of their foliage. The
worm spins cocoon which Is large and or
unusually strong fibre. Upon eXamina-
ton by experts IL has been found that the
thread Is almost as strong as silk and OF
similar texture. Specimens of the worm
and of the cocoon have been forwarded 10
the government experts at Washington,
and II may yet turn out that what the
BismarckianS considered a bane may be
a blessing in disguise.
-Vesuvius, with its reawakened crater,
IS a popular and interesting spectacle.
According to the London Daily a.ews.
crowds Of native youngsters play around
the crater'S very edge, where II is not so
deep as to admit unbearable heat, and
pelt each other with smoking bits Of lava.
A strange crowd of sight-Seersi Men in
their shirt sleeves. women in their white
Jackets. come along singing, playing the
tambour1ne, beating time even on empty
petroleum tins, anything to make a noise,
taking the demonstration of the mountain
as a good joke. A few carriages bring
foreigners as far as 1t is possible, after
which the tourists must walk. The peO-
pie who keep little drinking shops on the
high road up the mountain drive a roar
ing trade"
The canny designer of Vallxyrie III has
apparently reserved a surprise until the
eve of the challenger's departure from
Scotland for the United States. a set of
nickle-steel spars, including "a mast of the
same material, has been provided for the
WHOM .
than the usual pine sticks; and thus the
weight aloft on Nallkyrie III will be re-
gained by her aluminium ribs and side
plates. With her sail-spread increased to
nearly 1900 square feet the new Nalkyrie
is expected to show even more speed than
was indicated in her matches with the
Britannia.
DIR. lie Plongeon, the archaeologist, be-
lives that he has discovered in the dia-
lect spoken by the wild Indians of Guate-
mala a language older than Sanskrit,
and probably the oldest living language,
says Information. These Indians are de-
scendants of the Mayas. whose hierogly-
phic inscriptions on the walls of the Iu-
catan temples were undecipherable until
DIR. lie PlOngeOn made the experiment OF
giving them the phonetic value which they
possess in the language of the clutches.
On doing this he discovered that the Ian
guage Of the inscriptions was almost iden-
tical with that of the Quiches, and, more
over. that the hieratic alphabet of the
Mayas is almost identical with that Of the
ancient Egyptians. II there are no miss
ing links IN the chain of evidence this is
one of the greatest pathological finds of
modern times.
DIR. J. z. Hale of Colorado has in his
possession package of pink impalpable
powder, the history of which is very in
tereSting. 1t Is the residuum of a guam
tity of pink snow that fell in and around
Winfield, Col. last April. 7. H. SymOnS
of Winfield, who sent it to him, thus de-
scribes this peculiar snowstOrm:- Last
ClOudp0
a pink cast to them. About 5 O'clock the
clouds up to the north became very dense
and a dark pink, and at O'Clock il was
too dark to read. l have seen many
strange skies here, but that was the mast
strange. 1t began to snow about o'clock,
and in the morning there was one and
half inches altogether; a half-inch of the
bottom was very pink, and when the snow
thawed it left coat of slime on the ground
and boards, and our walk is pink even
to-day" The powder is beIived to be of
volcanic origin
One of the most effective of late ideas
in ornamental lighting is the use Of large
eggs as receptacles for glow lamps, says
the New Y ork Times. Especially soft and
rich is the effect of the ostrich egg through
which a bright light is showing These
eggs must be, of course, suspended, and
the best way of hanging them Is to in
close them in silk cord, Melted with a
large mesh. This has the additional adj
vantage of preventing the pieces from fly
ing about should the egg be accidentally
broken. An ingenius stimulation of the ef-
feet of stained glass is now used for halls,
staircases or dead walls Hollow bricks,
with face of semi-opaque colOred glass
are built into the wall and various colors
are arranged according to Il specific de-
sign. In each of the bricks is a small in
candescent lamp. When the lamps are
switched on the design shines out. A COM
posite design is sometimes arranged, of
which the individual parts or the whole
can be switched on as desired.
Herr Hagenbach of Hamburg. the
largest dealer in and trainer of wild
beasts in the world, is at present in this
country arranging the forthcoming So
mali show at Sydenham, says the London
Daily News. 70 an interviewer he has
been giving some facts with regard to his
strange business, in which he has been
engaged for more than forty years II is
probable that few frequenters of the cir
Gus are aware Of the large money value
represented by performing animals, or the
genbach has four trained lions at present
performing in America which he values
at $4,000, and he declares that he would
not take $4,000 for a group of six male
lions, three Bengal tigers, three leOpards
one panther, two pumas, one Polar bear
one Thibet bear and four boar hounds
who live together in perfect harmony. A
year or two ago Herr Hagenbach exhibit
ted another happy family of this kind
at the Crystal Palace. He took them back
to Hamburg and they all died of CHAMBERS
The loss was estimated at $4,000 Ele-
plants, 1t seems, are the most docile of
all animals. 1t is possible to teach twenty
tricks to an elephant in the brief space of
a fortnight.
An interesting enumeration has been
made by somebody, and published in a
technical journal of the sources of color.
says the New York Sun. From this it ap-
pears that the cochineal insects furnish
the gorgeous carmine, crimson, scarlet car
mine and purple lakes; the cutie fish
gives sepia, that is, the inky fluid which
the fish discharges in order to render the
water opaque when attacked; the India
yellow comes from the camel; the ivory
chips produce the ivory black and bone
black; the exquisite Prussian blue comes
from fusing horse hoofs and other refuse
animal matter with impure potassium car
Donate; various lakes are derived from
roots, barks and gums: blue black comes
from the charcoal of the vine stock: Tur-
key red is made from the madder plant
which grows in Hindostan; the yellow san
of a Siam tree produces gamboge raw
sienna IS the natural earth from the neigh
borhood of Sienna, Italy; raw lumber is
an earth found near Umbria and burned.
India ink is made from burned camphor:
mastic is made from the gum of the mastic
tree, which grows in the Grecian Archi-
peligo; blister is the SCOT of wood ashes:
very little real ultramarine, obtained from
the precious laDis lazuh, is found in the
market; the Chinese white is zinc scar
let IS 1odtde of mercury, and verrnillion
is from the quicksilver ore cinnabar.