The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ers, and has taken out a number OF pat
ents Of recent date.
The merchants Of Monett, No. have
adopted a novel scheme for collecting ac-
counts of long standing. Several OF the
prettiest girls in that section have been
hired as collectors. The girls and the
scheme are said to be meeting with re-
markable success.
1t is remembered of the late Mr.
Houghton that he was wont to tell char
acteristic story of Noah Webster. Hough-
ton was a boy in a printers shop when an
odd-lOoking old gentleman came in one
day to make him promise that he would
always set up the word center" not
centre" The dictionary man is said to
have traversed New England on this er
rand to printers.
DR.. Bertram Windle has recently made
experiments to see whether or not strong
magnetism has any effect on the Matching
OF eggs, says London Public Opinion He
took powerful magnet and Matched the
eggs between its poles-that is to say, in
the magnetic field" where the stress of
the luminiferous ether is grea test. The
eggs of silkworms were apparently unaf-
fected by the magnetism, or Tines of mag
netic force penetrating them, but hens
eggs thus treated were found to produce
an unusual number of abnormal chicks.
DR.. Windle has also submitted the eggs
of trout to an electrical current travers-
ing the water, and found it to arrest their
development
With Thanksgiving day less than two
months distant, the sad reports come from
the principal cranberry growing districts
In the country that the crop will be one
or the smallest ever harvested 1t may
not equal even the small yield of 1886,
when only $4,000 bushels were produced.
Most dismal reports come from the Jer-
sey boys. In Camden, Burlington, and At
lantic counties, comprising the principal
cranberry districts of the state, 1t is es-
timated that there will not be a fifth OF
the normal yield harvested. The fruit
that escaped the scald, the drought, the
fire-worm, and destructive forest fires,
was almost entirely ruined by the frosts
of the early part of last month"; low water
caused by the drought defeating the at
tempt to food the boys.
The water level of the great lakes is
a curious study, says the 81. Louis Globe
Democrat. Last week six inches of rain
tell over Superior, Michigan and Huron,
whose combined area is II, 40 square miles.
These showers added to the three lakes
l,W9,64O,116,O00 cubic feet of water, with
out counting the water received by drain
age or tributary streams. 1t would take
the canal under construction in Illinois
seven years to carry off this rainfall alone
at the rate of 900 cubic feet a minute.
The fact should not be forgotten that the
lakes arc fresh water oceans with enor-
nous powers of storage, and it is not GER
tain that a dozen ordinary canals would
pull upon them perceptibly. They have
gradual periods of rise and fall, but scien-
tifc observers have not been asble to ex-
plain them.
The summer just past was the mildest
ever known in Greenland, according to
reports Brought here on the bark Sill
con, which arrived on Sunday from Ivig
tut, says the Philadelphia Record lFhr
mountains for the first time ever known
are bare of ice and snow, and wild eSAs-
mails accustomed to extreme cold have
been compelled to go further north. Birds
are plentiful, as well as other kinds of
game, particularly grouse, and a number
were shot by the Silicon's passengers.
Blueberries were plentiful for the first
time i'm many years. The water about
the southern coast of the island was
warm enough to battle in, a luxury in
which the natives seldom indulge. Those
on the Silicon who took an Arctic bath
for the first time say that they have met
with colder water often on the Jersey
coast.
Some one has started a new and novel
notion in regard to choosing and wear
ing jewels. This is to match them as
nearly as possible to the color of the spots
In ones eyes. Accoring to this a hazel
eyed girl is wise to choose yellow green
or brown stones. Blondes with dark blue
eyes are recommended to wear sapphires
topaz, canoes, cairngorm and amber of
black eyes may be happy with black pearls
and diamonds. Following out the rule Of
color light blue eyes would, II may be sup
posed, wear >turquoise and pearls; the
green-eyed girl, but, pshaw, what girl
would acknowledge that resemblance to
the feline race even though priceless en-
eralds would be her lot? This may be a
good idea, and in choosing jewels one
certainly should select stones which will
harmonic with the wearer's coloring, for
| jewels sometimes make or mar an other
| wise perfectly appointed costume and ruin
the tout ensemble One should. therefore.
be careful that all the accessories of a
| toilet do not swear at each other, as care
lessly chosen colors often do.
There are certain weather supersti-
TONS, says the Troy Times, which have
been handed down from generation to
| generation that are almost as generally
| excepted to-day as they were fifty years
| ago, Notwithstanding the fact that their
reliability is open TO question. one of
! these is the belief that an equinoctial
storm is quite sure to make its appear
/ ance when the sun crosses the line No
/ one has ever attempted to explain how il
| is that the mere fact of the sun s passing
| over an imaginary line produces an at
mospherlc disturbance, but il is certain
| that large majority of persons conf
| IDENTITY expect a storm from the recur-
| renee of the equinox. This fall there was
no storm, and in fact, the conditions
| were directly opposed 10 all preconceived
| ideas of those who have faith in the
| weather superstition. Was this an isola-
ted case and merely the exception which
| equinoctial storms untenable? The fig
| ures seem to prove that the latter propo-
| sition is correct, and that the supersti-
| tion is not based on any sound founda-
| ton.
pavements has stimulated inquiry as to
| the possible deposits of the material in
| this country so situated as to make its
mining profitable, says the New York Post
4 To-day almost all that is used comes from
| abroad, much of it from Trinidad, and
| America, from Syria, Germany. Switzer-
| land and France. Yet it is claimed by
| experts in the service of the geological
| survey that the United States has the
| best quality and the largest quantity of
| asphalt to be found in any country. The
| problem is how to get it as cheapiy, and
| this economic side of the question Is to
! be investigated by agents Of the geologj-
| cal survey. Asphalt deposits have been
| discovered in West Virginia, Ohio Ken
| lucky, California, Utah, Oklahoma, Mon
| tana, Texas, Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico
| Nevada, Wyoming, Oregon, and Washing
| ton. Only four states make commercial
| use of their deposits-California Ken
| lucky, Texas and Utah-and yet during
| the past year these four states mined
| over half as many tons of asphalt as
| were imported. The native asphalt is
/ claimed by T.. w. Parker, of the geological
| survey. to be superior for paving to the
| imported article as it contains more gritty
matter, and will, therefore, wear longer
and not be as slippery.
| We are not to throw stones any more
| says an exchange, for Mr. Rene Bache
| tells us that the day is not far off when
| we may live in glass houses. There is
| man who has made and patented a most
| surprising number of devices in glass. in
| GLIDING a staircase. barrel and biz
| lard table. Glass bricks for the glass
ara he Lot