The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-Cultivating Strawberries under glass Of
various cOlOrs, Prof ZachareWieZ, OF Nau-
cluse, France, has obtained the following
best and earliest fruit. Orange glass IN
creased the vegetation but ii injured the
quality, size and earliness of the fruit.
Violet glass increased the yield at the eX-
pense of the quality. Red, blue and green
glass was hurtful TO all kinds Of vegeta-
ton.
The only complete gold toilet service
in the world belongs to the young Khedive
of Egypt. II was made in London and
consists Of twenty-eight pieces Each
piece bears the monogram OF the khedlve
in diamonds, the same being surrounded
by INLET in imitation of that of the grand
Turk. Upward of 3 600 diamonds and ], 200
rubies were used in decorating these gold
en- toilet articles. The bod or each piece
is of lS-karat gold and all are inclosed
IN diamond-incrusted ebony case. No
wonder the Egyptian taxpayer is so
happy.
Both Raphael and Zadkiel. the London
astroloSers, predict earthquakes and great
storms for this month. The first, after
predicting calamities of various kinds,
says; The most serious is the presence
IN the middle of the month of six planets
IN the sign Scorpio, with Jupiter near the
square aspect. This will produce terrible
earthquakes in some places, with an ap-
palling loss of life; in this country great
atmosphere disturbances will be frequent
and wrecks will be many. 1t will be
month long to be remembered in the an
nals OF many countries" Zarkiel gives
the Following summary as the voice of
the stars FOR November: The chief
phenomenon of this month is the con-
junction of Mars with Saturn in Scorpio
II degrees "a minutes in the afternoon of
the 18th. As this conjunction takes place
in the sign particularly associated with
earthquakes, a great CONFUSION of nature
IS 10 be apprehended very shortly. In
China and Japan the worst effects will
De Ielt. The east viii be full of violence,
II not war, for Mercury and the moon are
close to the conjoined planets and Uranus
Is also IN Scorpio. The men of Liverpool
are advised to safeguard their city and
the docks, etc" As both these so-called
prophets base their prediction on unset
entlnc data, says the New Orleans Times
Democrat, our readers need not be in the
least alarmed a their guesses-for guesses
they are, pure and simple
Hanoi, a city of French ~fonauin. has
a flourishing industry in the i0crustatiOn
OF precious woods with mother of pearl
The industry is so important that a whole
street, called the street Of the inlayers, is
given up to it, and constitutes the sole Gu
riosity of the city. Strangers to the art
pass hours watching the native workmen
The latter are genuine artists, masters of
a delicate handicraft demanding at once
artistic perception and high manual skill
Furnished with rude tools, but with much
patience and SKILL these workmen produce
articles of great beauty cleaning with
rainbow hues. Here is a sheaf of many
colored flowers there are delicious arab
seques, yonder is a landscape glittering in
the sun. The Workmen have applied the
principle of the division of labor to their
art. There are cabinet-makers who put
together the different parts of the material
to be incrusted. The process of Joining is
done without the aid of nails and with a
system OF nice dOVetalling and the use of
paste, of which lacquer is the base The
wood employed is of two distinct species
of palisander, sometimes called violet
ebony and b. the native tiac, and a true
ebony from the forest of the Red river
of Tonquin. This latter, which the natives
call noun, is especially valued by reason
of its close grain and its deep black which
brings out the shifting glories of the moth
er of pearl. Objects of incrusted ebony are
more costly than those of violet ebony
There has been discovered in Birming-
ham, in the very center of Christian Eng
land, according to the Hartford Times a
factory where idols are made for heather
nations! Many attempts to obtain admis-
sion to the factory have been made but
a strict watch is kept upon outsiders anx-
ious to pry into the secret chambers where
the heather gods are made, and reporters,
especially, are prevented from entering
the works Idols of all kinds are turned
out, representing the gods of all heather
nations, from Tokai, to Timbuctoo The
export trade to heather countries is a
fairly large one, although more gods are
sent out to foreign dealers in curios in
the bazars of Cairo, Damascus, Coiumbo,
etc, Tor sale TO unsuspecting travellers
anxious to take home some mementoes of
their stay abroad. The price of gods va
r1es greatly. You may get a Birmingham
made one in London curiosity shop for
hal1 a crown, or you may run up the
pretty bill of 500 for an especially ugly
one, stolen according to the dealer, by
a sailor during the Chinese WARP In
the cairo bazaar, however, the price of q
tirst-class god of this kind may run up
from 500 to anything. A traveller saws
that there is little difficulty in detecting
a god of native make from one of Bir-
mlngham manufacture. The first gener-
ally displays some slight irregularity or
chanSe OF design due to the native work.
ing by hand, while the Birmingham god
was correct in FORM The trade in idols
IS kept such a close secret that il is diff
hcult TO estimate the output, but there is
no doubt the trade is a fairly large one
ana that some enterprising Birmingham
men 90 very well in the business
Tastes Certainly differ vastly in the
matter OF foods with various nations.
anu so 40 appetites, says Home Notes,
tent with a piece of bread and grapes
Tor days food, while an Esuuimau In
the same time would demolish twenty
pounds of flesh, and a Tartar perhans
even more. However quality and nor
quantity is the matter of greater inter-
est, and certainly here we have plenty
OF NaTiety. me nose Of the moose deer
IS considered a great delicacy by the
New Brunswicker, while the fins and
tan OF the. shark are esteemed as spe-
cially nourishing and delicious nv Jobn
Chinaman. The Celestial has also a fms
taste in Unmatched ducks and chickens,
sea slugs, fish maws, birds nests and
MARY OlHeT utuCdCleS unknOW in IN
enlightened Europe. In Polynesia raw
sharks flesh is much relished, and it is
openly sold in the market of Havana,
On the Gold coast the negroes rank
shark amongst such highly-esteemed del
lcacies as alligator and hipppotamus.
We ourselves revel in turtle and vet
we decline to have anything to do with
tortoise, though a very large amount
of the soup in Italy and Sicily is made
of the land tortoise boiled down to a
strong essence Land tortoise are also
much appreciated in some of the West
Indian islands, and in North America
the eggs of the close tortoise are reck-
oned a great delieacy. In both North and
South America the flesh and the eggs
of the salt water terrapin are consid-
cred a luxury. Skillfully cooked. even
the hideous, scaly iguana is rendered
very palatable, for its flesh resembles
chicken with the flavor of turtle If
stewed or curried it is as good as rab-
bit or chicken, and the soup made from
it is excellent. The eggs of reptiles are
wonderfully good, and none are better
than those of the iguana and the land
tortoise. Crocodiles, lizards, and frogs
are all eaten by various people, and the
first is very. often excellent food. re-
sembling veal or pork, but some kinds
have a fishy flavor that is exceedingly
disagreeable. Alligator tastes somewhat
Ixp M at