The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

negro was made before either the white
man or the Indian, or even before the
] sun was created. They account for his
| color by declaring that he was made and
I dried in the dark. Their own race, they
say. was made in the morning Of the first
| day, between daylight and sun up. on
/ this account they delight in a term which
! they apply to each other and which sig
I miles dawn people" The white man
| who fears darkness and cannot stand
heat" was made, according 10 their be-
! lief, at noon on the first day Of creation
The department Of agriculture, fores-
/ try division, at Washington, ID, c, has q
| collection Of rare trees and plants only
| second TO that belonging TO the famed
| Kew Gardens, London. A recent addi-
| tiOn to this neurological museum is
| lace bark tree from Jamaica The inner
/ bark Of this queer tree is composed or
many layers Of fine and intricately woven
i fibers which interlOck with each other in
/ all directions. Caps. ruffies and even
| complete suits of this curious vegetable
/ lace have been made. il bears washing
| with common laundry soap, and when
| bleached in the sun acquires degree or
/ Wilderness seldom exceled by artificial
/ laces made of cotton, linen and silk The
/ intricate web OF this unique bark makes
| ii compare favorably to the last mentioned
productions for beauty and durability It
/ is to be sincerely hoped that the agricul-
maica lace tree is introduced into the
| United States and its cultivation carefully
fOstered.
| Two queer specimens of fish, resem-
| bling in several respects brook trout are
reported from down the Delaware, in Pike
and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania, says
a Port JerVis dispatch to the New York
| Herald. one, an albino trout, was caught
| this week in the Beaver Dam brook by
George Adams. He cast his fly in a pool
| and pulled out white trout eight inches
| long. 1t was a lusty fellow, and bit with
a Vigor characteristic of the species The
scales were of a silvery hue, darkening to-
/ ward the back. The eyes were white and
| the pupils blue, the fins transparent and
| the flesh deep salmon color. White trout
| are very rare. one was caught in the
| same brook a year ago by the Rev. A. II.
| Gesner, only fifty feet from where the
| present one was hauled out. AS II meas
| ured but five inches, Mr.. Gesner threw it
back INTO the stream, as not to violate
| the siX-inch law. 1t is thought that this
| Is the same trout captured by Adams. The
| fish which seized the fly cast by Frank
| Pierce of Stroudsburg last week in the
| Delaware, near Stroudsburg. and flew in
TO the. air with it, is believed to be a spe-
| cies of trout Pierce hauled ii down from
| the air into his basket and found that it
| had tho body and fins of a trout but just
| back OF the gills were a pair of wide spread
! wings an inch and three-quarters long
| Inc fish has been preserved in alcohol as
| curiosity.
The chemical analysis of milk Is not
! complicated nor difficult. says the ST
! Louis Republic. First, the chemist weighs
a small dish. cup or saucer, and care
| rully notes down the result in ounces
grains and fractions of grains. Next. he
| pours in some milk to be analyZed and
| again carefully notes down the result
! BY subtracting the weight of the dish
! from that of both the weight Of the milk
| Is found and recorded. Next, the recep-
| tacle is placed over a steam jet, which
! eVaporates the water of the milk, leav-
| ing only the residue or solids" Again
| the dish and Its contents are weighed
! and by simple calculation, the percent
| age of solids is ascertained. The solids"
/ OF the milk has been found by innumer-
| able analyses TO average about Is per
cent. and, while the fat varies in milk
| from different cows. the solids left after
| extracting the fat is found to be very
| constant quantity, seldom falling below
| ~ per cent. or over IA. This gives the
! chemist a positive basis for his calcula-
| lions and enables him to state with great
! been watered. The fat or oil in milk is
| determined by dissolving 1t by means of
| ether, the C<sidue remaining after such
| test being termed solids other than fat"
| The average fat or oil found in milk from
| COWS Is per cent. and any amount less
than 3 per cent. indicates almost to a
| certainty that the milk has been skinned
II analysis shows a decrease. of fat,-it in
dicates that the milk has been watered
while if fats and other solids together are
| low you may infer that the skinner has
| done its work.
The following interesting description
| OF an Indian fakir from the London
Queen is from correspondent in La
| more: Two days ago | returned from a
| snort trip with friend to the sacred
city of Ketas where | had been before
| This time l saw several interesting fa6irs
| There were tho ordfnor,, No.. - -.
smeared fellows. one with long brown
halr hanging about his shoulders. There
was one habby, besotted looking man
with practically nothing on but ashes
| VINO was lolling lazily under a tree look
ing more or less inebriate and content
| MS back propped up by the tree, his head
| on one side, contemplating with serene
| expression alternately his well rounded
paunch and a brother fakir who was ner-
| forming his devOtions very energeticallv
| a short distance off. This other was 4
very lean man and tall. When l first
| noticed MIN he was seated in abstraction
| BuddhaWlse, which is something like a
tailor sits, only that the feet are brought
out on TO the opposite thighs, soles up
| permost. He was apparently contemplat-
| ing his fre-tongs, which were stuck in
the ground before him. Surrounding him
were number Of little fires. After a
| time he took up his conch shell and blew
| a blast, resembling exactly the Drawing
| of more than usually melancholy dom
Key; Then il;tl ne rinsed his hands and the
conch with water and stood up. He rails
ed his hands outstretched above his head,
and, placing the calf of his right Iee
stood s one on thigh one of his his right
PRAYER for some time: He looked leaner
than ever like this. His body was rubbed
| ored coarse hair was brought up in a
| bunch above his head, and tied firmly
with cord, so that the ends stood up like
a ragged brush, tipped slightly to one
side He reminded me of a Christy min
strel. When the one-legged prayer was
done he dropped down again, and took
Then he rose, stepped outside the fiery
| circle, and began to walk delibera telY
| with long strides, round and round it,
Suddenly he threw himself down opposite
one of the fires; and then, raising himself
| slowly on hands and toes, lowered him
| self as slowly to the ground again two
or three times, touching it alternately with
| his nose and topknot. He repeated this
at every fire with slight variations some
times drawing his left knee right up under
| him so that the leg folded like a two
foot rule when he touched the ground
with his topslnot. This concluded the
| prayers, when he had another 90 at the
| conch and water, after which he wrapped
! himself in shawl and went to battle
| in the sacred tank, in which men. women
and children all do the same. There
| are usually large quantities of fish here
| but when l inquired why there were So
few on this occasion 1 was told that SO
| many people had bathed there during the
festival few days before that the FISH
had died-through the impurity of the
| water l suppose. Yet, as l stood l saw
| a woman bathing in one place, a man
| in another two children in a third, while
| a girl drew water for drinking purposes
| from il in a fourthr'