The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

dispatch from Ishpeming, Mich. says
that rock containing bismuth has a com
mereial value Of s. a pound, and nowhere
In the United States is il mined al pres
emit"
New England is rejoicing over a his
torical discovery Whnt grading an Old
bury.ng ground the worgmen plowed up
the headstoue of Nathaniel Woodcock
VINO "a as Killed in 1855 and was the hrsr
White settler buried at Attlebouo. p
There Is a verse in the Bible which con
tains every letter in the alphabet, and il
IS said there is only one such. II is the
tMenty-hrst verse OF the seventh chap er
or Ezra, and reads. and l. even l. Ar
ldAerNes, the king 10 make a decree TO
~ tIle treasurers Whic are beyond the
river. that whatsoever Ezra. the priest
the scribe Of the law OF the God OF
neasen shan require Of you, it be done
Not many years ago there were several
varieties Of grapes, each struggling TO be-
come the favorite of the public To-day
me trade is chiefly i'm the Concord and
Delaware varieties. Early i'm The Cos vel
low bananas could not compete with The
Ied' today the latter have been almost
urlfen out of the market though very
many sui prefer them. There used to b.
dozen ware Les Of pears competing with
an almost equal demand. Now the Bart
iett ana Seckel rule supreme. Apples and
Ferries 70 a less degree have undergone
the same process of natural selection. and
now there are one or two varieties of
carry apples that promise 10 supersede all
the rest
Rosewater and romance are generally
supposed TO be already pretty closely re-
lated, but an ingenious mind mas CON
trlVed 70 unite them i'm yet another bond
which IS IS novel as it is audacious Ital-
ian htteratcurs We're recently invited bv
9 German perfumer, who does d large
business In Italy, to supply him with a
nuliloef OF snort stories, the most impor-
lant condition being that the writer's
shonid introduce, in the most del cate
manner possible, p the essential merits Of
the German perfumes. over q thousand
manuscripts have been sent in. and some
OF then are reported TO be from the pens
OF Wen known literary men, such as Sig
Mantegazza.
Paternal affection is not perhaps the pre-
else emotion that we should be disposed
10 look for In the cold-blooded frog. SAYS
the London News. But the Surinam toad
OF which no fewer than ten spec mems
haNe Just arrived at the zoo-appear to
SA11Inlt TINS praiseWorthy atti-
n 9T1e OF rr,gl mind yt toward his
lays her eggs the solicitous father places
them carefully upon her back, where in
uue uine their presence causes irritation
Ihat produces numerous small holes, into
winch the eggs forthwith drop. In these
Ceus, which, from mutual ssllre. get 10
ne neEagopaL like honeycomb, the young
frogs are nnaly Matched and for b {
scramble about their mothers back.
hiding in their nurseries when danger
threatens.
one Of the chief of the west coast natu-
raj curiosities is the Titan's Bridge. stu
ated in Douglas county. OREGON. and
about eighteen miles from Oakland. II Is
not on such grand scale as the famous
Natural Bridge of Virginia. but W H.
When IT'S whereabouts becomes generally,
SHOWN, rank high among American oddf-
ues OF nature. This Oregon natural
ago by Californian by the name of Ma
gee The canon Spanned by its arch is ga.
! Ieet wide at the base between side walls
ana the arch itself lacks only 40 feet Of
being an even 100 above the little straa m
mat runs beneath. The rock stratum
which spans the canon and forms the
/ bridge Is thirty feet in thickness excIu-
slVe OF three or four feet OF earth, which
supports a few struggling trees. 1t has
/ already become great resort for the or
egonlan cutters and a large hotel on a
plateau near the western approach Of the
bridge is among the near future proba-
biities.
"One Of the most delicate and delicious
articles OF food 1 ever ate" said Reuben
stockton, retired sea captain to 81
Louis Globe-Democrat writer. as he sat
/ IN the corridor of the Southern after dim
Hef was IN Canton, China, about twenty
/ years ago, and il was nothing more nor
less than a birds nest. The nest is the
habitatlon of q small swallow and is
found principally in Java and Sunlatra
Ihese nests are composed of a mucilagi-
nous substance, but their constituents
nave never to my knowledge been ana
iyzed. Ihey look something like white
isinglass. When dry they are brittle and
ABOUT the size of a goose egg. They are
procured twice year. and the best are
round IN deep sea caNcrns. The method
! OF obtaining the nests is attended with a
good deal OF danger, as the turbulent surf
makes its way right into the chasms
where this luxury is found. The labor be-
slowed to render these nests fit for tbe
table IS enormous, but after undergoing
many washings and preparations IT p
transformed into a soft, delicate sort Of
king"
Il have just returned from visit to
Gen. Grants tomb at Riverside, and the
visit has reminded me of the accounts Of
the famous sepulchers of the world" said
Harvey B. Willard, a Chicago coal oper-
ator TO the New York Advertiser 1.-THE
most expensive tomb that | have ever
seen-and II has few eQuals-is in the soft
coal region of Southern Illinois, near
ShaWneetown. Five years ago William
Bradlaugh and his three sons Thomas
James and Delaney, went down into the
nine which they opened to inspect sorra
recent repairs, intending on the following
day 10 put force of eighty men to work
While in its depths there was a falling i'm
of the roof of one of the galleries and
the mine was flooded from a subterranean
stream and father and sons persisted Eff
forts We're made for a month to recover
the bodies. 1t was found impossible to
pump the mine, and the disparing widow
and mother at last had the mouth of the
pit walled up and a slab erected with the
Inscription Sacred to the memory of
William Bradlaugh, aged 81; James Brad.
laugh, aged 81; Thomas Bradlaugh, AGED