The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-23
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recent sEOrnS. me tree was the largest
OF It's kind in scotland. Some years ago
the laird was offered 200 for II, but re-
fused il.
in London there are about 10 piano
forte factories. over 1870 shops and fac
tories in the metropolis are devoted to
the supplying Of musical goods Of all
sorts Throughout the> provinces there
are 5000 musical establishments Of -vari-
Gus kinds.
Lace is a fabric that can quietly be
made to represent large amounts Of money
The Astors have been cretiited with own
5 hrs lace s,g Worth $4,000 an, ias o Hsnd der
Pope Is said 10 be content with only Sl5,-
900 represented in lace and the Princess
OF Wales can boast of only the modest
sum OF $500 expended IN the dainty
meshes.
+ "A Philadelphia who has been visiting
Jamaica says that the photographer o.
the party induced a group OF native girls
70 pose for him. After arranging them 70
his satisfaction, he prevailed upon one or
the other girls to take a peep through the
camera. What she cav quite astonis ned
her. and she lost no time in in,parung 10
the pOsers the fact that she had seen
them all standing on their heats. me
effect was ludicnous. When the photograph
was taken, il revealed each maiden iran
tically Clutching her skirts about ner
knees. while look of great distress ap-
peared upon each black countenanee.
-Preyer, the German student of the
child's mind. taught his son OF years
to distinguish primary colors by means
OF small ONalS eacn OF a ullAcTtAt No4oA-
A student of Preyer's book has hit upon
a less scientific, but more practical Scneme
of teaching the same thing TO ht-ie
child by means of flowers and oIner htN-
ural objects The difficulty, of course.
is 10 be sure Of uniformity OF color N
natural objects throughout the year tNen
a very young child soon learns to dlsso-
ciate the idea of color from the OBJECT
itself when a yellow pansy, red rose
or a blue violet is presented after a drlH
with different colOred MOWERS o. the same
kind. A red rose and yellow rose are
quickly recognized and differentiated, and
the quality of color is accentenuated when
a red rose and yellow pansy are brought
to the childs attention. Blind persons
distinguish color by touch. MUSICIANS
have named tones by colors: lntei,Isent
The locks on the mail-pouches are so
constructed that 1t is impossible to open
one without its betraying the secret:
There is a little dial on the lock and
every time the lock is opened the figures
on the dial move up one. Suppose, for
instance. that the register shows l,lfl at
the point of departure, and that when
the pouch is delivered at the point of
destination the lock is opened, the regis
ter Will then show LAS. This increase
of one IS made for each trip of the pouch
and eventually the number reached is
1899, which in an average bag requires
thTty-three Years to reach. The bag Is
then taken apart and the numbers are
reset. These locks were first introduced in
1881 and mail clerk made bold at
tempt to rob a bag in transit, soon after
turning lathe in the mail car with him
to aid in the scheme. After unlocking
the bag he rifed the contents and con-
nected up the lathe to the lock. His
idea was to twist the numbers around
until they We're the same as before the
lock was touched. He set the lathe
humming and soon reeled off the numbers
up to $685. when to his Consideration the
register remained at that figure and re-
fused to move any more. The lock must
be taken apart before il viii start No.
again, but he did not know this. The
trick was, of course, discovered ard the
guilty clerk punished Since then the
locks have never been tempered with.
Says a writer in the Popular Science
Monthly: Among the curiosities Of
thought which the physician meets with.
unexpected perceptions suddenly appear
ing before the mind with the same vivid
ness as ordinary perceptions, but without
any accompanying external eXcitant. are
not uncommon. person may look at an
empty chair and yet see a familiar form
seated in that chair, and may even hear
remarks made by this imaginary figure,
and not doubt for a moment that the
figure IS an actual entity. / have seen
persons talking with such imaginary in
diyiduals and have had them assure me
that they were as sure of their presence
and of their voices as they were of my
own. / have seen persons manifest the
greatest alarm at the presence of animals
about them. and refuse to believe from
assurance that those animals were not
there. \ young woman, having once been
frightened by the sudden presentation to
her of a white mouse. has been troubled
for years by seeing this mouse running
about her, upon her clothing. upon any
thing she is handling, and even upon her
food and, result, she IS in a state
of constant agitation and perplexity,
though at times convinced that this is the
product of her mind. she washes her
hands and her clothing frequently be-
cause she IS convinced that this animal
has made them dirty; and she cannot
divest herself of the belief that it is real.
I have been sometimes able to convince
%AnN 70 arta
not real by asking them to push one eye
ball up little with the finger This makes
all objects about them seem double, as
anyone can prove to himself. but it does
not double the false image-the product of
the mind. The young woman just menr
toned was much comforted by this adj
vice"
The fve-fngered orange is a queer
thing. says the Boston Journal of Com
merce. 1t grows in exactly the shape of
a human hand, with a thumb and four
this curious fruit, and the close resem-
blance to a lean, long-nailed Chinese
hand is startling. Even the nails are
identical, hard pointed and claw-like, tip
ping the oragne fingers with a length
equal in some cases to three inches. 1t is
no interloper in well regulated family
longing to the Usage variety. 1t has Il
family name and a Christian name of its
own. but its pet name is ''five-fngered or
ange, and nobody but the botanist cares
to call it by the long one which means the
same thing. The tree itself is a ragged
little shrub that does not average more
than five or six feet in hight 1t does NOT
grow straight, as properly behaved
tree is supposed to do, but is curved ev-
erywhere. 1t would be very difficult to
find two consecutive inches in the entire
tree whose line of direction is the same.
Even the branches grow in spiral forms
so that the width of the tree is often as
great as the hight. There is a generous
supply of thorns hidden under the leaves
and they are thorns that mean business
The fruit itself is of a light yellow color
ward the stem The size is Immense
considered relatively to other oranges or
to the size of the tree, the largest ones
measuring when mature fully ten inches
from the wrist to the point of the mid
die finger, including the nail The fruit
is not edible-none of the Usage variety Is
but what Il lacks in being unable 10
tickle the palate 1t more than makes good
in perfume. The strangest thing connect
ed with the perfume is that it is tbe
fruit and not the flower that is most
odorous. The fruit when ripe is so redoi
ent that its sceEt can be recognized a fnlI
mile from where the oragne is growing
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