The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-23
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human voice, though generally but OF
nine perfect tones, there are actually no
less than 1882. 1885, 44.5 SIS different sounds.
These effects are produced by fourteen di-
rect muscles, which give about l6, 1888 diff
ferent sounds and thirty indirect muscles,
which produce 7S,741.S2S sounds.
How many people know that when Sir
John Falstaff spoke of sack" he meant
our own popular wine, sherry? and how
many people knowing the wine under this
last name was aware of its being a cor
ruption of its old NAME Heres, the old
Spanish town from which it was first i'm
ported? Heres or Heres de la Frontera.
has also the distinction of being the place
at which the decisive battle between
Spaniards and Moors was fought in the
eighth century, which gave to the Mos
lens control Of Spain for many years.
"A suggestion worthy of all praise is
put forth by contemporary journal for
ladies', says the London Graphic. 1t is to
the effect that somebody should start a
restaurant in which the walters should
be instructed to refuse to serve any Sc
quence of dishes which obviously make
Tor indigestion. One can easily believe
that the world would be the better the
healthier, the happier if this proposal
We're widely carried out. Men have been
ters with brandy and water, but they
have always been sorry for it afterward.
students al the British museum have been
observed to drink tea with veal and ham
pie, and their studies have suffered from
the combination. The world, in short, is
fun OF middle-aged men who would enjoy
their middle age ever so much better if
in their youth they had found their way to
restaurants where snob delicacies as veal
and ham pie, dressed crab, lobster may
onnaise and cucumbers were only to be
procured upon production of a medical
certificate of fitness to receive them.
Neither clock nor timepiece is to be
found in Liberia. The reckoning of time is
made entirely by the movements and posi-
uon OF the sun, which rises as a. M,
and sets at p. m, almost to the minute,
all the year round, and at noon is vertical
ly overhead. The islanders of the South
Pacific have no clocks, but make an in
genious and reliable time-maker of their
own They take the kernels from the nuts
of the candle tree, and wash and string
them on the rib of a palm leaf. The first
or top kernel is then lighted. All of the
kernels are of the same size and sub
stance, and each will burn a certain num-
Der of minutes, and then set fire to the next
below The natives tie pieces of black cloth
at regular intervals along the string to
Francisco Chronicle Among the natives
of Singar, in the Malay Archipelago, an
other peculiar device is used. Two bottles
are placed neck and neck, and sand is
put in one of them, which pours itself into
the other each half hour, when the bottles
are reversed. There is line nearby also,
on which are hung twelve rods, marked
with notches from one to twelve.
Small metal articles usually worn by
1aA
principally made of silver, are now being
manufactured of iron or steel, says the
Philadelphia Record. This fad has be-
come very popular in France and Ger
many, and quite an industry in these
articles has grown up in the manufact
ing centers of these countries. Match
safes, key rings and chains, knife blades
scissors, buttonhook handles, cigarette
cases, powder boxes and any number of
articles of this description are now made
of iron. They are first stamped or
wrought out of the sheet metal then very
carefully polished and cleansed with ben
zine, after which they are subjected to
treatment which gives the article a per-
manent black color This black coloring
is applied by a concentrated solution of
nitrate Of copper in alcohol, while the ar
ticles are being slightly heated. BY mix
ing nitrate of copper with nitrate of
manganese, various tints between blue
black and brownish black may be OBJ
tanned This process is used in the great
industrial establishments of Pforzheim
and Adar with much success. Particular
care must be taken that the object to be
tinted black is finely polished and abso-
lutely clean, otherwise flaws will occur
in the coloring. After being allowed to
dry Tor few hours, the black iron ar
ticles are covered with a very thin film
of varnish or simply rubbed off with
waxed brush
"A writer in the Boston Globe saws. .'Tbe
night blooming cereus requires good com
mon SOIL which should be renewed once a
year. If the plant is old and the roots
large, it may be better not to remove If
from the pot but scoop out earth and put
IN fresh, and in that case it may be done
twice year, when it is taken into the
house and when it is set out of doors. 1
nave plant which, for TWENTY-FIVE or
more years, has blossomed every summer.
and never knew a bud to fall off unrine
1 put the plant outdoors the 18th or 20tb
or May, and there it stands, recurring
hardly ever to be watered or tended in anv
way and 1t blossoms at it's own sweet will
"a delight when it is opening from its
beauty and perfume, and a curiosity when
1t closes, If one wants to watch 1t toward
morning. The plant is brought into the
mouse Just before frost comes and placed
at westerly window, where it has very
little direct sunlight, but is kept from
freezing. 1t requires watering only about
once week and should not be kept con-
stantly damp. 1t holds it's own through the
winter, but puts forth no buds until it is
set outdoors For the first time one plant
has had a second crop of blossoms this
year. After il had the magnificent bios
SONS, as usual, tiny buds were discovered
coming out of some of the leaves but as il
seemed not safe to run the risk of frost.
the plant was brought into the house. and
last week it bore six beautiful blossoms
smaller than those produced out in the
open air, but otherwise like them. The
cereus has tendency to grow too tall
and the branches too long It can be
trimmed off by putting some earth on the
end OF the cut stem to absorb the mois-
ture. Plant the ends of the branches YOU
cut on and thus you raise plants for
your friends. slip thus set ought to
blossom the third or fourth year and
from that time forward it will REQUIRE
very little care and give a great deal of
pleasure. 1t has no troublesome enemies To
be watched. no freakish habits. but quietly