The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

nut cocoa was Indigenous to the soil and
was used in large quantities by the indians
Tor food az the time Of the discovery. II
was not hkeu by the S1an.ards a nrSt,
but was introduced in France by the Fran
ciscans. who were always emterprising.
and the French cooks at once adopted
% into great favor Cardinal Richclieu is
sad 10 have been the first chocolate drink
er OF any fame, and to have set the fash
ION Of using IL.
1t is a curious fact that there is hard
" a reigning monarch in Europe whose
family is Of the same nationality. absO-
lute!y' as the people governed. The house
or austria, is really the house of Lor-
raine, and even in their origin the Haps-
Durgs were Swiss And if the Emperor
FRANCIS be not, strictly speaking, an Aus
though he is King of Hungary. The
klng OF Belgium is a SaXe-CObuTg; the
King OF Denmark a HOlsteiner; the infant
monarch o. Spain IS Bourbon; the King
OF Italy SaVoyard: the King Of ROu-
mania and Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria
are both foreigners; the founder of the
Bernadotte dynasty in Sweden was born
at Pau less than century and a quarter
ago; the car is a HOlstein Gottorp; and
the King of the Hellenes is likewise a Hol-
steiner Even in England's royal family
there is very little English blood left. The
Hohenzollerns were originally Suabians
ana, therefore, partly Bavarians and
partly swiss. Neither was the historic
house of Orange. in which patriotism has
nearly always been the first instinct
Outch 10 Degn with.
"A new kind of fabric has been devised
an ornamental india-rubber waterproof
material of little more weight than the
ordinary single texture waterproof fabric.
ana applicable in almost all cases now
treated by spreading or coating water
proof woven fabric. says the New York
sun. This improvement consists in cover
ing tue surface with a coat or coats of
shellac. Woven stuff is selected of the
sort desired and produced in the pattern
preferred, and the black coated with one
or more coatings of india rubber sub
stance in an ordinary spreading machine
and in the ordinary way; film or coat of
shellac dissolved in ammoniacal solution
is next applied, in any design required,
so as 10 leave portion of the surface I'M
covered; next, the shellac-coated fabric,
after INFLAMMATION, is ornamented by
printing upon II, in a suitable medium,
and in such cOlOrs as may be appropriate,
the pattern or design. To protect the
printed surface the printed fabric is COW
cred once or twice with a transparent
solution of india rubber before vulcani-
cation, or after; it is then ready to re-
ceive coat of arrowroot or other suitable
substance for producing a shot or other
luminous effect.
1T is remarkable what an important
part the kodak plays in maritime transac-
tions, as well as Others these days" OBJ
served Capt. Tanvers. an old whaler, to
a Washington Star man. you may not
huOW IT, put no DiS snip ever leaves port
now without kodak and a supply of
Photographic materials. This is especi-
ally the case with whalerS and other ships
who go out on long cruises The day Of
listening to yarns of whalers is past. To-
DAY the Whaler must show the photograph
Tor everything. As a whale is worth from
1900 to 5000, and as it costs from S25. 000
10 Si5'OOO to send out and maintain a Whal-
er and her crew for her catch, yarns, in
tereSung as they may be, are not re-
garded by the men who furnish the money
Tor the enterprise as a sufficient remunera-
ton They want the facts, or photo of
them If they lost the facts; nothing else
Will do. 1T won't do any more for a party
to go off on a loafing cruise and return in
nine or ten months, empty, after having
eaten up several carloads of provisions
and run up the wage bill into the higher
thousands. Every place the ship touches
mas 10 be photographed, and a photo
graphic transcript has to be shown of
every important incident of the cruise"
In Hidalgo county. Texas, near the
Iona Blanca lake. says the New York
World, tradition has for many years To-
Gated gigantic and mysterious cavern
ana always in connection with vast stores
OF gold and gems. About six months ago
party OF half dozen Americans went
tosLoma Blanca and began to make ex-
cavations, and they have every reason to
believe that this cave does exist. They
are guided IN their work by a map said
TO have been made in the beginning of the
century by Spaniard who got into trou-
Die with the Mexican authorities, hid his
gold and jewels in the cavern, took ship
for Spain and died there, leaving this man
among his effects. In 1875 a Spaniard
whose name was NillanueVa came to Hi
aalgo county direct from Spain, and it
Is thought that he possessed this map
and located the cave, but lacked the
means necessary to make the eXcaVa-
tions: He died at Sans ranch in Hidalgo
county, and the next time anything was
heard of this map it was in the hands
OF the present possessors, who certainly
have it, This cave has an evil reputation
IN the legends OF the people. 1t is known
as THE Gateway to He'll" and dolorous
sounds, as of souls in agony, were said
TO issue from its mouth, while far inside
fantastic flames of blue and blood-red
were to be seen reflected on it's walls
Robber bands, too, are reputed to have
hidden their booty there, but such was
the supersuttous awe in which the place
was held, that Notwithstanding these fat
tering possibilities of wealth no one is
known to have Ventured near its fate
full entrance until its present explorers.
What do we know of life? says Lon
don Truth. Carbonic acid, water and
ammonia, when taken into plant, pro-
duce in some way protoplasm, which is
substance composed of minute corpus
cleS and inside each cOrpuScle there is a
smaller body called a nucleus Bv tak-
ing in carbonic acid water and ammonia
and converting them into this compound
called protein, the plant maintains its
vigor, grows and multiples. The animal
dOeS tne same by taking in the same COM
pound, with the difference that whereas
the plant can Manufacture protoplasm
out of the organic matter, the animal is
obliged to procure it ready made from the
plants. The same nucleated mass of pro-
toplasm that is the unit of plant life is
the unit of animal life. The body and
the plant are multiples of such
units, variousy modified, but in their
composition identical. When the animal
dies, the carbonic acid, the water and the
ammonia of his body are restored to the
collective stock; again they are taken
into new plants, and through new plants
into new animals. Thus protoplasn is
the basis of all life. 1t is built of ordinary
matter, and it is resolved again into or
binary matter Plants can make proto-
plasm out of its component parts: animals
can convert lifeless into living protoplasm
This is the only difference between a man
ana plant as regards their making How
notion; all that we know is that it is
done. Remove the carbon, the oxygen.
the hydrogen and the nitrogen which form
carbOnic acid, water and ammonia FROM