The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

inside the ovary in an unopened bud. the
seeds within seed vessel. and even the
VEINS upon the white petals Of flower.
The time honored glaciers diamond
seems in danger Of being displaced by a
cheaper substitute, even more efficient
than the original instrument It IS re-
ported that NJ Moissan has discovered
means or forming a compound OF boron
ana carbon by heating bOracic acid and
carDon IN an electric furnace, the intense
neat or which has already been the
means Of introducing into everyday use
substances that hitherto were either un-
allaiLd Die or too costly. The new SUD
stance In appearance is black, something
ike zoopnite and its hardness is so great
as % enable II to cut diamonds with
ease Unlike the results of previous ex-
pef'ments in artificial diamond making,
which were In minute particles, the new
cutting material can be produced in piec -
OF any size required.
There is a group Of islands to the south
of New Zealand called the Sisters or
Seven Sisters, which are reputed 10 be
subject TO practically constant rainfall.
The same may be said of the islands and
mainland of TERRA del FuegO, saving for
the ulHerence that the rain often takes
the form Of sleet and snow on line run
ming round the world from four TO eight
or nine degrees there are patches over
winch rain seldom ceases to fan. This is
cailed the zone Of constant precipita-
ton, but at the same time there are sew
eral localities along it with very little
rainfall. The divisions are most capri
cious- Thus, for instance, while the town
of Panama has a six months dry season
and very wet one, Colon, on the other
side of the isthmus, about 81 miles away,
Is deIuged with rain during the wet season.
The oboe is probably the most In
furious of all instruments to play, says
an exchange. 1t is very doubtful if
healthy man playing in a correct method
ever suffers in health from playing any
musical instrument, but those who have
any weakness of the heart or circula-
ton, may be injured by playing a wind
instrument As it is quite easy for a mu-
slcian to inspire between the phrases
OF the music, but impossible for him TO
expire without OVERLOOKING his .instru-
ment, It follows that those wind instru-
ments that require the least expenditure
OF breath are the more injurious, for the
player has 10 hold his breath for long
intervals, and this is the case with the
oboe and flute. 1t is also commonly said
OF the former that many players have
been poisoned by the metal mouthpiece,
but this is probably an orchestral myth.
The charge against the oboe that the
curious tickling of the lips caused by
the vibrations Of the double reed has
caused cancer of those parts may have
some foundation in fact.
An electrician says he has found a
quicker way of making a fortune than
running wires and selling batteries, and
judging from appearances, he has good
reason for the statement, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch. He has erected a platform
100 feet long and 10 feet wide at the end
OF cycle path. Down this platform is
ranged series of push buttons, which
are connected through battery to an
electric bell, and an annunciator The
rider, having paid 10 cents, starts at one
end and tries, in riding down the line, TO
depress as many of the buttons a 5 possi-
| bic. When a button is struck the bell
rings, and the annunciatOr registers the
particular button. The rider who IS sue
cessful In guiding his wheel tire over all
the push buttons wins so cents. This new
| diversion has created an extraordinary
furore. The lucky inventor has organized
a company which Will sell the platforms
outright and give territorial protection
to purchasers during the life of the pat
ent. As a drawing card for owners of
seaside and country pleasure resorts the
new diversion would seem to be unique.
That criminal under sentence OF
| death should be able to revolutionize a
fashion seems an anomaly, says the Phil
| alelphia Ledger but it is nevertheless a
fact that the trade in boots and shoes of
| GROWN leather has seriously decreased
! since 1t came out in evidence that an
| English murderer, Milsome, purchased a
| Ialr soon after the crime was commit
| ted. Nor Is the case an unprecedented
| once. When the notorious Mrs. Manning
| was executed at Newgate, in the "50s,''
she wore a dress of black satin, then
| very fashionable. Black satin naturally
became at once drug in the market, II
| it not women alone who are sensitive on
| this subject. During the early ''T0s' the
'maSherS' of the period wore turn-doWn
! collars rather low in the neck and a very
| extensive display Of shirt cuffs, whilst
| nearly every other man one met appeared
/ to derive some mysterious qualification
| from sucking a quill toothpick. When
| the brother Wainwright appeared in the
! NeWglte no
! der of Harriet Lane, the newspaper re-
ports made frequent comments on the I'm.
maculate condition OF their collars ana
Guns and also on the fact that each
| prisoner solaced the tedium of his trial
! by masticating a quill. The result was
! that higher collars Immediately became
| fashionable, cuffs disappeared almost en-
! urely from view, whilst the quill tooth
| pick trade, which had received a SUD
| den and extraordinary impetus, was Sc
| Veroly checked.
Mr.. Alexander Siemens has recently
given before the Royal Institution in Lon
don an interesting account of the work
| just done in laying a subduvial cable up
| and down the Amazon river. The we'll
| known cable steamer Faradav was en-
| ployed, and learned some new tricks
| in lodging and circumventing the gulf
| stream of mud that the great waterway
| pours out into the Atlantic. Some idea
I OF the rush OF water may be formed from
Mr.. Siemens' statement that at Soure
where the tide gets in it's final effort
| the receding waters formed a whirlpool
IN which the cable ship spun around sew
enteen times in a single hour. At MANY
points the ship could swing in close TO
shore in seven fathoms of water with
her nose in the forest trees like a hin
popotamus. In fact the Faraday more
than once managed to ram her toe into the
bank, but the elasticity of the CLAW and
the rubber trees appears to have been
great enough to shove her of into deem
river the landing of the cable was cele
brated by dance in the cable house. ana
the sudden disappearance of the cable end
under the influence of the river current
dld not prevent the festivities from going
on From hrst to last it was evident that
the people along the banks of the stream
all looked upon the cable as the greatest
imaginable boon in bringing them close
to civilization and the movement of the
times. -o
"A favorite sport among the rural class
Of Italians is cheese-rolling. This con-
sists Of a competition in which the man