The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-08
ITEM OF INTEREST.

Among a lot OF fish they found in their
I,L,1t me t.. trlnk OF an adler tree, upon
Wnicn several dozen horseshOes were nall
e. FrODaDly this tree was uprOoted by
MOOD and carried dow. 10 the ocean.
out IL Is very difficult TO find an explana-
ton OF how the tree trunk got so far into
the ocean, since II was too heavy to float.
The jubilee Of a willow tree, which IS
positively known to have been planted by
the Great Electoral Prince Of Branden-
burg 20 years ago. will occur next month
az klein-Glienicke, near Potsdam. Here
on the shores OF Gliebnitz lake, the same
which was recently mentioned on account
OF Princess Friedrich breaking through
the Ice on the lake. this willow tree still
Iedrs ITS colossal trunk. although il is
much hoiloWeq out at the base. Two years
ago an iron hoop was laid around the
trunk, about three feet from the base, to
prevent It's splitting or bursting open.
Trapping is still a profitable business
in Maine. despite the hordes Of hunters
VINO mock into the state from all over
tne union There are about dozen vet
eran trappers who scour the wilderness
ABOUT Moosehead lake and ChesuncoOk.
their lines of traps extending along
scores Of streams as vet practically un-
known to the hunters who hunt for pleas
ure. The trappers bring into town in the
spring good stocks of furs of various
kinds, beaver, sable, bear, black cat, pine
marten and the like, and they each make
quite a snug sum out of their winters
work.
st. Louis health board hopes to i'm
prove manners and increase sanitation
by law. 1t will ask the municipal as
sembly, as the municipal legislative board
in st. Louis is termed, to adopt an ordi-
nance making II a misdemeanOr for any
person TO eXpectOrate on the floors or
street cars or other public conveyances,
or IN motel corridors, theaters, public
halls, and places of worship; also tha,
the porters or persons in charge of the
cars and public places be required to fur
CuSDldCwg n
that they be required to clean the vessels
daily, using some disinfecting fluid to be
approved by the board of health.
Crawford, the author, to whose skillful
pen Constantinople is indebted for one of
the most charming volumes ever issued
in its praise, has a word to say about the
Turkish boatmen and their vehicle, the
kaik. "Constantinople owes much" writes
he, to the matchless beauty of the three
waters which run together beneath its
walls, and much Of their reputation again
mas become worldwide by the kaik. 1t
is disputed and disputable whether the
turks copied the Venetian gondola or
whether the Nenetians initiated the Turk
ish kaik, but the resemblance between
them is so strong as to make IL certain
that they have common origin. Take
from the gOndOla the felse' or hood, and
the rostrated stem, and the remainder is
practically the kaik. 1t is of all craft of
its size the swiftest, the most easy to han
1le, ana the most comfortable, and the
Turks generally are admitted to be the
best oarsmen in Europe. Indeed they
have need to be, for both the Bosphorus
and the Golden Horn are crowded with
craft of every kind, and made dangerous
by the swiftest of currents The distances
too are very great, and such as no ordi-
nary oarsman would undertake for pleas
ure or for the sake of exercise. 1t is no
joke to pull fifteen or sixteen miles against
stream which in some places runs four or
five knots an hour"
The baby hyena is the star attraction
at "a
York exchange. A hyena in infancy is
cute, bright-eyed. soft. pudgy and kitten
ish. But it grows out of this in time
and this frolicsOme little creature will
a few years hence be as VillainOusly ugly
as he is now delightful He is a brown
ish-hued creature, with a black muzzle,
about as tall and as fat a Newfound-
land puppy. His age is months-a fact
due to the vigilance of the keeper as her
ma" has shown heretofore a disposition
to eat her offspring, having in this unnat-
ural manner disposed of half a dozen
youngsters that would have been brother
and sister TO the latest arrival. Mrs.
Hyena is as tall as a St. Bernard, and
her infant freely walks under the arch
of her shaggy and ill-smelling body. The
baby just now has high forelegs and short
hindlegs, and moves about with an awk-
ward wabble that greatly amuses the
children, who throng before the cage.
When the baby grows up he will laugh,
as does his mother laugh that carries
terror with it TO every beast in the zoo,
but just now the laugh is simply a joyous
gurgle. The mother is fond of her son in
her hyena way, and evidently believes
with solomon that to spare the rod is to
spoil the child One day last week she
gave her offspring trouncing that he will
not forget in a hurry. 1t seems that
when the daily allowance of meat scraps
and bones were thrown into the cage she
declined to allow the infant any portion
of it. Some one called the keepers at
the keeper said 'she probably knew
best" The youngster evidently did not
share the keepers opinion of the wisdom
of his mother. for he made a futile effort
to seize a juicy morsel of horse meat,
was caught in the act and punished. His
name is ''Whiskers."
A dinner of a bunch of rosebuds, says
Youths Companion, would hardly be
called a feast, and we should most likely
be inclined to think ourselves trifled with
If we were asked TO dine upon the great
glowing blossoms of pumpkin vine. But
in olden times some of the American In
dians, notably the Aztecs, esteemed these
flowers, when properly cooked, a great
many parts of India depend for food upon
the blossoms of the bassia tree. They do
not even need to cook the flowers, but
make a good meal of them raw, just as
they gather them up under the trees from
which they fall in great quantities during
the night. The American Druggist de-
in odor and taste. Sometimes they are
dried in the sun, and are then kept and
sold in the baZaarS as regular article of
diet The trees are so highly esteemed
| that the threat of cutting down their bas-
STA trees viii generally bring an unruly
tribe to terms. This is hardly to be Won
dered at, when it is understood that
single tree will yield from two to four
hundred pounds of flowers. The Parsees
cook the flowers, and also make sweet
meats of them. But, after all, we are not
quite at liberty to smile at the fioWer-eat-
ing propensites of these strange people.
There is one flower afforded by our own
gardens that finds a place freely upon our
tables We are apt to look upon the de-
licious cauliflower as a cabbage, but it is
the flower heads and flower stalks that
we consume in the caulifiower and not the
leaves, as in the case of the cabbage. He
who eats a caulihower is a fower-eater as
truly as the Parsee. Nobody would be in
clined to deny that smoked fish and
smoked meat are agreeable varieties in
our bill of fare, but few, perhaps, would
| feel ready to plead guilty to a taste for
smoked flowers. And yet, when we give
to the Glove its well-earned place among
our fiavorings, we are making use of a
smoked hower-bud.