The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

in August. 1856. five boys in Elizabeth.
N J., found an old stocking containing
S775 in cash AS one claimed it all the
courts had to be called on 10 decide the
ownership The question at issue seemed
simple enough, bur il took nearly ten years
10 settle IL, and not until the other day
was the money divided among the five.
lney are now young men,
Some chap who has been investigating
flowers now claims that the perfume is
due entirely TO the starch in the petals.
When that is exhausted the perfume dis
appears He further suggests placing the
flowers in solution Of sugar, and says
that if this is done the formation OF
starch and the emission of fragrance is
at once resumed. One can easily test
the truth of this assertion for himself
by dropping a lump Of sugar into the
vase holding the flowers.
Invention says that an electric ehaise
was ordered by the late Prince Henry of
Battenberg for Queen Victoria. The We
hicle, which is not yet finished, is built
upon a double framework Of tubes with
a head tube for steering, much as BIZ
cycle has, the steering handle being
somewhat like that used IN bath chairs.
The body of the carriage is composed of
aluminium, and il runs upon three wheels,
fitted with michelin tires; the propelling
force is dynamo driven with Fulmen &C
cumulators.
covery, which if true. will excel in inter-
est and Importance the celebrated discov-
cry of Rontgen, the X-rays, says the Gin
cinnati Times-Star 1t is said that a pho
tographer named Rogers set up a postage
stamp and fixed his gaze upon IL for a
moment Then a Photographic plate was
placed where the stamp had been. For
several minutes the photographer fixed
held his mind intently upon the image of
the stamp at the same time. When the
plate was developed two impressions,
one, for each eye, were found upon it.
each distinctly resembling a postage
stamp. And this idea can thus be carried
out ad infinitum, it is claimed. A poet
can dispense with a pen by affixing upon
the sensitive plates the beautiful images
that arise in his brain. Criminals may
thus be forced to yield up the secrets of
their past lives; the lover can give proof
of his faithfulness, and so on into the
inexhaustible field of the marvellous. OF
course, there will be sceptics on all this
for a while.
"A we'll informed writer devotes a col
umn of remarks on the recent aerolite
explosion in Madrid. He says it viii be-
come historical on account of the fact
that 1t was a full scale aerolite, and be-
cause of the consequences of its explo-
sion. The shock was felt at Guadala-
jara, thirty-four miles from the capital
and the explosion was witnessed as far
away as Blarritz. France, before the aer-
olite underwent disintegration and show
cred pieces down at LogrOno and Bur
gOs setting fire to two houses at Lo-
grono. The largest modern Krupp shell
produces effects not to be measured by
side the effect of the aerolite. Modern
shot crawls like a snail compared with
an aerohte, for at 900 feet high an aerolite
moves a. hundred times faster than sound.
When the atmosphere receives a solid
mass of such velocity there all the force
of the collision with the air is condensed
in front of the flying mass, and when the
heat of the stone causes pieces to fly right
and left it liberateS compressed air, which,
suddenly expanding, creates the terrific
sound of an explosion and the vivid light.
"A new species of monkey has been
found These monkeys were discovered
in Java, and Mr. w Englehardt recently
presented one to the Geological Society
Garden in London, where it has excited
the wonder Of scientists, to whom the
species is absolutely new. The peculiari-
ty of this monkey is that 1t has a pig S
tail. The species has been named the
pig-tailed monkey. the scientific name be-
ing macacuS nemestrinus. The tail of
| the monkey is short and slender and al
| most hairless, and it has the true cork
| screw twist of the conventional pig tail.
| This introduces a new element into mon
| key science. Hitherto the tail has been
| regarded by scientific men S an important
part of the monkey, enabling the animal
| 70 climb trees, to hang from limbs and
| to swing himself from one branch to an
| other The pig-tail monkeys obviously
| cannot do this. The question has been
| lost missing link. The missing link, how
| ever, was to be a sort of cross between
a man and monkey. and not cross
| between a monkey and pig. A pig with
| a monkeys tail is now being looked for
| in Java
Burglary on scientific principles has
brought James Sanders, a ticket-of-leavc
man, into great trouble He was not a
mere jimmy-and-ladde man, but a stu
| dent of aerostatics, and found out that
the best way of dropping out of a win
i dow was to do it la parachute, for
| which purpose when he went a-burglins
| he carried a large umbrella, says the Lon
| don Telegraph. His first experiment on
! his newly invented plan took place on
Saturday evening in a house in Pimlico.
| Entry was effected in a house and the
articles to be taken away were carefully
arranged in a parcel Suddenly he fan
cied he heard noise, He rushed to the
1 window, parachute in hand, saying, Now
/ for the scientific departure" but I'M
| fortunately for him, in the hurry of the
moment he forgot TO open the umbrella
| before leaping, and consequently lost all
| the benefit of his scientific skill. San
| ders was picked up in a considerably
! damaged condition, reproaching himself
| for his absence of mind and lamenting his
bad luck. A former exploit on scientific
| principles brought him seven years penal
| service and ticket-of-leave The pres
| ent may prove quite as lucky. Mr.. de
| RutZen, the Westminster magistrate COM
| mitted him for trial.
Camel meat has recently become such
vogue among Partisan gourmets that
plans are being made to bring it in large
! quantities from Algeria for sale during
| the coming carnival in the French CAPT
tai. says the New York Journal The
| camel market in Algeria seems to have
been ''cornered" by two people, whom the
official report of the French sanitary in
| Spector for that region calls "Moabite
butchers These. as the result of negotia-
tions with some of the large provision
houses in Paris, have gone ahead with the
| construction of abattoirs, cooling appar.
atus and everything else on large scale
| necessary for the preparation and export
of these ships of the desert" Camel meat
| is said to resemble beef very closely, but
| its fiber is shorter and it is of coarsel
grain. On the other hand, it is as tender
as veal and among the Arabs is esteemed
| as being most nutritious. The choice NOR.
sci of a camel is the hump, especially
when it is good and fat AS every schoo
| boy has been told, the camel during its
days of prosperity and fat feeding stores
up nutriment in its hump, on which tc
| subsist during the foodless and waterless
desert Journeys. When the hump grows
lean and flabby it means to the expert.
| enced that the animal is erettiT1rr, RI fhe