The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-24
ITE,Is OF INTEREST.

There were eighteen cases Of suicide
among the European soldiers IN India
during 1884 They occurred for the most
part during the nrsc and last quarters
OF the year
Julius Won Payer. whose mammoth
paintings representing the loss Of The
Franklin expedition have just been put
on exhibition at the Grafton gallery n
London. is himself an arctic explorer,
naFlns taken part in three expeditions
The longest distance that a shot has
been fired. says the Yankee Blade. is a
few yards over fifteen miles. which was
the range Of krEpp's Well-kuOWn mon
ster' l59-tOn steal gun. firing a shot weigh
lns 5o pounds The lotion Armstrong
gun has an extreme range Of fourteen
miles, uring shot weighing J. $50 pounds
ana requiring So pounds of powder. These
guns, however. proved TOO expensive. be
ing unable 10 stand firing a hundred times.
and Their manufacture has practically been
abandoned. The s1-t0n Armstrong sun
nlI-s solid snot for distance Of twelve
mics ana tle discharge IF 1he gun can
not be heard an the place where the BAN
SlrlkeS- From twelve 10 thirteen miles IS
the computed range of the most powerful
guns now made, ana 10 obtain that rause
an elevation OF nearly IS degrees is found
10 DE necessary.
An Astrahhan villager was buried, as
supposed, in 1881, but that statement only
shows how easily one may be deceived
The London Daily Mail SAYS that ;he
cofhn was lei on the grass. FOR the grave
was NOT finished When the grave-dig-
gers went TO take their dinner the dead
man forces came back to him, and re
pushed off the lid. He was afraid TO re-
turn 10 the village, lest the people should
say that he was SOrcerer and should
XIII MIN IN earnest, so he put back The lid
on me coffin ana went into the forest.
lie wandered about from village TO village
Tor Tour years, but at last he could no
longer resist the desire TO see his wi-e
ana family once more, and besides he
-heeded passport. SO he returned. 1t Is
remembered in the village that as the
graVe-dlggers We're putting the coffin into
the grave one Of them remarked that It
was very light; another rejoined thaJ
Inat was not surprising, for after the
funeral service the body of a sinner is
heavy but that Of just man is light.
"A novel apparatus for the immediate
typewriung Of kilograms received in the
news service has been introduced in Ber-
I'M With this apparatus any one can
send or receive it. The principle is thar
the keys of a typewriter are electrically
connected with another, or a number Of
other typeWriters similarly fitted and
the greatest benefit claimed for the new
invention is that the writing is always
Kept IN sight. A telegraph operator send
ing message sees before him i'm print
Whal ne has been writing, his COPY form
ing the official proof of the message sent.
IL Is hardly necessary to say that a teie-
SIdm sent by means of this apparatus be-
III
document, of which COPY of the messae a.
exists at the station where it was sent
from, with no possibility of the operator
having made a mistake While similar svs-
tens exist, the greatest perfection is
CANNED for this one, which is operated
Dy the Central News Association OF Ger
many.
"A lecture at the Institution of Civil En-
gineers on atmospheric dust is reported bv
ne Westminster Gazette as follows: Mr..
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made from air over the open ocean and
tt4OuIltdlH regions at attitudes from 5000
tcs1 70 more than 1900 feet. The dust coun-
vi employed contains a chamber into
Whlen air can be introduced saturated with
water NapOr, then slightly and ouiclrlN,
cooled. owing TO the fall of temperature
CONDENSATION Of vapor takes place on the
uusJ nuclei which then fall on to "A mi
cIome ter plate al the bottom of the cham
Der where they are rendered easily visible
LOT counting by the water layer which
coats them. on the Beishorn, which forms
part OF the chain containing the Rothorn
una " elssnorn rising about 5000 feet
ABOVE me Zermatt valley on its east and
some 5000 feet from that of Z!nai on me
VS., me observations show that at an
e t'.t3Iin or 900 feet there are $50 dust
% tlCltS III cubic centimeter while a
o'tW Ieet there are only 513 and at 13 60O
only lJl dust particles over the Indian
oGean lne average number of dust parfi-
cies cubic centimeter was less than 5oo
Tor seven out of nine days and on fine daVs
was less than 100. During a thick fog in rbe
49,. i.tc we ayr contained 3,l2Q dust par
ucIes a cuDlc centimeter, While m the clear
59SSl0n JUST beyond the fog there were only
zoO dust particles" -'
livery year the United States imports
$oOOOO,OO worth of fbers to be made nm
INTO Irvine, cordage, etc, says the chi
caso record. Capitalists are turning their
qq r6ed ,,r TO to raising the plants
The pineapple is the great hone
a. present. In Florida, where the
h..
away and il is from them that in Indfa
me beautiful pineapple cloth is made
IL LOOKS like gossamer, and will float in
6ne air when tossed up. To make IN the
nDers are pa3nstakingly separated by hand
anu sl1 me ENDS glued together. An inch
rope formed of these dilicate threads has
STOOD a pressure of 500 pounds. We i'm
port $5,OOO,0O0 worth of ssal hemp from
ucatan each year and the plant will
GROW IN the United States as well as in
IldL country It IS an intesting plant
with "a brush of huge green leaves shaped
IKE Dayonets. When about six Years old
there grows with great rapiditv from its
center a mast-like stalk twenty-fve fae3
nigh, headed by tulip-shaped blossoms
Nhen these blossoms drop off each is
replaced by a miniature sisal plant
Wnlch, wnen mature, drops to the ground
takes root and grows up the cOunfern9rf
OF the parent plant. This method of re-
pfoduction is found in no other plant bur
the slsaL As many as 1000 of these small
pants may be gathered from a large sisal
Iree; Inc hber from the leaves makes d
is the most remarkable of the new fiber
producing plants. All that is necessary
to bring 1t forward is the invention of a
Inachln 10 quickly and economically sep
arate the tlbers. At present this IS done
by hand. In Japan, where labor is cheap.
a man can separate two pounds in a day.
IL IS worth 3 cents pound. In France
millions of dollars has been spent on eSS
perimenting with the needed machinery.
Ram1e has long been cultivated in thr
East Indies for supplying fishnets and
cloths and in China and Japan textures
Of marvellous beauty are made from If
duce 1900 pounds of stripped stalk ready
for the threading machine. All sorts of
exquisite fabrics cOunterfeiting silks and
linens are made from it, and it has been
suggested as a future material for Yacht
sails. From Algeria comes a vegeta be
hair which very much resembles a horse
hair. 1t is obtained from the leaves ot
a palmetto like the scrub palmettos grown
IN Florida, It is good for surfing mat
teSses and furniture. Palms furnish an
nnllasa I.iatL- Of ah.ars