The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In Central South Africa eggs and CO.
coanuts pass as currency of the realm.
IN Mexico the mescal plant attains
such an enormous size that some OF than
are sufficient to make barrel of whisky.
Fire insurance companies were in ex-
istcnce in Italy in the twelfth century,
and they were established in England in
the sixteenth century.
The first child ever vaccinated, on the
authority of a tombstone in the church.
yard of Worth, in Dorsetshire, England,
was the son of Benjamin Jesty of Donn-
shay, who died on the 18th of April, 1916.
The inscription on Mr.. Jesty's gravestone
states that the deceased was particularly
noted for having been the first man that
introduced the cowpox by incubation, and
that he vaccinated his wife and two sons
in 1T74, or twenty-five years before DR..
Edward Jenner made his first vaccination
on the boy James Phipps on the 14th of
May, 1895. The doctor inoculated that boy,
who was years of age, with vaccine
taken from the hands of a milkmaid who
was suffering from cowpox and six weeks
later he tested the effects of his expert
ment by inoculating the same lad with
smallpox. His first case succeeded per
fectly, the boy being found to be proof
against the virus of smallpox, and the
practice was soon afterwards generally
adopted.
Says the Philadelphia Record of Sat
urday: zone of the most CHASTITY election
bets on record was paid yesterday. A
hearse decorated with pictures of de.
feated candidates passed Twenty-ninth
street and Woodland avenue, while inside
resposed, not the remains, but the very
much alive body of Alonzo McAulay of
Thirty-ninth street and Baltimore avenue.
On the drivers seat were Charles Will
liams and Jerome Connolly, who had won
the bet from McAulay. They were clad
in full dress suits and shining tiles, while
the unfortunate McAulay was arrayed in
a convict's garb. One of the clauses in
the bet stated that on the way to the
cemetery the mock funeral was to stop
at every tavern which was passed, and
the unfortunate political corpse was to
stand treat. This part Of the programme
was carried out to perfection, but Nc
Aulay got angry when Connolly blew
shrill blasts on a tallyho horn about every
two squares and then stopped the hearse.
After reaching Mount Moriah the trio re-
turned, driving through the principal
streets of West Philadelphia.
Few people realize the value or beauty
of the American chestnut tree, says the
New York Times. An immense quantity
of nuts are brought into the city in the
autumn and retail at the rate of Sc
bushel. A chestnut orchard is said to be
more profitable than many apple orchards.
The American nut has better favor than
the japanese or European nut. The tree
grows easily and quickly upon poor, grav-
ely SOIL and bears fruit in FIVE years.
Tree growers say that with care and Sc
lection the American nut could undoubt-
eddy be made to equal the foreign in size
f,aor tie lnIa DC q nrOnIlCf
| and at the same time its commercial value.
The chestnut tree is valuable as timber
in fifteen years. 1t is in flower early in
July, and is one of the few trees whlch
blossom in midsummer. Its popularity as
an ornamental and shade tree Is shown by
the number of cities in whose directories
may be found a Chestnut street, named at
some time or another for the tree of that
name along it. New York has Chestnut
street running from Oak street to Madison
on the east side. 1t is a reminder that
there were once many trees in DOWNTOWN
New York.
Few people-even artists themselves
| know where the colors used in the arts
come from. 1t is an interesting fact that
one small paint box will often represent
the four quarters of the globe, ana all
sorts of materials, animal, vegetable ana
mineral The cochineal insect supplies
and purple lakes. Sepia is the inky fluid
discharged by the devilsh cutie fish. In
dian yellow is from the urine of the camel
and ivory black and bone black from
ivory chips. Prussian blue is made by
fusing horses hoofs and other refuse
matter with impure potassium carbonate
an accidental discovery. Blue black is
| from the charcoal of the vine-stalk. Tur-
key red is derived from the madden plant
| of Hindostan. Gamboge is a yellow sap
| of a tree, which the people of Siam catch
| in cocoanut shells. Raw sienna is the
natural earth from Sienna, Italy. When
burned it is Burnt Sienna. Amber is from
Umbria. India ink is burnt camper Bis
tire is the SCOT of wood ashes. OF real
ultramarine there is little in the market,
as it is made from the precious capus
| lazuli, and commands big price. Chi
nese white is zinc scarlet is iodide of mer-
| curry and native Vermillion comes from
quicksilver ore.
There is a curious story concerning the
| first locomotive ever seen in China, says
the Chicago Record. Ii Hung Chang was
| given permission to construct a railway
| from the sea to his mines upon the condi-
ton that steam power should not be used
and for several months the cars were
hauled by mules. Then Mr.. Kinder and
some of the foreign machinists secretly
constructed a locomotive out of such ma
terials as they could find in China. 1t
was rude affair and it was never able
to make more than five or six miles an
hour, but 1t was great advantage over
the mule teams, for it could haul seven
or eight cars of coal at that speed. where
| 1t took four mules to haul one. But when
the mandarins at Pekin learned that for
eign devils were using a fire-eating mon
ster on the railway they Immediately made
a tremendous fuss about it, and called Ii
Hung Chang to account for violating his
| concession. The old gentleman took 1t
very coolly and pretended not to know
anything about it, but he afterward re-
stored himself in favor by issuing an or
der rebuking Mr.. Kinder and his assoc
ciates for their presumption and forbid
ding them to introduce any more new
tangled foreign notions into China. Short
ly after he secretly patted them on the
back and raised their pay. The excite
ment quoted down and was soon forgot
ten. Then Mr.. Kinder got up steam in
his clumsy old engine again and was al
lowed to run 1t without Interference
Later couple of regularly made loco
motives were imported from Europe and