The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-23
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pies in the world is owned by Benjamin
Buckman OF Farmingdale. Ill. His col
1t seems almost impossible that in any
one fruit there could be so much differ
ence that each variety could be surely
Identified. which IL seems IS really the
case. Those who give their time and
money to enterprises like this are public
benefactors. and should have more pop
ular appreciation than they generally re-
ceive."
king George H. was once invited out
to dine with wealthy and eccentric old
duke, who possessed more money than he
very well knew what to do with. Upon
this occasion, wishing to impress his
aJesty with the immensely of his riches
he had the floor Of the dining hall paved
from end to end With soveraigns the
heads being up Each coin was stuck in
mixture Of lime, which soon dried, leay
When the king arrived. and was shown
what had been done in his honor, his
amusement knew no bounds. and It was
with difficulty he could be persuaded TO
set foot upon the golden floor
There is no known metal. and perhaps
no substance whatever says Sir Robert
Ball in McClure's Magazine. which de-
mands so high temperature to fuse il as
does the element carbon. A flament of
carbon, and a hlament of carbon alone,
will remain INFUSED and unbrolGen when
heated by the electric current to the daz-
zling brilliance necessary for effective IL
Elimination. This is the reason why this
particular element is so indispensable for
our incadescent electric lamps. Modern
research has now taught us that, just
as the electrician has to- employ carbon
as the immediate agent in producing the
brightest of artificial lights down here. so
the sun in heaven uses precisely the same
element as the immediate agent in the
production Of its transcendant light and
heat. Owing to the extraordinary fervOr
which prevails in the interior parts of
the sun, all substances there present, no
matter how difficult we may find their
fusion, would have to submit to be melted,
nay, even to be driven off into vapor. II
submitted to the heat of this appalling
solar furnace, an iron poker, for in
stance would vanish into invisible vapor.
What is the origin of the expression
"a canard' when a wonderful story that
has no foundation in fact is meant? Even
Frenchmen cannot say, says Mehan's
Monthly. 1t - now claimed that the hon
or of the invention belongs to NJ. Corne-
lissen, member of the Academy of Brus-
sells. He had noticed some wonderful
yarns" in the daily paper to which he
subscribed, and in order to satiriZe the
writers, he sent in one himself, as joke
1t was about a pretended experiment with
twenty-five ducks, and tended to show
that ducks are cannibals. He had, he
said, killed the ducks one by one and fed
the survivors exclusively on the body and
in course of time there remained but one
duck of the whole twenty-five. This last
of the ducks was said to have had post
when it was found to be suffering from
certain internal injuries as the supposed
consequence of its strange diet. The par
agraph, which the writer never expected
TO see in print, was published and sent
the round. It got to America, whence it
was constantly coming back, and the
phrase lit is another canard," or duck,
became common in the newspaper offices.
The St. Louis Republic says that ev-
erybody in Kansas is buyingscorn. Bank
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farmers, editors and others who can
scrape together few dollars are putting
il into a pot with their neighbors and
buying corn with 1t. Empty railroad cars
are standing idle all over the state. The
railroads are not complaining, for they
know they will get the business some time,
Very little corn is shippinge out of the
state. In the towns along the lines of
railways a new corncrib may be seen at
the rear of nearly every home. Men and
women who can raise a few dollars are
combining their capital and Buying corn.
The lumber companies are building cribs
out of common fencing and storing away
last years crop Lumbermen have sold
great quantities of common fencing for
corncrbs. There isn't an editor in the
state that isn't taking corn on Subscrip-
ton and each has the corncrib well filled.
1t is estimated that of the 100000 bushels
of corn raised in Kansas last year. not
more than 10 per cent. has been shipped
out of the state The people will not sell
it for 10 and 20 cents a bushel if they
can hold itand get through the winter.
The process by which nature forms her
silver mines is very interesting, says an
exchange. 1t must be remembered thar
the earth's crust is full of water, which
percolates everywhere through the rocks.
making solutions of elements obtained
from them. These solutions take up small
particles of precious metals which they
find here and there. Sometimes the solu-
tons in questions are hot the water haV-
ing not got so far down as to be set
boiling by the internal heat of the globe.
Then they rush upward, picking up the
bits of metal as they CO. Naturally, heat
assists the performance of this operation.
Now and then the streams thus formed,
perpetually flowing hither and thither be-
low the ground, pass through cracks or
cavities in the rocks, where they deposit
their lodes of silver. This is kept up
for a great length of time-perhaps thou
sands of years-until the pocket is filed
up. Crannies permeating the stony mass
in every direction may become filled with
the precious metal, or occasionally a cham
Der may be stored fun of it, as if a mil
lion hands were fetching the treasures
from all Sides and hiding away a mine
for some lucky proSpector to discover in
another age.
With our civilization has come great
and continual decrease in drunkenness,
says the Hospital. The national drink
bill" concerning which so much is said
is less, man for man, than it was CEN
fury or half a century ago, or at least
represents a less CONSUMPTION We hear
cause We have ceased to regard it as
matter of course, a regular part of daily
life. Therefore it may be surInised that
our blue ribbon and other armies in fight
ing the drink fiend'' are striking at what
is, after all, dying monster, though dan
gerous even in the death grips Mean
while another and a. subtler demon arises
The vices of civilization are with us and
those who would scorn to drink as
they call it-differentiating the consump-
ton of alcohol from that of other LIQUIDS
indulge in drugs of various kinds
Opium, either in the form of laudanum
drinking or in the subtler form of the nv
podermic injection of morphia, is, though
not common, less rare than it is guessed
to be. Insomnia, or pain which to orr
sensitive nerves seems intolerabIe. is the
excuse for beginning the habit, and the
end is worse than drunkenness The
cocaine habit" is a recognized fact in
America, where our Teutonic race, sub
{ect to an intenser life than in Europe,
has developed a quicker sensibilitv or
more irritable nerves. The Inhalation Of
chloroform has proved an Irresistible
temptation to many, and women who
would scorn any indulgence in wine sin