The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Maize has become an astonishingly use
full plant, grain, husks. stalks, cobs and all.
The cobs are boiled in a decoction of
brown sugar and an imitation of maple
syrup is produced. A plate of corn cakes
Favored with the assence of corncobs is
said 10 be quite palatable.
The Paris Petit Journal calls upon its
contemporaries to print, before il is too late,
"a few finely turned phrases concerning
the friendship between Washington ana
Lafayette" an order to- prevent any I'M
lucky separation between the Partisan
tradesman and the American dollar"
. An enterprislng Mississippi newspaper
of recent date contains the following item;
"Shot.-The boy that was shot in New
town this week worked at John Gardner s
butcher shop, but the particulars We're not
received in time to give full explanation of
the case but we will look into il next
week"
The Svantians. who live in the mac
cessible mountain range between the Black
and Caspian seas, are probably the LATEST
people in the world. They have made no
advance toward civilization in $500 years
IL is their invariable rule to observe hoh-
days four times a week, with Saints days
as extras.
"A recently appointed vicar in East
Anglia as trying TO carry socialism into
practice Asserting that others have with
himself an equal right to what he pos
sesses, he lives in the upstairs rooms OF
ms parsonage house, and allows the pa
rishioners the run of the downstairs apart
ments. Very few parishioners avail them
selves of the privilege.
Russia has tried experiments with
aluminium shoes for cavalry horses. A few
horses in the Finland Dragons were shod
with one aluminium shoe and three iron
shoes each, the former being on the fore
loot IN some cases. and on the hind foot in
others. The experiment lasted six weeks.
and Showed that the aluminium shoes last.
ed longer and preserved the foot better
than the iron ones.
AS ivory is extensively employed and
is rather high in price, it has been at
tempted to substitute cheaper substance
having the same appearance. Since about
twenty years an article has been worked
up IN this industry. which, in contra
distinction to the genuine animal ivory,
has its origin in the vegetable kingdom, be
ing derived from the nut of a palm-like
shrub called phytelephas macrocarpa,
whose fruit reaches the size of an apple
This fruit has very white, exceedingly
hard kernel, which can be worked like
ivory. One hundred of these fruits only
costing about one dollar their use offers
great advantages. Worked on the lathe.
this ivory can be passed off as the genuine
article, the resemblance being so great
that it is sold at the same price It also
can be colored just like genuine ivory NJ.
Pasquier of Liege, now gives a practical
method in Science en- ,Famille to distin-
guish the two varieties of ivory. 1t is
the following: Concentrated sulphuric
acid applied to vegetable ivory will cause
pink coloring to appear in about ten or
twelve minutes, which can be removed by
washing with water. Applied on genuine
ivory, this acid does not affect it in any
manner.
According to a correspondent of the
London Times, Prof. Dewar has added to
his other achievements in the same line
the liquefaction of hydrogen. Hydrogen
has been theoretically hquefed before,
but this is the first time that enough has
been obtained for experimental use, half
a Wineglassful having been obtained in
five minutes by a process which would
have produced a pailful had the requisite
supply of the gas been available. Unfor-
tunately the process by which this was
accomplished has not been published as
yet. Liquefied hydrogen is not only of
interest as scientific curiosity, but is of
immense importance as placing in tho
hands of investigators a potent instrument
which has heretofore hampered their pro-
gress by its absence. The boiling point
of liquid hydrogen may be placed at 80 to
80 degrees in the absolute scale of tenn
perature, which reduced to centigrade
scale is about $40 degrees below zero. II
Is stated that the density of the LIQUID
differs somewhat from the calculated
value, measurements giving 06, water be-
ing unity. Helium was also iquefed by
Prof. Dewar at the Royal Institution at
the same time. It's boiling point appears
to lie not far from that of HYDROGEN it.
self.
The Haiphong mail has brought news
of hitherto unknown species of ocean
monster which has been seen on several
occasions by the officers of the gunboat
Avalanche In Fai-tsi-Long bay says the
London Post. Naval Lieutenant Lagres-
ille, commander of the Avalanche, reports
that in July last, in Along bay, two ami
mails of strange form, about twenty yards
long and two or three yards in circumfer-
ence, were observed at a distance of 600
metres. Their movements were not rigid
but undulatory, in a vertical sense. They
dived when a shot was fired at them. Sew
eral similar creatures were seen on Feb.
10 this year, and We're fired at when from
300 to 400 yards distant. Two small shells
burst on one of the monsters, but did not
appear to injure it. Lieut. Lagresille tried
TO run them down, but they were too swift
for the Avalanche. Whenever the animal
he chased got into shallow water it doubled
back, and thus was clearly seen Each
time 1t Owed it blew noisily The color was
gray, with several black fins the head
something like that of a seal and the back
covered with a sawlike ridge. The pres
ence OF these creatures is revealed by their
loud breathing. Lieut.. Lagresille thought
once that he had secured specimen. but
the animal dived and came up again far
astern of the Avalanche. The number of
the meetings reported with these new dem
liens Of the deep would tend to show that
the species is fairly plentiful in the seas
where the Avalanche was stationed.
The proprietor of a wholesale commits
sion house on South Delaware avenue
for year past has been waging a war
on the rats that infest his place of bust
ness, says the Philadelphia Record. TRAPS
were first tried, but were de-
cided failure. as the wary rodents
SHE'D clear of them. Poisoned meat was