The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Important geological results seem to
have been obtained by the German expe-
dition under Theodor Lesner, which start
ed last spring to explore SpitzbeTgen and
the Arctic ocean. The traWl was freely
used throughout the vessels voyage, and
vast accumulation of material mas been
deposited at the Physiological Institute,
Berlin, to be examined and classified. The
expedition brought back numbers of live
animals and birds, including Jour bear
CUBS, and one of its interesting discover
les was the long-sought bre sding place OF
the ivory gull, on a newly found island
called August Scheris.
In an article on the subject by Mr..
Skertchley, the well-known Australian
geologist, the scanty distribution of tin ore
in the different countries of the eayth is
pointed out. Curiously enough, while
the known gold fields of the world cover
more than 100000 square miles, the tin
helds have an area of between 1000 and
1900 only. There are seven tin districts
in Europe, producing about $500 tons year
iy, the Cornish mines yielding some 5000
tons OF this. Asia has two tin areas
human in China, estimated to produce
900 tons, and the Straits Settlements"
and adjacent principa,ities yielding 5000
tons yearly, the richest yield in the world.
Africa has no known tin mine: North
America no paying mine, though South
Dakota and California have made some
movements in that direction; then there
rs South America, with one limited tin
mine-Bolivia and Peru-yielding less than
1900 tons year, and Australia furnishing
about 5000 tons a year
Scientific attention has lately been call
ed to Tundra" which proves to be
summer resort not set down in the
guide books. Tundra is not the inn
posing name of a multi-roomed hotel. but
the general title of the Newport and Bar
Harbor region of Arctic Siberia, whittier
feathered society flocks in escape from
the torrid South. 1t is a treeless swamp
OF million of acres, uninhabited by human
| beings and covered with snow for eight
months of the year. after six months OF
night the sunshine of the succeeding six
months OF unbroken day forces vegetation
| INTO phenomenal expansion. These Arc
| tic pastures glow in masses of purple and
biue ana gold; and the season of fruit,
following hard upon the season of flow
| ers, furnishes to the birds a veritable car
nlVal OF berrieS-Some forty varieties-not
| however to the visitors of the same year
Rapidly as the fruit ripens the season ia
too short for the birds to await its ma
turlty. How, then, is their table fur
nlshed! The berries of the previous year
untouched by that years summer board
ere, frozen and showed under through the
| eight months winter succeeding, are I'M
| covered by the melting of the SHOWS as
the season opens, and supplies constant
| and unfailing feast to the myriad f1ocks
I Inc lnsectlvorous birds do not fast; their
pcuntlfuI table is the clouds of nosuui-
! toes which distinguish this resort even
above those of our Atlantic coast
The steamship Tyr. consigned to 7 r.
Camors & Co, has reached New Orleans
! The ship brought from Havana 1000 Amer
ican-porn goats, and these same goats
| says the New Orleans Times Democrat
! mad hard time of it from the moment
the vessel poked her nose in the Missis-
| slppl. OF course, having been given birth
! under the protecting folds of the Stars
and Stripes, the goats are not dutiable.
| out their presence on the ship did not OBJ
Vlate the necessity of fumigation. Now
| goats cannot stand the fumes of SULPHUR
| any more than people can, and so. when
| me SNIP reached the quarantine station.
| ana before fumigation was commenced
! permission was sought from the collector
ana oDtalned by j. b. Camors & Co to
| nave the goats removed during the pro-
| cess. As the authorities here were of the
opinion that no self-respecting germ would
choose TO. abide with goats, this permits
| sion was readily granted There was q
| hot time at the quarantine station while
the decentralization and the re-embarka-
| tlon We're going on. The men who CON
! Quoted the operation were in "verv bad
| odor' at least they say they were during
ITS progress. The goats were sent from
| Galveston to Havana, but the market in
| Havana seemed to be oVercrowded Al
! any rate, there was no struggle for the
possession OF the goats, so il was decided
| TO reship them to the United States aboard
! the Tyr.
The very finest of doors are made nova
days of veneer on a body Of pine. e2ys
the Boston Journal of Commerce. Even
when made of mahogany or some other
costly wood, doors have to be veneered
| The body of the door is made of a plain
| stralght-grained mahogany while the sur
! races are Veneers of fine wood In the fin
est doors the body is made of selected
| Whlte pine, free from sap and perfectly
| seasoned, which Is cut into narrow .trjns
and then sIued together. The outer adyes
| oil TINS door are faced with what is called
| a veneer, but which is really a striD Of
! the fine wood half an inch or more in
! thickness. The inner edges of the frame
| by the panels, are covered in the same
| manner with thick strips, in which tha
! ornamental mouldings or carvings are
made, and which are grooved to receive
| the panels. This built-up frame of white
| pine, with edges of The fine wood is then
! Veheered with the fine wood. In some
lighter doors the panels may be of solid
| mahogany, but in the finer, larger ana
| heavier doors the panels also are made
| of sheets of white pine with a veneerJng
of the fine wood, so that the entire door
is veneered. 1t would be difficult if not
| impossible, TO procur at any cost mahog-
any lumber in fine and beautiful woods
OF sufficient size for tn larger doors. The
! built-up and veneered door of pine wood.
! however, has every appearance of a solid
door, and made of selected Veneers. il
| may be more beautiful than a solid door
! would be. 1t is more serviceabIe and re-
mains longer perfect. Its cost is about
half what a solid door would cost.
Out of list of seventy adjectives di-
rectly applied to gray eyes, writes Nina
K. Allen in Lippincott's, no less than
fifty are descriptive of expression. If we
NAV helieNa The eNiaenna of thnsa .u.,...l.