The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-16
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/ German admirers Of Prince Bismarck, liv-
I ing in Switzerland, have commissioned
/ several prominent scuptors to furnish
/ designs for llfe-ssZe monument in marble
! which is TO be erected in a beautiful pri-
/ waite park IA Zurich. The other is a Bis
marck fountain. constructed of stone and
/ cement, in the station yard at Brea, Cam
/ Groom, bearing on its 'front.' an excellent
1 observation-disclosures of the prince. Just as
| the former is the first work of the kind
in Switzerland. SO the latter is the first
one in the Dark Continent
Vegetables and flowers have their nox-
ious tenants. Certain microscopic fungi
which grow on sick plants can produce
/ actinomycose and other ailments in men.
Cancer arises sometimes from a vegetable
origin. Senior Domingos Freire of Rio
Janeiro, famous for his incculations
against yellow fever, has found that even
flowers are infected with dangerous mi
crobes. Flies and wind spread the infec-
tion. The rose (ROthschiid VARIETY swarms
| with the leptothrix ochracea; the Rosa
! Gallica has a microbe like streptococcIs
pyogenes and another like bacillus gallus.
Other flowers have colonies not well deter
mined. It is considered not unlikely that
the colOrs and perfumes of some flowers
are due to microbes. for the light red of
the Rothschild rose is the color of the lep-
tothriX, and the yellow Hibiscus has
yellow microbe. The moral is 70 smell flow
ers a safe distance.
The production of the beautiful color
ing of glass is a rare art which has come
down in particular to the German glass
| blower of to-day through many genera
tons. The apparatus used is a sheet-iron
cylinder 20 inches long and 5 incnes in
diameter, standing vertica ly, and having
a small cylinder riveted across the top,
thus forming a T-shaped mdfTie While
the SlassbioWer is reneatiug his work for
the last time an attendant sips into the
MUM long iron ladle, which has been
made red-hot, and into winch has been
shaken specially prepared chemical mix
ture. The mixture Immediately gives off
vapor in the horizontal cylinder, where
the work of the blower, heated to an even
red by the blowpipe, is being rapidly re-
Volved. In a short tine the object is COW
cred with a changeable lustTe and is re-
moved from the pipe tempered in an oven,
then cut, engraved, painted or gllded, as
desired.
The ring treasured by the descendants
of Franklin Pierce, President of the Unit
ed States is interesting for several rea-
sons; for one thing, it weighs neatly d
pound, says an exchange. 1t was present
ed by his friends in California, and Is
the world. 1t is of gold dug from a CALI
fornia mine, the outside portion is cur
into squares which stand at right angles
to each other, and each is embellished
with an odd design the entire group rep
resenting pictorial history of CaHfor-
mia. There is a grizzly bear in a menac-
ing attitude, a deer bounding down q
slope, an enraged snake, a soaring eagle
ana a salmon. Upon another square is
an Indian with bow and arrow and ma
tive mountaineer on horseback, throwing
his lasso. Next peeps out a California
tent and miner at work with his pick
These designs are surmounted by two
American flags, with the poles crossed
and groups of stars in the angles The
part Of the ring reserved for the seal Is
covered by a deeply carved plate of gold.
with California arms, surmOunted by the
flag and inscribed with Frank Pierce" in
o4d Roman characters This lid opens
with hinge and shows beneath a square
box, divided by the bars of gold into nine
separate compartments, each containing
pure specimens of the varieties of ore
found in the state. The inscription within
reads: Presented to Franklin Pierce. the
fourteenth President of the United
States" The ring is valued at $1,000
Americans are noted for their devotion
to ice water. and the Engllshman looks
in undsguised horror at our habit of
drinking quarts of the cold fluid when
we are warm and tired, says the Chicago
News. He is taught when a child that
awful consequences follow washing in very
cold water or drinking cold water when
he IS hot. Also he has a deadly terror
of draughts. Naturally he cannot under
stand how we escape with our lives An
Engishman who went out TO Australia
which shares with us a fondness for GET
tlng cool-relates how he discovered it
was the habit of his friends to play ten
mis- when the thermometer registered 100
degrees in the shade and then rush off
for an icy-cold bath and a draught OF
ice water. They never seemed the worse
for 1t. We see the same thing done here
every day. The Australians. he also
found, particularly the women, after dane
ing, hunt up draughts to sit in to cool
or. We call it ice cream. To the Eng
lish 1t is known as cream ice. Just when
or where 1t was invented is the question
many people have tried to solve In the
beginning of the century it was almost
unknown in England though well known
in Naples and Sicily, where the cream
was artfully made into copies of peaches
apples, apricots and such dainties. much
as we have them to-day made in molds
There is one famous instance in support
OF the English against the American opin-
ion on the subject of taking cold baths
when you are very hot, for il removed
from the earth in the city of Babylon, at
the age of 80, one Of the greatest men
That ever lived Alexander the Great, who
died of fever brought on by bathing in
the river when he was very hot. This
was unfortunate, because he would doubt
less nave gone on to conquer China as
he conquered the rest of Asia, and this
might have saved several European Pow
ers half their present anxiety.
The young should be trained in the i'm
portance Of ventilation, for this is one of
the most neglected requisites of good
health, says the ST. Louis Republic. In is
estimated that 1900 cubic feet of pure air
per hour is the need of each individuaf
By weight, one-ffth of this is oxygen. the
h1e-glVng element. The same air re-
breathed four times win no longer. sustain
life The oxygen has been mostly absorb
ed, While waste matter and carbonic acid
eas, deadly poison, have taken its place.
Were our rooms ART ght we could NOT
survive. The atmosphere penetrates every
crevice around the doors and windows