The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mr.. Hughes, our consul general at
Coburg, thinks there is the suggestion
of a new industry, for the pine lands
of the South and West of our country
in the success with which the bust
ness of extracting and preparing pine
needle oil is pursued in the Thuringen
mountains of Southern Germany. This
oil finds a sale all over the world. be-
ing used for pharmaceutical purposes,
for indicating baths, and so on, while
the dried fibers are used for stuffing
mattresses and pillows.
-Robespierre's clock, which stood in
the room occupied by him in the house
of the carpenter .Duplay. is now IN the
possession of Mile. Geniat, an artistic
Of the Franchise. The clock, aside
from its historical value, is most in
teresting on account of the curious
works. The face is of copper. and
has only one hand. At the Chicago
exhibition this clock was an object of
much interest. 1t is to be placed in
the Carnavelet museum, by the side
of the great clock of the Tuileries,
which struck so many historical hours
from the time of the directory until
the burning of the Tuileries On the
evening of May "a. 1871.
The French "subnersible" Triton
has just been fitted with a complete
wireless telegraphy outfit, which has
been specially devised by Lieut.. Ia
die, OF the submarine Algerien, says
the London Chronicle. During some
tests the other day before Admiral
Fournier, the inspector general of the
French mobile defensesa the Triton
plunged beneath the waves and both
received messages from and sent mes
sages to the vessels on the surface.
AS the submarine when beneath the
waves is blind, the Importance of wire
less communication between the diving
boat and surface craft cannot we'll be
overestimated. It is believed that the
staff Of the Vernon-the torpedo school
of the royal navy-are hard at work
deYising a special wireless telegraphy
outfit for the new British submarine
fiotilla.
OF all modern games, table tennis
--or ping-pong, as it is at present more
generally called-hoIds unique record
as regards the rapidity with which it
mas passed from the regions of the I'M
known to it's present place of fash
ionable pastime. While the game was
undoubtedly introduced in a crude form.
several years ago, 1t was not PLAYED
to any extent until July or August,
1900 and then chiefly in England; yet
by Christmas of that year it had caus-
ed perfect furore, and no social func-
uon in London was considered COM
plete without it's ping pong table. The
game, it would seem, filed a long-feIt
want, which the various indoor pas
times previously introduced had failed
to do, demanding. as it does, quickness
of eye and hand; furnishing at once
exercise, interest and enjoyment.
When we need oxygen gas for the
calcium light for medical use we
must now buy it from a manufactu-
rer, compressed into heavy iron cyl
lnders. 1t is possible that in the fu-
ture we may be able to make it as we
want 1t. M. Jaubert, French chemist,
mas devised substance that he calls
oryllth," which consists of certain
OF the higher oxids of the alkaline
metals, says Success. When water is
poured on this substance oxygen is
dlsengaged, just as acetylene gas is
produced from calcium carbid in the
ordinary acetylene cycle lamp. This
property makes it possible to devise a
simple generator which will produce
fresh oxygen just when it is needed,
and only as long as it is needed. M.
Jaubert was led to his invention in
the course of an attempt to make
simple remover of air for submarine
boats.
THE life and death of Mostar CEN
tres round its mosques, beside whose
snowy minarets cypress trees like
sombre twins, stretch up their sable
forms:
Noirs soupirs de feuiIlage chances
Vers les cieux.
In their shadows cemeteries. not re-
mote like ours, nor saddened by un-
certain thoughts says a writer in
Scribner's, lift up their turbaned
grave-posts-vague shadows of the
buried, rising from dank, tangled
grasses and creeping vines. No peal
or church-bell summons the Faith
1ul to prayer, but at daybreak. at
MONDAY at nightfall, the muezzin. an
eloer with long. white beard climbs
hlgh on every minaret, and from its
AIRY platform sends forth his plaintive
call, echoed back and forth. until the
very air vibrates with the trembling
notes. Just as the last echoes are lull-
ing, at the mosque entrance, richly
painted with arabesques. you will see
rows and rows of shoes-for who would
carry the dust of the streets upon the
rugs that face toward Mecca!
-Ine Duchess of Buccleuch's hand
some reward for the recovery of her
costly bracelet is still unclaimed. saws
London cable to the Pittsburg dis
patch. The value of the trinSet is
great intrinsically and enhanced bv as
soclatlons. as 1t was presented by
Queen Victoria to the Duchess when
the latter was Mistress of the Robes.
ana has miniature of the donor set
IN pearls and diamonds. 1t was worn
at the coronation and the Duchess
missed it from her wrist during the
ceremony. To hunt for it or INQUIRE
about it was impossible at that mo-
ment, but the Abbey was carefully
searched by a number of peers and
peeresses, friends OF the Duchess. i'm
mediately after the King and Queen
left, but no trace of the bracelet was
found Some newspaper men say they
saw from the triforium a jewel spark
ling on the carpet just as the King was
being crowned, and great officials were
walking over it. The Duchess is nos
tive that she was wearing that brace
let While holding the Queens train in
the procession up the nave of the Abb
hey. Many theories as to it's loss have
been suggested. The bracelet may have
fallen into one of the many cracks and
crannies in the Abbey 1t may have
been swept up by some peeress' train
and carried away with it unnoticed Or
it may have been found by dishonest
maid while diSrOhinor her ,,1ic+raSe roo