The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-07

posed and split up into its seven prin-
cipal colors, numerous fine and thick
black and colored lines, the number of
which soon grew to hundreds and now
amounts to thousands. Kirchoff and
Bunsen found QS59) that these lines
have their origin in the chemical COM
ponents of the burning or shining sub
stance, and that each element produces
particular invariable lines, always ap-
pearing in the same place and spectrum
-sodium, for example, a light, broad
yellow line; thaliium, blue; rubidium,
three green fines, etc.
Forty acres of pure plaster of
paris, from ten to fifty feet thick, is
the result of the effort of two boys to
smoke rabbit out of a hole under a
ledge on Gloss mountain, Woods coun-
ty. Oklahoma. The gypsum ledge was
formerly the home of nu1nberless wild
creatures, which lived in the crevices
of the rocks, using dry COW chips,
sticks and other rubbish for their
nests. The whole mountainside was a
mass of flames almost Immediately
when fire was applied, and it burned
for days. Only 300 degrees is required
to convert gypsum into plaster of
paris, Hand the ledge is, being trans
formed into white powder wee a
There is story about Alaska and
its people in which is mentioned a man
who chose bride from among some
of the Indian tribes up toward the
Chilcoot Pass. He took her to a large
city, Montreal. perhaps. and left her
in splendid hotel while he went out
to see some one about a dog. She
missed him sadly. She sat at the win
dow looking out on the street four
stories below Solitude became intoler-
able. She decided to find her husband.
There was an elevator but she didn't
care for it. Softly as moccasins could
carry her she issued forth. When she
had gone out a bellboy saw queer marks
on the banisters and door castings. The
Indian bride had blazed her way with
tomahawk, so that she could find her
way back. The Indian bride was mere
ly living up to her education, for it is
necessary 10 know how to blaze a trail
In Alaska.
The original carnation was a five
petalled bloom native in the South of
Italy. 1t was imported into England
about the time of the Norman Con-
quest AS early as 1919 horticultural
works gave minute directions for the
cultivation of of the flowers in winter.
The carnation industry has risen to
considerable Importance during the last
ten years. according to Town and
Country AS 100000 of young carna-
ton plants are sold each year, and
florists produce an equal amount
grown by themselves which are not
sold, the entire production of young
carnation plants approximates 5,000,-
O00 and upward year. These plants
are grown under glass during the win
ter time for cut flower purposes, pro-
ducing an annual average of more
than 100000 blooms. What becomes
OF this enormous number of flowers is
somewhat of a mystery. They are put
to innumerable uses.
Most of those of the fleet of famous
Baltimore clippers that still exist re-
main as coal barges. One of these, the
old Baltimore and Liverpool packet
Macauley, has recently laid her bones
on, the sands of the Jersey coast. The
ship was 1T6 feet over all, 81 feet in
beam, had % feet depth of hold and
was registered at 1892 tons. She was
one of the fastest packets of the North
Atlantic. The Maeauley has gone the
way of the Rio Janeiro trader Cam
panero. built at Baltimore In 1859, now
barge abandoned off Lower Canton;
the Sovereign of the Seas, which clear
ed $4,000 on her first voyage, and is
now coal barge; the ship Oracle,
which paid for herself twice in three
years, and Is now barge, and the
ship Mary Whitridge, built in Balti-
more In 1856, and the crack ship of the
world famous China traders belong
ing to Thomas Whitridge.