The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
IL one Of two stone sarcouhagi found AZ
Rome N the Pratt di Castillo the skeleton Of 4
| girl was found along with & wooden doll with
/ Jointed arms and legs.
THE birth rate in a community is commonly
1 repre- sented by the ratio of births 10 popula-
/ tlon, 50 many per thOusand The basis is as a
TuI-, adequate for practical purposes. and
: Ia Is, 50 constructed display throughout
. Europe gel orally. a tendency in the Dir rat
/ 70 Gecilne. Ia tae United kngdO n tle decline
Z mas Deen fairly regular and continuous for some
years past, the decline amounting 70 almost
| IAIee per LOO IN seven years.
PRIZE Of $1,000 is offered by the municipal
| council Of Paris to the inventor of an electric
meter giving entire satisfaction and i've prizes
| OF S10J eGcl TO the five inventors whose meters
nave given the most satisfaction Slouli A
| meter only be- suitable for measuring one kind
| o. current only half the price will be given
!he city Is TO have the right 10 manufacture for
I MS own use. free of royalty any of the meters
I TO witch prizes are awarded
VALUABLE fact is mentioned by Professor
Denton as having occurred in his inyesti cations,
owing the necessity of good fabrication for
sihie waves He states that In locomotive he
La4 cut down the supply of Oil 20 tn valves
iFoIl one pint IN seventy-tiYe miles to one pint
! lou miles, the result of this change being that
as soon Is tie valves got hot-twO men could
~ mold the reversing lever in place when the
A WILLGANsPoRr pa. SPECIAL says: "a De-
cuiIar accident, attended with fatal results,
cured yesterday in Niopanose valley, this
county. The S-year-old N OF Samuel Bowers
a farmer, picked up q scrthe that Tie father had
just iald down and began swinging il A 3-year-
old SIS, or Of the boz ran out and the sharp
oiade OF the Scythe caught her aroun the neck,
cutting the throat and causing almost instant
ueAtn- Inc head Vas almost severed. 1t was
pnrsly an ccdent and tfe boy became pros
-
THE giant diamond lataiy discovered in Caps
Colony, and now at theass.Tis exposition, weighs
$50 carats and is valued al S3OeOt9g 1t is kept
in glass case by itselfaAnd 1guaEsians stand
around 1t all day. Alright it IS placed in big
SAFE. which is similarly guarded aAihight. II is
siil 70 ua Of the first water. ard as pure the
famous Regent in the French crown diam n Is
II Is for sale, and it is confidently expected that
some American, III hOmesDun clothes aud
souca hat, will ONE along one OF these days
and buy 1t as pocket piece.
TIE present trip OF the shah promises so be
Us fun finite estiGg episodes as his previous one
number of curious incidents have already
happened to show that he is Just as unique as
ever. 1t is said that, having dinad on three oc-
cast rs with the same princeSSes. duche sas and
other EamlIar objects ne appealed to the Prince
81 wa es to Orde in another lot of women 10
dinner as he had seen all these before. Lord
CaSJlttOWn, a man VINO underSt a adS such
things, saw him at tGe opera, and sud that he
would be very glad to buy him as re stood for
cl,UOO,UJO aud return him next day unharmed
minus his Othes. His majesty wears among
other ornaments, Il sash of the Order of the
Ga ter to tie center of which lie has fastened
MS enormous dla non called the Sea Of l. ght
The man VINO had yailei MS majesty at s O0O-
0JO did not notice tuiS at first. out when he did
ne admitted thai he was willing to increase his
price Considerably.
AN INTERESTING REPORT regarding the devel-
opment OF t1e musical sense in horses has Just
been made by committee of German zoolo-
lists and b1tanists The report says: The in
vestigat ons as to the masical sense of horses
nave shown that tnat sense is very poorly deve-
oped IN these iniunals. 1t hlS been proved be-
yond doubt that horses havA no notion what.
ever OF Keeping time TO music, and that at cir
cuSeS they do not dance according to the tune
put that the musicians have 10 keep time accord
lnS To The steps OF the ANIMALS. Otuer iaveStiga-
ions oW That horses do not understand mill
laIy trumpet signals 1t Is GA y the rider or the
animal S instinct OF imitation which induces
horses TO ma e the moves repaired by the signal
out no horse without rider. however carefully
trained, taxes the Sli gh e It notice of q trmDet
signal, and the same observation has been ma 10
on a large number of cavalry horses without
riders.
PROF CLEVELAND Able of the United States
signal service, says that Prof Trouvellot for
many years astronomer at Cambridge, is max
ing use of Tine Eitfel tower at Paris in order to
solve certain Interesting problems with regard
10 the constitution of the suns atmosDh IRE
MI. Able says IrOuveliOt was for many wears
concerned III the propagation OF the silk worm |
IN TINS country. 1t Is sad he the first to in |
trOduce TINS Industry into the United States |
IrouVelot spent small fortune in EN-, leavorlng |
10 propagate TIE SILK worm on the Oa6 tree, but |
ms experiments always met with some acct |
dent and nothing but the mulberry has b zen |
found efficient for this purpose. Mr. Trouyel,ot |
mas gained a universal renown for his famous |
photographs OF the suns surface Now he mas |
associated himself with Prof Jansen, the |
greatest authority in studies Oh the sun Their |
observatory is about SIX mil s from the Ei1el
tower bat they have removed all their portable |
instruments to tn top of the latter Nv ~ |
sunday during certain hours they have sole |
co1troi OF the summit. A powerful electric |
light on the tower is the source of light whose
rays they are examining.
THE crew of the John Davis, VIII CHI arrived at
New York from Calcutta GU Sunday. were thirty
Lascars They are why and swarthy and
dressed in oriental white b.ouses They were
under the immediate control of person called |
a "SeranS.' whose official ra nG on board ship |
was boltswain. Tire parallel horizontal scars
on each Cheek marked him MOharnmedan of |
hlgn rank. This orrang. during the entire vow
age OF four months from Calcutta. never by any |
cuance addressed the other Lascdrs on board |
except to issue some necessary order When |
not working the ship he sat alone reading tn. |
Koran and O her standard works OF heather |
literature. He was the only man on BOARD who's. |
pore. not the Sc trS OF battle but of .t.liv-
lon. Capt CrOcher said the Lascars made good |
sailors. according t. Uneir ability which is only
halt thar OF an E.nglisInan. Their wages are
Sl2 or SO q ElOuth. and they have to pay about |
t4iestOulns OF their entire earnings after t ..ry
voyage to the N AAmnedan priests The reas n |
OF is extoTt!o l. SIN ply JnaC 10 EAST Indian |
can leave his rdtl1e c)l try without losing
cast. an i he rel rhs he must paY The cost Of
rehabilitation IL his church CT suffer the uaen-
durable penalty u U5trcci5-l. A ter a year of |
hard work they we're poor as before The
LaScars were musical lot, their prucpal |
amusement being voc 4hlation
The schooner Polly, employed in the coasting
trade between Penobscot ports and Massa
chusetts, is probably the oldest vessel in the
American register, having BEEN built some.
where alOrG the Penobscot in 1880 she is a
little stuU-tled. roiypoly craft deep and s1uar4
on the nj It, Lac NINA -ure Old-fashiolad
ship, and she ca ea1ly b. distinguish shed atuont,
100 co tsters by S;roas; list to starbolrd which
nobody mas ever been abla to take ont of her
She Was originally built as a Sloop and carriad
q big squareSai, fore end aft toosail and lin
She measures but focty-tl rec tons but he Wgs
great West ln,lann IN i'll ner time and carrieI
any amount of sugar and ram into Bo ton Iur
IN tne war IL 1871. Polly Vas seized ~ IA.
British, but she was recovered after tlat di4-
pute was settled, having suffered little daluara
at the hands of the Johuuies Last 81 RIM
Wnie beating iiS1Q -PQrtaui in a snow-storn7