The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-05
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DR. KUHNEAAN Of the University of Berlin has
figured 1t up that railroad train of fifteen cars
would be required to carry the food and nour-
ishment man of moderate appetite would con
sumo from the time of his birth to the age OF 20
years.
IT is SAID that Gov. Taylor of Tennessee will
call special session of the legislature for Feb.
Is. Among the subjects to be embraced are the
election laws, better road laws and some means
OF relieving the manufacturing industries of the
double taxation enforced by the present laws
A Young HUSBAND in Chicago has brought
suit against two newspapers for publishing the
fact that he had applied for a marriage license
ana was married He has engaged a lawyer,
VINO holds that such things are not public news.
and that the press has no business with them
ONE of the Talks With Edison" which George
Parsons Lathrop reports in Hurper's for Feb
ruary refers 10 the INVENTOR belief in an intel.
iSent Creator, personal God. Mr. Edison is
quoted as saying: The existence of such a God
can, 10 my mind, almost be proved from chem
istry.''
THERE is great excitement among the 400 of
New York city on the discovery being made
SHAT much of the terrapin used at the swell
parties and balls this season was nothing more
than the meat of what is known in that section
as black squirrel. The black squirrel is caught
or shot in the woods of New jersey and the
flesh is very fine and altogether palaUable
A POLICE INSPECTOR named Meune has lust
been tried in Paris for obtaining money under
false pretenses. His principal victims were
people seeking divorces. TO the husbands he
said that he was watching their wives, while he
invariably warned the women of the proceed
ings which were about to be instituted against
them, and thus clevery worked for awhile both
sides
THE FIRST PUBLIC FUNERAL ever given in Paris
to a woman not of royal rank recently took
l,lo Tha hn6x Of
Nine. Floquet and grandmother of Nine Jules
Ferry, was followed to the grave by an impos-
ing procession. All the members of the min
istry, many of the deputies. and all the Asa
tians in Paris went to the funeral of the
distinguished old lady.
IN THE MUSEUM attached to the bows seminary
at Tahlequah, l T., is a snake skin found on
the banks of the Illinois river Il was a rattle
snake skin for which the snake had no further
use, and SO it crawled away, leaving the skin for
the naturalists OF the seminary. 1t is 10 feet
long, and has 10 buttons on the end It is 1455
inches IN circumference at the largest swell H.
is very dry skin. Il is supposed to have shrunk
some in the drying.
THE University Of Montpelier will next NAV
celebrate the 600th anniversary of its existence
Tue president of the republic has promised TO
be present at the brilliant fetes to he given on
that occasion. In addition to the representa-
tiveS of all the other universities and learned
societies of France it is anticipated that many
foreigners will be present. invitations have
been sent to almost every university in the
world. The public rejoicings and feteS will last
eight days After Paris and Toulouse Mont
pelier possesses the most ancient university of
France.
.,AccoRDrNG to the report of the last interna-
tional convention of the Societies for the Proven
ton to Cruelty of Animals, there are 581 legally
recognized organizations in the world for the
protection of animals One hundred and
eighty-five of them are in GERMANY 179 in Great
Britain, SO in the United States, % in Switzer.
land, Is In Austro- Hungary ~ in Canada @
each in Italy, France, and Russia in Norway
Sweden, 5 in Holland, each in Spaio. south
Africa, and the West Indies > each in Portu-
gal. Algiers, and South America, each ia DEN
mark Turkey, Belgium, and Mexico.
A MISSOURI FARMER with a turn for statistics
has furnished communication to his county
paper on the subject of official salaries. in which
be states that an official who receives 81 900 per
year salary abSorbs the price of % 666 bushels
of corn at 10 cents per bushel, or 6,665 bushels
of wheat at 6O cents per bushel, 81, 1873 bushels
of oats at IL cents, or the price of so good farm
horses. He also estimates that farm hand at
S1S per mouth would have to work the year
round for a quarter of a century to earn the
same amount, and adds that in 1s66-67-6S.
about 5000 to 5000 bushels of corn would have
footed the bill, or 5000 bushels Of wheat
CORK CORE floating rope has been invented.
The inventor claims that his floating rope of
one-inch thickness will stand a strain of more
than 900 pounds. The rope conss Is of a core
of small round corks, about three quarters of
an inch long placed end to end around which
is braided network Of cotton Irvine This is
surrounded by another layer of strong cotton
twine braided in heavy strands, which is about
a quarter of an inch thick. The rope is very
soft and pliable, and even after being tied in a
small knot will return to its original shape Ii
can be used in life lines, on life RATS and as a
heaving line to tie heavy hawsers to. At a life
saving station such a rope would be very valua-
BILE.