The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In the Net and Vermilion lake country the
| Indians have plenty of rice aud wild game but
most of the women and children ara going
! about barefoot in from one to two feet of snow
The women do all the work, while tue men
| drink and play poker. Many of the w4llto-do
| Indians have two or three wives and draw an
| annuity from the government for each of them.
For forty years Hendricks county, Indiana.
| has had no saloon. Some days ago an applica-
| ton for license was made by a man who wishes
| to start a tavern in Danville. In consequence
| there was a largely attended meeting of citizens
held at the court house to prepare remon-
| STRANGE. Minister'S professors. ladies and poll
| tlclans made speeches in opposition to the pro-
posed saloon.
NAMING a race horse in New Zealand was
made the occasion of a grand ceremony lately
in the Otago district The owner invited many
| guests to assemble 10 the dining hall of neigh
| boring hotel, and the colt ridden into the
| hall, where llJtle child named the budding
racer, pouring champagne over its head, while
| the assembly cheered vocferousy. The colt,
| however, objected to the proceedings. He
| plunged about SO that he upset the table, scat
| tered all the preparations for the feast, aud
gave a severe kick in the face to one of the
chief guests
| A CHINESE BOY named Lee You Gin was per
mitted to land at San Francisco the other day
on a writ of habeas corpus. When the case
came up in court it was GAINED by his counsel
that the lad had been in this country before, and
was entitled TO come back here The judge
| questioned Lee to his antecedents, and the
boy replied that he could not speak English
well, but that he could sing it. having learned
several songs when he was in California before.
The young Chinaman thereHpon star ed off at
a rapid rate singing Peck 300" He re
| spon ed to an encore, and the judge save u
| decision in his favor.
| A NOVEL MACHINE is about to be introduced
| for automatically turning over the leaves of
books which is especially adaptable for libra
| wra lu~aN o. oh arnTr,I 1xrc
| etc. 1t is claimed that the machine will work
| for week or longer period, according to ad-
| justment, without attention, and will turn over
| any size or weight OF leaves within reasonable
| limits, allowing sufficient interval for perusal
| between each operation. When a leaf has been
turned over in either direction the machine au-
| tomatcally reverses, and SO arrauges itself as
| to be ready to raise the following | at. thus
/ giving a continuous motion. Ii the appliance
fulf1ls all that is claimed for it by 10 inventor.
| it is likely to be ext ensively used in public
| museums, libraries. etc.
In sPEcTRoscoPIc ASTRONOMY the eye has been
superseded Of late to great extent by the
Photographic plate, which is now abba to recog-
| niZe IaInter impressions than the eye, and to
I register them permanently. The instrument
employed is a Photographic telescope, with a
prism, a series of priSmS. in front of the OBJ
| iect glass, the whole mounted like any large
| telescope and provided with an accurate drig-
| ing clock. Il has thus become possible to com
plete in a comp rativeiy short time a general
survey of the spectra Of all the brighter stars of
| the northern hemis phere. and the survey is nov
| being extended TO the southern hemisphere,
| VIII ere it is already well advanced. Whenever
| the spectrum of a star thus photographed on
small scale is found to possess any interesting
| popularity IL is examined with more power
! full instrument, which photographs its spectrum
| on much larger scale: and this second pnoto-
| graph is then enlarged again for special study.
| 1t is notable fact that the examination of the
| Harva I'd photographs has been made almost
entirely by women, who are assistants in the
| observatory.
| SAID a wise Phladelphian recently, who is
worth great deal of money, and in his youth
| had been fond of fun: 1.-THE world is divided
! into two kinds of men-those who can fish and
! those who cannot When was a young fellow,
before had accumulated anything. could fish.
| was like the apostles of old. or rather like the
advice they received, to cast their nets on the
| other side of the boat, and they would have a
miraculous haul for was especially lucHy in
| striking fish, whether 1t might he bluefish,
| weaktish or speckled trout But since have
become prosperous l can neither direct
ANYBODY where to fish nor catch
anything {. myself Quay" sal said this
fishing right after election. Nothing can dis dis
| turo i'm when he is at that business. He prob
| ably has a bottle with him on which he pulls
| now and then. Then he looks at his cork 1t Is
altogether more comforting than watching the
| uncertain multitude and how they are going to
| bob. When see one of these fishermen, said
my friend, II can see how Ii was tnat the Lord
selected so many of his disciples from the fish
ermen class; he did not want to be bothered
with mootinesS or Alterations. Every one of
those disciples could mend his own tackle.
| There was no yelling out to the chaperon of the
fine.''' ~ ''''N' y '' NY
GOLD BEATERs, by !hammering, can reduce
gold leaves to such minute thinness that 262, 600
must be laid upon each other to produce the
| thickness Of an inch. Yet each leaf is so per-
! feet and free from holes that one Of them laid
| rir1cr crifr
| ance of solid gold They are so thin that if
formed into book 800 would only occupy the
| space of single leaf of book paper A single
| volume of gold leaf book one inch in thick
ness would have as many pages as an entire
library of 1,500 volumes of common books,
| even though the volumes averaged 400 pages
| EACH Platinum and silver can eacn be drawn
into wire May times smaller than human
| hair The former metal mas been drawn
| into wire so fine that twenty-seven of them
| twisted toge Their could have been ms rted into
| t he hollow of hair; that's if a human being or
| a human made machine could be found minute
and precise enough FOR such delicate under
taking. burning taper uncovered Tor single
| instant, during which II does not lose power
| amounting to the ], 0e9Jh of grain. would fill
with llghta sphere fodr miles in diameter SO to
be visible from every part of the compass The
| thread Of the silGwor1n is so small that an
average Of forty two of them are twisted to-
gether to form a threat of common sewing
slk; that of the spder is m any diameters
smaller Two dracnns of spider web by
weight would, if stretched into straight
line, reach from London, England, to hdin-
burgh, Scotland. distancs of over 400
miles. In sour paste. the milt of a Goldfish,
or even in water in which vegetables have been
infused the microscope discovers aninalculi SO
small that millions of them would noe equal
the size of grain OF wheat. And yet nature,
with singular prodigality, has supplied many
of those with organs as complete as those of a
whale or On elephant. In single ounce of such
matter there are mora living creatures than
there are human beings the face of the
/ A a n
analine will tinge hcgshead of water so that
a strong microscope will detect colorlng matter
in every drop. A grain of musk will scent a
room for twenty years, and at the end of that
time will not show that it has diminished in the
least. The organs of smell 10 the turkey vul-
ture and carrion crow are so delicate that they
can scent their food for distance of forty
miles.