The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-28
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IN THE WOODS near Plantsville, Conn day
or two ago, Mrs, Elisha Newell found a nest of
four gray squirrels that were only a few days
old. She took the little fellows home and gave
them to her house cat, which had recently been
dep lived of her kittens. The old cat welcomed
the strangers affectionately, and is bringing
them up in the right way.
A Nav PAPER. the Wanderf NO People, will
be started in London. 1t will be published in
the gypsy tongue. and edited by George Smith,
the king of the gypses The object of the
paper is to defend the Just cause Of gypsydom
and to give correct accounts of the manners
belief and doings of the wandering people, who
are uniustly regarded the pariahs of the human
family"
THE theory of the light of the aurora borealis
was evolved from the analysis of its light by
the spectroscope. which showed that it was
caused by electrical discharges among the par
tlcleS of meteoric dust in the atmosphere. The
broad red line of the spectrum of iron is shown
IN all of these cases, and thus upholds the
theory. as it is we'll known that the principal
part OF meteors is metallic iron.
EtRUssELL BARNES, a West Virginia man, now
40 years old, is freak IN the way of slow intel
lectual development Until lately he has been
regarded from infancy as an imbecile. but his
development has gone on slowly, aud now he
exhibits the aptitude of a schoolboy and be-
trays love of study. Prof. Morris who is
IN reality possesses fine mind. The theory is
advanced that the length of his life will cor
respond to that of his childhood, and that he
may see as many years as Methusaleh.
A PARTY of ladies and gentlemen at dinner
were discussing Scotch manners and customs,
when one remarked that bright lady present
was an enthusiastic admirer of everything
Scotch, having lately secured. among other
curioSitieS hinge from the barn door and a
piece OF wood from the door of the house where
Burns was born. Gen. c. thereupon re-
marked, with wink to mis- next neighbor, that
his wife had a shingle from the barn$ghere he
learned to play poker" Your mother ought
to have had it, quickly responded the lady of
the relies.
AN ENGLISH syndicate recently sentgan expert
mining engineer to look up the old gold mines
in Portugal. He struck one of the old Roman
mines worked in the days of Caesar Augustus
In those days they cut down the vein, aud this
vein was 500 feet deep before pay rock was
reached. The mine was open fo- an area of
ten acres or more up to the surface, every foot
OF ground having been taken Off The debris
around these old mines could be worked over at
profit were they in America, but in Portugal
1t would cost too much for the transportation
OF machinery.
REFERRING to the fact that photographs of
the moon, taken at full, gives that body an egg
shaped appearance, with the small end point
| ing toward the earth, a recent writer argues
| that this goes to prove that planets non
globular shape. According to this writer g
reasoning, matter at the surface of the moon
| is acted upon by two important forces-the
| law of gravity would arrange the matter in
globe around the center, the moon alone con
| sidered, and the attraction of the earth being
| always exerted in the same direction relative to
| the moons center, would constantly draw all
| fluid or plastic matter to the side next the
! earth.
A RATHER CURIOUS ANEcDoTE is related of
Rouget de rIsle, the composer of the 'Marseil-
lase." who was the son of lawyer at Lons-le-
Saunier. When a mere baby, about years of
age, he one day left the house unobserved by
any one except Caesar, the old house dog. One
of two gypsy women, who were passing at the
time, struck by his beauty and the elegance of
his attire, suddenly seized him, anfwrapping
him up in her apron hurried away as fast as she
could. The dog recognized the cries of the
child, rushed after the woman and seized her by
the leg and compelled her to drop her burden.
By tins time the whole house had been aroused,
and young Rouget's parents and the servants
came up, delivered the boy and had the woman
arrested
THE pure white luster OF snow is due to the
fact that all the elementary colors of light are
blended together in the radiance that is thrown
off from the surface of the crystals. 1t is quite
possible to examine the nd vidual snow crys-
tails in such way as to detect these several
colors before they are mingled together to con-
sttute the compound impression of Wilderness
upon the eye. The snow is then clothed with
all the varied hues of the rainbow The soft
wilderness of the snow is also in some degree
referable to the large quantity of air which
is eutangled amid the frozen particles
Snow is composed Of a great number of
minute crystals More than Thousand dis
tinct forms of snow crystals have been enumer-
ated by the various observers. One hundred
and ffty-one were noticed during eight DAYS in
February and March, 1855, by Mr.. CASHIER
which were carefully drawn, engraved and
! printed in paper attached to the report OF the
| British Meteorological Society for that year.
These minute crystals and prisms reflect all the
compound rays of which white light consists.
| Sheets of snow on the ground are known to re-
fleet beautiful pink and blue tlnts under certain
| angles of sunshine, and to fling back so much
light to be painful TO the eyes by day, and to
! guide the traveller in the absence of moonshine,
| by night.
The METHOD of analyzing motion by the
| chronophotograph, which has been applied in
| the case of moving animals such as horses run
ming or birds and insects in flight, has recently
been employed by French physiological pro
fesSor to examine the movements OF the lips in
| speaking. The results obtained show that the
! form of the mouth is quite definite for the diff
| ferent articulate sounds. With the photographs
/ made combined in a zentrope the movements of
/ the lips by synthesis can be reproduced. An
| ordinary person finds it difficult to read the
| words by the animated pictures, but deaf
| mute, who has been accustomed to read from
= the lips OF a speaker, finds it easy to do from
| the lips of a speaker. This was actually proved
| by experiment. A young pupil OF the National
| Institute of Deaf Mutes could read the vowels
| and diphthongs as well as the lebials. 1t was
| TO be expected that the first results of these
| experiments should be somewhat incomplete
but they were so encouraging that NJ.
| Demeny, who was the first to call attention to
the possibilities in this direction expresses the
| hope that in continuing his researches he will
| be able TO develop new method of educating
| deaf mutes by sight, by perfect Photographic
| images Another most valuable adaptation of
| this wonderful invention is its use in connection
1 with the magic lantern. and by this means it is
| easy to see that a lecture might be delivered to
| an audience of deaf mutes.