The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The ordinary life of a ship is in the United
States, is years, in France % years. in Holland
% years, in Germany 25 years. in Great Britain
% years, in Italy IS years, and in Norway 30
shipping is about per cent. and the birth rate
per cent.
THERE are most beautiful butterflies In the
Malay Archipelago, of an exquisite blue and
other iridescent hues, which measure Sinches
from wing-tlp TO wing-tip. In South America
there Is beetle even bigger than the Hercules
beetle. IL is over a foot long, legs and all
though its body is not so heavy.
YAMA, the Greek Pluto, the Christian satan,
is 24O miles high. The hairs of his body are like
palm trees. He Furnishes the damned by put
ting them in beds Of boiling oil. saving their
bodies in two, pouring molten lead into their
ears, pulling out their toenaiis and tongss and
vast number Of other varieties of torture.
THERE were no less than 95s suicides in Paris
during the year is91-23l sought watery graves
1!3 blew out their brains, SO hanged, II stabbed
themselves, 60 used poison, 81 enjoyed asphyx-
iation, 70 threw themselves from high eleva-
tons. 154 deaths were from unknown causes
and 70 were crushed under trains or machinery.
AMoDERN complication Of engineering max
inns states that horse can drag, as compared
with what he can carry on his back in the fol-
lowing proportions: On the worst earthen road
three times; on a good macadamiZed road,
nine; on plank, Twenty-Five; on stone track
way, thirth three, and on good railway, fifty
four times as much.
AN almost incalculable number of skins are
used in countries where the rigors of the climate
necessitate the wearing of fur of some kind
daily. Even the poorest serf has his sheepskin
the frozen Laplander his reindeer coat and fur
n 0ccasins, while in the same regions the wealthy
classes wrap themselves in the costliest furs
and use rugs OF enormous value.
TAXING the whole of the married men and the
ruh7 IL of 10
20 to the close of life, il is computed that the
lives OF the former average 500 years, while
those of the latter average only 40 years-a diff =
ference of 1914 years In favor of married men;
that is, marriage increases the average duration
OF mans life by one-half, lacking six months.
REMENYI. the well-known violin virtuoso, has
made application for a space not less than 400
square feet at the worlds fair, in which to ex-
hlbit bis great collection of rare African ethno-
| logical specimens The collection, which com
prisss over 800 carefully selected specimens:
| has been formed during the last forty years aud
| is beyond question the most perfect Of its kind
So sTuPENDoUs is the scale on which the visi-
BILE universe is framed that a ray Of light which
| would travel round the earth in 0.1336 of q Sec
ond OF time, does not reach us from Neptune
| under period of more t1an four hours; while
| from the nearest fixed star alpha CentaurD it
occupies 5la years, and from little star called
| ma in Casslopeia its journey occupies ninety
years.
A FAMILY has abandoned flrst-class farm
near English, Ind, which they snapped for
property worth scarcely $500. The Bennets
| claimed to heYe been worried almost to death
! by one Of their neighbors, who assumed the
| shape Of a black cat with a white ring about its
neck. The animal haunted them at most mop
perfume times. and all efforts to destroy it were
| in vain.
| THE color Of the sharks egg is black of
| leathery texture. thin, tough and in form SINH
| 10 to hon he hOd ~ fha bor ~
| ing represented by the middle of the egg and
| the handles by the four projections at the
angles. These projections, which are called
| tendrtls, are OF use to enable the egg to cling to
the growing seaweed at the bottom OF the ocean
thus preventing 1t from being washed away by
] the currents. So
THE Channel Islands, as represented by Jer.
sey are indisputably the sunniest spots in the
! United Kingdom. The average amount of sun
| shine there during the whole year is 1913 per
/ cent. of the interval the sun is above the hori-
| ION. The nearest approach to this is 1857 per
| cent. at Falmouth. then follow in order st.
, Annes Head. Milford Haven. 34.7; Geldeston.
| near Beccles, 81 5; Southampton 335, and
| Southbourne, 1872. ,r.
THERE is good deal that's weird about the
! Galapagos islands. which it has been proposed
that Uncle Sam shall buy for coaling station
| in the South seas. They are sixteen in number
five big and eleven small ones. without count
| ing ever so many little isets-and the line of
|
| Nevertheless the climate is not very hot ow-
ing to the remarkably low temperature Of the
| surrounding low waters.
MosT of the big spiders of the new world are
Of the sort which build nests with trap doors
lining hole dug in the ground. with silk, fit
Il ting it with door so artfully made as to hinge
| beveled edge aud spring that it is almost inn
possible to detect the fact that there is an open
ing, and, in some cases, actually planting seeds
on this dainty portal for the purpose OF conceal
| Some n fhal aro
| spiders catch birds, and individuals have been
| known TO capture good-sized fishes, lying in
| wait for them at the border of a stream.
ANOTHER STONE has been cast at the alumni
mum as an efficient substitute for better known
materials. According to Herren Lubbert and
| Roscher, it cannot be used for articles which
| have to Withstand the action of water at its
1 boiling point, and consequently is not suitab
for vessels intended to hold preserved foods, as
| these have commonly to be heated in order to
| steriZe their contents The same experimenters
| also find that such mildly corrosive liquids as
| claret tea, coffee and herring brine act it
| appreciably. AS it is also attacked by pheaol,
salicylc acid and boric acid it is unavailable for
| many surgical purposes. On the whole, there
| fore. It's utility appears limited.
If THE CONCLUSIONS drawn by late experiment
ters are sound 1t would seem that were an eel
provided with apparatus to inject its own
| blood into wound as the serpent injects his
venom, an eel in the mud would be even more
Objectionable than snake in the grass Prof
Masso, the Italian scientist, In experimenting
| with the blood of eels has discovered by inject
ing 1t under the skin of rabbits, frogs mice
! guinea pigs, ETC., that IL is rank poison, being
similar In action to the venom of snakes of the
viper kind. The vipers bite, it is well known,
causes death by paralyzing the action of the
| respiratory organs; death from eel-blood poison
| Is similar in nearly every detail In regard TO
the cure Of person or animal injected with
cells blood Prof Masso says that stimulants
usually given are wholly useless, and that the
only hope OF a cure lies in tracheotomy and the
! artificial pumping Of air into the lungs.