The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-02
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IT is reported that the Iowa Indians. who
lived near Guthrie, Okla, have deserted theiI
anotments of land and gone to the Cherokee
strip TO join the Otos in ghost dance
member of the tribe declared that he had re-
ceived message from the messiah which said
that II the lowas continued to live like white
men and neglect their ghost dances they would
not be considered as faithful Indians bv the
messiah when he came. The Indians declare
that they will never return to their allotments
but will live with the Otos. They have aban-
doned their horses, stock, machinery, growing
crops and everything else aud returned to
savagery.
A VERY CURIOUS fact stated by a writer in
Lon0mdn's Magazine is that cloud is always
raining Even in summer, when the cloud over
our head is white. the drops are falling from it,
But they are very small and they evaporate
before they reach the earth. In evaporating
they pass from the cloud particle stage to the
haze particle stage; from saturation TO simple
condensation, or the dry dust particles on which
the condensation took pace may be LETT per-
fectly dry. 1t is a general truth that whenever
cloud is formed it begins to rain. The minute
particles OF water come down In millions The
distance they fall depends on their size. If the
air the cloud rests on is dry and warm they do
not get far. If 1t is chilly they collect in masses
and form drops of RAIN that reach the earth.
THE New York state controller OF the treas
ury have been figuring on the strike BILL" A
rough estimate Of the cost of giving military
protection to the railroads, made In the absence
OF any vouchers, places the total at $3.50 900 in
round numbers. II is estimated by the treas
urer's office that there were $500 men in. the
field, and that IS day will cover the cost Of
pay and subsistence of each man. That gives
an average of S45. 900 per day for ten days and
makes up the sum mentioned. The controllers
office is inclined to think the total coet will be
rather more than this, as some of the troops
will be kept on the grounds for several days yet.
AS matters stand, the state authorities figure
on borrowing $500, 900 to meet the emergency
and on taking the remainder of the amount
from the general fund.
SOME TINE AGO an eminent Cincinnati ply
stefan said: when l began the practice of
medicine young man whose constitution was
even more powerful than my own started 10 the
practice with me- His pet theory was that a
man couldn't have too much fresh air and that
ne wanted to have it circulate inside and out
side OF his body, and to that end when the
rlSors or winter came on he spurned thick
clothing, which I insisted on wearing II We
rode together, the heaviest garment lie had on
was an ordn ary sack coat wore muffiers and
great coat buttOned up to the chin. My young
home in the cemetery great mAny yea g
placed there after a long aud painful wreStle
with consumpdon He stuck to his thin cloth
lnK and became martyr to his pet theory. l
stuck TO my heavy clothing when the weather
demanded it, and l think the graveyard ia a
good many years from me still. "
THERE are few more interesting engineering
achievements than the little narrow gauge rail.
road running to Caracas, the capital of Ven
ezuela, from its seaport La GuAyra, says
Pedrsn's Weekly. The distance between the
two cities, as the crow flies, supposng for the
moment he could fly throu the mountaips is
only six miles, but the railway connecting them
is tventy-three miles in LENGTH and conseque ntly
tv lists and turns on itself The road runs in
zig2aK fashion Up the mountain TO an altitude
of about 5000 feet above ITS starting point and
then desceuds some 1900 feet in the same man
nsr INTO the valley of Caracas Twenty
two thousand rails were used in
laying the track, and OF these over 5000 are
bent. 1t is jestingly said that the engineer al
most died of b. oxen heart because he could
invent no excuse for bending tue remaining
1900. He did his b st, however, and no one
who has to ride over the line and find himself
shaken at every one Of the 346 sharp twists
which the track makes will find it in his heart
TO condemn the poor man for lot making a
perfect job. Two passenger trains pass over
the road daily, leaving La Guayra at $50 clock
in the morning aud $50 O'Clock in the after.
noon, maxim the journey IN two hours and a
half This is a speed, exclusive of stops of not
quite ten miles an hour.
AN OBSERVER writes in the Chicago Tribune
that he is satisfied that there is Just as uauch
rivalry between hummn,; birds and bees In their
quest for honey as there is between members of
the human race in their struggle for the good
things ( life, and desc ibes recent Quarrel
that h saw in Portland Me- garden, W ere a
humming bird, with an angry dash, Expressed
its dIsapproval of the presence of big bumble-
bee i'll the same tree. The usually puguacious
be incontnently fed, but he did not leave the
tree, de dashed back and forth
SONS, the humming bird in close pur-
suit. Where will you find another
pair that could dod Q and dart equal to theses
They were like tiasnes OF light. yet the pursuer
followed the track OF the pursued, turning when
the bee turned. In short, the bird aud the bee
controlled the movements Of their bodies more
quickly and more accurately than he could con
troll tue movements of his eyes. The chase was
all over in half the time it has taken to tell In
but the excitement of pack OF hounds after a
fox was no greater. The bee escaped, the bird
giving up t ne whole chase and aliphtino on a
twiR. II couldn't have been chasing the bee for
food, and there is no possible explanation of its
unprovoked attack, except that 1t wished to
have all the honey itself.
SOME INTERESTING DATA have been collected
by NJ. Angot, a French meteoroiogist, as to the
relation between daily average temperature
and the occurrence Of various natural phe-
nomena, says BeJord's Magazine. His OBJ
servatlons extend over eight years, and in all
cases he has taken the average for the whole
period. According TO NJ Angot the budding of
the lilac leaves corresponds to q mean daily
temperature OF 4S' Fahr. and their flow
erlng TO one OF o2o. The leaf buds of the chest
nut appeared at 500 and it's flowers at bSo The
oak requires little higher temperature it's leaf
buds not being observed until the mean daily
temperature was 52o The linden did NOT coma
into flower until the mean was CO.. The
swallows appeared when the Temperatures
rose to BOZ In the spring, and left when
1t fell to $50 in the fall The last notes
of the cuckoo were heard at SIC, and the
maybug appeared at an average of b3o
From observations on the different grains. IL
appears that the sum Of the total Temperatures
over 40 required before they reached the
different stages Of their growth was: For rye
s590 TO Towering and 1889 toharvest; for win,
ter wheat, l,273oto Towering and . 96ls to har
vest: for spring barley, 1850. These averages
are based on large number of observations
taken in different parts OF France