The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-10
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE seven wonders Of America are classed as
follows: Niagara Falls. Yellowstone Park,
Mammoth Cave, the Canyons and Garden of
the Gods, Colorado; the giant trees. Califor-
mia; the Natural Bridge, Virginia, and the Yose-
mite Valley.
THE London Lancet says that the system of
cold baths in the treatment of typhoid fever, as
employed in Germany, has been put to the test
by Dr. Josias, and he reported to the Soniete
des hopitaux that during the years of 1883 and
1859 ne treated thirty-six cases of typhoid fever
by cold baths. that is TO say with water at $50 C.
repeating these every three hours OF thtrty-six
cases the e5per ment obtained thirty-three re-
their side. had followed this method, obtained
lO3 recoveries out OF 10s cases.
WRITING in Eleanor Kinks idea. Eleanor
Kirk says: Don't do it, 1t is inartistic as we'll
as morally homogeneous. Don't mourn at
the back with long widows veil punched in a
Knot at the crown of your bonnet AID floating
over the anterior portion Of your anatomy like
pirates nag, and rejoice in front with white
dotted veil and diamond earrings If You will
mourn externally do so in correct style. Mourn
all over and do not think that because the sur
race is perfectly Shrouded pink Isle thread
stockings and red flannel petticoats or fancy
halmorals are permissible. The wind easily
discovers such underwear and the story tells
70 the world of grieving for the public gaze and
rejoicing IN private by means OF gladdening
coiors and fancy garments is not exactly credit
able to the wearer. There is neither denth nor
sacredness in such grief, and it's only redeem
ing quality is the effect it has upon strangers
who are easily touched by the semblance of
sorrow. The brisk breeze which discloses the
pretty blue or scarlet stockings and bright,
pretty petticoat blows away the sympathy and
OFTEN the respect of the locker on as easily as
thlstle DOWNS scattered by the wind.
SPEAKING OF faces at the pane, there is one
curious way by which houses have been made
haunted" as much as houses were ever the
residences of spirits. says the Boston Journal
In New York town some summers ago a
woman saw IN passing the house of her birth
what she was convinced was the spirit face of
her dead mother, killed by lightning a month
before. OF course this house became "haunted''
In the minds OF the superstitious-it had the
unenvlabe reputation for many months But
year afterward more than usually brave
citizen saw the face at the window as he was
passing. IL did not change as he approached.
ana the result OF his Investigation showed that
tne lightning flash which killed poor Mrs. Rod
man mad geographically drawn her likeness
on pane OF glass-a very faint impression
true, only noticeable when the sun was in a
certain position, but then wonderfully bright
probably the best human photograph ever
taken. The photograph may be used TO be
queath the eloquence Of modern orators to a
future generation, but the lightning flash in
producing the perfect likeness of Mrs Rod
man, can probably never be improved upon.
DO YOU know the surest indication of old
age?" asked DR.. Reed of a mum Der of friends at
the Lindel, says the st. Louis Globe Democrat
The surest Indications in man, j." he continued
are moist eye, dry palm and the shrinkape
OF the calf OF the leg. All these indications are
Que to some action OF the nerves conseuueut
upon advancing years. In the matter Of the
eye, the fifth section is interfered with and IL
is this which causes flow of water. The dry
ness OF the palm is produced by an interference
with the functions OF the body also due to the
action of the nerves, and the shrinkage OF the
leg follows from similar causes. In old age.
too you notice some men become more cornr
lent than the Aariar Of bair Ii,-.
with drinking men the change is often produced
by the quantity of saccharine, which they con
sumo with their drink, and, with those who do
not drink, II follows from other physiological
changes. AS to the hair becoming gray il
results, in the majority of cases. from the par
tial closing of the hair cells and the reduction of
the quantity of natural coloring matter which
the closing produces. With women gthe dimness
OF the eye does not come so soon as it does in
men"
THE fastest time in which train has been
known to travel a mile is 49 seconds and a
fraction. To accomplish the same distance
the fastest bicyclst has who has hitherto ridden
took 234 minutes or Just ABOUT three times as
long. An ice yacht has Travelled q mile in I
minute and 10 seconds. running horse in l
minute 3514 seconds, torpedo boat Ia minute
and 30 seconds steam yacht in : minutes and
IL seconds and fraction, and skater on Ice
with favorable wind behind him, In 2 minutes
and IL seconds and rather a larger fraction.
rapid writer can write thirty words in ! min
| 1919 feet. In 40 minutes his pen travels
| a furlong, and in So hours full mile He
makes, on an average, IS curves or turns If the
pen for each word written. Writing at the rate
| of 30 words per minute, he must make curves
| to each second in an hour, e. 800; in 8 hoNrs
$4,000 and in 300 days, working only 5 hours
| each day, he makes not less than 43 200 600
| curves and turns of the pen. The man who
| makes hut 100000 has done nothing remarka-
| BILE; there are those who make four times that
/ NH har LIAr hnvr
| mark 500 miles long to be traced on paper by A
| single writer in year. In making each letter
| of the alphabet we make from to strokes of
! the pen-on an average, 3l6 to 4.
WRITING about the bluebird the St, Louis
| Globe Democrat says: You may expect him
any time after the sun passes the winter soils.
| tice. In his musical engagements it is not a
matter of dates, but opportunity, 1t is never a
matter of importantly Who ever heard a
biuebird's song out of season: 1t NAV be cold
| and snowy tomorrow, but his wings tremble in
the nervous ecstasy Of the present, and he sings
| OF the bit of spring that now is. When the
| storm comes then he is silent. He may flee be-
fore Its breath or, if it is late in the season. he
| will fold his wing. unstring his Lutte and nm
| complainingy wait till the vernal sun and wind
| shall come again. But let the merest slit of
| sunlight cash the cloud, and he MARBLES forth
| his greetings. He has been accused of trying
| to force the season. But it is not that He
is such lover of the very promises of nature
that he Is as happy in hope as frution. found
a group once shvering against a March
snow storm, late, as the sun was sinking, and
stopped to watch them plying their distress
Suddenly there was some commotion which l
attributed to my presence and scrutiny-a low
conversational chatter, quivering of wings.
few fitting changes of position, and then a
gurgle of spring melody among the snowdrops
Astonished, turned to where the sun should be-
and there, on the horizons RIM its half-disk was
burning like beacon. Two minutes later it
was out of sight, the air was gloomy, the snow
fell on, but the morrow was a bluebird day in
deed.