The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The old times were not good times for serv-
ants. Here is deed which, NOWADAYS would
be deemed most brutal and humanity, recorded
In "Pepy's Diary" as rather commendable than
otherwlse: Dec. 2, 1880. This morning, OBJ
serving some things to be laid up not as they
should be by my girl. took broom and basted
her TIL she cried exceedingly"
PoLYeAMY is practiced to an extravagant de-
gree in Ashantee. The more wives a man has
the higher his social importance. The number
winch man In private life may have Is limited
oy DIS ability to purchase and support thems
but the number which king may have is lin.
tied by law-limited to the modest number of
., 1888 and it Is said that he usually does not ex
coed that limit
THERE are three suns, says the Flanlfno
Stcord, one at each union of the physical
heavens, or at that point where the atmos-
pheres comes into contiguity. These suns are
protected oscillations caused by the converp-
ence OF rays refracted in their passage through
the atmospheres as they proceed from the
astral or stellar center Only one of these suns
can be observed by the natural eye; the others
are obscured by the refracting power of the
atmospheres beyond our own. The astral
center has light and a dark side, and from
this arises all the phenomena Of variation OF
light and darkness to which the universe is sinh
Ject. The astral center, with its concomitant
solar system. revolveS upon it's axis the earth
being relatively and comparatively stationary.
How FAST does bullet travel? Did you ever
figure on this query and try to reduce the mat
ter to figures. COL Flaglers and others of st.
LOUIS, who have made interesting experiments
looking to a solution of this question. say as a
rule 1t travels at the rate of 1875 feet Der
second at the time OF leaving the rifle This
matter OF speed is tested in a very interesting
way. long wooden shed is used in which a
distance of exactly 100 feet has been carefully
marked off. At each end of this space il a
stand something like target. with a large cir
cular opening where the bulls eve should he
ACROSS each Onaninp afrAtobad ,on
electric wire connected with a delicate instrli-
ment in another room The rife from
which the firing is done is so aimed
that the bullet which flies from il cuts
both wires. Obviously the difference
in time between the cutting of the two wires
marks the speed of the bullet through that 100
rect. The measurement of this inhnitesimal
space OF time is done by an instrument called a
Bonlnse chronoRraph. When the first wire is
cut an electric current is broken and rod falls
moving pointer on a slide in its descent The
breaking OF the second wire acts in the same
manner on another set Of rods, slides and point
ers. The difference in the marks made by the
pointers on the slides makes it possible to csti-
mate the difference in their time of falling and
from these calculations accurate figures as to
the bullets speed are obtained
AN extraordinary meteorological phenom-
enon occurred In the eastern part Of this
county by the recent fall Of about oue inch Of
strange looking snow. says q La Porte Qnd)
letter TO the Pittsburg DtsDdtch. Il was of a
COlOr IMAM d6neS and looked like mill
middlings or shorts. This snow when melted
makes muddy water, and when allowed to
settle deposits fine sediment, which to She
naked eye presents four different appearances,
VIZ: Two powders, one Of gray and the other
OF a black color, among which are mixed rag
ged flakes that look like sawdust and Others
that resemble scales of mica or copper filings
When seen through a microscope the gray
broken down, semitraasparent cells aud fIbers
The black powder, which is about five times as
coarse as the former and about one-tenth in
quantity, appears to be made up OF little
pear-shaped, bug-like animalculR The con
per colored scales are Of hard substance and
when magnifed become translucent aud appear
to be OF h6rous, cellular structure, of q pur-
pie or blood-like color, In which are set the lit
tie black, bug-like creatures before described
This s considered the original life substance
from which all the other is derived. The little
ragged. sawdust like flakes are but the former
in course Of disintegration and look like white
fieshy cellular tissue in which the black Oh.
jects are set like seeds in a fig. The substance
can easily be found, at it forms uniform dark
cruSt-like stratum, with a considerable depth Of
ordinary snow both below aud above t. The
tall extended over quite an era of country and
has attracted a good deal of attention. Tha
matter is no doubt worthy of thorough
scientific investigation.
Is THERE any handsome people on the face of
the globe? asks the London Neto& Now, we
may set aside the black and yellow and polly-
chrome races in general, many OF whom are
well shaped, aud ike bronze statues to look
upon but do not come up to the Aryan standard
in features and color. Leaving these children
of nature out Of the question. It may be CON
fessed that there Is no race among whom beauty
is common If the ancient Greeks were like
their statues. then tn re once was a beautiful
race, but it is not SO certain that they did not
idolize themselves a good deal. There is the
more ason to guess this, as, when they have
to represent barbarian, say Gaul or Ger
man, or a professional prize-fighter, they make
these people as handsome es themselves
though III rougher way. There is
famous bronze statue Of a boxer who
might be taken for an orator, or o poet, were it
not for his heavy metal-studded gloves Thus
it may be deemed that there is a great propor-
ton Of the ideal in these statues, vases. coins
and figures, wDere every one is SO graceful and
goodly. Every nation has a high opinion of its
own charms The French pride themselves on
feet, and it Is certain that their women walk
very little and have cunning bootmakers. The
Americana write as II their women were a
galaxy of loneliness; and then comes a military
critic (English) who only saw three pretty
women in the states, and one of them was
foreigner. There is no knowing what to believe
when patriotism boasts of the local fair. Are
the women of Aries really more lovely than
their neighbors? Is Aud Ayr" peculiar. be-
yond Giryan and Maypole, for the presence Of
Tanagra prettier than those of ThebesY
Or do they owe their reputa-
ton to the local school of artistsY Are Irish
compilations and Irish eyes the pardouable in
ventions OF Hibernian patriotism! Are all
Lancashire witches more bewitching than they
of Shropshire? These questions can never be
satisfactorily answered. Perhaps 1t might pay
an American journal to send commissioner on
beauty all around the world, one who should
give comprehensive and unbiased opinion
But it would be difficult for the world to be-
leve in his Judicial fairness. and no really scien-
tifc result could be obtained. At home we NAV
all look about us and ask where beauty -four
isheS most. Now it may be a heresy but we
think that the scientific observer will find beauty
most common among the young workwomen
and shop girls, on one hand, and among THE
highest circles" the Oldest families. on the
other