The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-21
ITEMS OF IN rEREsr.

THE NICKEL and bronze !cent pieces, says the
New York Press, are legal tender in sums of
25 cents, and so are the bronze 2-cent pieces and
the nickel Scent pieces and 5-ceat pieces. The
silver o-cent pieces are a legal tender for IS,
and the Decent, 2j-cent aud 5O-cenL for $40.
while in the standard dollars the legal tender
quality is unlimited
THE decimelists are out with new idea
They say that the 24-hour day is doomed.
They propose an entire reconstruction OF the
division of time. The day is to consist of 10
hours; the hour will be divided into 10 decades.
each of which will contain 10 minutes; each
minute 10 seconds, and each second 10 flashes,
Upon this basis q clock has already been con-
structed
A MOST ingenious system is employed by
which the director of the Suez canal can tell at
glance the exact position of all vessels passing
through it, A model is placed in the office at
Port Said, and the whole canal is worked from
headquarters by means of telegraph, the posi-
ton of each ship beng marked by a figure on
the model 1t is, therefore, easy to arrange for
vessels passing each other.
THE NoIsIEsr SPOT on earth is said to be the
Pribylof Islands, in Boring sea, the home of the
fur seals. From May / to Sept. the fights to
finish between the seals and the savage WOO
ing of the older ones create a deafenng noise,
the laundering of the falls of Niagara and Vel
lowstone being as the murmuring Of a brook
compared to the tumultuous uproar which may
be heard during the summer.
A PATENT has recently been issued for new
style of Shoe The foot and rear portions OF
the shoe are connected by hinge plates, an in
sole attached 10 the trout piece curving over
the joint. Two tongues of leather are adapted
to pass through loops, the lace securing these
in place around the foot. The inventor claims
that the combination insures greater comfort
than with the ordinary form of shoe,
kfrHE New York gas works board of directors
recently appointed dog an assistant superin-
tendent of It's works, and truly efficient officer
he is His name is Beauty, and he made his
appearance at the works some months ago, re-
tuslnR to go away on any ontitions. He has
curious habit, esdes catching all the rats and
mice about the building, of comp ling
stranger To give up all his portable property
before departing.
JAMES COPE Of Martins Ferry, o., has an
almanac for the year 1863. 1t is substantially
bouud in leather and includes memoranda
pages, and was used by the owner of that day
in keeping his personal accounts. 1t contains
no patent medicine testimonials, nor was 1t a
medium for working Off jokes. The printing is
in colors-red and black-Ond is remarkably
well preserved. The book printed ia Eng
land, and the writin is as legible as the day it
was penned.
IN ONE RESPECT at least Quito, the capital Of
Ecuador, is the most unique city in the world
it is situated in both the northern ami southern
heinlspheres, distinction claimed by no other
place of Importance on the globe In one part
| of the city the summer season does battle with
| old winter, who Is just across the street. The
seasons, as far as names are concerned, change
almost instantly; but as the temperature is
remarkably even. these curious points are sell
I dom thought OF by the 80, 900 people who make
| Quito their home.
NEW land-clearing machine has been in
| vented, the principal being to root up all weeds
| and pass them at once through a double blast
fire by meas of a travelling engine. The frame
is mounted on four travelling wheels, upon
which small steam engine is fixed. On the
right side of the engine is blower and on the
left is brick hearth fitted i'll an iron frame
which forms fire retainer. BY a gradual in
cline the weeds are elevated to the fire retainer
which is kept up to a great heat oy a blast from
, the blower, and after passing through the fire
the ashes are deposited on the soil. The engine
is said to be capable Of cleaning four to eight
acres per day in thorough manner aud at less
cost than is possible with nand labor
THE EFFECT of gravtation in heapine I'D the
sea waters upon the shores of continents is one
of the most interesting as we'll as the most
curious and least considered facts in connection
with old oceans history. Thus the continents
are all situated at the tops of great hills or
mountains of water, and, to cross the Atlantic
or any other ocean, the ship has to first 90
down the Sloping sheet. Gro IS the valley and
then climb the mountain Of water on the other
side before 1t safely reaches a harbor In this
connection that in mdocean on the Atlantic
the depression If about three-fourths of mile
below the level of the water at coast line while
a ship is travelling from San Francisco to Yoke
hama, Japan, must cross a valley at least a
mile in depth
PRoF. JOHN A. RYDER of the University of
Pennsylvania Is putting friends OF the oyster
under q debt to him by series of eYner;ments
in oyster culture. He forese es the time when
the supply may be inadequate If the despoiline
OF beds by ignorant dredgers continues and he
is ready with plan which would appear to
show successful results, from a scientific point
of view at least. This season he proposes to
plant several acres OF water The term is used
adVlsedly. Prof Ryder stretches a wire net
ting on piles few inches below low water
mark On this he strews a foundation of
shells, and then distributes some living oysters,
which furnish the young oysters When the
latter are sufficiently hardy they NAV he ira
planted Tue cost Of netting and plling is in
considerable, and by the professors method of
cultivation colony of o ysters can be produced
with SO little labor that planters would be well
repaid IN adopting 1t. The netting seems to he
, indispensable because, as the professors in
designations show, mu Idly water DESTROYS mora
young oysters than the creatures that prev on
them Exposed to the ripples of the surface
the young oyster nearly ALWAYS lives Prof
Ryder has also discovered that the freezing and
thawlnE OF surface water rarely kills the oyster
that Is fastened IN one Of his netting beds
A PERSON may see as far with one perfect eva
as with two says the Brooalyn Eaqle. but he
cannot see as clearly; for the advantage that
hlnoculSr, or double, vision possesses over
mlnocular or one-eyed vision is that the former
by allowing the observer to catch sight of the
object from Two different oints OF view, gives
hun at once some Idea of the proportions of its
different parts. But though this is true in the
ory, IN practice the judgment interferes and
the judgment has been educated and in some
measure rendered independent of the services
OF binocular vision, by experience and the use
or other Senses sucn as touch. Thus a man
with only one eve is never deceived az to the
nature Of an object with which he is well &C.
quainted, for the report of it that he gets from
his vision is corrected and supplemented by his
experienced Judgment and transmitted to his
centers or consciousness in as perfect form as
that which reaches those of a man with two
eyes. Inc advantages Of binocular vision may
Ne thus further illustrated. In rapidly dipping
pen into an inkstand or putting stopper into
decanter the one-eyed man cannot Judge SO
accurately as the two-eyed man. Or, again, il