The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-01
TEa.s OF INTEREST.

THE best way to preserve guns from rusting,
says writ IN the St. Louis Globe Democrat,
is TO have ring of zinc soldered round the
barrel or, II it is not conven emit to do tais, TO
nave Long strip OF zinc soldered out OF sight
underneath the barrel. The zalvauic action
which is excited between the zinc and the iron
enectually prevents the oxidation of either
metal, and as long as the zinc remains 10 con
tact with the iron not particle OF rust will ap-
pear on either the inside or outside Of the bar
rel.
The Scottish fisheries board has been trying
some interesting experiments which go TO show
that fish have habitat as distinct an / almost
as confined as that of lSn1 ANIMALS. Last year
something like 3,00 fish Of various species we're
caught, a.Id after being marked were returned
TO the sea. A considerable number of tless
have been recaptured after periods ranging
from two months to two years. AS rule it
found that they we're caught very near the
same places where they we're first taken,
though in few instances the marked fish lave
Travelled considerable distances. The infer nee
plainly follows that If the fish are destroyed in
any particular locality IL will De long time, II
ever, before that place will be restocked. This
is something for fishermen 70 consider.
A CURIOUS STORY of Chinese justice comes
from Hankow Changes pig got into neigh
boris garden and was summary expelled. Mrs.
Chang took this as an insult, aud insisted that
it be resented. Cham tried to resent it, very
unwllhngly, and, being little man, was not
successful. Tuen his wife came to the rescue
with hoe and aimed q Vicious blow at the
often Ter. he lodged 1t it struck Chang on
the head. killing him as dead a herring In
due time tue matter came before the local au-
thorties for settlement, and the fns decision
! was that the nelghbor was plainly responsible
for Changes death, inesmuch as he had pro-
] voked drs. Chang Into striking at him. and had
then snirked the consequences. he was, there
! fore, or cred to pay the widow 500. and will
/ have to pay up unless Mrs. Chan should take
pity upon him and permit him to marry her
| instead.
The man who can invent or discover a salts
factory substitute for whalebone will be pretty
sure to reap a fortune. The article has become
SO scarce tnat it brings enormous prices, says
| the New YORK Com erciGL. In this country 1t
| is worth from IS to s. per pound, and in Eng
! land it fetches $50, 900 ton, and cannot be got
! even at that price Two vessels that went to
the Arctic re zion last year were offered Si3 500
! per ton for every scrap of whalebon- they
| brought home, but they captured only two
whales. 1t is not the ordinary sperm whale
! that IS sought, but the right whale, an euor-
nous creature, fifty feet in length, with lead
one'third the size of the whole body, and a bony
! structure wei ching from Jhree-quarters of q
| ton to q ton and half, every pound of which
| is valuable. The American feet wnich hunted
| for whales in th5 Arctic the past season had
( good success. but the En- liSh whale have be =
cone discouraS ed and will try their luck 10 the
/ Antarctic seas.
| TIE latest hypnotic yarn from the Charlie
hospital, Paris, casts all its predecessors into
the shade. DR.. LuyS, it appears, has been max
ing experiments in relation to what he calls the
, differentiation of the human body, and it is
| assert d that he succeeded in trans erring tho
| SenSlDllity of hypnOtiZed woman into a tum.
bier OF water. When the water was touched
| the woman WINGED, and when it was swallowed
| she went into a deadly swoon. How the
! drinker felt with another persons sensibilitas
| in his vitas is not stated. DR., Luys next under
! took to transfer sensibility from the woman o
| her photograph, aud succeeded so admirably
| that when he stuck pin into the picture the
| woman screamed Not only this, but the mark
OF scratch appeared upon her hand in exactly
| the spot where the pin had bee applied to the
| pm tograph. 1t is lucky for DR.. Luys tina. he
! is living in the nineteenth century for many an
old woman has been hanged and burned for do
! ing this sort of toihg. Before long, doubtless,
base bail aud foot ball players will be able to
transfer the sensibillties to the umpire, which
! Will De very conven. ent.
Garden and Forest has a description Of the
great pine of Japan, called Dai Matsu, which
stands on the shore Of Lake Biroa, soma three
miles from Otsu. The tree is attended by
priests, who dec are that II is mentioned 10 the
| records OF their coister 800 years ago, and that
| 1t was p Rnted in the year A D. 675 II is
counted among the eight wonders of Japan,
and IT'S singular aspect, as it stretches its long
| branches out on very side over a scaffolding
| formed by more than 800 poles, has been pict-
ure1 in many books of travel. Although it is
| fully exposed TO the wind, and although its
| trunks and branches bear more than one
| lightning scar it is still vigorous, and only a
| gradual thinning out of its fol age bears wit
ness to lis great antiquity At 2 feet above the
| ground the diameter of the trunk is IS feet 9
| inches; its hight is 81 feet, and the diameter
| of its widely-sJretcled crown is 942 feet. Four
| houses formerly stood among its branches, but
! two of them were ruined in great storm a
I few years ago. The other two are still la gely
| resorted to by supper parties ON summer even
| ings and the Japanese take especial delight in
| listening to the dripping of rain into the water
from the ooughs as they overhang the sea.
IT IS SAID that of late years there has been an
alarming shrinkage in the population of Ireland,
! County Roscommon, which occupies about one
| fourth of the island, has now a population of
but ll4,3R, whereas, at the time of the great
famine forty years ago, 1t had 252. 59l. 1t has
| lost 5000 more than one half. With the ten
years lSSl-'9i the number has fallen by 1908
! Wheu it Is remembered what class OF the people
is borne away by the apparently endless flow of
| common owes 60 the blessings OF unionist
| government The country is very Catholic
! Taking { g population, accor ling to re.
! hRious professions, we ind that the
| Catholics, who number 95.4 OF the entire
| population, suffered decrease of 17,523 in the
te years: that the Protestant Episcopalians
fell from 4,137 in 1881 to 3.5 g in 1891 while the
Presbyterians ad led 80 to their number, VIII CHI
now stands at 1886 for the entire country, The
Method sJs suffered decrease OF g. Mar
riages, which are accepted as a test of prosper
Roscommon. The nu nber OF marriages res1s-
tered in the country during the dsoade was but
1892 which is equal to an average annual rate
of 80 per 1000 of the popuat on. This il a very
low average, that for the whole of Ireland being
43p Per 1000.