The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-14
NATURAL FRUIT FlkYoRs.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The present style OF alarm clo& will soon 90
into dsuse il there is any truth d the story that
Swiss clockmaker has inverted an alarm
clock with a Photographic attachment. In
place or the unmeaning claJter the present
clock, man can have himself walked up by the
repetition Of one OF his favorite poems or by
strains of dulcet music. In fact the possibili-
ties OF the thing are unbounded.
A MANUFACTURING concern ia Brooklyn has
substituted a large fan for suokestack By
the draught created the smoke, dust and gases
from several furnaces are drawn into brick
apartment that has a low CHIMNEY. Small pipes
conveying water open into the apartment and
as the water escapes it is spr.yed over the
apartment by means Of steam jos. The dust is
laid thereby. and whatever gassg may be pres
ent escape by way of the chimng.
A FEW manufacturers recently offered prize
for the best original motto for pen. A man
in a backwoods county Of Iowa promptly sent
him the old standby. The pen is mightier
than the sword, " with the Request to send the
prize by the next mail. The manufacturer
jokingly wrote to him asking IL b, could prove
his claim to be the author OF the saying And
he got tue following reply: well, I've read
McGuffey's readers and Kids elocutlon aud
the Proverbs in the Bible. so cant say whether
read it or just thought it. If it is not IN these
booss I'm sure it's original"
A srATsTIcIAN of the German government
has come to the rescue Of those persons who do
not share the widespread superstition that Fri
day is the most unlucky day Of the week A
short time ago he determined to make a scien-
tifc investigation Of this question, using for the
purpose. among other things, the records of the
department of compulsory insurance. The
most fatal week day, according to the investi-
gator, is not Friday but Monday. Sixteen and
seventy-four hundredths per cent. OF all acct
dents il seems, occurred on that day; Is. 81 per
cent. on Tuesday, 1881 per cent. on Wednesday,
Is. AZ per cent. on Thursday, 1888 per cent. on
Friday the same per cent. on Saturday and
ant fha
small percentage of accidents on the first day of
the week is unnecessary. The compiler Of the
table, however, attributes the large relative
number of accidents on Monday ITO the ex-
cessive amount Of liquor consumed on Sun
day"
BAILEY HOOVER, young man employed on
the Curtiss ranch at Woodland, CAL, reports a
strange experience with birds. He was driving
a single horse and buggy from the Fair ranch
the other day. When about two miles from
knights Landing he was suddenly startled out
or doze by myrlads OF birds which swRrmod
down upon him, screaming angrily and flying
at him, The air was literally black with them
and they viciously attacked the horse, which
was frightened into a frantic effort to run away.
The young man was scared beyond his power of
description. He fought the birds off with his
whip, and directing the horse as best he could
was soon beyond their pursuit. Hoover enter
talns suspicious fear that the incident por-
tends evil for him, and Is sure something bad Is
going to happen to him before long, He said
they were nearly all blackbirds, although there
| appeared to be other species among the army
of his winged enemies.
ACCORDING to Swedish papers, the Viking
ship to be exhibited at Chicago by the people Of
Norway, will be modelled after the original yes
sci found In tie so-called "King's Hill a Nor.
wegian grave at Gottstad. in 1879. The boat
which was well preserved, is % meters long,
1 B meters wide, and il meters deep. There
were remnants of a kin1 of cabin in the center
! of the vessel which had served evidently as the
| tomb OF the mariner who, according to the an
| ci Mt custom, had been buried with his boat
| Shields which had once served as protection To
/ the chieftains warrior-sailors were also found
in the bottom Of the vessel. The discovery OF
! the Vikings ship was welcomed Throughout
! Europe at the time, as there existed nowhere q
! true example of the famous craft. Historians
| for the most part looked upon the figure OF the
vessel in the celebrated tapestries of the library
| OF Bayeux France, as the best representation oi
the boats which once sailed on every sea. \
small model of the Kings Hill' vessel is to bS
| found in the Post museum OF Berlin.
THE planet Venus continues TO puzzle the as
tronomers, says the Youths Communion. It d
a world so closely resembling the earth in size
that one might naturally enough expect to find
many other resem blances between them. But
! there is some popularity in Venus atmosphere
/ which renders the telescope study Of the
/ planets surface exceedingly difficult. In fact
It's atmosphere seems to be 80 extraordinarily
/ cloudy that only the merest glimpses Of the
| globe beneath can occasionally be caught
| recent review Of the results of twenty years
| observation Of Venus by TrouVelot, the French
astronomer, indicates that the surface Of that
! planet is no less extraordinary than the atmos-
| phere which covers IL. Trouvelot thinks that
| certain white spots seen on Venus are the tops
OF vast mountains which protrude above the
! cloud-aden atmosphere. Curiously enough
| these mountains are nearly all In the neighbor-
| hood OF the poles. Observations by ]. j. Ian.
| derer on the polarization of light reflected from
/ Venus appear to bear out Trouvelot'S conclu
| sions. Landerer believes that the phenomena
| observed by him indicate that the whole surface
| OF the planet must be covered by thick layer
| OF Clouds except in the polar regions, where
| parts OF the surface extend above the Clouds
THE Chronicle. a weekly insurance newspaper
publishes the following concerning the chance
of dying from the cholera, which may prove OF
| interest: I'm an approximate way let us
measure the chances. so far as an adult being i.
| concerned, OF dying of cholera during an cpl
| demic, Normally, at q years OF age, a healthy
man has about 1 chance in l25 of diving within
one year, all causes of death being taken int
account. At age SO his chance of dying within
one year Is about in an even 100: at age 80
| about in So; at age TO- about in IS. Assum,
ing that a fearful cholera scourge equal 10 that
| in London in 1S49, should occur In New Yorh
city (which is extremely unlikely there would
On the basis of 10000 there would be
| about death IN every go of the
population, all ages oonsidered-thai
IS to say, the chance OF dying with cholera dur
200. About onehalf of the deaths would
occur under age %. At age ~ the cholera haz-
ard would add about 3l1 OF per cent to the
| probability Of death within one year; at age 3d.
about u Of per cent. at age so about g. 10 of
per cent. and at age 20 similar percentage
| These are not alarming additions from the
| point Of view of the individual, although they
| would mean great deal in an increased num-
| Der Of deaths. The singular fact was noted.
| however, that during the cholera epidemic in
| Great Britain in l849 Notwithstanding ths
numerous deaths from cholera, the general