The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A RHODE ISLAND COURT mas decided that the
| father can name the baby if the parents can't
agree on a name.
NJ, c. RE1NHARDT of Gold Hill township, North
Carolina, has raised peculiar ear of corn The
grains are each iucased in a separate chuck
while the whole is covered with a shuck like a
common ear. The tassel s also full Of small
grains, each In a case or shuck."
SOAP LAKE, in Douglas county, Washington,
near the Columbia river mouth of the Grand
Coulee. one mile in length and about one-fourth
as wide, derives its name from the soapy ap-
pearance of the water. IL is said that its water,
when disturbed, will become a seething mass of
lalher and will form a heavy suds by merely
rubbing between the hands.
THERE is a large factory at small town near
Chicago employing about 100 to $50 workers,
which IS wholly given over to the manufacture
| or useful articles from waste animal blood. At
certain seasons of the year this unique factory
uses from 10000 to 49, 900 gallons of fresh blood
| per day. It is first converted into thin sheets
| by evaporation and certain chemical processes
and afterwards WORKED up into a variety of
useful articles, such as combs buttons ear
rings, belt clasps. bracelets, etc Tons or these
articles are sent to all parts of the world every
year from this bloody" Sucker state manu-
factory,
| NAN ACTOR says that it is fun for him to watch
the audience Through a hole in a fiat or tor
mentor during an emotional scene He saws
that in every audience there are many people
who are sympathetic and who unconscously in
J innate the expressions of the people in whom
they are interested They will scowl with the
villain, langush with the heroine, grin with the
funny man and weep with the wronged one.
The effect Of dozens OF people making the same
faces at the same moment is quite funny.
HALIFAX, n. NJ, sent to Sable Island, n s.,
some time ago a number Of cats to destroy the
rats, which were killing the rabbits The cats,
firing of destroying rats, played sad havoc
among the rabbits. ami at last, becoming very
numerous, number Of foxes were sent to drive
the cats out The foxes not only killed the
cats, but all the young birds Tuis fact has
| been brought to the notice of the government,
| with view to having the foxes cleared off the
! island
| A sMALL-MoUTH BASS. the variety sought by an
glers and the only kind caught ABOUT the islands
| in Lake Erie, says the Cleveland Press, at aims
| a weight OF about one pound in two years, at
| which time it alsl arrives at maturity in pro-
| ductive sense. 1t then fans Off a clsan place on
! the gravel, deposits eggs, which are impreg-
| mated by the nal member of the family, when
| contrary to the general rule laid down by ma
! ture the female goes off TO some favorable wa
teEng place, while the old man
and by the most constant care fans
| with his tail all the sediment off the eggs and
drives off all intruder, even toy 10 pound mud
turtle. He brings forth his little family of sew
| eral thousand individual fishes about IS large
| each as the end of a broom splint. and about a
| quarter Of an inch long, to become as long as
broom handle and weigh all the way up to ten
| pounds, according to the conscience and
eyes OF the one who for the first
| time pulls him permanently out of acqua
! pura. He seldom attains weight of over four
| pounds, although those weighing six pounds
have been caught.
The germs of cholera can be caught and
destroyed almost to certainty while those of
| typhus are more rapidly disseminated, says Dr.
Cyrus dson, sanitary superintendent OF the
. New York BOARD of health; in the Norfh Agert-
ReTYiatg ha ar 70 has
separated and artidc ally cultivated by man
Another fact is of great importance here, The
germs or, perhaps better, the infected principles
of typhus are projected from a person in the
| eXhalations from the lungs and the body. The
bacill of cholera only come from the
bowels, or from the stomach when the sufferer
! vomits. IL follows then that there must be an
infinitely greater number of germs put forth by
| typhus than by cholera patients More than
that, while tie management and disinfecton
or killing or the germs from a typhus patient is
to the last degree difficult, because they are in
| the air of the room in which he Is, those from a
cholera patient can be easily handled and killed
| AS nave already said they are in the discharges
either from the bowels or stomach, and no.
where else. They can bs treated with disip-
| fectants that kill them at once in the vessels
into which they are received, or on the SPOT
| where they are accidentally or involuntarily
/ discharged, In view of the fact that the New
| York health department has had ample
| warning. that all its preparations have been
made, that it stamped out an outbreak of
| typhus when no preparation had been made,
| that cholera is easier to handle than is typhus:
| have no hesitation in saying that while we
| may have an outbr ak Of cholera if the various
guarantees should prove Intellectual, that out
| break will hot become an epidemic in New York
city.
The METHODS employed by the Partisan au-
thorties for communicating with the provinces
| during the seige of Paris we're persevering and
| ingenius, says the Youths Companion. The
| principal means Of sending letters was by bal
looms and carrier pigeons. but many other plans
| were tried. II was almost impossible for a mes
| senger to get through the German lines. Even
| Wien other difficulties could be overcome a
| patch was great. Many of the messengers made
| missions in the skin, and hid a dispatch under
| the epidermis. Others provided themselves with
| hollow ten centime pieces. or hollow keys
| which could be opened like a box. and in which
| dispatches could be hidden. One was accus-
4 toned to hide his dispatch under an artificial
| hollow tooth. These dispatches, Of course
were written in cipher, and covered
only fragment OF paper Attempts
| by following the caves and natural tunnels
| under the left branch Of the Seine, and bv div
| ing and crossing the bed of the river in diving
| suits, but these plans failed curious scheme
| was the putting OF letters into little hollow
spheres of zinc, and throwing these spheres into
| the Seine or its tributaries hoping that thew
| would float to Paris. They did float to Paris
| but not until after the armistice II was sup.
posed that they were stopped by DAMS or that
they were discovered and held by the Germans
until the siege was at an end. Another clever
| and economical device was the use of hollow
| glass spheres with an orifice to admit the dis
| patch. These were small and light, they looked
| so much like bubbles on the water that it was
| impossible to distinguish them, they hoated
| over the dams aud through the nets set by the
| Germans. They would probably have proved
very useful, had not the river frozen soon after