The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-08
ITEMS OF INTER REST.

STATISTICS show that 1000 persons are muir
dered in this country every year, and only one
murderer in fifty punished.
A wE1L-KNowN Partisan physician is authority
for the statement that forty people are annually
prepared for burial while still alive
A GLASS FACTORY at Liverpool now has glass
journal boxes for all of it's machinery, a glass
floor, glass shingles on the roof and a smoke
stack los feet high built wholly of glass bricks,
each foot square
AMONG the most remarkable inventions at the
recent paper exhibit at Berlin was a set of paper
teeth made by a Lubbock dentist in 1875 They
have been in constant use for more than thirteen
years. and show absolutely no wear whatever.
The Compagnie Transatlantique has again
brought forward the question of lighting the
Atlantic route from Ireland to Newfoundland.
1t is proposed to moor ten powerful floating
lights 200 miles apart, and connected by electric
cables.
M. PAsTEUR, the great microbe expert, is con-
fldent that he has discovered.the incubation
that will guarantee one against cholera, as
vaccination does against smallpox. His col
laborRtOr and pupil. DR. Haffkine, is so con
f1dent OF it that he, with another bacterioloRst
has submitted to incubation with the new
virus in order to test its effect. Pasteur is now
trying to persuade the government of Siam to
let him try it on a number of condemned Grim
inalS. After inoculating them he wants tC in
1eCt into their lnteStlneS the most vlruenU chOl-
era germs, and he processes to be quite sure
that they would survive the experiment, and
thus demonstrate the fact that incubation is q
protection against the disease.
IN the wilder parts of South America you can
bag a deer or wild hog almost any day, if you
set wisely about it; but months may pass with
out even the sight Of tApr, though you may
be in their hsuntS continually says writer in
st. Nicholas. You SEE plenty of unmistakable
three-toed tracks and now and again you may
hear tapirs moving in the forest-uot leaping
through openings between the vines and
| branches as a deer does, not pushing the brush
| aside like iaguar, but crushing their way by
| sheer strength, with great cracking OF twlgs.
! 1t is almost useless to follow tracks sounds:
| clumsy as the animals appear. they can race
| through the underDrush faster than dog can
| follow: and they are 80 keen Of sight and scent,
| and so prone to concealment. that even the most
experienced hunter rarely catches sight Of one
| in the daytime, unless by accident The best
plan is to lie in wait for them, as the 1.-the and
| crafty 1aguar does, by their drinking aud wal
lowing places, and this must be done at night.
| may as we'll add here that tapirs ara common
! all over tropical South aad Central America,
except the thckly settled regions and the
| Pacific coast. Naturaists distinguish several
| species, differing main in size and the struct-
ure of the bones; but they are much alike. All
go singly, or in bands generally OF two or three,
aud feed on fruits and leaves.
AT Last it begins TO be made plain why
Americans girls are at such premium over the
water. The London Telegraph has been pub
fishing a SYMPOSIUM by hundreds of writers
concerning the English wife az compared with
the foreign. One says that the real trouble
with the English woman is that she cannot make
soup, or. at least, gives her husband too little
| of IL. This writer does not want TO be in the
| soup, but to reverse conditions and have the
| soup in him. Another thinks that the English
| woman is not on an intellectual equality with
her husband, but he forRets to mention that he
| always reads the newspaper while she does the
housework. Another says that the English wife
is not as clever with her needle as
German and Italian women, and
relates how he once saw an Italian woman pull
| a hair from her head and mend her husband 8
| coat with it. very great many other faults Of
| and it really seems that the English husband is
| a sadly imposed-On creature. But before one
arrives at a decided conclusion on that point it
| would be well TO have another symposium on
| English husbands by their wives. These wives
| have one good point, Rnyway-they are GER
| tainly long-sutfering. Such symposium as the
| Telegraph is publishing, If printed in an Amer
| lean paper, by American husbands, about
| American wives, would produce such a crop of
curtain lectures, hair pulliugs ana divorce suits
! as would imper the stability of our institutions.
AT PRESENT the moon is $4,000 miles away
| from our globe; but there was a time when it
was only one sixth part Of that distance away,
| or say about 10000 miles away. That time
| must of a necessity have correspondent to some
| great terrestrial geological epoch: probably 1t
| was at the time when the cocoon existed. The
| object OF this mote" however, says the St.
| Louis Republic is not to speculate on the re-
| moteness Of the time, but upon tho powerful
| effects our ''silver sister world must have had
1 on the earth, its waters and its atmosphere At
| the present time the average hight of the tides
| the world over is only about three feet; in the
| far away time alluded to when the moon was
| only 40, 900 miles away they were 216 times as
| high as at present, or 61S feet In hight. Such
| a tide as that would wash St. Louis off the
| face of the earth, throw a food of
sea water sixty-one feet high on the
1 Chicago water works tower and drown
1 out almost every place of Importance
4 in the United States. Three-quarter tide would
4 leave but few Of the tallest chimneys and
4 spires in st. Louis above water, and a full tide
4 would run well up into the pinertes Of Canada
1 But this would only last for few hours at a
1 time; in less than five hours the whole of this
/ vast flood would have retreated Not only
would it leave Missouri and all the remainder
J of the United States high and dry, but would
probably drain the Gulf OF Mexico and leave a
| gravel and shel-paved path from the mouth of
the Mississippi TO Cuba and Jamaica. A few
dry" hours would pass and then the whole
| land would again be inundated only to soon be
| abandoned. These mighty tides are the gifts
| which modern astronomers have made to the
| working machinery of the geologist. Who can
| doubt that they constituted a terrific power
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