The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-03
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DR.. ADAMETz, the great Swiss scholar, says
an exchange, found that single gram of fresh
Emmenthsler cheese contains not less than 90
| 900 microbes In a gram of the rind of the same
| cheese he found 1900 900 inhabitants Thus it
may be seen that piece of cheese of less than
| a pound weight may contain more living, NOV
| ing, breathing individuals than there are human
| Inhabitants on the entire globe.
WHAT is claimed to be the pillow which
| Gen. Putnam left in the furrow up in Conuecti-
cut, when he rushed to the defense of his coun.
try ll6 years ago. is exhibited in front of hard.
CONNECTICUT, near his old. home The
| antiquity Of the relic seems to
be gnquesi9oned, but the Hart
| 'Old Put" ever guided it through the soil
SIBERIA signifies Thirsty" Sicily is .'the
country of grapes" CALEDONIA means "a high
hill" Asia signifies ''in the middle. " from the
| fact that ancient geoKraphers place it between
| Europe and Africa. Italy signifies "a country
OF pitch, from It's yielding great quantities of
| habitation," for beyond this to the westword
| the Pnoenicians never extended their VOYAGES
Britain is the country OF tin, great quaint ties
| being found in it. The Greeks called It Albion,
| which signifies either white" or high" from
| the wilderness of its shores or the high rocks on
| the western coast.
| NEW YORK COMMISSION HOUSES are oVerrun
with bank messengers and money brokers offer
| ing to lend them funds at almost nominal rates
| and on almost on any sort of collateral saws
| the Chicago Tribune. The Union Trust Com
| pany has decided to reduce the rate of intereste
| on deposits to per cent. per Rnnum and some
| OF the banks are declining new accounts; thew
| cannot find profitable employment for the bal
| ances already in their hands, Net deposits in
| the city banks are $751;, 000, 900, about 80 per
cent. more than at this tiue last year. The
| surplus is about three times as large as one
year ago and six times as large as it was two
years ago.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT" remarks an exchange,
'that all the Carnegie plants would be consoli
dated was accompanied In some newspapers
with the assertion that this would make 1t the
largest iron and steel establishment in the
world. This is mistake. The Illinois Steel
| Company has more capaciEy under the one man
agement than the Carnegie company will have
Inc Illinois compa3y's pig iron production,
10000 tons IN Wisconsin a total of $50, 600
tons. The Carnegie furnaces, 1925, 900 tons ca
pacity, and two new furnaces to be added
These will bring up the capacity of this COM
pany to about the same as that Of the Illinois
company.
Mrs. MARY E. BURT of Chicago, who has re-
Gently returned from Greece, says that the
common school children of Athens are taught
ancient and modern Greek. French and some
times English. They have no school 'readers''
such as affict American children, but as soon
as they are able to readrtheg are put at once
into the classics of their own literature so that
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years they are familiar with Homer Xenophon,
Herodotus, Plutarch and the dramatists. In
stead OF recting nursery ryhrnes they learn the
best myths of Hellenic literature. One little
girl of an age at which American children are
beginning to appreciate the beauties of "hlck
DRY, dickorY dock. gave Miss Burt a graphic
recital of the laborS of Hercules.
A PRETTY FABLE of the pansy is current among
children. The flower has Ave petals and five
sepals In most pensies, especially of the
| eor ia-a nd Lace hicyhIu do
OF the petals are plain in color and three are
gay. The two plain petals have q single sapal ,
Two Of gay petals have a sepal each, and the
third which is the largest of ALL has two sepals.
The fable is that the pansy represents u family
consisting Of husband, wife and four daughters,
two of the latter being step-children of the wife
The plain petals are the step-children. with onlY
one chair; the two small gay petals are the
daughters with a chair each, and the large gay
petal is the wife, with two chairs. To find the
father one must strip away the petals until the
stamens and pistils bare. They have a
fanciful resemblance to an old man with a
flannel wrap about his necks, his neck, his
shoulders appraised. ard his feet in a bath tub.
The story is probably OF French origin, because
the French call the pansY the step-mother.
THE sale of lamps in the cities and large towns
has increased $50 per cent. within the last five
years." was the remarkable statement made
some days ago by gentleman who knew all
about the subject to Baltimore Nelos reporter.
1t was at one time supposed that gas and cleo
trlcity would drive out the lamp. just as the
lamp had supplanted the candle. II seemed for
a time that this would be so, in the cities at
least, and am speaking only of cities but the
lamp refuses to be set aside. The reasons for
the reaction ia favor of lamps are various
There was time when the kerosene lamp was
an unsighty object, gave bad light smoked,
disseminated horrid odor and was liable to ex-
plode at any minute. Then it was that gas
took its place in the homes of all VINO
could afford it, and lamps became unfashiona-
BILE But this soon changed, lamps were made
artistic and beautiful, and instead of being eye
sores. became ornamental pieces of furniture.
New burners were invented, which . 'oduced the
brightest and softest OF lights The oil was refined
until there was no smoke, no ordor, and almost
no danger of explosion. From that time the
| lamp began steadily to rise in the popular
favor until now it is the principal means of
| Limiting the homes of the people, and especially
those of the rich Gas and electricity are the
worS-day lights of this aoe but the mellow soft
ness of the modern lamp light cannot be derived
from them"
IT was held few years ago. says the Chicago
NeWs, that the bottom of the sea was prac-
tically a counterpart of the land, with its hills
and valleys mountain peaks and deep glens.
Recent expeditions have realty modified this
idea. Here and there peaks certainly do shoot
up from the abyss, forming an island or ap-
proach the surface of the ocean within a few
hundred fathoms, and there are ocean glens into
which the sounding line sinks until it seems as
though it would never reach the bottom. But
researches have progressed so far as to prove
that the ocean beds, as a rule undulate very
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among them the contour before him would ap-
pear very much like that Of rolling plain. In
the opinion Of the celebrated Maury, who, a
few years ago, was the great authority
on oceanography, eight or nine miles was no ex-
travagant depth for midocean. The recent in
vestigators, however. have been unable to find
a greater depth than two or three miles north of
the sixteenth parallel of latitude or south of the
south of the same distance from Antarctic pole.
A depth of $500 fathoms is not more than the
mean of the entire waters of the globe. The
deepest soundings yet taken are 4,655 fathoms,
| off the northwest coast of Japan: one off the
! coast of Ladrones, and a third Of 4,561 fathoms
| north of Porto Rico. not far from st. Thomas
The greatest depth found in the North Atlantic
| if 1861 fathoms and in the South Atlantic bot
| tom has always been found at q less distance.
1 No part Of the Mediterranean is known to be
| more than 2150 fathoms deep aud the maxi
mum depth of the Indian ocean, as far as ascer-
4 tanned, is 3 1893 fathoms 1t has long been known
| that group OF animals is characteristic of the
] surface while another is equally peculiar to the
! bottom Of the ocean. 1t has been found that
| while the denizens OF the surface might descend
| to considerable depth in order to escape the
| light and heat and the disturbing influence of
surface winds beyond the 200 fathoms from the
| surface which may be said to form the limit of
their travels, there is a barren region until at