The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-09
NATURAL ERUITEENoRs.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ITEMS OF INTEREST.
AN EHGLIsHMAN has invented a new aerial
machine. According to the English Mechanic,
| the machine is divided and constructed in imi-
| tatlon or the arrangement of every feather in
| the wing of a crow. the bird selected as the
| model. The dimensions are thirty feet from tin
| 70 tip OF the large wings. The whole weight is
about $50 pounds. The machine is to be
| operated by light engine.
In the last quarter of a century the average
of mans life has improved 5 per cent. from
4i.9 to 439 years, and of womans life per
cent, from act ass. OF every 1000 males
| born at the present day twenty-four more will
| attain the age OF IS than used to be the case
| prior TO $780, the combined life of every 900
| persons born at the present day is 300 years
| longer than It was twenty five years ago. The
average human life is now being added to at
| the rate or nearly ten years each century.
AT Pembina, N. D., the Thermometer stood
4S0 below zero one day recently. At Spiritwood
| Lake in the same region. the ice is three feet
| thick, and in cutting 1t on cold days the saw
stuck fast frequently, and had to be cut out
| with an ak. The weather has been so cold
| that few people have been about the farming
| districts. The Sykest on Gazette remarked the
| other day: We communicate once more with
/ the outside world to-day, by means OF an auger-
| drifts"
| AN inexplicabe habit in church at Valsbol
| has at last been explained. When the men
| went TO the altar to receive the sacrament and
| then returned to the body of the church each
| made genufection in the direction of the
| women, always on the same spot No one for
| long while had known why this was done
| Lately one of the walls was being cleaned and
a picture of the Virgin was discovered which
| had been covered up for 400 years by the
| whltewash. The genudections originally made
TO this picture had been continued by the force
| or habit for centuries after it had disappeared
A CURIOUS CONTINUANCE by which those whose
kitchens and cellars are overstocked with
black beetles, can get rid of at least consider
| able portion Of them, has recently been
| patented. It consists of circular casing with
| inclined sides, up which the beetle or other in
sects can run, and an inverted saucer-shaped
dish on pivot in the center of the casing, with
| receptacle for bait at its upper part, The
| arrangement is such that when a beetle steps
up side Of the casing and over to the In
| verted dish. its weight will tilt the dish and
cause the beetle to fall to the bottom of the
| trap, the dish righting Immediately the weight
| OF the beetle is removed.
Cot. GALLIENI, the French soldier who has
served bis country In Senegal and the Western
| Soudan, tells an amusing incident that &C.
| Cured TO him while in the far interior In 1929
| Rene Caille, the European traveller who wrote a
| description OF Tmbuctoo, passed through that
| region on his way to the famous city. A while
| ago Col Gallieui was surprised by bill which
| was presented to him by the chief of an in
| terror town. 1t purported to represent a debt
| which CGilie had incurred. The colonel had no
doubt the claim was spurious but in order to
| dispel ''detestable reputation for dishonesty ~
| winch he says Europeans enjoy IN that region,
| be discharged the obligation.
The Honeybrook Pa) Gasette is responsible
for this story: THE other day, while G. L.
Emrey of this place was away from home his
horse Rot loose in the stable and, gaining access
to the feed chest, overloaded his stomach with
| good things and pretty soon was crazy with
| pain which collie brings on. He broke out of the
| stable and ran as fast his feet would carry
| MN through the streets to the Patterson house,
| where he had been doctored some time before
| The horse by his actions soon showed himself TO
| be pretty sick horse, and was taken in charge
| by Dr. Bechart, who brought him around all
| right. The horse was not very wise in eating
too much, but displayed good horse sense in
hunting up the doctor"
The Pike country correspondent of the New
| York Sun tells this marvellous fish story: "a
| pickerel was caught at II O'Clock in the fore
noon. 1t was dressed at O'Clock in the even
| ing. In It's stomach were a half dozen so of
| perch, and as these we're being removed out
| jumped live sunfish. The sunfish Topped
around in an undecided way. and the fishermen
we're SO surprised that they let it flop for some
time before they thought of picking it up and
putting it into pail of water. When the long
imprisoned suntish found itself in its native
! element IL rested for awhile, and then swan
! cheerfully around in the pail, and made itself
as much at home as if it 10 its native
pond, and was apparently unconcerned over
|
erals NAV, Audit is swimming yet"
EGGs are usually esteemed expensive diet: in
fast a luxury which only the rich or well-to-do
can afford to to use. But It is mistake when
We consider their food value-their nourishing
qualities. Eggs like milk, contain every ele-
ment necessary for the development Of the per
feet animal. This is proved by the fact that
bones, muscles, blood feathers. everything, in
fact that makes the fully formed chicken, is
contained In the yolk and white OF egg.
Indeed, there is no more concentrated or
nourishing food than eggs. The albumen,
oil and saline matter just in the right
proportion for sustaining animal life II, there
fore, we eat TO obtain strength we will find that
two or three eggs properly cooked will afford
more nourishment than a piece of meat OF
equal market value. When come to COM
pare the cost of producing eggs and pork we
find 1t costs nearly twice as much To produce a
pound OF pork as it does a pound of eggs, and
taking into account the nutrtive value of each
and the comparative prices Of the two the
average, the pork is three times as costly food
as eggs. and certainly much less wholesome.
HERE are two little anecdotes or Russian
government In Poland: Not long ago Gen.
Apukht1ne was appointed government In
spector. A student went TO one Of his receptions
and publicly struck him. the next day a we'll
known physician, DR.. Williamson sent Is rubles
to local paper To be given to a reformatory as
"A thank Offering for some good news he had
received" He was soon afCerward summoned
| before the police and asked what was the good
fortune which had befallen him. He could not
| give a satisfactory answer, and that evening was
informed that he must remove to Volos1
ds, in the north OF Russia. and remain there for
| three years Gen. Apukhtine received Grand
| Gordon as consolation for the insult he had
suffered, and an English clown who was play
ing in the circus, thought he might make a hit
out of the circumstance. So, in the course of
the performance. he malrreated brother clown
most grievously, and then ran out and returned
| bearing decoration on a velvet cushion which
he presented to him. Immediately on leaving
the arena he was arrested. but on proving his
nationality, was escorted over the fr ontier " bile
the proprietor was fined 500 rubles.
| THE rainbow trout OF the Pacific coast, SO
celebrated for its beauty and coloring, size and
game qualities, has been successfully introduced
IN the western part OF North Carolina. -Four
years ago 700 hngerlngs of this species were
produced from the United States fish commits
sion by Henry Stewart and placed in breeding
| pond adjoining the Cullasagee river. This ro-
mantle stream runs for several miles through
Highland Park, the property of Mr.. Stewart, in
Lincoln county. Its troubled floods have al
ways abouDded, like every good-sized stream
In that section, with the common
J speckled trout, and on that account
itiwas anticipated that these new corners would
do well. Tho rainbow trout, otherwise called
the California or Pacific brook trout, is found
In nearly all the waters of the Pacific slope,
enough more particularly in California. 1t is a