The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THERE will be chosen this year 44a presiden-
tial electors, an increase OF 43 over the number
in 1888. In that year 2Oi votes being necessary
to choice, Cleveland received 16S and Harri-
son 233. Now 223 votes are needed to elect, The
Cleveland states OF 1883 have IT'S votes and
those carried by Harrison and Morton have 269
electors
IN BUFFALO woman runs street cleaning
bureau; in Kansas City a woman Is In the fire
department; at Vassar a young woman combs
hair at rs cents head: a Louisville lady makes
special shopping trips 10 Paris; another in New
York makes fiat furnishing business; still
| another in New Hampshire Is president Of q
street railway company, while Chicago has a
woman embalmer.
1T is stated that there are in France 45, 1000
hens. which, at an average price Of 2 francs so
centimes per head. represent a value of 49,
O5O.OOO francs. One-fifth of the stock is annu-
ally consumed as food. and Is sold for about a.
800, 900 francs Two million COCKS worth g. OOO-
wv francs, are also sold as food. The number
OF laying hens is put down at $4,000, 600. and
the annual value of their eggs is $4,000, $40
francs.
Born the state aud the church In Turkey
combine to make bachelors life miserable
As long as q mans parents are living he can
live with them without experiencing any diff
nculty. But as soon as they die he must obtain
permission from both civil and religious au-
thorties before he can be admitted to any other
household; and, moreover, it is the duty of the
proprietor OF the household he enters to see that
males and not females wait upon him.
THE Spanish peasant works every day and
dances half the night. and yet eats only his
black bread, onion and watermelon. The
Smyrna porter eats only little fruit and some
olives, yet he walks off with his load Of 100
pounds. The coolie. fed on rice. is more active
and can endure more than the negro fed on fat
meat The heavy work Of the world is not
done by men who eat the greatest quantity.
Moderation in diet seems to be the prerequisite
OF endurance.
In horse mill moving at three feet per Sec
| ond, IS feet diameter, he exerts with the ma
chine the power of AZ horses. The greatest
amount horse can pull in a horizontal line is
| 800 pounds. but he can only do this momentar-
| lily; IN continued exertions probably half of this
| is the limit. He attains his growth in five years.
VIII live 20 average 10 years. A horse will live
| 70 days on water without solid food. IL days
without eating or drinking, but only five days
/ on sohd food without drinking.
| PROBABLY the largest Congregation IN America
| is that Of the church of St. Stanislaus Kostka
Chicago, which has 80, 900 communicates. The
| number OF attendants at the several masses
every Sunday frequently exceeds 1900 The
| cure OF souls committed TO its charge requires
| the services of twelve priests, It has pa
| rochlal school attended by 1000 children and
these are taught by twenty six sisters and
| eight lay teachers The church maintains an
| orphan asylum in which about 800 inmates are
| cared for.
| THERE is in the museum of Turin papyrus
roll which displays whole series Of such COM
ical scenes In the first place a lion a crocodile
and an ape are giving vocal and instrumental
| concert. Next comes an ass. dressed, armed
and sceptered like Pharaoh. With majestic
| swagger he receives the gifts presented to him
! by cat of high degree, to whom bull acts as
proud conductor. lion and yazelle are play
| ing at drauRhtS, bippopotamus is pefched in q
tree, and horse has climbed into the tree and
trying to dislodge him.
TIE HAND BOOK by the Federation Of Labor
shows the strength Of the seventy-four
national trade unions OF the United States TO
be $751; The Carpenters Brotherhood leads
with %. 600 members; Amalgamated Iron and
! Steel Workers, 10000; Iron Molders' Union of
North America, IL 900; International Brick
| layers and Stone Masons' Union. $1,000;
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 10000;
| International Typographical Union. rs 1000:
| Cigarmakers' International Union, "a, 1000;
| Brotherhood of Locomotive Ffretnen, %, coo;
| United Mine Workers, 10000; Granite Cutters
National Union, 10000; Journsymen Bakers
Union, 1900. and the Brotherhood of Railroad
| Trainnen and Brotherhood of Painters and
Decorators, each with 900.
PARTICULARS of the behavior of the field tele-
| phone system in the French autumnH maneuvers
have now been published. Magnetic telephones
| we're used as no delicate microphQne or battery
| is required with them. The transmitter was held
in the hand and the receiver was afixed to the
| kept" Combined receivers and transmitters
| were also employed. A bare bimetaliic wire
| 06 mlllinetres in diameter was unrolled from q
| drum and laid out of harms way on hedges,
| branches, walls, and In trenches. A line 20
kilometres long was thus laid, with the addition
| OF ten posts In five hours; speech was good and
the whole was taken up again In and hour.
| During sham fight cavalry division passed
over a long line without interruptng the COM
mupication. bayonet stuck in the ground
made good earth. SO did the body of a cavalry
horse if the wire was attached to the bride.
PAPER COMPANY at Niagara Falls finds 1t no
easy task 10 decide how the terrific power from
the 1870 feet head of water which is to be- at their
| disposal shall be utilized. At recent confer
ence of the officers of the comoany about
| twenty wheels and methods of developing
power were submitted to them. and all but
| three were Immediately passed over as being
| wholly inadequate to the occasion. Most of the
| water wheels made would crush like eggshells
| beneath the force of a column of water falling
| 1870 feet down penstock. The wheels selected
for further test are to receive it at Holyoke
and when decision is reached the company's
architect will prepare plans for several ways Of
| using the power The contract for building
Golfer dam for the company has been let. and
also for the tunnel and shaft The tunnel will
be 800 feet long and probably 10x12 feet in
| size. The shaft will have a depth Of 40 feet
| and will be 14x40 or 45 feet in size.
TRAVELLERS in Central Africa during the hot
season often follow the dry beds OF rivers and
| creeks for miles TO obviate the necessity of
| which everywhere abound. Africa is we'll
| known to be the native land of many extraor-
binary things, animate as well as inanimate.
This being the case, the first explorers paid no
| attention to the thousands Of balls Of hardened
| mud which were strewn about in all profusion
| In the beds Of these dried up streams. One day
however, when detachment of the Cameron
expedition were exploring what in the wet sea-
son would have been tributary Of the Nile.
| woodman cracked one of the balls and was sur
prised beyond measure to see live fish tumble
out of the center Of the ball and fall gaping and
fioundering in the sand. This curious discovery
led the explorers 10 make an investigation,
| whereupon every hardened ball OF earth,
| whether large or small. was found co
contain an odd-shaped specimen of
the finny tribe. These spherical mud houses"
! which, on account OF their likeness to the
earthen cases fabricated by many species OF
caterpilaTs and other insects and worms have
been called 'cocoons," are perforated by many
small holes and lined with mucous from the
fishes body. the mucuous keeping the dried
ball damp upon the inside, the holes being used
for breathing purposes For want OF a more
euphonious name this queer species of piscus
has been dubbed 'mudfish," which Is exposes
I've OF the creatures curious habits. II not a
musical and high-sounding cognomen. The re-
markabe instinct which causes the mudfish 20