The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE population of the city Of Rome which, by
the census of 1884, was 273, 000 is now over $780,
900, having nearly doubled within the past ten
years. Since the city became the capital of
united Italy thousands of new ediflces have been
built, aud it has been greatly changed other
wise. The seven hills themselves are undergoing
process of leveling and the valleys are being
filed in.
SWISS CHEMIST has, 1t is said, not only dis
covered how TO dispose Of ordinary coal smoke,
but how to turn it into highly profitable com
modify The stasement is that by burning 125
tons of coal, at a cost OF 3l55, and making full
use of it for steam raising purposes, he can at
the same time secure, By simple process he
has invented four tons of sulphate Of ammonia
from the smoke produced by the COAL The
money value of this will be Ss40.
THE special interest in the news from Ken
nebec, Me-. that ship-bulder there is almost
ready to lay the keel of big steel sailing ship
lies in the fact that this ship will be the first
of its kind ever built in In American ship yard
In the design of it there are several novel and
interesting features the availability and use
fulness of which will be put to the test after it
is launched next year. The ship is to
be employed in the freiRhting service on the
Atlantic, and its builders believe that it will
make better time under sail than any wooden
ship on the seas. and that it can carry freight
at much lower rate than any vessel propelled
by steam and using coal.
TIE women of Ghardala, 80 oasis in the
Sahara, have attained degree Of freedom I'M
known in some more civilized communities
These women, when they marry. draw up their
own marriage contract, and if the man in any
way breaks it the woman is Immediately free
and will have no more to say to him. The Char
| dalans are Mohammedaus, and. by the law of
| the prophet, q man may have four wives. The
women, however, do not allow more than one,
| and poygamy is practically banished. They
| have also peculiar objection to drinking and
| smoking, and in many contracts the husband is
| told that if he falls into the habit Of "consum
iv,r,1 lion or fNn he xUfll ha 1ad
IT seems that grammarians and lexicograph-
| ers are by no means reliable in their grammar,
| says the New Orleans Times Democrat. The
| famous case of the French academy, who be-
| gan their great dictionary with the spelling of
ACE 'demie" has recently been supplemented
| by the discovery that DR.. Lindley Murray was
not at oil times observant of his own gram
NAUTICAL rules when disputing with his fellow
| lawyers or talking with mis- customers when he
left the law for business as he had left teaching
| for the law. We learn now by the publication
| of DR.. Johnson's letters that the great exico-
! grapher disregarded bis own dictionary when
| lapses as "persuance" 'fness," 81 cannot
| butt, "happyest, "Fryday. " 'solicite, ""pam-
fiets, dos and dos for doesl, inventor 1"
barrels" ''clcathes" (clJthes), 'distresful,o
| 'enervliting" and ''devide, and several others.
| The me bility and gentry" OF that day
were very shaky in their photography, but
dictionary maker ought to know how to spell
! correctly But perhaps photographers, like
| doctors, do not take their own medicine.
SEVERAL eRoTEsoUE PICTURES of European
life, seen through Chinese eyes, purporting to
have been translated from the Chinese, have
| appeared in English in recent years, but a YER
| table narrative, rendered into English by DR..
| Nedhurst and printedin Shanghai at the mission
! press in 1912 gives an account OF which the al
| thenticity cannot be questioned. Ong-Tae HaR
| travelled IN the Malay archipelago. Regarding
! the Dutch there he says: They are much like
the man who stopped his ears while stealing a
] bell, They scarcely DOSseS9 of the cardinal
| virtues Their home is in the northwest corner
of the ocean. They have high noses and red
the sovereignty of Europe with the English
(Aug-mo, red-haired nationl. The latter
also dwell in the northwest corner of the
ocean. AS for the French, their dispositions
are violent and boisterous; their country is
poor and contains but few merchants, hence
1 they seldom come to Batavia. When Euro
peans make an entertainment they set out
| long table which is called feast or fiesta, and
| when the stringed instruments play UP, men
and women stand opposite each other and
| dance, which is called dancing tdnddk
| When young woman is marriageable she is
| allowed to select her own partner, who is called
her lover or soo-kG. If they are fond of each
other they dance together in order to settle the
match; AS to music, he quotes the Chinese
proverb that the music of foreign parts in
duces sorrowful feelings"
DURING the scorchng weather Of July and
August you often rush into an ice cream saloon
with the avowed intention of cooling your body
to at least a few degrees below the melting
point. If you are in a hurry you are apt to
make the first few spoonfuls of the cooling mix
ture rather large. This almost Immediately
| gives you a violent pain in the temples or some
| where in the region of the eyes. Why is this,
Did you ever stop to think? asks writer in the
| st. Louis Republic. One who has studied the
physiology Of the case says it is caused in the
following manner: The frozen MIXTURE coming
! in contact with the nerves of the throat (the
larynx, pharynx, etc, temporarily paralyzes
! them. The sensation instantly shoots to the
center Of those nerves, which is in the brain but
finds there is a side connection in the
shape OF the great facial nerve which
| starts from in front of the ear and extends its
| branches over the sides of the face. One branch
Of this facial nerve extending across the temple
| is a nerve of sensation, " while the other
branches are simply nerves of motion, utilized
chiefly to govern the play of the mouth. This
| great facial nerve side-tracks the pain which
| proceeds from the chill throwing it out along
| the nerve branch which traverses the temple. the
pain being most agonizng at the points where
the nerve branches. II the irritation be extraor-
| binary the reflex" action which takes place
may cause a violent pain in the eYebas as well
| as in the temple. the eye pain being simply SYM
| pathetic. The person who rashly swallows great
| mo1thfus of frozen milk should remember that
every time it comes in contact with the nerves
of his throat the whole nervous system is in
jured to a greater or less extent.