The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-05
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THE limit of capacity Of the earth Is 1924.
100000 souls, says scientist, and this number
will be reached in less than 1877 years.
ELEcTRoPLATING has been applied in an in
genious and effective manner for the preserva-
ton Of lace forms in metal, says the New York
Sun. An inexpensive lace of good pattern is
hardened by saturation with a substance that
sets quickly and is fashioned into the form of
some article as lamp shade. The pattern is
then subjected to the electroplating process
with the result that the filmy beauty of the lace
is preserved to the last detail in silver or gold
AS the process is OF trifiug cost, compared to
the labor required to reproduce lace forms in
metal by hand work. and as the quantity of
metal used is only film, the price Of such work
is much smaller than might be expected from
appearances.
A STEAMER just arrived at Seattle from
Alaska has brought from that icy country the
skeleton OF whae-lizard, the second OF its
kind known to be in existence says the Illus
trdted Anlerfcdn. The other was found some
years ago near Oxford, England, but is much
smaller than this one. IL is now in the British
museum. The whale-lizard is described in
natural history as 1.-The king of the land and
sea-" doubtless from the fact that it was equally
at home on land or in the water. In water its
speed was terrific; it swan with its legs, It's
enormous wings serving to keep its body ABOVE
the surface, so that it must have appeared to
be walking on the water. An idea of its great
size can be formed fLom the fact that one bone
weighed 794 pounds. The weight of the whole
skeleton is 2, 400 pounds.
IT SEEMS that the rodent which intests New
York is unusually obnoxious and vicious, says
the GriDsdck. He ia almost az fierce as a wolf
and acts in combination like wolves. They are
cannibsls and eat their own wounded com
panions; a rat caught in a trap by the leg is
often assailed and killed by his associates, and
the foot remaining in the trap is often supposed
by the ignorant to indicate that the animal
chewed off his own leg. The male rats out
number the fRmalA There r really aicrht ms a
rats to three or four female. II is supposed that
the delicate flesh of the female rat tempts her
galants, and BY keeping down the number OF
females they keep down their species, much to
the pleasure of mankind. The female rat,
which Is an affectionate mother, has TO fight
off the male when he wants to eat his children,
which is generally the case.
AN unfinished obelisk in a quarry at Syene
shows how the ancients separated these i'm
mense monoliths from the native rock SAYS
Public Opinion. A groove marking the bound
airy of the stone contained q number of holes
into which wooden wedges were firmly driven.
The groove was then filed with water and the
swelled wedges cracked the granite the whole
length Of the groove. The detached block was
then pushed forward uDon rollers made from
palm trees to lar e timber raft on the edge of
the Nile. " here 1t remained until the next mum
dalton hoated the raft to the city where the
obelisk was to be set up. Thousands of hands
then pushed 1t on rollers up an inclined plane
to the front of the temple where it was TO stand.
tion and a firm cRuseway of sand covered with
planks led to the top OF it. Then by means of
rollers, levers and ropes made Of the date palm
the oDellsk was gradually hoisted into up
right position. In no case has an obelisk been
found to be out Of the true perpendicular.
THE fakirs of India have an immense dexter
ity in hypnotizing, says the Chicago In ter
Oceun, but it is also art which they have
practiced and cultivated several thousand years,
while we have advanced in practical knowledge
and invented rallrORdS 6feamRr2 tAl0Uranha
and telephones. While the inhabitants OF the
East indies never waste thought on such
matters as accommodating money, they cultivate
their occult sciences and never think OF to NOR
row. They entertain positive scorn for all
earthly goods. To be sure we do not possess
the 2,OO0 years experience which the Hindoos
have. The peculiar rules and doctrines of the
hypnotizers, the Yogis, are laid down in several
holy books. especially in the old Sanscrit work,
tue "Yoga Satra." However, there have been
a few Europeans who possessed singular talent
In that direction, and during several years stay
and association with these learned men of India,
became initiated in all the mysteries of those
who were then the cause Of creating wonder
and estonishment throughout the modern world
OF Europe, such~ as, for example, Count St.
German.
A CASHIER in one of the big uptown hotels on
Fifth avenue advocates decided change 10 the
printing OF the national bank silver and gold
cert ficate bills, says the New YORK Maui and
Express. He thinks there should be no diverse
and reverse Sides but that both sides should be
just alike, He explained his idea as follows:
Half of the reverse side should be printed on
the diverse side and vice versa. If this style
should be adopted by the government it would
benefit the public in two ways: First. tellers in
banks, cashiers and all men who handle money
would fiud it easier TO sort and count money A
great deal of time is lost in turning bills face
up in order to count them. AS a rule. the de-
nomination of bill is engraved in larger figures
on the reverse side, which is not the counting
side. The denomination of bill, in my opinion,
should be engraved on both sides with
figures of the same size. The
method of having half sides reversed
does not mean that the halves should be made
across the narrow middle of the bill. but across
the bill the longest way. 1t would be more an
noying than the present style If the ends of the
bills should be reversed. But with the reversal
as suggested, have calculated that in the city
of New York alone nearly twenty days in time
would be saved annually in counting bills. In
the course Of a decade twenty days loss each
year would amount to great deal Then the
second consideration is the fact that a bill en-
graved as I have described would BIT more diff
ficult to counterfeit. and if counterfeited 1t
could be easily detected. Counterfeiters often
do the face of a bill quite well and fail on the
back. In my style there would be no back, for
the face that happened to come up would be
the diverse side. have talked with cashiers
and telers and they agree with me. intend
to submit my idea in full TO the United States