The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A BLACKSMITH in Philadelphia while shoeing
horse recently, found $50 gold piece imbedded
in the hoof.
RICHMOND QND) MAN owns FLY months
old, which is a great lover of tobacco. If not
given all she wants she will frequently go along
the street 'snpe- shooting" as it is called that
Is, picking up old cigar stumps. The same ami
NAL has also developed an extraordinary fond
ness for beer, which she drinks with the relish
of an old topper.
In the Caucasus, suspension bridges of 80 feet
span were made with cables of three strands of
grape vine, secured to trees on opposite banks
OF the river with footpath of narrow plank
suspended at intervals from the cables. The
suspension bridge does not seem to have been
introduced into Europe until about the close of
the sixteenth century.
If the populations Of England and Scotland
increase for the next census decade in the same
ratio as they have doue over that of 1sSl-s1, and
r. correSpondingly, ireland decreases proper
tlonatelY in populationthe spectiveInumbers
or the United Kingdom will be thus divided in
the year 1901: England, 80, 46S, 469; Scotland,
1854, lO6; Ireland, ESQ, S5S-total. Al, 092. 49,
A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE of patience in the Chi
nese Is afforded by consular report dealing
with the manufacture of salt In Central China
Holes about six inches in diameter are bored in
the rock by means OF primitive form of iron
DRILL and sometimes period of forty years
elapses before the coveted brine is reached. so
that the work is carried on from one generation
to another,
WHEN the present Amer Of Afghanistan was
yet an exile he made pretence Of stupidity
which deceived a great many people Bat after
being invested with his present authority he dis
played surprising keenuesS. On one occasion
the Russian commandant in Turkestan sent
him word that it was proposed TO take 500
artillerymen and cavalry out for exercise on
the Afghan frontier, and expressed hope that
it would not give rise to apprshensions on the
part of his highness Abdurrahman replied
that he had no objection. because, as it hap
pened he was about to exercise 5000 cavalry,
artillery and infantry on his side of the frontier
at the same place, and there was plenty of room
for both. The hint was enough. The Russians
wrote thanking the ameer, but intimating that
they had found another site for the maneuvers.
AN interesting experiment was made at Liver
pool which shows the non-infianmatory nature
of cotton packed in the Indian manner A bale
of cotton was put on a hot furnace and left there
for half an hour. When it was taken off the
outside covering was destroyed but the bale
itself for all practical purposes was a bale of
cotton still An inch was Consumed by the
great heat fthe furnace, but the interior of the
bale was perfectly sound, solid and good. A
well-known cotton authority has stated as his
opinion that, whereas with the American bale
the smallest spark in the world would cause its
destruction, il you give me an Indian bale you
may cook my dinner on it and no harm will
happen to it," If such be the case, what must
have been the danger run by liner that
| brought over in a bale of cotton which Termed
| part Of her cargo whole box of matches? How
an outbreak of fire was prevented it is difficult
to surmise, for the igniting point Of phosphorus
| is only 1909.
| "MARLBRoUcK" was once a national air In
France In "Marlbrouck" the death and burial
Of Queen Annes great captain are burlesqued,
a -. !,
| cred its scathing satire the disasters of Blen-
helm and Families are believed to have been
avenged But the fact is really the reverse; for
if read approximately "Marlbrouck' expresses
the widespread terror occasioned by the mere
name of Blenheim's hero, and the exultation of
the French when they heard OF his death. The
complainte" is supposed to have come
from the Walloon country, and it was
unknown in the French capital until
fifty years after Marlborough's death, when a
P1cardy peasant woman, coming up to Yer
sailles to nurse the baby dauphin, brought it
with her, and sang her little baby charge to
sleep with the old jingling rhyme. Prom this
Marlbrouck" became popular in Paris, and
ultimately it reached these shores. The tune
being catchy one. we discarded the French
words, ~91l2 s5eac2 sit, one ant-sor all 10 ours
Bacchanalian chant of "For he's a Jolly good
fellow" and so a song written in savage ridicule
of England and one of her greatest generals be-
came one of the most popular airs to which the
latter's countrymen pledged jovial cups
How WORLDS ARE MADE was the subject of
recent interesting lecture by Garrett P. Ser
viss at the Cooper Union, New York The
lecture was, Mr.. Serviss said, an argument for
law as opposed to chance This earth was as
much the product OF Development he declared.
as was a tree. The tracing out of the manner
of its DEVELOPMENT was, however diff
cult matter. 1t was hard to believe that this
earth and other spheres we're ever in a nebulous
state. Mr. ServiSs' illustration OF the deyeloD-
ment from the nebulous state was steam grad.
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tten, in colder atmosphere, taxing on the
form OF q solid in the frozen state. The first
picture thrown on the screen showed as well
as it could be shown the nebulous condition of
affairs when the world had not been born.
Succeeding illustrations showed how from
neouIous mass rings were dropped off
which would finally resolve themselves into
spherical bodies. That was the birth of the
planets. 1t looked very simple as shown on the
white screen. The planets, having been born.
began to circle around the sun Mr. Serviss'
screen in Their proper order and at relatively
the proper distances from it. Mr. Servss ex-
planned their motions the passed round and
round the sun on the screen. Dropping the
other worlds for q while, the lecturer maid
more particular attention to our own
The pictures on his screen showed il when
the first thin crust had formed, at which
time it was not an attractive place; then when
there had been an advance, and its principal
characteristics were animals that made the lis
teners shudder and glaciers that made them
shlver. Finally the present stage was reached,
and the audience agreed with Mr.. Serviss when
he said that it was a pretty good stage. AL
though the pictures stopped at this point as
Mr. Serviss did not feel able to illustrate what
had not taken place, he said that the worlds
development would not stop. 1t could not re-
main the world with which people GEN
orally were pretty well satisfied. That was the
teaching of science. Near by, in the moon.
there was the illustration of dead world. and
II our world would only pay heed it might see
what il was coming to- Whether there was anv
resurrection for dead world was Mr. Serviss
said, an interesting question. Without doubt
such collision might occur. II the world was
one OF the parties to the collision, however, we
should not know much about it.