The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


AMONG the relics to be exhibited at tho worlds
fair is a necklace which once belonged TO Poca-
hontas.
TIE total immigration to the United States
in the year ended June 30, 1892 amounted to
619, 800 souls.
THE fastest time in which train has been
known to travel mile is forty -nine seconds
and a fraction.
ElrHERE is surface Of 5000 acres In Silesia,
Prussia which is usually dry. but which every
thirty years fills with water In some unknown
way and becomes q lake.
KANSAS is named from its principal river. A
tribe Of Indians, formerly in that locality, were
known as the Konsos or Rows and the state Is
probably named from them.
ROSE L. CLEMENS of FL Reno, o. T., though
only IS years of age, is slowly dying Of ossifica-
ton. There is now scarcely any flesh on her
bones, and she weighs only twenty eight
pounds.
During a review OF several regiments in
France, wither he was sent, Hugo Grotius, one
of the famous men Of the seventeenth century,
retained in his mind the names Of all the
soldiers that were named and passed before him.
JUsTIUs LIPsUs, an eminent man of the six
tenth century, made bold to recte Tacitus
from beginning to end with one of his audience
placed before him with drawn da ger with
which he was TO be stabbed If he missed single
word.
THE telephone has lately been arranged for
use of divers. A sheet of copper is used in
place of one of the glasses in the helmet. and to
this a telephone is fixed, so that the diver,
when at the bottom Of the sea, has only to
slightly turn his head in order to report what
he sees, or to receive Instructions from above.
THE STATEMENT that until this year no Feb
ruary has had five Monda VS. for 800 years was
referred to the Universal knowledge and Infor-
nation Bureau, New York whence comes the
reply that tberewere five Mondays in February OF
the years 1915, 1884, l612, 100, l72, 1740, l76S,
1895, 1908, 1886, 1864, 1892. The like will occur
in 1904.
AMONG other great things In this country the
number Of its high mountains is a remarkable
feature There are 300 mountains in the United
States each exceeding 10000 feet in height,
The greatest number are found in Colorado and
Utah. In Alaska there are five which exceed
1900 feet, and Mount Elias, 10 500 feet high, is
the loftiest peak in the United States territory.
"WHY are embalmers and funeral directors
called undertekers ?" asked George Holings-
worth Of Temple, Arlz. at the Lacede house,
ST. Louis recently. They seem TO prefer the
name to any other. but they have no right to it.
In England in 1914 undertakers were men OF in
f1uence who undertook for a consideration to
get such persons returned TO parliament as
would prove subm ssive to the royal will of
, King James !. The three chief undertakers of
1914 were Lords Bacon, Somerset and Neville.
They undertook to bride the chief speakers and
men of influence In parliament that year over
to the side of the king. but with partial success.
Then there were undertakers in Ireland in 1903
They were English and Scotch oolonists sent to
North Ireland and were each allotted 1000
acres OF land. They were me OF capital and
undertook to pay a mark "a year for every 60
acres, and to admit no recusant for tenants.
Hence the maine as applied to them. But
neither the histories nor the dictionaries give
any reason for calling tae men who bury our
dead uudertakers, and 1 have never found
one who could say why he was SO called"
THE chief distinction between the appeara CO
of the male and female Japanese lies in the
hair. The men shave nearly the whole of the
head, while the women allow 1t to grow, and
even add to 1t by art when required. IL is then
twisted and coied into elaborate and fantastic
patterns which few eastern hairdressers cou d
initiate or equal. The hairpIns used are not ~
much for confining the locks in their places )
for actual adornment, and are very fashionable.
They are OF enormous size, seven eight
inches in length and half an inch wide, and are
made Of various substances, tortoise shell, wood
and ivory many of them being composed of
carved figures adroitly pivoted so as to ap-
pear to dance at every breath drawn by the
wearer. Others are made Of glass. and are
hollow, and nearly filled with some bright
colored liquid, so that at ev.ry movement of
the head an air bubble runs from one end of the
pin to the other producing q most curious
effect in strong light. Sometimes an extra
fashionable woman will wear a dozen or more
of these pins In her hair, SO that at a little
distance her head looks as il bundle Of fire.
wood had been stuck loosely into It, The
higher IN rank the japanese woman the more
elaborate her couture is likely to be.
EVERY KIND of life says Good Words,
whether animal or vegetable. requires both the
presence of air and the presence of water; we
do not, of course. say that in other parts OF the
universe there may not be types Of life for
which neither air nor water is essential; moth
rRrff snIA Fhar
which we are able to produce with reference TO
the presence or absence OF the substances we
have named. First. with regard to water
There are, no doubt, some reasons for thinking
that there may have been once water on the
moon, but it is now certain that there is no
liquid on its surface, nor, indeed, can If nd
much reason to believe that there is even frozen
water there. as has been sometimes supposed.
II 8 certainly q singular fact that TWO constitu-
ents which are SO abundant here should seem to
be entirely wanting in the moon, aud it is a l in
terestlng speculation as TO what has happened
to the water on the moon, if il once existed
there. 1t is generally believed that as
our satellite cooled down the water pen.
etrated into the interior and was there
seized upon by the minerals which re-
quired water In order that they might assume
their appropriate crystalline forms. The water
on the moon has. therefore, according TO this
visw, become transformed into a solid form
Incorporated with the bodily texture of the
globe. 1t has even been surmised that a similar
destiny awaits the oceans on our own globe;
broad and deep though they seem. they yet
may be Inadequate to quench the thirst for
water possessed by so vast a mass of crystalliz-
ing minerals as must exist in the interior of tue
globe But whether this be the explanation OF
the absence Of liquid water from the moon or
not, the fact Of the absence cannot be ques-
toned. The moon has been subjected to care
full scrutiny for centuries, yet one has ever
seen any genuine ocean or sea- no one mas ever
seen any indication of the present existence of
water, and we are entitled to assert that water
in liquid form. is absent from the surface of
our satellite.