The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NINkVEH, Inc ancient CITY, was IL miles long
and miles wide, surrounded by wall 100 feet
high and 90 feet wide.
AT York, Pa, in the orchard of Simon
Mueller, there is a tree that annually bears
crop Of three different kinds Of fruit Peaches,
pears and apples.
THERE is light house to every fourteen miles
OF English coast, to every thirty four miles of
Irish coast, and one to every thirty-nine miles
Of Scottish shore line.
SIX brothers of the Frost family at Kansas
City own the following odd lot of names: Jack
Frost, Winter Frost, White Frost, Cold Frost,
Early Frost and Snow Frost.
BERLIN chemist claims to have discovered
the art Of reproducing colors true to nature
with the camera. If true. the discovery is one
of the most important that has been made in
the line Of photography.
A CORRESPONDENT OF the Confecttoners' Jour
mol says that banana juice makes a flrst-class
indelible ink. spot on white shirt from a
dead ripe banana is marked forever, and the
juice from8nanas thoroughly decayed is a
bright, cleaTcarmine.
COMPARATIVE examination Of the skulls of
savage and civilized races shows that the in
creased brain devslopmsot Of ths ilAttsy IN all.
ways accompanied BY q married nodiAeatea In
the form and size OF the jaws and teeth. This
modification is usually SPOKEN Of as dsgen-
crate condition. -
In PARA people Of Indian blood predeminate,
and are found in all classes Of society from
street peddlers and servants to wealthy CAPT
talists and high government officials There
are very few Portuguese or Africans, and the
descendants of both these races show a large
admixture OF Indian blood.
WONDERFUL things are expected of the new
remedy for cholera which has been tested for a
month past at one Of the Hamburg hospitals,
Sir Andrew Clark first experimental with it In
England, and sent its discoverer an English
! chemist m Ham hur fo
| perlodate crystals, but its composition has not
| been made public. Its action Is said to be the
destruction of all miorobe germs without in
| jury to the human tissues 1t is an interesting
! fact, by the way that flies are found to be
| dangerous propagators OF bacilli diseases An
experimenter In Ham burg recently captured
nine flies which had been In contact with cholera
material and placed them in TASKS containing
nutrient gelatine. In six of the TASKS many
comma bacilli were subsequently found.
TEE phase, THAT beats bob tail, " is not un-
common even now In many parts of the count
ry,especislly in the south, says the PHILADELPHIA
Times. It's origin is traceable to a race which
occurred about 1640,or shortly before that year,
| on the Fairfield track, on the MechanicsviIle
turnpike, near Richmond, Va. In those DAYS
Bob Polndexter lived in Richmond. He was
sporting man, wore flne clothes, and owned a
| number OF horses. Among his a imals was one
| he named Ptz2arro, plain bay gelding, with
black name and tail the latter bobbed
| short. There was nothing extraordinary about
| the horse, and nobody looked upon him as a
racer. But Poindexter took a notion that h
/ could run. He used to drive Pizarro about
! Richmond hitched to a buggy. On the day
that he was advertised to appear on the track
a great crowd was present and excitement ran
high. for good deal of money had been put up
| on other horses. To the astonishment of every
| body Pizarro beat every horse on the track
and the people went fairly wild Bob-tailed
PlZarro never made much of record. He won
two or three races and then went to pieces For
! years afterWard when anything extraordinary
happened in that section it was said Of it; THAT
! beats bob tail"
PROSPEROUS farmer In Lone Tree Valley has
hen that has set the tongues of all the old
i women gossips wagging says the San Jose
| Mercury. II is common barnysrd hem but it
| has, nevertheless created a sensation home
months ago a mule stepped on the hens le1
and broke it. The farmer was In the barn at
the time and heard the hen squawk, and, uoop
examination, found the mule standing upon It's
| leg. He took his knife cut the broken leg off
| and turned her loose. aud in due time she re-
| covered and was the Hvelest kind of a one.
legged hen After this accident, however, the hen
| would not 90 near the barn, and, In fact, had a
habit of wandering on by herself Some time
ago it was discovered that she had nest full of
eggs In a fence corner. and was setting on them.
| The eggs were coffes-colored and notified
| looking good deal ike turkey eggs. srcept
that they were small. Last week seven Of the
| eggs we're Matched, and they wero the funniest
stead Of with feathers they were covered with .
woolly covering that resembled fur, a sort of
cross between feathers and hair. Four of the
little chickens had wattles that stood straight
up from the ears above the head giving them a
very muish look. All the women are sure thar
it is a case of marked chicken.
THE Indian hunter has a distinctive gait. saws
the Forest and Stream. His toes. either straight
before him or pointing in ward, cover the center
OF gravity. His hips sway slightly to the star-
ping side and his rear foot is not exactly lifted
but rather peeled on the ground lust high
enough to clear the surface and settle in its new
place before the weight comes on 1t. He does
not swing his shoulders nor walk with a snrino
nor plant his foot with shock as the white
man does. II the Indian " ere turned to stone
while In the act OF stepping the statue would
probably stand balanced on one foot. This gait
gives the hunter great control over his move
ments. he is always poised II a
stick cracks under him it is because OF
his weight and not by reason of the impact
lie goes silently and with great economy of
force. The muscles have less strain on them
and do not tire so soon. Sometimes it seems
as If they never tired He treads through the
woods and swamps with no noise ex
cept the rustling of grass and leaves
enables him to put bis moving foot down as
gently as you would lay an egg on the table
You could not hear the thud OF a football IL you
listened a week. The gait is not elastic, nor
springy, nor handsome, and it even makes the
man seem bow-legged. Put the same person in
leather boots on floor and you would truly saw
that he stumped along, but in moccasins on a
hunt he does not walk, he glides