The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The CAT is called kat in Danish and Dutch.
katt in Swedish. chat in French. katti or katie
IN German. catus in Latin gatto in Italian, cato
In Portuguese ana Spanish, kot In Polish kots
In Russian, cath In Welsh, kath in Cornish.
catua in Basque and gaz or kats in Armenian.
AMONG the odd habits Of rocks is the way that
members of the same rookery have of inter
marrying generation after generation The
males always choose their wives from among
their near neighbors, and one should be so
bold as TO bring home to his rookery a bride
from distance, the other rocks will Invariably
refuse to receive her, and will force the pair to
build some way off. In the neighhorhood of big
rookeries outlying nests OF this kind may al
ways be found.
TIE marvellous increase in the sale of bogus
electrical appliances in England has filed En-
glish electricians with despair as they are prac-
tically powerless to prevent the public from
being victimized. America, however, has
s shsa pTactcsl way OF graphing with the
no electric belt or so-called ''electro-medical
appliance, shall have space In the electricity
building at the worlds fair. The head of the
electrical department of the exhibition basis
his exclusion on the general rules governing
exhibits that no patent medicine or secret
nostrum" shall be afforded space, and he has
classed the electric belt" people under these
general heads. That such step required no
small amount of moral courage will be seen
from the fact that more than 100 applications
OF this description have come before the de-
partment. The English electrical papers speak
IN terms of the strongest commentator of the
decision, admitting that the attitude taken by
the authorities of the electrical department at
the Chicago exposition contrasts favorably
with that assumed by the managing committee
or the late Crystal palace exhibition.
In the wilder parts Of South America SAYS
the Youths Companion, you can bag deer or
wild hog almost any day, if you set wisely
about it, but months may pass without even
the sight OF tepir, though you may be In their
haunts continually. You see plenty Of unms-
taxable three-toed tracks, and now and again
you may hear tapirs moving In the forest-not
leaping through openings between the vines
and branches as deer does, nor pushing the
brush aside like a taguar, but crushing their
way by sheer strength with a great cracking
or twtgs. 1t is almost useless to follow
tracks or sounds; clumsy as the animals ap-
pear. they can race through the underbrush
faster than dog can follow, and they are so
keen OF sight and scent and so prone to conceal
ment that even the most experienced hunter
rarely catches sight Of one in the daytime I'M
less by accident. The best plan is to lie in wait
for them, as the 1.-the and crafty jaguar does
by their drinking and wallowing places and this
must be done at night. may as well add here
that tapirs are common all over tropical South
ana Central America, except the thickly settled
regions and the Pacific coast. NaturaIsts dis
tinguish several species, differing mainly in size
ana the structure or the bones, but they are
much alike. all go singly, or in bands generally
OF two or three, and feed on fruits and leaves
In China, according to Jesse Herbert late
legal adviser to the government of South China
and professor OF law in the University Of Can
ton. officials are held responsible for ehe con-
duct OF the community, says the London Netrs
II son has murdered his Lather, not only is the
m urderer cut TO pieces, but the house ia pulled
down and the ground dug up TO q depth OF
about six feet All the neiehbors, moreover
! are punished, the boys headmaster is DO.
hao dad Fhn rsfufEA
higher officials are reduced three degrees in
rank There are two officials for each post in
order that one might spy upon the other,
the rule being that no official shall report
has done. From she highest official to the
lowest all practice system of unblushins
robbery. called "squeezing." The salary of
viceroy in some cases is EGO year; he reg
ularly draws not less than $4,000 The salary
of judge is 94O year; he regularly draws at
least S2OOO. There are LOO police in Canton
office is much sought after. The fact is we are
assured, that the police are on excellent terms
with the guild or fraternity of thiev es and thew
work tremendously together. By the code a
boy under 10 cannot be punished. What the
Chinese do is to pop him into prison and keep
him there until he is 10. II Mr.. Herbert were
asked to summarize the government Of China
he would say the people are communists. man
aging their own affairs, ruled by despot whose
administration is democratic and whose admin
istrators are liars, thieves and extortioners
DURING the long Tertiary epoch, when opos-
sums disported themselves on the site OF Paris
and mastodons tramped along the valley of the
Thames, the earth was IN the throes Of mount
ain-makfng, says the Edinburgh Hevietu. The
Alps, the Hmalayas, the Alleghenies, the Andes
attest the power OF her activity in those DAYS
At their termination our continents stood
greatly higher than they do now, and this aided
their glaciations, although it does not fully &C
count for it. But as they became loaded with
ice. EMrODe and America gradually nd xua,
venture to say contemporaneously, sank. This
was inevitable. Owing to the extreme heat and
pressure prevailing in its Interior the earth is an
emlnently elastic body. It's surface actually
bulges in or out with very slight increase or
decrease OF the load upon it. But the
great ice sheet formed no such
visionary burdens as Atlas bore upon his broad
shoulders. Warren Upham estimates that an
area Of about 1000, 900 square miles in North
America and another OF about 1000 900
square miles In Europe were covered by ice
sheets, which in their maximum extent had
probably an average thickness of half to two
thirds OF mile, or perhaps even OF one mile "
The weight. however, OF q column of ice half a
mile nigh is IN round numbers, 100 pounds 60
the square inch and there are more than l. 600 :
0O00 900 square inches in a square mile And
the whole OF the enormous mass being extracted
from the ocean, its differential effect in pro-
ducng changes Of level was doubled. The ice
numbered land accordingly went down like an
oyerladen ship until it was awash
with with t the waves and sea shells
above the drift. Then as the ice melted
recovery ensued, and how closely it followed
upon relief OF pressure Is shown by the tilt 60
the once horizontal beaches Of Lake Agassix
On both sides OF the Atlantic equally the inter
calation of fossilized forests bears authentic
witnesses TO the sweeping over the land of two
great waves OF Toe Invasion The trees mani
festly grew where the glaciers had been; again
the glaciers crept forward 60 constitute them
solves the sepuichers OF the trees. The second
advance however, fell short of the first, and
succeeded 10 unknown interval OF time
Opinions are much divided as to its true signifi-
canoe DR. Wright inolines to connect the FOR