The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

On the night of March 81 the stream of lava
from Vesuvius across the Atro del Cavallo be-
came very intense, presenting beautiful and
brilliant spectacle. while the reflection of jets
of fire Illuminated at intervals the cloud of
smoke hanging over the central crater. These
signs would seem to indicate the approach of a
true eruption.
NUMEROUS instances are related in mythology
cal tales of the people of the sea having carried
off human beings, conveying them to their
pearl-lined grottoeS in the depths. Mermen
have in this manner often obtained human girls
for brides, while mermaidS not infrequently
seek to secure for husbands good-looking youths
from dry land. rjlt-
TIE foot of horse is one of the most in
genious and unexampled piece of mechanism
in the whole range of animal structure. The
outside hoof is made upof a series of thin,
verticle lamine OF horn, about 800 in number.
Into this are fitted about 500 more thin lamina,
which belongs to the coffin bone, both sets
being elastic and adherent.
THIS is how prisoners are fed in England and
Wales on their first day of confinement: For
breakfast they get eight ounces of bread a nd
one pint OF cocoa. The midday meal consists
of twelve ounces of bread, four ounces of
colonial or American beef or mutton; the sup
per menu is, perhaps, a little meager-namely,
eight ounces OF bread and pint OF porrldge.
OF all mensgerie stock the monkey tribe is
the most precarious. The comparative COM
fort of a roof tree does not compensate for the
activity of their natural life, considering that
they feed on fresh fruits in their primeval for
ests, it is not amazing that after a time an I'M
limited dietary of hazel nuts aud stale buns
is apt TO disagree with the quadruinanal diges-
ton.
THE whale may claim to have thicker skin
than any other 1imal. 1t has a skin nowhere
less than several inches, aud in many parts
fully two feet in thickness. The distinction of
being the thickest skinned quadruped belongs
to the Indian rhinoceros, whose hide has a
knotty or graduated surface, and is so i'm
penetrable as to resist the claws Of the lion or
tiger
MANY PERSONS have puzzled their brains won
dering why the Red sea should be so called
The name was originally applied TO it because
portions of it are covered with patches from a
few yards to some miles square, composed of
microscopic vegetable animalcule which dye
the waters a blood red. When not affected by
these organisms the Red" sea is intensely blue
the shoal waters showing some shades Of green.
JONAS DE TURK on Thursday found a rare
Indian relic in the shape of a poison pot" on
the Raudenbush farm, near Poplar Neck, fn
Cumru township, Pennsylvania. The poison pot is
large flat stone with circular pit in the center
an inch deep and two inches in diameter, bearing
unmlSt aSaOle evidence of having been carved out
laboriously with sharp flint instrument. 1t
Stul shows plain traces Of the poisons and acids
which were mixed in 1t and used in the poison
ing of arrows. The posons extracted from the
sacs OF copperheads and rattleSnakes and from
certain deadly plants were used in cOnCOctinR
the baneful fluids. The poison arrows were en-
ployed by the Indians in killing their enemies
IN war and in shooting dangerous wild animals.
Few poison pots of that kind are in existence
even in the most complete museum collections
of Indian relics.
YELLOW is very fashionable color since it
became the Juror in Paris through Mile. Mars,
a French actress of high renown. Since Easter
various shades of yellow have doomed on Eas-
ter 6onnets AID gowns on Fifth avenue, New
York, and the story OF terry yellow. the most
fashionable shade, has been repeated on many
tongues. Lyons velvet manufacturer discov-
cred the terry yellow, and possesses the secret
OF It's production. He made a piece of terry
yellow velvet of the finest and rarest material
which he took to Paris aud bestowed as a gift
on the actress, with the request that she should
have 1t made into dress and wear it in one
scene or her next new play, avowinR that the
shade had been produced especially to suit her
complexion, and offering to pay the best cos
tuner Of Paris to make the garment. When
she donned it for the first time she declared it
was horrid, and that she would never wear It,
The costumer, her manager and her friends
pronounced 1t the finest gown she ever wore
and she wore it. The actress changed her mind
great audience pronounced the rament ex-
quisite, and in less than month all Paris saw
yellow the regning fashionable color The
manufacturer made 1000. 900 francs in less than
six months from his sales of terry yellow velvet
and silk.
TWENTY YEARS AGO NJ. Emile Riviere. recog.
MIXING the value Of the grotsoes under Les
Rockers Rouges, to the east Of Mentone. for
antiquarian researches, bought them, but ne
elected to work them. Later the former pro-
prletor resold them to a quarry master, Abbo,
who unearthed the prehistoric skeletons which
have excited 80 much interest in the scientific
world. M. Rviere at once applied for an in
junction and obtained it. but untor tunately the
supposed proprietor found to have had no
right to sell TO anybody. The case is further
complicated by the fact that the spot where the
bones were found is just over the italian
frontier, so that the question of ultimate owner.
ship threatens to be difficult to settle The
skeletons in dispute are three-a man whose
estimated hight, the head being missing. is
about feet inches a woman, complete 6
feet inches; and youth. These make skele-
tons OF prehistoric man unearthed up to the
present time in these caves over which the
Italian government so far has not ATTEMPTED to
exercise any rights. Upto 1873 NJ. Riviere had
discovered the skeletons Of 1 man and 2 chill
dren 20 feet below the surface of the cave. and
surrounded by pal9ollEhic implements These
skeletons are now in the Jardin des Plantes
Paris, About 1883 an antiquary named Julian
unearthed in the same cave the skeleton of a
man Of feet S inches. and M. Riviere estab-
lshed legal claim to the possession of it, The
Prince of Monaco has undertaken to nav the
costs of NJ, Riviere's present action, and will
become possessor Of the skeletons If it should
be successful.