The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ST. JoHN's, N. F.; Montreal aud Ottawa, Can
ada; Portland. Ore. Temeswar, Hungary, TIL
este, Austria. and Venice, Padua. Verona. Man
tua, Milan and Turin, Italy, are all situated be-
tween 49, and 46o north latitude. Who would
think of putting Montreal and Ottawa in the
same latitude as Venice and Verona.
THE practice of medicine in Turkey was
formerly subjected to conditions of response
bity, which, il exacted in the western hemis
phere, might considerably decrease the mum
Der of medical practitioners When the ignor-
ance OF a physician caused the death of a pa
tient, he was condemned TO bear at the neck two
boards in the shape of collar with bells around.
Thus attired be was marched through the
principal streets, the bells proclaiming his
ignorance and warning the people against him.
AS persons death IS generally due to ignor
ance in prolongng life, it must have required
large degree of enthusiasm for the art Of heal
ing to adopt it as a career.
Four adventurous persons three men and one
woman, will leave Seattle about the middle of
March for New York with no other means of
conveyance than wheelbarrow, They are J.
=. Cheatham, John Howard, K. w. CASTOR and
Miss Lou Howard. The men will take turn
about pushing the wheelbarrow, and only when
the woman gives out from exhaustion will she
be allowed to ride. Only in case of sickness will
stops of longer duration than twelve hours be
made until Chicago is reached where il is in
tended to remain for three days and then push
on for New York. 1t is the intention Of the
quartet to cover the distance between Seattle
and New York in five months.
A MAN had been badly lacerated In the leg by
broken glass. says the Youths Companion
The wounds healed under treatment but
Somewhst uncomfortable feeling remained, aud
in walking the man was unable to bring his
foot squarely to the ground About three
years later an increase In this uncomfortable
feeling, together with stiffness and pain in
the knee joint, led him to enter a hospital,
where a deep incision in the neighborhood of
Had fran ant Of utodn
glass inch wide and inches long. A sharp
corner projected into the cavity Of the thigh
joint. Three smaller fragments were found
Embedded deeper in the tissues. In each case
the fragment was surrounded by a mass of
tough TISSUE which acted like the protective
sac around the imbedded ball A lady
while eating piece of pie, fell into terrible
find no cause for the trouble, and thought that
whatever foreign substance had produced it had
been swallowed; but the patient insisted that
there was still some obstruction which not only
choked her. but impaired her power of speech.
For six weeks she remained nearly speechless
and under constant treatment After that time
she slightly improved in health and voice, but
without permanent relief. At length, nearly
two years after the accident DR. Ransom Of
New York was consulted, and removed piece
OF glass from the larynx, hanging between the
vocal cords IL was triangular in shape and
measured on its three edges seven eighths of
an inch, inch, IA inches respectively The
woman's voice at once improved and the irrita-
ton mainly disappeared though slight swell
Ing remained.
WHERE lchen-covered tree-stems are COM
mon, says BlacklOood's Magazine, we find lichen-
colored caterpilars, moths, and other insects
A Tretty moth (Cleora glabrarial. not uncom-
mon in the New Forest, is white, busted with
black, and its larva, which feeds upon licheu is
of the same color. Some years ago, while col
Letting insects in that locality. found In the
same tufts of lchen a small black and white
spider just as closely resembling the lichens 1t
is supposed that these various color reasm-
banceS have been brought about by the need of
| concealment. A caterpillar frequenting lichsp,
| or bird living among leaves would be greatly
advantaged by color resemblance to their sew
eral surroundings; hence variations in the re-
| quired direction have escaped destruction, and
| there has been through long ages gradual per.
| tecting Of the resemblances. This Is the most
generally received explanation IL accounts also
which / have referred, which do not
| so much need protection from their
enemies as a disguise with the help of
| which they can steal upon their prey We
must, however, guard against taking gener-
| alities for granted without careful examina-
| ton of the several cases. Many years ago
| Messrs. Kirby and Spence called attention to
| the resemblance between lchen-feeding insects
and their food: MANY of the notified moths,
which take their station of diurnal repose on
| the north side of the trunks Of trees are with
difficulty distinguished from the gray and
green iichens that cover them. OF this kind
are Msella aprilina and Acronycta psi. The
| caterpillar of Bryopha algae, when it feeds on
| the yellow Lchen juniperinus. is always vel
low; but when up7n the gray Ltchen saxatils,
its hue becomes gray. This cnfsnpe is probably
produced by the color of itsfDod." The last
| sentence contains most noteworthy sugges-
| ton, which may help us in explaining many
similar cases of coloration in much simpler
way than by natural selection or natural
| elimination. IL is well known that the pigments
| which are often the cause of the colors in
animals and always, except in the case of white.
| of plants, are extremely resistent to chem
] ical action. Some of these pigments will pass
unscathed through the strongest acids and the
most powerful alkalis. 1t Is quite conceivable,
then, that they will be equally unaffected bv
the chemical action of an animals digestive
juices. There is, however no need at all for
theory upon this point; it has been shown to De
the case in several instances. DR.. Eisig found
in the Mediterranean species of warm living
in the interior OF a sponge. The sponge was
brilliant yellow, the color being due TO particles
of q peculiar pigment deposited in its tissues
The worm was also yellow. and it might be sup
POSED that tn sharmony had been brought about
by the necessity for concealment. An inuuisi-
tive fish poking his nose into the interior OF the
sponge, In search of the various small creatures
which constantly take up their lodgings in such
spot, would pass over the "protectively col
ored" word, and select one that was obvious on
account Of its different colors 1t was found
however, that the of the warm was merely due
TO particles of the coloring substance of the
host, which had passed out Of the intestine of
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