The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE list of temperance drinks a lecturer says,
now numbers several hundred, with few par
tcularly popular. And lager leads all the
| rest.
HUMAN BEINGS have six muscles to each eye
by the operation of which they move it on
either side. Cattle and horses have in addition
! to these an extra muscle which supports the
eyebal while the neck is being inclined in search
| of food.
EUROPEAN sAvANrs have been for centuries
| seeking the site of the Garden OF Eden in the
| Orient; but pair OF uututorad Zulus have I'M
doubtedly discovered ''the tree of the knowledge
| of good and evil" in London after a very brief
| acquaintance with that city, says the Phila-
| delphia Record. These barbarans, when asked
| to perform native dance in their native cost
uue at the aquarium, were ashamed, and re.
fused to thus exhibit their nakedness without
| ecclesiastical sanction, which, OF course was
| readily obtained
OWING to dispute as to who should use the
switch first, the crews of two trains that met at
the Third street crossing of the North Penn rail-
road. at South Bethlehem, Pa. instituted novel
| pushing match. Both engines were shifting
| and each had about a dozen cars attashed
| They met with slight bump at the switch,
and after an exchange Of warm words each
opened his throttle. intending to push the other
| back Both the engines snorted and puffed
| while sparks flew from their rapidly revolving
| wheels. For several minutes neither budged an
inch. Finally the camelback was forced to give
| way.
ALTHOUGH an ant ia a tiny thing says Hdrp-
er's Young PeoDIe, yet its brain is even timer.
But, although it is necessarily smaller than the
ants head which contains it, yet 1t is larger in
proportion, according to the ants size than the
| brain of any known creature The best writer's
| upon ants-those who have made the astoni ;h-
| tshng intelligence of these little insects spe-
| cial study--are obliged to admit that they dis
play reasoning ability, calculation, reflection
| and good Judgment. Such qualities of brain
show a more than ordinary instinct, and we are
not surprised to hear that the auts big brain
carries out our idea that he possesses a higher
intelligence than is known by other workers of
his size.
A SECOND is the smallest division Of time is
general use, and when we consider that In one
year there are about 81 55s 900 of these periods
| 1t would certainly seem as il it were small
| enough for all practical purposes, says the Pop
UIGr Science Nelrs. But, after all, good deal
can happen in a fraction of second. A light
wave, for instance passes through distance of
| $4,000 miles in this length of time. A current
| of electricity has probably an even greater
speed. The earth itself moves in its orbit at
rate of about twenty miles a second, thus far
| exceeding the fastest railroad train on its sur
| face. tuning fork of tAe French standard
| vibrates $40 times per second to produce the
note A on the treble staff.
In ORDER to insure more safety in ropes used
for scaffolding purposes, says the English Me-
| chGnic particularly in localities where the at
mosphere is destructive of hemp fiber, such
| ropes should be dipped when dry into a bath
containing twenty grains or sulphate OF copper
per ltre of water, and kept in soak in this solu
1 ton some four days, afterward being dried; the
ropes will thus have absorbed certain quantity
of sulphate of copper which Will preserve them
for some time both from the attacks Of animal
parasites and trom rot. The copper salt may
| be fixed in the flbers by a coating of tar or by
sOapy water, and IN order to do this it may be
passed through bath of boiled tar, hot, draw
| ing it through a thimble to press back the exec
of tar, and suspending it afcerward on q AZ
ing to dry and harden. In q second method the
roap is soaked in a solution OF 100 grammes of
| soap per litre of water.
| The NILE has a fall of but six inches to the
I 1000 miles, The overflow commences in June
| every year and continues until August, attain
ing an elevation OF from "a to &c feet above loS
water n ark, and flowing through the valley
! of Egypt" in turbulent body twelve miles
! wide. During the last 1000 years there has
been but one sudden rise Of the Nile, that of
| 1899, when 30 900 people were drowned. After
1 the waters recede each year the exhalations
\ from the mud are simply intolerable to all ex-
| cept natives. This mud deposit adds about
eight inches to the soil every century, and
| throws muddy embankment from lat 16 feet
| into the sea every year. This being the case it
plain that the mouth of the river is thousands
of feet further north now than II was in the
| of time when the sediment will make dam en-
| tirely across the Mediterranean sea.
New YORK. is to have sensation soon surpass-
ing any she may derive from Chanteuses cleo
triques or European comic llons. Thirty howl
| ing, whirling Arabian dervishes, or Mohamme-
| dan priests of whom some come from equato-
| rial Africa, while others were with Chinese
Gordon when Khartoum fell sailed from Alex
| andria Egypt, on June 8. on the Anchor Line
| steamship Trinncra. Their sheik or chief is
| Elias Efendi Maiuck of Damascus. Syria, per
sonal friend of Emin Pasha. They are to be
managed 10 this country by Josef Maluck, an
! Americanized Arabian, who hopes to secure
Madison Square garden or some large hall for
their nRrS0FmAnrpS What a
consist in may be iu some degree gathered by
the applications "howlng" and "whirline"
often given to them by travellers who have
| watched these strange fanatics whirllug around
| on one toe to an accompaniment of bowls till
they resemble tops, while the foam induced by
their exertons and the religious frenzy into
which thdy work themselves fairly pours from
| their jaws.
THE RUSSIANS are blaming England for per-
hitting cholera to their frontiers by omit
| ting TO take proper precautions in India and
especially for not looking after the Afghaus and
compelling them to take the proper sanitary
precautions. 1t is said that the bodies Of cholera
victims, have been kept in some sort of Quaran-
tine between Herat and the Persian frontier
and afterward sent on to be buried within the
sacred precincts of Meshed thus increasing the
| contagion. 1t is taken for granted that the
| epidemic entered Northern Persia from
| OF course, deny that they are in any
sense responsible. phey intimate that the
Russians are suffering from one of the inevita
BILE results of the construction OF the Central
Asian railway, which, although beneficial in de-
| veloping trade and Intercourse, has been the di-
rect means of introducing the present outbreak.
Before the road was buiIt Russia was protected
against contagion on that side by vast deserts
of burning sand and waste. Now, by means OF
it, she comes into direct contact and communi-
cations with Asiatic populations and conditions
in and among which pestilence in some form is
nearly always prevalent.