The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


toWnspeople secured cannon and hred sew
eral shots from the shore. which frightened
tne invaders away without gaining the Gov
eted prize.
Another ineontestable proof Of the rapid
advance Of the japanese in the civilization Of
the west is the following advertisement.
Malch appeared in a Toxic paper recently:
young lady wishes 10 get married. She is
very beautiful, has rosy face, which is sur
rounded by dark curly hair. Her eyebrows
snow the form OF the hahmOon, and the
mouth is strong and pretty She is also very
rlch Wellread enough to admire the flowers
IN me DAY time at the side of a life eompan-
ion or at night to sing of the stars in heaven.
Inc man whom she will choose must also be
young, handsome and well educated. and be
ready to share the same grave with her"
Interesting psychological experiments by
the aid Of mechanical apparatus are in pro
gress at Yale. Heretofore all the expert
ments performed have been upon persons
IaDorlng under Authorizations. confined to the
sense OF temperature. AS soon as apparatus
can De provided persons subjected to halluci-
nauonS OF hearing and sight will be expert
nSuled upon, ana thus new held for orfgi-
mai investigation oDened. Again, people
uhdef abnormal conditions will be treated.
sueh as persons thoroughly hypnotized or
asleep or insane persons, the latter includ-
ing thoSe suffering from monomania and kim
dred mental states, which have ALWAYS taf-
neo medical science. DR.. Scripture and his
corps OF assistants will continue their inves-
legations In this life throughout the year.
Old records say that the law once took a
hand In reducing the size of womens sleeves
in Venice. That was in 1903, and it's effect
was soon seen in the extravagant trains that
women added to their gowns. AS soon as the
puzzled lawmakers realized what was the
matter they curtailed the skirt by a second
eolct, to be again circumvented by the great
maynlhcence of both skirts and sleeves
which were blaZoned with emoroideries of
gold and set with precious stones. These,
enacted n ia hifO
while the women we're getting breath for a
fresh contest and a sleeve that exceeded in
cost anything that had gone before, for they
were Dotn vide and long, reaching even the
mem OF the dress. These were the arm
coverings that called forth the last nat from
the venetian Senate.
Why is 1t that it r2akes nearly everyone
angry to sneezs? One will generally hear an
exclamation Of impotence after sneeze.
Delegate heard gentleman let of several
OF these s:accato explosions this morning
and between every snort he gave vent to
lively expressions Of sulphuric adjectives
Asked why he did ii he said he always had to
sneeze when he didn't want to. 1t inter
rupted his business and Jared him from cen
ter to circumference. and he didn like il. 1t
was useless and narrowing expenditure Of
time Women do not like to sueeze They
may give vent to even so small cat
SneeZe," but it causes them to make such I'M
becoming faces, diSturbs their eomplaisance,
dlSarranges their hair, their bonnets, and sets
them all on edge, and they haven t any use
for it anyway. And yet scientists say the
sneeze is beneficial; that it is a healthful pro
vision Of nature shakes up the constitution
and prevents clOgging and sluggishness of the
circulation. This may be true, but mankind
would much prefer some other method Of
regulating constitutional matters.
Marketing has a fascination for a good
many New Workers.. says the New York
Press. Ward McAllister visits his butcher
daily, and holds that every gentleman"
ought to select his cut of meat for himself.
Frederic K. Coudert selects his vegeta bles for
himself when he is in town, and is particular
about his salads. Even Chauncey NJ. Depew
will be seen picking out fancy groceries and
condiments at the fashionable grocery not
far from the Grand Central station and
Ihomas l.. James often goes out to Engle-
wood laden down with supplies for the family
larder. Col. Thomas L. Watson Of the Con-
solldated Exchange will go up to Bridgeport
by the afternoon train on Saturday carving
a market basket full of comforts and the
chances are that George w. Jones. one of the
governors Of the institution of which Col.
Watson was vice president. will assist in the
selections. Henry Clews claims that he can
pick out a tender turkey better than most
market men, and hotel men like Breslin, Ash
man and Darling are, of course, past masters
in the art Of getting the best possible meal
for the least possible price. Brooklyn men
rarely go to market. They leave that TO their
wives, and it seems to be characteristic of the
SUBURBAN communities as well.
The Armstrong Company has shown some
ordnance. A six-inch gun was fired four times
in twenty seconds, an eightinch gun three
times in thirty seconds. A torpedo was
driven satisfactorily with cordtte pow
der. There was search light that kept it's
beam upon an 1ject no matter how violently
the vessel rolled. ten-inch thirty ton gun,
when it was fired, opened the breech screw
! by the reco1l and wound up a spring, which,
when released, would close the Dreech again.
A 47-l0 field howitzer anchored itself,
after the hrst discharge, by driving
spade shaped plate into the ground
after which its recoil was met by a
jacket which surrounds it. quick
firing field gun, which an .hors it.
self in similar manner, fired five
rounds Of shrapnel in SO seconds A fifteen
FOUNDER howitzer could be taken to pieces so
that no part of it would weigh more than 200
pounds; It's screwed together in five min
utes. A slX-inch gun, with light portable dis
appearing mountings for siege train, could
be taken apart that no portion weighed
more than three tons, ten hours being re
quired to mount it. A siX-inch naval gun
fired five rounds in SO seconds, each time at q
different range and target. A plate of special
steel designed for a shield received rifle and
eating gun ire at 100 yards range without a
single penetration, while the plate hitherto
used was penetrated at every Shot the Cat
ling gun almost cutting it IN two.
One woull hardly expect to find reptiles
domesticated, but they are found in that
position at Para, not far from the mouth of
the Amazon, says writer in the Pail Mall
budget. Inc stores and warehouses of that
city are oVerrun with vermin OF all sorts
and more especially rats. To keep down this
plague young bOas or iiboias arc placed in
the cellars. and su sss comfortably on the
plentiful supply OF food thus Afforded The
Brazilians say that they keep down TO
reasonable limits the rats, which would
otherwise play havoc with any goods thew
could get at The fact that boas feed only
at somewhat long intervals accounts for the
fact that there always seem to be lust rats
enough for their subsistence while they
perform their cat-like duties most satisfac-
| torily. But as we have said, they also act
as very efficient watchdogs. The skin OF the
boa Is an article of commerce both in the
Brazils and Eastern Asia In the latter its
chief use Is to form the heads of banjos and
other native musical Instruments n
being extremely tough and hard In
Brazil 1t is also used at times to make
riding boots and formed an excellent substi-
tute for upper" leather that of the anaconda
being the best AS regards vitality a sneci
men in my possession, which had attacked a |
foolish visitor lived for eighteen months with
an open hole in its skull aboutsa inch depn
caused by bar used to beat it OF the man n |
had seized The land boa may be said to have
but one enemy apart from man and that
curiously, one OF the most insignificant of in |
sects, the ant. A certain species, particularly |
IN northern Brazil. makes annual pilgrimages |
from their Jungle retreats to some other
point, often distant many miles. and DESTROY |
every living creature that strays in their |
track. except man and domestic animals or |
cattle; The monkey or the Jaguar knows |