The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Three brothers down ia Maine ran sixteen
+ lncuhators and this season have Matched IS.
I 900 ducks IN them. They have o capital stock
90 $1,000 an paid in and next season VIII In
crease their plant 20 twenty-five incuhators'
Have you ever noticed a cat With kittens'
/ Tho cat win not eat until the kittens have
I been satisfied SAYS a writer In Cassell's Mag
/ azine Ihavc often looked in wonder at a
+ cat Of my acquaintance. which would even re-
/ tire from the dish. II the vessel had been set
/ doWn and she had commenced to eat In the
| absence Of the kitten She would retire In
I favor Of the kitten when 10 came running 10
assert It's claim. and sit quietly by looking on
/ demurely till the kitten had had It's MI. ana
/ then the patience with which she would en-
/ dure the playful onsets Of the kitten on tan
! and head while she was engaged IN tapping
/ up the morsels that had been left was truly
! fine show OF native courtesy. Under annoy
/ ance such as few human being would have IN
/ the circumstances borne with equan1mity,
she would raise her head and give the kitten
loving lick or two.
/ Gait is an important part Of physical ex-
| preston, says writer in Leisure Hours.
| BY his gait a man tells us whether
/ he is fresh or tired, strong or feeble, in good
/ health or in bad. To some extent also gait
/ denotes occupation. The upright and some
what rigid walk of the soldier differs largely
from the rather rolling gait Of the sailor; and
different from both OF these is the slow, jolt
! ing gait of the country laborer, which, how
! ever is partly accounted for by his clumsy
/ and heavy boots. In the popularity OF gait,
| again, an attentive eye discovers many moral
/ qualities. SLOW steps whether long or short
suggest a gentle or reflective state
| of mind, as the case may be; while on the
| contrary, quick steps seem to speak OF agita-
tation and energy. Reflection is revealed in
! frequent pauses, and walking to and fro back
| ward and forward, the direction of the steps
wavering and following every changing i'm
| pulse of the mind, inevitably betrayS uncer
| taiptV hesitation and indpCisiOn ~ II might
| ask too curious a knowledge TO distinguish by
| their respective gaits the miser, the spend
thrift and the phtlanthropist; but the proud
man is almost always known by his step, the
vain man to some extent, and the obstinate
man not a little.
No tree is entirely protected against being
struck by lightning. When the atmosphere
is overcharged with electricity all of them
| are liable to become the aim of some bolt,
| but the beech is the one in the whole category
| of trees that is more rarely struck than others.
| Prof. Hellman, in his statistics on this sub
! ject says that lightning strikes pinewood
| trees fifteen times oftener and the oak fifty
| four times oftener than the beech. This fact
| is very well known to frequenteTS of timbered
| regions. Traces of lightning bolts. says the
! St. Louis ost-Dispatch, are most frequently
| found on oak trees, while only rarely are they
| observed in the beech, 1t was thought at first
that the condition of the ground had much to
! do with this unequal distribution Of lightning
strokes Of trees. but this is not the case. II is
the Characteristic condition of the tree itself
! that accounts for II. Trees which contain oily
! substances to a high degree, even in the sum
mer, may be regarded as comparatively
! lightning proof, while those containing glu-
! coSe matter attract the lightning more fire.
| quently. Dead branches are very apt to in
| crease this danger, 1t need only be cited that
| acorns are valuable because they contain 50
| per cent Of glucose matter and only 4 per
| cent. of fat while from the nut Of the beech
! pignut oil is made
The Paris Temps publishes some interest
/ ing particulars with regard 10 the quantity OF
! beer which now is breWed in Europe. the fig
ures given representing the average of the
last five or six years. According to these fig-
ureS the total quantity annually brewed is
3,lO5, 900 gallons, Germany coming first
with production of 1,07l ,O66, l65 gallons of
which ga, 1852 sos gallons were brewed in North
Germany, ,3U5 gallons in Bavaria TO-,
935, $50 gallons in Wurtemburg, 56,445, $40 gGl-
Ions in Baden, and II 0S3, 305 gallons in Alsace
Lorraine Great Britain comes next with a
total Of S74 2275 gallons, Austria Hungary
! Is third with total of 30S ,675
gallons while France follows with about
225, 100000 gallons. Relative to their popula-
ton, Denmark with 40 185, 900 gallons brewcC
and Norway with SO, 304 800 have a much larg-
er production than most Of the others But
Russia, with It's vast area and large popula-
ton, produces only 65, 892s70 gallons, while
the quantity OF beer produced in other coun-
tries is: Switzerland, 26,694 495 gallons;
Spain, % 062, 800; Turkey 3,150,000; Italy, g.
099, sos; Roumania, 2 POS 000 Luxembourg and
| Servia, 2,092, 500 gallons each, ond Greece,
l50, 345 gallons. The Temps ADDS that the aV-
erage quantity of beer brewed out of Europe
is $50 66S ,815 gallons in the United States, &c.,
25S, $40 in Australia, and ,0G6,02 in Japan.
Mr. N. A. Painbolt, of Norfolk, Neb,. who
was present at the worlds congress of finance
at Chicago, said to a St. Louis Globe Demo
crat writer: II am more fearful of the man
who makes a good appearance than of the
other kind Men who expect to deceive bank
ers understand how much we have to depend
hoy rNroVn ara how oil M
cOrdtngly If man comes to me with a Ger
tain amount of timiditY and want of conf
dence, am more inclined to take him at his
word and give him what he wants than If he
is ready of speech and entirely self possessed.
AS for the theory that the confidence man be-
trays himself by his manner, have my
doubts. II hasn't been my experience with
them. Dickens is considered an authority on
human nature. Dickens said something like
this: The general impression is that dis
honest man cannot look you in the face. Let
me disabuse your mind of that, for
l promise you a dishonest man can
look you out Of countenance every hour
of the day If there is anything to be gained by
it My experience in the banking business
confirms that view of it" J. NJ. Dinwiddie
of Cedar Rapids, said: Let me add my ex-
perience A man came into my bank with
check for S15-his wages as a carpenter, he
said. He was dressed like working man.
He looked like one. In every way he had the
appearance OF an honest man. ! hadn't the
least doubt he was what he claimed to be, and
ture. He cashed six others just like it in our
city that day We got him. and l looked him
over afterwards carefully. but couldn't see
anything about him which cOnhicted with my
first judgment that he was an honest working
man. Even after he was in prison he was Just
as honest-looking as when he came to the
bank window"
There is large numter of people in Pitts
burg who go to the trouble of taking care of
the feet said a doctor to a Dispatch re-
porter Il have 1900 names of the most
prominent people in the two cities on my
books who engage me by the year to keep
their feet in proper condition This may
seem surprising, but If you saw the kind of
feet meet with in my practice you would
wonder why there is not even more attention
paid to this matter In all my nine years of
practice in this city l have only seen six
beautiful, well shaped feet and the most of
these belong to men. The women of Pitts
burg have much uglier feet than the men, be-
cause woman will persist in squeezing her
foot into a shoe that is too small for her. She
seems to go on the theory that no shoe its
unless il pinches. On this account meet with
the most dangerous thing l encounter in
treating feet People are very careless and
are prone to leave an ingrowing nail go with
out being remedied. so long that IL is liable to
result In blood poisoning. l know certain
society belle, who, on account Of her desire to
appear to have a small foot squeezed it into
a shoe several sizes too small. II wss agony
for her and she no sooner got to her boudoir
than off came the shoes, and she was content
to sit there and suffer for appearance sake
Yet let her hear music and be in the bril-
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