The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-04
rrnMs OF INTEREST.

million dollars in gold coin Will weigh
s.6s5s pound, and 81 O0o0OO in silver coin viii
weigh $500 pounds. A ton Of pure gold is
worth s602. ~ p, ami 3 ton Of pure silver is
worth So 7O3 81. The New York Tribune says
boys who are starting out 70 make their fort
unes should remember these figures.
Some Of the healthiest looking citizens OF
Cincinnati try 70 evade jury duty for the fol
lowing among other reasons; Cant sit
| still Compelled to move about" "Corns, -
Hard OF hearing" .'Eyesight poor" Ring
ing in my head, " Dizzy, Must keep cool, -
Must keep warm" ''Afraid Of draughts, :"
rheumatism, " "Toothache."
Saws the ConRregatlonalist: THE use OF
the gown by Congregational ministers ap-
pears to be steadily increasing in recent
years. In Boston Mr.. Gordon at the Old
South and DR.. Herrick at the Mount Vernon,
IN Cambridge DR.. Mckenzie at the First in
Brookline DR.. Thomas at the Harvard church
ana In Newton DR.. Calkins regularly stand
before their people in the black gown. The
minister going to supply the Central church
will find that article in the retiring room. DR..
Stlmson has assumed IL on entering his new
pastorate at Broadway tabernacle New
YORK. In a number of the other larger
churches 1t is part OF the pulpit equipment"
DR.. Mcconnell, the well-known Episcopal
ian clergyman OF Philadelphia, in q recent
sermon said: Il have been instructed by my
ecclesiastical superior to use prayer to
Almighty God to avert the cholera. But
cholera is dirt disease. 1t is, therefore, a
preVentable disease. To prevent the cholera
you have only to remove the dirt. If you
leave the dirt, you invite the cholera. This
city OF Philapelphia is full of filth which no.
body Is trying to remove. To let that filth re-
main and pray to God TO keep away the
cholera is to trihe both with the cholera and
with Almighty God. While that filth is
allowed to remain I refuse to offer such
prayers"
A nickel steel crank shaft the first ever
cast in the United States, has been made at
the Bethlehem, Pa iron works for the Inman
steamship Paris. 1t is intended for a spare
shaft necessary to have on hand in case Of q
break when there is not time to make new
one. Some idea Of the magnitude OF the shaft
may be gained from the fact that one OF the
crank pins weighs 5000 pounds. The tensile
strength was accurately determined at 10000
pounds to the square inch, while the best Ger
man or English steel will break at a maxi
mum test of 5000 pounds. Great care was
taken in construction, as on the Paris the
shaft is driven at the rate of over eighty rev
o1utions per minute. The shaft is hollow, a
6-1nch hole having been bored from end to
end, so that If there had been defect in the
center the boring would have removed it. The
shaft is now ready to be put on board any
time it is needed.
Every one knows the pretty. light and
graceful chairs and other articles of furni-
ture made from rattan, but every one does
not know that the extremely tough and hex-
1ble wood called rattan is that OF the climb
ing palm tree. This curious climber, which
is more of vine than tree, is said by the
Philadelphia Times to be one of the singular
characteristics of forest growth in the Cele-
bes and other Malayan countries. Starting
with a trunk a little thicker than a mans
arm, 1t winds through the forest, now wrap
ping tall tree in its fold, like some gigantic
snake, and then descending again to the earth
and trailing along in snake-like curves until
1t can find some other stately tree to fasten
and climb upon in it's pursuit of light and air
The forest Is thick and iunClR-IiRn that n
seems impossible co follow the course of any
of these serpent climbers, but there is little
doubt that at the last the successful aspirant,
which stopped and cringed so long below,
will be found shooting up like flagstaff q
dozen feet or more above the tree which has
helped 1t to rise. A use OF rattan, which Is
unknown TO those who have not seen IL in its
native forest, is as water carrier. The
thirsty traveller has at all times O tumbler of
COOL refreshing water at his command by
cutting off six or eight feet of rattan and put
ting one OF the several ends to his mouth or
holding it over dish to catch the water.
great many of our well-known fishes do
not move from Christmas to Easter and often
for a much longer period. 1 paid a visit to
the chief Canadian fish hatchery, which is
under the superintendent of Mr.. Wilmot at
Newcastle, Ontario, early in December, says
a writer in Our Animal Friends. In some of
the tanks were carp and in others we're eels
One large eel was in the form of the letter S.
and poised midway in the water. When 1 re-
turned to Newcastle early in March the eel
had not changed It's place or its form, and Mr.
WilmOt assured me that it had not moved in
all that time. The carp lay close to the bot
tom of the tanks and did not move either
They like to go into deep, reedy lakes or
ponds, get close to the bottom and remain
there till the ice above their heads has
melted Unless they are disturbed doubt if
some of these alternating fishes move
so much as a fin during the winter
ing apparently into the heavens with wide
open eyes without once moving them or any
other portion of his body. At the New York
hospital they related to me curious occur
renee bearing on the Information of fishes In
the conservatory, in the upper part OF the
building, they had several glass Jars in which
there were goldfish, which is a species of carp
One morning the caretaker found q jar broken
and the water frozen through, the fish, of
course, being as rigid as ice. The lump was
taken away.and thrown into an old rubbish
barrel, where it remained several weeks. One
March day the sun was unusually strong, and
it split the cylinder of ice, and what was the
establishment Of the caretaker TO see the tail
Of fish wrigglng out of part Of the broken
block. The actual freezing had not killed the
fish, which vas removed to another tank
where 1t swims about as if nothing had be-
fallen it.
1t is curious fact that the doctrine of
probabilities" or the scientific basis upon
which all insurance rests, had its origin in
game of cards, says a writer in the North
American Review. That is to say the founda-
ton upon which this great economy depends.
and upon which it owes its claims to the con
fidence and patronage of the community.
originated from Investigations regarding
games of chance. 1t happened in this way:
About the year 1850 the Chevalier de Mere a
Flemish nobleman, who was both a respect
able mathematician and an ardent gameSter
attempted to solve the problem of dividing
eQultably the stakes when a game of chance
was interrupted. The problem was too diffi
cult for him and he sought the aid of the IA
nous Able BlalSe Pascal Jesuit priest au-
thor Of Might Thoughts and one Of the most
accomplished mathematicianS of the age
Pascal solved the problem, and in doing so
enunciated the doctrine Of probabilities - or
laws governing So-called chances. Upon this
depend not only the laws governing insur-
ance OF all kinds, but also the laws governing
the motions in planets in space, and, in fact
all astronomical science. The doctrine or
theory Pascal illustrated by the throwing of
dice. When single die is thrown the chance
OF turning up an ace is precisely one out of
the SIX, or one out Of the total number of
sides or faces. But II a large number NJ
throws are made, it will be found that each
face will be turned up an equal number Of
times. From this Pascal laid down the Drono-
sttion that results which have happened in
any given number observed cases with again
happen under similar circums stances provided
the numbers be sufticienG for the proper work
ing OF the law OF average, Thus the duration
OF the life Of single individual is one of the
greatest uncertainties, but the duration or
rate OF mortality, of n large number indi-
viduals may be predicted with great accuracy
by comparison with the observed resultS