The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An average waltz takes a dancer over about
three-quarters OF mile. a square dance
! makes him cover half mile A girl with
| wellhned programme travels thus in one
evening: Twelve waltzes. nine miles four
] Other dances at half mile apiece which is
/ hardly fairly big estimate, two miles more;
the intermissiOn stroll and the trips to the
dressing room to renovate her gown and com
! plexlon, half mile more; grand total, eleven
and onehaf miles.
Quick steps are indicative Of energy or ag-
itation, says the New York Advertiser. Tip
| toe walking symbolizes surprise curiosity,
discretion or mystery. Turned in toes are
often found in preOccupIed and absent
| minded persons. The misers walk is repre-
| sented as STOPPING noiseless, with, short,
! nervous, anxious steps Slow steps, whether
long or short, suggest a gentle or reflective
| state Of mind, as the case may be. The proud
! step Is slow and measured; the toes are con-
/ spicuously turned out, the legs Strengthened.
| Where vengeful purpose be hidden under
! teigned smilo the steps will be Sinking and
! nolSeleSS The direction of the steps. waver-
ing and following every changing impulse of
| the mind, invariably betrayS uncertainty,
| hesitation and indecisiOn. Obstinate people,
who in an argument rely more on muscularity
| than on intellectual power, rest the feet fat
! and firm on the ground walk heavily and
slowly, and stand with the legs firmly planted
| and far part.
Air is supplied TO the fire rooms of ocean
steamships through ventilator on deck
! rectiOn of the wind says the New York Morn
| ing Journal Sometimes this turning Is neg
| lected. Then ensues terrible state of things
| down below in the already over-heated fire
| room. The air becomes sitting, the unfortu-
| nate stoker gasping in vain for a breath of
| fresh air. Lhe smell of the oil and
the abominabe odor of the bilge water are
enough to knock out the strongest man. No
| pen can describe the horrors of life in the
| fire room during these times, and the wonder
| is that scores Of Stokers do not drop of, in
| stead of the few that rpOOrfPd The coal
| trimmers and cOal-pasSerS are just as badly
| on as the StOkerS, having to breathe the same
| poisonous atmosphere. Another thing which
makes the life of the stoker very unhappy
| one Is the fact that the floor of the fire room
| on which he stands is always hot. The floor
| which is composed of steel plates, retains the
| heat, and, as a consequence bliSters the feet
| of the stOkers, who can scarcely stand up at
times, they are so much tortured in this re-
/ spect.
Several advantages Of electric cooking are
mentioned in support of the prophecy that
that method is destined to come into general
! use, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. The cur
! rent itself can be economical, as it is turned
on the moment ii is no longer required. When
| this precautton is observed, electricity is
| cheaper than coal. The instant the current is
turned on the heat is obtained. The current,
as fuel, requires no storage bin and no kind
| ling. Current is bought at a fixed rate as
needed: coal Is paid for in advance and at
| varying prices The electric current used is
just sufficient to accomplish the purpose de-
sired; no more-hence the economy. In sum
mer after the meal is cooked the kitchen can be
cooled by the turning of of the current.
| whereas coal may take hours to burn itself
out. creating an uncomfortable heat while
| wasting money. Meat roasted in an electric
oven will retain It juices to a much greater
extent, and will weigh is per cent. more than
| II cooked in coal range, There is abso-
| lutely no odor or foreign taste in meats
brOiled or roasted by electricity. AS compared
with coal the current saves to the careful
| money time and labor, as well as much wear
| and tear of mind. The electric stove is never
! late; water bOilS in four minutes; a cup of
! coffee isQuicky made; housekeeping becomes
| luxury. Last, but least If the maid-Of-aQ
| work leaves we still exist.
There is a remarkable sympathy between
the eyes. So much is this the case that any
serious injury to the one is almost certain to
affect the other, hence the necessity which
often arises for the removal of the injured
| eve mainly for the sake of saving the other.
! This sympathy has been shown by DR.. Chau-
Veau to extend so far that color perceived by
| one eye alone eXcltes the retina of the other.
| This is shown in the following way If a white
| surface Is observed for short time through
colored glass with one eye, while the other
! eye Is screened, on removing the celOred glass
the white ground appears to be tinted with
| the color complementary to that of the glass.
| This is common and wellknown result,
J but the point is that If the first eye is
closed and the screened one opened the
whole surface appears tinted with the same
color as the glass. There are many curious
optical Illusions connected with color, de-
clareS an optician. If letters cut out of blue
| and red paper are stuck on screen of black
| velvet and viewed from a suitable distance,
the red letters appear to some people to be
| nearer than the blue, while about as many
see the blue nearer than the red Looked at
| with one eye closed this difference disappears
and both sets Of letters appear equally dis
| tant. If one who sees the red letters nearer
| than the blue covers his pupils on the outer
| or temporal d. with black sc 'een the red
| Will retreat and soon appear to De behind the
| blue; while If one sees the blue as nearer
| than the red covers his pupils on the inner or
| nasal side, the red appear to come forward
and the blue TO shrink back.
Like many disagreeable people, says the
London Standard, the wasp, though intolera-
bic in society is a paragon of domestic virtue
| of the fussy, hardworking. 'grate-and- win
| dow-cleaning kind. Moreover, the wasp in
vented papiermache, and the swarm slave at
the production OF TINS patent material with
all the energy and conscious merit of a South
! Yorkshire manufacturing community. The
nests If less beautiful than some enthusiasts
assert. are extremely curious and interesting,
and IN the early stages of their construction
| they gain much in elegance from the nature
OF the building material used The first few
cells are built by the queen-wasp herself,
/ who, unlike the Queen-bee, is the actual
founder. builder, mother and nurse of the
infant colony. The nest begun early
gether with the queen-wasp her
self, by the rains of April and May; and the
extraordinary drought of these months is the
key to the wasp plaques of the present sum
mer: Roughly speaking, of the six hardly
| distinguish Die kinds of English social VASES
the three least common make an elegant
pendent nest in the branches of trees the
others preferring hole in bank, or some
natural hollow In the nests of the tree
wasps, the first few cells are hung under an
! elegant umbrella roof to shelter them from
the rain; this is then surrounded by success
i've layers of thin papiermache, opening at
| the bottom, so light, 6aky and hlmy that the
whole resembles the gray and uncrumbled
| ashes of rose, supposing that the flower
| could, when burnt, retain. as paper does its
form, while losing weight and color The
| Gel are hexagonal like those of the hive bee,
but being meant as nurseries, and not for
honey stores are built in single layers each
story being supported by rows of pillars of
cellular papier-mache. The swarm are as
buSy as ants. each wasp having its
own set portion of the walls to complete
! But unlike most ants, though their
camp is organi ed their commissarat
depends on individual exerton and ii is to
the independent zeal of the foraging insects
that the great wasp nuisance is due. One
third of the colony are busy all day long in
bringing food to the rest each wasp getting
what il can where caD with ars,.~oe-i,rr