The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


1t one of the duties OF the prime minister
Of Madagascar to marry the queen of the
country for the time being. The present
premier has been married to three queens
one after the other.
1t seems doubtful, says the Hartford
Times, whether objection can be brought
against the last latest form Of horsewhip.
which is constructed so as TO give a slight
electric shock to the animal. The handle
which is made Of celluloid, contains a small
induction coil and battery, the circuit being
closed by means Of a spring push. The eX-
tremlty Of the whip consists of two small
copper plates insulated from each other, each
OF which Is provided with tiny point. The
plates are connected to the induction coil by
means of a couple Of fine insulated wires. AS
q mean means OF surprising sluggish animal into
doing his best work without the intiiction Of
physical pain the electrical hosehip will by
many be hailed with gladness.
Curious resem blances in nature, says the
Petit Journal des Sciences. start with the
cocoanut, in many respects like the human
skull, and almost a fac simile OF the mon
KEYS. The meat of the English walnut is al
most a copy of the human brain; plums and
black cherries like the human eye almonds
like the human nose, and opened oyster
and shell perfect likeness of the human ear.
Inc shape OF mans body may be traced in
the mammoth squash; the open hand in grow
ing scrub willows and celery: the human
heart in German turnips and egg plant, and
dozens OF tne mechanical inventions OF the
present day to patterns furnished by nature.
Thus, the hog suggested the plow the butter
fly the door hinge, the frog stool the umbrella,
the duck the ship, and the fungus growth on
trees the bracket.
The Mohammedan paradise is a fairyland.
To enter it the believer must cross seven
bridges, at each OF which he must answer
questions relating to his past life. Having
crossed the bridges, he is at the entrance.
There are thirteen doors. The first act is to
take bath. which gives the body great bril-
nancy. This abode OF delight is built of
bricks OF gold and silver, held together by a
mortar of musk. Spring is eternal Four
oceans sOothe the senSes-one of water, one
of milk. one Of honey, one Of wine. Waves of
perfume envelope them, so powerful as to be
noticeable 800 days march away. Lastly
come the castles Of the houris-SeVenty cas-
ties with seventy rooms containing seventy
state beds and seventy tables already set and
in this castle $50, 100000 hours. This to
each Of the elect. He himself has seventy
robes Of green brOcade embroidered with
rubles and topaZes
The human family living on earth to-day
consists of about 1,450 900, 900 souls-not fewer,
probably more, says a London exchange.
These are distributed literally all over the
earths surface, there being no considerable
spot on the globe where man has not found a
fOothOld. In Asia, the sO-called cradle of the
human race, there are now about 800 900 600
people, densely crowded. on an average of
about 40 to every square mile. In Europe
there are 32O.O1O.OOO, averaging 100 to the
square mile. not so crowdea as Asia but
everywhere dense. and in many places over
populated. In Africa there are, approx
mately, 10000 600, and in the Americas
North, South and Central-110OOOOO 600 these
latter of course, relatively thinly scattered
! over broad nreaS. On the islands, large and
small, there are probably 10 100000 more The
extremes of the blacks and the whites are as
D to B. the remaining 100000, 600 intermediate
] brown, yellow and tawny in color OF the en-
tire race 5OOOO0,000 are well cl0thed-that is
they wear garments of some kind that will
cover uakedncsS-2500 900 900 habitualy 90
naked and 100 900 coo only cover the middle
parts of the body; 10000 600 live in houses
| 7WOJOOUO in huts and caves, the remaining
22oW0OOO virtually having no place to lay
their heads.
Frogs are mainly juice, says writer in
September St. Nicholas, If they try to make
more than short journey away from moist
ure in drought, they will perish for want of
water; and then their bodies will dry AWAY
The frogs bones are so soft that he Scarcely
leaves any skeleton, A frog meets with re
markable changes during his natural life He
begins as an egg and matches out as a fish
Ihat Is, tadpOle, or polliwog, at first has
glls, breathing water alone. In his early
days, however, the tadpole soon loses the out
side part OF his glllS and breatheS air: so that
he has to come to the surface Of the water
every few minutes like pOrpoise, to get a
fresh gulp of breath. During the rst part of
MS CdItGIf ne SWlmS DN SCull1ng with
his long tail After while his
legs begin to grow out, his tail becomes
shorter and shorter and when he is a com
plete frog he has no tail at all but swims bv
kicking. When half frog and half tadbole
he still has a good deal of tail and In addi-
ton big hind legs and mere sprouts of fore
legs so that he is very funny-looking fel-
low a bullfrog tadpole at this stage seems
neither OF heaven nor of earth" Again the
tadpole eats water, plants, but when he be-
comes frog he feeds on animal life Tad
poles eat the green moss or scum" that we
see so often on logs and plants in stagnant
pool and they show good appetite for soft.
decaying water growths. The fouIer
the pool the happier the tadpoies.
As they are numerous, and thus
devour great amount of mat
ter that would make it very unhealthfnl To
live near a stagnant pound they are really
useful creatures. In captivity they will gener-
ally eat meat, whether good or bad as well
as bread and bran dough; and as a speciaI
relish, will sometimes lunch on one another's
tails The common frog gets his final shane in
the first season; but the bullfrog goes under
the mud for the winter while still a tadpoIe.
and it takes at least another summer and
sometimes more, before he has full right 10
be called frog. He is some four wears from
the egg in getting full growth and does NOT
become old for about ten years more
POWDER.