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

! TA-RA-RA-BooM-DE' AY, according to latest &C
counts, has effected landing on the Dark
! Continent, and has now been heard Of at Sierre
Leone, a place known as the White Mans Grave.
Sung at a concert at Freetown, it appears to
| have electrified the native part OF the audience,
| VINO took up the refra n with such alarming
! energy that the less adventurous portion of the
| assembly found the outside of tie building
| more desirable than the inside. Within few
| days the tune had spread to the surrounding
| districts, and when the last mail steamers left,
| SIerre Leone was grooming under the tyranny
which ragged on these shores only short tins
| ago.
AN EXAMPLE OF marvellous industry and power
to overcome adverse circumstances is given by
| Max Meyer, who was born blind in Berlin
| twenty-eight years ago. He received his first
| instruction from q teacher of the blind and
| later attended the Sophi sn-R ael-Gymnasium, a
scientific college IN Berlin. He always
among the best students in the college and
passed brilliant final examination He eutered
the University of Berlin a few years ago, TO
study mathematics, mechanics and philosophy
He took the degree OF Pm. D. few weeks ago,
preparing dissertation upon the differential
calculus which excited the admiration of his
prof lessons.
THE balance wheel OF a watch vibrates five
times per second, says the St. Louis Globe
Democrat. Imagine that this Wheel instead Of
swinging back and forth like a pendulum,
should roll on continuously over a given
race. Its circumference in a gentleman's watch
OF ordinary size Is ~ inches and it makes
sweep In each direction about threefourths of
MS circumference. In other words, iJ would
traverse in one second q distance measuring
about SIS inches According to this computa-
ton the balance wheel of a watch would travel
| IN year over a distance OF 677 miles in round
numbers, audit would take the little wheel iuss
SIX years and eight months to circumvolve the
| globe by way of the equator.
SCIENCE. says the ANALYST explains the phe-
| nomena of red hair thus: IL is caused by a SUI
| peraoundancs of iron in tho blood This it is
| that imparts the vigor, the elasticity the great
vitality. the overlooking, thoroughly healthy
animal life which runs riot through the veins Of
/ the ruddy-haired, and this strong seutie1t ami
mai life Is what renders them mora intense in
! all their emotions than their more languid fell
| low creatures. The excess Of iron is also the
| cause of freckles on the peculiarly clear, white
SKIN which always accompanies red hair. This
skin is abnormally sensitive to the action of the
| suns rays, which not only bring out the little
brown scots in abundance. but also burn ike a
mustard plaster, producing q queer creepy SEN
satlon, as If the skin were wrinkliug up
I IAN ATTEMPT is now being made by the ROYAL
Geological society Of Ireland to obtain soma
| hybrids or cross breeds between the two largest
species of cat-namely, the lion and the tiger
! says the London Exchange. Tina, such hybrlds
! have been produced before is an established
| fact, the most authentic question bsing the
| birth Of three half bred cubs TO lion and
| tlgress In Atkins menagerie at Windsor in 1924
! The cubs were exhibited to George w. wno
| christened them hOn-tigers but they died very
soon afterward. In 1877 two other cubs OF a
| Ike species were born in the sane menagerie
and survived rather longer. The stuffed speci-
! mems of both these can now be seen, one in the
| British museum, the other in the Sciences and
| Art museum, Edinburgh. In the present in
! stance there Is every reason to anticipate sue
| cess, as the Dublin gardens have already sue
cessfully reared over 100 lion cubs.
FROM careful and reliable experiments made
by Prof. Henry Newton. DR.. William Lutter-
wort and Miss Henrietta Rhodes, it appears
that q three-grsin ball of elk as spun by the
| silkworm would, upon being unwound measure
| 404 yards AT this rate, says the st. Louis
! Republic single pound of such thread would
reach from the east end Of Eads Bridge to the
very northwest limits OF the city OF Omaha and
| still there would be enough left to make strong
p, clothes line OF regulation length. To be exact
! pound Of such threads could be made to ex-
| tend distance Of exactly 535 miles Reasoning
| from this same basis "a yards to every three
| grains, dry weightl we find that enough Of such
threads could be stuffed into coffee sack to
reach around the world-forty-seve pounds
| being sufficient! II the threads of some OF the
| lesser spiders be used as a basis of computation
the result is still more startling. The writer has
| heard noted entomologist declare that enough
| Of a certain kind of such webs to encompass
the earth eIeuen times could be pressed into
| common wineglass! Verify, there are little
wonders as well as great ones.
| 1T is questionable If such phenomenon as
instant death is known to the scientist and in
vestigator. Physicians and surgeons tell us
/ IuhL Ocdbn uy RuuSIOL wound Is I he easiest
mode OF terminating life; yet, according to the
| Philadelphia Record, rapid as such q mode of
| taking off must necessarily be, the body has
! leisure to feel and time TO reflect, and on rare
| occasions even TO act. On the first attempt of
| one OF the a1herents OF the Spanish monarch
| to assassinate Wi liam, PRICE of Orange, the
| ball passed through the bones of his face and
| brought him to the ground. In the instant
| which preceded stupefscton, however, he was
| able to frame the notion that the ceiling
| of a room had fallen in and crushed
| him. The cannon ball which Winged
| through the head and tore out the brain of
| Charles XII, did not prevent him from Selling
| his sword hilt. The idea of attack and the
| the necessity for defense was impre ssed
upon his mind by a blow which we would
naturally suppose to have been too tremendous
and instantaneous to leave the least interval for
! thought. Another question in this connection
| is that Of probable pain. Although numerous
| instances could be cited in support of the view
that the mind acts in cases of so called instant
death, it by no means follows that the infection
| of fatal blow is attended by the least sem
| blsnce of pain or a single paug Of fear or re-
| greet. Unless death results Immediately how
ever, the pain may be as varied as the nature of
the injuries.