The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-20
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Chas HSE latnlly IL eatlnR out OF pitchers, drink
| ing out OF pitchers and washing It's face in
| pitchers The woman is undoubtedly crazy and
| her family is growing so.
| Two of the thirteen leading English railroads
pay dividends amounting to Q per cent, two
others pay exactly per cent. less. while three
others pay per cent. and one pays 4. These
are upon the par value of the stocks, and as the
market prices are generally far above par, we
! have here some explanation of why SO much
English capital finds its way to this country for
| investment. The standard stocks are there held
| by men and women who rarely sell unless there
| IS heavy rise, and the average investor does
| not buy at such time Over here they hope
for larger dividends and greater advances in
| value from the development Of the new coun-
| try.
THE cloud-piercing SUBMITS of the Himalayas
are not the only untrodden nights of our pres
ent world. Mount EIbrus and Demavend. in
western Asia, and the pinnacle of Mount Aeon
caEGa, in the Chilean Andes, have baffled the
most enterprising explorers and in the Aus
iran Alps the so-called dolomite region of the
Eastern Tyroll there is a whole group of tower
like peaks that have never vet been reached by
Wlngless visitor. As q rule. slope of 45o is
the steepest practical incline, and the Difficult
ties OF precipitouS mountain wall become
almost hopeless in the latitude OF Greenland
where frost turns every highland brook into
glacier.
The improvement offirearms in the course
of the present century almost equals the prog
TeSs from cross BOWS TO 0int-lOCk InuSkets The
| trumpet-shaped musquetoons OF the fifteenth
century could be used only at close range, but
their chief defect was their liability to miss fire
altogether. As late as 1882 Marechal SAKE par
doued deserter because every one of the six
muSkets In the hands of the firing SQUAT had
failed to explode It's charge and the delinquent
was considered protege Of providence. I'm
| agine the chances of that soldier if the siX
marksmen had used rifles of the Manlcher nat
tern. with cartridges warranted to explode 449
| 93j times in SO, 900 shots.
WATCHES were made in Geneva as early as
1870, and now that matchmaking has become a
national industry in Switzerland, schools for
| the perfection of this profession have been es-
taollshed there. The principal one of these is
| l. Ecole Muuic pale d'Horlogerie IN Geneva A
| boy enters this school at the age of a and
| works ten hours for eleven months Seven
| hours out of every week. however are given to
| various studies. The second class requires
stay or five or six montns; tho third six or
seven months; the fourth, six months: the
| htth-Then the work is growing very coInpli-
| cated-eiRht mouths; the sixth, thirteen
moaths. and the seventh and last class ab out
one year, making about five years in all At
| the end of the five years each boy has made
| Twelve watches, which are his own property.
The cHIMPANzEE is supposed to stand next to
man, says the New York Tribune. This is ow-
| ing principally to b S brain and the formation
or his thumb. 1t has a mans appetite, when
| cultivated. 1t learns to sit at table as a man
| has to do, and partakes of everything being
| particularly fond OF sweets 1t has even been
| known to become addicted to strong drink
another manly art 1t can usa knife fork and
| spoon with facility never putting The knife IN
the mouthD; receives visitors with politeness
| and shows them out when il is time for them to
go. 1t has another manly failiuR-it loves
| bright colurs, aud is especially attentive to a
woman wearing gay dress. 1t makes an ex-
| Celent clubmAn. as 1t is very fond Of looking
| out OF windows. Mr.. Crowley was the most
| interesting animal that was ever in the Central
| Park menaRerte.
GREAT excitement was CAUSED in Barcelona
recently by an invasion of bulls, says the Pail
| Mall Gazette. The town was literally at the
| absolute mercy Of about 100 OF these animals
| Three hundred American bulls had that m orp-
| ing arrived by the Italian cargo steamer Dur.
| ing the unloading process a rope that bound a
whole herd together suddenly broke, and be-
| tween 80 and 100 bulls escaped The animals
stamped across the quay and finally dispersed
in different streets. Tho inhabitants were panic
| stricken. Soon formidable battle was waged
| against the tnfuriated animals, but 1t was not
| till evening that the populace had succeeded in
| partly killing and partly capturing the greater
| number OF the beasts. Two people were killed
namely. young CIR, who was trample to
sons were injured, fonr fatally. and the dam.
| age done TO houses, shops and lamp posts was
| considerable. The slaughtered bulls lay about
the streets. and many OF the inhabi tauts he'll ped
| themselves.
WHY some birds which could pick I'D food
| 0HAOhb uS Nh bhc yOoh AOu M buOulu lShV6 Wlel
| food is plentiful, while others with similar WAYS
of life remain is still mystery says the Lon
| don Standard. 1t is easy to understand that a
| species which preys on fresh water fish and on
| frogs should seek other quarters when the ponds
| are frozen and the frogs are buried in the ella "
But it is not quite SO clear why the swallows
| and the fly catchers leave d region where there
is perpetual summer and winged food In abund-
| nnce to risk long journey over the sea
and land only to find a great scarcity OF the
same kind. Of food. And it is equally
puzzling that the seed and fruit
eaters, who, since October, have
been fattening among the gardens Of Algeria
! and Egypt, should suddenly, in March or April
be seized with such an inordlnate craving for
achange OF diet as to fly 5000 miles on the
| chance OF picking up Che short commons of an
| English spring. Perhaps 1t will be found
that migration is natural to all Birds aud Is
| greater or less as circumstances may deter
| mine. Every animal shifts Its quarters accord
| ing to the plentifulness or scarcity OF food
| Even our residents move up and down the
| country at different periods of the year, living
| in the lowlands in the winter and in the uplands
winter there is continued drifting of the birds
| from the continent to our islands, according to
| the weather,
HAVE searched far and wide, says writer
In the st. Louis Republic, for someth hing like an
elaborate description of the colossi Memnon,
otherwise known as the singing and talking
statues OF Memnon. Eastern travellers, as a
s@AAtcSh 1
| they do happen TO ellude to these present day
| wonders and old time miracles give very IN
satisfactory accounts of them. Frank Do6bins,
in errors Chains" page ia. says: Near
| Thebss are the statues Of Memnon, which
are said to sing when the rays OF the rising
sun touch their lips, Possibly the breeze Of the
| early morning struck upon some concealed
musical contrivarc5 in the statue and produced
the sound" That is every word he says
in reference to these old-time wonders
What could be more unsatisfactory? From
the vast pile of unsatisfactory data
gathered l have compiled the following:
The easternmost OF the two Sitting colossi is
the Vocal Memnon" OF the old Roman &C
counts, which was said to praise the sun on
his regular temperance. The statues are
both exactly alike as far as size and compost
tion are concerned, measuring IS feet and 8
inches, IS feet 6 inches from the top OF the
shoulders, II feet inches from the elbow to
the tips Of the fingers and 10 feet inches from
the knee to the sole Of the foot. The thrones
upon which these gigantic statues sit are
ornamented with a figure of the god
Nilus, who ia represented as binding plants
around the name of the Pharaoh which the
colossi represent. The singing sta ue is said
to have risen to its feet and groaned several
times just before the great earthquake shock
which ruined Thebes came.