The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

whole Bible is 1O69 800; of small caps, 6,S97, aud
of lower case 3,452, 593; grand total OF letters,
including one Il, 3,566,4s1.
Interesting experiments have recently been
made with the new tents which the German
soldiers carry with them. The end in view
is to make the tents or rather their cloth,
serve to construct ferry boats for the soldiers
baggage.
Proving emissaries of the faculty of the
state college, at Bellefonte, Pa, discovered
10 the room Of two freshmen a quantity of
cider, which is contraband in that paternal
institution, and the freshmen were at once
suspended Their classmates rose in rebel
lion. says the New York Times, and even the
higher classes took formal votes to stand by
the freshmen in their revolt Everything at
the college, at the latest advices was in a
state Of confusion, but the students so far
have extended an olive branch to the faculty
by intmating that they are willing to arbi-
trate. Meanwhile, the cider is liable to be-
come vinegar, to the great disappointment of
the two freshmen.
What do you think, says the St. Louis Re
public, Of the idea advanced by some promi-
nent botanist that a tree, providing that it
| meets with no accident will live forever? De
| Candolie, an eminent French authority, says:
Trees are not subject to death, and barring
accidents and raVages Of insects, will continue
to live on indefinitely" Gray, the noted bot
anist, also indorseS the theory that inasmuch
as trees annually renew their youth, they are
! virtually immortal. His exact language is as
| follows: The old central part of the trunk
may decay, but this is of little moment as
| long as new layers are regularly formed at
| the circumference. The tree survives. and it
would be difficult for science to show that IL is
liable to death from old age in any proper
| sense OF that term"
Nearly hundred establishments are en-
gagged in the manufacture of bronze powder
| in and near the cities of Furth and Nurem-
| berg Germany, says the New york Sun. The
| article is composed Of copper tin. zinc and
| anthony, melted in proper proportions and
! cast first into rods of half an inch in diane
| ter and about three feet long, these rods be-
| ing rolled until about two inches wide and
then cut into suitable lengths for handling.
| Inc pieces go to the hammers, where they
| are beaten into very small fraction of their
| former thickness and are then taken to a
sulphuric acid bath, where each sheet is
and dirt. After being thoroughly dried
| the sheets are again hammered by steam
hammers until no further reduction is pos
| slble, there being limit to which machinery
can be used. Up to this stage the treatment
| which the metal receives, whether intended
| for powder or metal leaf, is identical; but
now the process changes. II designed for
metal leaf the further beating is done by
| hand, but II for bronze powder. the sheets 20
| 20 the shears, where they are cut up into
small particles and become known as clip
| pings These are now ready for the stamp
mills, which are run in batteries enabling
| one man to run or attend fifty or more. When
sufticiently pulverized, the powder is sifted
In a special manner, the heavier and better
qualities going to one receptacle and the in
fertor grades to another.
The name Of that disease, angina pectoris
which has recently been given as the cause of
one or two deaths of well-known men, is the
scientific term for a disease that is more IA
miltarly known as breast pang, says the New
York Sun. It is said that Dr. j. g. Holland
died Of 1t, and so did Charles Sumner Ruther-
ford Is. Hayes, and member of the Aston
family, who died recently. Breast pang does
not so well describe the ailment as the phraze
rheumatism Of the heart. which the doctors
applied to the disease half a century ago. 1t
used to be said of this ally Of mortality that
no physician has ever been able to study it's
symptoms, because 1t comes Unexpectedly and
stealtbily and acts quickly either to kill or to
return as suddenly again. 1t was carefully
studied in 1866, however. In one medical
dictionary 1t is described as an affection of
the chest characterized by severe pains faint
ness and anxiety, occurring in paroxysms
connected with disorders Of the pneumOgas-
trio and sympathetic nerves and
associated with organic disease Of the
heart. An attack of angina pectoris com
menceS with pain In the region of the heart.
generally on level with the lower end of the
sternum. The pain Is severe and generally
OF gTasping, crushing or stabblng character.
! 1t IS accompanied by distressing sense of
| sinking, OF fainting, or of impending death"
The attacks last various lengths of time be-
| tween a mlnute and an hour or even two hours.
They end either in the death of the victim or
| the cessation Of the attack Often the disease
manifests itself during sleep but ii may be
| induced by emotion or physical exertion es-
| pecially by rapid climbing or it may come
| from exposure OF a cold draught or to wind
Men are more subject to it than women. in
the ratio OF eleven to one, " says one authority.
Excessive smokers of tobacco are said 10 be
subject to it, butit should be remembered that
1t was well-known disease before tobacco
was known to Christendom. Literary men
and men Of sendentary habits are often killed
by 1t, and two or three noted New York law
yers have died of 1t recently. 1t does not re
suit from bad habits so much as from bad air
and lack Of exercise.
The return OF Venus to the evening sky is
likely to renew popular interest in a very cur
ious question, says the Youths Companion
1t will be remembered that about two wears
ago the famous Italian astronomer Schiapar-
ELI announced that he had discovered that
Venus, which is world very slightly smaller
than ours, makes only one turn on its axis in
going once around the sun. 1t would follow
from this that on Venus there is no success
sion of days and nights as upon the earth
! but that perpetual day reigns on one side of
! the planet and perpetual night on the other
! In other words, If Schiaparelli is right, Venus
| always presents the same face to the sun,
| just as the moon forever turns the same hemi-
| spcre toward the earth. The inhabitants of
| the sunward side OF Venus, then, if there
are any, never see the sun set, while the in
| habitants Of the other side never see the sun
| at all, unless they visit the opposite hemi-
| Spere OF their globe OF course no
! one knows whether there are
! Inhabitants upon Venus or not but we do
| know that Venus has an atmosphere and
| that in its atmosphere watery yapor exists
and clouds float, and that upon the surface of
| the planet the force OF gravitation is not very
| different from that which it manifests on the
| surface Of the earth. Accordingly there are
| some reasons to be urged in behalf of the
| opinion that Venus may be an inhabited
| world. But II one half of Venus is buried i'm
| endless night while the other half lies glaring
| teneath neversetting sun, it is evident that
| the Inhabitants Of that planet must have ex-
| perienceS that would be most strange and
| trying to us. So the question whether Venus
| really does rotate on its axis only once in two
| hundred and twenty-five days, the period of
| its revolution around the sun. derives an
| added interest from the consideration that
| the planet possibly has ,inha itants The
| older observations indicated that Venus ro-
| tated in between twenty-three and twenty
four hours, giving it days and nights
In order to settle the 'H0 question es5tm
| it has recently been proposed to apply the
spectroscope 1t is known that in the spec
trum Of celestial body which is rapidly APP
preaching the earth the spectroscopic lines
are shifted toward the blue while in the spec
trum Of a fast retreating body the lines are
shifted toward the red. This principle has
been used in measuring the rate of the SUMS
rotation. The lines are shifted toward the
blue on the eastern and the red on the west
ern edge OF the sun; and by measuring the