The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-11
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aud upon heroic scientists who have per
rrfffe1 tests 20 be made upon themselves
right down % the moment % death warrant
these conclusions That dying man may ~
burned with red hot irons and YET not ieei We
least pain. That CONSEQUENCES may remain
Ia the diving almost 10 the moment OF aclIal
dissolution. bug that most people gehefaHs
lose the power OF thought long before oeatn-
That in cases Of death where there seems l9
Doe extreme suffering with Writings ana
spasms such phenomena Is generally due 70
reflex muscular action. Also that fear weak
ems the muscular system and hastens oealh'
while the reverse may prolong lie
Mrs. George Lissignolo, Of Plainheld, New
Jersey. has discovered that a living tree toad
knows more about the coming changes OF the
weather than a column Of dead mercury N
her conservatory she has a large glass jar
half full Of water with a miniature laudei
standing at an angle inside. The Jar Is iIle
residence Of dlminut1ve tree toad. WHeu
the weather is fine the toad SquatS persist
emily on the topmost rung OF the ladder new
er changing his position except when STORM
Is approaching; then he gradually descehuS
the ladder, step by step until at the near APP
prOaCh Of the storm, he sits half submerged
in the water. AS the weather clears up ne
gradually climbs again to the top OF ms
perch. Last Sunday, il is said, was beautl,
full bright day at Plainield. but Mr.. Dunn, OF
Plainheld. as the toad had been chrlsteneu,
persisted in sitting all day long with Just the
tip Of his nose showing above water SUNDAY
night came a furious and unexpected storm
that lasted several days. The toad gave no
tice of the storm a good while before the
head OF the Dunn family, in New YORK. Inc
keeping Of this living barometer IS very IN,
expensive, as he declines to accept any 1000
in the shape of insects which is onereQ 10
him and seems to get his suStenance from
the air and the water,
When bather at Coney Island the other
day accidentally swallowed big gulp OF
sea water and then rushed of to get drink
OF whisky to take the taste out OF his mouth "a
successful medical practitioner who had VII
messed the performance, according TO tne
New York Herald. said: That man Is eltn-
er a greenhorn or fool. Otherwise he would
have taken merely a sip OF lemonade ana al
lowed the sea water to do It's Work. AS.
matter of fact. one OF the most heneuclaI
features Of a sea bath is the salt water mad
vertently swallowed by bathers. It is won
derful tonic for the liver, stomach ana klu-
neys. In many cases 1t Will cure DlnousheSs
where all drug preparations nave talleu. II
is peculiarly effective IN ordinary cases Oh III
digestion. disordered stomach and insomnia,
and has been known to produce excellent re
suits in many cases of dyspepsia. Sea water
is full of tonic and sedatlve properties. IL
won't hurt anybody. Two or three big SWal-
lows of il would be of positive benefit TO nine
bathers out Of ten. II isn't palataoIe OF
tempting; but neither is quln1ne or caiOmeI'
You never see an old sailor who is bilious,
dyspeptic or a victim OF insomnia, and whyf
For the reason that an ocean of good medl-
cine spreads all about his ship, and he doses
himself copiOusly with it whenever his phySl-
cal mechanism becomes the least Olt ue-
ranged
The most wonderful deformity in the hui
man brain that has ever been noted by the
scientists and made a matter of record was
that or the phenomenal chess player, Rlcn-
ard Rockwoode, says tina St Louis Republic
Rockwoode could play IL games OF chess
simultaneously, but no more, not even being
10 70 in m "a thirfnnufh death
his brain was carefully examined by skilled
anatomists who found, in the region known
to prenologists as locality" that the mole
Cules of that portion Of the brain had act
ually arranged themselves into a combina-
ton OF squares resembling chessboard, and
that each Of these squares had certain marks
upon it, supposed to represent the final posi-
tiOns OF the pieces in the last
p games played by the
great expert while he was blindfolded. The
doctors who make this wonderful report de-
clare that it is rule in every particular, but
that the arrangements of the atoms of the
brain into the chessbOard squares referred TO
could only be distinguished by microscopes
OF the highest power. More than 40 years
ago when Sir William Dean Baker made
en- examination OF the brain of Forbes, the
shipbuilder, and reported that the mole
cules of the brain had arranged themselves
tthe gray matter" separating from the
other constituents of the brain and lining
up'D into rude form of q vessel hull, he was
only laughed at. The ROckwoode investiga-
ton proves that Baker knew what he was
talking about.
1T is fortunate thing for man and the
rest of the animal kingdom" said the natur-
alist to a New York sun writer, THAT no
large wild animal has a mouth constructed
with the devouring apparatus built on the
plan Of the insignificant looking snail S mouth,
for that animal could Out-devOur anything
that lives The snail itself is such an entirely
unpleasant. not to say lOathsOme, creature to
&c
bother with ii. but by neglectng the snail
they miss studying one Of the most interest
ing objects that come under their obSerVa-
ton. ANY one who has noticed the snail
feeding on a leaf must have wondered how
such a soft, fabby, Shiny animal can make
such a sharp and clean cut inciSiOn in
the leaf leaving an edge as smooth
and straight as if it had been
cut with a knife. That is due to the pc
culiar and formidable mouth he has The
snail eats with his tongue and the roof Of his
snail keeps in a coil in his mouth. This
tongue is in reality a band saw. with the teeth
on the surface instead of on the edge The
teeth are so small that as many as 10000 of
them have ucen found on one Snail'S tongue.
They are exceedingly sharp, and only a few
of them are used at a time Not exactly only
a few of them, but few OF them compare
lively for the snail will probably have 1000
or 5000 of them in use a once. He does this
by means of his cOiled tongue. He can IN
coil as much of this as he chooses, and the
unCoiled part he brings into service. The
roof of his mouth is as hard as bone. He grasps
the leaf between his tongue and that hard
substance and, rasping away with his tongue
saws through the toughest leaf with ease, al
ways leaving the edge smooth and straight
BY use the teeth wear of or become dulled.
When the snail finds that this tool is becom-
ing blunted he uncoils another section and
works that out until he has come to the end of
the coil. Then he coils the tongue up again
and is ready to start in new, for while he has
been using tho latter portions of the ribbon
the teeth have grown in again in the idle
portions-the saw has been filed and reset
so to speak-and while he is using them the
teeth in the rack part of the cell are renewed
SO think 1 am right in saying that if any
large beast Of prey was fitted up with such a
devouriug apparatus as the snail has it
would go hard with the rest Of the animal
kingdom
A Bird Story.