The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

This IS fhe way naIalo reporter describes
"a n. Howcls The man was little below
tbe average hight thick ser and erect. His
head was larre and well shaped His face
was stern rugged. and lconiue. Heavy gray
Drows shaded sharp blue eyes. A gray rebel
I uous fnusfache covered a determined upper
lip A white straw hat with curling rim, was
set evenly upon silvered hair banged carefully
upon an immohile forehead
Count Tolstoi is credited, or discrecited,
with a dislike for poetry, ana is quoted as
thus explaining his position TO young poet.
IT prevents one from giving clear intelli-
. gent and comprehensive expression TO ones
thoughts and ideas, Why should we laborl-
ously strain TO conform our expression TO the
rhythmical and metrical rules OF versihcatlon
when We can much better and more clearly
convey our thoughts In simple and lucid prose-
II is as II instead of permitting me the free
use Of my limbs you fetter my legs and make
me hobble around the object Of my observa-
ton"
Senator Frye attended the commencement
exercises at Bates College, Maine, and at the
services related that some years ago Presi-
dent Cheney went to him in washington and
asked TO he introduced to Senator Stanford,
of California. He complied, and when the
president and the senator parted the former
bore away the latter's check for 81 900 for the
bentit Of his little college. Some months
afterward Mr.. Stanford went to Mr.. Frye's
desk in the Senate chamber and told him
that he had just sold colt for $500 and
that he had already given 81 600 to an Iowa
institution. wanted to keep 500 for his own
pocket money and the remaining 81 900 he
was going to send to President Cheney.
The neighbors of Mayor Carter H. Harrison.
Of Chicago, have got a new grievance against
that Oft-ofending mortal, and this it is: The
mayor has procured some peacocks and
turned them lose upon his lawn. Now pea
cocks that viii content themselves with look
NVasv -a.vl,N
Times, but the mayors peacOcks, like most
other peacocks, will sing. And there the
trouble begins One of the neighbors, accord
ing to the InterOcean, contends that their
vocal organs are spiral and lined with catgut
and tin whistles. THE cry of a love-lorn pea
cock he continues to bewail, usually be-
gins with liquid, shoots off to a prolonged
aspirate flashes of into shivering dental,
and then, by narrowing series of staccato
vowels, flunks into that Dahomeyan articu-
lation which the Englith letters t SIX best
express Thus: II rrrrrr r-ZZZ
Z z-dt DIT DIT DIT dt-ow-ow-ow-ow-o
tsxg.' Those peacocks are believed to wear
the last feather that will break down the may
or's chances Of election to the United States
Senate.
To the scriptural account of the creation
and fall Of Adam and Eve the Jewish writer's
of the Talmud have added many curious par
ticulars, says the ST. Louis Republic. Ac-
cording to these writer's Adam, when first
created, was a giant of giants" as far as
stature goes his head reaching into the
heavens and his countenance outShinlng the
sun in all its Splendor. In one place they tell
us that THE very angels Stood in awe of the
man which God had created, and all Great
ures FASTENED to worship him" Then the
Lord, in order to give the angels some idea
of his power, caused a deep sleep to come
over Adam, and, while he was in q comatose
condition, removed a portion OF every limb
and bone, The first man thus lost part OF
his colossal stature, yet he remained perfect
and complete. Next the first help meet"
for the lord of creation was created in the
person of Lilith, who forsook Adam to be
come the mistress of the air and the mother
Of demons" After the departure Of Lflith,
Eve was created and married to Adam in the
presence Of Jehovah and the angels, the sun,
moon and stars dancing together to the
gelic music rendered Then the supreme
happiness Of the human pair excited the envy
of even the angels, and the Seraph, Sammael,
tempted them and finally succeeded in bring
ing about their fall from innocence, Accord
ing to the Koran, all the angels paid homage
to Adam except Eblis, who, on account of his
refusal so to do was expelled from Paradise.
To crafty spirit Of revenge, Eblis loitered
about the gates of the Garden, Matching dis
cord, until at last he succeeded in separating
the first couple whom God had joined to-
gether." The record of the wanderings of
the unhappy pair after their expulsion from
the Garden is very interesting, but too long
to even give synopsis of 1t here. Suffice it
to say that Adam lived as penitent on the
very ground now occupied by the temple at
Mecca, and Eve in a cave on the side of Mt.
Ararat, where, after a lapse of 200 years, she
was rejoined to Adam.
One gallon of water weighs 10 pounds, so the
number Of gallons in the Pacific is over 200
trillons; an amount which would take more
than million years to pass over the falls OF
Niagara, says a writer in Longman's Maya
zine. Yet, put into a sphere, the whole of the
Pacific would only measure 726 miles across
The Atlantic could be contained bodily in the
Pacific nearly three times. The number of
cubic feet is III followed by seventeen ciph-
erS: number that would be licked of by our
million clocks in 10000 years. It's weight is
325 900 billion tons, and the number of gallons
in it 70 trillions A sphere to hold the Allan
tic would have to be 533H miles in diameter.
If II were made to ill a circular pipe reaching
from the earth to the sun-a dis
tance of SO million miles-the diameter of
the pipe would be ,837 yards, or rather over
a mile while a pipe Of similar length to con
tain the Pacific would be over a mile and
three-quarters across. Yet the distance to
the sun is so great that as has been pointed
out if a child were born with an arm long
enough to reach to the sun it would not live
long enough to know that it had touched it,
for sensation passes along our nerves at the
rate of 100 feet second, and to travel from
the sun tn the earth at that rate would
take century and half, and such an ab-
normal infant is an unlikely centenarian
The rest of the sea includes the Indian Ocean
the Arctic and Antarctic seas, and various
smaller masses of water it covers an area
of 40 100000 square miles, and would form a
circle of 1900 miles in diameter. The average
depth may he put at 000fathoms Q2 900 feet
and the contents at 81 100000 cubic miles. 1t
weighs 800 900 billion tons and contains 87Is
trillion gallons; while ii would form a column
reaching to the sun of 2,000yards in diameter
II we now combine into one vast whole
these various figures, we arrive at some stu
pendOus results in answer to the question:
How big is the sea-" Its area of 10000, 600
square miles could be confined by circle
13, $50 miles across. The relative size of the
areas of the whole surface of the earth of the
whole sea, the Pacific and the Atlantic, are
represented by circles the diameter of which
are in the proportions to one another of 1888
1873 SO and G2 respectively; or by crown for
the surface of the earth half
crown for the surface of the whole
sea, a shilling for the surface of the
Pacific, threepenny piece for the surface of
the Atlantic, Surprising the sea to be formed
into round column reaching to the sun, the
diameter of the column would be nearly 215
miles. The Pacific would form 53 900 900
miles of its total length Of 93,O00,000 and the
Atlantic 18000,O00. If it were a column of ice
and the entire heat of the sun could be CON
centrated upoh 1t, it would all be melted in
one second, and converted into steam in eight
seconds which i1luStrafpG q Of no