The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Somebody has made the calculation that
taking the quantities roughly and IA round
mum bers. the atmosphere weighs about ton
70 every square foot Of the earths surface.
Pledging ones health was formerly done by
q man sitting next the drinker standing up
beside him with a drawn sword in order that
no one should stab him while his hands were
holding the cup.
1t is 50 years since the Prussian army
adopted the present form of helmet, with
spike on top; since then it has been initiated
the earth over, and our National guard wears
the same pattern.
According to an election return just made
to the British parliament there are 1929 129
voters in the United Kingdom. There were
1892, 4S2 in England. 27O,276 in Wales, 1921
in Ireland and 6l9O9l in Scotland.
Commander Ludlow of the Mohican, which
has been patrolling Boring sea all summer,
estimates the product of pelagic sealing this
year at $1,000 skins. The total value of the
years sealing product, including the catch OF
the lessees Of the seal Islands, he estimates
at about $1,000 600.
Many of the houses in Holland have a spe-
cial door which is never opened save on two
occasions, when there is marriage or
death in the family The bride and groom
enter by this door; it is then nailed or barred
up until death occurs. when 1t Is opened,
In the navies of the world are enlisted 1871
900 men; the commercial marine employs
G92 900; coast trade and fisheries, $4,000,
total of $4,000. II marines, coast guards
and the men Of the lifesaving service are in
cluded the total will exceed 100000. or per
cent Of the able bodied men of the Christian
world.
Americans are said to have the poorest
! teeth of any people in the world. 1t is said
the more brain work person has the worse
his teeth become. The same results attained
by lack Of proper nouriShment, and it is said
bya wellknown dentist that fifty years hence,
among the very poor classes, everybody will
be toothless at the age Of twenty.
A jealous wife of Perpignan, France, soaked
her dress in petroleum, locked the house
| door and then called her husband to her.
just as he approached she lit match and set
| her clothes on fire. Then seiZlng her husband
| in her arms, she held him tight till they were
| both enveloped in flames. The woman
died and the man is crazy and likely to die
1t is computed by leading PSYCHOLOGISTS that
| since one-third of second suffices to
produce an impression on the brain, a man
| that has lived to be lC0 years old must have
| collected upon the folds of his brain matter at
| least 9.467, 200 00) Impressions Or, again, take
| of one-third for sleep, and We still find not
! less ethan 651l $4,000 indeutations- mem
| DRY s finger marks-on and in the brain.
! This would give 155 100000 separate waking
| impressions to the man who lives to be but
! 30 years old.
| 1t may interest admirers of Whittier to
| learn that a Maine investigator who searched
his poems stanza by stanza found forty
| flowers mentioned by him. They are the aZa-
| lea, aster, amaranth, aSphodel, brlar rose
| buttercup, crocus. clethra flower, cardinal
flower, daff0dil, dogwood, eglantine, fern, gen
! tian, goldenrod, harebel, heliotrope, honey
suckle, heatherbel, jasmine locust lily life
| everlasting, lotus blossom, lilac Mayhower,
| mignonette, myrtle magnolia blossom, night
! shade. orange blossom, orchis pansy, pink,
| passion flower, palm primrose, poppy, rose,
| rex!a, sumaCh, sweet clover, starmist, star
| flower, sunhOwer, SNOWFALL, tulip, violet
| wind flower
The richest peasants In Europe are found
| in province in Schleswig Holstein. These
! Vierlanders raise early vegetables for the
| great cities OF Northern Europe. They sup
| ply flowers to the courts of St. Petersburg
and Berlin. Their costumes are one of the
sacred traditions Of the country and not to be
modified, come what may 1he women wear
| little caps with st1tfiy starched bows of silk,
| over this a straw hat which looks as If it were
upside down. Their skitts are short, the
/ aprons full peated. The bodice IS white with
| sort of ZouaVe jacket Of bright colors. The
silver jewelry is the pride of their lives. The
! men wear small clothes, long waistcoats
! trimmed with silver buttons, a long jacket
| and quite ordinary looking cap.
The reason that the mixture of tungsten
with steel gives the latter so great a degree
of hardness that it readily scratches glass
| and quartz seems to be revealed by a discov-
| cry recently made In Germany. definitely
| cryStalllZed compound of iron and tungsten
| has been discovered, the crystals being so
| hard as to scratch topaz. Tungsten is brit
! tie white metal, almost as heavy as gold. The
| crystals, remarks the Paper Trade. as formed
| by its combination with iron, in the proper
| tion of one atom of iron to two of tungsten,
| are silver gray, and very brilliant. 1t is
| thought that when tungsten is allOyed with
! steel some OF the compound just described is
| formed in the mass, thereby producing the
remarkable increase in the hardness of the
| steel. This is an interesting example of the
| value that one metal may lend to another;
! for, until the discovery that it could be used
! in hardening steel. tungsten, although it oc-
ours in conslderai l. abundance was practi-
| cally useless an without value.
Prof. Butcnli, a distinguished German
Psychologist, clused some sers ltion recently
| by the announcement that he had discovered
the means of artifcally producing proto-
plaSm. This would practically mean the dis
| placing of nature by art in the mystery of
| generation. and If such discovery had been
made its importance to physiological and bio
logical science would have been
| Unreasonable. But Dr. Dallinger has been
submitting some of Prof. ButehiIis artificial
| protoplasm to microscopic analysis with
! the result that he declares emphatically
| against it being in any way allied to living
| matter. The closer the observer becomes
| acquainted with these foams the more certain
| will he be that they are simply foams for
! Wnlle unuer low power they nave vthe ap-
| pearance of possessing tissue, under a high
/ power they are seen to be minute bubbles
and nothing more. The movements said to be
| observed in this so-called artificial proto-
| plasm is due DR.. DRllinger shows to the
! effect OF differences of surface tension and
not to any organic development as suggested
by Prof Butchli
To appreciate wave force and what NAV
be termed the throwing power of wave let
| 1t be understood that in the winter of 1860 at
| Bishop Rock lighthouse the bell was torn
| from its fastenings, although situated 100 feet
| above high-water mark. AT INST in the
| Shetland islands, a door was burst in at a
/ height of 1875 feet above the level of the sea-
| The most wonderful effects of wave force re-
| corded were witnessed at Wick Harbor
| breakwater. Blocks weighing from five to
| ten tens were built in above the line of high
} water, first with hydraulic lime, then with
Roman and last with Portland cement. This
great work was considered by the most
! learned engineers in England to be capable
| of wlthstanding the assaults OF the ocean for
| ages, but in October 1884 over 300 feet of this
giant barrier was swept away In 1872 a
( monolithic block, weighing 1850 tons was
, lifted bodily and carried to leeward of the
( breakwater, and in 1873 another and heavier
! concrete mass weighing :, 800 tons, which had
! replaced the former, was swept away intact
| and carried to point equally distant The
marine dynamometer for measuring the
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