The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The late ThomBs Morley. one OF the oldest
clcrgynen ana journalists in England-he
wrote upwards 81 500 leaders Tor the Lon
don 1imes-was brother-in-iaw u Cardinal
Newman
John Berry. the man who won the Cow
boy Race" from Chndron. Neb., 10 Chicago
tmaking the distance. ,O40 miles, in 10 days
and Is huursl, IS no cowboy al all, but a rail-
road engineer and surveyor
The marriage OF Altman Ames and May
Faulkerson, at EIkhart, Ind, few days
ago was not one OF your giddy or ill-consid-
cred, fly-away matches. Both have seen their
10Th birthdays and each was married twice
before.
II IS a peculiar impression that live nsh
may be frozen stiff and readily revived by
carefully thawing them. To test the accu-
racy Of this impression, a New Haven ice
manufacturing company recently placed nVe
live perch in water and froze the water solid
The freezing process took about sixty hours
As the water CONCEALED from the outside In
wardly, the fish continued 10 swim about as
long as they had room to move. The cake OF
ice containing the perch was left in a SOLID
state for dav OF two and then cut open, and
the fish taken out and placed in water 10
thaw. They were carefully watched for long
time, but none OF them exhibited any sign OF
life to the observant watchers.
Prof. Bell, the electrician. discusses in the
. uilV uuulbCL VI N1CO4uA6 > bSuAtuO VIZ
prospects for aerial navigation, and says:
"Of course. the airship OF the future will be
constructed without any balloon attachment.
The discovery Of the balloon undoubtedly re-
tarded the solution Of the flying problem Tor
over hundred years. Ever since the Mont
golfers taught the world how to rise IN the
air by means of inflated gaSbags, the invent
Ors working at the problem Of aerial naViga-
tion have been thrown on the wrong track.
Scientific men have been wasting their time
trying to steer balloons, thing which in the
nature of the case is impossible to any eX-
tent, lnasmuch as balloons, being lighter than
the resisting air, can never make any head
way againsti it, The fundamental principle Of
aerial navigation is that the ship must be
years that men capable of studying the prob
lem seriously have accepted this as an ak
ION. ="
It is said that the city Of Liverpool, Eng
land, possesses the largest fire engine In the
world. II has a capacity of from 1900 to 2, 100
gallons OF water per minute. The cylinders
and pumps are double, the pumps and valve
chambers being of gun metal and the valves
of the steam cylinders of the rocking lever
pattern. The framework consists of two par
allel bars Of steel, carried on horizontal steel
springs and wooden wheels. The suction Inlet
is directly beneath the drivers seat, as well
as both Suctions and delivery air vessels. Six
delivery outlets for three and a-half-tnch hose
are provided. The boiler has welded seams
and is fed In three ways-by an injector, by
two feed pumps driven by eccentrics in the
crank-shaftS, or by an arrangement for send
ing part OF the delivery water from the hose
connections into the boiler. At the official
trials Of this engine two and a-halftnch Jet
was thrown to height of over $50 feet. and as
many as nine powerful jets were delivered
simultaneously.
Under the direction Of Lieutenant Com
mander Richardson Glover, the photographic
ONCE Of the navy has made one OF the most
momentous discoveries in the whole annals OF
photography, says the Washington Post. 1t
is safe to say that the Seamen and meteorolo-
gists of the world Will soon be discussing IT,
1t has been discovered that the direction Of
the wind and also of all the great ocean cur
rents closely conforms TO the lines Of baro-
metric pressure. Those lines, OF curves, as
they are generally called, seem in fact to suS-
gest the flow Of the great ocean currents
OF wind and water. Knowing ike con
formation of these barOmetrio curves IL
is possible to predict the direction Of the
winds for considerable periods and also to in
form mariners In advance what changes in
the flow of the ocean currents may be eX-
pected. Hitherto there has never been any
explanation of the relation Of these one to
another. and the chart to be used by the
photographic Ofice will contain the
first official announcement to the world OF
a scientific generalization which should make
Clover's name universally famous. It will be
a wonderful revelation to the European hydro
graphers, and especially to the English,
whose latest charts show an astounding ig-
norance of the direction of the ocean currents
along the western shores of Europe.
All the ancient philosophers held curious
ideas respecting the growth, functions, struc-
ture, etc, of the hair, and had many super
stitions founded on these odd opinions, says
the ST. Louis Republic. The early writer's on
the makeup of the human body almost in
variably refer II the hair Rs being an eXcre-
ment fed on substances similar to itself.
They supposed that it generated ipsthe fuligin
Gus parts Of the blood; was exhaled by the
heat of the body becoming firm and hbrous
upon being exposed to the air, just as the
fluid or the spider web does In these days
every idea respecting the growth and charac
ter OF hair is changed, 1t is now agreed that
every hair properly and truly lives and re-
ceives its nutrment from the body. True
they take upon themselves the nature Of par
asitic plants they grow as vegetation does,
vet each has. as it were, distinct life and
economy That they derive their existence
from the juices of the body there is no doubt
but that food is not taken from the nutritious
Juices for we know that hair will thrive, even
though the body starve or be wasted by dis
ease or even after the animal life has ceased
to exist in the flesh or skin to which they are
attached There are many marvellous things
concerning the freaks of hair growth which
should properly be considered under the
heading "Curiosities About Hair" in a sepa
temptation to mention some Of them here
Aristomenes, on the authority Of Pliny, Va
lerius MaXimus, Stabo and others, was given
a post-mortem examination. which resulted
in finding that his heart was entirely covered
with hair. The same is said OF Hermogenes
the rhetorician, and Leonidas, king of
Sparta. Henricon trephined a bald-headed
man and found the interior of his skull lined
with hair.