The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Queen Victoria SAYS a New York Trio-
| ure cable. intends 10 make the investiture
[ 81 me Duke o. York as a knight Of the This
| tie ceremony OF considerable state. II VIII
/ be held al Boimoral in the fall
The Spanfard however courteous he may
! he. never invites guest TO dinner, in Italy,
I too. the privacy Of the family is seldom in
/ vaded az the dinner hours. the Frenchman is
l delighted 10 entertain. but prefers TO do II at
/ his club while the Englishmau Is never so
genial as when seated at his own table with
| company surrounding him.
Although 5000 Chinese students enter for
the examination which is held at Wuchang
| every three years only one-haH per cent are
successful. The examination is divided into
| three bouts Of thirty-ssX hours each, with in
tervals OF day During this time the men
are shut up in cells a few feet square, contain
ing a board for a sea. and one for desk, and
| the doors are locked from the outside.
The Spanish game OF quoits-rayeula-is
played with uupierced disks Of iron about
three inches in diameter-tejo The hubs
consist Of two curved pieces of wrought iron
Of an oval shape terminating in point,
which is stuck in the ground The larger OF
these pieces, the pala, is placed In front OF
the other the palettn. To strike the pala
with the quot counts one, while to strike the
paletin, which is more difficult, counts two.
The cough or puh Of a railway engine is due
10 lne abrupt emission OF waste Sltdu1 UP lllC
stack When moving slowly the coughs can,
! of course. be heard following each other quite
distinctly hut when speed is put on the pufts
come out one after the other much more ra-
| pidly. and when eighteen coughs second are
| produced they cannot be separately d1stin-
| guished by the ear A locomotive running at
| the rate of nearly seventy miles an hour gives
| out twenty puffs of steam every secOnd-that
| is ten for each OF its two cylinders.
Did you ever think how fast a horse in
| 2:2O gait moves his feet? When a horse is
trotting a 2:20 gait his feet move little fast
| er than a mile in 1:lO AS his body is moving
| at 2:20 and as each Of his feet when in con
| tact with the ground is stationary and then is
| picked up and moved forward to take the
| next step, the feet must move as much faster
| than the body as to make the step, which is
over twice as fast. Now. the action is, The
| foot is at rest upon the ground and is raised
| some one or two feet high, then forced for
| ward nearly the full length OF the leg then
| lowered to the ground and is at rest for
/ nearly two-thirds Of the time that the next
| step is being taken.
A creditor seldom goes so far as to seize
| coffin about to be carried to the grave, says
the New York Tribune, But this happened
| in the open street in Berlin few days ago,
and created considerable excitement and
great Indignation. A cabinet makers wagon
| had just stopped In front of house near the
| Alexander-Platz in the German capital with
| a CONN for the wife of a locomotive engineer
| who had died. As the coftin was about to he
horne into the house an official of the court
| appeared, placed his seal upon the oaken box
] and ordered it transferred to the Berlin pawn
office. The official had acted on behalf OF
! relentless creditor The engineer pleaded in
! vain for the coffin. The record fails to say
whether he succeeded in getting another.
! There is a rival in the southern horse marts
to the Shetland pony which the Southern
! Cultivator explains as an outcome Of the war,
and called creole. He is miniature horse
4 md rrfrri fAH a nd sir ha vvnp In
| the prairies along the coast from Mobile to
| the western limit of Louisiana. Many plant
| ers during the war allowed their thorough
| bred mares to escape, and, breeding in the
| wild state with the native, the size gradually
| diminished until many of them do not reach
| thirteen hands and few OF them go much over
| that. The good blOodin them shows in their
! symmetry, and their better style and action
| commend them 20 a boy. They are too met
! tlesome for child OF 4 or years but for
| girl from to 10 they fill the bill. For driving
| purposes they are not as good as the Shet-
| land, as the infusion of thoroughbred blood
makes them inpatient of so ignoble work.
| Their gait is long gallop.
| When one passes from the head to the
| other extremity of the human body, says Nc
! Cures Magazine one comes upon a some
| what unexpected, but very pronounced char
| acteristic-the relic of the tail, and not only
| of the tail but of muscles for wagging it.
| Everyone who first sees a human skeleton is
! amazed at this discovery. At the end Of the
/
! suggestive fashion. are three four and Occa-
| siOnallyi five vertebrGe forming the coocyx,
| true rudimentary tail. In the adult this is
| always concealed beneath the skin, but in the
| embryo, both in man and ape, at an early
| age it is much longer than the limbs. What
| is decisive as to its true nature, however is
] that even in the embryo of man the muscles
for wagging it are still found. In the grown
| up human being these muscles are repre-
sented by bands Of tibrous tissue. but cases
( are known where the actual muscles persist
! IhTOnph n distinct
| should not still be found in man may seem
disappointing to the eVOlutiOniSt. But the
want OF tail argues more for the theory of
evolution than It's presence would have done.
! 1t would have been contrary to the theory of
descent had he possessed a longer tail. For
all the anthropOids most allied to man have
/ long since also parted with theirs.
a c~rious law case has heen heard in Berlin
says the New York Post. In the year 1891,
in Russian Poland quantity of pIacards
were placed on the walls inviting thepeople to
emigrate to Brazil, saying that a Polish king
dom would be founded and that, If they went
/ 20 Bremen they would be forwarded across
the ocean. An immense number of emigTautS
/ thereupOn Travelled to Bremen. only to learn
that they could have no free passage. Hav-
ing no means of returning to Poland, they
soon spent their last penny in the Bremen
| inns. When the poor board found that they
we're paupers and likely to become a burden
to the community drastic meas
uTe was taken. railway train was
prepared, and the Poles were told that it
I would take them straight to Brazil. About
/ thousand of them entered it. and were speed
( lily taken to Berlin. In that city the wTetChed
( wanderers naturally found their way to the
I public refugees, and the Berlin Poor Board
was obliged to take care of them and feed
I then until they could be dispatched gradu
/ ally to their several homes. The Berlin Poor
Board then sued to recover expenses from
the Bremen Poor Board, and the courts have
! Just de, ided that the latter must pay up. The
| railway trick does not seem quite so smart
| now as it did little while ago.
| All the famous cities of antiquity which are
now being unearthed from their mouldy
| graves are proved to have been buried under
the soil by the earthworm Years upon years.
| until the years rolled into ages, these little
| workers have thrown a deposit OF fine earth
/ upon the deserted cities, until deep and fer
| tile soil hid them from view, and new homes
| were built over the ruins of the old. grass and
| flowers sprang up in rich luXuriance, unheed-
| ing the treasures that lay beneath. 1t hath
| been proven by number of curious expert
| ments says the New York Observer. that the
earthworm is perfectly deaf. The shrillest
whistle ever blown by the healthy lungs of a
boy leaves them stold, but they
| are peculiarly susceptible to the
| slightest vibration: for instance a piano
| played near them has no visible effect, but if
! placed upon ii they become agitated. They
| are without eyes, although a very strong
| light seems TO AFFECT the movements OF their
| bodies; their sense of smell is dull; but their
| sense of touch is so remarkably keen that il
| lends to the conclusion that they possess a
| certain amount of iute1lippnce Dorurir