The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-05
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1T Is surprising how many people bel eve that
the entire body of a man is renewed every seven
years exactly, says the ST Louis Globe Demo-
Graf. This used to be taught in booss and
although not orthodox now, is still accepted as
gospel by many. o show its inaccuracy one
| has only 10 Bit nal on his finger hard enough
Tor IN that case the injured object will come OF
ana be replaced by an entirely new nail If
ms process occupied seven years sucl an acct
dent would be q very tIresOHe affair blt as
any mechanic Will tell you, il occupies few
weeks. The growth is more rapid in summer
than winter, but never taking more than four
months. So far as the nails are concerned
then. the renewal process Is repeated about
twenty-one times during the regulation seven
years and the theory IS thus DESTROYED even
II no other proofs Of its falsity were forth
coming
IT IS proposed to introduce stamp saving
banks in the Boston public schools From
various offices colored stamps of six denomina-
tons and stamp cards will be- obtained To each
person wishing to become a depnsitor the local
treasurer gives stamp card, and sells as many
slams as be has money for. These stamps
must be pasted the card. The card, when
tull Will probably contain about s.. AS soon
as the child has stamps for that sum tho money
IS taken aud deposited for him in some savings
bank that he may designate The S. once de-
posted he begins agGiu, and the small sum
grows TO larger one under his hands. If he
wishes to withdraw he presents bis card and
draws all that is on il Then II he has more
money than ne cares TO use he calls for another
card aud redePosits the balsnce. BY this
method all bookkeeping is avoided, the child
always knows just how much he has. and the
local treasurer can tell in the same manner. II
the child loses the card however, he loses his
money or rather all that he carried on that
card.
THE steam tug R. c. Bishop, which returned
TO the port of Honolulu after an unsucc ssfu
search for the missing boats crew from the
wrecked bark Lady Lampson, says dispatch
in lac san rancisco Examine, brought back
with her mon frosty in tn shape of robber
crab. The 4 rocious looking craWler was csp5-
ured on Tanning island. Strange to say very
little seems o be known of the crab around
Honolulu. l. is a fact. however, q at it makes
It's home III the hollow Of decayed cocoanut
tree and that it climbs live cocoanut palms and
saws az the stems OF the nuts
until they droD TO the ground. Then
tie crab descends with marvellous
rapidly, aud b, ,1ll OF its 20 Ter:u. nIppers
strips the musk from the nut When the eyes
of the cocoanut are laid bare tn crab inserts its
horny claws and bursts the suCcuient nut, de-
vourlng the kernel with great relish. This par
ticular crab was located by the mass of husks
and nutshells around the root of the tree where
| 1t lived. 1t managed while being brought to
Honolulu TO strip TIE flesh from the finger of
kanaka who was endeavoring to get on terms
of familiarity The crab, when its claws aud
tente eS are extended, covers space of about
twenty inches in diameter.
HAMBURG gardener nam ID Carl Theodor
Geissler has, it is reported by the Pittsburg Dis
patch, solved the balloon problem wit an in
| vention reported upon favorably by more than
! one expert. In form It resembles torpedo
The car is as long as the balloon itself, and has
| screw in front and a rIdder behind. Tne
screw is driven by Daimers petroleum motor
| of aluminium weighing only ~ KIDS, and makes
| 1000 revolutions in a minute. The ami fall
| is regulated by sliding weight. and by ring
which encircles the case. EXL erimenJs are to
| be made in the early spring with a large driRi-
Die balloon at the works at Caalais AIaudon, IN
der the direction of Commandant Renard 1t Will
measure about $50 feet by 43 feet. II is ex-
| pected to be able to make Roadway as ainst air
currents not exceeding twenty eight miles an
hour. The motor is not fully described. but it
! will act either with gasoline the gas OF the
| balloon, giving an effective force OF 45-horse
! power on the shaft The total weight of
machinery, with supply of gasoline, etc. will
! be about sixty six pounds per horse power
! Previously it has not been possible to make
| petroleum motors with a less weight than $50
| to 200 kilos per horse power. The screw will be
! in front, and a large rudder behind; the former
will make about 200 turns per minute.
BOAR HUNTING in Brittany, says BIackpood's
Mdqdzine, is full OF exciting incidents, and the
boars seldom die unavenged; for, though they
are beset by mounted hunters and psasantrv on
foot, armed with guns. the life-tlood OF many a
hound is drawn before tho savage old tusKer
| yields up his own. His courage GIBBS only with
! his life. His dangerous powers of offense cease
only with his last gasp. Though the grip OF
! the bulldog, the yeping OF the hounds, the
| DIN OF 1OrD6, ana the cries OF the OoateF5
force him from his lair to seek refuge in flight,
| that withdrawal may be set down rather to pru-
dence and disgust than to fear When at last
| BIS is brought to bay, with his back against
rock or tree trunk he is ready to defy a host
Met in a narrow alley Of the forest neither man
| nor horse can withstand the avalanche of his
onset. Not unfrequently the hunter who loves
his hounds will feel but little triunlph even in
| the death OF many boars If, having begun the
season with a lar&e pack, ne ends it with
miserable remnant, having left all his best and
bravest dogs on the field of battle In old times
the skill. courage and promptitude OF the hunts
man were exerted to the utmost to save the
dogs by selling the first favorable moment to
plunge a spear or hunting knife into the bear
At the present day the gun is a safer Instrument
of dispatch.
THE greater distance bodies have to fall the
greater will be their speed, says the San Fran
cisco Examiner. The force of gravitation is
constant and acts alike on moving bodies and
those at rest. Therefore q body bat has acquired
speed in tallinK of say 100 feet u seconu Will
have its velocity increased in the next second by
the amount of the earth's pulling force. II a
body is let fall from high tower it will fall in
the first second sixteen feet and a fraction more
Starting from nothing the movement is grad
uaily accelerated, so that in the last half OF the
than in the first half. BY thu
end OF the second when It has
fallen II feet, it has acquired velocity Of 81
feet per second. If gravity then ceased to act,
the body would fall 81 feet in the second second,
but as the pulling force still remains constant
this dstaLce is increased by the same space
through which it fell in the first second. 1t thus
falls in the second second through 4S feet and
has acquired velocity of Ga feet a second. Thus
in two seconds it will have fallen 81 feet. In
three sec nds it will have fallen IA feet and will
have attained a velocity OF 81 feet second.
Summarizing these processes: To find the dis
lance fallen multiply 16 feet by the square of
the number OF seconds: to lind the speed at the
end of given number of seconds multiply 80