The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A LITTLE GIRL who lives In Lincoln county,
Tennessee. is said to have found pearl nearly
as large a. a marble while playing in the gravel
on her fathers walk.
In England toads are valued as destroyers Of
insects and are offered for fAle at a shilling
apiece, 1t ia said 10 the London markets. being
bought By market gardeners.
THE pins that tho Salem witches used to stick
into their victims and the seal with which their
death warrants were stamped are preserved in
one OF the public Offices Of the city.
A Hay SAVER, consisting of a 5-sided device,
which enables the horse to insert his head into
the manRer, but does not permit any lateral
movement Of it, is 8 late invention.
A TAX Of 10 francs a year is TO be levied on
pianos in France, those used by professional
players being exempted. The measure impos-
ing the tax passed tie chamber by q vote Of 307
to 145.
THE most indestructible wood is the Jarran
wood of Western Australia, which dehes all
known forms OF decay. and is untouched by all
destructive insects, that ships built OF 1t do
not need to be coppered.
THE town of Edmore, Mich, has unique way
Of keeping tramps from visiting that place.
The marshal locks them in the bastie drawing
room builds a good fire aud places liberal
quantity OF pepper on the stove.
IN the United States there are 45, O96 business
concerns interested in shoes and leather. OF
these s, 239 are tanners 2, 7S4 shoe manufactur-
ers and jo5bers, 81. $50 retailers of shoes and
60S3 are connected with miscellaneous branches
of the trade.
In Rome there is much talk about an old beg
gar who used to frequent the doors of the
Church of the Minerva, and who, dying lately, was
found TO be possessed Of 100000 francs. which
he had left by a properly drawn up will to his
three child en-, who were completely ignorant
OF their fathers wealth.
ONE of the peculiarities of the cocoanut palm
is that it never stands upright. Malayan say
ing has 1t that: "He who has looked upon
dead monkey; he who has found the nest of
paddy bird; he who hath beheld a straight
cocoanut, or has fathomed the deceitful heart
Of woman, will live forever"
A SINGULAR illustration of the persistence with
which the japanese adhere to their family voca.
tons is seen in an announcement in q Japanese
newspaper that a certain eel brated dancing
master wac to hold q service in honor of the
l,0O0th anniversary of the death of his ancestor,
who was the first of the family TO take up the
profession.
As REGARDS HOSPITALS, the teeming millions
Of London can count upon only one bed per
1000 proportion which is unique among the
large towns of Great Britain. Glasgow NV.
castle. Northampton have az beds per 1000;
Edinburgh, 3N; Dublin, So; Nor wich, Belfast
Brighton, Liverpool, Manchester and Bristol
have an average OF rs beds per 1000.
THE reclamation of the land covered by the
Zuyder Zee In Holland has been commenced.
The dam, or sea wall, necessary TO accomplish
be built through the water from th irteen to
twenty feet deep. The estimated cost of the
undertaking is 500 000 COO which, It ia expected,
will be more than repaid by the ,000, 900 acres
Of land which will be recovered.
ACCORDING TO an old legend. the babys dim.
pies mark the spot where angels fingers
touched the child in bearing IL from heaven to
earth, but unromantic doctors have q different
explanation. They say that dimplea probably
result from defective development of q muscle
When the muscle is called into use the defective
portion fails TO respond, and hollow is left,
into which the flesh and skin OF the cheek, for
example. fall, and thus the dimple is formed.
IT is lucky thing for the natives of Southern
Patagonia that the navigation OF the strait of
Magellan Is dangerous. Vessels often anchor
In the strait for the night on this account and
this gives the crooked-legged natives a chance
to come out in their canoes anditrade with the
ships company. The chief articles offered by
the natives are furS Of various kinds especially
OF the SEQ otter. These they sell for triHe, or
more often barter for few things they need.
The best otter skins are worth as much as $500
to 800 when brought to civilized markets, but
Pstagonians offer only poor skins.
In Thuringia, says the Hospital, there is a
whole district which is dependent for its SUD-
port on the manufacture of artificial eyes hus-
bands wives and children all working together
at this means of livelihood. And yet, though
these simple German village people turn out
their produce by the zen, no two eyes are
ever the same. No artificial eye has its exact
fellow either in color or in size in the whole
world The method of the manufacture is not
a very complicated art They are firstly glass
plates, which are blown by gas lets.
then nodded by hand into the form OF
an oval-shaped CUP The coloring of
the eyes is effected by means of
the taste OF the individual worker, though the
scope of their taste is necessarily limited to
grays and blues and browns and blacks which
colors are assorted together before being
eventually despatched to their various destins-
tions.
IN answer to the question: "Why does a
drunken man stagger in bis gait and see
double2" DR.. J. w. Crosswhite said to Kan
sas City Times writer: Double vision is due
20 a want of harmony In the muscles which con.
troll the movements Of the eyebalI This ia
owing to a change effected In the nerves or
nerve centers by the alcoholic poison. Iafiam-
nation of the nerves and also q loss of energy
in the centers of the brain are produced by
turoance in the center is due the double
vision. as also the staggering gait produced by
the loss Of harmony in the muscles of the limbs
Should the muscle Of each eyeball not act ex-
actly one then q different part OF the visual
field is exposed to the two retlua. Each retinA
acting Independently, sees the object, and the
impressions conveyed to the brain are therefore
double instead OF single, We're the muscles
acting exactly similarly the object would be
seen by the same part of each retinA and the
impressions therefore conveyed to the brain
would be single, ordinary vision resulting