The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Small singing birds. technically known


''warblers." live from eight to eighteen years,
providing they meet with no accident. Ravens
! have been known to live for more than 100
! years in captivity, and parrots even longer.
| The average life Of the comlro barnyard
fowl is ia years; geese twtldl, 100, and
swans 800 years. Ornlthologists believe that
! the extraordinary Ions evity of some species
| Of birds is nature s plan Of compensation for
I their feeble fertility and for the great NOR
| tally among their young.
The well-known fact that women live longer
than men is illustrated as follows: The ex-
cess Of females of all ages over males OF all
ages in England and Wales is only about 80
| per cent lin round figures, l5,OO0,OOO minus
| 80 900 to 100000 plus 10000 But when we
| begin to compare women over go with men
over 60 the female majority becomes much
greater and when we once pass IS the old
men are nowhere. The female nonogenarians
nearly double the male; there are S54 women
/ over 95 to 1854 men, and 104 gammers TO - gaf-
ferS who own to century.
All English-speaking leople refer to the
moon as she" and the sun as he" in Hin
doc mythology, however, the goddess of
night" is a male deity supposed to be the
! son Of the patriarch Atri. young man who
was transferred to the realms of space because
| he was too good to associate with other hu-
man beings. The Malays, Siamese and sew
eral classes and castles Of the Chinese, speak
| OF the moon as the great milk curd or butter
! ball which arose from the pTimeval sea of
milk when it was churned by the gods to pro-
/ fA-1NNe
| talitvn
One of the greatest natural wonders in
Java. the fire island, large lake OF boiling
! mud. is situated almost in the confer of the
| plains of Grobogana fifty pals to the
| northeast Of Solo. 1t is almost two miles in
| circumference and in the center immense
| columns of soft, hot mud may be seen continu-
! ally rising and falling, like great lack tim
| bers thrust forth and then suddenly with
! drawn by a gilnts hands Besides the
! phenomena columns there
| gigantic bubbles near the western edge
which fill up like huge balloons and explode
on an average of three times per minute
Among the curositles of taste, the Partisan
passion for self-exhibition at the morgue
must hold a conspicuous place. The principal
keeper at the morgue is said to have had
many applications from persons eager TO
| figure as corpses on the slabs of the dead
| house They were deferred by the official
announcement that the temperature of the
! bodies was kept some degrees below zero
| If this discomfort could have been endured
for twelve hours, and If the authorities could
have been persuaded to lend themselves to
such fraud what materials for "a coup in
| Journalism would hay been afforded to some
eEterpr1sing genius!
Paper can be manufactured out of almost
anything that can be pounded into pulp.
Over fifty kinds Of bark are said to be used,
and banana skins, bean stalks, pea vines,
cocoanut fiber, clover and timothy hay. straw,
sea and fresh water weeds and many kinds of
grass are all applicable. 1t has also been
made from hair, fur and wool, from asbestos,
which furnishes an article indestructible by
lire; from hop plants, from huskS Of any and
every kind OF grain. Leaves make a good
strong paper, While the husks and stems of
Indian corn have also been tried, and almost
every kind OF moss can be made into paper.
There are patents for making paper from
sawdust and shavlngs, from thistles and
thiStledown, from tobacco stalks and tanbarF.
1t Is said that there are over two thousand
a ents IN this country covering the manu-
facture Of paper.
The problem has puzzled many why two
pieces of wood sawn from the same section Of
tree should possess very varied character
istics when used in different positions For x-
ample q gate post will be found to decay much
faster if the but end Of the tree is uppermost
than would be the case If the top were placed
in this position. The reason is that the moist
ure OF the atmosphere will premeate the
pores OF the wood much more rapidly the way
the trees grew than it would if in the opposite
direction. Microsuopical examination proves
that the pores tnyite the ascent of moisture
while they repel its descent Take the ia
miliar case of a wooden bucket Many NAV
have noticed that some of the slaves appear
to be entirely saturated, while others are APP
parently quite dry. This arises from the
same cause; the dry slaves are in the same
position In which the tree grew while the
saturated ones are reversed,
An extraordinary state of affairs came to
the surface in Pittsburg the other day.
Rachael Logan is an elderly widow, who lives
alone at Corapolis, a village near Pittsburg
few nights ago four masked men entered
her house and tortured her horribly to make
her disclose the hiding place of $4,000 which
she asserted that she had in the house. She
gave them 500 declaring that it was all she
mad and failing to find any more they de-
parted, leaving her in such state
s shaL t nGr lie ne is in danger; a
mind reader, tried to change
500 OH at store. and the police arrested
him. He confessed that the money was part
OF that stolen from the widow, and gave the
names OF the other parties concerned in the
ROBBERY. I hey proved to be all men in good
business and well thought of in the commu- |
nlty: One was stenographer in the office of |
the Plttsbu~g Dispatch, another telegraph |
q orator, and the third was in the real estate |
business. They have all been arrested. One !
OF them claims that he was hypnotized bv |
Evans, and forced into the business against |
his will.
1t is said that foreign ambassadors to Tur- |
key recently complained to the sublime porte |
that the prisons of Constantinople we're over |
crowded with political prisoners from Arme |
MIA. The government decided to remove The |
cause OF the complaint, and shipped 300 of the /
prisoners on boGrl man-of- war for trans
portation to Africa. The vessel was only
gone very short time, however, and 1t was a
mystery what had become of the prisoners
until Russian merchant vessel in the har-
Dor OF Constanttnople, while raising her an
chor lew Gays since brought up with it If
used by Turkish merchants for pack
ing goods for shipment At first the Russian
thought that he had found traces of snur-
glers, but when he came to examine the sacks
ne found that they were filled with hrman
bodies eighteen or twenty in a sack. The
hodles were ascertained to be those of Arme |
mans. 1t is said that the Rrand vizier said
not long ago that he would settle the Arme |
man question by annihilating the Armenians
ana ne is thought to he in fair wav to fnlnIi |
his threat. I he matter has been reported to |
kussla, as II IS thought that some of the n,ur
dered Armenians were Russian subjects.
While the world is talkil OF Cordite vet
another smokeless powder has been invented
and put to the test. The inventor is NJ FAbbe
Schnetelin, who recently gave a trial Of his
new explosive at Nunhead. The Pail Man
Budget SAY that in the first place the AhTe
made some OF his powder in the presence ~
the crowd: for the simplicity of its manufac
ture and the rapidity with which il can he
made without any special apparatus are mo |
first advantages which are claimed for he
new powder. taking some of the powder in
It's manufactured state, Able placed il on Az
anvil. He commenced by hitting the rrains
with hammer, hut the conc11csir,1 |
did nothing but grind the powder finer E@icl
ton, too. was proved to have 10 effect npon
the substance, and then the ADbe applied a
a lighted match 10 the small heap of f. Not