The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! THE WHITE CITY," as the worlds fair grounds
and buildings are termed has the equipment OF
q model municipality. 1t has a combined
water capacity of 81, 900 900 gallons a day AMI
Will soon have 100, 100000. It has % miles OF
water mains and 29l hydrants A hundred m ore
will be provided. There are 8 steam fire en-
gines, chemical engines ladder truck, water
tower, DO no . carts 26, $50 feet of hose, 1850
hand fire eXtingushers, $500 fire pals, a steam
hro boat, Or fremen, $50 alarm boxes, $50 patrol
telephones, 800 qua ds complete electric light
and sewer age systems, etc. BY the time the
fair opens many OF these facilities and equip
ments will be greatly increased and perfected
THUNDER STORMS are more frequent in Java
than in any other part of the world, there being
an average of 81 days in each year upon which
they occur. Next to Java comes Surnatra,
which never has less than Sc thunder days"
per year. Then comes Hindoostan with So,
Borneo with 81, the African gold coast with 50,
and the region around Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
with 81. The European list is headed by Italy
with 80 thunder days out OF the 1855, on an aver
age. Austria has %; Baden, Wurtemburg aud
Hungary each average p; Silesia, Bavaria and
Belgium have q; Holland and Saxony, 10;
France Austria and South Russia l6; Great
Britain and Switzerland only T. At Caro-
Egypt and in North Russia and in Sweden and
Norway the average Is only per year. In Fin
land and East Turkestan thunder storms are
wholly unknown.
Mrs. CATHARINE OYLER Of Kokomo, Ind
recently came into possession OF an old-fash-
toned wooden clock Of ancestral times that
Las been passing from generation to genera
ton for nearly TWO hundred years. 1t was be-
queathed to Mrs Oyler by her father John
Woodring Of Preble county, Ohio, who died
short time ago, aged 20, The clock is of En-
gllsh manufacture, of the style known as the
wall sweeper" made by Reed s. ward In toe
year III. The case is of English black walnut
and all parts of the running gear are con
structed of wood. 1t is seven feet tall and
weighs IFS pounds. Il has been ticking away
IVA vrrVNk 1gYS
been repaired. The wooden wheels show little
or no wear and it 10 apparently good for
another century or more, ticking away as mer-
rily, truthfully and tunefully as it did in Eng
land nearly two centuries ago.
SPECIAL days are to be great feature at the
worlds fair. Nearly II not quite every state of
the union will have its day, upon which speciAl
exercises will be held. and It's governor and
staff, other state officers, militia aud thousands
OF Its distinguished and other citizens will ia in
attendance Receptions will be held at the stage
buildings, respectively, and the governor and
others will make speeches. Many musical
civic and secret societies also have made applE
| cation for special day up on which to hold ex-
erclses peculiar to themselves, Among them
are the MasonS. Odd Fellows, Kniyhts OF
Pythias and orresters. TIE Welsh Ektsdfodd
viii have an entire week Tor musical celebra-
ton. IL is eiieved that these special featnrea
will draw many additional thousands Of vi,i; ors
TO the ia Arrangements for these special
days are being made by CD. Cup, secretary Of
| the ceremonies committee, which had the dedi-
cation day exercises in charge.
THERE has been quite revolution OF late years
in many countries in regard to tbs connection
| between eating and sleeping, and it il stated
that radical change is likely to take place be-
| fore long IN tse practice OF a great many fami-
| lies in England. says the Louisville Courier
| Journal. The popular idea is that eating at
night is highly injurious to the constitution IL
| is now recognized that nature contradicts this
| notion. Provided man is hungry and his
| stomach is In proper condition the practice ia
| not only unharmful, but rather beneficial To
| 20 to bed with an empty stomach is apt to drive
| sleep away altogether. Three or four hours be-
| fore bedtime q substantial dinner or gunner
] should be eaten, and on going to BED some sim
| pie food should be taken every night by those
who have an inclination for it, and especially bv
, delicate persons or invalids. Persons invariably
feel drowsy after a heavy meal, and, on the
other hand, wakefuness is often merely an in
! dication of hunger. The digestive organs hav-
| ing finished with it the blood flows once more fo
| the head, bringing with it consciousness Tho
| prevalent notion seems to be that the digestive
| organs rest simultaneously with the brain
! Physiology does not support this proposition
| lnnumerable cases can unfortunately always be
| found Of men, women and children complaining
/ of sleeplessness, solely occasoued by hunger
| the satisfying of which would be Immediately
followed by slesp.
THERE is disposition In some quarters to be-
lieve that men Of the present day are physically
inferior to those of former times but what oc-
cassions this belief Is not clearly known or IN
| derstood. According to the Pttsburg DisDatoh
there is absolutely no reason to believe that tho
ancients lived Longer, were stronger, etc. sta.
| tIstics or authentic records do no show a radi-
| cal difference. The old 70-year mark as the
| natural duration OF human life established long
| long ago still maintains. 1t Is a curious fact
and worthy OF mention here, that by the death
| of ex- President Hayes at the age Of n the aver
age lie OF our Presidents since the time OF
| Washington is almost exactly 20 years Il IA
certainly idle to consider or compare the alleged
ages OF patriarchs of the scriptures Methuse-
| lab, Noah and others-with the people Of the
| present day, for at least one very important
reason. There is no we'll substantIated proof
| that the patriarchs lived to anythinR like the
| age given them. Ancient records are known To
be full of errors and exaggeratons, while we are
| by no tnleans certain that the people of the
age referred to computed time as we do Com
ing down out OF the mist Of antiquity to more
! fairly authoritative Grecian or Roman periods
| the average longevity does not appear to be a
| particle greater than that Of the present dar
| and physically there ie a like uncertainty Iook
| ing at the matter from the athletes point Of
view, 1t is doubtful If the ancients ACCOMPLISHED
greater physical feats than many of those In
recent times IL used to be q common thing
among other classes to yarn" about the won
derful speed and endurance OF the American
Indian, and yet, In nearly every case where an
Indian has eeen entered In a contest recurring
physical endurance he has made an extremely
poor showing AS far as speed is concerned
Deerfoot the famous runner of q generation
ago, was the only Indian athlete who is known
to nave made record out of the ordinary All
the facts seem TO Indicate that mankind of the
present day is physically and mentally the peer
Of his ancestors at any time.
POWDER