The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

stitution, indOmitable vitality, large skull,
high cheek bones and energetic jaws, each
possessing profound capacity for study, and
OF melancholy disposition and unusual
eloquence.
When you are not accustomed to the hand
ling Of them gold coins are nuisance, says a
New York Herald writer. They are so apt to
be mistaken for coins Of baser metal and
smaller denominations. to the impoverish-
ment OF the individual VINO makes the
blunder. still retain wildly painful recol-
lectionS of an occasion when in London L
PAID cal man sovereign under the impress
sion that II was a shilling. That cabman had
contract to drive me certain distance every
night but never clapped eyes on MIN again.
he evidently wasn't hog. He was satisfied
with what he had made out Of the contract
ana was willing to give some Other cabman
chance. have no doubt that during the brief
period recently when so many houses paid off
IN specie because they couldn't get bills many
| careless persons let gold slip through their
fingers under the impression that il was sill
! yer or nickel One instance came under my
! own observation. A friend had just received
h week S pay In s. gold pieces. and l i'm
| proved the opportunity TO tell h N my eXper-
| fence with the London cabman. at which he
| laughed heartily. Then being something Of
a cigarette hend, he sought the nearest cigar
| store for the means Of indulgence in his IA
vorlte vice. He thrust hand into one of his
! pockets, tossed what he thought was nickel
on the counter and strOlled out OF the shop.
l shall always patrOnize that cigar dealer
hereafter when get a chance I didn take
/
nlckle with a clear conscience to IS without
1t: My London caOman had been trained in
different school.
The foghOrns that have been put into the
lighthouse in Lake Michigan which guards
the harbor of Chicago are the object of ex-
| ploSlve anathemaS every night when the
weather is thick, says the New York + st.
Forty thousand persons who live between In
diana street and Lincoln park complain that
they cannot sleep for the noise which the
foghornS make. Their piercing notes can be
heard under favorable conditions a distance
of twenty-four miles. When the placing of
the fOghOrns was under consideration by the
| lighthouse board citizens of Chicago entered
protests declaring that their blasts would be
injurious to health and serious menace to
! the comfort Of residents along the shore. The
| board &C mttted that foghOrns of such volume
were always established at points remote
| from large cities. Nevertheless the pro-
night Of heavy fogs at Chicago the horns
! were blown every twenty seconds and
| sick and nervous people had hard
| time OF it, The fogh 0rns are after the style
and in the nature of immense steam whistles,
and may be heard with equal distinctness on
all sides. They are located on either side Of
| the main lighthouse tower, and each has an
engine and boiler OF 25-horSe power attached
to it, the cylinders OF which have a 9-inch
stroke and make 100 revolutions a minute.
! These are fitted with automatic whistle gear
ing working l0-inCh steam whistles. prod lCing
characteristic series Of blasts of five SCI ondS
each, with twenty-five seconds silent inter-
walls. The lighthouse superintendent says
that the people will soon get used to their
noise and except for the continued monotOny
will pay no mor5 attention to them than the
hundreds OF tugbOat, steamer railroad and
| factory whistles now so commonly heard.
fishing party Of seven under the charge Of
Alex Mathison, were recently some five miles
| of the coast of Redondo. in the sloop Helen,
| after barracuda says the Los Angeles Herald.
! One q their NUM- Der saw floating IN the water
what at first was taken for young whale.
] "a oh inc @ yyaG Il n -nr aH
/ to be a large suntsh lying on Its size, evil
IDENTITY enjoying the sunlight On the nearer
| approach OF the party the monster dived be-
meath the tOat, coming to the surface a few
| ards on the other side. 4 ne boat was i'm
mediately turned and bore down on it once
more. In its effort to escape the fish was
struck by the bow of the boat and thrown
| upon its side. The opportunity was
seized to throw a jew fish hook
| into its mouth. Gaining its equilib-
! rum the gigantic fish sped away the reel
| humming with the $50 fathoms of line car
ried with it. Then came battle royal be-
tween the great ocean rover and the usher
man After long maneuvering a rope was
made taSt under It's inns and attached to the
mast The boat was nearly dragged beneath
! the waves by the violent efforts the enormous
! fish made to escape. Finally. under the
pressure of sail ard by the exhaustion of its
! own efforts it was tOwed to RedOndO and there
hauled upon the beach The fish is a maGniti-
/ cent specimen Of Its kind measuring II feet
! from the dOrSal to the anal tin, feet inches
! in length and weighed in the neighbOrhood of
! l.SOO pounds. When the fat is considered
that this is the largest specimen of its species
| ever captured it will be of more than passing
! interest to the general public and Of value to
| the scientific world. The largest heretofore
! recorded IS numbered in the collection of the
! British museum, which measures feet 6
| inches in length, captured of the coast of
| Portland tDOrsetshire) in the year 1916
What is the brain like in its capacity Of
stOrehOuse: and what should we see if we
! could reduce our stature to infn-
/ it esm al Proportions and travel along the cor
| Tidors Of the bratl? Does it cOtain galleries
| of pictures, Is it furnished with shelves and
| Iiceon-hol3s for the elias ;ih alton and care of
| records and mess lgeS? 1t is impossible. saws
| Cassell s Magazine, to conc GIVE what kind of
| apparatt or fittings can at once be sultab G
| for storing up pictures and S)unds ard all
| the varieties of the impe 5sions &c eived
| from all the senses. Nor can we discover any
| CT r.ous machinery, even with the mlcros ope
for the structure of gray matter Is
so minute as to defy the powers OF
the lens; and all that we can detect is
an agglOmeratlOn OF minute cells A calcua-
| tion has been made regarding the number of
these braincells. 1t IS assumed that every
| thought or perception is separate lodger in
| the mind, requiring an apartment Of the
| brain to itself; and the cells are the apart
ments, We have to provide accommodation
| for all the incidents Of our every day life, for
all we read in the daily papers, for all that
| our schoolmasters crammed into us and all
| that we have learned since. How is this
possible In one small skull? Our conception
|
the Lord Prayer so small that it REQUIRES n
| powerful microscope to read it. Surely then
| minute portions of the brain nav Contain
a great deal? The cells vary in size from
! one three hundredth of an inch In
| diameter to one ree-thousandth: and this
| being known, it is not ditf1cult to estimate the
entire number Of them in the brain Or
| Hooke the mathematician. said 3. 1856 76O O 10.
| but according to Maynert calculation the
/ number OF cerebral cells is only 900 900 900
J Seeing that the doctors differ let us use the
! slate and pencil ourselves. The thinking
power Of tine brain is believed to reside in the
gray matter of the surface. This is sheet of
cellular nerve substance. which is crumDled
with convolutlons through being confined
within the narrow limits of the skull If If
were spread out fiat 1t would he found canal
J to layer one inch in thickness and twelve
inches long by eleven inches broader slight-
~ mOre-glving total Of 1874 cubic inches II
all the cells were one three hundretb
OF an inch in diameter there youid
be room for p 100000 of them in one
cubic inch, and therefore for 3 619 OOO OO0 in
the whole; but since many of the cells are
smaller, the total number must ne f,reater
Let us. however, be content with the 2 GIs
OOO.O)O. What is "a million? The Rihlp 0l5
and New Testament together is said to co,,
tain about three and quarter miIIi0ne ~
letters; we should therefore have 10 1,iIo ~
lib copies OF the Scriptures to pet n heSPp
containing as many letters as the brain rop
talnS cells. AS ca h cell may aeCommOdata
on ldea or thought, PROBABLY even a sTnaIiar
storChOuse would suffice for the wants oF ~
average human creature In tho -