The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


! Mountain, and, as have made a few expert
| nents to demonstrate the truth or fasity of the
claim, am of the opinion that gold does net
grow l have found that when q speck of gold
is placed in a solution of chloride Of gold the
gold so placed will gradually grow into a small
grain on piece of wood or cork introducedinto
the liquid. Ia other words, the metal contained
tU the chloride would come out from it's COM
binalIon as native gold aud unite wi it'll the tiny
spnck of pure metal which served it as nucleus
1t is not improbable that the GOLD in quartz was
similarly deposited SO that in the literal sense
it may perhaps be true despite Arstotle's dog
matte statement TO the contrary that gold
grows, although very slowly.
ALUMINIUM horseshoes are said to have been
| tried with remarkably successful results in the
| Russian army According to a note translated
| by Capt. E. Lambart from the lnUdltde Russo
q few horses in the Finland drag oons were first
| chosen and shod with one aluminium shoe and
three iron shoes each, the former being on the
| fore foot in some cases and on the hind in
| Others. The experiments lasted six weeks and
showed that the aluminium shoes lasted longer
and preserved the feet better than the iron
| ones, No aluminium shoes broke, and they
| we're used over again for reshoeing. The horses,
moreover, were worked over hard and very
stony ground. The most important fact of all
is that aluminium horseshoes are only one-third
to one-fourth the weight of iron shoss. Their
cost is admitted greater, but. on the other hand
very little charcoal is required in shoeng; there
Is no loss in weight and the value of the old
metal is the same as that of fresh.
SOME one has been gathering statistics about
| the money left by authors. Lord Tennyson, the
most successful OF English authors, left about
$3.50, 600. Robert BrowninZ, OF whose will A.
| Iennyson and +. S. Palgrava were the attest
| ing witnesses, left personally in London of the
| value OF 9lb,T7a Victor Hugo, who, like Ten
| nyson. attained the age OF So years, lad per-
sonal estate in England to the amount of 492,-
| 1875. DIR. Charles MacEay's property was valued
| at $3.50, and that of Eliza Cook at e., 0S7.
| Matthew Arnold's estate amounted to 8I,0l.
His will, in his own handwriting, was one of the
| shortest that ever came under probate. II was:
| II leave everything of which die possessed TO
| my wife, Frances" Lucy Brownings will was
| in her own beautiful handwriting with the
initial letter OF all the nouns substantive in cap
| itas, after the old use. Victor Hugos will was
| not written by himself but ''dicte ct signe par
| moi, and is in its style eminently character
| istic OF the author.
AN autograph letter Of Dean Swift has re
| Gently been discovered among some old papers
at Capt. LoderSymond's seat, Hinton Waldrist
! manor, Berkshire. 1t is addressed to some
| member of the earl of Oxford's family and
says: Il have the honor to be ca 2tain of a band
| OF nineteen musicians Including boys, which
| are, hear, about five less than my friend the
| duke of Chandos, and l understand music like
| Muscovlte; but my choir AZ 80 degenerate IN
| der the retgns of former deans of famous
memory that the race of people called gentle
| men lovers of music tell me must be very care
| full in supplying two vacancies which have been
| two years endeavoring to do. For you are to
| understand that in disposing these musical en-
|
| TO ministers or state by giving them to those
| who best deserve. II you had recommended 8
| person to me for a church living ia nay gift
| would be less curious because Gn Indifferent
| parson may do well enough IL he be honsSt,
| but SINGERS, Ike tneir brothers ehs poets, must
be very good or they are good for nothing"
TIRE fact that Boston women are making
up more this season than usual is now recog-
nized, says the Boston Gazette. This practice
originated among the society women who have
been much abroad. where ''smart" woman
makes up as regularly as she dresses herself
The practice is spreading now among the
younger girls, and of course 10 being copied by
| women not in the smart set, so that It is now
sometimes difficult to tell first sight whether
woman be lady or not. The two f8ShionR-
bic sisters who have for years had the reputa-
Llon or being the only women In society who
painted have now many associates in their art.
| One OF the bellies who came out few seasons
ago looks like china doll her cheeks being
all too rosy. There is no reason why woman
whose attractions are on the decline shoud not
make an effort to look as pleasing as possible:
and there are many women among The fringe
OF society" who make q herculean effort to re-
main young, but it seems a shame to find
| young married women and girls of 10 turning
to rouge and powder before 1t is necessary lt
is even more unpleasant to meet man who
touches himself up, and yet it is no secret that
there are men in society who resort to artificial
means 60 make themselves beautiful
There are fashions in maladies as well as iu
dress. says the London Hospital, and frequently
the maladies are as little new as the --latest
novelty" in dress. only they are both new to
our attention, and thereto re OF special impor =
tancs. We inclined to think that In the
matter of disease, nerves are especially alb
scrbing attention at the present aud are con-
sidered quite feature at the present age. We
ourselves are inclined TO think that modern
nerves are very much like their older brethren
We have only oopen the pages of the lighter lit
erture of less than a century ago to reed, with a
1 UJtYtuFG AmnsRmanf Of bA
''vspors," "swoons" and ''sobbings'' of the
female element of society, and of the nervous
irritability OF the stronger sex. Under the
light Of our present knowledge. we trace the
prevalence of neurotic and hystericaI condi-
tIons quite unconsciously placed before US and
treated very much as matter of course.
Bearing in mind that we live in an age of pres
sure and hurry that nervous tendencies srs
detected and classified in an unhesitating and
relentless fashion. quite unknown when
''vapors" and "swooning" seemed to have the
correct characteristics Of truly lady like be-
ings," and the broken heak OF post boy was
but mild indication OF irritation on the part OF
| young men, We consider that modern minds
| may with reason abate some OF their nervous
fears as to the degeneracy of the age.
A FRENCH statistician, who has been studying
the military and other records with q view Of
determining the hight of men at different
periods, has reached some wonderful results
He has not only solved some perplexing prob
! lens 10 regard to the past of the human race
|
| to determine the exact period when man will
| disappear from the eat The recorded facts
| extend over nearly three centuries. It is found
| that in 1910 the average hight of man in
| Europe was LIS meters, or say feet iuches
/ In 1850 II was feet 6 inches In 1920 it was s
; feet 8 inches and fraction. At the present
time il is feet S94 inches 1t is easy to deduce
| from these figures rate of regular and
| gradual decline in human stature, and then an
| ply this, working backward and for ward
TO the past and to the future Bv
this calculation it is determined that
the stature OF the first man attained the sur
prsing average OF l6 feet inches Truly.
there were giants on the earth in those DAYS
The race had already deterorated in the days
! of Og, and Goliath was quite degenerate off
spring of the giants. Coming down TO later
time, ne find that at the beginning Of our era
| the average hight of man was feet, and at
the time OF Charlernagne IL vas 8 feet & inc res.
But the most astonishing result of this scientific
study comes from the application OF the same
| inexorable law Of dimlnution 10 the future,
| The calculation shows that by the year 5000 A.
| d. the stature OF the average man will be- re-
| duced 60 fifteen inches AZ that epoch there
| will be only LllliputaIs on the earth. And the
conclusion OF the lear ned statistician Ia irresist-
ible that "the end OF the world will certainly ar
| rive, for the inhabitants will have become so
small That they win finally disappear 'fnsh
by disappearing" as the French diom ex-