The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-15


A naturalist paper relates an Interesting
/ stance % a frogs cunuing. A brood 81 chick
ems va. fed with m0istened meal in sauccrs.
/ and when me dough ~oured little u aiif,-Cte9
7 large numbers OF flies. An otScrYant toad
/ had evidently noticed this and every uaF TO-
ward evening he would make his appearance
/ In the ward. hop % "a saucer. climb 10 ana Iuu
! over and over until DE was covered WITH
meal having done which he awaited develop
ueuts The flies entiCCd by the smell. soon
swarncd around the scheming batruchlan.
and whenever one passed within two inches
or So of his nose his tongue darted out ana
the 1v disappeared. This plan worked SO
well that the toad made regular business OF
il.
Although lightning and thunder occur
always simultaneously, an interval OF shorter
or longer duration is usually observed be-
tween these two phenomena, which is due to
the fact that sound travels only at the rate
of ! 100 feet per second, while the passage OF
light is almost instantaneous. Based upon
this fact, it is an easy matter 70 tell at least
approximately how many miles a thunder
storm is away A normal pulse, says the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, will beat about one
stroke to the second, and by counting the
pulsed beats during the intervals of the light
ming and the thunder the lapse Of seconds is
arrived at and consequently the number OF
feet. which can be reduced 10 miles tOr eX-
ample: If thirty seconds elapSe between the
flash of the lightning and the crash OF thun-
der the storm center is at a distance Of 3d.
wv lt6Ll VI dDOuJ ok anu 81 lloll ullAN9- an
almost accurate calculation can be made by
using a watch with a minute dial.
Theatrical people know that oil cleans the
skin better than water, says the Boston
Gazette. Generally, other people do not. If
actresses undertook to get their makeup off
with water, they would need soft soap and
sCruh-bruSh to do it. They used once cocoa
butter; now they use cocoa Oil which is u
better preparation of the same thing. Drug
stores keep it. Some keep it fresh, and some
keep ii rancid. Take care not to patroniZe
the second class, and in cocoa oil you will
have the most delightful of all emOllients for
the oil bath. If you want to see how effective
1t is, come in from u railway journey on
hot day, when the windows have been up. and
you nave had as much Deneht OF the smoke
and SCOT as the fireman. Take the most vigOr-
GUS bath. you can devise or endure, then
spread some cocoa oil on your face and wipe
1t of The blackened towel Will tell the tale
OF failure for the bath and triumph for the oil.
Quick steps are indicative of energy or agi-
tation, says the New York Advertiser. Tip
toe walking symbolizes surprise, curiosity,
discretion or mystery. Turned in toes are Of
ten found in preOccupied and abSent-minded
persons The miSer's walk is represented as
STOPPING, noiselesS, with short. nervous. anx-
iOus steps. Slow steps, whether long or
short suggest gentle or reflective state of
mind, as the case may be- The proud step IS
slow and measured; the toes are conspicuous
ly turned out the legs Strengthened. Where
a vengeful purpose be hidden under feigned
smile the step viii be sinking and noiseless.
The direction of the steps, wavering and fol
lowing every charging impulse of the mind,
inevitably betrays uncertainty, hesitation and
indeciSiOn. Obstinate people who in an argu-
meut rely more on muSCularity than on intel
lectual power rest the feet fiat and firm on
the ground, walk heavily and slowly and
stand with the legs firmly planted and far
apart.
Up in the northwest wilderness of Maine,
says the New York Post, some capitalists,
who have bought the timber lands of seven
| townships, are constructing an enormous
endless chain. worked by fOrty-horse power
engines to convey their logs over 800 feet of
decline to the waters Of the Carry Brook, by
which they are to be swept into MOoSehead
| Lake, and eventually reach the mills al Car
! diner by way Of the Kennebec. The chain be-
| gins at the edge of dam which has been
| formed across the PenObscOt at SchOomook.
| Here the logs are collected. The chain is Of
| steel, with links foot long. Every eight
| feet there is a chair a bar running across
the chain, and on either end of the bar
! are iron standards to hold the log in place.
| The chain runs in q trough and the
| log rests on the chain and is held in place by
| the iron standards. The motive power will
| be two forty horse power engines. One will
| be located at the centre and one at the further
| end of the stretch, and it is believed that the
chain Will move at the rate OF 200 feet min
ute While this system of handling lumber
| is by no means novel, speeding an endless
! chain at any such a rate is new, but compe-
| ltII Gig lHtbIS piOuOuuNC IL pOSSlDl5. IL Is
| expected that it will carry 5000 pieces, or
| l 0000 600 feet every twenty four hours 1t is
| estimated that it will cost not far from TWEEN
| ty-hve cents per thousand to carry the logs.
The apple is'one of the most popular and
| least Objectionable fruits. and most people
| use it as a luxury, with the commentator
| that IL is a healthful one. The Medical Age
some time ago furnished a statement Of the
apples properties, from which it appeared
that chemically it is composed of vegetable
fiber, albumen sugar. gum ch Orophyl malic
acid, gallo acid, lime and much water.
Furthermore, the German analySistS say that
the apple contains larger percentage Of
PHOSPHORUS than any other fruit or vegetable.
The PHOSPHORUS is admirably adapted for
renewing the essential nervous matter, leCi-
thin, of the brain and spinal cord The Brook
Ign Eagle thinks 1t IS, perhaps. for the same
reason, rudelY understood, that old SCandi-
navian traditions represent the apple as
the food of the gods, who. when they
felt themselves to be growing feeble
and inhrm, reSorted to this fruit
for renewing their powers of mind and
body. Also. the acids of the apple are of sig-
nal use for men Of Sedentary habits. whose
livers are sluggish in action. those acids serv-
ing to eliminate from the body noxious mat
ters'Which, il retained, would make the brain
heavy and dull or bring about jaundice or
skin erupttOns and other allied troubles.
Some such experience must have led 10 our
custom of taking apple sauce with roast pork
| rich goose and like dishes The malic acid of
ride apples, either raw or cooked, will neutra-
! lie any tACtS1 VI tlldIhy uldlIGE, GDRGnuefeu
by eating too much meat. 1t is, also, the fact
that such fresh fruits as the apple, the pear
and plum, when taken ripe, and without
sugar, diminish acidity in the stomach,
rather than provoke IL. Their vegetable
sauces and juices are converted into aka
line carbonates, which tend to counteract
acidity.
Atlantis was continent supposed to have
existed at a very early period in the Atlantic
ocean, "over against the Pillars of Hercu-
| les" but which was subsequently sunk in a
/ cataclysm OF which history gives no record
| says the st. Louis Republic Plato is the
| first who gives an account of it, and he
| is said to have obtained his Information
| OF some Egyptian priests with whom he
| had come in contact. Plato account SAYS that
| Atlantis was continent larger than Asia and
| extremity were islands which afforded easy
| passage to a large continent lying still be
| yOnd-thiS last mentioned continent being
| now supposed to be South America Nine
| thousand years before the time of Plato ac-
| cOrding to the tradition. Atlantis was a
| powerful, thickly settled country which ex-
| tended its sway over Africa and the major
I portion of what is now Europe, even tOas far
| as the Tyrrhenian sea- Further progress
| of the invasion of the Atlantides was checked
| by the combined efforts of the Athenians and
| the other Greeks. Shortly after the invaders
| were driven from the continents of Europe
| and Africa a great earthquake shook Atlantis
| from center to circumference. First the out
| lying islands sank; then great areas of the
| mainland. Waves ran mountain high across
| hundreds of square miles of what had the
| day before been fertile fields. Great temples
| were ''racked and rlven' and the afrighted