The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Cast. John @. Bourke, United states
army. describing numerous receipts used
! on the Mexican border gives the follow
! ing as q potent love philter: Kill a jack
rsbbittake its eyes out, dry them, grind into
a powder, put that in tobacco, make a Gig
arctic, and give to the young lady to
smoke. She cannot help falling in lsve
with you" Sometimes varying the in
gradients ef the powder, the height of
enicacy was gained by putting g pinch
OF 1t in the young womar's shoe.
More than one hundred thousand obser-
| vations of the sun and the three major
planets, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, have
been made by the United States nautical
corps, under Prof. Simon Newcomb in or
der to complete the work of determining
the fundamental elements OF astronomy
and the planetary masses. Many of the
mathematical equations necessitsted in
the case e, OF the three planets observed in
VOWED the remarkable number Of twenty
two or twenty-three unknown quantities
The labor has required several years of
gratuitous work on the part of volunteer
specialists, and is a triumph of which
most proud.
At birth no infant can see Prof Preyer,
who has carefully worked on a single
subject "a boy of his own, considers that
although sensibility to light exists from
the moment of birth, yet this sensibility
to that of sight. The infant from the
nrst closed its eyes when exposed to a
strong light. With regard to actual
sight, as denoted by the fixing or the
eyes on subjects, Preyer says that up to
the tenth day he noticed no movements
indicating that the child fixed its eyes
on an OBJECT. He seemed only to look
at objects before him up to that time.
Other authorities assert that in this lat
ter respect infants differ greatly. This
much. however, is clear. that it usually
requires between two and three weeks for
the sense of sight to come into full opera
ton.
Considerable experimenting is done in
England at the present time on bamboo
blcVCleC n hO hae 1ny,tI
returned from abroad describes it as fol-
lows: "A pair of wheels fitted with pneu-
matte tires ordinary spokes, hubs and
rms, ordinary crank and chains, and
leather saddle. But there all resemblance
to the modern built safety ended, except
regarding shape. The tubes were made of
bamboo, wrapped here and there with
steel wire, the Tugs were made of red
vulcantte fiber, with the bamboo plugged,
threaded and screwed into the Tugs along
with a patent glue warranted TO be strong
enough to hold body and soul together;
the handle-bar, forks and bottom stays
were bamboo, the bottom bracket was
made of ash and the fork crown of vul-
canite fiber. The wheel complete weighs
twenty-five pounds.
About half a century ago. in the lime
stone cliffs of Alabama, near the Warrior
river, a cave was discovered. Here was
found a burial cave of the aborigines
There We're eight to ten wooden collins of
black and white walnut made somewhat
ike dugOut. These collins have been
sent recently to the Smithsonian insti-
tute, where eight of them have been re-
stored. Supposedly they were followed
out by fire and finished with stone or
copper chisels, or hatchets. The collins
are about seven and one-half feet long,
fourteen to eighteen inches wide, two
and one-half inches thick, and from six
to seven inches deep. Many skulls and
human bones were found scattered
round, whether disturbed by beasts of
prey or otherwise cannot be determined.
Wooden trays and bowls. broken or rotted
with time, were also found.
circular saw with diamond teeth is
used to cut up stone in the quarries of
Euvllle, Mouse, France, says the New
York Telegram. The saws consist of cir
cular disks of steel OF inch thick and
about seven feet three inches in diameter.
Rectangular notches are cut in the edge of
this disk at intervals of about one and a
half inches, into which are fitted blocks
Of steel carrying the diamonds, which are
OF the cheap Brazilian variety used for
diamond drills. The blocks are secured to
the body of the saw by screws with coun-
tersunk heads, while the diamonds are
hXed in these heads by heating the latter
to bright red heat and forcing them in
by pressure. The diamonds are mounted
in groups of eight those on the first and
eighth blocks being in the periphery of
the disk, the second and sixth at the edges
the fourth and fifth at the sides and the
third and seventh in intermediate posi-
tons. The saw is capable of cutting
through blocks three feet thick and re-
Guires twenty horse power to run it.
There is no statement made of the kind Of
stone which the apparatus cuts up. but it
is said to have made a cut of three and
three-fourths square feet in one minute.
During the first twenty-eght months it
was at work 1t sawed over 10000 square
feet of stone, counting one face only at a
total cost of less than cents a square
foot. During this time nineteen of the
diamond carrier blocks had to be re-
placed at an average cost of 81 each.
To the primitive man noise meant dan
ger, says a writer in the North Ameri-
can Review Therefore. when the saw
roar of the tempest, the sweep of tho
avalanche, or the soft approach of the
zoe at night, he put himself on guard
Noise awakened all his energies; it had a
quality of terror in it. and it still has
this quality-for me. In the Chinsee army
ne troops used to shout at the top OF
their lungs when they attacked, in order
to terrify their enemies; and when both
sides yelled together the effect of the din
palling. 1t is true that civilized man is
no longer so acuteyl affected bv noise
put 1t still acts as an irritant, and the
will be recognized. Even in childrenE
and children are supposed to enjoy noise
OF the most maddening kinds-I can see
few months ago, when we escaped for n
while from the din of the town To the
quiet hamlet where 1 yearly recruit nv
nolSe-shattered nerves, my little girl of 7
said on our first evening in the Country: 4
isn't II nice to listen to the siIence?'' !
The advance of the. savage toward Civ
noise. The more savage the tribe tho
more noise 1t requires. One of the great
clock manufacturers of this country is
said to make a certain cheap clock win
a particularly loud and aggressive ticit
Tor export to the south sea islands Tha,I
natives will have no other kind-the loud
er the tick the better the clock We arc
beyond that-some of us-be we do sane
ton an amount of noise that Paris or
London would sternly suppress Fro VI
time to time there is a protest rever-
ence Webster for his rebuke to a Cab .
ping barber who asked him how he would /
IKE 70 be shaved. In silence" said tho |
great man. But as nation we tolerate 1
an amount Of senseless, aggravating din
that We should have outgrown Ce9+nrIt
ago. Our idea of a popular reioicipS
ana celebration is still the Chinese one /
lots OF noise. Our Fourth of July is
made hideous by Chinese irecrackers and |
other exploding devices. Sensitive and |
sensible people shudder, and as becornes /
the most long suffering nation on earth
we allow 1t TO go on year after Vear'
those who can getting away from civiIi
zauon' so-called, on that glorious dev |
Again, our fashion of usherine in ~ |
new year is to ring all the bells Of the |
Town Ior halt an hour, let all the steam |
whistles SCreeCh till steam rune In,- a. -