The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-16
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for fifteen years has been 1913 inches. In 1851
/ il was qO5
/ On the west coast of North America and
Europe the heaviest rainfalIs are in winter,
IN the interior of the United States and
Europe, in summer
In Northern Europe, Nordenskiold found
fresh fallen snow impregnated with a dust OF
carbon and iron such as could only have
come from meteors.
Meteorologists say that the heat of the air
is due TO six sources: % That from the in
terror of the earth; ~ That from the stars;
81 That from the moon; a. That from the
friction OF the winds and tides; ~ That from
the meteors: (6j That from the sun.
Evaporation is two or three times greater
in the sunshine than in the shade, and five or
six times as great in summer as in winter; is
greater during breeze than in calm. ana is
greater from fields or melting snow than
from an equal surface Of the ocean.
The great lakes and the st. Lawrence Val
! ley have more storms per annum than any
other portion of this country. This is due to
the fact that storms originating west or this
district move directly east, while many orlgl-
| mating farther south move TO the northeast
Artificial pearl making constitutes quite an
important industry, says Invention. 1t is
confined to two villages in the northern part
| OF the Province Of Chihkiang, which is silk
! producing region. During May AID June
/ large quantities of mussels are thought in
! baskets from a lake thirty miles distant, and
| the biggest of the mollusks arr selected for
| use. into the she'll of each mussel is intro
! dnced mum -er OF little pills made OF mud
| taken from the bottom ofwater courses dried
and powdered with the juice of camphor trees
seeds and the bivalve is left to coat these
pellets with the pearly substance it secretes'
A novelty in the Matching of eggs has ap.
| peared in the shape of an electric incubator
The special feature of this machine is that
| the heat of the egg drawer is automatically
| regulated to the fittieth part OF a degree
| abr. AS described in the P1ttsburg Dis
| patch, it consists of a tank incubator, heated
by radiation from the bottom Of water tank,
which is constructed on the multitubular
system. When the egg drawer reaches the
| temperature of 104 degrees Fair, an electric
| thermostat connects UP a dry battery with
an electro magnet. which actuateS damper,
! allowing the heat to escape through the open
! air instead of passing through the fiues of
the water tank. This entirely automatic de-
| vice is said to effect saving OF 30 per cent
in the fuel used for heating.
1t is noted as a curious fact that many
women who become distinguished in litera-
ture under nom de plume have done so I'M
der names that we're either masculine or had
no sex suggestion. NOEOdy could tell whether
or not Currer Bell was a man or woman. In
fact, there is reason to believe that Charlotte
Bronte on the title page would have handi-
| an audience that would have been impossible
10 AurOre Dudevant. as did George Eliot one
! that would have whiStled Margarine Evans
quite down the wind: Coming nearer our
own private life, there is John Strange Winter
who is, in private life Mrs. Standard and
John Oliver Hobbies, the sensation of at least
London week, who is really Mrs. Perry
! Cragle. Then, in our own country we have
| Octave Thanet, known to her friends as Miss
Alice French and Charles Egtert Craddock,
whom all the world has heard Of though only
half Of II would recognize her as Miss Muir
free.
An international congress met in Paris in
1887 and resolved to make a Photographic
chart of the whole sky. The work was begun
in 1891. and. as it is expected to occupy about
ten years. it will form fitting close to a cen
tury which has been so rich IN astronomical
discoveries. Eighteen observatories scat
tered over he world are taking part in the
work Similar instruments and plates of eX-
actly the same siZe-four square degrees
will be used. Each photograph is to be
duplicated to prevent mistakes, and also
there are to be two series OF exposures so
that some 44,0C0 photographs in all will be
taken short exposure series will form a
catalogue of about 900 stars down TO the
eleventh magnitude while the other series
Will be exposed forty minutes. and will form
a chart containing about % 900 600 stars
down to the fourteenth magnitude. The en-
tire map of the sky, when finished, will cover
globe IA yards in diameter. In two OIL
three generations astronomers by comparing
this chart with their own observations, will
know much more than we do about the re
lations and relative motions Of the suns and
systems OF space, and whittier our own little
solar system is bound and with what veloc
lty.
Il have always despised bats" said Eugene
L. Bishop of Cleveland, at the Lindell 10 the
St Louis Globe Democrat, land it always
sends shudder over me whenever one Of
the hideoUs creatures approaches me The
bats Of this country, howeve,. are not to be
| dreaded in comparison to those of the yam
pre- species which abound in India Just
imagine big mouse with horn on his heat
like rhinoceros, furnish him with pair OF
demon like wings, and you have very good
picture OF this latter kind. The natives dread
the vampire bat on account of his blood suck.
ing propensity. the sultry nights he
fans the heated sleeper with his
are reing inserted into the veins S0' Of
his victim. quenching his thirst for blood
with such gentleness hat it is only hy sons
fortunate chance that he is dis eoverC d before
the mischief is done. 1t is a we'll authent
Gated fact that II an individual is once bled
by vampire he is invariably chosen in pref
creme to all others equally exposed, for a
subsequent alta k, and even II he were m
n owe ten or twenty miles away no immunity
is gainC d thereby, as the bat is sure to follow
him and keep up his blOOdthirSty attack until
his victim succum or the animal Is diseov.
cred and killed. Cattle and horses, from lie.
ing more exposed are more frequently
chosen as the subjects of attack by these
lOathsome creatures.
Senator Davis of Minnesota who mas come
into prominence by reason of the firm stand
he has taken in the Senate against the rio.
tous strikers in Chicago, is a comparatively
poor man. says the Washington Post When
he used to devote his entire attention to his
law practice before he entered the Senate he
had an income OF about S25, 00) a wear but of
late this amount has fallen. off considerably
1t is an interesting fact that little or none of
his practice has come from railroad CORPORA.
tons 1t IS said that he has never been In ali
his life under the continuous pay of a railroad
company. He has occasionally appeared for
them in the courts but the bulk of his
practice has been against these corpora.
tions He made his campaign for the
governor of the state in 1873 upon a Mat.
f. rm of state control of railroads and il was
during his administration that the socalled
granger legislation was inaugurated result.
ing in railroad commission. and in extend
ing the power of the state over the corpora.
tions, Senator Davis is a native of New
! York, where he was born in 1898 He moved
out west so early, however, as to be thorougb.
ly identified with that section He lived in
| Michigan, where he graduated and in Wis.
| consip, where he entered the army before he
went out TO Minnesota. He has been in the
! legislature. was district attorney for one
! term, served as governor and has been in the
Senate since 1889. In private life he is a man
| OF domestic habits and great student His
! library in his residence, at St Paul is said
to be the most complete in the state