The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Brownsville Tex, man has a rooster
with a horn on his mead


The highest clouds. cirrus and cirrostratus,
rise to an average hight Of aoout SOC o feet-
There are 800 mountains in the United
States each Of which exceeds i0,eOO feet in
hight
Mrs. Betsy Carroll, IS years of age, living
at Willimantlc, Conn, has been having
measles.
No worm or insect is ever found upon the
eucalyptus tree or in the earth penetlased by
its roots.
A grated tree at Monticello. Fla. annually
bears mixed crop Of peaches, apples. pears.
ounces and crabs.
A belt in one Of the big Touring mills at
Minneapolis contains 200 cowhides. 1t Is 260
feet long and weighs over a ton.
Abner Dorsett, a negro living in Hickory
Mountain township. North Carolina. has
head which measures thlrty-two inches in
circumference.
The results of the recent expedition to the
polar regions prove that north OF 70 degrees
the ice over the whole Surface averages 5000
feet IN thickness.
Data deducted from 100 conservatives OBJ
servations made on the apex Of in3 Eifel
Tower prove that the velocity of the wind at
that hight is nearly four times as great as at
the surface.
The workings of the human heart have
been the subject of study, and its power has
been computed by noted physiologist who
says that it is equal to the lifting OF 120 tons
every "a hours
An authority on cats says that yellow hairs,
no odds how few in number always indicate
that the wearer is a female He further ADDS:
NO male cat was ever known to have the
81 ghtest tint of yellow
At Nipzig, To-, watermelon vine grew and
extended one of its branches into a hole that
had been cut in large hollow Eastwood tree.
Az last accounts melon had formed on, the
vine which was too large 10 admit Of Icing
removed through the opening.
A Chicago paper says that there are in Chi
cago at least 3 900 places in the manufactur-
ing district where workihgmen are in the
nab1t OF going for liquor These saloons are
purposely placed near the factories so as the
more easily absorb the men wages. II each
one OF these saloons took in SlJ a day. the
sum would amount to 5000 a day, or $500, 90
Tor week Of six days.
An average of five feet of water is esti-
mated to fall annually over the whole of the
the earth's surface. Assuming that con
densaticn takes place at an average hight of
3 GOO feet, the force of eVapOratlon necessary
to. supply moisture for such d prodigious
rainfall must be equal to the lifting of -
OOJUl0 pounds of water E. 00J feet every MN
ute, day and night, durn5 the entire year.
10 supply TINS enormous amount OF moisture
stratum OF the entire ocean surface of the
globe not less than ~ feet thick must d g
taken up by the clouds and returned to earth
once each 5t5 days
The continued and careful observations
which the meteorologists Of the world have
made during the past twenty years only serve
TO strengthen the r mark made by Il c author
OF 'AEdlll 1heOry<Of electric Storms" VIZ.
that the majority of fatal and de ,tructiye
nghtnlng STROKES occur IN level. open coun-
country. trees, villages and tdi- xiv built D
towns and cities. by their numerous Droie G
tons and their network of rails. wire, etc
seem to neutralize or scatter the ele tro
forces. thereby protecting Goth the innate
and inanimate from direct strokes Of the
death-deallng fluid.
According to the Pittsburg Dispatch. a
prominent surgeon says that if children are
taken in hand when quite young their noses
can be adapted to eyeglasses without Danger
or mu h pain, and he is willing to make the
experiment If any mother will furnish the
subject. He will charge nothing. His idea
is to engraft protuberance on each sideof
the nose as sort Ct saddle for the glasses to
rest on. They would be no disagreement as
the glasses would cover them. When man
was formed glasses we're unknown. hence
many noses Wtr3 unprOVided with the ne ,es-
sary hump to keep them on. 1t is hiqhly i'm
portant that this oversight should be rem
elied.
Says the Philadelphia Record: 1.-THE recent
movement in the direction of the adoption of
individual communion cups among certain
churches in this city has led a number of
jewelers. to begin the manufacture of the cups
and other paraphernalla connected with the
service. A pr Jminent Chestnut street dea er
has the cups IN all shapes and sizes arranged
in porta lie racks. Some of the cups are
scar cely bigger thai thimDleS, while others
are as large as small teacup. The idea of
adopting the individual cups at communion
service Yves taken up in this city by the
ourth Baptist church. at Fifth and Button
wood streets, and number of other churches
reform from sanitary point of view are very
st oagly urged by number of prominent cit
liens throughout the country"
DR.. Good. a missionary in. the interior of
Africa, says that the poverty of the native
languages is a serious hindrance to mission
! ary effort. In the Bal9 Language, for instance,
there is no word for thanks" or 'thanksgiv-
ing" TO telieve,' to trust" TO have
faith" are III expressed by one verb to which
there is no corresponding noun. There is no
word for spirit he Bule have ALWAYS te-
lieved in an invisible god, but they have
never given S ich eng a name. With the
Rule living man has lody and a shadow
the lioeral shape cast by the living person
which al death leaves the body and becomes
a dlsembodied spirit with a new name which
cannot lie used to apply to God and the
angels. So Or. Good is driven to say that
| send his holy sha6ow' into mems hearts.
etc
with one exception, a Manchester man. I
am the only man in England who buys
butchers rags said smart and gentle
manly business man, according to London
Answers, and l may tell you that in less
IA n i've years l have esta olished a business
which brings me ln-well. say. over a thou
sand year. | buy up the peculiar thin
cloths in which frozen meat is wrapped when
1t comes over here, ana till l stru, k this line
thousands upon holSands of these greasy
cloths were thrown away or burned With
the enormous quantity OF meat which comes
from abroad you may fancy that great
many OF these cloths are used and buy up
ali l can lind. extract the grease from the
cloths in the first instance, and this brings in
considerable revcnue, and then the cloths
are boiled and in some cases bleaehed. And
nov as TO the after use OF the cloths
Although printers and lithographers have no
idea where these cloths come frou-thev i'm
aglne that they are manufactured spe IDLY
! Lelieye most of them are sold to litho.
graphic and color printers, for these same
clio his are Ceautif lily soft, almost like silk
after they have teen boiled and so on and
they are used to wi pc photographic and other
stones. Hundreds Of them, though, are used
Tor other purposes, and l can sell them as
fast as l can prepare them