The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ A patent has just been taken out for
/ glasses and mugs with quicksilver Their
| mometer. in order to enable the drinker
/ to determine which temperature of the
/ liquid will be most agreeable to his taste
1 and most beneficial for his health.
DR.. Jules Rochard, in the Union Medi-
| GALE draws a gloomy picture of the in
/ crease of the morphine habit in France
and elsewhere. The habit he finds, be-
/ comes incurable at the end of six months
| OF indulgence. Women and doctors are.
in his opinion, most deeply addicted to the
/ drug.
A hundred tons of cats tails were re-
Gently sold in one lot in London for the
/ purpose of ornamenting ladies' wearing
| apparel Assuming that an average cats
( tail would weigh couple OF ounces, TINS
would mean that no fewer than $4,000
! pussies had been killed just to supply this
/ one deal.
An ornamental china cup. out of which
| Napoleon took his last drink at st. Hell
| ena,' was sold at auction recently, IN
| Paris An examination of the manufac-
turer's mark shows the cup TO have been
/ made in 1870 It may be remembered that
! Bonaparte died at St. Helena in 1921.
! In making treaties with China each for
/ eign country has chosen its own name.
/ country: France is Fa-kwo, the law abid
/ ing country the United States Mei-kwo,
| the beautiful country; Germany Je-kWo,
| the virtuous country; Italy l-kwo, the
| country of Justice Japan is Ji-kwo, the
| land of the sun, but she prefers TO be
called Ji-pen, the land of the rising sun.
To reach the North pole an architect,
NJ. Hauin, has proposed to the Geographi-
cal Society of Paris the construction OF
wooden huts one or two days journey
apart He considers Greenland the most
favorable locality for an experiment OF
this kind. Each of the huts would become
in its turn a base of supplies Tor the con-
struction of the next. AS the distance to
be covered is about 900 miles, score OF
huts would be necessary to establish
route to the pole.
ic IreIN n nj a
part in the submarine boat soon to be
built for the navy. 1t has been found
that a comparatively small quanuty OF
oxygen, from time to time admitted to a
submarine chamber, will keep the ar oil
such chamber for hours in the condition
to sustain human life. Instead, then, of
carrying large volumes of compressed air
in many heavy metallic receivers, single
| receiver filled with oxygen may be car
ried. This makes possible an immense
economy of weight and space.
Prof. Peal, the ethnologist, recently
described to the Asiatic Society the con-
dition of the head-hunting Nagas on the
blame for the continuance of the practice;
they taunt the young men who are not
tattooed, and the latter go out and cut off
heads to exhibit to them, fully half of
which are those of women and children.
The area occupied by the tribe is not
more than twenty miles square, but in it
during the past forty years. more than
1900 murders have been committed for
the sake of these CHASTITY trophies.
Doctors Commons. at the southwest
corner of st. PaulS churChyard, with its
PickWickian associations of wills and mar
riage licenses, is about to disappear com
pletely, to make room for a large ware
| house, says the New York Sun. The old
house and archway forming the entrance
to the buildings are now to be torn down;
they were used for offices by Sir Christie
pher Wren when he was designing St
Pauls cathedral. The corporation of Doc
tors of Law. which monopohzed ecclesias-
teal and admiralty cases, was dissolved
in he Iraf1 In boo, .,1l
auction, and have all been demolished
save the entrance.
Everybody is interested in the antics
of those curious little jumping beans,
which are just now displayed in many
shop windows, but few people know what
makes them jump about in such a strange
way. The motive power is really a round
fat worm resembling those seen in chest
nuts 1t has sixteen little feet, which
give II pretty good purchase against the
side of his home, so that he has no diff
Guilty in moving about. The worms live
in the beans from July or August until
April or May, and do not seem to mind
their captivity in the least. In fact, if a
hole is made in the side of the shell the
worm will soon repair the damage by
weaving a fine silky web over the aper-
ture, upon the completion of which it
will resume it's nimble ways When re-
moved from the shell it will form another
covering for itself in a few hours. The
gfst, who cornered the market and eX-
poets to make fortune out of them. They
grow IN Mexico, and the scientific name
is caTpO Capsa SaltitanS.
The sea gull Dick christened more than
a score of years ago returned last Wednes-
day to the Brenton's Reef hghtship off
Newport X; l. me hardy sailorman in
charge of the lightship hardly expected
the bird, for when he left the boat last
spring he was thought to be pretty well
used up. His return finds him stronger
than when he left, and though he is be
Iieved to be twenty-eight or thirty years
old, Dick appears to be good for at least
Gv-y1 NJ
Capt. Charles Marsh, the oldest living ex-
captain of the lightship, came there TWEEN
ty-three years ago this month and was
easily tanned. He remained all winter,
and the men petted him and fed him
One morning early in March he flew away.
His departure was regretted, as he had
displayed much intelligence, but he was
soon forgotten. One day early in the next
October gull came aboard the ship in a
most matter fact way. and it proved to
be Dick. So hehas been going each spring
and returning each fall, with the greatest
regularity. He keeps well aft and may
generally be seen on a perch which the
The gull is easily fOndled by the men
he has known the eyar before. but any
one who has Joined the crew during his
absence has to show Dick great attention
before he can win his regard. The gull
flies about the ship, but never to the land,
which is less than mile away.
The bureau of ethnology has sent an
expedition, under the management of F.
g. MCGEE and William Dinwiddie, armed !
with paper, pencils and kodaks, into the
DESERT and little known region of southern
Arizona, known as Papagorfa, from the
tribe OF Papagos, a primitive, nomadic
people, who make their home there, and
are the least known of any of the primitive
inhabitants of the continent Prof Carl
Lumholtz has recently been describing in
Scribner's Magazine the cliff dweIiers
who inhabit the region lying just to the
south of Papagoria, in Sonora Mexico
and 1t is thought that the region now to
be investigated may prove quite as inter
estlng, as 1t is as little known. 1t is said
that in that region 1t does not rain often
but when It does the water comes in force |
filling underground reservoirs and start
ing springs and streams, which persist
long into the dry seasons, running with no
further supply for a year, or even more |
The Papagos wander about making their
dwellings on the temporary GASES formed /
by these streams, and moving from one
to another, as necessity demands or
choice dictates. To learn all that 1t can /
about this people is the prime object of |
the expedition, but it will also try to do |
some mapping of the unknown country
and ascertain something about its geology. |
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