The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Manchester. England. gets its water
supply ninety-five miles away.
Rapid growth Of the finger nails is con-
sidered 10 indicate good health
Astronomers claim that there are over
Il. 10000 comets in the solar system alone
The Roman catacombs are $50 miles in
extent and 10 is estimated that from six
million 10 fifteen million dead are there
inferred.
Measurements of human hair prove
that its fineness depends much on color,
and that il varies from the 250th 10 the
six hundredths Of an inch in diameter.
The seat of color in the different races
Of men is the inner skin, which Is net
work containing the terminal OF the
blood vessels. The thinner this inner skin
the whittier the person.
Leuenhoek says that four million webs.
spun by young spiders when they nrsL
begin to use the spinneret, are not, II
twisted together, as great in diameter
as a hair from a human head.
The lines of no two human hands are
exactly alike. When traveller in China
desires a passport, the palm of the hand
is covered with fine oil paint and an
impression is taken on thin, damp paper.
This paper, officially signed, is his pass
port.
The Korean flag is white, and bears in
the center a sort of ball. one-half blue
and the other half red, typifying the two
elements of creation, the male and the
female In the corners are strange and
complicated blue characters, invented by
a Chinese emperor a few thousand years
ago.
Caycay. a West Indian island. is in
habited exclusives by turtles, some OF
which grow to an enormous size. At
tempts to establish human habitations
on the island have always failed. The
turtles undermine the foundations Of the
houses, and not infrequently attack the
inmates.
The appearance of Mrs. Yang Yu at a
formal dinner given by her husband, the
"a
was most important event in her life.
From the Chinese point of view, this made
her very advanced woman. 1t was the
third step in her progress toward liberty
the first having been taken when she ap-
peared at legation reception, and the
second when she attended state dinner
at the White House.
Gov. OFerrall of Virginia the other day
received the following communication,
signed Benjamin f. Hunter Washington,
D. G; Tell II in the city of Richmond
and publish it in the state of Virginia that
there Is prophet among the people with
bad and heavy tidings from God to every
nation, language and tongue upon earth.
/ am now mediator between God and man.
kind. Mercy no longer dwells upon earth.
He has surrendered to justice-the milk
white horse upon which the prophet rides
without bride, knowing neither mother
nor father, sister nor brother, relatives
nor friends, but quickly carries into exc
cution the will of the living God, and pro-
nOunces the everlasting and eternal ildg-
ment of an angry God upon all nations
and persons alike. Amen.
Why should not the masher suck the
handle of his walking stick? asks the
New York Times Mr.. Buchanan, i'm The
Nineteenth Century, believes he has found
an anthropological reason for it, The
baby sucks TO satisfy hunger, and associa-
ted with sucking are the feelings Of
warmth, sleep and comfort" The baby
nurses and the hunger pain passes away
A child smashes its finger. At once the
finger is put in the mouth. Even the
adult, awkward with a tack hammer,
sucks his injured finger Early associa-
lions of pain and relief through sucking
remain. Why do men put the end either
mustache in their mouths, or women
suck the ends of their crochet needles %
The dude, more or less brilliant, prone to
seek self comfort, finds II when sucking
the knob or the crook of his walking
stick.
With the approaching season when mince
pie figures, its antiquity is worthy of men,
ton. In culinary sense it shows the
older method of mixing together meats
and sweats. When saffron was the main
or only fiavorer, spices being unobtaina-
Bile, primitive man must have sweatened
his meat with honey. Modern English
cookery eschews sweets with meats
save as compliment to game, but Ger
mans and Russians still keep on cooking
meat and sweet substances together
Mince pie is then relic of the past and
persistent one Once this pie had a re-
ligious significance, and before the REFORM
alton the crust had a crib-lke form, and
Brand says it represented the Manager in
which the holy child was laid" In 1888
some one wrote to the Gentleman's Maya
zine that "a minced pye" indicated the
offerings of spice made by 1.-The wise
men,"
Printing telegraphs heretofore have us
ually presented the message on a con-
tinuous strip, but according to the New
York Tribune, Louis c. Coe, an operator
in Green Oak, Mich, has contrived an in |
strument that produces automatically |
a typewriter message in page form |
and more rapidly than by the Morse sys-
n hn frfx
is that although operators at other sta |
lions may discover which offices are in |
circuit at any time, and thus know that |
the line is in use, but, according to the |
inventor, none of them can oVerhear the |
message going through. Though the line |
may be tapped no one can steal a mes |
sage. Hence, perfect secrecy is secured |
AS the apparatus prints mechanically, |