The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

distant from the sun.
1t is said that a man at Henings Corners
Tenn, shrfnks once a month from $50 to 10
pounds ard remains in that condition for
week, after which he regalns his original
weight
An English curio hunter who was anxious
to secure the carria ge in which. Carnot was
riding when Cesario stabbed him offered the
Town council Of Lyons $1,000 Tor 1t but the
Offer was refused.
The aerial space within the limit Of our
vision is calculated to have q diameter Of
420 900 miles and circumference Of 1.329
wv miles. And this is only fragment
OF the immensely Of space.
A New York engineer has suggested to the
Paris exposition authorities that the next
exposition should have all its power gen
Grated al the coal mines which now supply
cally.
Germany is now the best educated nation
OF The continent. yet only 100 years ago Ger
man teachers in many parts of the country
were SO Poorly paid that they used to sing in
'front.' OF the houses IN order to add to their
incomes by odd pence.
DR.. Schar OF Vienna has applied photo
graphy to the study of the human skin
bright light is projected on the part of the
SKIN 10 De examined, and by direct exr oSure
many small details of the skin. including
graphed
In the constellation Of Orion there is a star
known as Theta Orlonis which. when viewed
through powerful telescope. appears as a
septuple star, thus presenting the magnif
cent panorama Of seven suns revolving about
eayh other. 1t is TO be supposed that each Of
these suns is encircled by planets, and these
again by moons.
Chemnitz, Saxony, has banished horses
from her street cars and substituted the troll
ley The method OF stringing wires is BY
means OF ornamental rosettes fastened into
ine woodwork or walls OF houses, having pro
lectlng hooks to which the wires are attached,
these hooks are firmly fastened and are
tested with seven times the weight they viii
&c called upon to bear. Owners Of houses.
without exceptions, preferred to allow the
use or their houses free rather than have
posts on the sidewalk.
Deaths by starvation are perhaps com.
moner among the rich than among the poor
says the New York Sun. The emaciatso1 that
comes Of chronic Indigestion simply pro
claims an i'll nuriShed body a starving with
out munger Every physician in New York
from whatever social circle his patients are
drawn, treats many such cases of starvation.
1 ne milk diet. so much talked OF for the past
, twenty years. and so little understood is
really device to feed these starving men
and women who perish for lack of nourish
ment In the presence of plenty.
Since the recent tests of cannon wound
with wire machinists have been trying to
apply the same principle to winding biz f1y
wheels with paper 1t was found to he al
most Impossible to create fracture in the
Wlre-b bound cannon with the heaviest of ex-
pIoslves. The reason that the same plan is
being applied to fly wheels IS undoubtedly
because so many wheels have burst during
the past few years. Instead of winding with
wire, however. the idea is to use paper The
wooden skeleton OF the big wheel is put IN a
revolving frame and the sheets of MANILA
paper wound around it, with applications of
glue between. Nearly 100 layers are wound
on. The work is not costly. a cheap wheel
results. An accident is liable to happen bv
which the load IS suddenly taken of the en-
CINE, when the speed runs up with great We
Ioclty, and unles the engineer Is at hand to
stop the engine quickly the wheel is likely to
burst by centrifugal force But if a wheel is
wound with something the possibility of it's
bursting is exceedingly small.
from Jerusalem we had thoroughly de.
lighttul trip of three days to Jericho, the Dead
Sea and the Jordan, says a correspondent of
the Christian Register In the saddle most
OF the time, and undera blazing Syrian sun
the 1atlgue was certainly great; but the in
terest was far greater. TWAS good to ne out
among the mountains. stern and naked as
they were, and to make the desert of nearly
1000 feet to the wilderness in which John the
Baptist had preached ana in which the Es-
sene communities had wrought out SO MANY
OF the peaceful tenets of the gospels. As for
the Dead Sea II Will, in contradiction of the
name. forever preserve a green and living
memory in my mind. No fish can survive in
1t, we all know; but for place for a swim. or,
above all for float. commend me to il Re
yond all the Undergraduates in the world
How II bears you up in its arms. How it an
initiates the tlresome pOnderosity and dig
nifty Of the laws of graVitatiOn How il intr0
duces you into the inner consciousness of
dainty Ariel and thistledown. and all other
airy-fairy creatures The more you weigh the
less you weigh there IS the real hydrostatic
paradox. An elephant in the Dead Sea would
feel himself gaelic Then what mirror its
steelY surface was that morning and how
beautiful It's reflections of the mountains OF
Palestine on one hand and OF Moab on the
other
Reports recently received from several
American consuls give some interesting data
in regard to the bread consumers of the world.
They show, says the Cincinnati Times Star
that while Portuguese worries through
year with an average bread supply of l76
pOundS-atOut half pound day Span-
lard. Just across the border, requires ALB
pounds per annum, and Spain cannot be re-
garded as wheat-grOwing country either
In Hungary, where waving fields of Grain
are common In the wheat growing season, 36l
pounds year on an average supply a native
while an Austrian, who raises more or less
wheat, gets along with ISL pounds year.
Only 1913 pounds of flour is required by a Ger
man in year, lG5 ty Dane. while the Rus
SLAMS, the greatest wheat growers in EurODe
eat out " POUNDS Fer annum per capita
native OF Belgium consumes 27S pounds and of
America 81 pounds, while the SwItzer eats
AIS pounds per annum, an Italian 80
Dutchman 2S3an Englishman 252 pounds The
greatest hour-eater in the world is the
Frenchman. He consumes nearly two pounds
day or 10j pounds in year. This enor.
nous quantity consumed by a Frenchman
when compared with the ifty-six POUNDS per
annum which Scandinavian requires, re
vivLs the old theory that climatic influences
have more TO do with the demands of nature
than education. In the extreme northern
climates where cold is severe -four does not
seem TO be the favorite food There is not so
much combustion IN II as in oils and animal
food. The Lapiander, who eats no flour al
ALL is sometimes known to consume seven
POUNDS of whale or seal blubber at one meal
Russian. who only eats ninety-nne pounds
in a year of the -four he raises is popnlarIv
supposed to make up the deficiency in swat
lowing tallow candles and any kind Of rich
fatty substance that happens to come to mis-
hopper, no matter what the flavor
Here is an interesting account of very
clever bit of detective work by an oculist: II
appears that in large factory, in which we're
employed several hundred persons, one of the
workmen in welding his hammer carelesslv
allowed it to slip from his hand It few half
way across the room and struck a fellow
workingman in the left eye. The man
averred that his sight was blinded by the
blow, although a careful examination failed
to reveal any injury, there being not a
scratch visible He brought a suit in the
courts for compensation for the loss 0f bolf