The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-17
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her She married him, then both took to
drink. he died and she sank lower and lower
until she has reached the gutter.
The sugar cane and its uses have been
known In India. its native home, from time
/ immemorIal, says the Cornhill Magazine. 1t
/ is perhaps the earliest source from which
sugar was produced. and all other modes of
! manufacture have been borrowed from or
/ based on it. The early classical writers knew
i sugar vaguely as honey OF canes" To the
Gr9eo-Roman world the sugar cane was the
| reed which the swarthy Indians delighted 20
! chew. and from which they extracted a mys-
| FERROUS sweetmeats 1t was the Arabs--those
great carriers between the east
in the Middle Ages into Egypt, Sicily,
| and the south of Spain, where 1t
| hourished abundantly until West Indian
! slavery drove il out of the held for a time,
and sent the tradein sugar 10 Jamaica and
| Cdoa. Naturally, you can afford TO underSell
| your neighbors when you decline to pay any
wages to your laborers. Egyptian sugar was
| carried to London in Plantagenet times by
| the Venetian feet. where IL was exchanged
| for wool the staple product Of medieval
| England. Early in the sixteenth century the
cane was taken from Sicily TO Madeira and
the Canarles. Thence it found its way to
! Brazil and Mexico to Jamaica and Haiti.
| Cane sugar was well known in Italy about the
! second century, and has been common in Eng
| land since the Tudor period. The spacious
| DAYS OF great EllZat eth had sugar for their
| sack; and ginger was hot l. the mouth too,
| as we all well remember.
| A correspondent of the Boston Transcript
recently sent a communication asking if dogs
know time, and then related some stories
showing that they do. One Of these stories is
| about collie which starts every afternoon
| to meet his mast er. who always comes on the
| $50 train. Trains are continually coming
and going and whistling and ringing, but Pete
! pays no attention 10 any butthts one. AS
/ soon as its whistle is heard he begins to bark
loytully and never makes mistake Another
| dog became so much accustomed to going to
| the schoolhouse every morning. with his little
master that when the boy was absent for sew
! eraI weeks, the dog still went on going to
| school, arriving punctually at O'Clock every
| morning Moreover, he never went on Satur-
! day or Sunday. With regard to tho first case it
might be replied perhaps, by a skeptical
person that the dog was more likely
to be able to distinguish the special
| whistle of the locomotive which
drew the $50 train than to know it by the
| hour of the day. And vet there is no doubt
| that dogs do know when certain hour ar
rives at which something regular and accus-
| toned takes place. The second case seems
| to prove this very thing. There is a case on
| record in which a doctor, who was accustomed
TO visit certain village at a certain hour on
certain day each week, always found dog
| OF his acquaintance waiting for him outside
| the town, and it was proved that the dog
| never came to the place any other day or
! hour. Evidently all that can be SAID in ex-
| PLANTATION of SUCH cases is that animals are
| susceptible of having periods or circles of
| time established in their intelligence by use
and that their ignorance of tinepie ces only
! serves 10 make the instinct the keener. 1t is
well known that men who have never pos
! SeSSed watches and who work or hunt habit
ually at a distance from clocks are very ex-
| pert at estimating the lapse of t1p.e Per
ception of this kind undoubtedly may be cul-
tiyated in an intelligent animal as well as in
man.
An interesting and to a certain extent in
structive statement has just appeared, show
| ing what reckless waste OF life is going on
among US all the time, says Demorest S Mag
azine. The number of deaths from causes
preventable by means now well known to
science is shown to constitute almost the en-
tire death list Of one of the leading cities Of
| the country, where, after a death rate OF 49,
| there we're only twenty-five deaths recorded
from old age. Fourteen OF these death oc-
Cured from typhoid fever, disease which
should never exist in civilized countries. In
The French and German armies, where
moderate system of treatment prev ais. only
one typhoid patient in fifty dies. Pulmonary
diseases carry of 249 persons on this list ana
| yet it is asserted that even in cases where
/ children inherit a tendency to consumption
! there is no need for it to develop If proper
| precautions are taken in time regarding ex-
/ ercise breathing and habits. Stomach
ItrouDles claim los more victims, and are
attributable entirely to carelessneSs in eat
| ing and drinking-a proper regulation of
diet, as it is claimed, being all that would be
necessary 10 prevent every one of them. Shis
| reduces the death rate from little over 10 to
| about per cent, and, with the natura
addition to the length OF those lives reported
| TO have been lost through old age would
| pro- ably bring up the average sum Of human
| years to 175 or even higher. The fact is that
| few of the latest discoveries of science are
yet utilized to benefit humanity PeoDle sell
| dom call upon the doctors until their condi
| ton has become chronic, and then. to save
! expense, they rarely undergo thorough treat
ment. Then, again we 60 on eating and
| drinking what We know is the last thing we
should think of putting into our stomachs in
utter disregard OF the laws OF diet. We ha
bltually drink water that is often as certain
poison as stryChnIne or al ohol: we live I'M
der sanitary conditions which render perfect
health an tmpoSsibil1ty, and, lastly we load
our lives with burdens which, while assisting
in no way to our betterment. sap the very
roots OF our existence and make life melan-
chOly pilgrimage. Who shall rear a temple
to the goddess Hygeia and make Methuselahs
as common as roses in Juney
How far do ices fly? Many authors have
attempted to answer this question. but none
have succeeded, says the Folksbladt Theo-
retically the solution has been attempted by
counting the number OF wing beats per second.
and from that to guess the distance the tees
fly from their hives. The results have diff.
fered widely, varying from two TO twelve En-
glish miles According to Prof. Marcy's
graphic method the bees make ono HIM
dred and ninety wing beats per second His
method consists in fastening a bee in such
way that its wings are free to move one of
tliGiu lOuCuluS llBubly u rotating cylinder COW
cred with a smooth and lightly blackened ma
per. Prof. LandOis, who has studied the
sound apparatus OF many animals, thinks
from the pitch OF the sounds made by the Vi
brating wings, that they move to and fro at
the rate of four hundred vibrations pe second
more than double Marcy's results. According
to Prof. MarcyS figures, one hundred and
ninety wing beats per second would bring
the bee over a distance of one EnrIiR
mile per minute, If Prof Landois is rigbt
the distance would be two miles Accord
ing to these estimates it would not he far
from the truth to say that bees hv about
thirty English miles an hour. or that during
an absence of twenty minutes from the hive
they fly about ten to twelve miles Most oh
servers however, are inclined to think that
the bees do not fly more than eighteen 10
twenty miles an hour because the wing hea ts
OF a bee in freedom and under the observers
instrument are not the same. Every one has
observed the comparatively slow flight of the
bee, when returning home loaded with honey
and pollen. Practical examination Shows
that experiments of this kind are not entireitJ
reliable. Better results are obtained nv Oh
serving bees in districts where bees never fe
fore were found, or by introducing yellow bees
where only gray or brown ones are known or
vice versa. In such cases, 1t has been seen
that the bees never went more than four m
five English miles away at the utmost The
usual distance was two miles. One instance
is known where a bee keeper on an island
seven miles from the coast of exas found Thai
his bees went to the mainland for honey and
pollen. practical bee keeper does not eT
meet any great results from fovvar ~ q =