The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! Twenty four karat gold is all gold; % karat
I gold has p parts Of gold Of silver and l of
copper; IS karat gold has IS parts of pure
| gold and parts each Of silver and conner in
its composition; y karat gold is half gold. the
remainder being made up of SO parts of
silver and 81 parts Of copper.
According to the annual report issued the
last of May the salvation army is now estab-
! l1shed in forty-two countries 1t has 997
corps. numbering o.4iS officers 0,S2s local
omcers, and 1881 bandsmen. The number of
! soldiers Is not stated, but General
| Booth claims that the army converts to
Christianity 1000 people every year.
Since the death of Lucia Zarate. the Mex
lean midget" the title OF being the smallest
woman on earth has fallen to Mile Paulina.
years OF age, is but 20 inches high and
| weighs few ounces less than pounds She
is remarkably pretty and accomplished,
| speaking four different languages huently.
Five New Orleans steamers have been
withdrawn from the Honduran banana trade
because of a new law which requires the pur.
chasing agents and ship owners to buy the
| fruit on shore and pay their own lighterage.
Inc action at New Orleans has had the effect
OF bringing the fruit growers to terms and
PRESIDENT Bonilla has suspended the law.
1t is proposed in London to organize an In
surance company to guard houseowners and
tenants from entering upon or acquiring IN
sanitary property. The association would ex-
clude from its books houses in bad condition
whlie all property receiving a certificate of
GOOD condition, for the guidance of investors
ana houseowners, would be subject to period
ical inspection
Under decision just rendered by the Mas
sachusetts supreme court, a landlord is not
legally bound to inform his tenant at will of
sanitary defects in the drain OF the house.
Neither Is he liable to the tenant at will in
suit for damages for negligence in not ac-
! quatnting such tenant of defects in the draws
which arise during the course of the tenancy.
even where the condition of the drain caused
one OF the occupants to take typhoid fever
and die.
H. H. Robinfus, of Indianapolis has in his
| possession Bible Of the sixteenth century,
| which has been in his family for many years.
Inc Bible is translation from either the
| Hungarian or Latin language. 1t is printed
In old German, with very large type. The
| cover is OF wood, one-quarter of an inch thick
| held together by thick cord. The book is in
fair state of preservation excepting that
some of the leaves are slightly faded and
| curledu up on the ends.
The hogs legs perform a function not
| known to any other animal, and that is an es-
| cape pipe or pipes, for the discharge of waste
water or sweat not used in the economy of the
| body: These escape pipes are situated upon
| the inside of the legs. above and below the
knee in the forelegs, and above the gambrel
joints in the hind legs. but in the latter thew
| are very small and functions light; upon the
| INSIDE OF tne IOreleg they are, in the healthy
| hog always active so thatmoisture is always
there from about and below these orffices or
ducts in the healthy hog The holes in the
leg and breathing in the hog are his principal
and only means of electing an excess Of heat
above normal, and when very warm the hog
will open the mouth and breathe through
| that channel as well as the nostrlls.
Among the many singular traits of char
scter possessed by seals" said retired sea
captain to the Globe Democrat. none is
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| to its offspring, contrasted with the apathetic
attention paid by the mother. The latter
will at the least alarm bolt away into the sea
and leave her babies behind her but the bulls
| mount guard over the swarmng herds of
young and nothing can exceed their devotion
and courage when called upon as protectors
| The sense of smell possessed by the seals is
very strong and will invariably wake them
out of sound sleep, even if you come upon
them ever so quietly TO the windward, and
| you will alarm them in this way much more
| thoroughly. though you be a half mile dis
| tant than II you came up careleSsly from the
| leeward and even walked in among them
| they seeming to feel that you are not differ.
| ent from one of their own species until they
smell you"
"A good deal of importance is attached by
| export horse buyers to the color of horses
particularly with regard to their legs" said
Western stockman TO the St Louis Globe
Democrat The best horses / have ever
1 known had their feet and legs marked with
white. 1t is proverbial that sorrel and chest
| nut horses with white upon their legs are
| good natured, while horses OF the same
| color without dash of white are often
| found to be unsafe animals Many people
| think that the parti-colored horses belong
| ing to circuses are selected for their oddity,
| but they are really chosen on account of
| their gentleness and docility. IL is said that
| black horse cannot stand the heat, and
| white horses have been pronounced as IN
| suited to cold The physiognomy of horses
| is also much regarded. II he Is full and
| broad between the eyes, he is supposed to
| have superior sense, and to be easily trained
| but If he has sharp, narrow face. be care
| full how much you trust him.
Those who watch the cormorant's diving
feats are usually so interested in the fortunes
| of the chase as the handsome bird dashes af
| ter the fish, that not one visitor in twenty OBJ
| serves that, from the mode of its entering
| the water to its exit, its methods of move
| ment are absolutely different to those of the
| penguins. The cormorant does not plunge
| headlong. 1t launches itself on the surface.
/ and then ducks" like grede Its wings are
| not used as propellers, but trail INTERESTINGLY
| level with its body, and the speed at which it
| courses through the water is wholly due to
| the swimming powers of its large and ugly
| web5ed feet. These are set on quite at the
| end of the body, and work necessarily like
| treadle, or, the floats of a stern-wheel
| steamer Yet the conditions of submarine
| motion are so favorable that the speed of the
| bird below the surface is three or four times
| greater than that gained by equally rapid
| movements of the feet when 1t has risen and
| IS swimming on the top. The luster Of the
| feathers In the clear water, the cloud of bril-
| liant bubbles which pour from the plumage.
| like the nebulous train of a comet as the bird
| rusheS through the water, and the sapphire
| light of the large blue eye make the ccrmor-
ants fishing one of the prettiest aquatic ex-
| ercises in the world.
The Greek word hades as it appears in
| the New Testament and the Hebrew word
sheol in the Old Testament, says the St
Louis Republic are used in the most general
and literal senSe-that of denotng state of
condition of the dead, including the grave as
the abiding place of the body and the world
of spirits as the abode of the soul. The He
| brew idea of 1t is very fully given in Job K.
21-22 1t may be interesting to those of the
Republics readers that have been paving
any particular attention to the various opin-
ions of hell, purgatory, hades, etc. as thew
have appeared in the department. to see the
above compared with the pagan notions from
which the Greek word hades is derived
The name of Hades was given to Pluto
by both the Greeks and the Romans
Pluto is as almost every one knows.
the god of darkness which was supposed 10
preside over the internal regions He was
represented as being the son of Chronos and
Rhea, the husband of Persephone and the
brother of Zeus and Poscidon. He bore the
name of being fierce, cruel. and inexorabIe
tyrant, dreaded by mortals who when thev
invoked him struck the earth with their
hands, sacrificed black sheep in his honor
and in honoring their sacrifices stood with
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