The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

MI " dlttE W tllIudus now on an Arctic
. expedition, writes the following from Norway
about the aluminium boats built in Baltimore.
'Ihe Norwegian roatmen were delighted
with the aluminium boats. They rOwed them
to ana fro aud smiled as the shells ghded so
easily over the water. They tried II vain to
! UP one OF them over, half dozen men throw
ing their weight upon the gunwale of the
: Lockwood. The Norwegian bOatmen cut up
all sorts OF capers with these little craft and
finally gave their opinion as experts-and
there are no letter bOatmen in the world
that they would do the work for which they
nad been built; that they were splendid sea
boats; that they could be beached through a
roaring surf and that they would do every
I thing a small boat ought to do. except sail TO
1 wlndward. This we already knew ana it is a
/ point without importance IN our scheme. We
| were. therefore, much relieved to learn that
the verdict of the jury of grizzled boatmen
ana hshermen was IN our favor"
The growth of new words in our existing
languages is the safest guide to the origin of
language in general. Such new words are
continually arising from day to day in our
! midst just at first they are usually immita-
tive or onomatopoeic, and more or less inarti-
culate, They are deficient IN vowels. The
steam engine seems to say to us. pr. p'f,
! p the cat seems to say to US. 'prrr p'rrr
p rrr;' the sound of a cannon ball. as it
strikes the ground, we represent by ''rh'd:"
Inc SOUND OF gun we represent by '-Bng. -
But when we come to use these sounds tami-
| Harry as parts of language we soon grow to vo-
cahze them. We say pun, puff, pun; purr, thud
composition do they become more and more
artlculate and less and less onomatopoeic
| while at the same time they tend to become
wldened and convent onalized in meaning At
| last. when we talk OF whlzZing wheels of a
| banging door, of giving a friend puff in the
| paper, or dexterlously booming new inven-
tlOn, we nave almost lost sight of onoTnatopea
altoSether Even when we remark that the
cat purIs. or that we distinctly heard a loud
thud at distance, we are scarcely conscious
Oh the Initiative intention.
In the earliest times of purchase, a woman
was bartered for useful goods or for services
rendered to her father says the rvestmins
ter Review In this latter way. Jacob pur-
chased Rachel and her sister Leah. This was
a Beena marriage, where a man, as in Gene
sis, leaves his rather and his mother and
cleaVes unto his wife, and they become one
heSh or k1n-the woman s. The price of a
bride in British Columbia and Vancouver
Island varies from so to $40 worth of artl-
cles. In OREGON, an Indian gives for her,
horses, blankets, or buffalo robes; in Califor-
MA, shell money or horses; in Africa, cattle
poor Damara will sell q daughter for a COW:
a richer Kaffir expects from three to thirty
With the Banyai, if nothing be given
her family claim her children. IN
Uganda, where no marriage recently existed,
she may be obtained for half dozen needles,
or coat or a pair of shoes An ordinrry
price Is a box of percussion caps. In other
parts goat or couple of buckskins will
buy girl. Passing to Asia we find her price
is sometimes to 30 rubles O. ut others a
cartload OF wood or hay. A princess may be
| plTCudSeu lUr 5,OUO ruDieS, In Tar1try a
woman can he obtained for few pounds of
butter or where a rich man gives twenty
small oxen poor man may succeed with a
pig. In Fiji her Equivalent is a whales tooth
or a musket. These. and similar prices else
where, are eloquent testimony to the little
value savage sets on his wife. Her charms
vanish with her girlhooi. She is usually
hurried while child. and through her cruel
slavery and bitter life she often becomes old
and repulsve at 2s
Why is it that the colors of soap bubble
change as the film gradually alters in thick
ness: Another cause Of color is here in
volvel-that of interference. says Longman's
Magazine. II stone be thrown into a smooth
pond circular wave Is produced, gradually
widening toward the edge OF the pond. If a
| second stone be thrown into the Dond a sec
ond wave will be produced which will intiu-
ence the first. If the stones be dropped in
simultaneously at the same spot the wave
will just be doubled in hight and if the sec
ond stone be thrown in exactly wave length
behind the first, the same effect would be OBJ
served: If, however, the second stone be
thrown into the water exactly half a wave
length behind the first, the motion Of the
water VIII be DESTROYED. Similarly
with light: when light impuges
on the soap bubble, part Of il Is reflected from
, the exterior surface, and part enters the him
and IS rejected from the interior surface.
ms latter portion traYerses the water
medium etween the two surfaces twice and
, is, therefore. kept behind the first reflected
II ray. The two sets Of waves interfere with
each other, and produce a cOlored light in
SIeau OI "A WHlle llRnJ. ObQ6r waves, again,
may destroy each other and eXtlnguisn the
light Some of the constituent COlors of the
| lmplng1ng white light formed by their rass-
age through the filn-interfere so as to
destroy each other. while others remain I'M
affected As the film diminishes in thickness,
? the colorS must necessarily vary. In this
, way IS accounted for the marvellous variety
OF beauty of colors in the soap bubble. the
irldescence Of oil upon water, the changing
color of steel when being tempered, and the
! gaudiness Of some insects wings.
The Telegraph, of Hong Kong. China, says
that the native merchants are beginning to
understand the importance Of the press and
the advantages OF advertising. here are
) three papers printed In the Chinese language
in Canton alone. The Figaro of Paris men
tions the following as the most prominent
periodicals at present published in China:
Chen-Pao Shanghai News. Hu-Pao News
, OF HUI. another name for Shanghai Using
| % News of the Capital. Pekingl, Che Pao
(Caily News, Tien-tsin), kwong -Pao Canton
News, Ling mamie Pao News of Lingnam,
l old name. for CantOnG All these papers reg
4 ularly contain leaders discussing questions of
, international interest, kilograms from Pc
king and abroad and the usual news found in
European journals. The Csta ASiatsche
Lloyd, OF Shane hal German paper repre-
Sentlng IN particular. the commercial inter
ests OF the Fatherland in the east and re-
pletc with interesting notes of mercantile
and ethnoloGlcal character, in d recent
2 numcer gives few editorial com
+ ments translated from the native Chinese
? press: 1t is sad to see how short is the life
OF man. in EUROPE rlley Invent remedies
l against death, but they don't work. The rice
} harvest promises to fan out very good this
: year. 1t is to be hoped that the great exami-
nations in Li-Whah will be lust as good.
. They will take place during the harvest A
murder has been committed near the seventh
tower of the great wall. Two Picking
merchants were killed there. It is a blessing
that they were not Mandarns. AS the
emUeror was being carried through the
Yellow street recently blows were given to
the multitude to make room. The mighty
! Heaven ri lv- hi
During a recent review at Marking Prince
Ho-Tu-Lin-Sab (the second son of the late
5 emperor) swore at the soldiers because the
cannons were not polished. -
With all the improvements that have been
made in 1re-extinguishing apparatus. the
fact remains that the simple pail of water is
even at this day, one Of the most efficient
pieces of apparatus of this class that has vet
been in use. Insurance statistics indeed
show that more fires are put out by water
pals than by all other appliances put to-
gether, the only point that can well be raised
against them being that. while they are gen
orally provided abundantly enough in places
where they are likely to be of service the
water is very apt to be wanting. 1t is true,
> also, in a measure, that, even IL the pals
were kept full, they are often borrowed for
some purpose and not returned, so that when
: most needed they are unavailable. AS
way out OF this difficulty il
: has been proposed, saws Casters