The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Kepler firmly believed the moon to be
Inhabited. He always spoke of the sup
posed people OF that orb as the Selen-
Little Switzerland has an enormous
army in proportion TO her population. The
population is 2,900099; the standing army
126,O0g
The internal revenue estimate is that
there are 100000 packs Of cards in stock
IN this country. Uncle Sans income from
them VIII be 100000.
Boo the exclamation used to frighten
children, Is a corruption Of Bah, the name
OF "A famous Gothic general II has been
used for a terror word for centuries,
The sending of a. message and reply be-
tween ,M;anchester, England, and Vic
toTla, British Columbia, recently occu-
pied only ninety seconds. The total dis
lance by wire, out and return, is $1,000
miles.
II is said to be not unlikely that Chi
cagoan invention to cure the nuisance
OF smoking chimnevs in that city may
prove OF great Importance in naval war
farc. Chief Engineer Melville of The navy
has had his attention called to IT, ana
mas sent to Chicago to learn whether the
down dratt furnaces used to consume
smoke where soft coal is used could be
successfully operated on the cruisers of
the navy. If it be found practicable, a
great point will be gained in strategic
naval operations, for the black trail of
wake, betray their presence at very
great distance. 1t is proposed to make a
uuLnDeT OF. practical experiments, and II
the outcome be favorable, congress will be
asked for an appropriation for the neces-
sary changes to the cruisers.
The cabbage, a vegetable spread over all
says the Pittsburg Dispatch. In Safer
land, children are told that infants are
found in the cabbages. Can this be why
one is called Cabbage head?' Fairies
loved these edible plants. and rode to their
dances on cabbage stalks, which are
called FAIRY horses" in some places. In
II StaILu, 1t LOOK lhe place OF the onion as
remedy. For sore throat, leaf tied
around 1T was prescribed, and cabbage
juice and honey were given for hOarse-
ness and loss of voice DIR. Brewer says
the slang term ito cabbage" is especi-
ally applied TO the theft or keeping back
OF pieces of cloth by tailors, when ma
terials were furnished. The goose" was
supposed to eat the cabbage" The car
rot was in olden times, used in love phil
tiers, and the wild species was counted the
best. 1t has become distinguished among
| vegetables by being crowned as king
! Carrot" and having an opera bouffe
named after it. Parsnips are only repre-
scented in proverb, soft words butter no
! parsnlps." Cress was said to increase the
wit, since the Spartans, a wise and saga
cious race, ate il with their bread. The
water cress is also sovereign remedy for
warts in some parts of England Cucum-
bers, as well as cabbage, were of old a
remedy for hydrophobia.
The sensation of the Salt Lake Valley
| five years ago this fall, says the St. Louis
Republic, was the finding of a queer white
! frog with enormous eyes, in a solid rock
blasted out at the Varley & Everill quarry
| at Salt Lake City. ] have related many
we'll authenticated stories in this depart
! ment of the Republic concerning live toads
! and frogs which have been found in stones,
| coal, glacial clay, etc. but the one under
/ consideration seems to so further toward
| demonstrating the possibility of such
| things than any of the others. The rock
! in which the little hermit was found had
| been blasted from "A strata several feet
/ below the surface, and was being sepa-
! rated into pieces suita BILE for loading when
! the pocket or cavity which contained the
| at the time says that 1.-The discovery Gre
| ated an immense sensation among the
| workmen and all operations at the quarry
| were, for the time, suspended" EXami-
! nation by the Salt Lake scientists proved
/ that the creature was of a species supposed
| to have been extinct for thousands Of
| years. It's immense eyes We're SightleSs,
and covered with a thick, tough, horny
substance, and the mouth was entirely
closed up Mr.. Everill one of the propTie-
! tors OF the works, took charge of the
curiosity, but it died within tWenty-fOur
hours and was presented to the City
Museum, where it is now preserved in al
| cohol.
The greatest velocity that has been re-
| cognized among the stars, says All the
Year Round, is found in the motion of a
star known as 1880 Groombridge, or the
runaway star" as it is sometimes called
which is believed to be rushing through
space at the rate of 200 miles per second.
This star appears to be moving in per-
fectlY straight line through the sky and
it may be visiting our star system for the
first time but whence it came or whittier
IL Is gong no one can tell, and it is q great
enigma to astronomers. Its wonderful
| velocity canot be explained, as it is far
greater than could be produced by the in
fuence of all known orbs in the universe,
and, on the other hand. the combined at
traction OF all the stars cannot stop this
wanderer in its solitary flight through
space until it has rushed on to the re
hottest distances, beyond which the lar
gest telescopes have never penetrated. 1t
has been mathematically demonstrated
that body approaching the center of our
system from an infinite distance canuet
move with a greater velocity than twenty
five miles second, if Influenced by the at
traction of the masses in our universe
alone, but here we have been considering
a star moving with eight times that
velocity, and still, Notwithstanding the
fact that it has the greatest motion Known
among the stars it would require 1S5mn
years for this remarkable star to com
| plete an entire circuit around the heavens
Sometimes the Mexicans' catch four or
! five sharks in the day, sometimes only
one or tWo-their luck depends on he sea
son of the year. says Chambers Journal
In the hot summer months a run of man
eating sharks from the south reinforceS
inc common IN, local species known as sun
sharks These assume larger proper
tions than the harmless local variety and
furnish a greater supply of oil; but ali the
year Francisco was sure of a constant
supply of one kind or another. He laid
their livers on a little platform in the
sun, which renders out the oil, CAUSING,
it to drip slowly into a barrel beneath
From single liver he obtained from a
gallon to five gallons. The lest amount
was, of course, taken from the large man
eaters; but no shark was too small for him
TO cut up. 1t was all fish that came to
Francisco's net, or rather. line When
he had filled barrel with the oil he nailed
down the head and set it to one side 10
wait until he had supply of several hum
dTed gallons. L his cargo he loaded into
his LARGE fishing boat-home made like
the surtboat-apd sailed away north to the
town of San Diego, in Southern California
the nearest of any size belonging to the
United States. There he got rid Of II 10 a
Yankee merchant for 50 cents or two e9fi
llngs a gallon. The dried dOrsaI fins tie5
up in bundles, he sold to the representa
tive Of Chinese firm for future sale 10
his feiloW-countrymen, by whom they are
esteemed as a great table delicacy o.
casionally even the skin itself found "A
ready sale, for it is made into "shapreon -
and used by cabinet-makers who aDnraGi-
ate its fine rough inner surface. consider
ing that 1t gives superior finish To The
harder and more valuable woods than The
finest sandpaper. And the backbores9
IneV, TOO, are a source of ravap,,e ~