The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Q however.
| amount OF this bounty, for families Of twenty
! children are not rare, and the fathers OF
! these want proportionately higher re
4 ward. One old gentleman, Paul Belanser
OF River du Loup, wants 800 acres in re
I cognition Of his family Of thirty-six living
/ children
Says the Philadelphia Record: Ion to
Florida was the legend upon an odd-looking
wagon that drew up IN Bristol yesterday; II
| was an old family carTyau, boxed IN IKE
| little house on wheels, and drawn by weary
| looking bay horse and followed by dog.
/ The conveyance was occupied by David Gil
| son, an old soldier and his four children,
/ and they we're on their way to Florida to take
! up government land. They started from
| their old home in South WoodhanI. n. II,
last April, and they have now. covered $40
/ miles. The little family are well equipped
/ with camping paraphernalta. and camp along
I the road each night. and they are counting
/ upon reaching the lano Of promise in NOvem- 4
/ Der. ellison served through the war in
/ NassachU sets regiment, and survived the
trrrors of Libby Prison. His family seems to
enjoy its moving life
The Westminster Gazette tells about an
infant prodigy, the 2-yearold son of a butcher
at Brunswick, England, who can read with
| perfect ease anything printed in Roman or
! German characters \ few weeks ago three
/ physicians of Brunswick had the child before
| them at the house Of one of the gentlemen.
/ The first thing the little one did when brought
/ into the consulting room was 20 stand on his
| toes at the taule. reading out from the books
! that we're lying ABOUT. All that could he as
certalned, as TO why and wherefore Of this
| uncanny accom- plishment Is that when the
| baby was Is months old, and his grandmother
| took him out, he always Immediately caught
| sight OF the inscriptions over shops and asked
/ about them as only small child can ask till
he had tathomed the meaning of the letters.
! 1t was the same at home; books and newspa-
/ pers had greater destinations than lollipops
| and toys, and whatever the parents playfully
told him he remembered, with the result that
at the age of years he reads with perfect
| ease Apart from his accomplishment in
reading hnUfg naunlnVlTf1Hrf
normal.
The Coreans may be avery unctvilized pso-
pie, but it is said thai they know something
| about warming their houses. Even the mean
est of their abodes is furnished a furnace,
which they call ksng, which, while very prin-
tive is extremely effective and embodies all
the best points OF the most approved con
trlYance Tor house warming The furnace IS
situated at one side of the house. or generally
at one end. 1t burns with down draft and
the heat and smoke is conveyed through
numerous hues under the mud floors to
chimney at the opposite side Of
the building. No smoke or foul
air gets into the house and the
floors are kept very warm. 1t is said that a
small tire of bruShwoOd in the furnace will
th0roughly heat large house in fact the
only fault that is found with Corean house
heating is that it is too effective, and the dsi-
eases OF the people are largely due to their
keeping their houses too hot. Indoors they
are accustomed to maintain temperature Of
7Oo or so, while outside the weather is at zero
orbelow. 1t is SAID that their houses are
sirable insects live in them all winter
South America can furnish dreadful ex-
ample for temperance lecture, and yet not
summon a human being says an exchange.
The Hercules beetle will do as an object les
son. About SIX inches long and strong in
proportion it is rightly named Instead of
the ordinary nippers, with which beetles are
armed, this one has an immense pair that
work up and down like jaws. These have
sharp ridges the inside like rasps, and that
Indicate their use. They do not fit INTO each
other, but, resembling the pliers of the
plumber, are made to lit around something
else The writer does not know what these
nlpperS were meant for, but knows what
, Hercules does with them. He is a
, regularly. When he wants something
. strong he does not seek bottle nor a saloon,
but he climbs tree hiding one that produces
' an intoxicating juice. Oh as grow in South
| America, this topper aScendS until he reaches
branch that his nippers can grasp. Then
: | he seiZes hold, holds on, pinches tight and
; | moves around. The rasp cuts the bark, the
, juice flows, and Hercules drinks until so full
: that he can hold no more, and until too drunk
| to hold on. His feet let 60 his nippers relax,
and he .tumbles to the ground. There he lies
helplessly drunk and sleeps off his stupor.
When sol cd he goes about his business, but
! signs no pledges. not does he give indications
> | of repentance. Again thirsty, he CLIMBS an
other tire and gets drunk once more. Thus
I his life is spent in business, drinks drunks
and SOLDERING, a natural and persistent drunk
ard.
According to a recent dispatch from ST
Petersburg, the wild camel has been discov
= cred in large numbers in that portion of As.a
Z which lies between Lobnor ana SaJUy. This
E will dispose of the doubts that have hitherto
K prevailed on the question as to whether the
e ''Shipof the desert reallyexiSts in an untameG
d condition From time immemorial two species
n OF tame camels have been in use, namely
p the one known as the dromedary, with only
one hump and found in India, Araoia anC
Africa, while tne one with two humps is me
with in Central Asia, Persia and the south o.
Russia. Both species figure in the sculpture;
u of ASsyr1a. and are mentioned in the Oldest
looks OF the Bible, but always as domestic
animals, and no trace exists of their being
drafted from their savage state into civilized
d lite. Indeed, 1t has generally been supposed
that the camel never existed otherwise thar
as beast OF burden. and the few
specimens of wild dromedaries which have
u hitherto been secured by travellers and hunt
a. ers have teen regarded as merely some O
the domestic species that had reverted Il
the freedom OF barbarism. Geological lily
. speaking, the newly discovered wild camel o
A ! obnor does not differ widely from the do
e mestlcated animal, except thai there is al
u most an entire lack of hump and that it!
sagacity and senses are developed to a mos
o remarkable degree OF keennesS And, where
"a as we have hitherto been accustomed to as
sociate this animal with ideas of the torriC
heat of the African and Ara Dian deserts, i
u would appear that it thrives nowhere so wei
lie as in the coolest portions OF Siberia sufferlnl
k no inconvenience even from the most severe
winters, when the thermometer is many de
grees below zero.
= Students of natural history have always
81 been puzzled to know whether certain ami
/. mails can live without water for long time
d says the New York World. In Central anc
% southern New Mexico there is an immense
d desert to which the earliest Spanish ad
D. venturers gave the name Jornada del Muerta
o or Journey to Death. This desert is over lCl
miles long and from thirty to seventy miles
b wide and is entirely waterless. This il
e known to be a fact as every mile of II has
d been traversed during the past twenty years
II The nearest permanent water to this desert is
S the Rio Grande, from which it is separated
Sc by the lofty range known as the
n Cavallos Mountains, which are almost
II | impossible to man or east. Previous
10 TO 1880 this desert was inhabited by
If vast herds of antelope. There are some
q antelope there now. besides coyotes and
>! other animals. From May TO September is
the rainy season in this region and the mois.
t ture derivedfrom the scanty heFDage might
be sufficient to sustain life. but during the
r other eight months there isn't drop OF wa
10 ter oOtainable and the vegetation is as drv
as finder. II is claimed that many wild ant
mails feed in the early morning and thereby
OBTAIN an abundance of moisture from the
dew which covers the vegetation. but in the
elevated region of Jornada there is no sensi.
. Bile precipitation OF dew In the dry season
. The most desolate territory in North Ameri
- ca south OF Labrador, is the peninsula of
70 lower California. Cape san Lucas is the ex