The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ulate solution and which. well or i'll, the com
manoer must solve for himself"
The cities of Wichita and Newton Kas
forty miles apart, are havinra novel sort of
WARFARE. Little Arkansas river, the purity
OF whose water is fat led has beretofore fny
nIshed the entire supply for Wichita New
Ion - less 1aVorably situated and has a poor
s9pp!y II proposes to run line OF s0-fneh
plPe 20 a point twelve miles distant and there
zap the river. AS this would reduce WITCH
Ita supply, protests were made first and
since then armed forces are facing each
the other to lay it.
In an interview few days ago Edison. the
FAMOUS inventor, was asked to state how
many cigars he smoked day. From ten TO
twenty day, was the reply. Strong ones 81
Inc strongest l can GET was the reply
DOesh II hurt your nerves7'' mo, I never
saw sign OF IT. II thought II hurt me Ia
STOP It. Mr.. Edison was asked what he aid
LOT amusement and he replied that he liked a
gGoo story. Edison lights one Of his strong
to the stories One of his emnloves has
VIoIln, and the other night after dinner Edf.
son asked him to bring it out and give them
. on UT T. me violin was tretted out, but it
t tppok some Time to tune it up, and then one of
tne Strings broke. What's the matter with
~! EulSon asked. oh, the strings get
lamp lamp In this weather. and stretch" Soak
mem IN petroleum" said this man OF ready
resource Since then the violin has been in
eood WORKING order, and another contr1 bus-
Iton mas been made to our KNOWLEDGE OF the
care OF musical instruments.
A frozen soap bubble broken in two and
noating like an irridescent, transparent egg.
smell on the surface OF vessel of liquid air,
was one OF The most marvellous sights shown
Dy FroI. DeWar Thursday in his lecture at the
Royal Institute on the effect of sintense cold
says asIS a. LONDON cable. Investigation in this
lew leld Oh science is developing many Won
oerful bits OF knowledge, some Of which are
sure 10 pc turned to valuable practical &C
count eefore long. The pretty experiment,
was quite simple. The professor
poured few spoonfuls Of LIQUID
ar INTO glass vessel, and the intense cold
caused snn,ee, oy evaporation produced miniature
IsSnoWstorm IN the atmosphere above the
liquid. The operator lowered soap bubble
on the end OF the rod into the freezing atmos-
phere. The bubble tecame darker, the
Ta5hDow-colored film grew slower, 1t contrac-
seu somewhat in size and a moment later
lroze. A slight movement broke it from the
ROD IN two pieces which Roated for an hour
gradually accommodating a tiny snowdrift
above '--
In Mexico they have live ants for
sale, says Memorest's Magazine. They
are honey ants, and the boys and girls
OF that country think them a great treat
Inc whole back part OF the ant is TILED with a
GEAR, sweet honey, 70 get the honey one
takes the head between the fingers sucks the
money from the tody and throws the rest
away. The tribe has its king and queen, but
is mostly made up of workers and honey
bearers, the honey-bearers icing these from
which the honey is taken. Most of the tribe
are busy little fellows that go at night to
gamer from the gall insect of the oak tree
bltter-sweet fluid, which they feed to the
honey-bearers, whose bodies soon become
round and flll Of honey. The honey-bearers
nave but one duty, that is to sleep They
hang from the roof Of their cells, and let the
workers feed upon the honey from their
bodles. When worker wants her dinner
she goes to the honey-bearer's cell and
touches one Of them lightly with her feelers
The honey-bearer seems to wake UP. and
at once gives forth a drop of sweet yellow
money, which, you may be sure, the worker
Immediately eats.
Some idea Of the extent to which electricity
is pervading number of wholly unlike indus.
tries is afforded by the new Postal Telegraph
guiding on Broadway, opposite City Hall
Park, says the New York Post. The building
IS OF course, lighted by electricity and IL is
also the intention to use part of the current
Tor heating, and, in time, for cooking in the
kitchen Of the Hardware Club on the ton
story. All the elevators are run by cleo.
trlclty, and the same isolated plant in the
basement which furnishes the current for
light, heat and fan motors also operates these
elevators and drives large bank of ID yna-
motors which, in turn. deliver current to
All the dlnerent telegraphic circuits, dispens-
ing entirely with the old-tlme gravity bat.
terry Another feature is that the cleo
trlc elevators are being placed under push
button control so that the elevator men in
stead OF working lever or opening a valve
merely press the row of three buttons This
is not all, as new device is Beng introduced
by means OF which any one waiting in the
nails on any floor can signal the next elevator
coming his way to stop for him In theonerat.
ing room the message forms are distributed
by pneumatic tube system, which is under
electro 'magnetic control. Not only are in
candescent lamps in use. but in the larger
spaces, such as the receiving department
operating department, dynamo room hall
ways, ETC., are lights are employed all oper. !
ated on the same circuits by the same cur |
rent.
writer in the Evening Standard thus re- |
fers to the doubtful origin of cats: 1T is as
certain as such things can be, that the whole
credit OF tanning this most hopeless Of animals
belongs TO Egypt. In the first place, no refer |
enCe 70 II mas yet been discovered in Assyria |
Prof. Max Muller assured the Rev, W Hough- |
ton. IN answer TO query, that the cat be eame |
known IN india at a time comparatively re. |
cent. There are plenty of illusions in Greek |
literature to an animal which caught mice. |
for this habit 1t was sacrificed to ADolIo |
Smlntheus the perplexing Mouse Apollo of |
whom Mr. Andrew Lang has diS@OIrsed So |
learnedly and so pleasantly. But Prof Roll |
lesion has proved beyond further dispute
that this was the white breasted marten /
one single fact IS enough to show that 1t was
not a cat-We md incidental reference 10
tbs aeomlnable smell. 1t might he
supposed that martens rank among ami |
mails once domesticated but now aban-
Prof. Rolleston cites Madam Jeanrette
Powers statement that in the Lake district
of England they are often tamed-perhaps
we should use the past tense now Donbf
less the Greeks were not unacQuainted with
cats, but as foreign curiosties ONLY he evi.
dence is negative but complete; no novelist,
nor comedy writer nor compiler Of anecdotes
alludes to them, though Aristophanes men.
lions the martln-gale. 1t is the same case
at Rome. Cicero names the cat only once
and then as an Egyptian pet; Ovid, once in
describing metamorphosi In the latter |
time OF Pliny, however, the word ,felis' 90
ours pretty frequently. But since he advises
that the water in which a 'felis' has been |
boiled should be sprlnkled round to drive
mice away, II seems likely that The n. arter he !
still the creature signihed. But in Italv also
the domestic cat was known--so far
as that goes-ages before We see
it portrayed with a mouse in its
jaws on the wall Of an Etrus.
can tomb as old, perhaps, as the foundation
OF Rome 1t seems strange that the General
employment of a creature so useful. shouid
have made way so slowly; but IL must he re-.
membered that the gale performed its duty.
Northern mythology represents Frevia. god
dess OF Love and Fortune, In a Chariot drawn
by two cats; but Prof. Rolleston's demonstra
lions suggest doubt whether the animals are
properly so classed. Mr.. Hans Hfldebrand
royal antiquary Of Sweden. has DISPLAYED
with an ingenuity which we admire thongh /
very few can judge its value--that all the in
forms of scandinavian ornament
which TO the unlearned represent snakes and
dragons, were really designed for lions
c0uchant.' II that be FraVia'S cate 49,, /