The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-09
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riments on cadavers prove, that a pistol
or rifle ball denected from its course. I'M
mediately resumes its line Of flight after
thinning the object II IS unable tospass
directly through. In other words, bullet
turned from its course by rib or otnsI
bone, passes under the skin and nesh unIl
il reaches a point mathematically Directly
opposite 10 the point where II entered tne
body, and then passes out, resuminS ~
exact line of flight. In case its initial We
lOcity Is far spent IL remains embedded
in the flesh directly opposite the spot
where it came in contact with the Done-
Wells. which are veritable paradoXes in
their nature, and which, instead OF giving
forth cooling draught to the tired travel
er, give him water at the boiLng point
are more numerous than the frozen
wells" described in a previous instailinent
of this department of the Republic one
Of these on the premises Of Dr. Lane, az
Portland, Ore, in the language OF the doc-
tor, Yields water "a thousand times hotter
than boiling" At Pine Grove, Esmeralda
county, Nevada, there is a well (drllleu IN
1853 which furnished water for the miners
1 to do their cooking with. Potatoes placed
in the stone basin at the well VIII cook
I through and through in eight minutes
l The water of one of the artesian wells
at Pesth, Hungary, has an average tenn
perature Of 10 degrees ana noWs AZ lne
| rate OF l15yW gallons every WE'VE hOuts.
/ At Ritzia, Austria, there Is a boiling sprihs
which Prof. Hidden AYERS is inhabited
by millions of small red fish. If these
little hot water denizens be scOOped from
/ their natural element and placed in pan
/ of common drinking water they die m
/
| is that the scales and Skin slip Off, just
/ as though they had been scalded.
There are some curious things about
the wild animals ln the Yellowstone
| Park said MIR. c. Grierson OF Montana,
| TO a Washington Post reporter at the
/ Normandie. The law against hunting
them inside the park boundaries mas has, MAGE a.Ii
/ them comparatively tame, and they VIII
not run at the approach OF man, as other
l wild bruteS Will, seeming to be conscious
of their immunity from moleStatlon It's
/
| shot OF the biggest kind OF game. Not
| long ago l was a guest at one OF the
/ hotels in the Yellowstone, at which a she
/ bear used to be regular visitor. When
/ she first came out of the woods, she would
make but a short stay, and would not
| come inside the house, but would APP
/ proach near enough to eat scraps OF food
/ thrown to her. Strict orders were given
/ not to frighten her off, and gradually she
grew so tame as to take food from the
! hands of any of the hotel people. The next
/ thing was her entry into the ONCE Where
/ she would stroll about as contentedly as
/ a cat or a dog, and allow any one to fondle
/ her. She would never stay over two days,
| however, and would then disappear in
/ the woods, coming back again at regular
! intervals. All attempts to find her sylvan
/ abode were in vain. Not long ago this
| hotel burned, and since then nothing has
! been seen of Nine Bruin but as a new
one will be built on the old site, it is rea-
/ sonable to expect her temperance
! There are a few buffalos in the park, but
buffalo is ever a shy creature, Ihelr
/ heads and hides are very valuable now,
! so much so as to warrant an occasional
! poacher slipping in and risking the pen
/ alties of the law. There isn't much poach-
/ ing DONE however, for the boys in blue
are ever on the alert and the would-be
| raiders on the government preserves
dread a blue coat beyond everything
else"
According to the elder struve. says the
| st. Louis Republic, the movement Of the
| sun through space is at about the rate OF
| five miles per second, but that calculation
| was made on the supposition that the
| brightest of the fixed stars were between
two and three times nearer us than they
/ have been since proved to be. The best
| astronomers of more modern times are
| of the opinion that the actual speed of the
| solar system in its wild flight through
| space can scarcely fall short of u or eX-
| coed 20 miles per second. BY moderate
| estimate, then, our position in the great
sea of space is changing at the rate of
! five hundred million (500,0OO,O0O miles an
/ nually! The above figures, wonderful as
| they may seem, are cOunterbalanced by
| the enormous distances which separate
| the fixed stars of our solar system as
well as the unthinkable and measureless
| space which intervenes between these dis
| tant orbs. Let US suppose that our sun
| and his train of planets and satellites are
| getting ready to make a trip to Sirius, the
dog star, and that that body is anchored
| perfectly stationary in space. Suppose
| that we begin our trip on Jan. /, 1895, when
| will we come in collision with the ruler
| of dogdays? Not until after lapse of
| 200 years! And we are travelling 100000.
| 600 of miles annually, too The problem of
one which the astronomers have found
| extremely difficult to explain. In the stu
pendous mechanism of the universe, the
! acting forces can only betray what they
| have done by the change in the configu-
ration of their parts. In general these
| changes are almost infinitesimal, and can
| only be detected through precise obser-
vatons, extending over long series of
| years. In order to make this more plain,
| 1 will say that the quickest moving star
| will spend PSI years IN crossing an are of
| the heavens not greater than the disk of
the full moon.
To an unprejudiced observer the side
| snake, says the Chicago Tribune. Indeed
the general expression of its face is bright
and comical rather than horrifying. When
| startled it has a habit of raising its head
several inches in the air and then turning
| from side to side to see what is going on.
| At such times the quick motion of the
| head, together with the appearance of the
| horns, that stand up like sharp little ears
| remind one almost irresistibly of a terrier
| when some one says rats" Then, with
| its mouth shut, the line of the lips seen
| from the side is curve that rises at both
| ends, giving its features just as nearly
| the appearance of a sardonic grin as any
| snakes face can assume. Eb Hadley the
best known driver of the big desert teams,
| first called the writer's attention to this
| popularity, and said that the Panamint
| Indians living on the west side of Death
| Valley have a name for the reptile that
| means Observation-Disclosures In color
as a whole, the sidewinder is exactly like
| that of the mesa. sand. When it is lying
still no one walking along the desert save
an Indian can see it. Once the eye has
| located it, however, it is found to be of
| a light yellowish color on the sides with a
stripe along the back while very beauti-
full brown spots, suggestive of the speckled
| trout, are scattered about on each side of
| the stripe. Farther toward the tail there
are short tigerish stripes at right angles to
the dorsal stripe, and there is a brown
| dash Just behind each eye. 1t has only one
nostril, in the center'of large scale plate
/ Although it has but single nostrii the
! desert men believe that it has a very
keen smell for a snake, and a part of their
dread of the beast is due to this They
say the snake is attracted by the smell Of
! cooking 1000, and comes to their camp fire
| to get ason1ething to eat. When near a
camp fire 1t shows the liking for warm
bed that all snakes have only in a greater
degree, and no matter how hot the night
may be, 1t will crawl on the bed of the
sleeping desert man and stretch its coolish
/ length against his body There is no snake
In the desert that shows the. liking for a
| blanket bed that the sidewinder does and
| so it is hated accordingly. Not one Of the
! desert men here can tell of a case by name
| and date where a sleeping man has been
| bitten by one Of these snakes though eIt