The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


shad" are often seen and heard along the At
lantic coast, especially IN early spring and
I late In autumn. says the ST. Louis Republic
People of the Georgia and Florida coasts de-
I clare that they come from the north, while
/ those Of Delaware. bay and Long Island
Sound are equally certain that the little pls-
! catOrfal oddly is a little southern denlZen.
They go and come in vast schools, and only
! omit their musical notes while travelling from
/ place TO place and then onl7 when the wind
| ceases to blow and the waters become smooth
] and quiet. Persons who have heard the sing
I Ing shad say that the noise 1t makes Is one
! hard to initiate on paper but that II is some
| thing lke-"We no. he di do de: we no, die
| d DUN The singing OF a sin7le representa-
/ tive OF this musical species of fish is very
weak, entirely too feeble to he heard a owe
! the ripple Of the waves. On the Bolivian
! coast there is a singing ush Of large d1men-
siOns; another makes his home in japanese
waters. In all countries whore they are
known people will not catch or eat them I'M
less pressed by extreme hunger
There is no state like Florida for contra
dictory impressions, says a writer in the
Springfield Republican. You can lind what
you like or what you dislike, II is according
to who you are and where you go. If you
enter the state at Jacksonville, it is low,
| level, monotonous, an inteTminable stretch
of piney fatwoOds, enlfvened only by few
scattering cattle or an occasional razor
backed and big headed swine, and traversed
| by struggling, sandy roads that lead from no
where to nowhere, unless it be to some saw
mill or lonesome cabin or weather Drowned
hamlet, IN which the HStleSs and contented
negro appears TO lead the population. If
you enter the state at Tallahassee, there opens
lovely expanse Of rolling hills and fertile
valleys, vineyards. pear orchards. corn and
cotton fields threaded by fine smooth roads,
packed hard with red clay alluvial. Enter
ing 1t from the sea at Mosquito or Jupiter
Inlet it is continuous stretch Of lovely in
let waters called rivers, but more properly
lagoOnS, fed by It'd water and anording
| scenery of the most charming variety and pic
| turesQueness, as unlike the fiatwoods as it is
different from the hill country. If one enters
it at Punta Gorda or Tampa he will follow
the elevated back bone of the interior through
a region OF countless lakes. sklrted by thrIv-
ing towns like Orlando, Winter Park, Sand
ford. DeLand, Oeala, Gainesville, Leesburg,
and resemb bling neither the hill country nor
the coasts.
A ship regularly engaged in deep-ses sound
ing usually has the sounding machine
mounted at the after end. and when about to
sound, IS brought to standstill, with the
stern to the sea. says the Popular Science
Monthly. The stray line. with the sounding
rod and sinker attached, is over the guide
pulley. and carefully lowered to the waters
edge. the register is set to zero, and the deep
sea thermometer is clamped to the sounding
! line; a seaman is stationed at the friction
line, which controls the velocity with which
the wire is unreeled another at the brake,
and third on the grating outside to handle
the sinker and instruments, ana to guide the
wire as it passes overheard; a machinist is at
the hosting engine. and the recorder takes a
position for reading the register. When the
sinker is let go he vessel is unanswered so as
| to keep the wire vertical and the friction line
IS adjusted so as to allow IL to descend
from % 10 100 fathomS per minute. The in
slant the Sinkcr strikes cotton. which is I'M
mistakahlY indicated v the sudden release
Of the wire from ST. ain, the reel is stopped by
the friction line and brake; the recorder
notes the number Of turns of the reel. In an
hour this messenger Of mans ingenuity
makes its excursion through five miles OF
watery waste to the abySmal regions OF per
feet repose, and brings to the Ii 3ht Of day the
| soil with which the rain of shells of minute
! infusOrlal organism from the upper waters
| has been for ages mantling the oceans floor
| Here and there giant peak rising from these
sunless depths lifts his mead to see the sky
| and the dredge and trawl tell US that all along
| his rugged sides. and on the hills and plains
| below and even in the lnky blacknesS and
| freezing cold OF the deepest valleys there is
| lifei
| As far back as the seventeenth century far
| sighted theologians had begun to discern diff
| hculties more serious than any that had before
confronted them, says Andrew White in the
| Popular Science Monthly More and more it
! was seen that the hunter of different species
| was far greater than the world had hitherto
| ina gined. Greater and greater had become
| the old difficulty Ia concetving that OF the G
| mn lmeraO,e spo les each had been specially
| created ty The Almighty hand, that each had
cen brought before Adam BY the Almighty
to be named. and that each in ouple- or in
| sevens, had been gathered by Moan into the
| ark. But the dlfncultles thus suggested were
| as nothing compared to those raised by the
| distribution Of animals. kyen IN the first
| days of the church this had aroused serious
| thought, and above all in the great mind of
| st Augustine In his City of God" he had
| stated the ditLculty as follows: But there
| is question about all these kinds of beasts
| which are neither tanned by man nor spring
from the earth like frogs, such as wolves and
| others OF that sort, = " as to how they
| could lind their way to the islands after that
| flood which destroyed every living thing not
| preserved in the ark = Some indeed.
! might 10 thought to reach islands by swim
| ming. in case these were very near; but some
| Islands are SO remote from continental lands
| that II docs not seem possible that any ere
| ture could reach them by swimming 1t is
not an incredible thing, either, that some an
| finals may have been captured by men and
! taken with them to those lands which thew
! intended to lnhatit, in order that they might
! have the pleasure OF hunting. ana II cannot
| lie denied that the transfer may have been 9.
| CompllShed through the agency of angels.
/ commanded or allowed TO perform this laLor
| by God.
| What would You think if the family plysi-
clan should call, and after carefully examin-
! ing your tongue and feeling your pulse
calmly inform you that you have snakes in
| your BLOOD asks the st. Louis l.epuhlic.
/ You may latg n ~ the abSurulty OF slch a
! notion. ana at the improGauility of ever hav-
Ing Sucn stat ting words whispered in your
ear by your m5dlt al adviser yet Il is not at
all unlikely that even at this moment you
have thousands Of wigglers chasing ca h
9th n up and down your veins. The most I'M
| portant discoveries concerning snakes in The
| blood have been made during the last nine
months, principally in Europe Dr.. c. w.
stiles. of the iureau of animal industry
Washington, D. G., is also studying these
minute creatures. The blood snake Is a
| small white parasite, which effects an en-
| trance Into the veins OF man. as we'll as
! animals. through the medium of drinking
water. The male snake is only about four
hfthS of an inch In length and he constantly
keeps himself IN the shape of n bow or q new
1 moon, the female occupying a miniature
groove on the inside OF the crescent formed
| ny the male 5 body. The male Is not large r
| in diameter then a section of No 10 spool
| cotton: the female much smaller, Of course
but the DAMAGE few hundred pairs OF such
parasites may work in an animal S system is
have been known for centuries. but down to
| 1893 when Prof. Sonsino OF Pisa. Italy began
! to make their life history and various trans
| formations a scientific study, but little was
! known regarding them Our learned Italian
! professor says that the eggs of the blood
snake, or the larvae themselves are
found in all kinds OF water, especially in
Africa and in the Orient After the eggs
hatch the snake attaches itself to a micro
scopic and harmless animacule. This latter
| snake and all is taken into the stomach in
! the water. The sudden transformation kills
/ the little anlmalcule but fattens the blood
snake, which now leaves the stomach or in
| teStines and begins its search for flood yes
! sells Once. in the veins they breed with
! amazing rapidly and soon Gevour the life