The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Tectors or that Institution were ODliE ed to
give well certified check for s40OOO,OOO. On
Lothherry street and Bartholomew lane
NEAR the bank mentioned aboYe) there is
tract OF an acre for which round $4,000 600
mas been refused. In Piccadilly, Strand
rect, Charing Cross and other business
streets Of London there are dozens Of corner
lots valued at sl00O 900 per foot front,
People do not realize that it costs great
deal of money for an officer of the army or
navy to comply with the regulations as to
dress. says the Cincinnati ENQUIRER. He must
have tie same amount of civilian clothes as
an ordinary citizen, to wear when he is OF
duty. Then he must have fatigue uniform,
which costs him never less than So, and
usually more, dress uniform, which costs at
least SlOO, and special full dress, worth
from Sl25 to $50, and an overcoat, costing
from 80 to $50. He is required to have
number OF caCs and hats with plumes and
that sort of thing. which cost IS to $50; his
epaulets cost from RS to $50 his swords and
belts from $50 to as, and various other little
nxlngs that are quite expensive. At the be-
ginning OF his service ii usually costs an
oncer of'the army or navy from 500 to $50 to
get his outfit Of clothing and whenever a
change Is made in the regulations concerning
uniforms, of course the expense is renewed,
The exact date of the building OF aNimrod's
Folly" as the Chaldeans say in abiding to
the scriptural Tower of Babel tthe
Armenians speak Of it az the Tower of the
Confusion of Tongues }. or the hi hit to
which It penetrated the rarined atmosphere
or the Oriental plains, Will, perhaps, never be
known, says the st. Louis kepublic. The
date OF the laying OF the foundation of the
famous structure is usually set at 2,2F years
before Christ or IN the wear of the food l0l.
The expression of the sacred historian that
Its top was TO reach unto heaven is now
generally set down as strong Hebrew
phrase denoting very lofty tower but not
necessarily meaning one that would
reach to the abiding place of the
probable may be found in several places in
Holy Writ The walls of the cities of Canaan
are described by Moses in similar phraseology.
l ne spies sent out by him returned and re-.
ported that the cities of that country were
great and were walled up to heaven" See
deuteronomy 1, 2o, and tx, l.. There is a
Jewish legend recorded in the Talmud. which
building of the tower until after it had
reached hight of 10000 fathoms which is
equal TO nearly twelve English miles. The
sacred historians have not In single in
stance left data upon which we can Ease
calculation OF its exact hight and general
dimensions. and IL is because OF this
omission, no doubt, that the imaginative
orlentalS and other ancient writer's have
given such fabulous and extravagant tradi-
tIons conc ernink it. Even ST. Jerome al
leges from the testfmoTy OF eye-witnesses,
VINO claimed to have seen and examined the
runs OF the Sky-Scra ping shaft. that IN his
Qay (born 345 A. d. 1t was over four miles
nigh. While considering these untenable no.
lions 1t may not be out Of place to mention
eASb OtuNL lduGlul NIlbbTS make It's night
range all the way from single furlong to
500 miles in hight. (See Lawson S Bible
Cyclopedla, Vol l. page 259.)
The servant question in Rio de Janeiro is
quite as serious as in any part of the United
States, Notwithstanding the swarnls of lately
emanclpated slaves, many of whom were well
raised and taught by former masters and
mlstresses, writes Fannie B. Ward in a syn
Qlcate letter. Rejoicing in their new found
leisure and not compelled to sustain life by
hard labor In this genial climate, where one
can get along without shelter and almost
without clothing, and where bountiful nature
has furnished to their hands so many
spontaneous food -growths, they toll not but
prefer TO loll about leisurely in the sunshine.
therefore,, the Brizilian housekeeper OF to-
day is reduced to foreign servants
like ourselves or compelled to take up
with the low-class Portuguese. which a true
Brazilian hates as Jew does pork Yet the
Portuguese make the best seryauts-indus-
trlouS and reliable, intelligent and respectful
but their ways Of doing things are as the WAYS
of the Modes and Persians, and it is no use
ian home -keeper in comfortable circumstan.
ceS never drea rs OF getting along with less
IMAM I'VE servants and many employ eight or
ten. However modest your MENACE NAV he
two helpers are indispensable, cook and a
major domo, and though in an emer-
gency you might assume the formers
place Tor day or two, you never could
get along at all without the major
domo, who is not only your right hand. but
your head and legs as we'll You NAV com
NIT all the minor sins in the category of
crime with comparative social immunity hut
to do your own marketing or to be seen car.
rylng the smallest package would make a
parlah OF you at once. There is great deal
Of daily scrubblng to be done, too. all The
noors and halls being carpetless. and in Bra
I'll it is always done by men on their knees
The major domo rises at 5 o'clock in the
morning and patters to market
with his heelless slippers fan
ping behind him, and PURCHASES the davis avs
supplies of fish, flesh, fruit and vegetables
Your part is simply to furnish the money, a
stated sum per diem; and you may also be
allowed to express your preferences over
night as 10 the menu Should you insist ON
going to market yourself, the outraged ser
want would leave on the spot and not only
would you meet with social ostracism, but the
scandalized market folks would treat Won
with scant respect and would swindle you at
every turn.
Our nervous system is modelled on the type
of the telegraph, says the London Graphic
We have batteries" or nerve-cells to pro
duce the nerve-force, which sets our muscles
and other organs in action, and we have
wires" or nerve-fbers composing the
nerves. which carry or connect the messages
of the system II is the nerve cells there
fore which are the important elements in onr
nervous system, for they are the makers and
generators OF the force which animates us.
and which IN It's highest manifestations an.
pears as thought" itself. These nerve cells
are, of course, ultra microscopic in size
some OF the smaller of them measure abont
the five thousandths of an inch in diameter
and u is impossible to form any adequate idea
OF the millions of them which must he
packed away for example, in the folds
of the gray matter which forms the sur
face layer OF the brain Now, a brain-celI ia
composed of living matter (or protoplasm1.
and whatever this cell accomplishes in our
vital acts is due to the action OF its living
substance. The researches of the Spanish
savant lead US little nearer to The mechan-
ism OF brain-cells and their work, although IL
dark respecting the nature of thought and ~
many minor nervous processes which are
perpetuallv occurring within our nervous an
paratus. DR.. Ramon CaJal, directingsatten.
tlon to the brain cells, pointed out that there
were cells which are receiving houses he
distinguished from those which are clearing
houses. In other words. our brain worl<men
are divisable into those which deal with mes
sages received from the outer world
and those which dispatch MESSAGES
thereto These cells are respect.
lively what Psychologists call "sensory',
and motor cells. The cells OF the brain
vary in shape somewhat in different regions NJ
the organ, but they all give of delicate
branching processes ana ramihcations OF
their su stance, while at least one process as
rule becomes continued to form a rerve-
fiber. Thus the nerve-cell is like the cell NJ
an electrical oattery-it generates its peculiar
force, and emits this force by means Of ire
titer. DR.. Raymon v CaiaI tells
us that the delicate branching processes az
the cells are to be regarded as nutritiYe in
their character They absorb from the blood
the WhereWlthal necessary for their existanra.