The morning news., 1894-11-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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/ O00,0OO0OJ year
! The feeces Of sheep in Australia are
/ growing lighter every year owing TO ma
/ ture's method of meeting the conditions
/ of climate. In England they are heavier
/ for the same reason.
The upper third Of the face is altered in
/ expression, say physiORnOmlsts and doc
/ tors, in affections of the brain. the middle
/ third in diseases Of the chest, and the low
/ er third in diseases Of the organs con
| tanned in the abdominal cavity.
In Trieste an Englishman, Prof. Jones,
! has suHered a severe loss through d
| strange miShap He was holding q lee
! ture in the large hall which contains
| his books, when cat, jumping upon the
/ troleum lamp over, and the efforts of
/ the professor and his audience to eX-
unsulsIh the hre were of no avail All
! the valuable books were destroyed.
! A curious case of kleptomania is re-
/ ported from Paris. A wealthy woman,
! noted for her wit and brilliancy, has a
/ mania for stealing mems hats. She can
create hullabaloo at a tea party or ball
| that makes things decidedly unpleasant.
| Ihe hats are Of no possible use 10 her OF
/ 10 any one else, because she cuts out the
/ crowns as soon as she gets them. Her
/ malady, has been called mania de chapeau.
| The observation that the marine plant
called hlum which swinls on the surface
| OF the ocean, has the power to calm the
! waves ike oil poured on them, has in
/ quced some Frenchmen to construct
! loose kind of net, which has been found
! to have similar effect and is believed to
/ be useful for navigators.
There is a curious well on the Flint
! farm, in the town of Great Valley, Cat
/ tardLguS county, says the New ork sun.
/ 1t is u natural barometer. Nobouy ever
/ passes that farm, winter or summer, ii
! the weather is settled, without asking
| something like this: Does the wen
| threaten changey' For every one knows
! that II there is bad weather coming the
well Will let them know IT, sure. as sure
| can be- They call the well up there the
! 'Whistling well" although il doesn't whls-
| tie now. But that isn't any fault of the
| we'll. This well was dug about fifty years
ago by the father of Col. Flint, who now
| occupies the farm. He put it down forty
| nVe feet, but found no water, and dug no
! turther. Instead of water, strong cur
| rent of air came from the Wen at times.
| The opening was covered with a big fiat
stone, and for amusement a hole was
! drilled in the stone and a big tin whistle
! fitted into it, This whistle had two tones
| one when the air rushed up from the well,
| and a different one when the counter cur
rent sucked the air back into the mysteri-
Gus depths. 1t wasn't long before the dis
! coNery was made that within forty-eight
hours after the outrushing cur
the whistle to shrieking a storm
invariably followed. When the tone of
/ the whistle was changed by the reversing
of the current, it was discovered that the
! change meant a change and the coming OF
! Iair weather. These weather signals never
/ the whistle was silent. The whistle got
out of order some years ago, and, for some
reason, was never repaired, but the com
! ing ana goinS currents of air still pro
| phesy the coming of their respective
'@0a's of weather. with unvarying in
| fallibility.
Oliver Wendell Holmes was born on
Aug. 29 1869. William r. Gladstone was
! born on Dec. %, 1909. That is a famous
year in biography, says the New York
| sun: Charles Darwin was born on Feb.
Y. 1909. Edgar Allen Poe was born on
| Feb. 1S. Alfred TennysOn was born in
the same year; so was Pierre Joseph
IA Il F,T,f1 f1f,sg
1t is year famous in the annals of mill
tary history. too, for Marshal Canrobert,
the surviving French marshal, was born
in that year; so was Leopold O'Donnell,
| the Spanish general; so was Frederick
Won Beust, the Austrian statesman, whose
| power in German affairs was eclipsed at
Sadowa. The italian statesman, Ricaso-
ii, was born in Florence on March 8, 1909.
Park Benjamin, who died in 1864, was
| born in the same year. For Americans it
will always be memorable as the year in
which Abraham Lincoln was born. The
death of DR.. Holmes has called up a flood
of "reminiscences on the subject of old
men. Titan, the Italian painter, was 100
years old when he died at Cadore, Italy.
Donaldo, when past 80 and utterly blind
stormed Constantinople. Isaac Newton
was president of the Royal Society at the
age of SO, and Landor finished his 'Imagi-
Brougham was debater at so, and Lynd-
Aurst, when over 80, spoke in the House of
Lords. Franklin was governor of Penn
sylvania at the age of 81: Marshal Nc
Mahon was S5 when he died. Neal Dow
is now in his goth year David Dudley
Field was SO when he died. Chevreul, the
French chemist, was 102 when he died in
1889. Cassius M Clay, now living in Ken
lucky, is 81. Hamilton Fish, governor,
| United States senator and Secretary of
| State, was another of the famous men
born in 1909.
We all know the tradition about the
power of a swans Wing-that its blow will
break a mans leg, says a writer in Mac
Millan's Magazine. / questioned a man
who has much to do with swans about
the credulity of the tale, and he told me
that he for one, was ready to believe it,
and thought that any other man who
had received such a blow from a swan :
wing as he had suffered would be likely
to believe it also He was summoned from
his cottage by the news that one of the
cygnetS was in trouble. a boy had been
amusing himself with the elegant sport
of giving the cygnets meat attached to a
} long string. When the cygnet had swal-
lowed the meat well down, the boy would
/ pull it up again by means of the string. 1t
was great fun for the boy; and the cygnet
was unable to express its feelings intel
ligibly. On the occasion in question, how
ever, the lump of meat stuck. 1t would not
come out and the boy, fearing conse-
uuences, had let slip the string and bolted.
The cyEnet did its best with the string by
swallowing several yards of 1t, but be-
gan to choke before it got to the end.
At this juncture my friend was sum-
! mOned 10 its aid, and simultaneously, rs
} it appeared, the stately parent of the
cygnet. who was swimming close by. per-
! ceived that something was amiss with its
menced making its way to the young one's
assistance. But the swans method Of
progression on land is as awkward and
slow as on the water it is graceful and
swift. The swanherd was first to reach
the cyPnet, and soon seeing the trouble
had calculated to remove ii before the
, parent car1e up with him. But his cal
C"latiOns had moderated the length Of
the string or the pedestrian sneed of the
swan. Just as he had succeeded in eytri-
eating the lump of meat from the pullet
of the distressed yoUrester the old bird
caught him p blow with its wing on that
/ part of the person which is most cxroeed
to attack when a man is stoOnnR. and the
onset is made from behind He was
knocked over on his face. and CONTINUES
/ tho ir7Detus received from the sp-an b,,
S@uttling over the grass on his bands ard
knees, was unable 10 escape fro,l the
birds fury. which was soon traneeorroo5
20 solicitude for ite little one PVT tba
blow bod heep sufficiently pov.erf,II e.,
r0al-e tho SITTING rosture. 'Uri,-.itico 60
several dove. aud 10 incline hir1, To s-,,,s
credence 70 any legends about the strength
, of a swans wing 20 ~
j BAKING PHWDrR.