The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

day il was discovered that she had begun
action for breach of promise.
A new anthropometric rest Of sensitiveness
has been designed by Dr.. Gallon. band Of
color. showing all the sixty-tive shades OF
blue. Is slowly passed before the eyes and the
As far the experiments have proceeded only
about twenty shades are generally discov-
cred. In one case, however. a dyer detected
about forty.
1t is not generally known that in France it
is forbidden under severe penalties for any
one to give infants under year any form Of
SOLD food unless such is ordered by written
prescription signed by a legally qualified
medical man. Nurses are also forbidden to
use IN the rearing OF infants condded 10 their
care at any time or under any preteXt what
ever any nursing bottle provided with rub
Der tube.
The whole sumber of strikes and lockouts
recorded in The United States prior TO 1881,
says the Boston Transcript is estimated at
l.49l, OF which 1859 related to wages. SIG sue
ceeded, ia were compromised, $50 failed and
the result OF 438 is unknown. In 1881, 2,9-8
adjustments were affected by strikes; in
1882, 2.l03; in 1853, 2.759; in 1881 236i in 1855
2294; in 1856, 966l. In these six years the ag
gregate Of idle days was ~ ,6l5. with loss to
1909 .S55 employees OF S5l ,Sl4,7Z3. with loss to
employers OF upward OF SO00l00. One
thousand strikes occurred in the United
states from Jan. !, 1887 to april /, 1888; os4 CT
"AASL NOAC III 1901 SOAAC o1OiC11 WI hOAo
struck in 1887.
A gentleman who has spent some time at
Panama tells a st. Louis man how they
catch the little monkeys down there, which
are so useful TO the ltlnerant organ grinders
They take cocoanuL and cut hole in 1t
large enough 20 admit monkeys paw.
string is then attached to the nut. The
monkey is a very nqulSitive little animal,
and when he sees one of these nuts he inserts
his paw through the hole to find out what is
inside. When the paw Is closed it cannot be
withdrawn. and as the monkey has not sense
enough to open his paw the nut is dragged
by the string and the monkey with it to within
rea~h of the captors, who throw net over
the monkey and in that way secure him.
A new source of tanning has been discov-
cred in the canaigre plant which grows
wild IN great abundance in the southwes-
tern parts of the United States, and the tan
ners of the country are very mueh interested
in 1t. The New Mexico experiment station
has been making some attempts at raising it
a give in a recent bulletin NO. p a good
deal of information regarding the plant, rec
ommendlng its culture to the farmers of that
section as source OF revenue. The plant is
an annual, it seems, ana in fairly cool soil
and with proper irrigation it makes a large
growth and is very rich in tannin. Old resi-
dents of Texas say that the mesquite tree,
which has grown up so luxur1ouSly over the
pralries of that state, is also very rich in
tannin. Indeed, it has teen asserted that the
wood OF the mesquite has more tannin in it
than the best of of oak bark.
There is a general impression that the big
Atlantic liners make oceans of money" said
prominent New Yorker recently. Some Of
them. perhaps, do that maket speciality of
the saloon passenger trade, but those who de-
pend largely on freights for their profits have
had them oadly cut by competition. I came
over in the last trip maue by a Guion line
steamship, and on 1t was one of the officials
Of the company. was astonished at the low
freight tariff. | was informed that wheat was
carried across the Atlantic at cents bushel
ana general freight as low as 20 cents ton
1t Is the big passenger lines which have cut
the rates. Ihey can afford to carry eight at
nominal rates They make their money off
their passengers, and carry fire ght as ballast
The Guion is an old established line, but II
has been driven out by competition. 1t has
now sold all its ships and gone out Of bust
ness, simply because there was no longer any
money in It,.
The llama, or guanaco-otherwise written
huanaco-has been called the South Ameri-
can representative Of the camel OF the east,
although in appearance it more resembles an
antelope. Its nature is gregarious Usually
the herbs are small, but Sometimes they num-
Der several hundreds Al the more remark
atle, therefore, is the huanaCo's habit of
Withdrawing from its fellows and seeking the
dying place OF its kind when it feels death ap-
preaching. That it has such haJit is per
fectly we'll authenticated. The best known
OF these dying or burial places is on the
banks of the Santa Cruz and GallegoS rivers
where the river valleys are covered with
oense pr1meval thickets of bushes and
stunted trees. There the ground is covered
with the bones Of countless generations
The animal" says Darwin, in most cases
must have crawled before dying beneath and
among the bushes" A strange instinct in a
creature so pre-eminently social in its habits:
dweller all Of its life long on the open, bar
rem plateaux and mountain sides.
In beginning to teach deaf mutes the art of
speech they are first placed before a mirror
and taught TO form with their lips the differ.
ent vowel sounds used in speaking But this
Is not all Sounds are produced not only by
the lips but by the larynx, the vibration Of
which is the strongest in the region known as
Adam S applet The pupil places his finger
upon his master throat while the vibration
Is going on, and then, touching his own tries
to initiate 1t. Then, when he Is in possession
OF these elements Of sp eech, he has only to
combine them in order to produce syllables
words and phrases The lips Of deaf nutes
are always far less supple than than those of
persons normally developed and conse-
Quenty require systematic exercise The
eyes do not need TO be taught keenness, as
they are always on the watch to supply in.
formation usually furnished by hearing but
they are taught to attain great power of
hXedness, so that the attention may be con
centrated without diversion upon the lips of
any person speaking,
There is reason to believe that the flesh Of
a young boiled alligator is barely distinguish
able from veal, says Longman's Magazine
1t is probably cleaner and more tender than
much OF the meat of the animals that are
usually consumed as food on the continent or
in the east end of London. I have never de.
sired to taste the flesh Of alligators, cooked
or knocked But in India 1 have seen the
SOntals and other caSteleSs natives Rreedilv
devour the mesh of an alligator without wait
ing to cook it. The flesh was very pale in
color, and was probably much superior 10 the
flesh Of snakes and rats and such like crea-
lures, which form the ordinary tood of the
predatory Sontal when hunting in his native
woods. 1t does not fall to his lot very often
to be able to circumvent and Stay and eat a
large alligator. He more frequently comes
upon small aligators, and they go to swell
the contents OF his cooking pots. IT, however.
shot large alligator, say about six feet long
he eagerly falls upon the unwonted delicacy
without waiting to cook livery much as we
read in books OF African adventure that the
natives devour the carcasses of the large
game animals that the English sportsmen do
do not want for their own followers.
Mothers are constantly exercised in mind
as to whether their children are growing as
they sho I'D &C, and whether they are fairly
up to the standard size, says the Newcastle
Chronicle. There is, of course. a very con-
siderable variation in this respect even new
born ba les differing in bulk and form Child
rem are ma 1e on different models and on diff
fernt plans, some on a larger and some on a
smaller scale, from the first. very popular
idea prevails that a small child is a weak one
This IS by no means correct for a compar-
atlyely small child may be extremely strong
and full of vitality, large one soft and e.
pie. AS rule, no doubt, a very small infant