The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-04
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tute OF France, is to be removed to the Place
du Pantheon where it and that of J. J. Ros-
seau will form pair. The site near the In
stitute is to be occupied by statue OF
q 'Alembert. The statue of Condorcet Will
not be inaugurated till next spring.
Generally speaking, the slope OF rivers
flowing into the Mississippi from the east
is, on the average, about 8 inches per mile,
4 hose entering it from the west have an
average descent of about SIX inches per mile
The average descent per mile of the Mis-
souri, after II leaves the mountain is reck-
oned about foot; the Des Moines from
its source to its conjunction with the Mis-
sisstppi, about 7.3 inches The entire length
of the Ohio shows a fail of even 5 inches.
The Mississippi, from the mouth OF the
Ohio to the Gulf, has a fall of about "a
inches.
did you ever notice." said police in
spector, to a New York Press writer that
the general criminal is almost always cap
tured by the detectives in a place of amuse-
ment? If the fugitive is not actually in
hiding, his first thought is to spend his stolen
money in diverting his mind from his fear OF
capture. A good many such men no sooner
realize on the sales Of their burglaries in the
pawn shops or in any other way than they
hurry at once to some gambling or disorderly
house and try to forget their anxiety in ex-
element. Within the past week five men
have Teen arrested in theaters alone while
watching the performance, and of these, three
were men who had passed worthless checks
and two were well-dressed sneak thieves.
That's why these places are always kept
under surveillance, and the fact is that If
perfectly accurate description OF the average
criminal of this sort is given the police he is
almost certain to be shortly taken in the very
act of spending his stolen money"
Another man has been making careful set
of observations and experiments to deter
mine the effect of tobacco on the DEVELOPMENT
OF the human frame This time it is DR.. Jay
Seaver, and the subjects of his observations
were 1877 college boys during the four years of
their course. The observations are on the
growth in weight, hight, chest girth and lung
capacity OF non-users, irregular users"
and "habitual users" Of tobacco Expressed
In the form of percentages, in weight the non
user increased 10.4 per cent. tkan the regular
user, and 6.6 per cent. more than the oc-
casional user. In growth of hight the non
user increased "a per cent. more than the
user, and IA per cent. more than the occasional
user. In growth of lhe chest girth the non
user has an advantage over the regular user
OF 26.2 per cent, and over the occasional user
OF y per cent, but in lung capacity the growth
is In favor of the non user by MS per cent,
when compared with the regular user, and 40.5
per cent when compared with the irregular
user
In one account Of Rome, says the Brooklyn
Eagle the author mentions five or six slabs of
elastic marble as being in the possession of
the Prince Borghese. Being set on end they
bend backward and forward; when laid hori-
zontally and raised at end, they form a curve;
II placed on table and piece of wood or any
other substance is laid under them, they fall
INTO kind OF curve, each end touching the
table. The Able Forts was told that they
were dug up near the town of Mondragon in
the Kingdom of Naples. The grain is like
that Of fine Carrara marble, or perhaps of the
finest Greek. They seem to have suffered
some attack of fire. A slab of marble similar
IN every respect to those described and highly
pollshed has been exhibited for more than
twenty five years at the British museum. M.
FIeuvain de Belvae succeeded in making com
mon granular limestone a granular quartz,
completely flexible by exposing 1t to a certain
degree of heat. In Lincoln cathedral Eng
land, there is an arch built of white marble
which is quite elastic, yielding to a heavy
tread and returning or rebounding to its or
iginal position on true elastic principles
Seastckness starts in the ear, according to
writer in Mcclure s Magazine. In its cavity
are three small tubes each bent in a circle
and filled with fluid. The three sit at right
angles to each other, like the three sides at
the corner OF q room or a box. Consequently
in whatever direction the head is moved the
fluid in some one of the tubes is given a cir
cular motion. Hanging out into the tubes
from their sides, are hairs Of ella. which con
meet with nerve cells and fbres that branch
of from the auditory nerve. When the head
moves the fluid moves, the hairs move the
cells are fired of" a nervous current is sent
up to the brain and feeling of the heads
peculiar motion is consequent. AS for sea-
brain, at one point, runs beside the spot or
center" where the nerve governing the
stomach has its origin. When the rocking of
the head is abnormally violent and pro
longed the stimulus is so great that
the current leaks over into this adjoining
center" and so excites the nerve running
10 the stomach as to cause wretchedness and
retchlng Deaf muteS, whose ear canals
are affected, are never seasick But normally
the amount of ear feeling which we get nv
reason OF moving our head in a particular
direction comes in a curious way to be a
measure OF the direction of sound. The feel
ings we get from our skin and muscles in turn
ing the head play similar role. We turn our
ear to catch sound. We do this so fire.
quenty for every point that in time we learn
TO judge the direction of the sound nv the
way we would have to turn the head to get the
direction, for we now remember the proper
feeling and know it, This memory of the old
Keeling Is our idea of the present direction If
we never moved our head we never could
have any such notion of the location of sounds
as at present-perhaps none whatever.
A curious suspension bridge has Just been
constructed near Bilbao pain, connecting the
two picturesque marine suburbs, Portugalete
ana Las Arenas, at the mouth of the River
Nervion. Spain is not noted for Yankee in
genulty IN It's system of public highways
railroads, bridges or other industries The
strong current near the river S goal however
interfered greatly with the busy ferry traffic
between the two towns. This set the poetic
Spanish romancers to some prosaic thinking
until Engineer Paliacio- succeeded in solving
the problem. 1t was computed that more
than 10000 persons, most of them coming by
rail from Bilbao, utilized the ferry boats
daily Besides, great increase in freight
and yroduce teaming was observed in re-
cent years The old method of trans
portation, which was altogether uncer-
tain in stormy weather proved in
adequate, and II was found necessary to CON
trive some better mode of intercourse at this
thriving port of the Biscay Bay. If it were
not for the large ocean vessels which steam
up the river to Bilboa an ordinary one-snan
bridge would have answered the purpose
tunnel under the river would on account of its
great depth have required the expenditure of
an immense sum of money. Having heard
something of the Chicago river bridges, how
they try the patience of foot passengers
Transfers and mariners. the wise munich
paltty refused to entertain the proposal of an
enterprlslng American contractor to con-
struct bridge to be turned by steam or eleo
trtcity. Engineer Pallacio has built a sus
pension bridge which is $50 feet high and
which is supported by two large iron
towers each POO feet high. But there is
no traffic over the bridge itself. Instead il
simply serves as track for rollers which
guide large sailing cars. suspended by heavy
steel cables across the river. This simnle
device does not interfere with the vessels
and with little interruption transports PAS
sengers vehicles and heavy freight early and
late. Allowing three wagons abreast To the
front OF the platform, there remains place for
twenty foot passengers. The rollers above
are operated by steam, and in the brisk
breezes are greatly aided below by heavy
sail attached TO the front of this novel CON
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