The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-16
ITEMS oF INTEREST.
nme butterflies lay over 100 .0O0,eggs
here are ga deer marks in ENGLAND

Some butterflies lay over 1cO. OO0eggs
There are 334 deer parks in England.
Berlin has 5000 telephones, London 5000.
The queen signs about so 900 documents
year
The Himalayas have been seen pa miles
away
Plants grow faster between and a m.
than at any other time during the day.
The value of the steel manufactured in the
United States every year is about $500, 100000.
Tho number of marriages performed
throughout the world each day is estimated
at 1000
In Normandy the manageable maidens
wear shirts with stripes that correspond to
the dowry they possess.
Mrs Mary Ann Dalton Of Plymouth, N. H,
is sc years old, and she still weaves all the
cloth of which her clothing is made.
1t is curious fact, as noted by Sir Samuel
Baker. that negro has never been known to
tame an elephant or any wild animal
1t is computed by Scotch paper that there
are now enough paupers in Great Britain to
form, four abreast, a procession considerably
over 100 miles in length.
In Japan man can live like gentleman"
on little over erOO a year. With this sum
he can employ two servants. pay the rent of a
house, ana have plenty of food
A French surgeon has supplied female
patient with a splendid new lip. in place of
one which was destroyed. The loss was made
good with piece of flesh cut from the pa
TENTS arm.
Great Britain and her colonies have 27906
ships Of all kinds France has 1928; Ger
many, 2,635; Russia, 4,4O6; Italy, OSLO The
faH sh r,Ff he .R5 taa
lO7,137 vessels.
A peculiar result of lightning was noticed
near Dion. in France, after a severe thunder
storm. A bolt struck a small pond Just out
side the city. and 1t was discovered that the
electric shock had killed ali the fish IN the
water, about LOO IN number.
The royal crown of Roumania is made OF
bronze, the metal having once done service
in the shape of cannons Samples from
stxty-two war tested guns, each of which was
clptlred from some enemy. are included in
the makeup OF this royal insignia,
Froken Christensen, a Danish lady. has
adopted gardening as a profession. AS soon
as she has completed her training she has
the oner of good post in tie Sandwich
Islands, and is, with a view Of accepting the
same, also perfecting herself in land survey
ing.
When a Chinese girl is married her atten.
dants are always the Oldest and ugliest
women to be found in the neighborhood, who
are paid 10 act as fol to her beauty. 1t is
said that some exceptionally ugly old women
make their living by acting as professional
attendants a weddings.
Hitzferien, or heat-holidays, for school
children are now established by law in Ger
many and Switzerland When the thermom-
eter reaches certain point lessons mist
cease. Throughout Prussia the Dos ervance
OF this regulation is compulsory in all private
as we'll as in public schools.
Two amateurs, desirious TO know what the
Paris street singers earn on a fete day. dis
guised themselves and proceeded the other
day to begin singing on the boulevards. They
commenced al ~ o'clock in the morning and
finished at 10 o'clock at night They found
that their receipts amounted TO not less than
100 francs.
The Russian crown and other state Jewels
are valued at the enormous sum OF 81 0OlOOO;
the crown itself is reckoned as being worth
S6OOO,QC0. is adorned with hundreds of dia-
monds, individual specimens Of which are
valued at all The wGY from few dollars up
toSparklers worth thousands upon thousands
of dollars Besides the diamonds which make
this costly headdreSS look as II il had beel
buried in a shower of falling stars there are
hfty-four pearls, each without a flaw set
! around the rim, ruby of extraordinary size
and br1lllancy icing used as a denter- piece.
| The crown was made by PanZe, the old
time GenOese court Jeweler, and was first used
| by Cathariue the Great.
A writer in an English paper gives some
striking illustrations of the way in which
common phrases are misunderstood: "A
| child" she says. in my brothers village
school always sang. "hark, the emerald
angels sing. The sewing mistress in my SON
in-law's village scnool, having been told to
give up sampler work, as the chldren's time
could be more prohtably spent. persisted in
in the sampler work, and on being reproved
said her conscience would not allow her to
give it up. We are told to read mark learn
and inwardly digest so must teach them
to mark a niece of mine assured her friends
that somewhere IN the Bible she had read
about Eli an waiting in a country church
yard 1t appeared that she had read 'elegy'
Elijah IN reading lesson do doubt Grey's
Elegy in Country ChurchyardD.'
In this country, says the Westminster Ca.
zette, the first construction of railways was
opposed by some sagacious minds which
were perturbed by the thought OF the conse-
quences that might ensue if COW should
happen to stray upon the line II appears
however that in Germany the protectors Of
the first lines had to face much more terri
bic possibility than even the extinction of the
bovine race They were warned and that in
all seriousness, that heir undertaking would
induDltably have the effect of spreading in
sanity among the travelling public. Among
the papers OF the Nuremburg Railway Com
pany-lhe first to construct a line in Ger
many-has been found curious protest from
| the members of the Bavarian Royal
College Of Medicine. This document
declares that all travelling in vehI.
cles drawn by locomotives should be pro.
hiuited in the interests Of public health. Such
rapid motion, it is pointed out, cannot but
produce in the passengers the mental affec.
ton known as delirium fLrosum. Even
should the passCn gers themselves be willing
to run this terrible risk, 1t is, nevertheless
the governments duty to protect the public
10 the mere onlooker, moreover. the thing is
positively dangerous. A mere glance cast at
locomotive travelling at very high speed is
enough to produce the same mental deranpe-
ment in the beholder. Even if passengers are
to e allowed TO ruin their mental powers. il
Is, at least, absolutely necessary SAYS the
Bavarlan Faculty in conclusion that a iO-foot
wall should be built on each side of the line
throughout its entire length. so that the
flight of the iron horse may in no way uusettIe
the public eye and mind.
The decent of the human race from some
particular species Of tree is one of the Oldest
myths that can be found running through the
folk stories OF every nation, says the St.
Louis Republic. In Virgil we find refer.
ences TO the race of men who took their
birth from trunks Of trees So and among some
OF the early commentators on that statement
we even find speculations as to the particular
species Of tree from which the race sprung
The very earliest Egyptians, as well as those
who lived under later dynasties had a legend
OF the Tree or Life and many OF the lead
ing investigators, both ancient and modern
have expressed the opinion that from Egypt
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