The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

One Of the great breakwaters at Venice, ez-
tending nearly two miles into the sea. Is now
nearly completed. and the corresponding one
well advanced When they are completed,
the port Of Venice. now so difncult to enter
for large ships, will be among the most &C
cessible.
The report Of the postmaster general Of
England for the past year contains a number
Of uncommonly funny stories One young
woman who had lost her way on the street
paid pence and had herself conducted y
special messenger from the Swiss Cottage
postoft1ce to her home in Hampst cad, where
a receipt for her was duly obtained.
Some interesting articles have been pub
lshed by the Vossiche Zeitung on the small
caliber guns and the researches Of various
professors as TO the effect OF wounds made by
these guns at different distances-enects that
are horrible The conclusion is that in any
future battles there viii lie. incompara-bly
more dead and severely wounded than ever
before in the world is history,
There Is no accounting for, tastes, says the
New York Tribune A dentist died in a rural
town in England few days ago, after spend
ing over nifty years in pulling the molars of
his fellow.cltizens. He had made it a hobby
20 Keep all the teeth which he had drawn in
the course of his professional career. and
took great pride in the collection When his
VIII was opened 1t was found that he. had
ordered the collection of teeth to be placed
with him in his CONN for burial His heirs
fulfilled his command, ahd almost 80 90 teeth
were put into the comm with the dead dentist,
II some archaeolc st Of q future century
shall harpen to open that grave he " III have
food for thought and some dlfficulty per
maps IN explaining the presence Of so many
teeth. .. ,.'.--s~a.7
In the matter OF social politeress the
Chinese, espe, tally the .'literati" have reason
to look down upon the BARI arians of the
west says writer in the Century. Polite
ness has been llkel e generally to an air.
cushion. There is nothing in IL, but IL eases
the loltS wonderfully. AS a mere ritual Of
technlcallties 1t has perhaps reached its
hlghest point in China. The multitude of
honorihc titles, so teNaldering and even
Made llng to the Occidental are here SD
simply to keep IN view the fixed relations OF
graduated superiority When W shlng to te
the more experienced lnandarins would Ii v
| their doubled fists IN the palms of our hands
instead Of raising them in front of-thelr fore
neaos, with the usual salutation Homa. In
| shaking hands with Chinaman we thus very
| often had our hands full. 80.
| 1t has lately been pointed out. says the
| Hospital, that man after all. is not the only
animal who INDUCES in stmulants. Certain
| animals also indulge themselves in this man
! ner with fatal results, the vehicle of intoXi-
cation in the case of the lower order of be-
! lngs being creeping Yetch called the loco
! plant" This is an lnhabltant of the Texas
| Panhandle" and is source of serious danger
| 10 horses and cattle. To them it has all.the
| allurements which are POSSESSED by absinthe
and gin for beings of another grade, only the
results OF the vetch are more definitely fatal,
| even when taken in moderate measures. Ami
] mails who have tasted of il are liable to fall
! over Backwards. their brains being affected
| as well as their spinal cords They leap
! highJS IN tnelr frenzy and dash down preci-
! plres, No rider of horse who has been thus
intoxicated is in safe position.
There is one odorous essence in very com
mon use, said DIR, F. G. Coalter of Indian.
apclis to the St. Louis Globe Democrat. of
| which the majority Of people know nothing
! Whatever. This is potato ether distilled
| from potato spirit No one would suppose
| that humble vegetable capable of Welding A
! perfume Yet 1t does yield three, and very
good ones they are They go by the names Of
pear, apple and grape oil, from resemblance
between their odors and these fruits. Con
| fectioners use them largely to perfume their
finest candies. Chemistry tells some queer
stories about perfumes. 1t is found that the
sole constituents OF juniper oil, altar of rose
mary, and that Of lemons and turpentine are
really the same, seven parts carbon. with one
OF hydrogen. We cannot com bine these SUB
stapces so as to form any one of the perfumes
mentioned. nor explain why. with the same
constituent parts, they exhale odors so diff
ferent Eau de cologne, which won fame and
wealth for not Caly a family but q city is
really indebted to the orange for most OF its
charm. there being four different perfumes
distilled from it which are used as ingredients
in eau de cologne. $3.50. Ell.
The present era is remarkable for the de-
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world of kindlier feelings toward the brute
creation, and it Is certain that animals have
| never before enjoyed so much consideration
as during the closing decade of the nineteenth
| century. 1t was only the other day that at
| tentlOn was drawn in these columns TO the
| court martlalllng of German soldier for ap-
| plying an insulting epithet to government
| horse; TO suit brought against a Viennese
| editor for having liOelled a ra GER and to the
| decision OF the Belgian government that a
! dog when once provided with his ticket had
! c "a mn rIfr
compartment as a human being. And now
! there is the Austrian town of Baden which
! has Just voted credit of Si0,000 for the bene-
| mt OF rheumatic horses. The equine patients
| are to have sulphur baths erected for their
| treatment in which 1t is hoped that wonder
| ful cures will be effected. Elsewhere in
| Europe valuable race horses are got into
| training by means of course of Turkish baths
! in place OF the oldfashioned cloth treatment
| and if matters advance at the present rate
the day cannot be far distant when every we'll
| bred horse will insist like so many other de-
| voices otfaShion upon an annual stay at HON
! burg, Carlsbad or Vichy for the sake of re-
! operating his strength.
In 1888" said a scientist to the New York
Sun, the great eruption OF the volcano Kis-
hatao, in the East Indies, helched I'D into the
| dust and aqueous Vapor. Observers through.
| out the world reported the spread of this
| layer OF vapor and haze. and in the course of
| six months or so ii had be, one visible over
! the whole northern hemisphere. The parti-
| Giles of aqueous vapor were so uniform and so
| small that they toated in the air for two
| years. II not longer and produced the re-
| markable blood-red sunsets which astonIshed
| all the civilized, and termed the uncivilized
! portion OF the world. The present advent of
| smoky haze will not produce brilliant red sun
| sets, probably because of the presence of va
rlous sorts OF particles or dust but it has in a
| general way added reddish tint TO the ordi-
! nary sunset and sunrise. In 1874 a similar
| tint was noticed. and by many was Supposed
| at first to be due to the fact that the earth
was then passing through the tail of a
| comet. TO speak more strictly, 1t
! was passing through shower of
| metecrlc matter that followed the comet
/ This opinion has however, been set aside in
! view OF the fact that this meteoric matter has
| never been known to produce any visible haze
! or color in the sky, and it is much more likely
/ that the tinted Sky of 1874 was due to moiS.
! ture thrown up into the atmosphere by ordi-
! nary meteorological processes. Very few
! persons are aware of the many beautiful tints
| TO be seen in the sky at the time of sunrise
| and sunset. They follow each other in rapid
| sutcession. We have no means OF recording
| them literally, so that our only resource is TO
! dwell in poetic manner upon the beauties of
the sunset. Thirty years ago a European
| meteorologist, Prof. Behold; who has since
| become QUITE famo is, gave us the hrst accu-
| rate description of these tints, and we know
| that many optical phenomena thai are
| frequently reported as remarkable are in
fact, only the slie b: exaggerations OF the reg
ular colors OF the sky as recorded by Behold -