The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Empress Eugene, as she grows older grows
feshier. She has lost much OF her former
beauty and is fat and slow Of motion.
In the show window OF down town drug
store last week were a couple Of articulated
human skeletons posed as if in the act Of
struggling for possession Of d foot ball. and
throughout each day and far into the night
tle chastity exhibition IS the cynOsure Of scores
or Slanting eyes, says the Portland Oregon
ian An accompanying pacard informs the
caucasian spectator that two opposition
I teams Of medical colleges were to play the
great winter game at a certain time and
place and the reader smiled appreciation of
the unique advertisement and passed on.
4 Not So however, with the MongOlian visitor.
lie stood and stared and chartered Until his
numerical strength bio ked the ; dewalk and
MS eager forward pressure threatened to
drive dozen stub noses through the sheet Of
pate glass they were fattened against. The
policeman on the beat has staked his official
honor on the assertion that he saw one China
man spend three and a half hours gazing
steadily at the ony frameworks and then re-
tire with evident reluctance.
The lordly laguar is the king Of all the
American felidae. and right proud are we to
have him for a felow-count ryman- provided
ne does not make himself too numerous. saws
! ~. Nicholas. OF all the great cats now living,
ne Is second in size only to the lion and the
| Beneal tiger. South of the United States he
/ IS universally called Ell 1igre ttee-greei,
winch Is simply the Spanish for tiger. He
mas the big chest and lOins. thick neck, big
arms and legs and bullet head Of a heavy
/ weight prize fighter clothed in the most
! gorgeous skin ever given to any mem
/ Der OF the cat family. He is the
most stocky in build of all the cats, being
! very dlHerent IN shape from the more
1.-THE and hat-todied lion. tiger and puma.
But II Is his glorious colorS that first at
tract the beholder attention AID hold 1t
longest On ground-cOlor of rich golden
~ tAOWr winch Is darkest the back ana
/ shoulders and grows paler as it des ENDS to
the legs, are arranged with regular irregu-
/ laFlty large rOSetteS of black and brown.
these rosettes are the prominent distinguish
/ M character of the jaguar. by which any
| chlId can recognize him instantly wherever
round. The head, top of the la X. base of the
! tail, lower joints OF the legs and the feet are
/ plentlfully tesprinkled with round black
! SIots, not rosettes. Ordinarily the eyes are
| Ilg ht yellow. to match the body color; bet
when the animal becomes enraged they turn
| the color OF green fire and then il Is is high
| time to get out Of the way.
The strongest man on earth and the greatest
| inventor Of the age met Tuesday at Menlo
| Park. n. J.. says the Times Democrat san
dow marveled at Edlson's Inventions and the
| wizard gazed lOuglngly and enviOusly at the
| prodlglOuS muscles of the strong man The
! latest development Of Edison genius in the
! line Of photography on which he has been
| working for the past five years, the klneti-
| scope, was practically completed a few days
| ago and IN casting about for unique subject
Tor the hrst photograph by the new process
tdlsOl chose SaudOw as the most fitting and
| striking character. The main principle of the
| kaleidoscope. as is already known. consists in
! the taking OF great number of impressions
| by a camera in a limited space Of time,
| thus OBTAINING continuous photo
| graph of the entire motion Of the
object or Terson. The photographs
follow each other in such rapid success
sion that 10 laIse of time can be detected be-
| tween the impression recorded, and the series
| o pictures becomes IN effect but one picture.
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and the exposure lasts twenty seconds the
! length Of time required to unroll the band.
Inc camera Is kept behind curtain in com
| plete darkness, and when the person is ready
| to be photographed the curtain IS drawn
aside, the camera pushed forward on rollers
| aad the exposure takes place. The opening
| IN the camera is but three inches in width
and the pictures are one inch square, though
| the inventor sIys he will be able to take pic
| lures Of larger size soon.
In the human body there are about c6}
| bones. The muscles are about 500 in number
! The length of the alimentary canal is about
! - feet. An exchange adds that the amount
| OF blood In an adult averages 80 pounds, or
| fully One-hfth of the entire weight The
| heart is inches IN length and inches in
| diameter, and beats ~ times a minute, 1900
| times per hour, 100, 500 times per day SO 6J2.-
900 times per year, 2,565 442, O0J in three score
and ten, and at each beat % ounces of blood
are thrown oUt Of it, 175 ounces per minute,
boo pounds ?, hour, and IA tons per day.
| All the blood IN the body passes through the
heart in 5 minutes This little organ
| pumps each day what is equal to lifting 122
| tons foot nigh, ton l22 feet high. The lungs
| VIII contain about l gallon OF air at their
| usual degree Of initiation. We breathe on
an, average 200 times per honr, in
| hale COO gallons of air. or 240U0 times
| per hour, 1nhale 600 gallons of air. or $4,000
| per day. Ihe aggregate surface of the air
| cells OF the lungs exceed $1,000 square inches.
| an area nearly equal to the floor OF a room IL
| feet square. The average weight of the brain
| of an ADULT male Is 3 pounds ounces; of fe-
| male, pounds ounces. The nerves are all
| connected with u directly or by the spinal
| marrow. These nerves with their branches
| and minute ramidcations PROBABLY exceed
| lO.0OJCOJ in hunter. The skin is composed Of
| three layers, and varie. rom a to IL of an
| inch in thickness. The atmospheric pressure
| being about u pounds 10 the tuare inch.
| person of medium size is SUB e,ted to press
| IRE OF 1000 pounds Each square inch of
| skin contains $500 sweating tubes or perspi-
| ratory pores, each of which may be likened to
a little drain pipe = OF an inch long, making
an aggregate length of he entire surface of
| the body OF 2Oil66 feet or a tile ditch for
| draining the body almost 10 miles long.
Does the head OF a decapitated person have
any Of the sensations of life after being sew
| cred from the body, You may or may not
| nave thought of this tefOre. says the st.
| Louis Republic, At any rate, it is without
| doubt, the most interesting question in the
| whole range of physiology. FROM the very
| nature of such cases We will probably never
| know whether there is the least ray of nom
y
the brain OF man after the h5a falls from the
block, Tut it is only natural that we should
| investigate the matter as fully as the circum-
stances Will permit. Those who have fol
lowed mis- department since 1889 will remem-
Der curious article given in the latter part
! of the above named year entitled "A Dead
Eye That Winked In it were given the de-
tails of remarkable experiment made by
Surgeon Nelpeau, the Paris prison physician
on one DR.. De la Pommerais, who suffered
death by the guillotine just before his exc
cutioa he arranged with Nelpeau that if the
latter would pick up his severed head he
tPommerats would, If it should lie possible
for him to 40 SO, wink three times at
the surgeon as a sign that although he
could not speak. the faculties of thought.
feeling and sight were still in active
operation. The account gives picture
OF the scene when Surgeon Nelpeau grasped
the bleeding head and shouted IN the ear;
| ''POmmerats, can you thrice close your right
eye while the left remains OPEN" The stolid
! surgeon, familiar as he was with blood-curd-
| ling sights, was almost frozen with horror
| when he saw the right lid slowly fan while
the left eye looked iixedly at him. Again -
| he cried, but the lid only quivered ali sensi-
| billty having left the head forever The aroye
| and similar stories have excited the minds of
| investigators, ana much attention has been
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