The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-09
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A Philadelphia auctfOneer says: You
would scarcely believe il, but there are
men who will go without the necessities
OF life 70 crafty their craze for collecting
rare books / have in mind the case Of
a man who lives in a back street away
up town somewhere in miserable cir
eumstances. but wAO has a really fine
library OF rare books When nave mad
sales on have known himto come in look
ing like a tramp. with the toes out OF
his boots, sOiled linen and general air
OF semi-resp spectacle vagrancy. And yet
he would thing nothing Of paying so for
some book that he wanted. His daughter
came to me one day with tears in her
eyes and begged me not TO sell her father
any more books. as the family was in
absolute want and needed the money Tor
household purposes. l looked into the
sion for collecting had transformed him
into a perfect miser. He would hoard his
money at the expense of his family $
comfort, and when he got enough To-
gether would so OF and buy some rare
book. 1t was really pitiable case"
Thomas w. Winder of Warsaw. Ind.
has started from New Orleans on trip
around the United States on wager,
and to establish a record. The estimated
distance he is to travel is 2l000 miles in
800 consecutive days. or a daily average
of y miles a day. He is to cross thirty
three states and territories ana ~ coun-
ties, visit 1854 cities, towns and villages,
and register at seVenty-six points on the
journey. His outfit will consist or a
WnEel having EnduStdbAC gear E0NNA III
lamp for night riding, automatic brake.
10. O0o-mile cyclometer, clock and tent
made specially for. this trip, the wheel
acting as pole and brace, SO thdI ne
may stop wherever he chooses, the whole
only Weighing eighteen pounds over the
weight of the wheel, which Is twenty
four pounds. He will carry on his back
a camera fitted for carrying films for 90
negatives, this weighing nve pounds. TO
the camera is a small umbrella Tor pro-
tectfng his head in hot weather. Mr..
Winder intends to keep as near the line
as possible, and will carry permit from
the railroads for crossing on bridges and
entering tunnels. when it is found neces-
sary. To win the wager Mr.. Winder Is
compelled to earn his expenses en- route,
which he will probably do by newspaper
correspondence and advertising.
In an entire family of fishes. that Of the
I.abyrinthici inhabiting the warmest
parts of the Old World says the Scientific
American, we find in the bronchial cavity
an accessory organ OF aerial respiration
that permits several species to lead par
TALLY terrestrial life. In the AnabaS seen
dens, or climbing perch OF india mao
China the Malay Archipelago and the
Philippine Islands, the most celebrated fish
of the group, the bronchial chamber as
cends very high upon the sides of the head,
and is divided into two cavities by a mem
branous partition. The lower cavity is oc-
cupied by the branchiae, which are but
slightly developed, and the upper by
fOliaceous mass that has been compared
to a Savoy cabbage on small scale, winch
VariOusy curved. that depend upon the
upper pharyngeal bones. Those plates are
covered with membrane well supplied
with blood vessels, and the cavity that
contains them debouches above the
branchiae by a narrow orifice. The com
plication of this labyrinth continues to in
crease with age, as has been shown by
Gunther. 1t was thought for a long time
that this apparatus was a sort of sponge
designed to keep the branchiae always in
a sufficient state of humidity; but ii is
known from the researches OF SemDer
and Day, that the labyrinth never con-
tains anything but air, and that, physio-
logically, it must be compared to true
/ lung
Between the Rocky mountains and the
Atlantic, says Harpers Young People, are
a dozen counties that contain more than
5000 square miles. One of these is ArooS-
took the northeastern county of Maine
which has an area of $500 square miles,
but little less than that Of the whole of
Wales and forty-two times that of the
| Republic of Andorra- Another is Dade
county Florida, in which are the Florida
Everglades. This has an area of $500
square miles, which is about the same as
that of Cherry county Nebraska. In the
state of Minnesota we find three counties,
Beltrami, Itasca and ST. Louis. each Of
which covers more than 5000 square miles.
St. Louis county contains the city of Du-
luth, which has more than $1,000 inhabi-
| tants. In Idaho we have two counties,
| Idaho and Bingham. which cover an area
| of more than 10000 square miles each.
| PecoS and Ell PaSO counties in Texas con-
tain more 5000 square miles Arapahoe
| county, Colorado, has $3.50 square miles, a
| part of which is made up of the area COW
| cred by the city of Denver. Routt county
| covers 5000 square miles. In Oregon are
! six counties, in Washington three. in Ne
! vada seven, and in California seven that
| have each more than 5000 square miles.
! The largest county in the United States
! is San Bernardino, east of Los Angeles,
! Cal. 1t covers 210O0 square miles. an area
| 5000 miles larger than that of New Jersey.
! Delaware, Connecticut, and Rhode Island
| combined, or half the area of the state
| of New York.