The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Tianvasi- The twins are boys. 10 years Of
! age. and are connected by piece OF flesh
! almost four inches IA diameter, which is
| attached 10 each just below his waist
4 This connecting ligament Is only about
nine inches In length and so nrm and IN
! yielding that IL keeps the brothers contin-
ually standing face 10 face. Unlike the
/ arterial bond which connected Chang and
| Eng, the famous Siamese twins. the Tian-
| waei connecting link IS solid through and
! through.
An additional reason why America
| should preserve her trees. says the Bos-
/ ton Globe. Is being contributed by the
| scientists, who anticipate that in the not
| Tar distant future the great motive DOW
/ er OF civilization will be water as relaI-
1 cd 70 graVitation and electricity. Trees
are the great water-lifters. The wise men
/ tell US that an oak tree Of average size,
with 10000 leaves. lifts from the eartn
INTO the AR about 70 tons Of water dur
| ing the tve months il displays its foliage.
| from the leaves the water is evaporated,
| and formed into clouds which depositing
their weight OF moisture. ultimately sup
/ ply the Niagara, capable of supply a large
part OF tue motive power Of the country.
| Trees are especially designed TO facilitate
evaporation, through the moisture spread
| over their myriad leaves. The new pros
poets as TO coming motive power offer
very potent reason why they should be
| preserved and cultivated. Spare the trees
| The destruction of our remaining foresI
areas would be step toward economic
The French Academy of Medicine for
| some time past has been discussing the
interesting question of what it claims the
toAicity OF spirits, champagnes. liquors
etc. AT regent meeting NJ. d'Aremberg
shocked some of his colleagues whose tai
ents as specialists have been devoted to
otner subjects by declaring that chemical
analysis proves all these beverages. and
particularly the more expensive of them
20 20 contain large quantity of the poison
amylic alcohol He said that it was safer
70 drink ordinary spirits sold over the
counter OF a wine shop for a few sous TO
than a lra
aortable after-dinner petit verre at q franc
10 prove his assertion he has been dos
ing RABBITS. Those to which the cheaper
alcohol was applied suffered comparatiye-
~ little. but those treated with good old
eognac, at II francs the bottle. all died.
real old cognac, therefore according to
NJ. d Aremberg, is no more wholesome
man the average brand. NJ. Laborde,
however, maintained that rabbits did not
d Aremberg's method of applying the al
Sonol by injection as sufficient in itself to
XIII the animal A similar opinion was
expressed by NJ. Magnan, and the acade-
my finally appointed a committee of seven
to study the question.
-Ihe goose plant" one of natures
strange and marvellous productions, is
the most rare and unique botanical oddi-
" known 70 the naturalists says the
s 81; Louis Republic Its home is in the
superheated ooze Of the Amazon river
swamps, and but one specimen of it,
that exhibited at the worlds fair two
! years ago, has ever been seen on the
North American continent. It is SO
! scarce that even in Brazil il is considered
wonder of wonders, and those who
We're fortunate enough to get a glimpse
of the specimen in the Jackson Park
collection may congratulate themselves
on having seen something that would
nave been hrst-class surprise to a na-
i tive Amazonian. The geese which
| grow on this remarkable plant are real
geese, SO far as appearances so. In the
Iull-srown plant they have well-formed
bodies of goosely size, shape and color;
breasts apparently formed to stem buff
citing waves, and neck and heads which so
exactly initiate those of a real goose as
TO almost make animated nature
! ashamed of herself During the time Of
the fair the Jackson Park goose plant
| only had one goose and a couple of gos-
| lings growing upon it, but since it has
| been removed to the Washington Park
| ditions to the family, there being now FIVE
or six fuil-grown geese and twice that
many goslings.
Some very interesting observations re-
lating TO the surgical treatment of wounds
| by birds were recently brought by NJ. Fatio
before the Physical Society of Geneva,
| says an exchange He quotes the case
of the snipe, which he often observed en-
gagged in repairing damages With its
| beak and feathers it makes a very cred
liable dressing, applying plasters to bleed
ing wounds, and even securing a broken
limbs by means of stout ngature. On one
occasion he killed snipe which had on its
chest large dressing composed of down
taken from other parts of the body, and
securely hxed to the wound by the coag-
| ulated blood; Twice he has brought home
| snipe with interviewer feathers strapped
| on to the site of fracture of one or
other limb. The most interesting exam
| pie was that of a enipe both of whose
| legs he had unfortunately broken by a
/ miSdirected shot. He recovered the bird
| only the day following and he then found
| tnat the poor thing had contrived to APP
| ply dressings and a sort of splint to both
| limbs. In a case recorded by M. Magnin,
snipe. which was observed to fly away
| with broken leg, was subsequently, found
| TO have forced the fragments into a par
| allel position the upper fragment reach
| ing to the knee, and secured them there
moss intermingled. The observers were
| particularly struck by the application of
a ligature Of kind of fiat-leafed grass
wound round the limb in a spiral FORM
and liked by means of a sort of glue.
"A report has been received in Paris
| of an extraordinary encounter between a
| Spanish and Portuguese frontier, says the
| Westminster Gazette. The incident oc-
| Cured between Moravel and Canaveral
| close to the Portuguese frontier The
| train was traversing a long plain, similar
| to hundreds of others which are used as
| grazing land in Spain, when the driver
| noticed q number Of bulls on the track
| some distance ahead. He did not slack
en- speed, but blew the whistle repeatedly
| with the result that the herd cleared out
of the way with the exception of one
which suddenly lowered its head and with
nerce below made straight for the en-
g1ne. Inc result was disastrous for the
bull The animal was completely cut to
pieces, and masses of quivering flesh chung
to the wheel and machinery, so much So
that further progress was impossible un-
til the engine has been cleaned. The Of
| hcials had decided to do so when, with
out moments warning, the remainder
of the herd, infuria ted probably by the
sight of blood. dashed down upon them
There was precipitate rush for the
nearest compartments. and the last man
had scarcely scrambled in when the bulls
attacked the carriages and renewed the
assault again and again to the consterna-
ton Of the passengers. The gendarme in
charge of the train collected, as oppor-
tUnity offered, heap Of stones, and eneY-
getically pelted the bulls. besides firing a
number of shots. For two hours the bar
tie ragged, and at last, as night came on.
the bulls seemed TO have had enough of
it, and took themselves off, to the immense
relief of the passengers. But this was nor
the end of their adventures, for on arriv
ing at Valencia de AleantaFa the passen-
gers discovered that the connecting Por-
tuguese train had left, and they We're
obliged to put UP for the night as best
they could In the little frontier town.