The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The Scotch have the heaviest aver
/ age BRAIN Weight, 80 ounces
/ The blind people of the United States
! average 81 to each 10000 of population.
Adam Kirpin. who lived in Chicago
in loSz, had beard u feet inches IN
The Plymouth England breakwater
/ Pyramid.
The largest ocean creature now known
/ to exist Is the rOrQual, which often
reaches length of 40 feet
/ "A petrified frog found in an Albany.
y. l., stone quarry was feet inches
/ in length and weighed over 100 pounds
| There are three species OF dog that
| never bark. The Australian native dog,
| tat Of Egypt, and the Persian desert
When the Erie canal was being exca-
/ waited live mollusks We're fouhd in
/ gravel stratum at a depth OF IS feet from
the surface.
1t il. estimated that the dogs Of the
! United States number 25.O00.0CO. and that
/ 1t costs not less than $4,000 per annum
/ to keep them.
The area of rock worn away by Mag
| ara Falls between 1873 and 1865 was 10000
square feet. Between 1915 and 1875 only
/ 1880 square feet.
Capt William Pence of the British
] royal navy says that he has enoountered
/ larger than the Isle of Man.
| The largest sycamore tree in Ohio
| grows on the farm of Henry Peters, near
| Upper Sandusky. 1t is $50 feet in hight
and As feet in circumference at the base.
Statistics from the United States rail-
| way service show that one passenger is
| killed for every 100000 passengers car
| ried, or every 410S,22S miles Travelled. One
/ is injured for every 4,70971T miles trav-
| eled, or one out of every 2O4,24S passengers
carried.
"A short time ago NJ. Henry, French
| man, being curious to see the effect on
| benzine on wasp, put some of ii under
a glass in which wasp was imprisones'
| ately showed signs of great annoyance
/ AM anger, darting at q piece Of paper
| which had introduced the benzine into his
| cell. BY and by he seems to have given
| up the unequal contests in despair, for
| he lay down on his back. and, bending up
| his abdomen, planted his sting thrice into
/ lowed his scientific interest to overcome
/ his humanity so far as to repeat the ex-
| pertinent with three wasps. only to find
that the other two died likewise. He is.
| therefore, of opinion that fwasps, under
| desperate circumstances. commit suicide.
Travellers from the East Indies often
| bring with them necklaces made of seeds
| about the size Of peas, and which are
scarlet with a black spot on one side.
| The plant producing them is known to
boLanists as Abrus precatorius. 1t IS
| grown as commonly around Indian dwell
| ings as an ornamental twining vine as
/ the morning glory is with us. 1t IS
!
| the Botanical Gazette, as wild lieorice-
| much of the licorice of that region be-
! ing expressed from the roots, though II
| Is inferior to the lcorice employed by
/ us. The flowers, which are butterfly
| shaped, are as handsome as the scarlet
seeds. and the seeds themselves are used,
| where they represent one grain. This
| fact is interesting, as showing that man
kind generally start their weights and
| measures by adopting some seed as the
| primary standard. In England, the chief
/ home of John Barleycorn." as the En-
| glishman's ale IS called, barley was taken
| as the original unit for measurement.
| Three barley-corns, or grains OF barley,
made an inch; and when an English boy
| could calculate how many barleycOrns
would reach around the world" he was
ready for promotion
1t is said that Mark Twain has made
| good deal more out of royalties than any
other american author. On Innocents
Abroad" they amounted in less than three
years to 100000. His royalties upon the
| "Gided Age were about $4,000, ana
| Mr. RAYMOND said that he had paid
| play drama tized from that story. His
| profits from Tom Sawyer" reached far
large for "Roughing 1t" and Life Upon
| the Mississippi" He did very well, too
with his prince and Rauper," and at
| one time he was estimated to have gained
| in all about 100000 from his writings,
i and from his investments so much more
as to make him very near a millionaire.
I
astute man of business. yet he had the
| most glievous misfortunes when he began
| sum in an accident insurance company.
He is understood to have been unfortu-
nate in an investment in a typewriting
| machine and, although at first il seemed
| likely that he would greatly increase his
/ fortune through the profits of the publish
ing business known as Charles l.. Webster
| & Co, yet the losses entailed by this firm
| brought Mr.. Clemens, when he was think
ing of taking life easy, to that dreadful
realization Of bankruptcy.
"A small Travellers Guide" dated 1850,
Westminster Gazette. 1t contains good
deal of advice as to the luggage which
should be taken: We take a few para
graphs from this booklet, leaving our read
ers to draw their own conclusions as to
whether century of travel has improved
us in this connection. Take" says the
fee colored and one blue, a chest
flannel, a pair of leather brooches, a Sleep
ing suit, three pairs of stockings two pairs
of gloves. two wigs, one hair-bag (O, two
caps, two hats. two pairs of shoes, one
pair of slippers, six 'undershirts,' four
'ovrshirts, six neckties, six collars, six
handkerchiefs, four pairs of cuffs. three
cravats, two pairs of cotton hose, two
pairs of socks" But this is not all, as
shown by the following items: Take a
Bible, a book of sermons, a Traveller S
Guide two albums, a diary a Quire of
white paper, quilts and ink, an almanac,
a mirror, silver watch, a silver snuff
box, a silver spoon, a pair of silver shoe
buckles, a silver tie pin, three silver studs.
gold seal ring, knife and fork, with
silver handles, sewing case, an opera
glass, compass, a wax light, and a tin
der box, tooth brush, a silvA toothpick,
a sword, silver mounted cane a paddock
with which to fasten your door at night
inside, a clothes brush, box of medicines -
A correspondent of the st. Louis Re
public asks that paper: This is the sea-
son of tine year when the great family of
the curious are interested in the question
of how and why fruits change color Can
you give a logical answer to the above? 90
The editor in reply says: l will not at
tempt a logical answer on my own
hook" but will give a summary of the
opinions which have been advanced by the
leading scientists of the world. First-It
is known that as fruits come ITO maturity
there Is process of absorption of material
from the trees sap, as well as a queer
cell growth within the fruit itself Sec
ond-'rhat the absorption of oxygen; and
the giving off of carbonic. acid gas is an
action strictly analogous to the act of
respiration in animals 1hird-That there
is a transformation of vegetable fiber into
sugar and water, the rapidity and perfec-