The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


"A society has been formed in London
wnlch proposes TO print literal and abso-
lutely complete and uneXpuTgated Eng
lish translations Of the Greek authors OF
note.
1t is said that there viii be erected
IN all the public squares Of Copenhagen
small pavilions, or kiOslzs, containing pub
lie telephones, conVeniences for writing
and an office for receiving letters.
The Lancet suggests as safeguard
against the numerous cases Of poisoning
by the use of timed food that Gamers be
compelled TO label the tins with a notice
that the contents are perfectly wholesome
wren eaten fresh from the tin, and afford
good food; but the public Is advised not
70 expose the contents for any length of
time TO the injurious influences of the at
mOsphere.
The war between st. Paul and Mime
apohs over their population ended with
the announcement of St PauFs popula-
ton as li0, -. At the same time il was an
nounced that eight wards of. Minneapolis
had been counted, and that the city's total
would slightly exceed 1SS, 600 In five years
minneapolis has added 5000 to her pOpu-
lation and st. Paul 1900. There have been
charges of classification on both sides, but
IL is believed that the census for both
cities is nearer the truth than any that
has been taken in fifteen years.
"A British scientist recently made the
statement that upwards of hVe-siXths of
the weight of a human being was COM
posed of moisture. His colleagues ques-
toned the statement, whereupon a hos
pltal cadaVer, the remains of a small
neshy man, was obtained and put under
the hydraulic press. The corpse weighed
l4Q pounds even, and it was found that
when every drop of moisture had been
pressed from the body, the residue was
a thin mass Of dry, hbrous flesh and
bones. weighing but 80 pounds.
Prof. Waldeyer, of Berlin, told the an
thropological congress that met recently
a CaESpl that ma lie
centimeters taller than woman. The aver
age weight at birth for boys is 1888
grammes, for girls $500 grammes. The Eu-
ropean man is superior to woman in
strength and hight but the muscles of
the tongue are more highly developed in
woman. Male blood contains 100000 red
blood only 100000, while the average
mans brain weighs 1872 grammes to ], 231
grammes for that of woman.
The most crowded spot on the earth's
surface Is that portion of the city of
Nalletta, Island of Malta known as the
"Manderaggio." In the whole of Val
letta the proportion is 1900 human be-
1ngS to the square mile, but in the Man
deraggio there is one locality in which
there are 2,514 persons living on a plot
of ground less than two acres and a half
$4,000 persons to the square mile, or
l,Cl76 to the acre. In Liverpool, the
most crowded city in Britain, the most
densely portions have only 1854 to the
acre.
One of the queerest sheets of water
in New England, or within sthe limits of
the United States. or the world, for
that matter, is the celebrated Shows
Ocean" in the state of Maine. When
calm 1t is, to all appearance, an ordinary
pond of no great dimensions, but obser-
vations and Investigations made more
than century ago prove that the ittle
body of water is a veritable ocean. 1t
is located in Orrington, near Bangor, and
its popularity is that, although situated
4sav1.. \ tot
from ocean or river, it has tides which
rise and fall as regularly as do those of
the great Atlantic Many so-called scien-
tifc examinations of this miniature
oceans bed and surrounding banks have
been made, but so far no tenable eX-
PLANTATION of the phenomenon has ever
been given to the public.
The United States board on geograph-
ic names, a body charged with the duty
of prescribing the proper method OF spell
ing the names of places throughout the
globe, has just completed its second re-
port. This comprises a list of 600 names,
making the number of names passed upon
by the board since it's creation in 1891 ag-
gregate 1894 The photography adopted
in these lists is binding upon every de-
partment of the United States govern
ment. BY far the largest number of names
in this second list are those of places in
the United States, but there is small
number of foreign names included. Prob
ably because of lack of time the board
has, unfortunately, not gone deeply into
Chinese names, winch are, perhaps more
tangled and subject to greater eccentric
tiles of spelling than any other, but from
the few names given it is noticeable that
Chinas greatest river is to hereafter be
spelled Yangtze and not Yangtse. Corea is
to be spelled with a *, namely, Korea,
and its capital is Chemulpho instead Of
Chemupo, as of old. Russia's great penal
station is Sakhalin instead of Saghalien:
The old name of Blewhelds, which still
figures on many charts, is officially mod
ernized into Bluefields, but perhaps the
1I-- oh Mill mos int A
cans is the adoption of the Spanish spell
ing of Cuba's capital, which will hereaf-
ter be Habana.
The London Stone" the most famous
relic now preserved in the British me-
tropols, has a most interesting history
says the St. Louis Republic. Tradition
says that the stone was originally taken
from the ruins of ancient Troy and
brought to England by Brutus, who with
his own hand laid it as the first block in
the foundation of the city now known to
the world as London. More than thou
sand years ago it was taken from its
original bed in the first wall laid in the
city and taken up on Cannon street, where
it was set deep in the earth at place said
don. According to Camden, it was not
originally Ma l set Claimed as b stone tboa e
Who Sc" say that it was was brought from
Troy by Brutus, as related above), but
was stone specially made and set in place
as a milarium or mile stone similar to
don was under Roman rule. Camden con-
siders it as being the stone which marked
the point from which all British high
ways were to radiate from the capital and
from which all distances were to be meas
ured. After the great fire of 1866 Sir Chris
TOPPER Wren changed the city's grade,
and the stone was taken up. That which
is now preserved by the city as a relic of
it's very earliest days is said to be but
mere fragment of the original stone. 1t
is not more than a foot square at the
present time and is built into a niche in
the outside wall of the Church of SIS
Swithin and Mary Bothan, on Cannon
street. Geologically speaking, the stone is
of porphyry, and ii may still be seen, COW
cred with dust and dirt, by anyone who
cares to go up Cannon street to the church
mentioned and peep through the iron
grating which covers the circular OPEN
ing in which the relic lies.
The early SaXons who inhabited the
British Isles appear to have delighted in
a full beard of the long, forked variety
now peculiar to Saxony, Austria and
Southern Germany. With the Norman
conquerors it was different, says the St
Louis Republic. They had almost as great
a hatred for boards and hairs as have the
Chinese. Accordingly, they not only
shaved their chins but also the backs Of
their heads. almost up to the crown Be
fore they had been long established in