The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I gun 10 HullEI 10 GOnSlQeEdDl6 extent
from the milk mania. After all, one can
drink nothing more refreshing during the
present hot spell than an ice-cOld glass Of
sweet milk.
Small families are hardly the rule
among the English upper ten" The av-
| erage IS seven or eight. The queen is
the mother of nine and the Princess Of
Wales of six children. Lord Abergav-
emmy is the proud father of ten, the Duke
| OF Argyll Of twelve, the beautiful Count
ess Of Dudley Is the mother Of seven, the
Earl of Elsmere boasts of eleven, the
| Earl OF InchiquIn OF twelve, the Earl OF
leicester Of fifteen and the Duke of
| Westminster of eleven
| The nonsense about the poisonous ex-
| halation of the upas tree was dissipated
! long ago. 1t is however, good old
| myth, with many variants in folklore.
| Prof. Weisner believes that the upas tree
| is the antiaris toXicaria, to be found
in Java. There is one species, the in
| noxia, which is harmless, whereas a drop
/ Of the spissated juice Of the toxicaria will
| kill a dog. Anyhow, there are quite a
| number of the sO-called upas trees growing
in te botanical garden of Java, and you
may walk around the grove in the most
| comfortable manner.
king Leopold of Belgium has sold to
| Col. North, the nitrate king" a mile
| of sea front of Ostend, the sum paid be-
| ing Sl,50OOOO. 1t is said that Col. North
| sporting club, which will be the center
of horse racing, glove fighting and ath-
| letics generally, with a theater, gambling
| rooms, public gardens, etc. The tract
purchased begins just beyond the king S
| pavilion Ostend already shares with Mon
te Carlo the reputation of being the fast
| est place OF all Europe. During the pust
/ summer ii has been visited by some OF
| the most notorious gamblers and mem
D 1edo, OF the demi-monde in Europe. but
| eclipse all previous efforts.
Prizes of pigs and kegs of salt beef
are the. objects for which the Samoans
pay cricket. The game, winch is enliv-
ened by the music of a native band takes
| a large number of players, sometimes
| thirty or forty, being entered on a side
| The Samoans have also taken kindly to
| large boats built after European mod
| els and these have almost entirely taken
the place of the large canoes in which
| they formerly Travelled. Instead of work
| ing, the men use a large part of their time
| IN travelling in these boats from island to
! island, talking politics. Some of the
boats require thirty or forty oars for
| propulsion, and are between 20 and so
feet long, the latest addition to the fleet
measuring 100 feet in length.
Prof Runnebaum of Berlin. sent by
| the German government to examine the
| TIMBER resources of our Pacific coast, eX-
| presses amazement at the waste he wit
| messed there, says the New Orleans Pic
ayune. He says the end of American for
| ests is near at hand unless they are pro-
tected by law against reckless cutting
| ana conhagratiOns. While the leading
| countries of Europe are trying to make
| trees grow the Americans are sweeping
away not only the mature trees, but the
saplings, which are the rightful heritage
or future generations. IF nothing is
done by your government" in his opin-
ion, you may live to see lumber ship
ped from Germany to Puget Sound"
| When the professor was in Oregon and
| Washington the whole coast was dark
ened with smoke from fires devouring
enormous tracts of timber unsurpassed
in the world. His remark that the life of
Ihe forests is the life Of the people is no
flourish of rhetoric. 1t is a verified law
of nature, but trihed with or ignored as
yet in America.
Anderson, Ind, was treated to a novel
| spectacle the other day in the shape of
an alligator fight. A number of alliga-
of the public fountains. They were all
from Florida until two weeks ago when
the city received another alligator from
Enoch Rust of Mississippi. 1t was a 4
footer and tritle smoother in every re-
spect than its Florida brothers. and did
not seek admittance to their company
me rivalry that sprang up ended in a
hght between the largest of the Florida
alligators and the Mississippian. They
began the fight in the water and at last
reached the artificial ledge, and the fight
for life or death began 1t lasted an
hour; Although two feet shorter, the
Mlsslsslppl reptile was great fighter.
He, however, failed to elude snap at the
end OF the hour and was fatally injured
The two reptiles were on their tails at
this point and they were bathed with
blood. The snap was a vital one and
a moment later the Florida alligator was
chewing the Mississippi reptile up alive.
M. Ducharte recently made known IN
the French Academy of Science the re-
suits of an experiment made by NJ Max
ime Lecomte in Congo upon tree of the
genus Musenga. says Public Opinion.
Upon making incisions in the trunk of ii
and placing pail at the foot of the tree.
more than ten quarts of pure water col
lected in thirteen hours. The gorillas il
seems, are in the habit of shaking their
thirst at these hidden fountains, and reg
uiate the HOW of liquid at will by pulling
or dlHerent-sized branches. Many wears
ago DR.. Walich found in the province of
Martaban, Africa, plant belonging to
the same natural order, whose soft and
porous wood discharged, when wounded,
very large quantity of a pure and taste
less fluid, which was quite wholesome a nd
was used as a beverage by the natives
This plant was named by DR. Wallich the
water vine, and has been placed in the
genus Phytocrene, which signifies "plant
FOUNTAIN. These plants form a remarka-
Die exception to the usual character of
the order, which embraces species that
produce milky juice-such, for example
as the celebrated cow tree, or Paio de
Naca, of South America, which Yields a
copious supply of a rich and wholesome
milk, as good as that of the COW, and
used for the same purpose.
An ingenious writer has decided that
the inhabitants of Mars are about three
times as big in every way as the earth
man, says the Atlantic Monthly He ar
CUES thus: If he were on earth he
would weigh twenty-seYen times as
much as the human being, but on the
only about one-third of what it is here,
he would weigh nine times as much
The cross section of his muscles would
be nine times great. Therefore the
ratio, of his supporting power to the
weight he must support would be the
same as ours. Consequently he would
be able TO stand with no more fatigue
than we experience. Now we consider
the work he might be able to do. His
muscles, having length breadth and
| thickness, would all be twenty-seven
times as effective as ours. He would
prove twenty-seven times as strong as
we, and could accomplish twenty
seven times as much. But he
would further upon what required ow-
| ing to decreased gravity, but one-third
the effort to overcome. His effective
force, therefore, would be eighty-one
times as great as mans, whether in dig
ging canals or in other bodily occupa-
ton. AS gravity on the surface of Mars
is really a little more than one-third
that at the surface of the earth, the true
ratio is not 81, but 50; that is a Marian
would be. physically, ffty-fold more eff
cient than man."
The well known favor with which
Englishmen regard under-done beef brings
to notice a curious habit which is said to
be on the increase in London that of
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