The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

rounds and lights all his lamps without
once dismOunting.
-Mongolian pheasants have been sue
cessfully introduced for game purposes in
various parts of Oregon and Washington
in the last few years and now an attempt
is being made to propagate them for the
same purpose in California. number
have been imported into Santa Clara
county from Oregon, and lettuce seed is
TO be planted by the mountain springs to
provide food for them. They are protect
ed by statute for three years.
Philadelphia has some remarkable
horses in its fire department, says the
New York World. One acts as a watch
dog; another chews tobacco; another has
developed a fOndness for raw onions, an
other kisses his driver, and another is
ever on the alert TO go to fire, taking
almost a human interest in his work,
but he does not like to be fooled. and
the daily training he despises. He is al
ways first to spring under the harness
when the signal is given; but when the
fremen unharness him and attempt to
lead him back 10 his stall he manifests
his disappointment by an ugly shake of
his head, striking out with his fore feet,
kicking with his hind feet, and then
bounding back to his stable.
The Philadelphia Record is impressed
with the weird nomenclature of golf THE
brassy niblick," it says, 1.-THE cleek, the
iron Nasty, bulger driver, the putter the
lofter and all the other varieties of sticks
are in themselves enough to drive the
novice to despair, but it remains for the
Country Club to frame a set of rules gov
erning the etiquette of golf The first rule
reads as follows: Any player losing a
bail and mourning delay thereby may be
passed by any other player Gaming up. A
tWosome may pass a threesOme or four
some, and foursome a threesome. A
tWOSOme may pass another tWosome after
giving the earlier game at the first tee a
clear tee and one stroke, provided that is
Sufhclcnt to put the earlier game out of
range, except on the putting green, where
under no circumstances shall more than
one set of players be at the same time
"A vicious attack by an English sparrow
upon small child, resulting in the death
of the latter, is a singular occurrence
winch recently happened at Stemmer's
Run, IN Maryland, says an exchange At
that place two sons of Charles Moore
caught small sparrow when out in the
woods one day, and they brought it home
so that Ida, their eighteen-months-old sis
ter, could play with Ii. The little child
was delighted with the present When
alone with ii one day she let the sparrow
out of its cage. The bird flew savagely
at the child and fiercely seized her lower
lip. The screams of the baby brought her
mother to the rescue, and she endeavored
to get the sparrow away Before this
could be done the bird had to be killed
and its beak pried open with a pair of
plncerS. Ida at once began to show symp-
toms of blood poisoning. She was attend
ed by DR.. w. Veres Mace, Of Stemmers
Run, but in spite of his efforts she died
The chief of the United States weather
bureau imparts information of Importance
to truck men and fruit growers In regard
to the protection of their winter crops
against cold. He says: when high
pressure area is moving from the west
and clearer and colder weather is .antic-
1pated, with the probability that the ear
ly morning temperature will permit the
formation of FROST the most important
elements to be considered in determining
whether or not frost will occur TO such
an extent as to be injurious to growing
crops are as follows: First, has rain fal-
len recently. and what is the condition of
the soil relative to the amount of mois-
ture contained? Second, what are the nat
ural properties of the soil relative to the
slow or rapid loss of heat by radiation =?
Third, to what degree of heat has vege-
tatlon been subjected during the period
Immediately previous? Anything that Sc
riously 1nterferes with the rapid loss of
heat after nightfall tends to prevent the
formation of frost. Moisture does this
and If the soil is well charged with It, it
partakes greatly of the stable tempera-
ture condition of the water and cools but
little, If any, below the temperature of
the superintendent air, and no frost oc-
ours, even though all the conditions of
clearness, gentle winds, and cool air OBJ
tain. A half-inch of rain, evenly distrib-
uted, is enough to counterfeit many early
frost nips."
The history Of melodrama in the Uni
ted States for the past twenty years has
been somewhat peculiar, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch. 1t may be said that its
first great impetus came with the produce
tion of D'Ennery's 1.-TWO Orphans" 1t
is estimated that 100000 was made from
this one drama alone. Then came THE
Lights o London" "Romany Rye" and a
host of others so thick and fast that it
was not long until the public became
surfeited. However while many fortunes
were wrecked by adventurous specuia-
tors who desired to repeat the 1.-TWO Or
phans' " success, not a few made money
Mr.. Shook, of Shook and Palmer, retired
worth a fortune of 100000 from melo-
drama. THE Fatal Card" in part of one
season, netted a profit of $4,000 But the
greatest modern day success in the way
of profits has been In Old Kentucky u
which is an American play purely and
written by an American author After
its first production two years ago no less
than SIX companies were for a long time
touring the country, and in the New York
run alone there was profit of $4,000. 1t
is estimated that the play has made
over $25O,O0O the author alone receiving in
royalties 100000. Since the enormous sue
cess of this play, many others have rush.
ed into the melodramatic field, and while
as stated here, three plays have made over
$L0O,0o, 1T will probably be long time
before there will be another winner like
In Old Kentucky"
Among the most interesting of the
scientific men who have made Philadel-
phia their home is Dr.. Elmer Gates, says
the Philadelphia Record. DR.. Gates was
formerly connected with the bureau of
ethnology of the Smithsonian institution
Not the least startling of Dr. Gates
conclusions is that one reached through
experiment to demonstrate that scarlet
is not the distinctive color of sin, and
that the Bible expression Though your
sins be as scarlet is simply a rhetori-
cal exaggeration. DIR. Gates has found i'm
his study of the brain that each definite
emotion produces chemical products in
the secretionS and eXcretions which are
characteristic of those emotions. The
evil emotions produce, for example. a
poisonous product, while happy emotions
produce life-promoting compounds In
other words. every emotional experience
creates brain structure, the refunction-
ing of which reproduces it's Characters
tic good and bad chemical products. The
perspiration, for example, he found to
contain different volatiVe organic COM
pounds under the influence of different
emotions. These products may be de-
tected by chemical analysis in the peT-
spiration of an individual. Dr. Gates has
discovered more than forty of the had
and as many of the good. Of chemical
products which DIR. Gates has found
that of guilt is the worst If a small
quantity of the Precipitation of a person
sunering from conscious guilt be DIaced
in glass tube and exposed to contact
with selenic acid it will turn mink No
otner poison, similarly generated. exhih1
its the same phenomenon. Accordinri1y
pink is apparently the characteristic
color of sin. not scarlet.
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