The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

London News. thinks cycling is the best
means of training the respiration. When
| led with shortness Of bresfh his heart
/ beats uncOmfortably, and his legs soon
become tired; after some training, how
ever, these discOmforts entirely disap-
pear. Cycling exercise Increases the depth
I Of respiration. and accustoms the rider
| 1nsunctvely TO take in al each inspira-
/ ton the volume Of air required 10 aerate
/ the blood and to eliminate fixed proper
| ton Of carbonic acid. thus leaving In the
| circulation the precise amount compau-
I bic with health. Such advantages, how
ever can scarcely be gained If the rider
/ persists in assuming the STOPPING atti-
tude so widely prevalent among wheel
men.
London Truth says: One of the latest
| eccentricities reported from Paris is a
decidedly novel scheme for assisting the
poor of that city. 1t is worked in the
following manner. In one of the streets
on the left bank of the Siene a receptacle
has been placed into which ladies are
entreated throw their cast-on stays.
At the first blush-Or even at the sec
ond-ft is rather Duzzling to imagine how
the poor are TO be benefited by this
very delicate request; but, in explanation,
II IS stated that no incOnsiderable sum
can be realized by extracting and using
up the WhalebOne. silk, etc, contained
in these articles of attire. and If the
appeal is only literally responded TO il
Is calculated that a handsome fund may
be realized 1t remains to be seen what
view the better class Partisan females
Will take OF a demand WflCn can scarce
" be described as devoid of riskiness.
In this country ! am utterly unable to
picture even the new woman publicly
jettisOning any portion of her undergar-
ments even in the sacred cause of charity.
-Bismarck's head. says a correspondent
OF l. Anthropologie, has been carefully
measured according to the rules of an
thrOpometrics by the SCULPTOR Schaph of
Berlin, who made the statue of Bismarck
set up at Cologne. The measurements
prove that Bismarck has a head of extra
ordinarily large size Measured horri-
zontally from the frontal bone to the
occiput, the head is PIP millimetres, or
more than 1854 inches. The distance from
temple to temple is 40 millimetres. or a
| tritte over 669 inches. Bismarcks era
mum has a capacity of 1855 cubic centime-
| tres, and his brain should weigh 1867
| grammes. These figures become especi-
/ ally significant when compared with the
| measurements of other heads. of $500
| heads measured at Baden Baden only one
| exceeded 200 millinetres horizontally from
| front to back, and that one measured
| 2O6 millimetreS or six millimetres less
| than Bismarcks. The mean measurement
Of thirty members of the Natural Science
| Society at Carlsruhe were 1875 millimetres
| from front to back by 155 millimetres
| from temple to temple. The biggest of
/ these heads measured POS by l62 milli-
| metres. The cubic measurement of 245
| German heads was nearly 500 cubic cent?
/ metres under .BismarclSs, while the esti-
/ mated weight of Bismarck's brain is 35
| per cent. above that of the average adult
| European brain. In fact, Bismarck is
a man not only of blood and iron. but as
i well of brains.
"A good deal of romance hovers around
| the means by which the worlds news
\ is gathered, says the New York Sun. The
| speed and accuracy with which telegraph
| messages are transmitted between the
| uttermost parts of the earth is marvellous
| when the conditions under which they
| are sometimes transmitted are considered
| The Indo-EurOpean telegraph line offers
a good illustration. 1t runs from London
I to Lowestoft on the east coast of Eng
! land. 1t then dips under the sea to En-
/ den. on the German coast, whence it
| passes through Germany to the Russian
! frontier. From this point the wire passes
! by way of Warsaw, Rowno, Odessa, the
Tauris to Teheran, the capital of the
| Shah's queer domain. There it joins the
| Indian government line, which runs from
| the Persian capital to BushiNe on the
| Persian Gulf. Thence the wires run
| through BelOochistan, and complete the
! route by connecting at kurrachee, in
| Northern India. The operation of this i'm
! mense stretch of line. passing through
| countries of such varying climates anu
! general characteristics, is obviously of
much difficulty on the snow-swept
steppes of Russia the wires are sometimes
| snapped like thread by the rapid flight
| of fiocks of wild geese. The poles are
cut down and made into firewood by the
| nomad tribes of the Caucasian districts,
| and the cunning inn-keepers of Georgia
seek to boom their post-horse. trade by
! deliberately creating faults in the wires
l
| gion of Asia the maintenance OF the soil
tary line involves no little personal risk
and hardship to the staff. hands. Commu-
ncation is often cut off by avalanches
| in the mountain districts, and the work
| of repairing after a snowfall of five or
| six weeks is no light matter. These noun
| tain stations are provisioned with several
| months supplies before the winter sets
in as the staff will be in touch with the
rest of the world by the wire only until
| the spring weather opens out the passes.
| In these supplies are always included a
| liberal allowance of books and games
| wherewith to relieve the monotony of the
| tedious winter exile.
There are $1,000 skins of house cats ex-
| ported from the United States every year,
| says the New York Press, despite the fact
| that the laws for the prevention of cruel
| ty to animals allow neither dogs nor cats
| to be killed except by legalized officers.
| These skins come from all parts of the
| country, a wholesaler seldom receiving a
| consignment of furs from country cor
| respondent that 1t does not include num-
| Der of catskins. When the correspondent
| receives fifteen cents apiece for them on
| the average he may consider that he is
| doing remarkably well. There is very little
| demand for catskins in this country, eX-
| cept for cattail rugs and other oddities,
| sometimes for trimmings and very rarely
| as chest covering in winter for old
| man who belongs to the customs of past
| generation. So the New York wholesaler
| sorts his catskins into lots of a half a
| dozen different grades and sends them to
| London to be sold at the quartelY auctions
of one of the great fur skins. The skins of
| black cats bring the most, and as many as
| 10000 of them have been disposed of in a
| lot at a sale in London for sixty cents
apiece Yellow catsl1ins are next in value.
| Maltese and body mixed colors bring the
| least, often going for 1--WE cents apiece; or
| rather, they bring. the least of the full
| grown cats, for there is demand at three
and four cents apiece for the skins of lit
| tie kittens. The child or the good old maid
| who may wonder why her dear lost pussy
| never returns will be surprised to find
4IaN eli 10 hnlr 60
| the coat of some officer in Emperor Will
| liam's army A vagabond who sought to
| earn few cents in a heartleSs, dishonest
manner made pussy one of bagful of cats
| which he sold to the local fur dealer who
| does business down by the river (where
| cats may be drowned) on account of the
odoriferous nature of his calling. There is
| a great demand for catskins for the Innings
| of military coats. They are somewhat
cheaper than seal. All German officers are
not millionaires. The magistrates of every
| little German village as well likes to strut
| about in a catskin oVercoat. England
Sweden, Norway and other northern coun-
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