The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT the present time nearly all collars
used on work horses in Belgium are made
Of iron.
TWENTY-FIVE thousand persons died
from venomous snake bites in India dur
ing 1894. r
One Of the moons OF Mars goes through
all OF its phases. ''nfw. fun and old moon'
once each twenty-fOur hours
The aye-aye of Madagascar IS said to
have larger eyes in Proportion "a It's size
than any other known animal
A monstrosity in the shape OF me
dium-sized dog with the head OF hog IS
the property Of NJ linden CTenn) man.
"A frst-water diamond. engraved with
the figure Of a twO-headed bull, has been
discovered by the eXcavators at Pompeil.
The common toad catches its insect
food by darling out its tongue 50 rapidly
that the eye cannot follow the movement.
A specimen of fossil horse. with two
toes on each leg split ike cows HOOP
has been found in the gypsum beds near
Paris.
Daniel Burkett Of Big Creek Gap, East
Tenn weighed but thirty pounds, ana
was only eighteen inches high on his 18Th
birthday.
The largest room in the world under,
single roof, unbroken by pillars, IS the
drill room at the barracks, St Petersburg.
Size, l50X620.
-Cajon Peak, Southern California, is
honey-cOmbed with caverns believed TO be
more extensive than the Mammoth Cave
of Kentucky.
"A mastodon skeleton unearthed in Bor-
der county, Texas, in August, 1894 mad
tusks attached TO the skull which were
ten feet long.
A snake killed at St. Vincent, Tex,
few days ago had two perfect heads, one
on each side of the body. 1t was Of the
garter variety. f...r
The three taIlest trees in the world
are said to be a sequoa near stockton,
cal, and two ecalypi near Riley, Vic
toria, Australia.
Marguerite Bouyenval of. Paris fell
asleep on the night of May ., 1882, and has
not since awakened. She is fed twice day
on milk and peptone.
Some naturalists are of the opinion
that the whale was once land animal,
ana that it was forced to take TO water
as a means of protection.
Herr Schronrock of Berlin, Germany,
has been studying European thunder
storms and finds that they travel from
fourteen 10 sixty miles an hour.
Two well-educated Hungarians, who
started from the Argentine Republic on
Aug. 2 1892, to walk TO Chicago, are now
as Tar as Missouri. Their object is TO col
lect data for work on the geographical
typographical, agricultural, mineral, IN
dustria and commercial conditions of the
republics of Argentina, Bolivia, Peru,
Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicara-
Mexico and the United States. They will
publish a book on these subjects, con-
tanning in addition thereto personal ex-
periences and adventures An accurate
record is kept of every days progress,
and the data thus collected Will be care
fully compiled and published. They swan
40 rivers, on several occasions narrowly
escaping being deVoured by allgators.
They started penniless, but people alons
the route have provided generously for
them. They hope to reach Chicago about
June s.
A wealthy religious man of Glasgow,
Scotland, recently requested of the street
car companies the privilege of printing
scripture texts on the back of the tickets
used by the workingmen in the commits
sion hours. But no sooner was the PRIV
ilege extended to him than the car COM
panies got in hot water. They were charg-
ed with discriminating against the WOrk-
ingmen by assuming that they needed
texts more than the people who used the
cars at other hours of the day. They
tried to eX plain the matter, but II was OF
no use. And to settle the difficulty they
were obliged to print the scripture texts
as though they were paid advertisements.
So now the texts are printed like this:
Come unto me all We that are weary, and
heavy laden. If" Pure religion and I'M
defiled before God the Father is this:
TO visit the fatherless and the widows in
their affection, and to keep himself IN
spotted from the world. Adv
"A few months since a man who had
applied to the authorities of the great
West End hospital London, requesting
them to graft the nose of a corpse upon
his face, says the st. Louis Republic.
This they refused to DO, telling him that
If he escaped blood-pOisoning from the eff
fects of such an operation the dead flesh
would slough off" and make the job
failure. Finally they did attempt to fix
an amputated finger to the place where
the persistent young mans nose had for
merry been, but the severed member had
become cold and lifeless before the opera
ton could be finished and the graft failed
to set AS a last resort the surgeons
suggested that one of the patients own
fingers should be cut off and fashioned
that the finger should not be lost in the
event of the operation proving unsuccess-
full the patient had his arm incased in
aed amd tor fa %ee Mtb held bd his
IL would take root and thus furnish a
basis for a nose. This it finally did, and,
when u had become firmly affixed the
finger was amputated and now hangs
above the young mans moustache as a
very respectable looking nose. 1t has been
worked over by the bone and flesh car
penters until It no longer resembles a fin
ger. Among his friends this man with
the magnificent nasal organ is referred
to as the man who has joints in his
nose"
The great firehy-elater noctilucus-is
an inhabitant of the sava nnahs of most
of the warmer parts of America and the
West India islands, says All the Year
Around. 1t is said TO attain a length OF
an inch and a half. In the gloom of
night these flies are extremely luminous.
and the effect is brilliant. The light chief
ly proceeds from four parts, namely from
two glandular spots behind the ewes, ana
one under each wing. They have the
power to cut off the light at WILL in which
case the glandular spots become perfectly
opaque, The light of this wonderful insect
by itself is such that if the creature be
held in the palm of the hand print or man.
uscript is easily read as by a candle
The aboriginal natives cage these craa.
lures and make use of them it is, alleged
as lanterns. Ladies adorn themselves with
this eectric-like luminary 1t is related
of Don Domingo Condo of Colombia that
he would appear on the evening promen
AIDE with large freely ornamenting the
buckle of his broad hat, while band of
smaller luminous insects surrounded II
The same Spaniard lighted his palace
with firefiies in silver cages. The disDlay
must have been enchanting, for al one
time the light is rudy, at another fhe
tinge is greenish then there is a change
to golden yellow. 1t is stated that when
the Spaniards were about to land one of
their expeditions against Mexico. a nanie
was caused by these luminaries. The
host of fitting lights on land was SIM.
posed to be an indication Of the enen5y
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