The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-03
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freezes il expands and often splits of
powders from the side of clin. 1t IS
said that IN the neighbOrhOod Of Hudson
bay rocks often burst from freezing with
a noise equal to that Of heavy artillery"
During one Of the late severe storms
IN Northern New York a Central switch
man. near the Batavia plOW works. emp
tied his dinner pail on the platform OF
his shanty to feed the hungry sparrOws.
While the birds were eating a poor, half
starved mouse Ventured into their midst
to get a crumb Of the feast when the
whole flock of sparrOws bounced upon
him and killed poor mousy in the twink
ling Of an eye
When YOU Duy a pair OF new shoes
never put them on "A shelf higher than
your head unless YOU want to bring
bad luck; and il you blacken them before
you have had both shoes on, you may meet
with an accident, or even have a sudden
death This is. an old Irish superstition.
The Scotch girls believe that If they drop
their shoes before they are worn trouble
Will ensue, while a French lady losing her
heel is sure OF some disappointment in
love, and a German mother in the same
predicament feels that she will soon lose
one OF her children You must not put
your right shoe on your left foot or your
LETT on your right, nor must you put your
left shoe on before the right unless you
want bad luck. This superstition dates
back TO one of the emperors of Rome,
who, II Is recorded, put on his left shoe
nrst one morning, and came near being
assassinated during the day.
Let us see what richness of stellar dis
tribution is implied by this number of
lOO,OO0,OO0 Of visible stars, says the Gentle
mans Magazine. II may be easily shown
that the area of the whole sky in both
heVispheres is 1850 square degrees. This
gives 2,424 stars to the square degree. The
moons apparent diameter being slightly
over half a degree 81 deg. MINI, the
area of its disc is about one-hfth of
square degree. The area of the whole star
sphere is consequently about 100000 times
the area of the full moon. A total Of 100.
600 600 of stars gives, therffo 800 stars
to each space of sky in area to the fun
moon. This seems large number, but
stars scattered over as thickly as this
would appear at a considerable distance
apart when viewed with telescope of
high power. As the area of the moons
disc contains a bout 760 square minutes of
arc, there would not be an average of
even one star to each square minute. A
pair of stars half a minute or thirty sec
bic star, and with stars placed at even
this distance the moons disc would cover
about 5000, or six times the actual number
visible in the largest telescopes.
The difference between an egg and
milk, says the Rural New Yorker is that
milk Is a production, and while the same
is true of an egg, it is ALSO an embyro
chick; that is, il contains all the ele-
ments for producing young, in round num-
bers the white weighs about 800 grains,
the Solk 300 grains and the shell 100 grains
though all eggs are not of the same size
and weight. OF the white, 81 per cent. is
water, and about 1919 per cent. albumen,
and there is also mineral matter. sugar
etc. Hence there is in the egg albumen to
the amount of 70 grains. The yolk also
contains some albumen. 40 per cent of
fat and 50 per cent. of water. as well as
mineral matter, etc. The total egg con-
tains about so grains of sugar, colOring
etc, and the line of the shell, which is
really about 90 per cent. pure lime. The re-
mainder is carbonic acid, water of crys-
taliZation, etc. as the shell is a salt-car-
Donate of lime. 1t will be seen, then, that
the albuminoids are more than equal
TO One-half of the fat, oil, etc, and hence
the ration should be about two to one, as
has been stated. OF course IL is difficult TO
feed the exact proportions. The hen will
lay on any food that contains sufficient
albumen, but the excess OF carbonaceous
matter is stored on the body as fat, and
as she will eat a large quantity Of food
daily she can always secure sufficient al
bumen If the food is not exclusively car
bonaceous, as with grain. A variety will
provide sufficient albumen.
In the year 1884 a law of divorce was
passed in France. The French people had
had to wait a long time for It, but since
fun advantage of its provisions Up to the
end of the year 1S9l-a period of eight
years only from the date of the passing
of the act-nearly 5000 divorce suits were
instituted by dissatisfied husbands or
wives In about 10000 cases DEGREES of
divorce were granted, and the unhappily
married couples set free to try their luck
again. If there were, on an average, 100
divorce cases every ear in England, it
WOulu mean LudL cases Oh cOnJuBdl I'M
deity were very much more numerous, or
were mere often brought to light, than at
present. In England applicant for a
divorce must be able to prove adultery,
whereas only q per cent. of the whole
number of applications in France We're
based on this accusation. Cruelty and
desertion We're alleged in l6 per cent. Of
the cases heard No doubt most of the
disagreements which led husbands and
wives into court We're due to ''incompat-
/ ibility of temper" which is quite a rec
/ OppiZnd qrOnnd which n obtain Ia
equivalent of a decree nisi" Most of the
divorces were pronounced between couples
who had been married only few years,
but there were five curious cases in which
the parties had lived together-happily Or
otherwise-for upward OF half a century.
In the department of the Seine, which, Of
course. includes Paris no less than 272
out of every 100000 married couples OBJ
tanned divorces last year. For the whole
of France, the proportion was 81 to every
100000
1t is only possible for animal and veg
etable organisms to maintain their fune-
tons when the tempera ture is ranging
OF either of the classes mentioned to with
stand abnormal heat or cold varies great
~. For an instance, we are told that
Sir George Mares and party as well as
withstood forty-eight hours of cold equal
to 81 degrees below the zero of Fahren-
heit, while Prof. Chaubert, the French
Fire King has often remained for a
considerable length of time in ovens heated
to a temperature of 500 degrees. The low
er orders of animal creation, such as
fishes, reptiles and insects may be frozen
perfectly hard without HARM providing
they be slowly and carefully "thawed
out" The various animaculae may be
dried until absolutely void of moisture,
and then restored to life with fluids, as
many as a dozen different times Seeds
which have been kiln-dred may be kept
in the lowest artificial temperature known
for an indefinite period without being in
jured in the least. In growing plants
there is, however, a minimum tempera-
ture, and below this life ceases to exist.
Most plants and vegetables become inact-
i've, when the mercury sinks to near the
freezing point of water; but assimilation
will take place in turnips, cabbage, mead
ow grass and a. few other hardy plants at
a temperature ranging between "a and 50
degrees. which is only slightly above
the freezing point Then. again, each spe-
cies of plant has it's maximum as we'll as
its minimum temperature. If heated
above this minimum (Which ranges from
s5 to 100 degrees in the different species),
death almost instantly results. whereas
a. few degrees below the minimum tenn
perature simply suspends the activity of
the plants for the time being.