The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Persian gulf, following as nearly as pos
sible the 10Th degree OF latitude for nearly
1000 miles. is now under consideration The
engineering difficulties are not serious.
Not satisfied with her prolific crops,
nature has in several instances been pro-
| ducing second crops. A cherry tree at
Hamilton, Mo, Is now bearing cherries
for the second time this year. An Oregon
| farm has a pear tree which is clothed in
| its second mantle of fragrant blossoms.
-Pictet, the great Swiss chemist, has
] found that a combination of sulphurous
and carbonic acid gases possesses re-
markable power as a disinfectant- 1t not
| only kills disease germs, but it also dir
! fuses in such a wonderful penetrating
| way that its acts more rapidly than other
/ fumes.
A big department store is now building
| in San Francisco which, it is claimed, will
| cover 5000 feet more space than the Pa
| ris Bon Marche. Besides the ordinary fea-
lures. of a great department store, II is
said that this emporium will also contain
a candy factory, riding school, barber
| shop, and bank.
| Hardware has solicited the opinions
| of the leading bicycle manufacturers of
| the country as to the number OF blcy-
/ Giles manufactured in America during 1895,
| and the probable output for 1895. The re-
| sponses, which are from the leading man.
/ ufacturers of the country, place the out
| put for 1895 anywhere from 100000 to $780,
| 0C0 and that of 1896 from 100000 TO l,OOO,-
/ 600. a fair average of these opinions
would bring the prophecy for 1896 to near
/ 10000 wheels The general opinion is that
/ prices viii remain about the same as 1895.
Experiments have shown that birds
avoid the bright-colOred CaterpillarS as
/ a rule. And this seems almost to have
| become a second nature, for a jackdaw,
! which had been raised in captivity and
/ had had no experience in judging the
| edible qualities Of caterpillars, was OBJ
| served TO regard the brilliant caterpillar
| of the figure-of-eight moth with suspicion
and aversion, although it eagerly de-
| voured dull, plain caterpillars placed with
| in its reach. When it was driven by
| hunger TO attack the other it finally re-
| fused to eat it, giving plain evidence that
| there was something distasteful about
! the prey.
There has been computed. ION the bass
| Of the latest scientific and statistical SCORES
/ accessible" a suggestive table of the dis
| tribution of the people of the globe ac-
cording to their religions. This table is
! published in the "Deutsche Hirchenzeit-
| ing (Berlin) The population of the earth
| is estimated at 1864, 000 DO, distributed as
| follows: Europe 3Sl, 100000 Africa, 127 000,
| coo; Asia, 35i,000,G00; Australia, A,730000;
| America, l33670,000 total, 1,5G0,0O0,0O The
! leadang religions are represented by the
following figures: Protestant Christians,
| I6g,GVcO0; Roman Catholic Christians,
| 235, 0OO 000 Greek Christians, 10000 go; to-
| tai Christians, 500,0O0,0OO. Jews, 100000;
! Mohammedans, $50 100000; heather, Sl2-
| 100000; total non-Christians, 100000, 600.
| DIR. Fales an American physician, who
! spent some time in China, found that the
| Chinese have a wide knowledge of what
| we cal artificial digestion. whenever"
are to be used as food, the cook increases
the assimilative character by the use of
| peptoniferous tripe and vinegar. l have Of
| ten, out of curiosity, examined the numer
! GUS dishes of the Monaghan cuisine with
| a view to ascertaining their constitution.
| Whether it was soups or steWs ragOuts
| or frica ssees, pot roasts or boiled l have
| found tripe finely shredded or thinly sliced
| in three dishes out of every five. The ra-
| ton was largest in households of wealth,
where well-paid cooks were the rule. AS
they discovered the peptic virtue of trpe
| in all animal foods. they likewise found
the same quality IN the gizzard of the bird
| kingdom"
Merchants, undoubtedly in early times
| penetrated foreign tribes and nations, and
| brought home, in addition to their wares,
| stories of what they had seen and learned
abroad. writes Charles Morris in the Pop
| ular Science monthly. But the merchants
| were too few, too ignorant and too pre-
| JUDGED, and too little given to observa-
| ton, to spread much useful information
| in this way; and their peoples were too
| self-satis1ed to give up any customs and
| beliefs of their own for those thus brought
them. How, then, could any effective re-
| suit from national contact be produced
| In primitive times the only effective agen-
cy must have been that of war Destruc-
| tive as this is in its results, it has the one
useful effect of thoroughly comminglng
| diverse peoples, bringing them into the
closest contact with each other and fore
ing upon the attention of each the ad-
vantagesl possessed by the other. The cal
drOn of human society must be set boil
ing before its contents can fully mingle
and combine. War is the furnace in which
this ebullition takes place and through
whose activity human ideas are forced to
circulate through and through the minds
of men.
An inquiry was recently made in Lon
don as to the greatest distance at which
a mans voice could be heard, leaving, of
course, the telephone out of consideration.
The reply was most interesting, and was
as follows, says Harper's Round Table.
Eighteen miles is the longest distance on
record at which q mans voice has been
heard This occurred in the Grand conOn
of Colorado, where one man shouted the
name Bob at one end his voice was
plainly heard at the other emo, which is
eighteen miles away. Lieut.. Foster, on
Pearry's third Arctic expedition, found
that he could converse with man across
the harbor OF Port Bowen, a distance of
$3.50 feet, or about one mile and quarter;
and Sir John Franklin said that ne con-
versed with ease at a distance of moro
than a mile Dr. Young records that at
Gibraltar the human voice has been heard
at distance of ten miles. Sound has re-
markable force in water. Colladon, by
experiments made in the lake of Geneva,
estimated that bell submerged in the
sea might be heard a distance of more
than sixty miles. Franklin says that he
heard the striking together of two stones
in the water half mile away. Over
water or a surface of ice, sound is propa-
gated with great clearness and strength.
DR.. Hutton relates that on a quiet part
of the Thames near Chelsea ne could hear
a person read distinctly at the distance OF
140 feet, while on the land the same could
only be heard at seventy-siX feet. Prof.
Tyndall, when on Mount Blanc, found the
report of a pistol shot no louder than the
pop of a champagne bottle. Persons in a
balloon can hear voices from the earth a
long time after they themselves are in
audible to people below.
M Andree, French aeronaut expects
to start early next summer for the north
pole, taking two companions with him. He
will take the balloon as far as the Norsk
Islands, where a large shed will be erect
ed, in which the balloon will be filled with
gas Here he will await a favorable wind
to start into the unknown. Leaving off
Spitsbergen Nj. Andree thinks that travel
ing at the same rate as on some of his
previous balloon expeditions, he ought to
reach the pole in ten hours. But even if
he does not travel more than twenty-seven
lIilometers per hour-which is the mean
speed of the wind at the particular eleva-
ton he proposes to adopt-forty- three
hours should suffice to carry him to the
coveted goal. So far as the polar regions
are concerned, the natural characteris-
tics which are detrimental to exploring on
the earth's surface serve to facilitate bal
| loon exploration. The total absence of
vegetation enables the balloon to travel
steadily, there being no danger of its tow
I hoe inc ont lal In u,r-s