The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


A little river may be received into
/ large one without augmenting either It's
/ width or depth This, which at first view
seems a paradox. Is yet very easily &C
counted for The little river in this case
/ only goes toward increasing the swiftness
| OF the larger and putting its dormant wa
| tiers into motion.
Though the lion possesses colossal
strength, II is wanting in confidence in
! itself. Indeed. its distrust is excessive. 1t
frequently happens that. against its in
TO have been too easily obtained, suspect
ing II TO be bait. Frequently, owing 10
this, man and animal, who have been
Its defenseless prey on the ground, have
been abandoned by the brute and have thus
tain death.
AT a pure food exhibition recently held
in Louisville, KY, the managers attach
ed strings TO the spoons 10 prevent them
from being carried off. A nervous, agrees
siye looking woman quietly and deftly
placed a spoon in her pocket and started
| 10 walk on in that unassuming, uncon-
scious manner which amounts 10 positive
genius in her sex. Presently she felt a
pulling at her pocket, and at once excitedly
| declared she was being robbed. This at
tracted every ones attention, and also led
to the discovery of the spoon, which had
unlortuna tely got caught in her pocket
and was with some difficulty extracted.
Inc expression upon her face at the mo-
ment that spoon came to light is easier
imagined than described.
-oloHe' IKE lumber, requires seasoning,
says the Scientific American. Stone is or
ten spoken of as the synonym of solidity-
as solid as rock" we say, but, as a
matter of fact, stone is very far from being
SOLID; A cubic foot of the most compact
granite, for instance, weighs about 164
pounds, while cubic foot of iron weighs
i54 POUNDS. This plainly shows that in be-
tween the atoms which compose the mass
OF the most enduring stone there exists
mucn space for air, moisture, etc. This
seasoning of stone prior to use for buiId-
purposes has been ood nv
the architects of all ages, but in the mod
ern rush of nineteenth century building
TOO little attention has been paid to IT,
NOW II enters into the calculations of every
good architect.
A curious suit is pending in New York
Mr; Louis Spitz, of Brooklyn has a pair
OF rect, the most notable feature of which
IS large assortment of corns and bum
ions of which he naturally takes the great
| est ana tenderest care Recently he or
| aered pair of shoes from the Bone-Craw-
| FORA SnOe Company, which guaranteed its
| product not to hurt the tenderest feet. He
| put on the shoes and every corn extended
an lndlgnant protest; He is now suing the
| company for $3.50. The shoemakers assert
that after Mr.. Spitz was measured his feet
| suddenly increased in size and maintain
lhat II ne had employed a competent Chi
| ropodlsI the trouble would not have hap
| pened. They will take the case to the siI-
preme court rather than pay. Mr.. Spitzs
trends nave formed pool to get justice
despite many predictions, the length
/ enlng OF the course in the principal medical
| schools of this country from three TO four
| years mas resulted in the increased growth
IN the number Of students in these schools,
| says the New York Tribune When a few
| years ago, Harvard took the lead and de-
| clared that the course of instruction should
| cover four years instead of three many ed
! ucators asserted that this action would
| SIMPLY drive ambitious and eager students
/ 10 the schools where they could finish their
| medical education in shorter time Just
hoe hoo ~
| columbia 1.-THE college of physicians and
! Surgeons) followed Harvard's lead i'm this
matter after year or two; then the Uni
! Verslty OF pennsylvania and the Universi-
| ~ OF Michigan adopted the same plan
| ANA since these changes all four schools
nave grown steadily.
Any doubts that may have hitherto
| existed as to the veracity of the Biblical
! account OF the passage of the Jews dry
! shod across the Red sea, says the New
YORK tribune, have been set at rest by the
report OF Maj.,Gen; Tulloch, just publish
| ca IN London, describing an incident which
took place during his recent survey for the
! Brltlsh government of that part OF Egypt
| through which the route of the Exodus is
said TO have lain. 1t seems that on one oc-
casion last spring there sprung up a storm
OF WIND so intense in its violence as not
| only 10 stop all survey work along the
borders of Lake Menzahleh, but to carry
| within the space of a few hours the en-
tire waters of the lake out of sight beyond
the horizon, leaving all the sailing yes
sells resting on the sandy bed of this inland
sea. This is manifestly what occurred in
the days Of Moses. and what has hitherto
| Deen IN the eyes of the sceptical open
to doubt as miracle must henceforth be
accepted as definitely proven natural
fact.
We learn from French sources. saws
the New York Sun, that London perfum-
er mas found new way of fixing up eye
lashes and eyebrows. Instead of painting
| them In the usual vulgar old stvIe he
puts the genuine article there, and profess
| SlOndl hao1 Of
city arc hockinS to him to be made lust
700 lovely for anything. The operation is
SAD 70 De extremely delicate, though by
no means painful. He takes a hair from
the mead of the beauty. or, if she does not
like precisely the color of her own hair
| he takes one of any other color thar she
| likes, threads an EXTREMELY fine peedie
| with the hair. runs il along inside the skin
OF the eyehd, sewing sailmaker's fashion
ouo ieaV ing me loops sufficiently long to
| enable MIN to cut them afterward so
that they will form a range of beautiful
! fringe and look perfectly natural. For eve
| brows he does the same thing: bl1t the eve
brow operation is, of course. less deEcate
| Arched eyebrows, bushy eyebrows
stralgnt eyebrows, crooked eyebrows, ali
| sorts OF eyebrows, in any color or shade
| or form, this wonderful perfurner makes
for the ladies of London; and ii Is said
| that his success is sometime e.t - SSLu
ing. IL
The telegraphers have never, to my
| knoWledge, says a writer in the ST Toujs
| Republic, made but a single series of tests
for the purpose of determing the actnaI
amount of time which elapses while a sig
nal is being flashed from America 10 FL
rope along the Atlantic cable. The tests
referred 10 We're made at the McGill TTni~
Yersity, Montreal. Canada, in June 1891
IN carrying out these experiments a du
pleX circuit was arranged on both land
and sea along the entire line, which con-
meets Montreal with WatervilIe Ireland
When the line was cleared chron0.
graph was attached to the Observatory
| wire at Montreal and everything declared
to be in readiness. The instrument click
ed off the signal, while the experimenfers
watched the chronograph with breath
less interest. 1t did not seem like an age
| OF suspense" however, for within one and
one-eighth seconds us seconds) the chron-
ograph recorded the return of the signal
whlle II slowly dawncd upon the interest
| ed scientists present that the flash had
actually made the round trip from Mon
treal to Ireland in period of time but III
tie greater than one-sixteenth of a min
| ute. In that very short space of time in
| hnitesimal and almost, unthinkable 7
might say, that electric message was
flashed distance almost as great as one
| third the circumference of the world or
TO be exact, sop miles. Other experiments