The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

..-'FashionabIe dry goods stores" says
the New York World. ARE reaplng prOht
! from a new fad among Gothams upper
I ten Many wealthy women in this city
are inspired by the idea that they can
| learn the sEirt-dances. Skirts containing
about twenty yards of light fiimsy mate
/ rial are made up and sold at prices rang
ing from SIS to so to women OF leisure.
who like to practice in private what they
1 see in public"
-Jorazo Kikuchi, the japanese law stu
| dent at the Michigan Law School, con-
tributes TO the Michigan Law journal
! an interesting article on The Criminal
| Law Of Japan He shows that great
| advance has been made in many respects
| ton Of the criminal law. The punishments
/ Tor murder and some other crimes are
| not greatly dissimilar to those in other
| countries. One peculiar feature is that
| an intention to commit crime against
the royal family is punishable by death,
| although no act has been committed tend
/ ing to carry out the intention.
The Air Of a meeting room, tested in
| different places, and at different times
| during the progress of a meeting, showed
numbers of micro-erganisms varying
/ from 600 to 100000, says the Gentle
| mans Magazine. The air near the ground
| contained fewer than the air near the
| ceiling. For example, the air some four
| feet from the ground contained 10000
| before the meeting, and at the end Of the
meeting 400, 600; while near the ceiling the
amount at the beginning of the meeting
| was 100000, and at the end of the meet
| ing this had been increased to S,500.OO0.
| Air near burning jet OF gas showed
| the largest figures of all. Thus, in the
| immediate vicinity of a bunsen flame the
/ gigantic number of 100000 was found in
a cubic centimeter, of 900 per cubic
| inch. In Mr.. Atkins own words: 1T
does seem strange that there may be as
| many dust particles in one cubic inch
OF air of a room at night when the gas
| Great Britain; and that in three cubic
inches of gases from bunsen flame
there are as many particles as there are
inhabitants in the world Possibly tests
on the air of smoking rooms would re-
veal still greater numbers. Mr.. Aitkin
has not yet tested such air, but ne found
that a cigarette smoker sends 1000, o00.-
900 particles, more or less, into the air
with every pun he makes.
The highest speed yet attained on
| typewriter is about $50 words a minute,
years ago 1t was fashionable among man
ufacturers ito get up contests and
great deal of bitterness was thereby en-
gendered between the owners of the rival
machines. The only thing settled by these
trials was the relative speed of operators
without regard to the merits of the ma
chimes A better test of typewriters speed
is the lathe recently constructed like
the roller of the music box, which. when
applied to the machine, will depress the
keys in such manner as to produce
certain words and sentences. The type
writer which can stand the quickest move
ment of the roller and write leglbly IS,
! .
roller, il is evident, can DE made to write
faster than any human operator directly
with the fingers. 1t is estimated that
700 strokes a minute can be made easily
with two hands. Five strokes to a word
would make the speed about eighty words
a minute, after allowing time for NOV
ing the carriage back at the end of each
line. This is about twice as fast as
writing is ordinarily done on machine
The loss of time is attributed TO the
size of the keyboard and to the haphazard
| method of operation What is wanted IS
| a more compact keyboard, which would
enable the operator to write wlt dt3er
| to be copied 1t Is likely that improve
ment in writing machines will hereafter
be along this line
Can it be that bugs are endowed with
| a wonderful sixth sense? Prof. G. V.
Riley thinks he has discovered satisfac-
| tory evidence of telepathy among insects
that is to say, sixth sense, by which
/ they are able TO communicate ideas from
| one to another at great distances. The
| power, as illustrated in the case about to
be mentioned, evidently depends not upon
sight or smell or hearing. The fact that
| man is able to transmit sound by tele-
| graph almost instantaneously around the
globe may suggest something OF this
| subtle power, even though ii furnishes no
| explanation thereof. Once upon time
| Prof. Riley had two ailanthus trees in his
| front yard They suggested to him the
| idea of obtaining from Japan some eggs
| of the ailanthus silkworm. He got rev
and Matched them, rearing the larvae and
l
of the first moths from the cocoons. He
| put one of the moths in a little wicker
cage and hung 1t up out of doors on one
! of the ailanthus trees. This was female
moth. On the same evening he took d
male moth to a cemetery mile and half
away and turned him loose, having pre-
| Viously tied a silk thread around the base
! of his abdomen to secure subsequent iden-
| LITIGATION. Prof Riley's purpose in this
| performance was to find out If the young
! male and female moth would come to-
| gether for the purpose of mating, they
| being, in all probability the only insects
of their species within distance of
| others possessed by Prof. Riley himself
| Tho power of locating each other had
previously been remarked in. these in
sects. In this case, sure enough, the male
| was found with the captive female the
next morning. The latter had been able
to attract the former from distance of
a mile and a half.
The King of Spain has had a slight
cold but is now himself again, to the
| great relief of his doting mamma, says
the New York advertiser. 1t is to be
| slowed upon him by behaving properly
| when the time comes for the reins of
power to be transferred from her hands
to his. 1t is long while since Spain
had an elderly sovereign at the head of
affairs. Isabella II was years old at the
time of her accession, was declared of
age at IS, and deposed at IS. Alphonso
| XII began to reign at II and died at 2S
| The present monarch was king when
| a minute Old, quite the most juvenile po-
| tentate ever seen on this earth. Begin
ming early, we must hope he viii not end
early. as other young starters have done,
| but live to wear his crown on a really
venerable head. He ought to make his
mark on history, as king whose years
| and age of rule were the same The
marriage of his sisters will doubtless be
arranged with a view to their remaining
| in Spain, for the elder of the two. the
Infanta Mercedes, is heiress to her broth
ers throne till he marries and has chill
dren, and she, therefore, bears the title
| of Princess of the Asturias. which is
transferred to its present youthful possess
sor from her eldest aunt, the Infanta
Isabella. Spaniards have one leading OBJ
! lection to another female sovereign, that
| the inevitable prince or king consort
wouId probably be a. foreigner. either Ba-
| varian or Austrian, a man of German
! speech and cut of touch with their ira
| ditions, superstitions, manners and Gus
| toms Mannikin Alphonso, being Span
| lard born, is, therefore, to be preferred.
| though many years will elapse before his
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