The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Snake charmers in the orient have a
cruel practice which protects them IRON
together the snakes mouth In front.
Eleven snakes apparently healthy were
once sent TO the London gardens ana al
grew thin until 1t was discovered that
their mouths were sewn shut
The custom of placing wedges OF
blocks Of cork under the heel and instsp
inside the shoe, in order TO give the
wearer an additional inch or two OF hight,
has been IN vogue in England and France
for several years, and is being introduced
in the United States. II is said that at
tors" are in use in New York city, chiefly
among actors, actresses and singers, VINO
are inartistically short in stature.
The intensity of starlight can now be
measured so accurately with electrical
devices that this system is fairly compar-
able with the other methods. Indeed. with
stars of the first and second magni.udes,
ii is not necessary to use even telescope,
The apparatus employed consists OF a
clean bit of aluminium, coated with seie-
mum, and dipped into oenanthoL gal
vanic cell is thus created, and the nue.
tuation in the current produced. or. rather
the square of the potential developed Is
proportional TO the light.
A safe, composed largely of cement
having wire netting imbedded in IL, was
tested recently in Germany, in order to
ascertain whether ii is feasible to builti
safety vaults of such material. The safe
was placed on blazing logs, which had
been soaked in kerosene, and kept exposed
for half an hour TO a temperature OF 1,6OO
degrees Fahrenheit. When the safe was
1ured, and a maximum Thermometer was
found to have made a record of only %
degrees inside the receptacle.
in some parts of Mexico there grows
a grass which produces a sOmniferous Ell
feet on the animals that Craze upon It.
Horses, after eating the grass, in nearly
all cases, sleep standing, while cows and
sheep almost invariably lie down. 1t has
occasionally hammered nave
stopped to allow the horses to feed IN
places where the grass grows pretty thick
ly and the animals have had time to eat
a considerable quantity before its effects
manifested itself. In such cases horses
have gone to sleep on the road and 1t is
hard to arouse them. The effects of the
grass passes off in an hour or two and no
bad results have been noticed on account
of it.
You know that the weather affects
your health, but have you ever satisfied
yourself as to how it does it? BY OBJ
serving the. barometer for few months
and comparing your feelings with its
readings you will discover that they
fuctuate in harmony, says the Pittsburg
Commercial Gazette. Then, just a little
plain thinking will make it clear. When
the barometer is low the atmosphere is
isht, ana Jne ar Pressurde on b tne p his
pressure is removed the blood is forced
to the surface and distends the surface
and distends the vessels. Weak or dis
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nerves submitted to unusual prussure
and sense of fulness, a sort OF stutfy
feeling PerVades the whole body The
blood does not flow freely on account OF
the loss of nerve tone, the brain becomes
sluggish and mental acuteness is i'm
paired. The barometer is not responsible
for all this, but ii explains how 1t all hap
pens. Healthy vigorous persons are not
affected by the changing pressure and
moisture of the atmosphere like those
who are diseased or have weak spots
/ N1rarr Env end rfar col n o.
| sist the tendency to congestion of the
| small blood vessels and of the mucous
| membranes to throw of more moisture.
| than the atmosphere will absorb. 1t is
for this reason that children and young
| people in good health do not suffer TO
! any extent from atmospheric changes.
Almost every popularity is exhibited
| by trees and travellers often bring remark
| able accounts of the wonders of the vege-
! table world We have been told of tremb-
| ling trees-the trembling tree being spe-
| commotion" when touched and gets in a
| great rage, trembling violently, when
/ transplanted, at the same time emitting
| a nauseating odor; of smoking trees, a
! vapor-like puffs of smoke; of rain trees,
| which discharge showers of drops. There
traveller, a tree native to Queensland,
! Australia, which, though beautiful to the
| eye, is very offensive to the sense of smell,
/ and positively dangerous to approach.
]
! eler says: Sometimes, while shooting tur-
! keys in the scrub l have entirely forgot
ten the stinging tree till | was warned of
! its proximity by its smell and have often
! found myself in a little forest of them.
| l was only once stung and then very light
| ~. Its effects are furious; The sting
and for months afterward the part when
| touched is tender in rainy weather or
even when it gets wet after washing, etc.
have seen man who treats ordinary
! pain lightly, roll on the ground In agony
| after being stung, and l have known a
| horse so completely mad after getting
| into a grove of the trees that he rushed
| Open-mOuthed at every one who approachs
! ed him, and had to be shot. Dogs, when
stung will rush about. whining pitiously,
and biting at the affected part.
In a late edition of an English free
| thinkers magazine, says the ST. Louis Re
! public, we find some curious statistics on
| the relative number of souls that have
! been saved and lost since the creation of
| the world. They are very faulty, as well
as rashlR presumptive Ghis latter refers
| to the probable number of souls lost be-
tween the date of the birth of Adam and
| that of Christi, but are queer and interest
| ing nevertheless. The following Is a sy-
nopss of the article: In round numbers
| the earth has population of 100000 900
/ of whom 900 are professed Chris
tians, the other ], 900, 0Oo 0G0 being Moham-
medans. Buddhists. Jews, pagans and hea-
thens. The whole race was condemned to
| eternal punishment for the sin of Adam
| This was the fall of man, and for which
| there was and IS no redemption save
through the death of Christ. Biblical
| chronology gives the earth a period of
5000 years. From Adams time down to
the date of the birth of Christ was 1900
years, during which time all human souls
were lost The population of the globe
during that 4.C00 years averaged we will
say, 1O0O0O0,0OO. Three generations or
| 5000 900, 000 passed, away each century.
Forty centuries, therefore, consigned 120,
/ 900, 900, 600 human souls to eternal fire, and,
| If we are to believe the doctrine of eternal
! punishment these souls must still be in
! hell. In the 1900 years which have elapsed
since the birth of Christ, 81, 900 200, 900 more
of human beings have lived and died. If
! all the Christians nominal and real, who
| have ever lived on the face of the earth
have been saved. they would not number
! more than 1S,000, 900, 900. Now, II we de-
| duct the latter number from the grand
| total of 177,00OO 600, 600, the number which
| have been born since the creation we find
| that 159, 600 100000 of souls are now suf-
| fering the torments of hell fire against a
| possible 1900, 900, 900 who have escaped. But
| this is not the whole truth. No one be-
] lieves that over 10 per cent of professed
| Christians are really such. The Calvanists
| say that the elect are very few. Say that
/ 10 per cent. of the so-called Christians have
/ been saved. which is very doubtful, then
| heaven contains a population of less than
! 1 vi hot Of hail