The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AAAtAN "a a lANdAthS man. ne liiAlo Al4eAN
I not even the ogres of fairyland were
I credited with such eating capacity as
/ man must have if he absorbed the same
I proportion to his weight in food that
/ spider does. If a man ate in the spiders
/ proportion he would consume the equiv
I alent OF four barrels of fish, dozen hogs,
/ three sheep and two oxen in a single
/ day.
The British Medical Journal under
/ stands that Prof. Frazer will probably
| make a further communication to the
! Royal Society of Edingburgh with regard
] to the production of immunity against
/ snake poison. Since his last cOmmunica-
/ ton he has obtained definite proof of the
antidotal properties Of the blood serum of
/ Venomous serpents. This result was not
! Unanticipated, but its establishment is a
! matter or great interest ana, perhaps, OF
/ some practical Importance, since never
/ before probably have the bane and the
antidOte been brought so near together.
A note by DR.. A. c. Miller of the
/ British Medical Journal. raises a curious
| point in connection with life at high alti-
| tudes. It seems that the observers at the
meteorological station on Ben Nevis,
Scotland, are relieved every three months
when they return to fatten in the valleys.
The life.on the mountain top is of a rough
and boisterOus nature, calculated, one
would think to prey upon the constitution.
let the observers, while at work are
! seldom or never i'll. on the other hand,
as soon as they return TO the lower air
they are beset by every kind of ailment,
and particularly by a noXiOuS form of
catarrh resembling influenza. The reason
I
mountain tops is remarkably free from
microbes, which thrive a the lower level,
and that these microbes seize upon the
unsuspectlng organs, which have become
temporarily unused to the struggle for eX-
istence, and profit by their defenseless
state. 1t IS fatal to give microbe any
| sort of opening.
In Berlin a Singhalese battles all in
vestigations by physicians by the impene-
| trability of his skin, says the London
| Graphic. The bronzed easterner a her.
| eules in shape claims to have found an
| elixir which will render the human skin
| impervious to any metal point or sharp
| ened edge of knife or dagger and calls
| himself the Man with the Iron Skin" 1t
| is true that 1t has been impossible to
| even scratch his skin with sharply point
| ed nails, with finely ground knives and
| daggers. He is now exhibiting himself
! and his greatest feat is to pass with his
| entire body through hoop, the insiGe
| his body and is closely set with sharp
| knife-points, daggers, nails and other
! hoop he squeezes his body with absolute
| impunity. The physicians do not agree
| as to his immunity and some of them
! think that Rhannin, which Is his name,
! is a fakr who has by long practice sue
| ceeded i'm hardening himself against the
| impressions of metal upon his skin. The
| professors of the Berlin clinic, however,
/ considered it worth while to lecture about
/ the mans skin, pronouncing it an mex
| pHcable matter.
! There is in the public mind a confusion
! of ideas as to the speed of electric street
cars, says the st. Louis Globe-D Democrat
/ Two inexpert observers guessing at this
| speed will rarely come within miles of
! the correct estimate. Yet ii is possible
! for anybody, by a simple calculation, to
/ arrive at very nearly accurate informa-
| ton. An electric car going at the rate OF
| mile an hour travels lightweight feet
| in minute. At two miles on hour it
! makes twice that distance in a minute,
| or l76 miles. At tire miles an hour
| the distance Travelled in a minute is three
| times lightweight, or 264 feet. This dis
| lance of 264 feet is about the length or
| an average city block. If il takes a car a
| minute to go a block the rate of speed is
three miles an hour. If the car goes two
| blocks in a minute the rate is about SIX
| miles an hour. Three blocks in a minute
| means nine miles an hour. Four blocks
in a minute indicates a speed of abou,
| twelve miles an hour At five blocks In
| minute car is going fifteen miles an
| hour. When six blocks are traversed In
minute the speed is eighteen miles an
hour. rate of seven blocks in a min
| ute is a speed of twenty-one miles an
hour. 1t must be understood that aver
| age blocks are required to make good
| such estimates.
"A huge metal image of the god Dla-
| But-Su is the artificial wonder of Japan,
| says the st. Louis Republic. The exact
| date of the erection of this gigantic braz,
| en- image is not known; however, this
| much is certain: The Mikado Shomu
| died in the year 7iS A. D.. and il was some
| time during his reign that the figure was
| set up. The total weight of the metal
used in the construction of this enormous
/ something over $50 tons. the most costly
| ingredients being silver and gold. OF golG
something near 800 pounds were used; sill
! YER, 1854: tin, 1921 and copper, 9S6OSO
| pounds. The hight of the figure from the
| sacred lotus flower in which he sits is
| siXty-three and one-half feet The face
| is sixteen feet long and eight and one
| half feet in width in the broadcast place
The eyes are rather out of proportion
| each being three and three-fourths feet
| in length from corner to corner Each ear
| is eight and one-half feet in length from
| in which two average-sized men can easily
| in which twoaVerage-sized men can easily
| hide themselves. The chest is twenty feet
| in depth and the middle finger is exactly
five feet in length. The leaves of the
| sacred lotus flower upon which the figure
is seated are each covered with several
pounds of pure gold leaf They are ten
feet long and six feet wide and there
! are ffty-six of them. Old historians OF
Japan say the casting of the idol was
! several time attempted before being sue
| cessfully accomplished. Also that over
| operation.
! All our senses do not slumber sim
ultaneously, but they fall into happy
! state of insensibility. one after another
The eyelids take the lead and obscure
! sight the sense of taste is next to lose
! IT'S susceptibility; then follow smelling
hearing and touch, the last-named being
| aroused. 1t is curious that although the
sense of smell is one of the first to
Slumoer 1t IS the last to awake. Hear
! sclousneSs. Certain muscles and parts of
the body begin to sleep before others
Commencing with the feet, the slumber-
Gus influence works its way gradually
! upward to the center of nervous action
1t was formerly considered to be Gu
| rious that negrO's skin should be black
! because as black absorbs heat more read,
| lily than any other color it was said that
1t was the worst possible tint to pre-
! serve the skin from the effects of a tron-
| ical sun. But Sir Everard Horne has
| found by experiment that while the skin
| is blistered by the suns rays when COW
W to line
injury occurs when black crepe is used.
! Ihus, as the black color acts by con-
vertinS the radiant heat of the sun into
sensible heat, it in. reality prevents the
| screening quality Of the rays; while the
| increase of sensible heat is neutralize6
by the corresponding increase Of pers-
! piration, which naturally takes place
Black wells, therefore, worn by females
| exposed to the sun, will have the very
| desirable effect of projecting the skin
! from its burning rays, and avoiding nv
! that means the propagation of frecI,1es
to which many ladies are subject from The
effects of exposure to its influence