The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The nursery tricycle. has appeared in
London. II contains two seats. one for.
the mistress-and one for the maid and her
charge. and has two pairs OF pedals
C F. Bradford. a banker. OF Augusta.
Wis, has contracted blood poisoning from
the habit Of wetting his fingers on bisasps
when. counting bank bills. He has beeh
Obliged to 90 TO the hospital for 1reatmehis
In France. very good gas, is made
from me FATTY materials contained in The
Soapsuds after washing woods ard iyarTis
The wash water of a wooden mill with
-sVW splh1les VIII annually yield enough
of gas. f--,
Boston has unique exhibition in the
shape OF a display Of lilacs which Is prob
any tne largest ever seen in this country.
Inc collection contains from 125 70 10 wa
rleties OF the Syringa vulgaris, which has
been obtained from all parts OF tfe~world
Inc display includes every known species
OF this fragrant flower in cultivation
"A clerk in New York rubber store has
ralny-day suit Of clothes that is UNIQUE
IL IS a sack suit made of the very hest
macintosh material and the wearer NAV
SIroH along indifferent to any downpouf
a ne SUIT certainly possess many adVant-
ages over the'clumsy macintosh coat, and,
u may not be long before the necessary
pul announcement storm macintosh will
De supplanted by the rainy-day suit.
Hungarian papers are responsible for
lhe statement that a woman in Zemplin
was married for the twelfth time the other
DAY. Inc woman is but 40 years old ana
last winter lost her eleventh busbsn i
with whom she had made a trim arounG
the world. She will celebrate the twenty
nIth anniversary of her firstiwedding next
ran at the side of her twelfth partner III
me- so she hopes, at least, as she signifi-
cantly expresses it.
The Vienna Bicycle Club had a social
club race at their track in the Prate.-
May :, In which was introduced a new
way OF handicapping the participants. The
race was Tor married men exclusively and
the handicap was apportioned. according
to the following rule. The amount or
handicap was decided by the number of
children of the competitor; he got fifteen
yards start for each boy and ten yarfs
start for each girk married men with no
cnlluren had TO start from the scratch.
The course was one mile on the club
track. II was won by a member who had
seven children. -. .
Musical stockings are among the latest
freaks of fashion. They are not audibly
musical, however, merely visibly so. Their
open-work bands, running perpendicularly
up the ankles are patterned in the notes
and bars of the musical cleft OF course,
different tunes are used for different oc-
casions. Upon fun dress hosiery grand
opera arias are appropriately Inscribed
Lighter compositions appear upon those
dedicated to functions less important. and
for everyday stockings quite everyday
ditties are used. Stockings to be worn upon
Sunday alone are an interesting phase OF
the fashion. These are, OF course, embel-
lished with hymn tunes and other sacred
music.
An inventive genius of Ionia. Mich.
has been working for several years over
an electric mail car which should make
zoo miles an hour. making the distance
from New York to Chicago in five hours
instead OF the . now required for the
fastest trains. 1t is said that he has at
last succeeded, and will shortly give a
public exhibition of his device His ear IS
made entirely of steel. and weighs some 40.
tons; " Is 50 feet long and IS operated by
matte arrangement for handling the mails.
1t IS run over an elevated track about Is
feet above the ground, and made of steel.
The apparatus will receive and deliver
mail automatically with no loss of speed.
and each car can take care of thirty-four
stations
DIR. b. Fischer, bacteriolOgist of the
1891 Plankton expedition, has just finished
his report on the Microbes of the Sea"
lie says that microbes capable of geTmina-
tion are everywhere to be found in sea
water except at great depths They are
more numerous in the Canary, Florida and
Labrador currents than they are in either
the Guinea of equatorial currents. They
were not detected with certainty in the
ooze of the oceans bed. but were abundant
at all depths shallower than 1900 and
some were found at a depth of $500 feet
Like the bacteria of the different diseases,
those of the ocean are found in all shapes
and forms, the spiral predomnating. Near
ly all were found provided with hooks or
suckers and one large family are reported
as being phosphOrescent.
The vermiform appendix, or cuI de sac.
the death-trap attached to the large intes-
tines in the human and allied species and
which of late has received much atten-
ton, has been believed by some TO be am
organ just developing. 1t has even been
argued that the babies of three or four
centuries hence will all have to be oper-
ated on for the purpose of removing than
useless appendage. Recent developments
however, Gn diSSeCting a gorilla) proved
! that -
was ten inches in length, whereas in the
human being it seldom exceeds three
inches. From this is is argued that the
appendix is really breeding out, and that
the future man, instead of having that
organ developed to the size of a ten-pou,G
sugar sack, will really have none at all.
In well formed horses, says the Nine
teenth Century, the tail should be strong
at the root, rising high from the croun
| the direction of which it follows When
this Is horizontal the tail is gracefully
carried, especially when the horse is NOV
ing. With powerful, good shaped horses il
is often carried upward, or even curved
over the back, especially when the horse
IS l1VeIy. The health and strength of the
animal are, according to popular notions
| indicated by the resistance the tail offers
to manual interference and by the wav in
winch It Is carried. To some extent also
II affords an indication of the horses dis
position A tidgety horse usually has the
tall like the ears, always in motion. when
about to kick; the tail is drawn downward
I a.
| tigued or exhausted then it is dropping and
frequently tremulous; and with sOn1e
horses, when gallopng, it is swung about
in a circular manner or dashed from side
TO side. There can scarcely be any doubt
also that, like the tail of birds. ii assists
In the horses movements, as when the
animal is galloping in a small circle or
rapidly turning round a corner. If is
curved to the inner side. With well bred
horses the hair of the tail is GONNA ti1,o
~ fine and straight, and often grows to
such length that it reaches the e-ronnd,
coarse-bred horses may also have the bsi,.
long, but then it is usually very thick and
strong, and more or less frizzly thougb
soft curly hair may occasionally be noftned
In the tail of thoroughbred horses In
some horses there is a tendency to sbed
ding of the tan hair, (this, like that Of the
name. tail, forelock, fetlocks and so,le
other parts is permanent and not shed 81
certain seasons, as in other regions of tbe
bodyO the horse is then said to he 81
tailed and there is a popular savinp a.
the ERECT that such a horse is never a bsG
one In other instances, the tail hair fsIIg
off except at the end of the dock. wbero
II forms tutt, and the horse is then Cow
tailed or mule tailed" ~"