The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I fore he eats an amount of food equal TO
/ his own weight.
! That great stretch of country lying be-
I tween the Missouri river and the Rocky
[ mountains from the Canadian line TO the
I Arkansas river was but little known twer-
/ " years ago. and over its vast plains
To-Day there remains of these large herds
a remnant OF barely 1908 head.
The Gold Dollar Saloon of Buffalo, said
10 be one of the handsomest drinking
places In the United States. is to be cor
Nerted into "A temperance salon. The pro-
Z prietor Is tired Of selling liquor. and viii
pc put in charge of the new enterprise.
Ihe hoor Of the place is laid with $50 gold
{ pieces, the bar is studded with $50 gold
pieces, the walls are hung with fine pic
/ lures, and il is furnished with 1,200 I'M
candescent lights.
DIR. Pavy. perhaps the most eminent
l authority upon diet, says that the average
man IN state of absolute rest can live
I on 10 ounces OF food a day: a man doing
/ ordinary light work can live on % ounces,
and "a man doing labOrious work needs
/ from ~ to 30 ounces. This is food abso-
/ lutely free from water, and it must be re-
l membered that everything We eat contains
| more or less water, so that from IS to 50
I ounces OF ordinary food are necessary TO
the work IN which man is engaged. Sir
/ Lyon Playfair another great authority.
l gives the following as all that is necessary
/ Tor healthy man to eat in week: Three
pounds of meat with 1 pound of fat: or
/ binary lOaves OF bread, 1 ounce Of salt,
and pints OF milk: or, for the meat, or
! % 1fOulIS OF UdlIuthl may De substituted.
/ This sound ike starvation diet. but Sir
Lyon Fairplay generally knows what he's
/ talking about.
The mosquito. which is peculiarly be-
\ lieved to have first seen the light of day
\ in a New Jersey swamp, flourlsnes IN me
/ cold as well as in the warmer ATTITUDES,
/ says. the Philadelphia Record. S. J. En-
/ trek1n, who was one of the PeaTy party,
| says that in Is degrees north latitude,
| which was the location of the Peary win
/ ter home, on Littleton island mosquitoes
] in
/ were hungry and desperate, and bit I'M
! merclfully. Blue fiys came soon after, and
in the early part of July humble bees fol-
] lowed in their wake They seemed per-
! fectly at home and became more familiar
/ with tire explorers than the latter desired.
Flies were found in possession of DR..
| Hayes old headquarters at Etah, where
they had. no doubt, been living since the
/ explorer left many years ago. They were
] beyond a doubt brought there by the eX-
plorer. and even the Arctic storms and
severe cold failed TO freeze them out.
The fire eaters who. have been ex-
hibiting in the hall of the
| their line anything of the kind that
has been seen up to the present. They
| not only swallow flames, but handle fire
and cause it to flash from their fingers.
! These fire eaters are two young Ameri-
/ cans who have cultivated physics and
electricity considerably, says La Nature.
/ When they perform their experiments
| they are clad in tight-ftting costume
/ of red color, which represents that
1 of the devils of fairy scenes. The stage
| upon which they appear remains but
| dimly lighted during the entire time of
| their presence thereon. At the back of
/ it there is a piece of furniture that re-
| sembles an office desk seen from the
| rear. but no detail of this object is dis
/ tingushable. The devils go behind it
| and seem to make some preparation with
their hands there, and then they come
| to the front of the stage and cause very
| thin brilliant flames to dart from their
/ fingers. Bringing these flames near their
] tneV swallow them
then eXtinguish them between their teeth.
] When the two devils touch each others
/ hands cracking is heard and long
| flames dart forth for a few seconds from
| the tips of their fingers, which they
| continuously move In a subsequent ex-
! pertinent without putting anything in
| their mouths, they blow with energy and
a brilliant flame makes it's exit from be-
tween their lips. They shoot forth jet
of flame for a considerable length of
| time, which certainly exceeds half min
ute. While these singular phenomena
are occurring the spectators absolutely
! smell no odor. 1t is probable that the
combustion is due to very volatile es-
| sence, but we are unable either to state
| precisely the nature of it or to give an
exact explanation of the experimeflts per
| formed. The red devils keep their secret,
| and when they are questioned remain
! mute For the chemists there are here
| some interesting experiments to take up
and study.
There is a vast consumption of coffee
1 and cakes at the luncheon hour over in
] sun. 1t is, indeed the land O. cakes, though
not of the Scotch kind. Vienna is a IA
nous town for cakes and pastry, and many
/ of the residents of the German quarter are
| from that city. Hence, doubtless. the
! rage for cakes. This rage is confined to
no one age, sex or occupation. 1t seems
to be general; the quarter is of one mind
on this subject. You see the gravest
| spectacle. Germans of gray boards and
vast bulk munching cakes at insignif-
cant little cafes, along with shop boys
rough young fellows and pretty girls
There is somewhere a theory touching the
correlation of tastes that teaches that
when once a man has settled down to a
genuine adult fondness for beer, wine and
tobacco he loses his joy in sweatmeats;
but the German quarter is a standing dis
proof of this theory, for the cake eaters
smoke pipes and drink both beer and wine
The number and variety of cakes dis
played in bakeries and cafes is appalling
to one imbued with the modern belief as
to the EMBELLISHMENTS of sweets. You
may easily count in such places thirty or
/ forty different kinds of cakes, beside ZWie-
pack plain bread, crescent rolls, rye
bread, and several kinds of pie though
pie is not speciality is consumed in mod
crate quantities, and is always eaten with
knife only. The chief thing that saves
the whole German quarter from dyspepsia
IN its reckless consumption of sweets Is
the tact that there is no such thing as
a quick lunch over there. If a man eats
only half dozen slices of cake or as
many crescent rolls with his MONDAY cof-
lee ne fingers over 1t a proper time read
ing the paper or volume of Goethe or
perhaps playing cards or dominoes with
his table mate The pale downtowner.
who bolts the sweets OF a quick lunch in
four minutes and hastens back to work
deservedly pays for his sins with dis
turbed liver and a damaged digestion.
The German, who fingers thirty or forty
minutes over his light and seemingly un-
wholesome luncheon, is fat, rosy, and Of
good conscience. 1t must be said for the
cakes of the German quarter that they
are as harmless as good cakes can be
made. They are light to dizziness, not over
sweet, and cooked through and through.
| There is one other thing which helps to
render the German immune from his ter
rible luncheon, and that is that he seldom
| drinks with il any thing cold The quick
iuncher down town takes cold milk with
| his luncheon, doubtless because it can he
/ gulped without delay. The German has
hot coffee, tea or chocolate. or hot milk
always with two or three Jumps of sugar
Hot milk is a cure for almost any disor-
der of the stomach, so that the Germans
luncheon contains both bane and anti
dote or course, the German never in
suits his inner man with ice water and
it is seldom served, save by request of
untaught strangers.
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