The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A few years ago Mary Smeaton OF
Cincinnati, 81 years of age, cut third SET
of teeth.
1t is said that the Ural miners were at
first disguised with platinum and consid-
cred IL only fit for use in making bullets.
1t is estimated that the commerce OF
the great lakes this year will exceed 49,,
100000 tons, of a value Of over $40 O0O, 900.
According to the treasurer's state
ment, made in 1898. there are IS. $50 $1,000
bills in circulation in the United States.
Although the mortality from cholera
in 1ien Tsin is terribly high no foreigners
Ia me Iorelgn concession have suffered.
The immunity is due Of course, to scien-
tine hygiene and sanitation.
in each wing of the ostrich twentf-six
white plumes grow TO maturity in eight
while those in the female shade to ecru
or gray The short feathers are picked
for tips and each wing furnishes seven
ty-fVe tips.
Huxley had three cats to which he was
never too busy to give the recognition
they sought, and he was especially fond
OF walking up and down the terrace with
them, as though he considered their affec-
ton Tor him in the light of true friendly
cOmpanionship.
The net profits of the Bank of Japan
for the past half year were $685. 53, of
which $500, 900 and $4,000 are to be dis
tributed as ordinary and second dividends
az the rate Of and per cent. per am
according to Chinese penal ideas some
one has got to suffer, so when three we'll
known wharf thieves escaped from the
SHANGHAI prison recently the gaolers We're
treated TO daily dose Of 200 blows each
until they should succeed in producing
dead or alive. at least one of the prison.
breakers.
The largest black diamond ever seen
was SHOWN the other day to the Academy
OF Sciences in Paris. 1t was found last
July IN a diamond field of Bahia, Brazil.
IT weighed S,073 carats. the largest carbon
OF the kind heretofore known weighing
LOO karats; it is as big as a large pear,
and without flaw.
The authorities in the neighborine
cities or Paoshan and Ch'uansha, China,
nave forbidden the slaughter of cattle
pigs and sheep, in order to propitiate the
goa OF pestilence and stop the many dea tbs
from cholera in those districts. 1t is as
serted that no fewer than 5000 people died
there within twenty days
The Janaese blue jackets who have
t peeh P}eset by the populace in Tien Tsih
TOOK the law INTO their own hands recent
ly. Annoyed by the dust throwing pro-
pensities of a mafoo, they seized MIN and
chopped on his pigtail in a twinkling. The
We're loud, but he found no redress.
Our barnyard fowl says the Chicago
News is the only species of a large fam
lly OF birds that has been truly domesti-
Gated In its wild state this bird had al
ready to great extent lost the power of
nlght: using its wings only to escape from
tour-footed pursuers or to attain the
branches of the trees in which it sought
safety in the night time With this meas
ure OF loss of the flying power the creature
abandoned the habit of ranging over a
wac neld and thus was made more fit for
domestication. Moreover, in their Wild
erness life these birds dwelt in more es-
laDhshed communities than their kindred
species.
The Rev. Harry Jones tells a story
drawn from Portland prison. which IS
worm reproducing, says the British Medi-
GaI Journal On going into the library Mr.
Jones asked what were the favorite books
OF the prisoners, and was told to his SIR
Prise that Buchan's Domestic Medi-
cine was more frequently asked for than
any other As there was a surgeon at
ways ready to attend to the ailments or
the convicts, the reason for this searchine
aItsr meqlcal knowledge was difficult to
Iil9, put ne atterWard learned that the de-
scrlptlon or the symptoms of illness was
carefully studied by the inmates of the
prison as scientific guide in the sham
ming of sickness. A 81 ccessfuI naungsrer
was renewed OF his tasks. ano obtained
the coveted idle time on sick leave.
-OTne solitary human hair seems a very
small ming, but, says the New York
world, 1t is the most important part Of
an Important machine in the capitol at
washington. This machine warns and
Nenulates the house, the Senate and the
various committee rooms and runs sew
efal electric dynamOS. Its most curious
feature is the appliance for telling the
proper temperature of the air in the build
lng A dial arranged like a clock marks
diAerent degrees from to 100; means
p Pc, dry air, 100 saturated air, l. e.,
ar carrying all the moisture ii will hold
human hair absorbs moisture like a rope
becoming shorter when it is wet in
Ihe same way: The hair here is six inches
long. the difference in length between it
Mnen wet and when dry stands for the
lUO degrees of moisture on the dial and
as the moisture of the hair varies tbe
pointer on the dial moves. According to
the necessity more steam is thrown in or
SSesn rs alloWed 70 escape. the atmos-
kept at healthy point
-"It'is an indisputable fact that fire
! VIII draw rats, said Louis Simonds of
~. Louis; to a Kansas City Journal re-
the river bank in st. Louis a. fire brips3e
acted the part of Pied Piper of Hame1in
and, with the assistance of the flames
drove out of their hiding places into ths
Mississippi as many rats as did fhe
mythological musician While the water
was lighted by the reflection of the con-
naSraUOn, black mass was seen float
ing toward the east shore of the river
This proved to be some thousands of rats
Iney were headed by their chieftain, an
extraordinarily large, black fellow. and
nndlng their quarters attacked bv the
flames had taken to the river for self
preservation. The current carried them a
conslqeraDle distance out of their course
and during their passage some hundreds
OF them were drowned. Spectators on the
bridge made bets on the race, but they
were all declared off, because, on the I'LL
nols SIDE there was no landing place handy
for the fatigued rats, and as far as conld
be seen, with the exception of the stronger
river" 80 'ie
The destruction of the birds-of-nara-
disc for adorning womens hats reaches
alarming proportions when one realizes
that one London firm alone sold 60 O00
sprays OF these plumes during the last
season, says the Chicago News The her
on it;, OF Florida are said to be suffering ter
rloly at present from this heartless- 'nrac
tice of woman, lovely woman Mrs Ed
mund Phillips vice president of one of
the branches of the Society for the Pre-
vyention of Cruelty to Animals. writes:
The dorsal and other plumes of certain
species of herons, known in trade as os
preys or egrets or Gin French) aigrettes
are, 1t is well known obtained in their
full beauty only in the breeding season
1t is the nuptual plumage which is torn
from the parent birds, whose bodies are
nfung aside, dead or, alive, as may be, in
restoring heaps, while the young ones are
left to starve, uttering loud and piteous
cries. Extensive heronries in Florida ana
elsewhere have been utterly DESTROYED in
this manner, and exact statistics have been
recorded by American and other natura-
lists, Endorsed by the high authority of
Prof Newton, who has suggested that the