The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There will be total eclipse Of the
+ moon on Sunday night next, March TO-
Z The eclipse will begin a few moments be-
Z fore O'Clock and viii be total from few
Z minutes before 10 O'Clock until q few min
3 utes before ll-50 O'Clock
in Lambeth says the London Tele-
\ graph. a milk vendor displayed tin plate
setting forth that all milk sold from
I pure as delivered at the dairy farm An
I inspector purchased a pint for analysis,
and informed the milkman Of its dest-na-
I ton All right, said the vendor,
/ there's its certificate of birth. and he
tapped the, tin plate with a milk can
/ complacently. Perhaps / may be able
I to send you its certificate OF baptism
/ soon." answered the Inspector: which ne
/ did in the form Of a summons, which
/ subsequently was transformed into a tne
of IS for adding IS per cent. Of water
Dancing men arc becoming so scarce in
Washington society, says the correSpOn-
dent of the Chicago Herald. that il is
/ found necessary by the managers Of as
sembly balls and similar affairs to make
their engagements far ahead. one gllded
/ youth was recently asked by the assem-
I bly, governors TO lead the german at the
/ ball Monday night. He replied that he
I was very sorry. but a previous engage
I ment would make il impossible for him to
I comply But / will tell you what / will
7 do, he added. 81 will lead the german
for you next winter" oh. no." replied
4 the governors. 1--WE have our men already
1 engaged for the assembly of 80"
What A little thing is man! says the
4 Springfield Republican a statistician in
/ the Strand magazine estimates that this
I fighting. struggling. white, black and tan
good and bad. very much mixed pOpula-
( tion of ]. $50, 900 600 could be packed in
box measuring only 1,1i0 yards in width
LAO yards in depth, and ll4O yards IN
/ hight. Each person could be allowed
/ tWenty-seVen cubic feet of room inside
/ such d box, and the box itself could be de-
/ posted when full in Battersea park with
+ a squeeze. in Victoria park with ample
/ room to spare or in Hyde park, and not
occupy much more than one-third-and
/ Mr.. Chase, the cyclst, again, could, II left
outside, run around the box containing
/ the worlds population in about six minutes
fer the two and half miles; or, per
/ son accidentally left npacked, could stroll
/ round the box and inspect it in one hour
! easily. fact like this serves to Illustrate
/ worlds population en- masse, and inciden-
/ tally, the utter physical insignifcance Of
the individuals who compose it.
-Old-fashioned people are likely TO be
] shocked by the lively way the subject of
/ the modern preachers relations 10 mod
/ ern life is discussed in the North Amer
can Review by the Rev. =. r. Hawels.
! HIS conception Of the pulpits fupcuoh
| includes about everything in our highly
| organized fin de steele existence. what
| a sphere there is open to the preacher of
| the coming day, He may not be a poll
/ tician but he hunts politicians nor an
/ expert in dancing, but he knows when
/ dancing is devilish; nor a playwright but
4 he can tell a good play from bad; nor
/ novelist, but he judges the tendency or
/ fiction; nor man of science, but he es-
/ Inmates the Importance OF scientlilc as
/ covery to moral order and he ought to
arrive at some conclusion about ITS reld-
] ton to the occult, for it must be matter
/ of supreme interest to him and to every
/ body else whether or not in these days
/ possibility. hope, or even faith in
/ life after death is ever 20 be converted
/ into scientific certainty If only the
/ preacher knew il the whole world belongs
TO him. The time is past when he need
/ knot his discourse with texts. II he
! leaves a few out no one will miss them,
/ any more than Bible readers notice the
/ entire omission of the word Cod IN the
/ Book of Esther"
Il would like to know the man who or
ignated the falsehoot that the ostrich
when pursued by his enemies. sticks his
/ head in the sand says writer in Lon
/ don Black and White. This man never
saw an ostrich, or when he did he, and not
/ the bird stuck his head in the sand, for
/ weight for age, an ostrich could give that
/ particular brand OF man about hundred
! pounds and a beating. An ostrich that
4 has not been brought up on the bottle
/ or dosed with paregoric, will stand eight
! feet high when he has done growing and
/ weigh 800 pounds. He can kick harder
/ than a mule, travel faster than horse
and grow fat on food at which a goat
i would elevate his nose. 1t is more diff
cult to make his acquaintance now than it
used to be few hundred years ago, for
| he has been taught by experience 10 look
| upon man as an enemy. He takes~-no
! pride in his feathers, but he does not want
| u lose them, being accustomed to them
! and knowing that they are useful in
! Keeping off the deT, or, at least, counter
! acting its effect. He is a dangerous bird
! when driven into corner. as he uses
/ his feet with great deXterity, and if he
! plants them on man. anywhere be-
| tween the collar button and the waist
/ band, the mans relatives always claim
the insurance money If there's any on
him. The lady Ostriches do sort of a
! double duty. They undertake the sitting
/ during the day and they keep on laying
until the nest is full. II generally con
! tains between thirty and forty eggs. When
they have filled the nest they lay eggs
number of thirty A few eggs more or
| less, make no difference to a quartet of
/ lady Ostriches. The eggs that are not
Matched are used for culinary purposes
fed upon them until they are able to en-
JOY sand and other natural products of
the desert.
AT the Imperial Institute last week.
says the London Times. Mr.. George Muir
ray of the British Museum gave a lee
ture on THE Pastures of the Sea-" which
/ consisted of a brief account of the Vege-
! table organisms which live in the ocean,
! Treating first of those sea weeds which
/ grow near land he said they do not oc-
cur at a greater depth than fifty fathoms.
! They may be classified according to their
! color into red. olive-brown and green, and
this classification CORRESPONDS fairly well
with the natural one founded on consid-
erations of structure. The red seaweeds
/ grow below low water mark, the green
al high water mark and the olve-brown
/ between the marks. The ColOrs appear TO
stand in direct relation with the supply
! of light, since sea water stops those rays
which are especially concerned in the
/ formation of chlorophyll. The red pig
| ment, perhaps, acts a shield 10 pro-
| tect the plant from the blue rays which
! pass throug sea water most abundantly.
! But in view of the teaming animal life
/ of the sea, these trifing amounts Of
! coast seaweeds cannot be considered suffi-
| cient to maintain the necessary balance
| between animal and vegetable life. This
! is effected by the floating microscopic
/ plants which are found in almost all
| waters sometimes in immense masses.
/ as in the Red sea, which takes it's name
/ from their color. They occur in fresh
/ water. too; the spray of the fountains in
/ kensington Gardens in autumn has a
/ blue-green tint which is due TO pres
! ence of a species of this plant. The
! floating weed in the Sargasso sea is a puz-
! Zling phenomenon. 1t has been supposed
| to be seaweed washed off from the An
| titles, but. unfortunately for that the
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