The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ rine cable from England, which is 10 be
used in a line to Formosa. The japanese
| propose to do all the work themselves
/ with their own cable ships
| The water is so low in some Of the
! trout streams in Central Pennsy wanna
that the fish are perlshing huddled In
| the deep holes, where the water is be-
| coming stagnant. In Sugar Valley. Gin
! ton county. the inhabitants are takinS
| active means for preserving the trout
| in Fishing creek, by taking them out or
the stream and putting them in tanks or
| fresh water obtained from springs thai
have not yet gone dry.
People who think school girls subsist
! by chewing soft slate pencils, biting pick
| les, swallowing caramels and drinking
soda water are very much mistaken, as
| the housekeeping records of the Baltimore
| Woman's College show, says the New
| tracts have been made for 1900 pounds
| Of beef, 1900 pounds of mutton, 5000
| pounds of poultry, 1900 pounds of PORK
| and 5000 pounds of veal. Four thousand
| five hundred dozen of eggs will also be
| used Large quantities of fish and oys-
| tiers, which are purchased week by week
| and not contracted for yearly; 1900
| pounds of sugar, rs barrels Of flour ana
! 5000 pounds of crackers. 100 pounds of
| coffee, 100 pounds of tea, 12O pounds of
| chocolate and ESQ gallons of ice cream have
| been ordered. Some of the other items
| include 1880 pounds of butter, $500 gai-
Ions of milk, 5000 pounds of lard, 475
| bushels of potatoes, $50 cans of canned
vegetables and 10000 pounds of ice. Fruit.
| groceries ana other vegetables are pur-
| chased they may be needed. These
amounts are required to feed 800 girls.
An interesting variation in the usual
| run of submarine cable work will soon be
| shown in the laying of a cable from the
| mouth of the Amazon 1,4O0 miles up the
great river, says the New York Post. This
growing trade of the dim, but rich in
| terror in direct communication with Eu-
rope, as well as with the immediate ship
| ping ports, and will unquestionably con-
| tribute largely to the development of Bra
lillian commerce. To carry land lines over
| this vast and little known territory would
| simply be impossible, and, as there are
| practically no railroads paralleling the
! river, the steamboat and the cable are
the great means of commerce and ciViliZa-
| ton. There is hint, here, however, that
| might Wei be adopted even in the United
! States, where, if wires were cabled and
| carried along the beds of all available
| streams and rivers, there certainly would
not be the Interruptions now experienced
| t ~ Cush ne IatiuIe o. lhe idhu mes every
| tune strong gale blows. In Germany,
| where military consideration often cause
! things to be done that would not be done
! IN the mere interest of peaceful trade, no
! small proportion of the telegraph wires
are thus submerged in order to avoid any
| break in the service at critical moments.
Few people, even naval men, realize
| what hghting on an ironclad really means,
| says the Boston Journal. Capt. McGlir-
| fin, who was an officer on board a Chi
Yalu river, gives an English exchange
| however most vivid description. He
tells, among other things, that the din
|
| against the metal sides of the vessel is
| awful beyond description. He wore. cot
| o!i, III nis cars Out III Spite OF lnat IS
| still deaf from the noise. The engineers
| in the Chen fuen stuck to their work
| even when the temperature of the engine
| room was above 200 degrees Fahrenheit
| The skin Of their hands and arms was act
| ually roasted off and every man was bnnG-
ed for life, the sight being actually scar
| ed out" Late in the action, after his
hair had been burnt off and his eyes so
| impaired by injected blood that he could
only see out of one of them, and then
| only by lifting the lid with his fingers
| he was DESTROYS of seeing how the enemy
was delivering his fire. As he CROPPED his
| way around the protected deck a 100-pound
| shell pierced the armor about eighteen
| inches in front of his hand. In a second
| his hand touching the steel was so burned
that part of the skin was left on the
| armor. That shows how intense is the
heat engendered by the impact of a shot
| heat.
Who has not felt the difference be-
tween depressing and an eXhilaratine
day? asks the Popular Science Monthly.
very low temperature establish all human
sympathy and relations. 1t is Impossible
20 degrees DR.. Farr and Dr. Stark al
most lead us to think morality is regis
tered on the Thermometer, SO surely does
II measure certain kinds of criminality.
On suicides the effects of the weather are
well known. Nearly all yocations are ar
! tected by the weather Men of science
are often as much subject to weather as
seamen. Some writer's must have the
weather ~ the mood character or scene.
If one Will read poetry attentiVely, he will
be surprised to find how many weather
marks are scattered through it. Diverse
weather states may be one cause of SO
much diversity and even disagreement
in thought processes usually regarded as
scientihc. Many experienced teachers
think there should be notifications OF
school work and discipline to correspond
with the weather. The head of factory
| employing 1900 WOrkmen has said: 1--WE
| reckon that 0iSa arppa bla
about 10 per cent. less work than a de-
hghtful day, and we thus have to couns
TINS as factor IN our profit and loss ac-
count" These are some of the ideas pu5
forth in preliminary statement by j. S
Lemon, who proposes to publish more at
investigation of the subject" he saws.
meets at the outset the difficulty of dis
tinguishing results of weather changes
from singular states otherwise caused.
This difhculty is no greater than in many
other topics of research, and, we believc.
viii not 1nvalldate our methods and re-
sults.'
Many animals live to a surprising age.
retaining their vitality so long that it is
dlhicult Tor man to count their years,
says the New York Mail and Express
OF all, the oldest, or rather the one re-
tanning to greatest longevity, is the
Greenland whale, which, if the differences
from its growth be correct, lasts between
three and four hundred years. The king
of beasts probably prowls his native
heath three score and ten years, for even
in confinement he has been known to live
InlS period. "A non known as POInDey, re
manned in the tower of London over sew
enty years, and his age was unknown
when captured. Another brought from
the river Gambia, died at the age of sixty
three. Leopards bears and tigers live
about twenty-five or thirty years; the
camel. forty and more; the rhinoceros
and hippopotamus, from seventy to
eighty, and the elephant certainly from
| 140 to 15G. Ajax, the famous, warrior
captured an elephant from Porus, a king
of India, and inscribed upon a brass plate
, | the history of the victory. After this was
securely fastened the animal was set at
liberty, and it turned up $50 years af-
terward, still having the plate record
ing the story. The tortoise lives an as
tonishing time. Several specimens of
the Indian variety are to be seen in the
Geological Gardens of London, prone
nadng in their quiet fashion, though each
is known to be over 200 years old. Two
| very antiquated tortoiseS reside
near York, Eng, which were
brought from Rochelle soon after the siege
in 1923 and were personally acquainted
in all probability with Joan of Arc A
document called the Bishops Barn
| bo u two of T1atn,