The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-23
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OF matches per day.
In Palestine light blue are supposed to
ee EVIL eyes Such eyes can wither
neld or kill a horse"
Highest muzzle velocity OF a cannon
oall ever attained in the United States was
zseoo feet per second this a a test OF
smokeless powder at Sandy Hook on Au-
gust IS, 1898.
The black rose. that Horticultural chin
era which the shrub and plant. growers
nave been hOpelessly chasing for upward
81 81 ~ years, appears TO be as. far in the
distance now as IL was in the days when
Nine. Roane made her famous experiments
IN that line, or when Bishop Culver wrote
Ihe pamphlet entitled, "A MilliOn-POund
STERLING for Black Flower" The truth
appears TO be that, while flowers of every
color or the rainbow are known to the
horlculturalists, no flower OF pure black
mas as yet been produced. Patient, scien-
tlnc experiment may yet produce such an
Oddlty. II II does, the lucky eXperimenter
VIII soon have fortune at his command.
The wheelwomen of Grand Rapids.
Mlch., 10 the number of l25, held meet
Ing the other day and adopted the follow
ing resolutions: Whereas, Our Heavenly
Father, with divine love and infinite wis
dom In our creation, has made us bipeds
and endowed us with wisdom; and, where
as, we believe the most convenient and the
most truly modest dress is the one which
clothes each leg in separate coverings, and
true modesty requires reform in cloth
ing our legs; therefore, be II resolved, that
in all cases where, in our judgment, the
regulation skirt is unhealthy, impractical
bic, uncleanly and incOnvenient, we will
have the moral courage TO renounce our
prejudices and adopt such other costume
as will eliminate these objections as nearly
as may be-
Have you got a railroad kidney? This
complaint is now recognized by medical
men, says the Philadelphia Record. 1t
is caused by an artificial stOppage of the
pores of the skin, the dirt of the railroad
being responsible for such stoppage. If
any person Will examine his hand after
riding two or three hours in a train-and
| this is especially true if he is perspiring-
he will find his hand dirty. But closer eX-
animation Will show the existence of a fine
/ Crime, the particles of which, so soon as
| the Perspiration ceases, act as minute
corks, stopping up the orifices of the pores.
| HOW deeply this CRIME works into the
skin is shown by the fact that after a rail-
road trip one washes ones hands and face
two or three times before they become
clean. It is this CRIME which produces
railroad kidney. OF course IL is not sup
| posed that ordinarily healthful person
| viii contract this disease in any trip of a
DAY or two. But where persons is al
ready sufferer from chronic disease of
the kidneys. it is possible that a week on
railroad trains would aggravate his mall
ady to an appreciable extent.
-ZOla's opinion of university training is
not uatterlng: whoever has breathed the
air Of such a school remains infected by
1t as long as he lives The stale and sickly
door of dead and useless learning clings to
MS very brain, and in spite of all his efforts
ne goes through life itching with petty
| Jee iouSleS anu peddgOSue love or the
rod and embittered with all the hatred and
envy OF the old bachelor who had never
nad courage enough to claim the woman he
loved. When such fellow happens to be
quick ana bold by nature, an inventor with
new ideas, which is not often the case, he
spends such time and labor in giving his
thought an academic and conventional
ar that we pass his discovery by as an an
uquated formula. He cannot be original
! If he would. he has lived too long In the
world; his being has taken the shape i'm
M n Y cT.vy ho1a a
reap professors, but never will you fine
an original creative intelligence among
them. Schoolmastersi all schoolmastersi
nothing but schOolmasterr
What woman loses in profundity she
gains IN quickness, writes Prof. Patrick
In the Popular Science Monthly. She ex-
GELS IN tact, and extricates herself from
uiinculty with astonishing adroitness
In language she is more apt than man.
| Girls learn TO speak earlier than boys and
old women are more talkative than old
men. Among the uneducated, the wife
can express herself more intelligently than
Inc husband. Experience in coeducational
| INSTITUTIONS shows that women are more
ialthiul and punctiIious than men, and at
least equally apt. In colleges where a re-
cord OF standing is kept, the women gain
probably a somewhat higher average II,
the years Immediately following gradua-
ton, the men make much greater intellect
ual progress. Women reach their mental
maturity at an early age, and develop rel
atVeIy less after maturity. In many kinds
OF routine work, especially that requiring
patience women are superior, but they are
less able to endure protracted overTorl,
we nave seen that woman Is less modified
! physically than man, and varies less from
the average. The same is true mentally
Women are more alike than men and more
normal, as 1t were. The geniuses have
| been men for the most part, and so have
the cranks Woman's thought pursues old
rather than new lines. Her tendency is
toward reproduction, while mans is to-
ward production. Woman loves the old
the tried and the customary. She is con-
Se6TDa,tive and acts as societys balance
| wheel. Man represents variation He re-
forms, explores, thinks out a new way.
The finite mind can hardly conceive Of a
time when there were neither sun nor
planets, yet both the Bible and science
| teach us that such a state of affairs once
actually existed, says the St Louis Re-
! pubic. We have all read the biblical ac-
count of creation, and not a few of MS have
! spent valuable time reading learned ESSAYS
on the condition of things in the time of
the beginning" 1t is not the object of this
note to discuss the origin of the sun and
Ihe planets from a biblical standpoint nor
| 90 we mean to give a resume of scientific
| opinions ON the subject; on the contrary.
we shall cOnfine our remarks 10 what is
known as the nebular hypothesis - or neb
ular theory of the origin of worlds and
suns According to the opinion of the most
learned astronomers, the ''beg-inninay'' is
uShered in with the existence throughoIIt
all space of an undefinable matter of sub
stance called 'nebula." This nebula was of
Such wonderful thinness that il is he
1eved that millions of miles of If could
have easily been compressed into a com
mon thimble! The heavier portions grad1l-
ally gathered around common centers af
ter the lapse of ages, and formed planets
suns and stars-the light and heat of tbee
TWO latter being due to the clashing of their
component atoms as they gravitate con-
tlnually towards the center of the mass
me nebula origin of the sun, and, Incl
| dentaIy OF the planets also, is thus finely
set forth in a recent article bv a we'll.
known British writer: The matter. or rath-
er the gas winch composes our sun was
once spread out to the furtherest orbit Of
the outermost planets of our system. that
Is, 70 the planet Neptune. From the orbit
OF Neptune this inconceivably thin mass
3egah 10 converge, growing denser and
denser and smaller and smaller as il errad
nally approached its existing dimensions.
As 1t condensed, revolving upon its ayiS
the solar mist left behind it at inte,.rai,
portions of cIoudlike matter cast off f1,on9
us equator. These masses of gas 1inder
gong similar evolution to that of The
sun, or central mass have, with great slow
ness, hardened into what is nov, Inn5t
SSa aa the earth and the other planets
retreating, eventually formed the SIM ~ rs
self the present chief luminary of our sz tS-
of Vynr dc