The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-27
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that has been sunk to the depth Of $50
soil.
The inland seas and lakes OF Japan
are said 70 literally swarm with species
Of crab that has face like a Chinese
collie
fine earth flies around the sun with a
speed Of. $3.50 miles per hour, over 1000
miles per minute OF about - odd miles
per second.
"A child born in the northern suburbs
OF Omaha last week has finger nails an
inch long and a thick growth of hair all
over his body.
"A pony belonging to the family of the
Marquise Of Londonderry weighs but six
teen pounds. 1t Is said to be the smallest
An enormous flight of carrier pigeons
was gotten up in Paris lately. Sixty
thousand birds were set loose in one
morning from the ueighborhoOd of EiffeI
Tower, 5000 Of them at one signal
The most costly tomb in existence is
that which was erected to the memory OF
MOhammed. The diamonds and rubies
used in the decorations are worth So
10000.
The very largest stand-pipe in the
United States is at the corner Of Seven
teeth and Croker streets, Des NOines,
Ia. 1t is 100 feet high and twenty odd feet
in diameter, and holds $50 gallons.
The Berlin Tageblatt has it that stage
horses which cannot be distinguished
from the live article, are the latest pro-
duetion of the celebrated stage engineer.
Charles Ingrey. These artificial horses
walk, trot, prance, and they move their
eyes and ears, etc.
The following advertisement from the
Bangkok Times will serve to show how in
habitants OF SIAM who are non-subscrib-
ers of newspapers, manage to obtain the
news: The Bangkok Times Established
1850 has the largest circulation by far of
any newspaper in Siam. 1t is also bor-
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odical ever published.
The blue color of the sky has been the
subject of recent investigation, and the
conclusion arrived at is that il is the color
of the air as seen through As miles of re-
Election. Balloonists who have assembled
TO hight of over five miles say that a
that distance from the earth everything
above is of inky blackness, while the blue
of the sky about which poets rave appears
below.
"A Russian geographer is said to be
preparing an atlas on an entirely new
principle. The places on the map will be
lance from standard point, but accord
ing to the cost of transportation. New
York, for instance, viii be nearer Lon
don that Rochester, in Kent, as il costs
less to ship goods across the Atlantic
than to send them twenty-eight miles by
rail to London.
Two more slabs Of stone inscribed with
words and music have been found in the
treasury of the Athenians at Delphi by
the French. By using some of the frag-
ments previously discovered, a second
hymn to APOLLO, with its notes, has been
put together. The date is after the con-
quest of Greece by the Romans. The
Greeks seemed to have used twenty-one
notes In thir musical notation, where we
use only twelve.
The south African fields have gone
ahead of this country in gold product
ion. The yield in Africa this year will
reach S5O0O.0OO and much higher in 1896.
One popularity about the African gold
is that it is taken from sedimentary rocks
and the processes have been so much i'm
proved that only 10 per cent. of the metal
is lost. In the African mines 1900 natives
and 5000 European workmen are en-
ployed. But 90 per cent. of the gold was
saved by the processes used nine years ago.
rms rs an instance OF what science and
ingenuity are doing to increase the GOLD
supply.
1t is well know that the thickness of
the layer of fine sand in fltering beds
cannot be reduced beyond a certain point,
without endangering the quality of the
water that filters through Dr. Kurth of
Bremen has found, in examining water
inferred through layer not sufficiently
thick, that the number of bacteria was
greatly increased, owing to the presence
of special microbe that could not be
found in the water before it entered the
inter. These microbes must, therefore,
have existed in the filtering material and
have been developed by the passage of
water through it.
A man shot through the brain, says
victor Horsley, according to the Roch-
ester Democrat and Chronicle dies, not
through failure of the hearts action, but
through the want of breath occasioneo
by the explosive effect of the bullet pass
ing through the wet brain substance, and
consequent injury to the base of the
brain. The heart goes on beating, but
respiration stops; indeed, the heart Is
stimulated, not depressed, when a bullet
enters the brain, and the proper treat
ment of man thus shot is the same as
thar rnGnrfn6 he nf Il,
people-one should try to set up artiiciaI
respiration.
What is at present worrying many
wheelwomen is the matter of dress. Comic
papers OF the day are harping on bloom
ers, and, occasionally, a woman dressed
in such garments is seen. But the woman
who has no desire to pose as a new wo-
man, and yet wishes to enjoy the exhil-
Grating exercise of the wheel clad in the
most comfortable and seemly garments
is certainly In quandry regarding her
apparel while riding. The Boston Herald
says: Perhaps the germ of the new cos
tune Is to be found in the costume of lit
tie girls, who ride gracefully and modestly
with skirts that hardly reach below the
knee, and are so modest that no one re-
marks that 1t is not fitting. The skirt is
Indispensable, but 1t must be short and
the boomers are not graceful The mod
iste who can invent just what is fitting
will find fortune at her hands,
The red and blue water lilies, which
are becoming more and more common
were imported to this country quite a num-
Der of years ago, but on account of the
expense, were confined to public parks
and the lily ponds of the wealthy. saws
London Happy Thought Experiments bv
l.. w. Goodell of Pansy Park near Am
hearst Mass, have shown that they NAV
be grown from seed and will flower IN
tubs, so that the production of them is
within the reach of everybody At this
park, which is about four miles from
the college campus. Mr.. Goodell has q
remarkable Aquatic garden, and has been
able to grow the choicest and rarest
plants, the Japanese and Egyptian Sacred
lotus, many kinds of rare water lilies from
all parts of the world, even the Victoria
Regia from the Amazon, the largest Iilv
in the world. The leaves of this remark
able plant, here grown for the first time
in the open air of a temperate climate
are from four to six feet IN diameter The
under surface is strongly ribbed, air he
ing confined In the compartments Thus
formed, and a child or good sized how
may be supported in the water by one Of
them. In their native country birds avail
themselves of the raft-like leaves and
secure their food while standing on them
The splendid lily which the plant Dro-
duces is several inches in diameter
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