The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I The early riser has long had a bad reDuta-
Y ton As long ago as the longest word N
I Liddell and Scott. las every school boy viii
I RENE mber)' early rising was associated
with base informing sad litigiOus plaguey
B characters. But now physiology has come
TO the support Of prejudice physiology.
says the British Medical Journal, so far
as IL has anything to say on the subject
az All, IS all against the early rising theory
Z physiological experiment appears to show
that a man does not work best and fast
/ est in the early morning hours, but, on
I the contrary, about midday The desire
/ 10 rise early, except in those trained from
youth to outdoor pursuits, Is commonly
4 sign not Of strength of character and
/ yigor Of body, but of advancing age.
Other things being equal late hours IN
& the morning are better than early But
/ has physiology nothing to say against
Z late hours at night?"
/ The thieves of Gotham have been
working new field recently, for IL seems
/ that pocket picking in churches during
I the services IS not an uncommon occur
Hymn books and prayer books are also
/ frequently stolen. st. Bartholomew
church has suffered so severely from the
depredations of these thieves that the
wardens have been compelled TO have
l the name of the church stamped on the
! cover of each book The difficulties of
! are usually well dressed, and generally of
I such quiet and religious demeanOr that
! sections. even If they have doubts as to
/ their character. deem 1t too risky a step
/ TO stop them with an accusation of theft
I The other day two ladies living on Fifth
I avenue had their purses stolen during
: service at St. Thomas Episcopal church
/ They sat in a rear pew and were alone in
/ tnat part OF the church until a woman
came in and sat Immediately behind them.
she appeared to be deeply absorbed in
/ her meditations, and invariably kneeled
/ when the ladies " front of her kneeled.
] Upon the cushioned seat over which the
woman bowed her head lay the muffs.
I of the two ladies, each of which con-
/ tanned a pocketbook When the ladies
FAa IL Eann
stolen they instinctively turned 10 the de-
I vout woman who sat behind them, but
she had disappeared.
The rice paper tree. one of the most
/ interesting of the fora of China, has re-
| Gently been successfully experimental
with in Florida, where II now fourishes,
| win olher subtropical ana Oflentai sge-
| cies of trees and shrubs, says the 81.
I Louis Republic. When first transplanted
/ in American soil the experimenters ex-
pressed doubts of its hardness, fearing
/ that il would be unable to stand the win
tors. All these fears have vanished, how
| ever, and II is now the universal opin-
[ mate of this country as to that of the
/ famed Flowery Kingdom. 1t is a small
| tree growing to a hight Of less than fit
teen feet, with trunk or stem from three
/ to hVe inches in diameter. Its canes,
| which vary in color according to season,
! are large, soft and doWny. The celebrated
/ rice paper, the product of this queer
/ tree, is formed of thin slices Of the pith.
/ which IS taken from the body OF the tree
III DtdutiLul CNlQQeFS several lnCneS IN
/ length. The Chinese workmen apply the
blade of a sharp straight knife to these
cylinders and, turning them round either
/ by rude machinery or by hand. dexterous-
I ly pare the pith from the circumference
to center. This operation makes a roll Of
extra fine paper, the scroll being of equal
! thickness throughout. After a cylinder
I has thus been pared II is unrolled anu
weights are placed upon IL until the sur
| face Is rendered thoroughly uniformly
/ smooth throughout its entire length. Il
is altogether probable that If rice paper,
making becomes an industry in the United
/ States these primitive modes will all be
done away with.
Having scaled the heavens at the
! last exhibition, it Is now proposed in Paris
| to furnish, as the chief attraction in
/ l9JO. facilities for descending into the
depths of the earth, says a New York
/ Sun cable. NJ. Grousset member of the
| Chamber of Deputies for Paris, has sub
mitted a plan for testing the point wheth-
/ er there is a central fire beneath the
/ earths crust. Heifnds that in mines the
! temperature down to a certain depth
/ is practically the average temperature
] above the ground. Descending beyond that
! point the thermometer rises about III de-
/ grees in every hundred feet. He desires
! TO test the thermal law at a much greater
! depth than has yet been reached Should
| It be found to remain constant, the boil
| ing point would be reached about 5000
| feet below the surface, and the CSC de-
! grees point, at which nearly all bodies
are in state of fusion, would be some
/ twelve miles down OF course, NJ. Grous-
/ set would not take Parisians down to the
/ point of fusion, but only until tropical
! heat is reached. After that he would cen
| tinue his experiments by borings. The
| plan of N. Grou5sets Inferno comprises
J a series of vertical shafts each 600 feet
| long and terminating in a vast subter-
ranean gallery. Each shaft would have
a couple of passenger elevators. The
/ lowest circle would be at a depth of
| about 1900 feet Each gallery would be
ature. There wDuld Me electric lights
! throughout and perfect ventiila ton would
afnTrH~
is estimated at s2,5OO.O00. assuming the
I lowest gallery depth at 4,500 feet. As
/ mere spectacle M. Grousset is confident
/ that the venture would pay, but he hopes
to strike upon fresh source of light,
heat. and force.
The mot interesting person in the
employ of the treasury at Washington
! is Mrs. Brown, who knows more about
burned money than any other individ-
ual living. It is marvellous, to see her
of bank notes and, FASTING them piece
! by piece upon a sheet of paper trans
/ form them into recognizable shape, so
Uncle Sam. Only the other day, says
! the Philadelphia Times, an old woman
/ named Mrs. <Groth died in Rockford, H.,
| leaving all her property to her niece,
! Lizzie. For some reason, perhaps because
| the death was from a contagious dis
/ ease the clothing was burned After the
/ pious task had been accomplished it oc-
CURED to Lizzie that perhaps there might
| have been some money in the pockets.
]
/ sure enough she found a few bits of what
| had been greenbacSs. She sent them 10
! the redemption division, and they were
/ identified as amounting to $25. A few
/ weeks ago the Farmers and Mechanics
/ Bank at Mansfield, Ill, was entered BY
| burglars. They destroyed the safe with
/ dynamite, incidentally blowing several
/ packages of notes into small bits, which
We're forwarded to the treasury at Wash
/ ington for redemption. Mrs Brown had
/ a quantity of stuff when seen i'm a big
/ envelope, and il looked as though the
/ job of putting the pieces together would
/ be no small one. This particular kind Of
| work, however, has become familiar, ow-
/ ing to the growing popularity of dyna-
/ mite among robbers. Mrs. Brown is equal
/ ly well acquainted with the work of
| the puppy dog, which gets a chew of the
/ family wad; also with the results accom-
4 plished by the omnivOrous goat and the al
most equally indiscriminate baby. half
! digested roll of bills may be recovered
| from the stomach of a goat, as has been
! done in more than one instance, by the
/ simple process of killing the beast, but
| the infant affords a more serious prob
| lem.