The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I into Europe by some of the returning
I members Of Bonaparte's Egyptian expe-
ditiOn Of 1893
! AT a recent meeting Of the Balloon So
ciety in England Mr.. Hiram Maxim re-
| ferred to the flying machine, and said his
! experiments We're al standstill, not from
/ any want Of faith in the project, but for
I want of time.
] -Garibaidi's colossal equestrian statue.
I 10 be erected on Mount Janiculum, al
/ Rome, on sept % was cast by new
method, by which the whole process was
finished in four months. instead of twenty,
required by the old system Of casting.
I Twenty-Five tons of bronze were used for
| the statue.
The municipal geographical curiosity
! Of the United States is the little village
OF GriftOn, y. g, which lays claim TO
more divisions than any other town,
large or small, in the world. 1t is To-
Gated in two counties three towns hips
two congressional districts and two sen
atorial and two judicial districts
Laws have been enacted in Belgium
prohibiting the hunting of frogs. The Bel
gian hunters. however, have found il easy
TO continue their occupatiOn in the neigh
boring country of Holland. Recently in
one day these hunters sent as many as
10000 frogs legs TO Paris. As these delica-
cies. bring from 4 to cents apiece, the
calling is paying one to some of the
hunters.
Certain brands of wine should be cheap
this year. There seem to be great guam
Titles OF Bordeaux in some of the Euro
pean cellars, as the owner of a large vine
yard near Bordeaux has sent out circu-
lars offering to send cases of 300 bottles
OF Z-year-old wine to any town. even in
neghbOring Switzerland for 1870 francs.
y slight calculation will show that this
offer means that Bordeaux can be pur-
chased for about s cents a bottle. When
this IS the case, there will be small rea-
son FOR Frenchmen to import American
wine TO mix with the native product.
"A curious case of desertion is just re-
ported from a regiment duartered in a
"A % fer 4 hn1
two months ago one of the soldiers disap-
peared, and no clue to his whereabouts
! having been obtained, it was presumed
that he mad left the country. As some of
the men We're inspecting the barracks roof
yesterday they perceived a few wraps in
chimney, and further examination re-
Vealed to view their missing comrade in
state of squalor and reduced almost TO a
| skeleton. He said that as he had no taste
| for military life he had resolved to desert,
| put that, not daring TO leave the barracks,
| he had installed himself in the chimney,
1 going down to the courtyard at night in
/ search OF ioOd among the refuse piled up
| in corner. The man has been removed
| to the military hospital in d very precari-
GUS condition.
The largest loaves of bread baked in
/ the world are those of France and italy
| according to the Pittsburg Dispatch. The
| pipe bread of Italy is baked in loaves
/ two and three feet long, while in France
/ the loaves are made in the shape of very
| long rolls four or five feet in length, and
| in many cases even six feet. The bread of
| Paris is distributed almost exclusively by
women, who go to the various bake
| houses at $50 a. m, and spend about an
hour polishing up the lOaVes After the
| leaves are thoroughly cleaned of dust and
/ grit the bread porter proceeds on the
| round of her customers. Those who live
/ in apartments or flats find their lOaVes
! leaning against the door. Restaurateurs,
! and those having street entrances to their
/ premises, find their supply of the staff eff
/ Lille propped up against the front door. The
/ wages earned by these bread carriers
/ "A connie gNilllmWg To
/ a crown a day, and their days work is
| completed by 10 o'clock in the morning.
Elaborate experiments conducted by
! Prof. Zachareweiz at Vaucluse prove
! that the color of light has a marked effect
! upon vegetable life, says the New York
! Tribune. Fruit grown in natural white
! light, under clear glass, ripens soonest and
| is of best quality. Under orange glass it
| ripens later and is smaller in size and
| less numerically, though the leaves and
| other vegetation are more luxuriant. The
| amount Of fruit is increased by the rays
/ which fall through violet glass, but its
| quality is impaired Red, blue and green,
| lights are injurious to all kinds of Vege-
! tation. 1t is probable It some cores
| ponding effects, though not so marked,
! would also be produced upon animal life
! by colored lights. If So the old blue glass
! theory would seem to have had some
! basis in scientific fact. 1t is to be observ-
/ ed, however, that blue light is injurious
! to vegetation, and that while some indi-
vidual colors have good effects in certain
| respects, the combination of them all in
! pure white sunlight is on the whole the
| best.
A st. Vitus' dance epidemic has seized
! upon the school children of Rehlingen, a
! village near Trier, on the Mozelle, says
/ the Westminster Gazette. 1t began sud
! denly on July % with Katherine Schnubel
| a girl of y. During violent thunder
storm in school hours she trembled and
! quaked as if in a palsy, and then threw
! out her arms and legs, sprang from her
seat and danced HISTORICALLY. The sight
! of Katherina's involuntary motions had 50
! powerful psychical influence on her fell
| low scholars that all Will power in them
! seemed TO be destroyed by sort of wild,
| Irresistible desire to initiate her. In the
! first class of the girls school twentV-nine
! of the children began dancing, and four
| in the second class. In the upper boys
| school four of the lads were seized, and
| three in the lower schools. The attacks
| were repeated on the following day, and
! in few cases even longer. 1t seems that
! the ST. Nitus dance has appeared in isO-
lated cases among the Rehlingen school
! children several times during the last few
| years. The schools We're ordered to be
| closed for three weeks.
| Des Moines Ia, has a modern Tubal
| Cain in the person of s. r. Dawson who
claims to have discovered the lost art of
| making Damascus steel" says the Bur
! lington Free Press. He has exhibited in
| Chicago some samples of cutlery made
! from the metal which had an edge keen
| er and smoother than a steel razor. This
| was demonstrated by a microscope and
! photography. The new metal is a cOmbi-
| nation of copper and tin and two other
elements which Mr. Dawson Keeps secret.
| A dagger made from it looked like polish
! ed gold. Mr. Dawson claims to be lineal
| descendant of Ralph Hogge, who cast the
/ first iron cannon made in England and
! his ancestors on both his fathers and
| mothers sides have been workers in iron
and steel. He says his discovery is partly
accident, but primarily the reward Of
/ years of labor, research and experiment
| He claims that the new steel or hardened
| copper is suitable for any kind of cutlery
| from a common pocket knife to the most
| delicate surgical instrument, and that no
! deieterious oxide (rusD forms on it I'M
/ der the most severe tests Any steel drill
| forced against it when it is hardened will
| break.
in an interesting and highly instructive
j article, Edward 5. Martin, in the October
/ Ladies' Home Journal, reviews the numer-
| Gus theories advanced by scientists in the
\ endeavor to solve the perpleXing B.Oblem
! as to the exact location of the site of the
| Garden of Eden. After sitting the theories
| the writer concludes that the question is
/ no nearer answered than it was two
| thousand years ago, and that there are no
| present indications that the matter will
! ever be definitely settled by man. To one
| of the latest and most ingenious theories
| Mr.. Martin thus refers: The North Pole
| will seem at first thought to the average