The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-16
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thus raise the water level IN Lake Erie,
than TO do the necessary dredging for i'm
proving its channel and the harbors upon
its shores.
Kansas has often heer called the
sunnoWer state-a title more than ever
appropriate since the foreman upon Gov
MOtleys farm constructed his suniower
clock, says the Kansas City Journal
Choosing an enormous sunflOwer. he at
tached to its dropping head a tiny corn
stalk, not more than ten feet long. About
the plant he drew a circle and divided it
into twenty-four parts each Of which
was sub-divided for minutes and seconds.
Ana now, as the faithful plant, from dawn
to dusk eyes its fierce lord. the corn-stalk
pointer moves about the dial indicating
the time. The sunhower clock can also
be used as stop watch to time races by
holding over it a big umbrella, which
checks the revolution upon the instant
when the time to a fraction of a second
may be read OF upon the dial
Capt. Vaughan of the British bark So
koto, has a way of dealing with his men
which is revelation to the Old-time
'bucko mates" but the reports are that
It works like a charm. When in port he
feeds them on Watermelons, peaches, and
other fruit when in season, and IL is safe
TO say that provender of that sort was
never seen going into a fOrecastle before.
At sea he has no such thing as an al
loWance, every sailor on the bark be-
ing privileged to eat all he wants to and
can hold. The men have fresh bread
every day, all the hard tack they want.
canned meats, potatoes, vegetables and
fruit. Strange as it may seem, the cost
is less than that on any other vessel of
the same line. Besides this, the men work
more cheerfully, keep the bark looking
like parl0r, and never want to leave the
employ. Capt. Vaughan is breaking
down the established custom, but his
owners are satisfied, as he is saving
money for the firm.
is it known generally that works of art
were well paid for in ancient times2 A
German review furnished recently some
n "a hu
gnote, Of Thasos, who lived about $50 3.
c., refused, II is true any payment for his
works, and declared that he was sufficient
ly rewarded with the title of citizen OF
Athens, which had been conferred on him.
/ But such disinterestedness was seldom
initiated. Thirty years later the painter
Zeuxis, of Heracleum, was called to the
court of Archelaus l, king of Macedonia.
He received for his frescoes in the palace
of Pella, 400 mines" about $500. Mnason,
OF Elathea, paid $4,000 for a battle with
the Persians,' which he had ordered from
Aristides, the leader of the Theban school.
Pamphilus, of Sycione, gave a course of
lectures on painting; each pupil paid for
attendance one talent" or 81, 200 a year.
Appelles received twenty gold talents"
about S240,00O, for a portrait of Alexander
/, ordered by the city Of Ephesus.
An interesting experiment in the rear
ing OF animals is recorded by a German
scientist. A country gentleman having
captured a young hare a few days ago,
conceived the idea Of giving it as foster
~
of kittens. The cat showed no objection
to this curious addition to her family,
take very well TO the regime to which ii
was so unexpectedly subjected. The hare
throve and grew, and the cat soon thought
It time to begin the education of her
however, the hare showed not the slight
est disposition, and at each fault com
mitted the adaptive mother administered
vigorous correction with her paws. This
produced but little Improvement, and the
relations between the two animals were
becoming somewhat strained, when one
day they were placed together on the lawn
in front of the house. The hare at once
proceeded to nibble at the vegetation
with remarkable avidity, to the evident
astonishment of the cat, who could make
nothing of such conduct. Finally, per-
ceiving that she had nourished anything
but kitten, the disappointed nurse with
drew with an expression of unmiStak-
able disdain and refused to touch the hare
again.
Two centuries ago." says a writer in
the Pittsburg Dispatch, "a naturalist res
tored human being nineteen feet high
from some mammoth bones. knowledge
| of comparative anatomy has exploded
such errors: but the scientific men who
ventured first to contradict them were
denounced from the pulpit as heretics and
contractors eff the Bible. The Old Tes-
lament is full of stories of giants. Goliath
of Gath, champion of the Philistines, is
stated to have been six cubits and a span
high, or nine feet and nine inches The
Anakim so frightened the emssaries sent
by Moses into Canaan that the latter des-
cribed them as giants, and to this day
| men of great stature are described as
sons of Anak.' A French academician
named Henrion some time ago figured ii
out that Adam was 1913 feet and Eve lis
feet. Moab was q feet tall Abraham o
| and Moses 10 feet. The alleged grave of
Abel, near Damascus IS 80 feet long, and
that OF Noah, at Lebanon 30 feet long.
| According to Henrion. only the advent of
| Christianity prevented the diminishing
human race from going out altogether. 1t
| is noticeable that since Biblical days there
| have been no giants among the Jews. Be
| fore the deluge the earth was peopled by
giants, who made war against the gods,
and, not being acquainted with modern
methods of warfare used mountains for
missiles
Among the first of many curious things
that impress the American summer visi-
tor to Paris, says the New York World
is the way the French have of doing out
| ice as if it were diamonds, and the horror
which Parisians profess for the American
| custom of icing their drinks and thereby
| impairing their digestions. NotWthstand-
| ing all this the consumption of ice in
| Paris for domestic uses has increased rap
| idly during the past few years, and if il
continues at the same rate il will not be
| long before it surpasses that of New York
| The last twelve months shows a total con-
sumption of over 110,OO0,000 pounds. Most
| of the natural ice used in Paris is taken
from the lakes in the envrons at Cha
| vile, in the woods about Versailles and
| in the Bots de Boulogne and Vineennes
| Ice is made artifcially in large quantities
however, and is sold at a much higher
| price than the natural article. Natural
| ice, indeed, the Academy of Medicine says
| is full of bacilli in a state of suspended
| animation, and the doctors recommend
| that only artificial ice be used for domes-
| tic purposes. The highest priced ice
| comes from Norway and from Switzer.
land, where it is gathered from the gla-
| ciers and from the mountain tops This
! costs from Is to 80 francs a ton. Artificial
| ice costs but a trifle less, but that which
| Is gathered in and around Paris is sold
| for from to 10 francs a ton. The city OF
| Paris harvests the ice in the lakes in the
Bots de Boulogne and Vincennes, and
| sells the crop safely packed in the NUM-
| oipai ice houses for about 5000 francs
| or about $1,000 annually.
1t is an acknowledged fact, saws
Pearson's Weekly, that a great age is
attained by women oftener than by men.
Tissot, with doubtful gallantry accounts
| for this by declaring that the large
amount of talking for which women are
famous, is a very healthy exercise, and
promotes circulation of blood without
over-exerting the organs. The true rea-
son, probably, lies in the quieter and more
regular life usually led by women One