The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The healthiest spot in the world ap-
pears 10 be a little hamlet in France,
/ named Aumone. There are only forty in
I habitants. twenty-three of whom are 50
\ years Of age and one is over 100.
/ Farmers in Mexico use oxen of one
| color in the morning and of another color
/ in the afternoon. They have no reason
| for doing 50 beyond the fact that their
! fOrefathers did IL. and they conclude II
/ must be the right thing TO do.
! CALIFORNIA; fruit crop in ten years has
! increased sevenfold, and its value last
l year was 0.OO0-s10. 900 more than
! that Of the gold mined in the state. The
| experience of California shows that the
| demand for fine fruit is practically unlim-
/ The little boring wood-beetle attacks
/ books and viii even bore through several
| volumes. An instance is mentioned OF
! twenty-seven folio volumes being perfor-
/ ated in a straight line by one and the
/ same insect in such a manner that by
/ passing cord through the perfect round
! hole made by it the twenty-seven volumes
/ could be raised at once, II also destroys
/ prints and drawings, whether framed or
| kept in a portfolio.
! Lovers of the product of the busy bee
/ viii ind il wise precaution TO have
! their honey tested as to its purity before
/ they eat il, or use it in a culinary way"
| Prof. Remington gave warning some
! thing like this at a recent meeting of phar-
| macists, says the Philadelphia Record,
| and at the same time told of a German
/ who was extensively engaged in bee Gull
/ tude, and who had his apiary close TO
/ a sugar refinery. A lot of rank Molasses
| was accessible to the bees, and they gorg-
| ed themselves on it. The result was,
! their honey was equally rank, and unit
/ for use. on another occasion the bees
! fed on blooming digitalis, and their honey
| proved to be poisonous. Natural honey.
therefore. is liable to vary very much,
| and occasionally, when 1t looks best and
| sweetest. IL may be loaded with poison.
| UnscrupulOus bee farmers are accustOm-
ed TO forcing their bees to increase their
"
The honey, of course, is scarcely mt for
| use.
The red men of the west have many
| curious legends concerning the rivers,
| lakes and mountains of that region, none
! more weird than that which is told con-
corning Rock Lake, Washington, says the
| St. Louis Republic. Since time out of
! memory the Indian tribes of that vicinity
/ have believed the lake to be inhabited by
| a sea monster, which never grows old,
| and whose chief diet is Indian flesh. Ac-
! cOrding TO the legend no Indian ever en-
| tered its waters and returned theFeIrom
| alive. no matter whether the rash act
| was committed by approaching its margin
| for drink, for plunge and swim, or
| for a canoe ride upon its placid bosor'
! All the Indians of the northwest know %
| the terrors of Rock Lake, and each ana
| every one would prefer death with
| poisoned arrow rather than to touch Its
waters. The last Rock Lake horror, &C
cordng to the legend, was in 1888, when
| a whole band of noble red men were sent
to the happy hunting grounds by the
| monster.
There are so many smokers in the
world that any new recipe for cleaning
| pipes is sure to find readers, says the Pitts
| burg Dispatch. The Mexican gypsy has
simple way, Filling the pipe, bowl with
| aguadiente, he stirs the liquid until II is
| thick with the reeking nicotine and then
| throws the DEVILS broth down his throat
! with smack of the lips that tells of SUI
preme gusto. This is economical, but not
so desirable to people who are NOT Mexican
gypsies as the following which was sent
70 leaulns, JouIhal, hoI as a sciehtihS
discovery but because 1t might be of
use to those scientific men who are smok-
ers:' A shallow cOrk-or, still better, a
rubber stopper-through which a hole is
bored large enough to enable IL to fit
tightly on the nozzle of a soda water sy
phon, Is fitted into the bowl The nozzle
is inserted, the mouthpiece directed into
the vessel, about wineglass OF soda wa
ter forced through aad the pipe is clean.
A newspaper has just been started in
London. which is printed on postal card.
The first number has four ilustra TONS
comic tragedy, a few jokes and puzzles
ana some advertisements. -.
--B.metallsts have alone one claim,
and IL is that gold and silver are equally
good as charms against the effects Of the
eVll eye, says the New York Times. In
India a horse must always have some
little bit of gold about IL, so as to pre-
vent spells In Abyssinia both gold and
silver are used for the same purpose. In
China silver has the preference. The
Arabs believe in the potency of a quill
from porcupine, and il must be shea thed
in silver. For luck, Persians use a mix
ture OF metals, a composition of gold,
silver, copper, iron, zinc, lead and tin.
1t is cast in one piece and worn around
the neck. But oron has its votaries. In
the south of France If person supposed
10 nave the evil eye passes near, the
best thing TO be done is to lay hold of
a piece of cold iron. In Denmark the
same superstition exists. objects made
of various metals are eGiicacious to keep
off the evil eye The SlaVs believe in the
virtue of spoon. in Normandy a buckle
Fhr ftfTa i nsH- -Ef 4
many the house key, hung on a cradle or
a bed, is endowed with saving power.
When you get to the horseshoe, you have
the sovereign cure, because it is not alone
the metal that counts, but the shape.
EorseshOes by the millions may be found
| in houses throughout the United States
and sane people in the nineteenth century
are just as credulous as We're those who
lived at the dawn Of civilization.
DIR. C. V. Black a dentist of Jackson
vile, Fla, has, according to the Literary
Digest recently made experiments upon
the force eXerted by the human jaws in
chewing food, and also the greatest force
which the jaws are capable of eXerting.
We quote the following description and
results from the Scientific American,
June p: by means of a spring instru-
ment provided with a registering device
he took records of about $50 bites" of
different persons. OF these, fifty have
been preserved as characteristics of the
ordinary man, woman and child. The
smallest pressure recorded was thirty
pounds by little girl years old. This
the same child exerted a force of sixty
five pounds. The highest record was made
by physician of 50. The instrument used
only registered go pounds, and he simply
closed il together without apparent effort
There was no method of determining how
far above 27O pounds he could have gone.
This test was made with the molars. Sew
eral persons exceeded a force of 100 pounds
with the incisors and 200 with the mo-
lars. The physical condition of the per-
sons experimental upon seemed to Have
little bearing upon the result. DR.. Black
is Of the opinion that the condition of
the peridental membranes is the control
ling factor rather than muscular strength
DR.. Black found that, in the habituai
chewing of food, much more force is
eXerted than is necessary. In chewing a
piece Of beefsteak, the crushing point of
which was from forty to forty-fiVe pounds
from sixty to eighty pounds stress was
actually employed at each thrust of the
teeth. The principal articles of food test
ed had crushing points as follows: Steak
40 to 40 pounds; mutton chops, IS to 40
pounds; broled ham, 45 to so bounds.
roast beef, As to 60 pounds pork chops, %
to % pounds, and the choicest parts of
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