The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-15
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A chair worth $3.50 mas just been
completed by Paris manufacturer. The
fOrelegs are of solid gold
l The ants Of AIalacca make their nests
| in trees, joining the leaves together by
I thin thread OF silk at the ends. The first
step in making the nest is for several
| ants 10 bend the leaves together and
hold on with their hind legs, when one
/ Of them after some time runs up with
larva, and, irritating ii with its antennae'
/ makes it produce a thread, with which
the leaves are Joined. When one larva
| is exhausted a second is brought and
| the process Is repeated.
The London Echo tells how various
/ people act when they are angry. me
| Prince OF Wales winks his left eye rapid
"; the emperor of Austria puffs out his
| cheeks: the car lays his hand fat on the
top of his head; Mr.. Gladstone turns
/ swiftly on his heels, as If executing
I vote face; DIR. Tanner lays back his
| head and swears; the sultan of Turkey
| draws his hand rapidly across his throat;
| and Mr.. Charles Mitchell shoots out his
/ first suddenly and fOrcibly in horizontal
! direction
| Out in Lansdowne" SAYS the Phila-
delphia Inquirer. "a suburbanite, whose
/ he thinks that he will soon be rid OF
/ them. His method is one which he learned
from Sing Sing. \. Y. He doesn't strap the
| rodents in chair to electrocute them, but
I has placed a number of live electric wires
| in different parts Of the cellar, and has
| baited the ends with cheese. He alleges
that as soon as the rat takes a nibDle
/ il turns over on its back without sigh,
and so successful has been his experiment
| that all the neighbors are adopting the
| method"
"A traveller writing from Fayal in the
! Azores, to the New York Times, COM
| ments on the methods of hotel life there.
Board at the best hotel is 1000 refs, or 81
| of our money. a day. Two men brought
/ our trunks a distance of half a mile and
UP a pair Of stairs for $50 reis, or twenty
/ FIVE cents. One man carried my large
I on 81 dor n
/ hand my two bags The other carried the
/ steamer trunk, steamer chair, and Shawls,
and the two thus burdened kept up dog
trOt TIL our rooms were reached. Inc hOtel
keeps plate Of oranges in the room con-
I stantly, and l eat about a dozen day.
They are small almost seedless, very
juicy and delicious. We feast, too, on
bananas, guavas, custard-apples, and
dates. For a cent you may buy more plums
than can be managed at one eating"
! According to the Chicago 1nter-Ocean,
Professor Evaun. of Albion college, re
Gently fell and broke rib and is unable
to attend classes The professor has a
son of thirteen summers, who IS taxing
work in the preparatory school. w hen the
Ovid class met yesterday this rOSy-cheek-
ed lad, who is small for his age, stepped
upon the rostrum. took the professor 5
the deliberate compOSure Of veteran.
When he had finished he quietly remarked
that his father was unable to be present
and had requested him to take charge. lie
asked fun explanations of the most knouty
constructions which one or two upper
! clasSmen were unable to give, WhereupOn
much to their embarrassment, they were
set right by the thirteen-yea profess
SCR. The boy converses freely In the
tongue Of the Caesars with his father.
A hotel in India is in some resp ects
quite unlike a hotel anywhere else in
the world. Every guest has a servant
of his or her own. The hotel has some
servants, but the guests do not depend
upon them at all. My servant takes care
of my room, brings me my tea and toast
when l arise, prepares my bath, and
waits upon me at table. He also Keeps
my clothes clean and my boots BACKED.
sees to my laundry. gets me carriage
when / want one, and does my errands.
When travelling, he viii attend TO the
tickets and the luggage and make my
simple bed on the cars, for India is a
country of magnificent distances, inVoiV-
ing considerable night travel. There are
no regular sleeping cars like ours, but
the seats are long enough for the pas
sengers to stretch out on and wide enough
to make a reasonable couch, which the
traveller provides with his own thin mat
tress, pillow and wraps. The number OF
servants in a great hotel is confusing at
first. In long corridor you see one pc
fore each door. They usually sleep there,
wrapped in a sheet or blanket and curled
up on the floor.
-"Order is heavens first law" and the
truth is manifested even in the process
of going to sleep, says the Cincinnati
Medical Journal. When a man drops OF
to sleep his body does not do so all at
| dormant before others, and always IN
the same order. As he becomes drowsy
the eyes close and his sense OF seeing Is at
rest. 1t is quickly followed by the dis
appearance of the sense of taste. He
next loses the sense of smell, and then,
after a short interval the tympanum be-
comes insensible to sound, or rather the
nerves which run to the brain from 1t fail
to arouse any sense of hearing. The last
sense to leave is that of touch, and in
some representative people it is hardly
ever dormant. Even in their case, how
ever. there is no discriminating power or
sense of what touched them. This sense
is also the first to return upon awaken
ing. Then hearing follows suit, after
that taste, and then the eye becomes
able to flash Impressions back to the
brain. The sense of smell, oddly enough,
though it is by no means the first to go,
is the last to come back. The same grad
ual loss of power is observed in the mus
cles and sinews as we'll as in the senses.
Slumber begins at the feet and slowly
spreads up the limbs and trunk until
! ii reaches the brain, when Inconsistencies
is complete and the whole body is at rest.
This is why sleep is impossible when the
feet are cold.
Tho sea anemone says the New York
Sun, is very sensitive; 1t closes at a hos
tile or thoughtless touch; not rapidly, for
ii can't do anything very rapidly, but as
rapidly as it can, curling its tentacles in
ward and covering them over with its
outer skin and flattening it down upon the
| rock. But ii is not disturbed by its friends.
In one of the smaller glass tanks at the
are several little sea anemones taken from
spiles and stones about the Battery In
the same tank. almost within reach of
these anemones, are some common bar
nacles; little ones half an inch or in
diameter. Lacking in beauty as the bar
nacle may be, it is provided with a most
wonderful hand-like member which it
throws up from it's shell, with which it
sweeps the water for food, the minute
animalculat upon which it feeds. One of
these barnacles is SO close to one of the
| little anemones that when he filings his
net it almost or quite touches the tops of
the anemones tentacles, which spread out
from the top of the anemone's trunk like
the most delicate and feathery of branches
of the tiniest Ettle tree. But the anemone
doesn't close up, not "a bit; here, down
deep in the tank its branches wave in
the gently agitated water, as, delicate as
they are, they might do in the gentlest
zephyrs on the land; and they wave and
wave as the barnacle throws its net. Per-
haps the sea anemone has its own benefit
in mind through all this, for it is quite
probable that the agitation of the water
brings TO it food that 1t might not other
wise receive; but however that may be,
the fact remains that the little anemone,
that would close at the slightest touch