The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Since the United States government
was organized less than nine hundred peo-
pie have served as United States senator's,
while Of these more than 200 had previous
ly been members of the House of Repre-
sentatives-
According to Aristotle. women in some
Grecian cities owned a great deal OF real
estate, voted, held Office and enlisted In
the army The new woman" was SO
unpopular IN Athens that play was writ
ten, satirizing her desire to control the
city.
"A French geographical society pro
poses TO divide the face of the clock into
ten hours Of ten minutes and a hundred
seconds eaoh. This Is to make time uni
form with the decimal system or count
by tens. The count by twelVes which now
shows on the face Of the clock survives
from the earliest times-probably from
long before the invention of letters.
The cats of the Isle OF Man are as des-
titute of tails as If they were guinea pigs.
II has never been accounted for, but IN
spite OF being unscientifc, il is a fact.
Mr.. David II. WyckOR recently wrote
mat million horsepower could not pro-
duce the erect that single flash of light
utng has been known to accomplish. He
believed that we have as yet hardly begun
10 utilize the forces of nature.
The Cheyennes and other Indians of
the plains believe that thunder is caused
by the Tapping of the wings Of an i'm
mense bird, which flies across the sky,
bringing the storm. All the ideas of saw
H6N AAibco 1Ib DdSeu on Sucn simple con-
ceptlons OF nature. The ideas of young
children are often Identical with savage
myths, as result of minds on the same
pane OF development, attempting to ex-
plain the same thing.
1t is said that the Western Union
Telegraph Company is making arrange
mentS to take possession of the old aban-
doned telegraph line, extending through
British Columbia, which was started thir-
" years ago to run to Europe via Bering
strait and Siberia. This line was con-
Structed as part of a, great world circling
line to connect Europe with America
ne success OF the Atlantic cable spoiled
this plan: Now 1t 5 proposed to rebuild
the olq line and put Alaska in touch
with the world. The Indians long since
took the wires and used them for MAX
ing salmon nets.
A curious sight was witnessed in Gin
cinnau during the fire there the other
day. In the building all the upper floors
all. As the fire ate its way into the
peanuts and burned the windows of the
building out the nuts rolled out of the
windows in steady stream. Each nut
was blazing and they had the appearance
OF a stream of fire balls rolling out of
the windows. The 1000 bags, which were
a total loss, were valued al 50 a bag. AS
mere were only 10000 bags of peanuts in
Cincinnati, and 10000 in the entire coun-
Try, the loss of this stock will affect the
market
Street railway companies of Cleveland.
W. nave uaQe a novel use of the troll
icy as an advertising medium. They
nave had built several billboard cars,
constructed with the sole purpose of
showing the greatest amount of poster
space In the most Obtrusive way, and
nave started them running over the Vari-
Gus routes through the city streets The
sight OF these inartistic and painfully
obtrusiVe advertising mediums have
caused considerable unfavorable comment
on the part of the citizens of Cleveland
Ihey claim that the companies should
put on more cars for carrying passen-
gers, instead of crowding the streets with
trolley billboards.
The heat the other day caused two
rails on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
re, TWO miles west OF Emporia, Kan,
to spring about two feet out of line
ne pressure was so great that the spikes
were torn out and the bending OF the rails
caused such loud report that the
attention Of some trackmen nearby was
attracted, and a passenger train then
about due, was tagged lust in time 10
save H. II was moving at rate OF forty
iive miles an hour, and could not have
been stopped in time If the trackmen had
not been alert. A delay of an hour was
caused: Two hours earlier trains Nos
IA and A. eastbound, met with similar
delay in Usage county.
The two new battleships of which
plans are now being drawn are not to
York World. Turning labor into time at
II a day, the census average, this would
make the maximum cost Of each the
work Of 1000 men for 1000 days, or about
course, all the time spent in preparing
all the materials of all kinds-as in dig
glng the coal TO heat the furnace to make
IRON and steel for nails and armor and
guns, Telling the trees to make the lumber
digging the mineral for the paint. plant
ing and cultivating the beans for making
estimate above is well within the actual
cost o. labor-tiIne required
The Buffalo Courier says: "a man
prominent in the affairs of Dunkirk re-
Gently related the following incident:
one day, two months after l had signed
the pledge, / had a craving for a drink
OF WHISKY so strong that l could see moth
ing else but drinks about me, and felt
as II l must have at least one drink 1
toid a friend of my state of mind. He
said, You need not drink 1 can tel
you of a substitute that will stop your
discomfort. Get a bowl of ice water and
END or 1t to a size convenient to take
in the mouth. Dip the potato in the ice
water and suck it every time you think
you must have the whisky I did as he
advised. l took the bowl of ice water
and the potato and placed them on the
table at the head of my bed and would
dip the potato in the water and place
It between my lips every few minutes
till l went to sleep. / awoke free from
any desire to dring whisky and have been
Iree from 1t ever since. That one treat
for all the time that has since elapsed"
Nowadays children sometimes suffer
with Inflammation of the eyes and more
serious defects of vision, says an ex-
change. The mother is at a great loss
to account for the prevalence of these
troubles, but she has not far to LOOK
for at least one cause of them Very
often the innocent-looking parasol upon
the baby's carriage is responsible for an
this suffering. This parasol is made either
of white lace and silk or of some shade
of red, pink, or blue. The poor baby
who is not able to protest or intelligentiy
state his grievance, is placed behind this
parasol and wheeled his carriage upon
the piazza or sidewalk for a sun bath.
For hours he winks and blinks in help
less misery in the dazzling reflection that
pours into his poor eyes. A dishguring
frown or squint is the natural result
and too often serious defects of vision
develop in later life. The carriage para
sol, if white, should be lined either with
dark green or black, the preference being
given to the former color, and be so
tilted that the baby can look out upon
the world with level direct gaze Bright
silks Should never be used for the pur-
pose, no matter how attractive they may
be in themselves.
"A few months since a man who had
had his nose bitten off in a street fight
applied to the authorities of the great
West Eend hospital, London, requesting