The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

- ne popular Christian name in Aus
ira y franz, and there are 5000 peO-
pie answering TO il. Johann comes next
pa popularity, with 1.3S4. 600. There are ISL %
- Leopolds and 44s.00O Wenzels. The
lnree leading names among women are
Anna, Maria and Elizabeth. ranging from
lively.
Music relieves muscular fatigue in
man, says Prof; Tarchanoff of st. Peters
burg, VINO has been experimenting in the
SUBJECT from purely physiological stand
point II helps to drive out carbOnic acid
IN dogs, and increases their consumption
OF oxygen; II also makes them perspire.
he thinks II may be regarded as a serious
therapeutic agent.
The widest canal in the world is said
10 De the Chenab Irrigation Canal in the
feet broad, and will be 20 feet when nm
lshed- The main canal viii be 40 miles
long. Inc principal branches will have
an aggregate length Of 2000 miles. and the
village branches of 4O00 miles: 10000 acres
are already irrigated.
The captive balloon which the French
expect TO employ at the worlds fair of
1900 VIII be IA feet in diameter and is 10
ascend 10 an elevation of 1 $50 feet This is
twice as high as the Eiffel tower The
balloon is 10 be managed by wre cable.
varying. in diameter from 3.93 10 Al inches,
and will probably he capab bic of taking up
l5o passengers at once.
French books. standard and otherwise.
We're much cheaper than now. New French
book shops are springing up and old ones
are charging their stock. until at length
one may buy a great variety of literature
IN those agreeably printed paper bound
volumes Tor which the French are famous.
II really looks as If French booksellers
estimate that 10000 New Workers read
French were not too high.
An extraordinary discovery of gold has
been made at Carlisle. fifty miles from
here says Lordsburg, n. NJ. dispatch
Reports of rich finds, which at first We're
thought to be exaggerated, are being con-
trmed, and the greatest excitement pre-
rails. Prospectors are rushing from all
parts OF New Mexico and Arizona, and
news Of the strike is being carried along
the line of the southern Pacific.
A distinguished English naturalist says
That prolongation of vitality in seeds
largely depends upon the nature of their
protective covering or envelope. Thus,
speaking Of the laws of the hawthorn.
he remarks that each haw contains from
three to five seeds and is encased in a
hard stony envelope in addition to its
own proper and special covering. Plant
ed in the ground and under conditions
favorable to their termination, such seeds
40 NOT sprout until the second year and
often not so soon. Here there is prolonged
vitality. no doubt due to the thickness
of the seeds envelope
The special hardness which enables
prOjectiles to penetrate the best Harvey
lied nickel-stecl armor plate is largely
due TO the admiXture of the metal chrO-
MUM with the metal of which they are
been
maze 10 construct chrOmesteel plate;
but foreign experts are talking of irving
the experiment. The same hardening
agent has been employed with alumi-
mum, a very soft metal when pure. The
exact proportions used are not stated bur
probably the amount of chromium is NOT
SO great as seriously to impair the light
ness of the alloy. In order 10 effect a thor
ough fusion electrolysis is found neces-
sary.
The great 4O-inch lens, the hugest tele-
scope glass ever made, which Alvan E.
Clark, of Cambridge, Mass. has been
working on for more than year for the
Nerkes telescope at Chicago is com
pleted and will soon be shipped to its
destination. The Ierkes' telescope will be
50 mucn bigger than the Lick, now the
largest in the world, that astronomers are
confident astonishing discoveries NAV be
made as soon as 1t is set up. The lens of
Nle erkeS telescope, when the glass
came from Paris in the rough and before
a stroke Of work had been done uDOn II
20 las9lGn II into its present delicate and
beautiful shape. cost $4,000 Proba blv the
s"nding and polishing of the lens. which
may have been going on for long time.
cost as much again.
a student of such things figures out.
lnat more money is paid to the street pia-
no ana organ grinding men and women OF
inns town than is spent on grand opera
uuIlng the season, says a New York let
ter. nder the law 300 music makers of
TINS type are permitted to plague some
and please others by paying 81 a year for
the privilege. So far this wear go licenses
nave been taken out. but as this law, like
many others, is not rigidly enforced il
Is safe to assume that the number of hur
dy-gurdyites doing business at present ex-
coed the legal limits. On a pleasant day
when people are in a liberal mood each
grinder collects, so it is claimed. about SI0
To collect this sum he appears before
about 800 audiences, the most profitable
being found in the aristocratic districts
the most numerous on the East side. AS
the Little German Band has been showed
oil the streets of New York the son of
Italy has the field ali to himself and works
1t from early morn till late at night with
a Vlgor that would pull an arm off an or
binary mortal. If you banker after street
Dand music cross over to Brooklyn. There
you will get it in in large or small doses
at very slight cost.
old whist players will probably greet
with suspicion the announcement that If
Is possible to play an interesting game of
whist with less than four hands saws the
New York Tribune. Double dummv'
and single dummy We're never pODuiar
with the votaries of this game They
We're classed with old maid and casino
ana other games which allowed more or
less gossip while the game was in Dro-
sress, and did not allow the display of
any great amount of thought a new
game, however, has been introduced for
two hands, which, while it undoubtedly is
not so good as four-handed game. still
- nlouegateIy interesting, and affords a
cnance Tor the display of a good deal of
skill. Where this game originated the
writer does not know. In Canada thew
call II Yankee whist without being able
TO give the chronological significance of
the name. The game is played by deal
ing the entire pack to the two PLAYERS
The cards are picked up indiscrininatelv
and each player places in a row before
him thirteen piles of cards. He begins nv
placing the first card face downward on
the table, and the next one face inward
on TOP of the first card laid down. This
operation Is repeated until the thirteen
piles are built by each player. This leaves
thirteen cards exposed on the able on
each side, and thirteen the value of which
are not known. as the faces are turned
downward. The play then begins with the
non-dealer, and the game is carried
through the same as an ordinary game If
whist. AS soon as the card which is ex
posed is played, and the trick on which If
is played is taken, the card underneath is
also turned up. This process finally
causes all the cards to be exposed huf
of course, not until the game is well alonS
toward the close. Consequently there is
always enough uncertainty about the val
ue OF your opponents hand and the
strength of your own TO allow good deaI
of conjecture and thoughtful plaVing Tba
game has not been introduced eXtensivaiS1
at present, and in many whist cIubs i.
seems to be practically unknown and u,
some OF them entirely so Al
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