The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

into the condition of the southern farm
ers and see what means could be taken
for their relief. While making his tour
Mr.. Kelly, who had once been a farmer
himself, conceived the idea of a great
fraternal order of husbandmen, to be con-
Quoted on cooperative lines, like Masons.
This order, he purposed should bridge
over the differences between the farmers
of the north and south, and should teach
them that their interests were identical.
When he returned to Washington he told
some friends of his idea, and the nucleus
of the present organization was then
former by seven men, all of them with
agricultural interests.
"A skeleton has been found in one of
the assures of the Ademello glacier, in the
Southern Tyrol, which is thought to be
that of an American tourist of the name
of Ruth, who disappeared in $780, These
assures cleave glaciers at all angles. ami
1t is easy to slip into one of them, When
once in 1t 1t hardly possible to escape with
out help from above, and the warmth of
the body melts the ice around, so that the
victim slowly descends by his own weight
into the depths of the glacier ana gener-
ally starves to death. On looking into
these assures the most beautiful play of
light in blue and green and rainbow colors
is seen. But these are best enjoyed from
the safe vantage ground of the upper out
side world rather than down in the
depths, and close at hand In some in
stances, it is said, bodies have been pre-
served in these assures in the ice for
years.
Emperor William is considering the
advisabilfty of recalling all the officers
whom he loaned to the Chinese govern
ment for the purpose of instructing the
Monaghan warriors in the arts of civilized
long a 90
man instructors, holding the rank Of cap
tain in the German army, having, as he
thought, brought his troops to a certain
stage of military efficiency. marched them
to the capital of the district in which he
was stationed and ordered them to parade
before the viceroy To his great surprise
he was attacked by the viceroy's body
guard, his troops dispersed and he him
self dragged from his horse and soundly
beaten. Instead of furnishing the viceroy
and reprimanding his guard, the Picking
government has ordered all the German
military instructors to leave their troops
and to remain at the treaty ports until
further orders.
1t is frequently observed that as twi-
light comes on red objects lose their color
sooner than others, finally appearing
black, while other colors are still visible.
When the luminosity is gradually reduc-
Gu the NdElOuS COlOTS III great measure
disappear, a person with normal vision
passing through a stage of red blindness
as the intensity is diminished before he
arrives at absolutely monochromatic Wis
ion. Capt. W. dew Abney shows that
the curious color of a moonlight land
scape is entirely accounted for by this
fact. White light becomes greenish as it
diminishes in intensity, and the reds,
blues and yellows being reduced or alb
sent are not reflected by surrounding OBJ
jects; hence moonlight is cold while the
sunlight is warm, owing to their pres
ence. Further, the loss of colors in flow
ers as night draws on may be easily fol-
lowed; thus, orange-colored flowers may
be plainly distinguished while a scarlet
geranium appears black; green grass will
be gray when yellow flowers may be just
visible.
Two persons using the same opera
| glasses at the theater the other evening
| found that they gave different results,
| says the New York Times. The focus be-
| ing altered to suit the respective pairs of
| eyes, the one individual saw the minutest
| part of the makeup on the faces of the
performers, and whip raised on the stage
came so near that there was an inclination
| to vince. To the other eyes the objects on
| the stage were only magnified to a slight
| degree. The strange part of it was that it
seemed least magnified; the older of the
| two persons, obliged to wear glasses on or
binary occasions, was able to see best. An
| oculist explains the apparent phenomenon
| in the only way plausible. GAS a person
| grows older" he says, by the time he is
thirty-eight, the eyeball begins to fatten.
| When this occurs, it is necessary to use
| glasses to supply the defective curve to
the eyeball. At the same time, with this
f1attening, has come what may be called
an abnormal farsight This would explain
| the fact that the person with the older eyes
| could see better than the younger person.
| The latter it is also possible, might be
little near-sighted without being aware
| of it,
| The trolley equipped mail car, street
sweeper and street cleaner have been
adopted in many large cities with a great
measure of success, says the Boston Jour
nal of Commerce. In several recent in
| stances fires have occurred in the remote
| suburbs of cities, where fire-extingush-
| ing apparatus was hurried to the scene
/ by being towed by electric cars, better
| time being made over heavy or poor roads
| than was possible by animal power, IN
| a recent fire of summer pavilions at South
Beach, Staten Island, this method was
| used with success. The superior adj
vantages offered by inter-urban or subur-
! ban electric roads for the rapid convey
ance of fire extinguishing apparatus have
| appealed to the fire commissioners of
Springfield, Mass, who propose to build
a car driven by it's own motors, on which
fire engine and other apparatus may be
carried to any of the neighboring com
munities connected with 1t by trolley rail-
| way systems. Suitable guards and clamps
will secure the engine in place and a hose
wagon, ladder truck or chemical engine
| may be carried on a trailer 1t is pro-
posed to keep such an equipment, so To-
| Gated that 1t can be sent out on any of
| the outlying district roads with as little
lost time as possible. Possibly the sys-
tenn could be applied to some of the SUI
burban roads radiating from Philadelphia.
especially those which are not now ade-
quately protected from fires.
M Aumaitree, a doctor at Nantes. has
written an account of the wonderful cure
which has been wrought at Lourdes in the
case Of his third daughter, Yvonne who
was born club-footed at Gourmaion, near
Pornic, in July, 1894. When the child was
10 months old DR.. Boiffin Of Nantes per-
formed an operation in the hope of
strengthening the feet, but without sue
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