The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I captured a number Of years ago. They
! r,ond srd 49,, 49, 9i---5 - -
I al lilz pounds. +. T. Barnum heard of The
capture and he bought them for $50.
! The sikworm originated in the southern
part OF the Chinese empire, where written
documents are said to exist proving that
I these insects were raised there 70g wears
! before tho Christian era. From thence
! they passed into Persia, India and va
/ rlous parts Of Asia, and subsequently TO
/ the Isle OF Cos.
"A curious exhibit is made at the Ne
chanics' fair at Boston. 1t is nothing
more nor less than a display of mum
I mined plants. II requires a label TO in
/ form the people that they are dead, for
| the plants appear exactly as If alive ana
/ SSHHltii5- AHsy are hot Hhaue o. wax OF
/ OF cloth, but are genuine plants that have
/ grown IN the earth until they have
| reached a good state of development,
/ when, by their being treated to a GER
tain injection, the growth is arrested
I Then comes the strange part, for the
! plants so treated do not drOop and die;
1 the leaves remain fresh and bright, and
I the plant stands erect. II is, moreover,
I imperViOus to heat and cold, and nothing
seems able to destroy its strange repose.
| Inc most striking part OF the exhibit Is
] coHecuOn or large palms used for decor
i aung These plants are noted for being
/ very tender and susceptible 10 almost
| every influence. Those on exhibition have
| been dead for six months, yet not even
| when the leaves are carefully examined
] "eNt-@ N--N AeANN NC 0uobCNAIl-
An interesting feature of the dinner
recently given to President and Mrs
! Cleveland by Secretary and Mrs. Car
! isle says the New York Sun. was the
/ entire absence of wines and liquors from
! the table. There were two glasses at
| each plate, one for Potomac water, and
/ the other for appollinaris. Mrs Cleve-
| land, Mrs. Lamont, Mrs. Carlisle, Miss
! Morton and Mrs. Wilson of the cabinet
ladies are teetotalers and never touch
| wine on any occasion. Col. Lamont says
| that he has never tasted whisky in his
| life, and IL is well known that he never
drinks wine at dinners. Secretary Car
/ Isle has not touched a glass of anything
/ Intoxicating since he entered the cabinet.
! Mrs Cleveland and all the ladies' of the
| cabinet, with the exception of Mrs. Car
| Isle, serve wine at dinners and lunches
for the benefit of their guests but Mrs.
| Carllsle says that no wine or liquor of any
kind has crossed the threshold of her home
| since the inauguration of President Cleve-
land; secretary 0lney has given up his
| guests for Saturday night instead.
-Supt. Sol Stephan of the zoo, has made
all sorts of curious discoveries in the hab-
its and characteristics of animals the
! latest of which is that wild creatures are
most left-handed, says the Cincinnati En-
| ing to verify this observation on two par
| rots, lately brought from Mexico. He
found that, in grasping a finger offered
| as a perch, the parrots almost always
| put the left foot forward. Usually the
| finger thus offered is that of the right
| hand. But when the left finger is offered
| to the parrots they put forward the right
/ foot There is, however, apparently a
| small residuum of preference for the left
| foot This seems to be due to the fact
| that men are usually right-handed, and
! offer the right hand to the parrot. The
ieft FOOT is the one naturally put forward
! by the parrot in this case. and through
| repetition of this action a species Of left
! fcotedness is induced. Mr.. Stephan's gen.
| eral conclusion is that there is no evil
hat
| rooted The appearance of that left
| footedness is due entirely to the fact that
those who offer the finger or food to par
| rots do so, as rule, with the right hand.
! Repetition of this process makes the par
rot more or less left-handed in time.
The gathering of teak wood has been
an industry ever since man of any color
inhabited the country. Teak grows only
| in India and Burmah, and in old palaces
| and temples ii has held indestructible
! place for many generations. From the
| color of sandalwoOd it changes with age
| to walnut brown. Big, implanted bunga-
lows standing upon pillars of the wood,
sided with it, shingled with it, latticed
| with it, defy heat and rain and grow rich
upon their poverty OF oil and varnish:
| They stand as brown as autumn out of
| green compounds, against summer itself.
| Vines enwrap them, flowers garnish them,
| years add moss and lichen, but nothing
| destroys save flame Railroad car wheels
| spikes for laying tracks pegs for bolts,
| implements of all sorts, are made of teak.
J
| many parts of a ship are built from this
| muscle of nature, but every one who has
walked the deck of bark or steamer has
consciousness that no amount of holy
| stoning. or dragging of cargo over, or
wear or tear of feet or traffic can IN an
| ordinary sense affect a teak wood floor.
| The Burmese wood carver knows his art
| is almost hewn in stone, when he coaXes
leaf and flower. sacred COW and festival
| cart, groteSquc sprites and elves, gods
| and Buddhas, out of rugged trunks. The
| little prov of the sampan shaped like a
wish-bone, the stern of the paddy-boat
| as brown with age as the naked figure
upon it is with the elements, the strange
plinths of stranger pillars, the embellish-
| ments of the temples, the playthings OF
| the children-aH these are carved from
| teak
Fatigue is the natural result of labor.
and as such is a periodic symptom with
which every healthy person is familiar.
says the Youths Companion 1t is one of
! the laws of organic life that periods of
| relaxation shall succeed periods of ac-
| tivity. The heart itself is normally in re-
| pose for about one-thirds of the time con-
sumed by each beat-a fact in which there
! is something particularly suggestive and
! interesting, since psychologists agree that
| about one-third of the twenty-four hours
| should be devoted to sleep. Life is made
| up of a series of vibrations, in which ten
! sion and rest succeed each other. The
heart VibrateS about seventy times a min
| ute; the vibrations of the respiratory or
| gans occur about sixteen times in the same
! period; while the vibrations of the whole
/
| cycle once in twenty-four hours Abb
normal fatigue, a state approaching ex-
| haustion, occurs when one attempts to al
] ter natures rhythm when the hours of
| tension are made to encroach upon those
which should be devoted to rest when
muscle and nerve, already fatigued are
! driven to further eXertion. Fatigue of
1 kind known as entertaining results in
the case of the athlete, in heart weakness
| and shOrtness of breath-"loss of wind"
| as it is called; while the lOng-continued
| fatigue occassioned by excessive appIica-
| ton to professional or business pursuits
| results in nervous prostration, or even pa
| ralysis. While excessive fatigue is in it
| self unwise, one of the chief dangers that
| results from it is that commonly known
/ as catching cold" Thus the danger of
! sitting in draft or on the damp ground
| is many times doubled after great exer
| ton. The application of heat to the sur
! face is a more logical procedure after ex-
! IRENE fatigue Loss of sleep is one of
| the first symptoms of abnormal fatigue
Habtual insomnia from this cause is to
be treated in only one way, by absolute
rest.