The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-01

The training OF Greek athletes in the
Oh days was sminenly sensible. The
training began when the boy was about 20
ana the object was not only 20 secure
strength and health but bodily grace and
beauty. The Greeks assumed that only
IN symmetrical and beautiful body could
a me mind dwell and 50 physical culture
held a foremost place IA the education OF
the youth Of The land.
The period between the restoration
and George ", which may be called the
era OF the wig, the fashion in male cloth
ING was least healthy. During the whole
OF MS period. ard especially IN the eight
eenln century there was an interesting
tendency 10 OFerBurden the BODY with
clothing. Mems coats and waistcOats eX-
tended almost 20 the ground, and their
Wigs, mixed with p0matum-Often made
OF rancid Tat and other nOxious substances
10 make the hair stiCk-Were sometimes
enormously heavy and overheatlng. The
hair Used was sometimes cut from the
heads Of diseased persons and this. as in
the time Of the plague, made wigs doubly
dangerous to the Wearer. To dive the
hair various cOiored powders We're used,
and even coal dust. Wooden was never
worn next the skin, and fashion imposed
a rule that the weight and quantity Of
mourning robes should increase with the
social status Of the Wearer.
Sun spots were first observed in the
year 1911. says the St. Louis Republic.
Sun spots always travel from east TO
west across the suns disk The largest
sun spot on record was seen in 1858. Il
was 1900 miles across. A writer In Ma
ture says that the temperature Of the
suns surface cannot be less than 1900
degrees Fahrenheit. In order that the
reader may make a comparison, 1 will
say that Bessener converter is never
heated above about 300 degrees. 1t Is
claimed that the suns RAYS put out fire
by rarefying the air, causing it to flow
more slowly toward the burning article.
Should the earth be accidentally moved
TO within a distance of 10000 miles OF he
sun II would wholly dissolve and p-ss
away ike vaDOr IN less than an hour.
The sun IS over $4,000 miles in diameter.
Inc earth could be placed on the inside
or II, and the moOn 10000 away, cOuld
sun reVolYe around the world, both the
earth and the moon being on the inside
OF the great light giver. Some astrOno-
mers, those who believe in the "annu-
lar or ring" theory of creation, be-
lieve that the earth and all the planets
were once part Of the sun. that the
earth is one of the rings thrown off by
the great luminary, and that the earth,
In turn, threw of a ring which became
the moon.
There is on exhibition in Boston a
model of a cell for prisoners from which
a criminal would find it practically i'm,
possible 10 attempt to escape without Civ
a
rushing up to his door before either the
lock on the door or the steel tubes OF
which the cell is composed were broken
or even cracked, says the Philadelphia
News. The protection is not afforded
primarily by electricity, although cleo
tricity plays a part in the device. The
chiet protective agent is water which ILLS
every length and every joint in the steel
tubes forming the entire cell. The wafer
is maintained in the tubes at a certain
pressure, indicated on a guage in the
Watchmans room, and the slightest de-
crease I'm pressure of this water, such as
would be made by the cracking of a tube
so that no more than a cubic inch OF
water could escape, would release the
pointer on the gauge, allowing il TO turn
SLOWLY and thus make an electrical con-
nectiOn with an electric bell. The bell then
rings continuously until the circuit is
broken by the Waterman. At the same
time that the bell rings, on an annuncia-
tor above is shown the number of the
cell where the water is escaping from the
tube Unlike modern cells that are made
with solid steel bars the floors and cell
ing do not have TO be made of steel
plates-through which the criminal can
often cut his way or on which his move
ments in the cell keep up a continuous
noise sufficient to make the cell room too
noisy for the Waterman to hear the
slight sound of a saw or auger in a par
tlcular cell This new cell is a cage.
The sides, floor, ceiling and door are
ali made of steel tubes, set so closely to-
gether that they could not be sprung
apart TO any advantage. Even the hinges
and the bolt on the door are filled with
water, always ready TO give the alarm
if its pressure is changed in the slight
est degree, yet, inclosed In such a man
ner that the prisoner cannot make any
attempt to break or cut his way out OF
the cell without changing the pressure.
in this country almost everybody car
ries a watch. Probably nine-tenths Of
the men, and great numbers of women
and many young people carry watches.
In the best trade of the city many more
watches of gold are sold than of silver:
of all the watches sold throughout the
country about % per cent. are of gold.
The percentage of gold watches is in
creasing. The fashionable watch of the
day is open faced, according to the New
York sun. The sale of open-faced watches
Is increasing, especially in fine watch s.,
but it is increasing also in watches of
In the city probably two-thirds are now
made open faced. OF all the watches
sold in the United States, gold and sill
yer, probably from a quarter to a third
are now made open faced. The modern
watch has for one of its characteristics
thinness. a mans watch, which is now
made more especially to wear with even
ing dress and is all the time growing in
favor, Is a plain, thin, open-faced gold
watch, which takes up but little room in
the pocket. Perfect in its simplicity, this
watch is at the same time of fine work
manship and great beauty. 1t sells at
$3.50 gold watch not so thin nor so
finely finished, but very handsome mod
ern watch and an excellent timekeeper.
by the same makers and bearing their
name, can be bought in open face, the
case of 1S-karat gold, for $50; in double
case for go But gold watches, and good
watches, too, can be bought for very
much less than these prices; in fact, there
never was a time when watches generally
were made IN such tasteful shapes, or
when they were so good for the money;
or so cheap as now. Taking all the grades
together, the American production of
watches is about 1900 daily; the importa-
ton of watches amounts to about the
same number. One might at first wonder
what becomes of all these watches. A
great number are taken up annually by
the new buyers coming into the market
for the first time, out OF constant and
large increase in the population. Great
as the percentage of watch owners now
is in this country, that also is increasing.
Many immigrants buy watches as soon
as they get the money; some men own
more than one watch; watches wear out.
or their owners lay them aside for a
better watch or for one of newer style;
watches are lost and destroyed, and when
comes To take all these thipps In