The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Of China over 4l1.5so 0,y people.
-Tivolrs fsmous waterfalls are now utl-
lied TO provide electric power for light
ing Rome The power is conveyed eight
cen miles over rne wires, and in the day
time Is used 10 drive the street cars
Italy has a population Of 9o.sl3. SOB and a
debt of $2,l6l.57l,0o9- She keeps up an
army or 252,S-9 regulars and. with her mile
ga. claims 20 94 able 20 pug in the field
per q B least, 55-5is men.
John Rice. ana May Irwin. Of the 'wi-
dow Jones company. did a kissing act
which occurs in the play in front of one
% Ellsous microscopic cameras, at
Orange. n. J.. a few days ago. The kiss
covers - seconds. but The camera took 90
Jews % %, ana the kiss was s.Ielcned
over = feet OF Photographic linn. This re-
quired three days 10 develop.
"A Sioux Indian named Banks. chief Of
the Indian police at Crow Creek agency
South Dakota, made an application for a
pension in Chamberlain, s. D., last week
he is said to DE the first Sioux TO ask
tary services. He served as a scout
during one OF the Indian wars. and makes
application for pension under The act
Of June, 1890.
Prof. King asserts that insects freeze
solid during the winter and thaw out
when warm weather comes. Others claim
this has never been demonstrated. IT
once the power of evolving heat is losr,
life goes with it, At least this is a great
principal lu biology. There are liquids
which DO not freeze under low temper
ature and these may possibly enter into
the insect organism.
Nicaragua, which is now in state of
civil war, has a population of $4,000, or,
including uncivllized Indians 10000. The
active army consists of 300 men, with a
reserve Of 10000 and "A militia of 500l
Nicaragua has "a public debt Of SS,i25.OO0
of which 81. 425. 600 was raised i'm London
on per cent. bonds and d mortgage of
nlnety-three miles of railroad, controlled
by the government, and on the customs re-
ceipts. Default was made in the payment
of interest in 1894.
Every conceivable kind Of merchandise
is vended on the streets of New York, but
il is only lately that the street fakir has
taken 70 vending beautiful pea-green
whlskers, which. apparently. nave q ready
sale. says the New York Journal Exactly
what the staid stream of business men
that passes along Park row want of green
whiskers would be difficult 20 say, but the
men who sell them state that business Is
brisk. The green whiskers arrived on 81.
Patrick S day. and the spring brecZeS have
been permeatins their interstlces ever
since.
1T is not generally understood that
there are scientific reasons for the en-
filling of teeth, says Science Gossip. Gold
can be welded into q solid mass while
cold. 1t can also be pressed into the
smallest cavities and depreSsions When
once the cavity is properly cleaned and
the gold carefully PUT IN, care being TAX
en- that it fills every particle of space, the
union of teeth and hlling is nearly per
feet as possible without the action Of
heat. A gold filling may be built up TO all
most any SIZE or shape required. None Of
the ac-d secretons Of the mouth or stom-
"a ah Ia z.lA "a p.
There is some queer testimony Of
fered in pension cases" remarked an eN-
aminer in the pension office a few days
since, to the w asiungton Star. That re-
lating TO marriages is specially so, as it
brings out some peculiar incidents. l
have case now In hand OF a widow prov
ing her marriage. The case comes from
Missouri. The brOther-in-laW Of the wild
ow testities that i Went with my brother
when he bought the license to marry.
the marriage well and win never forget
it, for the reason that l was disappointed
admit that she was the only young lady
a that time that I had ever Gated for.
Since then ] am not so particular, for ]
have had three wives.
An electric expert Of Berlin has cal
culated the total development OF telegraph
lines over the entire world, and this, ac-
cOrding to his figures, amounts to l,O57,
$50 miles This does not give the mileage
of wires. but only that of lines proper
whether containing one, two or more wires
Since many of these lines are supplied
with hundreds of wires, it viii readily be
seen that the length of the wires would
amount to many millions of miles The
mileage of lines as distributed over the
continents is as follows: America IS fore
most, with more than half of the entire
line mileage OF the world, or 81, SO miles :
next comes Europe, with 37S5 500 miles; A STA
third with 66625; Australia has 4S,725 miles
of telegraph lines, and Africa is last, with
20,760.
The more remote ancestors of whales
undoubtedly had legs says the New
York Journal The sperm whale
possesses a rudimentary thigh-bone, while
the Greenland whale has rudtmentary
thigh-bone and tibia. There seems to be
no question that the prOgenitOrs of mod
ern whales were land animals, but their
descendants took to the sea and ceased
to require legs. These remarks apply to
hind legs; the fore legs of whales are
represented by their fippers. The ances-
tors of all marine mammals We're land
animals. The intermediate condition may
be observed in the seals, which live on
land to some extent. The porpoise is leg
less but has rudimentary hip bones The
ancestors of modern snakes had legs and
walked. The boa constructor possesses
rudimentary hind legs.
Superintendent Sol Stephan of the
Zoo, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer,
has made all sorts of curious discoveries
in the habits and characteristics of ami
mails, the latest of which is that wild
creatures are mostly left-footed. Mr.. Ste
phan has been endeaVOrug to verify this
observation on two parrots lately brought
from Mexico He found that in grasping
a finger offered as a perch the parrot
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. appar-
entity a small resduum 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 left foot is the one naturally put for
ward by the parrot in this case and
through repedtions of this action a species
of left-fOOtednesS is induced. Mr.. Ste
phan's general conclusion is that there is
no evidence that the parrot is naturally
left-foOted. The appearance of that left
foOtedness is due entirely TO the fact that
those who offer the finger or food 10
parrots do SO, as a rule, with the right
hand. Repetition of this process makes
the parrot more or less left-fOOted in time
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