The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Commenting upon the proposal to draw
UP code of ethics of the British Medical
Association, the Lancet says that pro
fessional ethics cannot be put into writ
ten form. They are essentially 'unwritten.'
To write them would be to spoil them.
They are like the aroma of some flowers
an aroma which when concentrated be-
comes offensive"
The popular belief that the ostrich's
stomach was superior to that of the hui
man has been disproved by woman who
lives in Yalta, not far from the Black Sea,
says the New York Journal. She has
been, 1t seems in the habit of swallowing
everything TO which she happened to take
fancy, and as a result was sent to the
hospital in Odessa. There it was found
an operation was necessary, so the doctors
examined the contents OF her stomach.
They found thirty-seven different arti-
Giles, including a fork, a piece OF iron, two
small spoons, a needle, piece of lace,
two nails four bits of glass, eight but
TONS a key, etc. The operation was COM
pletely successful The different articles
taken from the stomach OF the patient are
exhibited in a room of the hospital, and
attract enormous crowds. The doctors
declare. that most of the objects must
have been in the stomach for months.
You are either left-eyed or right-eyed,
unless you are the one person out of eve
ry fifteen who has eyes of equal strength,
says the Hartford Times. You also belong
to the small minority of one out of every
ten persons If your left eye is stronger
than your right. AS a rule just as peo-
pie are right-handed, they are right-eyed.
This is probably due to the greater use of
the organs of the right side of the body,
as, for example, a gunner using his right
eye thereby strengthening it with exer-
else. Old sea captains, after long use of
the telescope, find their right eye much
stronger than the left. The law is con-
firmed by the experience OF auriSts II
a person who has ears of equal hearing
power has cause to use one ear more than
the other for a long period, the ear
brought into requisition is found to be
much strengthened, and the ear which is
| NOT used loses its hearing in a correspond
| ing degree
Capt H. H. P. Deasy a cavalry Of
ficer in the British army, left England
some time ago for a journey across Thibet
| from west to east, says the New York
| Post. He intends on the way to throw
| soldered-up tin cans containing parchment
| notices in English and French into the
| tributaries of the Tsanpo and into the
| other large rivers which he may meet
| with, in the hope that some of them may
| be picked up far down stream, possibly
| in the Brahmaputra, Salween and Me-
| kong, and thus help to solve the veXed
| problem of the origin and connections of
| these rivers. The notices will be num-
bered, consecutively, and the tins in which
| they will be incloSed will have brass Ia
| bel soldered on the outside. please open
| this" in English and French, with Capt
| Deasys name attached The parchment
| inside bears the request that it be for
| warded without delay to the Royal Geo
| ora Wi
! rate a statement as possible as to the
| spot where it was picked up. Capt. Deasy
1 is trying to render an important service
| to geographical knowledge, and it is hoped
! that the officials, English and French,
| in the neighborhoOd of the rivers alluded
| to may be able to arrange for a lookout
| so that the tins may be secured and the
| parchment delivered to the proper quar-
ter
Recent observations made by Prof. A.
Agassiz in the Calumet and Hecla mine,
near Lake Superior, to ascertain the rate
| at which temperature increases toward the
| center of the earth, give a slower rate of
| increase than has been found in previous
recorded observations, says the Popular
| Science Monthly. The observations were
made at various depths by placing regis
tering barometers in holes drilled ten feet
! into the rock and plugged with wood and
| clay After the thermometers had remain
ed in place three months the holes were
opened and results obtained. The highest
temperatures recorded at a depth
of 1850 feet was 70 degrees Fab
| renheit. At a depth of 10 feet
| the rock temperature was SO degrees. Be
| tween these limits there was a column of
| rock, or 4,475 feet, with difference. of tenn
| perature of 20 degrees, or an average in
crease of degree for each 60 feet. The OBJ
servations in the st. Gothard tunnel gave
| an increase of l degree for each 60 feet,
| and those of Lord Kelvin elsewhere made
the increase 1 degree for each 81 feet
| The thickness of the crust of the earth
deducted from Lord Kelvin's rate of in
| crease of temperature downward was
| twenty miles; from the St. Gothard rate,
| twenty-six miles. Prof. Agassiz's rate
| would make the crust over eighty miles
thick. 1t is conceded, however, that the
close proximity of the enormous mass of
| cold water in Lake Superior is a possible
| source of error in observations made in
the Calumet and Hecla mine.
The return of Nansen fom the North
Pole expedition serves to emphasize afresh
the peril and impossIbilty of that use
| less achievement, says the American. No
| doubt those Of us who feel curious about
| that icy spot will have the opportunity
| to see is as soon as we have shuffied off
| this mortal coil. But while we are in the
| bouys IL Is ABOUT as accessible as is the
| center of the earth. And IL is folly to
waste money and risk lives on efforts
| where success would be utterly barren
while portions of the earth of the highest
interest remain unexplored. Such are
the two great plateaus in Venezuela--if
| John Bull has not recently annexed them.
They rise above the surrounding country
to hight of nearly two miles, they are
| so extensive as TO possess an extensive
fora and perhaps fauna. But no one has
reached their level because their sides
are too precipitous A balloon is needed.
As contribution to statistics on nose
breathing versus mouth breathing. a
writer in Physical Education observed
| the breathing of every individual in a
twenty-five mile bicycle race. held last
summer. The first point of record was
five miles from the starting point and
the last within a mile of the finish. The
records were: At FIVE miles, seventv-nine