The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ance mentions as one OF the principal
ones the want OF sympathy at home and
a scolding, sulking or nagging wife,
On the line OF railway from the heart
Of the city Of MarseilIes TO the necrop-
oils IN the quarter Of ST. Pierre. a little
less than two miles long about 2.400 feet
OF which constitute a tunnel, hreless 10
comotives are employed, these consist
ing OF a cylindrical receiver charged with
warm water at a maximum pressure Of
y DO pounds per square inch
The news that a japanese newspaper
is being published in Yokohama TO ad-
vertise British manufactures has so
aroused the German government that il
paper Of its own; only it will be printed
at Berlin, and the articles will be writ
ten and edited by members Of the Acad-
envy of Oriental Languages
The census Of Dec. 2 has revealed a
curious fact in the hamlet of Pueohau.
Saxony. 1t has shown exactly the same
result as the census Of 1890 showing 5l9
Inhabitants in each case; besides, the pro-
portion Of males and females has re-
manned the same, the number being 235
males and 2S4 females in both counts; 80
people have been born, and the same num-
Der died during the five years, and in
spite of these changes the former figures
have not changed a bit.
-Thorner, in the Journal Of the Ameri-
can Medical Association, calls attention
TO pathological conditions that may fol-
low piercing of the lObues of the ears, a
custom he considers barbaric. Death has
resulted from trimus, erysipelas and
gangrene, while many observers have re-
ported fibroid growths at the seat Of in
jury, which are apt to recur and may be-
come malignant He. in his own expert
ence. has seen erysipelas, eczema and tu-
Inors, including fbroma and kelOid, fol-
low, and this leads him to believe that
such consequences are more frequent
than is usually surmised. He hopes it
will speedily be considered an evidence
of brutality to subject child to such an
unnecessary and mutilating procedure
in Longman's Magazine Sir Benjamin
Ward Richardson reprints the address
which he delivered to the National Tenn
perance League on the Physical Founda-
tions of Temperance" The following is
his own summary of the paper: a. That
the body as an engine Of life is water
engine, and was never intended to be
worked, at the temperature provided for
1t, by any other fluid than water. "a
That from purely physical point OF
view, alcohol is too light a fluid for the
purpose 60 That alcohol contains an ele-
ment-carbon-which is not wanted for the
natural part water plays in the living
creation. a. That by well diluting alco-
hol it may, as too often seen, make
kind of living world but that such
world is one having two leading false
qualities, a shortly-endowed bodily mech
anism and an idiots mind, neither of
which objects is of the selection and man
Hesitation made for us by the Giver of
Life.
The Zopherus melicanus is the only
known species of American beetle that
has strength enough in it's mandibles to
! cut metal, says the St. Louis Republic.
| This curious faculty of the zopherus was
accidentally discovered by e. w DeVoe,
a member of the New York AicrOscOpical
Society. A friend had sent Mr.. DeVoe
some specimens of this queer species of
bug from the northern states of South
America; The microscopic was busily en-
gagged when the insects arrived and sim
ply provided temporary quarters for the
creatures in glass jar having a metal
top, in which the porcelain cap was
wanting. Within less than forty-eight
hours they had cut holes in the metal
sufficient to get their heads through and
would soon have escaped had their OPP
| erations remained undetected. BY care
full experiment Mr.. Devoe found that
| the force necessary to do such cutting
was equal to 1853 grams, the power exer-
| cised by the brass cutter
1t is common error, says London An
swer, to suppose that if you stand on
| high elevation you can see hundreds of
| miles over the sea. The range of vision
is really very short. If, for instance,
man six feet high stood on top of Ben
! Nevis, and if Ben Nevis rose sheer from
| the ocean, he could see a distance of only
| eighty miles. A ship situated just be-
| yond this would be made invisible by the
| intervening waters. A man whose eyes
| are exactly six feet from the ground,
| standing on the beech so that the water
| just touches his feet, could see ship at
| a distance of a little over two and three
| quarter miles. and each foot above this
| she would disappear For you can see q
| little over one nautical mile; for each
mile you can see eighty-three and a half
| nautical miles. People who go on long
| voyages on ships are always surprised
| at the small number of other vessels they
| meet. But the simple explanation of this
| fact is the really very limited range of
| vision one has from, a ships deck.
The Chinese school children have in
stilled into them at an early age habits
| of hard, steady study, says the Pitts
| burg Dispatch. AT the age of a boy
| begins his schooling. At daylight he rises
| BILE, he starts breakfastless to school.
| He is given task, and after it is COM
| pleted he is allowed an hour for break
| fast. Again, later, he has an hour for
| luncheon, but he is at his study nearly
| twelve hours day, seven days in the
week All this time, when he is not re-
| at the top of his voice He is under the
| eye of his master both in school and on
his way to and from school. The lad is
| taught documentary astronomy, physics
| and natural history, but greater stress
| is put upon writing and his literary stu
| dies. "a Thousand Letters" a poem, is
| the study that forms the backbone of his
| literary education. In it are taught the
! duties of children to parents. and all
| such matters. Whatever the study may
| be-history, classics or science-every les
| son is learned and repeated word for
| word.
! One of the most peculiar incidents in
! the annals of animal instinct, says a
| Peru, Ind, special. occurred at Santa Fe
| a small village near here, the facts of
! which are reported as follows: Squire
| Thorne of that village is one of the best
| known characters in this part of the
| state. A few days ago he missed two of
| his best hunting dogs, and his SUPPOSE
| ton was that they had been stolen
| Yesterday, however he was surprised to
| see one of his dogs walk into the house
! followed a minute later by the other, both
wearing the appearance of utter desti-
| tuition. Investigation showed that while
| out hunting a neighbor came across a
| broken bank on Pipe creek, and two of
| his dogs showed uneasiness at a hole in
| the ground. Nothing he could do would
| induce them to leave the spot, and he
| finally secured a spade and began dig
| ging for the cause of the trouble Eight
| feet of earth was dug away before the
| cause was found Then he found the two
| dogs buried from their own exertions in
| endeaVoring to secure a rabbit Thew
| had been there for thirteen days and were
| nearly famished. Prompt treatment saw
| ed the lives of both.
| AsUa E.dR6