The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Green SPRINGS W. ' a. anu Di0 AO"As
Nd. are on opposite sides OF the Potomac
river. and when a young man from Old
Town visits a girl in Green Springs
battle between the youths OF the two
[ places ensues.
What Is thought to be the smallest
| typewriter in practical use is IN Den
/ YER It is thus described by a travelling
man: 1T Is made of aluminium, ana 3
I two and one-eighth inches in diameter,
/ three-quarters inch deep, and weighs com
plete but three and one-half ounces. An
ordinary watch is Of about the same size
and weight. Its mechanism Is very sim
pie. Fifty characters are on the watch
/ face-lilze keyboard, while the type bars
radiate from the center. a single Key
/ which is placed over the particular letter
/ desired to be printed and then pressed,
/ forms the means OF operation. A piece
OF felt is used as the ribbon. The entire
machine Is attached 10 a writing pad
/ by means Of a clamp when in use High
/ speed is not claimed, yet II can be oper-
/ ated sufficiently fast for ordinary pur-
i poses"
! -Pewholders in New York churches who
do not pay rent may hereafter be dunned
/ for the amount due just as though the In
/ debtedness was for meat or drink or any
| of the other necessities or luxuries OF lie,
/ If other congregations decide TO follow the
| example of the Madison Avenue Reformed
! church, which has a large and fashionable
I congregation. The Madison avenue con-
T gregation has not placed the accounts OF
/ delinquent DewhOlders in the hands or a
/ lawyer for collection, but it has sent some
| bills to a collecting agency This is al
| mitted by the treasurer OF the congrega-
| ton, who is also vice president Of a Dank-
| He believes that the AFFAIRS OF cnurcn
! should be conducted upon the same prin-
/ cipes as those of any other institution,
| hence the new departure in the collection
OF back pew rents. member OF the con
sistory backs up the treasurer OF the aris-
| tocratic church in this language: Il be-
lieve that where a man is abundantly able
/ to pay and declines to do 50 when request
/ ed then he should be made to pay. me
church does not expect members to make
| payments when unable to do SO; but there
/ are men who live in fine STYLE own me
/ houses, drive elegant turnouts, and IN
other ways show that they have ample
| means, who allow their pew rents to run
behind. and give no attention whatever TO
requests made them to settle their &C
| counts with the church. Such cases are the
1 ones being taken up.
An interesting series of experiments
on the transparency of liquids is describ-
ed by w NJ. Spring in the Bulletin of the
Royal Academy of Belgium. The first of
NJ. Springs papers deals with the colors
of the alcohols as compared with water.
None of the alcohols observed were color
less when the thickness of fluid was 20
metres; methyl alcohol appeared greenish
blue, ethyl acohol the same, but of less
warm color, and amyl alcohol greenish
yellow. The pure blue color observed in
water becomes thus modified by the ad-
mixture of more and more yellow as we
pass from one term of the homologous
series of compounds to the next. The alb
sorbing powers of the various liquids for
| ordinary light were also observed, and 1t
was found that these formed a descend
ing SERIES the simplest substance-water
offering the greatest resistance TO the
passage of light seen by the eye. In a
second contribution the same writer dis
cusses the temperature at which the con-
nectiOn currents begin to produce opaci-
~ in column of water of given length.
Where the length is 26 metres the smallest
difference of temperature that will suffice
is about O57 degrees, and is comparable
with that which doubtless exists in lakes
and seas. The author concludes that we
have here an explanation of the varied
colors so often seen on water. These, Ma
ture says, result from the differences of
temperature caused by sunshine, on the
one-hand and by the cooling action of
wind blowing on the surface on the other.
The origin of right-handedness in man
has long been a subject of debate among
anthropologists. naturalsts, and philoso-
piers. says the London Telegraph. Some
hold that ambideXterity is natural to the
human species, and the preferential use
OF the right hand merely matter of GUS
tom. But DR.. D. G.. Brinton, who has
been investigating the subject exhaustive
ly, finds that the cause IS much mors
profound and that observation-disclosures is
one Of the attributes which distinguish
men and women from apes 1t is due 10
the fact that the former are the only
! creatures who are habitualiy in an up
right posture. The amthrOpOdS closest
to men, he says, ARE ambide1 ferrous dis.
playing no preference for either hand.
But the erect posture introduces a new
distribution of force in the economy; II
opposes the powerful retardation of grav.
ity to the distribution of the arteria
blood above the level of the heart. The
great arteries arising from the aorta car
ry the blood in an appreciably shorter
course, and in less time, to the left brain
than to the right Its nutrition, there
S fore, is the more abundant and it's valid.
ity the more active of the two hem
7 spheres Hence the right side of I'll,
body, which it controls is more ready Il
; higher innovation" From this it ap
pears that the more righthanded a mar
is, the higher does he stand in the seal,
OF evolution. Ladies who aim at tn
, franchise-generally left-handedly-shou
> make a note.
, In the museum of the Academy of Sci
ence at Paris. the British Museum, Lon
: don. the National Museum at vi
o emma and in the several smaller institu
D | tons for the advancement of science Their
, | may be seen specimens of birds egg
e which are almost as large as a two-gallol
q jug, says the Hartford Times. These egg
d We're laid by the epmornis, and extinc
d and gigantic bird of adagascar TIL
, cubic bulk of these eggs is eight times tina
9 of the egg of 1.-THE silly bird of the Sa
d hara,' which means that each of then
g is equal in point OF capacity to 10 hens
e eggs. The first discovery of these inter
|, esting relics of past times was made by tn
e captain of merchant vessel which ha
s stopped at a port on the northeastern
= coast of Madagascar to trade with the ma
tives. During the stay at the point men
toned, the curious vessels used by tn
natives for water vases attracted the at
tention of the captain. Upon investiga
: ton II was found that these odd utensil
l. were in reality gigantic eggs cut in halves
: Upon questioning the water carriers i
regard to the bird that laid the eggs an
:. the place where they were procured tn
. captain was given to understand that tn
! bird itself was unknown, but that the egg
!, were discovered in a large sand ban
some distance away in the up country
and could not be found elsewhere to tn
y knowledge of the natives. An offer to pun
: chase all that could be procured soon re
- suited in the discovery of several fine spec
. mems, all of which fell into the hands q
= IsadOre G. St Hilaire, the French natura'
: ist. These curiosities were afterward dis