The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-30
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/ Tulloch, who made the surveys IN Egypt
for the government OF Great Britain On
| one occasion. while surveying the borders
/ Of Lake Menzalen. on the Red sea. sud
/ den and violent storm arose. the force Of
/ which was so prOd-giOus as 10 carry eF-
/ eryrhing before Il, including, incidentally,
/ the water OF the lake. In a few hours the
whole body Of water had been apauctea
| and naught remained save vessels. mud
and sand. The vessels mO0red in the lake
were stranded high and dry, with no
water In sight.
In an article on what we know about
Mars" the writer says: I'VE know that the
years OF Mars, almost twice az long as
ours, are composed of 6S6 days . hours 80
minutes and Al seconds and surely nothing
need be more precise. We know also that
the duration Of day and night. or, 10 speak
more exactly. that OF the diurnal rotation,
IS p hours minutes . seconds and b3-lO
or second. We know further that, since
the inclination of its axis Of rotation is
p degrees p minutes, the seasons there
are sensibly of the same intensity as upon
our planet Besides, with our own eyes
We see the polar SHOWS melt during the
summer and reapDear in the winter"
According TO the British Institute Of
Preventive Medicine, the ice cream sold
by London street peddlers. when exam
ined by a microscope. shows the presence
or bedbugs, bugs legs, heas, straw, nalr,
coal dust wooden and linen fibre, tobacco
epithelial scales and muscular tissue
Even the micrOscOpial examination, how
ever, is delectable compared with the re-
suits Of archaeological studies. These re-
veal in street-barrow ice cream a maxi
mum number of 100000 microbes per cubic
centimeter, while the ice cream of the
shops has only 600 per cubic centime-
ter. The character Of the micrO-organisms
is extremely mixed. There are the bacte-
ria coli commune, besides spirillae and pu-
| trefactive microbes of various kinds.
Lord Hobhouse is an article in the
Westminster Review on the "Puritanical
Sunday says: when I speak of a pu-
rtsnical Sunday I am not using the term
as one Of disparagement but simply pre-
senting a historical fact. l recognize the
puritan creed as one that has Influenced
many powerful and noble minds and has
contributed most valuable elements to
our composite English character. Even
the puritan Sunday, mistaken though L
| think il and of a strictness too narrow
and exaggerated for ordinary human ma
| ture to bear, has so excellent a side to II
| and has been so closely bound up with
| customs and habits of great social value,
| with definite times for general rest and
| definite times for general worship, that L
| always think and speak with great re-
spect of its supporters. ] only blame those
| OF them-noW / think few in number-who
| load with epithets intended to excite
OdIum other men who are striving TO
make the use of Sunday more beneficial
and more adapted to varieties Of human
| character and conditions"
The dirtiest people in the world have
| recently been discovered by an explorer
in the Caucausus says the Hartford
| Times. They live in an inaccessible noun
| tain range between the Black sea and the
Caspian, their village being so snugly hid
den away that no government has yet
been able to reach them. AS they were
$500 years ago so they are to this day.
Seen from without there is certain pic
tureSqueneSs about a SVaneuan village,
although 1t merely consists of miserable
stone novels without any attempt at form
or adOrnment. Within the houses are
inconceivably filthy. They are filled with
rags, vermin and dirt of every descrip-
ton. They possess no fireplace nor chin
ney. All the cooking, in fact, is done
over a hole scooped out in the middle
of the door. In these houses men and
women and children are huddled together
! during the long winter months they are
shut for days at a time, the cattle often
| sharing their quarters. Every aperture
| has to be closed on account of the cold.
| This long Imprisonment is, perhaps, the
| cause of the degradation of the people.
| Horrible diseases result from it, which
are aggravated by an abnormal consump-
| ton of arrack, the strong distilled drink
| of the Asiatics. Besides being the dirt
| lest, they are probably the LATEST peo-
| pie on earth 1t is an inyariable rule to
| make four days a week holidays, with
SAINTS Gays as extras. SluCe lueg nave
adopted the holidays of every other coun-
| try with which they have come in contact
! 1t is not surprising that the men find lit
| tie time for work. Farming, bee culture
| and cattle breeding are the only indus
| tries of these lazy people, throughout
| their territory there is not a single man.
| ufactured article. Their children marry,
while very young, they attend no school,
and, lastly, they have no money.
Prof H. de Parville has recently pub
| ;ished some statistics about the highest
| and the lowest temperature which man
| can endure, and estimates the differences
| between the highest and the loves. I'M
| its at $50 degrees Fahrenheit. French
| troops in Algiers must frequently march
| and maneuver at a heat of 122 degrees
\ above zero. DuVeyrier has during a stay
| IN the Sahara with a tribe of Tuaregs
! observed a heat of 1853 degrees. Attend
! ants in Turkish bath establishments work
/ ten hours a day in rooms where the air
| is artifcially heated to 155, 175 and even
| 1875 degrees Fahrenheit. Prof. Parville
! himself spent fifteen minutes in a hot
| air room of the Paris Hannah in which
| the dry air had been heated by his Or
| der until the thermometer registered 25C
| degrees Fahrenheit. Issuing from this
| room he plunged Immediately into a basin
| filed with water of about 50 degrees, a
| difference of almost zoo degrees Fahren-
| heit, which his body passed through in
| Jess than a minute On the other hand,
the other mammals, The Marquis OF
| Nadillac, for instance, recorded the tenn
! perature during the journey of Prince
| Henry of Orleans through the Central
| Asiatic highlands, where the party had
frequently to withstand a temperature OF
| 40 degrees below zero. The quicksilver
! n the thermometers had frozen soHdly at
| this temperature, and even the alcohol
| IN the alcohol thermometers became thick
| Horses and camels died from exposure
while none of the men in the party sur
| fered in the least. In North America
! great colds are also frequent Capt
| Burn once measured at Fort Reliance q
| temperature Of 10 degrees below zero
! while Capt. Dowron, at Fort Ran, saw
| the thermometer down to IS below zero
| IN the month of April. The lowest tenn.
| peratures known, however, have occurred
| IN Siberia, where a temperature of 50 de-
! grees below zero is not uncommon, while
| at Werchojansk a temperature of SO de-
| grees below zero has been observed Il
| appears, therefore, that men can stand q
| cold of 80 degrees below zero, while q
| heat of 100 and even 1870 degrees Fab.
| renheit appears to be the extreme limit
1 in the opposite direction. No animal Is
| known which is able to resist such
| changes of temperature.