The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I ride in an omnibus. They must take a
cab or walk, if they do not own car
riage-
A lady residing in North Kingston.
I r l.. has just picked through the snow
I q delicate white flower, which is termed
a Winter rose The flower is odorleSs,
/ and resembles rose in form, but unlike
I the summer variety grows upon stalk
and not OF bush.
The young Dutch maiden Maria
| Cvetskens who now lies asleep at Stew
/ enswerth. has beaten the record in the an
mails Of sOmnolence. On Dec 5 she had
| been asleep 20 days. almost three-quarters
I OF a year, says an exchange. The doc
/ tors, who visit her in great numbers, are
/ agreed that there is no deception in the
| case. Her parents are Of the best re-
/ pute in the neighborhoOd for truth and
/ honesty, and 1t has never occurred to them
/ to make any financial profit out OF the
| abnormal size Of their daughter As TO
| the cause of the prolonged sleep the
| doctors differ. Some say that II is a
chronic hysteria; others assert it to be
a pronounced case of ''auto-suggestion.'
l The girls countenance has the hue or
| health, and her temperature and pulse
| are regular.
R. NJ. Kellogg of Ionia county, Michi-
l gan, one Oh the most successtul Irult
/ growers In Western Michigan, and sec
| rotary of the West Michigan Horticultu-
| raj Society, believes that a tree has its
| likes and dislikes; that it knows its
friends and its enemies when they ap-
| proach, and has a high degree of intelli-
! gence generally. He believes trees are
]
/ and that their sensibilities must be touch
| ed to gain the best results. He has made
a lifelong study of fruit trees and fruit
| growing. He exploited his theory at the
| joint convention of western Michigan
| Horticultural societies in Grand Rapids
! last week. His position was not contro-
| verted by any of the others in attendance
| nor was il verbally approved, but some of
| the older fruit growers nodded their heads
| as though his sentiments were their own.
| The French statistician, NJ. Bertillon,
| has compiled some interesting facts re-
/ garding the population of Paris and other
great capitals Only 96 per cent. of it's
/ present population was born in Paris,
| and this percentage has remained prac-
| tically the same for the last thirty years.
| The native population in st. Petersburg
| is per cent; Al in Berlin, 45 in Vienna,
| and, contrary to the general opinion. 20
| in London-the highest of all large cities.
Of all European capitals, Paris has the
| greatest number of foreigners more than
| $4,000. exclusive of 1900 naturalzed for
| eigners. Among these are 26,Se3 Germans,
| while in Berlin there are only 397 French.
| London has only 5000 foreigners; St. Pet
| ersburg, 1900; Vienna, 5000, and Berlin.
| $1,000. In Paris the number of foreigners
increased between 1893 and 1891 from A.
| 900 to $4,000. In point of numbers there
! are more Belgians (45,0OO in Paris than
| people of any other foreign nationality;
| then come the Germans, &C. S63; Swiss, 26,-
/ 600; Italians, 2l,0O0; English, 1900: Lux
emboWgians, 1900, and Russians, 5000.
| "A singular alleged discovery regarding
| electricity, described by j. R. Buchanan
in the Arena. is that 1t carries with it the
/ potentiality of everything through which
| II passes, and consequently that any num-
/ Der of patients can be medicated in sue
cession or simultaneously be given medi-
| cine without particle being lost. as
it is solidly inclosed. MY usual method
CT demonstrating this" he writes, sis to
| place a sufficient quantity of medicine in
| a medical eectrode tightly closed, and
| send an electric current through it, which
| entering by one wire and leaving by an
| other, passes through a group of stu
dents, who have joined hands, to the
negative pole. In few minutes they re-
cognize the characteristic medical infiu-
ence, some very promptly, some more
slowly mot knowing what it isl. ! think
1t probable that with continuous wire
| and sufficient motive force medical
dose might be sent from San Francisco
to New York. Certainly it would be
practicable in hospital to send a dose
by wire to the laboratory to a patient
in any part of the building, and even,
IN a properly arranged bed, to have the
rent prescribed without even knowing it,"
Even at the risk of telling what every
schoolboy ought to know. says Sir Rob-
ert Ball, ] Will say that carbon is one of
the cUmmonest as well as one Of the most
remarkable substances in nature. A lump
of coke only differs from a piece of car
bon by the ash which the coke leaves
behind. AS charcoal is almost entirely
carbon, so wood is largely composed of
this same element. Carbon is indeed pres
ent everywhere. In various forms car
bon is in the earth beneath our feet, and
in the air which we breathe. This sub
stance courses with the blood through
our veins; it is by carbon that the heat
of the body is sustained: that the same
! element is Intimately associated with life
in every phase Nor is the presence of
carbon merely confined to this earth. We
know ii abOunds on other bodies in space.
| 1t has been shown to be eminently char
! acteriStiC of the composition of comets.
Carbon is not only intimately associated
with articles of daily utility, and of plen-
teous abundance, but with the most ex-
quisite gems of '.purest ray serene" More
precious than gold, more precious than ru-
bier, the diamond itself is no more than
the same clement in crystalline form. But
the greatest of all the functions of car
bon in the universe has yet to be men,
toned. This same wonderful element has
been shown 10 be in all probability the
material which constitutes those glowing
solar clouds to whose kindly radiation our
very life owes its origin.
How many times a day do we use a
word without stopping to think what it
means? Every day we drink out of a tum-
the large glass that holds our milk and
water so called? Years ago Prof. Max
Muller was giving a luncheon at Ali
Souls College, Oxford, to the Princess AL
ice, the wife of the Grand Duke of Hesse-
Darmstadt and the second daughter of
Queen Victoria. There were not a dozen
guests beside the princess and her hus-
band, and very agreeable luncheon we
had with pleasant talk on all kinds of
the curiosity of all strangers present was
a set of little round bowls of silver, about
the size of a large orange. They were
brought round filled to the brim with the
famous ale brewed in the college. These
we are told, were tumblers, and we were
speedily shown how they come by their
names-a fitting lesson for the guests OF
a philologist. When one of these little
bowls were empty it was placed upon the
table mouth downward. Instantly, so per-
feet was it's balance, it flew back to its
proper position as if asking to be filled
again: No matter how it was treated
trundled along the floors, balanced care
fully on its side, dropped suddenly upon
the SOFT thick carpet, up it rolled again
and settled itself with few gentle shak-
ings and swaying into its place, like one
of those India rubber tumblng dolls ba-
bies delight in. This, then, was the origin
of our word tumbler, at first made of sill
yer. as are all these All Souls tumblers
Then, when glass became common, the
round glasses that stood on a fiat base
superseded the exquistely balanced silver
spheres and stole their names so success
fully that you have to go to All Souls and
few other old houses to see the real
thing.
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