The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The biggest rope ever used for haul
age purposes has just been made for a dis
trict subway in Glasgow. Scotland. II is
seven miles long. four and five-eighths
inches in circumference and weighs nearly
sixty tons. II has been made in one IN
jointed and unspliced length OF patent
cruciole steel. When in place IL will form
a complete circle around Glasgow. cross
ing the Clyde in its course. and will run
al a speed Of fifteen miles an hour.
Sweden has the Oldest and largest
match factory in the world. Matches were
made there long before the old roughly
trimmed splinter Of wood tipped with sui
phur was dicarded with the finder boxes
for which they were used. In twenty-five
years the export trade of Sweden in mod
ern matches increased TO 100000 boxes a
year Some Of the machines for making
the matches which We use in these days
make 30 revolutions a minute each, and
turn out about 100000 boxes annually.
Altogether there are in Europe about So.
900 factories, and they yearly produce
matches valued at 100000.
The customs at the court Of Montene-
gro would seem to be somewhat primitive.
judging from a reported incident at a re-
cent dinner party, says the New York
Tribune. The prince and his guests were
sitting in the dining hail. when the ser
wants entered bringing in an enormous
boar roasted whole, which they placed on a
table. The prince and his guests drew near
and. at sign from his highness, a young
officer drew his sword, and with one stroke
cut through the hog through the table
cloth and deep into the table. Inside the
boar was a turkey, and inside the turkey
a snipe which had been shot by the prince
and it is said to have acquired a most deli
cate flavor from its manner of cooking.
Our consul at Batum says that brig
. andage in the Caucasus is far from be-
ing stamped out. A determined attack
was made last year on one of the licorice
factories standing within 200 yards of
railway station. The brigands, who were
well armed, got within the high wall sur
rounding the buildings, where work is
carried on night and day. The dwelling
house Of the owner and his European en-
ployes, the officers and the factory were
all held under a hot fire. The owner of
the factory went into the veranda and
called one of his watchmen, when a hail
Of bullets whistled past his head, and the
Waterman was shot dead, says the Lon
don Times. A running fire on the rail-
way station was also kept up, and a pas
senger train, which arrived during the at
tack, was fired upon. The brigands en-
tered the Office, and, after three hours
work, during which they kept up a furi-
Gus fusilade, succeeded in breaking open
the iron safe, from which they stole about
1900 rUbles, and then made off. one
gang of these brgands was interrupted
by Cossacks on the following day, and
five of their number were killed. Some
of the Cossacks also fell. Murders and
outrages are very frequent in the district.
and brigandage in general is more or less
rife all over the Caucasus
of all the twin organs of the body the
ears are probably more alike than any
other, says the New York Journal. Stin.
there is a difference. And so it is with
other parts of the body One eye, for ex-
ample, is generally more open than the
other, and often there is shade of differ
ence in color between them. Oculists saw.
too, that ii is rare-almost unique-to find
two eyes in the same head that have ex-
actly the same powers of vision. This
arises from using one more than the 9TH
er, and, like the hand. it is generally the
right eye that is most frequently called
into use, and is the stronger. Few people
not tailors have ever noticed that the
right shoulder is generally lower than the
left. They say that this arises from the
almost universal habit men have of rest
ing the left elbow on the desk while writ
ing, and also to the equally prevalent
practice of those who carry heavy burdens
resting them on the right shoulder. In
arms and legs there is generally but a
slight difference as regards length, but in
size and strength the right arm and the
left leg, being oftenest used, are the more
fully developed muscularly. It is the right
hand and the left foot also which ex-
| coed their companions in size. Glove max
erS say that 800 people out of thousand
have larger right hands than left, for the
more hand is used the larger it grows.
| Up to the advent of the bicycle it is said
that women's hands were growing smaller
during the last twenty-five or thirty years,
| but now that so many ladies grip the han
die bars of their wheels several hours a
| day there is every reason to believe that
| they will soon have to wear SIP gloves, in
| stead of IS, unless the maker marks them
down whole size, instead of a half, as
is now the custom.
The astonishing growth of European
cities in the last twenty years is but
part of a movement in population which
| is general throughout civilized countries.
says the New York World. 1t is GER
| tainly unprecedented in history In this
country the increase of from 100000 TO
| 100000 in less than two decades is par
| alleled by Germany, which has increased
from 30,0O0 900 to 50, 100000 since the Franco
| Prussian war. England shows like in
| crease, confined chiefly to the cities.
While ireland. Italy and Spain are not
so responsible to the movement, it is
! for causes too we'll understood to mako
| their cases seem exceptions to the rule
| that the great scientific and mechanical
! improvements of the century are making
| it possible for the world to produce and
| support larger population than was
| dreamed of even by the most pronounced
! opponents of Malthusianism in their con-
| troversies with the ignorant theorist who
believed that the limit of population had
| been or was about to be reached Ac-
| cording to Mulhall, the total popula-
| ton of the earth in the time of Angus
| tus Caesar did not exceed 81. OOO OOO 50
that in the United States we now have
| more people than the earth contained
| when the empire of the Caesars was At
it's greatest. According to the same an
| thority the population of Europe was
only 100000 in the fifteenth century
while now it is estimated at over S57. OO0 :
| 600 people, whose average of living is
far higher than that of the age of An
| gustus or than that of the fifteenth cen
| fury. 1t is becoming more and more self
| evident proposition that the Increase ~
| civilization is not Onlv aCcoY,,pa rio1 -