The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Science News Though it is the capital
OF Germany only 81 per cent. OF its inhab-
itants are Germans by birth.
The salary OF England's poet laureate
is only about $3.50 a year. But Mr.. Aus
tin will be entitled TO the accumulation
Of salary, which has been accruing since
Lord TennysOn's death in 1892.
Berlin school girls seem TO be growing
very emancipated. They now have their
'salamanders." OF drinking bouts. just
like the university students, but content
themselves with coffee instead of beer.
What is said to be the largest pane Of
plate glass in the country is in a win
dow in Hartford, Conn. It was made in
Belgium. and is 12ls feet high, 1872 feet
wide, half an inch thick. and weighs 1850
pounds.
The influx Of immigrants into South
Africa is continuing at such a rapid rate
that the Cape Times fears that before
many months have passed they shall once
more be face to face with the unemployed
difficulty.
The Sultan of Morocco. who is not in
clined to pedestrianism, has had a little
car line built through all the rooms of his
palace, ending in his bed room. A small
motor pulls two-seat sort of. sled. 1t
cost 100000 With this the sultan goes
about.
Pauls will be sold shortly. They support
a shabby old gallery over the south en-
trance, which is 10 be removed as ugly
and useless. The columns are mOnolith
shafts of dark Italian marble( with ala
b2ster capitals.
Over 100000 pairs Of gloves are used
in England every year, and of these fully
three-quarters are worn by ladies. The
value spent by them in these articles
amounts annually to no less than 81. 5OOO 900.
one manufacturing firm alone finds en-
ployment. directly and indirectly, for 90
coo people, and at Worcester alone nearly
hVe miles are covered by glove factories.
The Genevese are in danger of losing
their famous lake. The event. however.
is not threatened Immediately, but, ac-
cording to Prof. Forel of Lausanne will
require the lapse of $4,000 years, by which
time the lake will be completely filled up
with the mud of the Rhone and the entire
stretch from Geneva to Villeneuve pre-
sent gently inclined plane of round 5000
hectares.
Billiards is very popular in the higher
circles of French society with women, and
it is rapidly coming into favor at many
German courts. Princess Leopold of Aus
tria, the daughter of the Emperor Francis
Joseph, IS a graceful player, and in their
home at Munich she and her children have
many interesting contests on wet after
moons.
"A romantic smugglers' cave has been
found at St. Margaret's. near Dover.
whilst field was being plowed the ground
gave way and disclosed a subterranean
chamber, which Is supposed to have be-
longed to a famous smuggler living in a
neighboring wood at the beginning of this
century This part of the coast was a reg
ular happy hunting ground for smugglers
at that time.
While digging the foundations for a
nc
fiagstone was found covering an old cell
lar, IN which was a large collection of
fragments of sculpture. They came from
tne tweltth century monastery of the
Holy Sepulchre, which was destroyed dur
ing the French revolution. Many of the
pieces can be repaired.
The Malmaison carnation has quite
disappeared from the millinery of the per-
| iod In London, but only to be followed by
| pale pink camellias of precisely the same
tint. There has been some attempt to
prlng IN crimson and also white ones,
| but the pale pink remains master of the
| situation. The only flower that comes in
10 competition with it is the violet.
The Rev. Edgar E. Clough, superin-
tendent of the Black Mills Mission Confer
ence. at Deadwood, S. D., denies the story
| that some cowboys in South Dakota re-
| Gently gave a bull fight 10 raise money
| Tor church. He writes thus to Zion
| Herald: Il want to say for our cowboy
| havior, refinement and courtesy, far be-
| yond the average farm hands of the east.
occasionally the son of some good family
| In the east comes west and puts on his
| war paint; but he is the exception, and
| soon goes down through the gates of de-
prdvlty. Being New Yorker, l am pre-
| pared to speak advisedly. Our work goes
we'll. We have fine company of scholarly
ministers in charge of it,"
"A medical authority asserts that a
| post-mortem examination of the fingers
| of blind man discloses, at the tips a
! deposit identical with the gray matter
| of the brain. 1t has for years been a
noted fact that blind people become mar
| yelously apt in detecting things with their
| fingers, and this statement gives rise to
| the query just what is brain matter and
| how does it act? This authority seems in
clined to the belief that nature compen-
safes Tor the loss of sight by transferring
to the fnger-tips some of the perceptiVe
matter of the brain and this accounts
for the Representatives. of the touch of
| people with defective vision. Blind per
sons who perform no manual labor have
| very delicate hands and finger-tfps ana
there may be some truth in the theory OF
! a brain migration. 1t is quite as plausi-
| BILE however, to believe that there are in
| the inger-tips latent cells that develop
When the necessity for them presents it,
| sell. Indeed, this seems much more like
| ~ than that there is any actual trans
| ference of brain matter from one part
| OF the body to another.
According to the United States mint
officials, the words "E Pluribus Unum. -
as they appear on our coins, are there
without the sanction of law. The legend
first appeared upon copper coin "strIcll''
at the Newburg New York; mint in the
| year 1856. The United States was very
| young at that time and could not afford
the luxury of mint, so a private indi-
| Vidual by the name of Brasher openeo
| the Newburg coming establishment with
| the intention of turning out money of the
realm for all corners. Exactly how the
words "E Pluribus Unum' came to he
| used as motto is not known but one
| thing is certain. the Brasher copper coin
! bearing that legend and the date of 17ss
| is the most valuable metal disk ever
minted on this continent being worth
about $1,000. or twice as much as the
famous rare dollar'of 1904. Some time af-
| ter coming his famous copper with the
| odd Latin motto as above described
! BraSher tried his hand on a large-size1
| gold piece, producing the coin known
| TO the numismatics as "Brasher's TWEEN
| ty.' The BraSher twenty was NOT a
! $40 gold piece, however, for it lacked q
! OF weighing enough; but of late years
| it has become very scarce and valya HE
because of the fact that the legend in
! scribed upon it reads ''Unum E Pluribus -
| instead of ''E Pluribus Unum." This coin
| is now valued at 81, 500.