The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

frozen water pipes in England. a doubled
wire being run into the pipe until Il meets
the obstruction, and then the current is
turned on. and as the current passes II
becomes hot and melts the ice.
AT the present time there are owned
and controlled by the railroads and pri-
vate car companies Of America nearly l.
z5o.e0 freight cars. OF, in other words,
enough cars TO make two continuous
trains reaching from Boston to San Fran
cisco. with an engine for every forty-five
cars
The growth OF the nails on the left
hand requires eight or ten days more than
those on the right. The growth is more
rapid IN children than in adults. and goes
on faster in summer than in winter. II
requires an average Of 152 days for the re-
newal OF the nails in cold weather and
but ll6 in warm weather.
Recently whilst a preacher to Jansen
Vile church was in the midst Of his ser
mon, a splendid tom-cat entered the sa-
cred edlnce and, silly sinking up the pull
PIT steps, jumped upon the cushioned desk
IN 'front.' OF the minister who was so start
led that he aimed a blow at pussy and
knocked him down amongst the congrega-
ton. The funniest part Of the incident is
that the name Of the feline intruder is
satan"
in japan is devoted to raising rice, per-
haps as much as nine-tenths of the whole
and as that crop requires a great deal OF
water the paddy fields are banked UP into
terraces, one above the other and divided
on into little plats % or 80 feet square,
with ridges Of earth between them to keep
the water from flowing away when they
are Hooded. All farming lands are irri-
gated by a system that is a thousand
years old. Some Of the bitches are walled
fan. HI
with tiles and stone.
IF you ever should get lost on any
of the western deserts" said on old pros
pector to the San Francisco Post, land
become almost famished for water keep
your head clear and your eyes open for
Indian rocks, and you will find it. All
or these stretches of desert were traVersed
by the Indians centuries before any white
man ever saw them. and thew We're ca re-
tul to mark the location of all water
NOES. You can drop me anywhere in the
deserts and in very short time I will
ma my way to the nearest water On
every little prominence you will find a
stone with one end pointed. Follow the
direction it points until you come to an
other prominence. There YOU will find
another pointed stone. These stones are
carefully laid, and all point in the same
general direction. All a man has to do
Is to follow them and he finds water''
IOILY
days is thrown into the background as
a starvation fact by the performance Of
the Dig anaconda at the geological gar
dens, which was only recently tempted
to eat nice fat rabbit after going hum
CRY for twenty-five months, says the
Philadelphia Record. 1t may have been
even longer but the keepers have no
record Of the creatures doing previous
to its captivity, and so can't tell 1t is
not very unusual for a snake to abstain
from 1000 for several months, at the
end OF which time death generally re-
suits; but the anacOnda's case is dis,
tinctly different from any other Its fast
lasted over twice as long as any in the
history or the Zoo" and during the
Whole OF its continuance there was no ev-
ldence of ill-health. The spell now seems
to be entirely broken, and the anaconda
calls regularly for its meals.
"A firm in Regent street, London.
makes a business of Matching out arti-
fcially birds, chickens and the like. and
the incubators adapted for their various
purposes are lined up against the sides
OF the long room. They also take infants
that are prematurely born, and by keep
ing them in certain and unVarying tenn
perature, develop them into healthy and
lusty babies. Perhaps the strangest of
all their many appliances for Matching
living organisms is their biological incu-
bator. Here are cultivated" whole col
onies" of deadly microbes for purposes OF
meteorological investigation and expert
ment. The cholera bacillus, the scarlet
fever micrococcus, the leprosy and tuber-
culosis bacilli, and dozens of other yarie-
ties Of these pestiferous little organisms
propagate themselves in these forcing
houses with marvellous rapidity. They are
grown on small lozenge-shaped pieces of
gelatine, and fragment the size of a
quarter suffices to maintain a Colony
or S0,OOOOO of microbes. This particular
incubator is fastened by two locks of the
latest ion md sy,A-
ton; and, in view of the terrible results
that might possibly follow from anv nm
authorized meddling with its grewsome
contents, the precaution seems a wholly
necessary one.
There is one corner of the world where
the fashions of the people have remained
the same for the last thousand years.
says the Cincinnati Enquirer. The Lam
lady IS not concerned about the latest
toque from Paris, nor is she subject to
| that soul-harrowing experience, the bar
gain counter crush. However she NAV
| properly lay claim to having been the
| original bloomer girl, for the neither gar
ment worn by her to-day is of the same
design as that worn by her ancestors
| or a thousand years ago. The summer
garment Of the Laplander is usually of
coarse wooden goods and has somethine-
the cut of a skirt with a high coIIar
Among the sea Lapps it is for the most
| part undyed; among the other Iapps usu-
any Dtue, sometimes green or brown and
even black smock frocks have been seen
! Round the Wristbands, along the seam
in the back and on the edges this snocIt
is ornamented with strips of red and vel
low cloth. Under this garment is a sim
! liar one, either plain or figured. worn
next to the body, for the Lapp never
wears linen underclothing. The trousers
are OF white wooden goods, rather narrow
and reaching to the ankles, where tbev
are tie inside the shoes with long. slender
shoestrings. Over these drawers are usu-
ally worn leggings of thin tanned skins
reaching from the ankles to the knees
Stockings the Lapp never wears. He fiIis
the upper curving tip of his shoes with n
sort of grass, which is gathered in SIM
mer and beaten to make it soft and nil
| able. The winter costume only differs
from that worn in summer in that ever,
| piece is made of reindeer skin with tbs
hair on. The dress of the women differ
very slightly from that worn by the rnan
! The smock is somewhat longer and e.
made without the big, standing collar
instead of which a kerchief or can iS
worn about the neck. To the woven ana
| often silver-ornamented girdle hang n
knife, scissors, key, needle and thread
| The head covering is not only different
! in the two sexes, but also differs Accord
ing TO the locality 0SA ~