The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Prof. Hebra o. Vienna asserts that me
sun does not produce freckles. They new
- appear. he says. in children under the
aEe q or s years. whether exposed 20
The sun or not
An acute musical ear viii detect 50
slight difference in tone between two
notes as the one sixty-f0urth OF q semi
tone. This means tha- in the eleven &C.
IaFes mat the human ear comp2sses there
would be at least some S.loJ or 500 con-
sclcusiy different notes
The physician and hygienist. Sir B.
W Richardson. recently expressed his
decided opinion that if men and women
- general properly understood and stead
i-y ooeyed the laws Of their beins-phys-
lcll, Intellectual and mOral--0 per cent
ot them would live 10 10.
1t is said that half the worlds pro
ductiOn Of quinine is used In the United
States Quinine IS sold by Italian drug
glsis al from 81 10 $50 a pound. while
me government gets it for the army at
- pound II IS proposed TO make the
SAFE OF the drug a government monopoly.
1t may not generally be known that
St Peters in Rome has On many occa-
sions been reconsecrated owing to sui
clues having been committed there. The
last suicide in the church was in IS5I
II was not necessary 10 bless the building
again at that time. because the pope
was then in the sanctuary.
by actual measurement Of fifty skele-
tons the right arm and left leg have
been found to be longer in twenty-three.
the lett arm and right leg in six, the
ilmDs on the right longer than those on
the Ieft IN four, and in the remainder the
inequality OF the limbs was varied. Only
seven out of seventy skeletons measured,
OF ~ per cent, had limbs of equal length.
OF all the numerous instruments en-
ployed in our times the Oldest and most
widely known are the drum, harp and
uaspipea. Inc urst OF these. simple as
an important part in music. 1t origi-
mated In the north of Asia. and was Tor
more than 200 years the only insIru-
ment known TO the rude and rowing Tar
tars.
Curious as it seems. there is a distinct
relation between mans pursuits and the
color of mans hair. An unusual pro-
portion Of men with dark hair. Straight
hair enter the ministry; administered
men are apt to be given TO sporting and
noIseheSn, While the tail vigorous, blond
man' hneal descendant Of the Vikings
still contributes a large contingent 10
travellers and emigrauts.
The small letter ~ was formerly writ
ten without the dot. The dot was intro
duced in the fourteenth century to distin-
guisn y from e in hasty and indistinct
writing. The letter - was originally
"a. Il
tnctiOn between ~ and so was intro
duced by the Dutch printers at a compar-
aatlve.y recent date and the j" was dotted
rived was written with a dot.
An eastern nabob recently rendered
the viceroy of India and his staff a break
fast, the occasion being the opening of a
new palace. One of the courses he GER
tainly stole from Mother Goose although
II IS likely he was innocent of intentional
theft Large and suspicious cakes We're
handed around to the guests, and when
these We're opened little birds wax bills.
neW out of each, ahghted on the shrubs
and flowers surrounding and began to
sing. There were sixty guests and con-
seQuently sixty birds.
According to a well-known astrono-
mer, every year the weight of the earth
is augmented by the falling on its sur
race OF metallic iron in very fine powder,
and this iron, which comes to us from
shooting stars, falls almost continually.
sometimes alone, and sometimes mixed
with rain or snow. In all snow he found
iron in appreciable quantities and in a
state OF fine subdivision. He has in this
way procured material enough 70 form
small charm, which he wears attached
to his watch-chain.
The largest loaves of bread in the
world are those baked in France and
Italy. In Italy the pipe" bread IS baked
IN Ioaves two and tree feet long, while
IN France they make bread in the shape
OF rolls five feet in length sometimes
six feet. Women, almost exclusiyeIv at
tend TO the bread trade in Paris. About
90 a. m. they go to the bake shops and
spend an hour polishing up the bread,
removing ashes and c5nders and then
go their rounds. Those who live in flats
ma their bread leaning against the door
as 40 restaurant keepers. These bread
vendors earn about 80 cents a day, and
uneIr work is done by 10 a. m.
"A firm of New York watchmakers re-
Gently filled an order for a watch for
Nicholas II, the Car of all the Russias.
Iney nave received a letter from him
ACKNOWLEDGING the receipt of the watch
and saying that he is highly pleased
with it. The watch is of the open-face
pattern, and has a Split-second attach
ment and calendar of the moon and sun.
The calendar Is perpetual and makes al
lowance for short months and leap years.
II has hVe small dials distributed about
the large dial. Although of a complicated
mechanism, the watch is not so large
as the ordinary watch, and is not much
thicker. The back Of the case is elab-
orately decorated with the imperial
crown, surrounding the cars monogram.
The enamel Of the monogram is blue and
red, while several cOlors are used in imi-
tating the Jewels of the crown. OF
the works do not differ from watches
regularly carried in stock by many deal
ers.
Some time ago the labor of deepening
the harbor of Ciotat was completed. To
celebrate the completion of his labor
and to make the occasion memorable
the contractor gave to the members of
his staff and the representatives of the
press a banquet unprecedented for its
originality. The table was set eight me-
tiers below the level of the sea at the
very bottom of the harbor, inside the
caisson," N which the excavators had
been at work, and only the narrow walls
OF this caisson separated the guests
from the enormous mass of water around
and above their heads. The new-fashion
bancueting hall was splendidly decorated
and lighted and, but for certain buzzing
IN the ears, caused by the presence of az
kept up in the chamber in order to pre-
vent the thrush of water nobody would
nave suspected that the slightest inter-
rupuon in the working of the air pump
would have sUfficed to asphyxiate the
whole party. After the banquet an impro-
vised concert prolonged the festivities for
several hours, after which the guests re-
ascended into the open air.
The old custom of chalking the youths
and maidens who remain unmarried af
ter Shrovetide is generally known in the
south OF Ireland says the London Globe.
In Irish agricultural districts the time