The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Given an equal number OF strands 20
make up the rope. says an exchange. and
each Of the same circumference, Il may
be readily shown that wire, twisted INTO
rope form, viii make rope so strong
as 20 admit OF no comparison. twisted
hempen cords viii sustain 6445 pounCs'
II the rope be one inch thick put one
eighth OF an inch in diameter OF iron VIII
sustain more than one inch IN clrcCm-
feTeace Of hemp rope. NO rope
whatever its material could bear compaF-
ison with an inch rope made OF German
piano steel wire, such rope beng aD-e
10 bear not less than 26S,oo0 pounds. OF
nearly 10 tons. before IL could be torn
b. a dead weight
-ApropOs Of the intense love that caval-
~ horses have for music, a correspon-
dent Of an English paper writes that
when the Sixth ORA g0Ons recently enang-
ed their quarters a mare belonging 20 one
Of the troopers was taken so III as 70 De
unable to proceed on the journey the FOL
lowing morning. Two days later, an
other detachment Of the same regiment,
accompanied by the band, arrived. The
sfck mare was in a loose box but, hearing
the martial strains, kicked a hole through
the side of her box, and making her way
through the shop Of a tradesman, took
her place in the troop before she was Sc
cured and brought back to the stable.
But the excitement had proved too great
fatal.
"A man who is fond Of studying the
habits of spiders vouches for the truth
Of the following story: My attention was
called by a clerk in a drug store to web
which had been superbly decorated with
fakes and scales of logwOOd. I thought
at nrst that this beautiful passementerie
effect had been produced accidentally, but
after watching Tor a few minutes l saw
a spider descend into. the box of log
wood, affix a thread Of silk to fake Of
the dye, hoist IL 10 the web above, and
securely fasten it to one of the trans
verse strands. The glittering scales NOV
ed at the slightest jar or when they were
struck by a current OF air, and were
dazzling to the eye. This little decOra-
tive artist had indeed constructed a truly
palatial residence"
in "A Partisan in America" NJ. &c
Scissors says: 1.-TWO Americans meeting.
accost one another with a How do you
do? Immediately followed by the inquiry
How.s business? We Frenchmen say
Comment VOus porter vOusg (How 90
you carry yOursefO, because we care so
much about out appearance; in fact, we
are the most vain nation in the world.
The Germans says, VIE gents Ihnen?'
(How goes it with your, and, indeed, they
do go very slow, but sure. The Italians,
Come, staten How do you stayD. And
you know how they stay, especially IN
these days with their army and finances.
The Russians, 'Kok pagiviyetyeh?' (How
do you liVeD, because they are so fond
of good material living. But the Angl1-
SaXons say, How do you dor because all
their faculties are concentrated upon their
work, upon hard work from morning till
night; that is the secret of their pros
perity. The American says still more; he
asks Immediately about business. They
do not care about their health, about their
living; their great care is about bust
ness; they kill themselves with hard
work, they neglect their physical and
mental life, but they make business -four
ishing and booming"
"A well-known Russian who was re-
Gently asked by a foreigner why so much
fuss was being made over the coronation
of the car, says the London Times. re-
Piled by simply reminding his interlocu-
tor that Russia had more than 10, 900 miles
Asiatic frontier. This is the briefest way of
accounting for the vast scale of splendor
ana magnlncence on which a coronation
in Russia is still performed. 1t certainly
partakes more of the east than the west,
and Is perhaps calculated to impress &C
cordlngly. In other European countries the
modern tendency is rather to reduce the
details of such ceremonies, while Just the
opposite tendency seems still to prevail IN
RUSSIA. A glance at the records of past
coronations in that country leads to the
conclusion that the pOmO and circum-
stances attending them have not diminish
ed with the advance of modern ideas, but
rather increased. Not only do the rare
coronation ceremonies of other countries
pare DeTOre the religious Inauguration of a
Russian car but there are other power
Iul monarchies at present in Europe like
Germany, for instance, where the reign
ing sovereign has never yet undergone a
coronation, and does not appear to REQUIRE
one. In Russia, however il appears 10 he
| indispensable to the government and the
nation. Their great love of display and
purely eastern traditions may also be reck-
oned among the causes but the machinery
| OF government Is not supposed to get into
proper working order until after a new
car mas been crowned and it is only then.
as a general rule, that the personal policy
or the imperial autocrat becomes a known
| quantity, both to his own people and TO
the world at large.
Just as the hoof of the horse is the
remnant of an original five toes, says the
Westminster Gazette; just as the pineal
gland in man is now said to be the sur
vival of a prehistoric eve on The ION of
the head, SO, PERHAPS this levitv IN "a
gard TO particular ailments lin others)
may be the descendant of an aborteinai
Ierocity IN man 1t is a welI-knOwn theory
tnat what we call humor aToee from the
same source; that the first human, laugh
mat ever woke the astonlshed echoes Of
gloomy primeval forests was not an ex-
preston OF mirth, but exultatIon over tha
misery OF tortured enemy. There is
70 TINS Gay, something terrible in laughter.
The laugh of madness or of cruelty is a.
sound more awful than that of the Bit
terest lamentations. By means of that
strange photograph that we call aitera-
ture, we can listen even now to the laugh
Ter OF the dead; to the hearty outlaws or
cynical offerings Of generation after GEN
GRAFTON or bygone men and women. and
II we are curious in such matters, we can
PROBE INTO the nature of the changes that
nave passed over the fashion of men s
humor. For 1t has been said. not vvitbonI
the support OF weighty cumulative evil
dence, that, as we penetrate further in
to the past, we find the sense of humor
depending always more obviously and
solely upon the enjoyment of the pain.
misfortune, modification or embarrass-
ment of others. The sense of superiority
was the sense of humor in our ancestors.
or, IN other words vanity lay at the root
OF this, as of most other attributes of our
bumptious species! Putting ear to our
monograph, we catch the echoes of a
strange and merry tumult; bo.sterous