The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-06
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gold plate more expensive. Mrs. Willam
Aston is said to have an entire service OF
purest gold, comprising thirty pieces
/ They are unornamented except for the
coat-of-arms.
Diamonds can now be engraved IN
very artistic manner, says an exchange.
It has long been believed that it was i'm
possible 10 carve designs on these hard,
glittering stones, but some roughly en-
graVed were found in India and at the
Paris exposition OF 1878 a diamond was eX-
hibited on which portrait of the KING OF
Holland had been scratched. The work
was imperfect, however, and the stone was
practically ruined.
Laboratory and bedside observations
prove the fact that between and a.
m. the vital energies of the system are
at the lowest ebb, says the Hartford
Times. 1t is then that the lowest tenn
perature of the body is recorded, and then
| that the pulse is weakest, even in
healthy individual. Most people have eX-
perienced that this is the time when, IL
we lie awake we are apt to take the
| darkest and gloomiest view of our bust
| ness transactions and prospects, all point
| ing to an abnormally low state OF the
| vital power or energy. Considering these
| facts, It can be readily understood that
| in the case of an invalid, whose tagging
| vital powers can only be kept up by free
| stimulation, when he comes to this try
| ing part of life's daily journey, when the
| horse is tired and the road is steep then
| the breakdown is most apt to occur.
Even where the depth of the sea is
| $50 feet sunlight will pentrate if the Wa
ter is very clear, says the Cincinnati En-
| puirer. Experiments which were made
| in the Mediterranean near Corsica, Is
| miles from the land, prove this 10 be the
| case. and the results were shown by
| means of Photographic plates. The depths
! to which daylight will penetrate depends,
| Of course, upon the transparency OF the
! water The Mediterranean is famous for
| the clearness of its depths and will admit
| light to a very great depth. Usually the
! light of the sun at $50 feet below the wa
ter surface is no more powerful than that
! of the moon, but at 300 feet it is scarcely
| equal to the glimmer of twilight, and at
| 600 feet there is generally perpetual dark
| ness The spotted corals are plainly Visi-
! BILE near Mindora in the Indian ocean, at
| $50 feet under water. The Caribbean sea,
which is of crystal clearness, shows OBJ
! jects at the bottom at very great depth
Most of the British biologists are now
prepared to admit that the earth has
| passed through several glacial periods, in
stead of only one, as is commonly sup
| posed, says the London correspondent OF
| the New York Sun. The latest diScoV-
\ cries among the older rocks of the Pa
| laeozoic age show the existence of dragon
| flies measuring over two feet in the ex'
| Danse of wings. These are much larger
than the reported traces of enormous In
| sects discovered about a year ago. The
! whole known fauna of that luXuriant pc
riod was upon the same gigantic scale. Re
cent discoveries of representations of the
! process Of oyster culture show that the
| ancient Romans were more advanced than
modern methods in this respect. Mr.. c.
| D. SherbOrn, who has been engaged for
| FIVE years in preparing an index of the
| forms of animal life known to man, has
| registered thus far $4,000 different species,
and the work is not finished. Mr.. J. Lo~
| gan Lobley read a carefully argued paper
to show that small columns of lava can
| not pass through thirty miles of earth
! crust, and that therefore the source of
| lava cannot be at that distance from the
| surface, as is so often assumed. From
the, pressure of everything rocks theNe
/ could be no assures giving passage or
lava below ten miles from the surface
| since this pressure, much greater than
! the crushing weight of rocks, would cause
| lateral extension where possible. If even
way We're open, lava rising from a
source thirty miles deep would, by con-
| tact with cooler rock masses lose its flu-
a
! column of lava 300 feet in diameter ana
thirty miles high would require a dy-
| mamie force of $40, 800 900 tons to sustain
it even without election. His conclusion
| was that lava is not derived from a CEN
trail source, but that by combined phvs,-
cal and chemical action rocks are fused
and lava produced within the outer RIM
OF the globe of ten miles in thickness.
Into the realm of sentiment the Sc
date and matter-of-fact statistician OBJ
trudes himself, intent on dealing, through
percentages, with matters which. one
| might think, would be exempt from such
| prosaic consideration, says the Phlladel-
| phia Times. The latest subject of sta
tistical inquiry are light and dark eyes
! and as the result of sundry responses to
| questions propounded in various coun-
! tries and duly authenticated it has been
! discovered (and not merely discovered
but also proved that. taking the average
| OF Europe and America, As is the Der-
centage OF men having light eyes in
| Guiding blue and gray. The proportion of
| girls and women having blue or gray eyes
| Is by the same computation "a 2 per cent
| In other words, blue eyes are decidedly
rarer among women than among men
! and 1t is for this reason perhaps thai
blue eyes, especially in combination with
! blond hair, are esteemed so highly as a
! feature of feminine beauty. Men have
| light eyes oftener than women, but in the
/ intermediate range of color between light
| and dark the percentage of the two sexes
is very nearly though not quite, the same.
In this intermediate ategory are brown
| and hazel eyes, neither pure light nor
genuine black. The percentage of these
among men IS 431, and among women
4o.1. The percentage of dark. or. more
properly, black eyes, is larger among wo-
men, being D.7 per cent. of the whole
number, while among men it is 1913. Per
| haps 1t is the relative rarity of dark ewes
among men which establishes the rule
that dark-eyed men are esteemed bv wo-
men to be more fortunate in the color
OF their eyes than bue-eyed men. The
| figures upon which these percentage. are
based are the result of inquiries not pros
| ecuted in one or more countries of En-
| rope or one or more states of the United
States. AS is well known, in Southern
European countries dark eyes both among
men and women predominant, while ligbt
eyes are to be found in just as high a
proportion in northern countries.
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