The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-22

/ Prince Victor Napoleon inherited 1000
I francs a year from his father. His aunt,
/ the Princess MathHde Bonaparte. gives
! him an income of 1l.e0 francs. and the eX-
I empress the sum OF $500 francs yearly
I But. as both these royal ladies like 10 I've
I In France part u the year. they give their
/ sums on the condition that the prince does
/ not use any OF it for political agitation
Science says that many insects can fly
faster than birds. The common house fly
I can ordinarily fly twenty-five feet a sec
I ond. But when IL is alarmed il has been
i found that f. can increase its rate or
I speed. 10 over 16U feet per second If il
I could continue such rapid fight To- mile
l IN a straight line IL would cover that dis
! lance in exactly thirty-three seconds. II
Is not an uncommon thing when travelling
| by rail in the summer time 10 see a bee
| or wasp keeping mp with the train and
! trying to get in at one Of the windows.
| A swallow is considered one of the swift
! est OF flying birds, and u was thought IN
/ til recently that no insect could escape IT.
/ A naturalist tells of an exciting chase he
| saw between swallow and q dragon ny,
| which Is among the swiftest OF insects.
/ The insect flew with incredible speed ana
! wheeled and lodged with such ease that
| the swallow. despite its utmost efforts.
| completely failed TO Overtake and cap
| ture il.
-Icebergs in the North Atlantic this
| season. according to the Nautical Maya
zine have been exceptionally numerous,
/ especially near the southeastern eXtrem-
/ itV Of Newfoundland, says the EnildQel-
| phia Record. Incoming vessels at st
/ Johns, y. F.. report passing icebergs al
! most continuously. One field Of ice pass
/ ed was four miles wide and twenty-One
| miles long, and from one point as many
! as 20 bergS We're sighted at one time
| Several very lofty masses of Ice are also
! reported, one being 500 feet high and over
,
| mass, though smaller. was 400 feet high,
and go feet long. Icebergs of over l.OO
! feet above the sea surface have not IN
! frequently been reported in the southern
| ocean. 1880 feet being the greatest hight
| recorded. but a berg COO feet high in the
| North Atlantic is exceptional. When II
is remembered that icebergs are sub
| merged six-seVenths OF their night one
| 600 feet high above the water surface rep
resents mass almost mile high.
In the next great European war kites
will inevitably play a conspicuous part,
says an exchange. They are. in fact,
more serviceable than balloons. Lieut..
| Powell has shown this in a most con-
| elusive manner. This inventors air-cdr,
! or man-lifting kite. IS practically invul-
| nerable. Where a balloon Is impracticable
! II may be employed with absolute sale
| ~. 1t is more portable and less costly;
| II requires no reserve supply, and Is not
| precluded from ascending by too much
| wind. Inc machine consists OF a Tying
number of sails Of f1attened hexagonal
| shape. These are connected one behind
| the other to the ground line, from which
latter is suspended basket-car, provided
| with a parachute, in case Of misadVen-
ture. Kites Will also be used in future
warfare for carrying such explosives as
| dynamite. For this purpose a series of
| seven kites. built on light bamboo frames,
will be employed. and the explosives could
be carried to an enormous distance, and
then automatically dropped by pulling a
string.
All gardeners, says Leisure Hours, know
that curious plants can be produced by
grating, and to the country it IS no ex-
traOrdinary sight TO see a tree bearing two
kinds of plum or pear as the result of it,
Mr. A. w. Sutton of the great seed estab-
lishment at Reading, has lately described
in the Journal of the Royal Horticultu-
raj Society a number of interesting ex-
| periments made with tomato and potato
plants, these two being botanically relat-
ed to one another. A potato tuber was
planted, and when it had attained the
| hight of few inches above the SOIL the
stem was cut off and a tomato graft was
connected to 1t. As a result the cOmpo-
| site plant produced a crop OF potatoes at
| the roots, while the foliage above ground
| bore crop of tomatoes, nOurished by
| the potato roots. The process was then
reversed, a potato graft being introduced
upon tomato stalks The tomato roots
| did not produce potatoes, but the potato
| plant above ground first threw Out pOta-
TO flowers and berries and afterward pro-
duced tubers from the axis of the leaves
and stems In this case the designation
of the potato as a pomme de terre is evil
IDENTIFY a misnOmer.
Water much as men may dislike ii, Is
good for men to drink, says the New Or
leans Picayune. 1t is possible to prevent
many diseases and cure others by drink
ing large quantities of water An eminent
French physician says that typhoid fever
q n rel ecsd 0ra~ - H1,s.
ter. He gives his patients what would
amount to eight or ten ounces an hour OF
sterilzed water. Experiments have been
made with diseases caused by bacteria
which demonstrate the curative value OF
water In cases of cholera where the svs-
TEN secretes large amount of fluid. enor-
nous quantities of hot water are Of great
! beneht, and Will cure many cases without
other medicines. one doctor says that per
fectly sweet cider, taken in large quaint
ties, has been known 10 cure asses of bow
ell complaint. The acid kills the bacteria
which are speedily thrown out Of the sys-
TEN. Hot water. in fevers is of great use
and an ordinary tumbler full of water as
hot az can be taken once an hour is one
of the very best remedies The important
thing IS to get into the system and out OF
II sufficient amount of water to pre-
vent accumulation of ptomaines and tox-
ms within the body.
Human beings, says the Pittsburg Dis.
patch, have six muscles to each eye. thai
they may with facility, move it on either
side; but horses. cows. sheep, and other
quadrupeds, which habitually incline theii
heads to the earth in search of food, have
a muscle by which the eyelids are sus.
pended and supported, and which we dc
not need.This is a wonderful adaptation &c
the circumstances in which the creature is
| placed. For example, the eyes of amphi.
bious animals partly agree with those oil
the fish and the quadruped. The cat anG
the tiger which prowl by night have a
= peculiar power of expanding the pupil The
eyes of fish have no apparatus to rnoister
them, and 1t would be obviously unneces-
sary. The eye is adapted to the proper-
ties of light. so that 1t refracts the light
and brings it to a focus on the retina. ON
best and most perfect glasses are bv no
means equal TO the human eye. Gnats and
flies have great number OF eyes; they
can see on every side without any move
ment OF the organs of vision. Fish have
a crystalline, almost round, to fit the ewes
TO the strong refraction OF light in the ole.
ment, in which they live, and though thev
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