The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


erey Of the avalanche which occurred
Sept II near the famous Cemmi pass in
the Alps was 4,409o0J,o10 meter-tons- The
above amount Of energy. which was eX-
pended IN about one minute. Is estimated
70 be sufficient to light z bout so.000 lamps
I'VE hours per day for one whole year.
Last week a gold penny was sold by
auction in London for no less than Sl,2J0-
This rare and interesting coin was knock
ed down 10 Sphinx OF Piccadilly. who thus
became the proud pOssessOr Of a coin Of
which only three other specimens are
Henry III, in the year 1851. of the finest
gold, which weighed two sterlings. and
Wilied tnat Il should be current for twenty
pence" The CON was. however, decried
only four are now known 10 be left, two Of
which are in the British museum.
A Maine paper gives examples Of fam
Gus names that have been duplicated.
Miles Standish died the other day ii
Maine ARENAS Ward still lives in the
TSIle s5ate; eTeneras Grant died in Har-
mOny NUMBER OF years since, John
Quincy Adams was drowned at Vance
DOro a short time ago. Peregine White
lives in SkoWnegan, also in Bangor; Jo-
ssph Warren lives in Rome. Ne; Captain
john Smith and John Brown live almost
anywhere, James Buchanan was wounded
by a guard at ThOmastOn while trying to
escape, and Oliver Cromwell is serving a
lie sentence in that same institution.
Arabia is subject to colder weather
than is generally supposed. A recent ex-
plorer, VI. NOlde, reports that during an
expedition into the desert of Nejed, in the
2SJn degree of north latitude, the temper
azure, atler very not day, frequently fell
at night to degrees or even 10 degrees
centigrade. one day in February Il reach
ed 300 degrees centrigrade, and fell to s
degrees after sunset. the minimum being
II degrees centigrade. Next day the traV-
elers were overtaken by a storm which
covered the ground some inches deep with
snow, and gave it the appearance of a
Russian steppe in the winter season.
The effect of freezing upon fishes has
been the recent subject Of research by a
French scientist He cooled the water in
an aquarium containing live carp to diff
ferent degrees below freezing. AT degree
cenugrade The fishes seemed to fall
asleep, but were not frozen. At 3 degrees
they were apparently dead, but retained
their heXibility. The water then being
gradually warmed, they revived BEGAN to
swim, and showed no signs of suffering.
This would indicate that the polar seas.
whose temperature never falls below 8
dress centigrade, may be congenial
abode for creatures Injured to this degree
of cold.
An English traveller in Norway says:
Il have read that the Norwegian children
are exceedingly fond of sweets, and ow-
ing to the heavy tax on sugar have few
opportunities of eating them; so / bought
a pound IN Bergen and this hand round.
The whole family sOlemnly help them
selves, and, with deep gratitude depict
Cd on their faces. come up to us. shake
hands with the doctor and myself and
say: TAX. give some cigars to the
farmer and the two sons, the latter never
having before smoked such a thing. The
thrift of the Norwegian is shown in the
treatment OF these cigars by the youths.
They smoke for five minutes, then care
fully eXtinguish the burning end and
place the cigar away in some corner of
the house. The next morning l see them
having another five minutes smoke, and
these cigars actually last for over two
days, being taken in homeopathic doses
at intervals of about two hours. Finally
the ends are cut up and used in grand
fathers pipe"
DR. Philip c. Knapp describing the orr
gin Of nervous diseases in the Century,
says that many of them are due, directly
or indirectly, to the action of different
forms OF bacteria, or disease germs. Near
~ all the forms of meningitis, or brain
fever, are due 10 the direct action of differ
ent forms of the bacteria upon the MEM
branes that cover the BRAIN Other forms
of nervous disease are now thought to be
organism. Others still are due to the ac-
ton of poisonS produced by the germs of
other diseases There is. for example. a
form of paralysis which not infrequently
follows diphtheria, which is due, not to
any weakness of the nervous system, but
to the action of the diphtheretic poison
forms of paralysis may follow smallpox,
typhoid fever, pneumonia or influenza.
Many of the diseases of the spinal cord
are of similar origin. Locomotor ataxia
and general paresis, two common and
fatal diseases, are in most cases the result
of one Of these infectious diseases.
Leaving town al a certain season is by
no means a modern practice, for abund-
ant evidence Of periodical holidays among
the ancients is found, says the Boston
frq 20 . Nv l.,I
mansions and also their country villas,
TO which they regularly resorted al GER
tain seasons of the year. From Egyptian
monuments ii is gathered that the leading
mem bers of the ar.stocracy had large es-
tates, in which their mansions stood and
upon these were kept horses, cattle, poul-
try, and large number of servants. Cic-
gro and his contemporaries not only dwelt
in Rome, but at certain seasons left the
city and resided in their villas on the
shores of the Mediterranean The games
at Olympia Delos, and elsewhere served
as periodical holidays, and many left their
| town residences and took up their abode
| in the neighborhood where the contests
might be within easy reach. Horace
! shows how he and Heliodorus visited Coo
ceius' villa at Candium; but Cocceius did
not always reside there. He visited Can
| dunn at certain seasons. He also tells
| that the Eastern Mediterranean was a
| taVorite touring ground, especially for the
! Roman nobility, who visited Greece as
| Americans visit Europe and because il
| was fashionable to stay in Rome at GER
tain times, just as it is now to stay "in
| town"
The earliest jewels the pedigree of which
can be traced lie in the museum of Boo
lax, in Egypt. They belonged to Queen
Aha-hopep queen of the eighteenth dy-
nasty in Egypt, apparently some time be-
! tween 11C3 and 1891 B. c. There is, how
| ever, much dispute as to the date of her
! reign. In 1853 her tomb was opened by NJ.
Marietta; where it lay in the Valley Of
! the Tomb of the Kings. When her coffin
was opened a remarkable collection of
| precious stones and jewels was found
within. The most important of these was
diadem of gold and enamel set on the
| head of the queen. This had an inscrio-
| ton in gold on d ground Of lapis lazuli.
and a sphynx couchant on each side A
| small porcelain cylinder Is Ornamental
| with intenaced lotus flowers in intagIlo.
and a gold drop inlaid with turquoise II,
| the shape of fig. To the center of a
| gold chain inlaid with lapis lazuli. and a
| bracelet of quite modern pattern is dec
| Grated with figures in repousse. with a
! ground inlaid with lapis lazuli 1t is plain
from this account that lapis lazuli was the
| most commonly used of the precious
| stones. 1t is interesting to observe tina;
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