The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-25
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In France when a railroad train is
more than ten minutes late the company
is fined
About 300 species of turtles and tor
toises are known. Some Of these attain
a very large size.
The number of locomotives in the
world is estimated to be 10000, represent
ing a total of 100000 horsepower.
1t is said that the dredgings of the
Challenger brought to the surface teeth
Of shark which measured five inches
across.
"A mound of very ancient skulls and
bones has been discovered at the Oak
land, Cal, race park. State university sci
entists say the skulls are Of a very low
order Of intelligence. lower than the Flat
head Indians, whom these must have
antedated.
Runaway horses are unknown in Rus
STA. No one drives there without having
a thin cord with a running moose around
the neck Of the animal. When the horse
bolts the cord is pulled, and the horse
stops as soon as it feels the pressure on
its windpipe.
1t is recorded that an eagle kept in
confinement has been known to fast for
three weeks, those who have had charge
Of it having forgotten to provide its usual
supply of food. 1t soon, however, recov-
cred its strength, and did not appear to
suffer from its extraordinary abstinence.
The great pyramid of Cheops is the
largest structure ever erected by the
hand of man. It's original dimensions at
na hsg =ree s4-
perpendicular hight in the highest point
4S feet. 1t covers four acres, one rood,
and p rods of ground, and has been es-
timated by an eminent English architect
to have cost not less than $l65, 100000.
There is an English insect something
like our bee, except that it is rich vio-
let in color. which well deserves its name
of carpenter bee, says an exchange. BY
the aid Of a chisel provided by nature,
this bee eXcavates a home in any piece
of timber that suits its purpose. This
house consists of ten or twelve rooms,
instead Of one large one and in them are
reared the bees young
Mrs. Martin Luthers wedding ring
was a most curious and elaborate affair.
says a writer in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Some Cincinnati ladies, who recently saw
it in their summer travels, state that the
tations of all the articles used at the
crucihXion. The ladder, the cross, rope,
nails, the hammer, spear and even the
thorns are shown on its surface.
DIR. Gore has furnished the Anthropo-
logcal society with an account of the
smallest adult human brain ever examined
by professional anatomist or physiolo-
gist, says the Philadelphia Record 1t is
well known fact that the brain of the
adult male averages 40 ounces, the female
43ls ounces. The adult human being who
had the smallest brain ever weighed was
a female of AZ years of age. She was 5
feet high, and her intellect was infantile
The brain, without the membranes,
weighed 10 ounces and grains, being the
smallest mature brain on record.
"A rival to the old lady who lately re-
ceived gift from the queen for being the
mother of seven soldiers has been found
at Old Southgate, near London. says the
London News. She is Mrs. Skeats, whose
six sons have all done good service a.
policemen. George has been twenty-nine
years in the city force, Caleb twenty-six
years, Henry twenty-five, Ben twenty-five
Tom twenty-four, all in the Metropolitan
police; and John twenty-four years in the
Berkshire constabulary. Ben and Tom
have in addition served in the army. Their
only sister, afraid, perhaps, of seeming
singular was married 20 a policeman The
old lady herself is eighty-two years old.
One by one our available articles of
food have been reduced by the discovery
of their unwholesome properties, until it
has become hard matter to find anything
that it is safe to eat. The latest addition
to the forbidden list is the tomato. saws
the Philadelphia Times A Pittsbure
professor has discovered that the effect of
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jurious; that it produces, in those who
eat it, IAN arrest of vital activity and
peculiar cardopathia which he designates
as the tomato heart. We have long been
expecting this We did not know what
was the matter with the tomato, but so
many people like it that we were sure it
must be injurious. OF course the danger
of appendicitis from the seeds of the to-
mato was obvious; but since appendicitis
has been turned from a terror to ioy.
albeit still one of the luxuries of the rich
the doctors do not dwell on this The to-
mato, it is well known, bears close fam
lily relationship to many plants of dis
tinctly criminal character, and in spite of
its superficial charm the poisonous faint
survives in it. 1t produces the toma to
heart and whatever that may be, we must
all take pains to avoid it,
According to an ancient custom of the
imperial japanese family, the emperor
and the heir apparent to the throne Of
Japan must marry at the age of 1S while
the other princes are not allowed to
marry until they are 20. Yoshi-Hito. the
crown prince and heir apparent of the
kingdom, who was born on Aug. 81
1879, has just celebrated his seventeenth
birthday, and the imperial family is
industriously looking about for a fit life
companion for the young prince. Rumors
have been freely circulated that the en-
peror, who shows great preference for
European culture, proposes to marry his
son to an European princess; but thew
are absolutely groundless, as the Toxic
paper Nippon says, since such marriage
would be impossible according to rho
time-honored usages of the japanese and
the conservative spirit of all classes of
the people. The bride or the heir an
parent must be selected either from the
imperial family itself or from one Of
the "Gossecki," the five most aristocratic
families of Japan. 1t is authoritativeIv
stated that the selection now rests be-
tween an imperial princess and a mem
Der of one of these five families.
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