The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-11
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sert fragments Of human skin the book
I covers The skin OF notorious criminals
/ IS generally used for tobacco pouches and
pocket-books- The bodies are sent after
| execution 10 the Ec0Ie de Medicine. But
/ there are ways and means of getting a
morsel Of the head or body, and police
/ reporter OF a Paris paper still shows
cigarette case made of Pranzinis skin.
One of the novelties proposed for the
| Paris exposition Of 1890 IS a telescope near
! ~ 20 feet in length. The objective glass
| VIII have diameter Of something over
| -FOUR feet three inches, the largest in the
| world The colossal tube viii be placed
| horizontally, and the image Of the moon
/ Wall De reelected by what is termed a mir
rOr plane. six feet IN diameter and IS
| 1ncnes thlckIhe weight viii be 5000 lbs
] The special feature Of rho idea is that
/ the image Of the moon shall be thrown up
ON a screen placed In a hall large enough
culate that with an apparatus Of these di-
| InenSlons II viii be possible 10 discern cas-
liE OBJECTS OF the s-Ee of the NOtre Dame
| cathedral towers and to distinguish the
eVoIuuons of a lunar regiment. Should the
opening OF the 10th century be signalized
| ~ volcanic eruptions in the mountains of
the moon, visitors 70 the exhibition would
| nave grand spectacle.
Social life in Yucatan. according to the
Philadelphia Record, presents some Gu
| rious reversals of our accepted ideas Of
SOoa manners. The Yucatecan, like his
| Ldun brother across the sea talks as
much with his hands and his ewes as with
ms tongue, and that is saying a great
zeal, and shrugs his shoulders as fire.
quenuy as the Frenchman Among the
| many gestures in general use that known
as the peso sopladO is one of the prettiest.
| II IS made by gathering the fingers of the
right hand close together. touching the
| lips with them; then throwing them out
/ Mard IKE fan. at the same time blow
/ ing lsnIiy on the hand as it is Outstretch-
| ed toward the person for whom the dem
/ 9nStration is intended. As everywhere in
I Spanlsh-America, gentlemen manifest
I q GF faF 1Q1 hon 1,rs
gazing intently into the faces of the la
dles Werever met; and what in the north
would be resented as an impertinance is
charms.
There seems to be evidence, says POpu-
lar Science News, that some animals at
least are left-handed. Parrots grasp and
hold food with the left claw Livingstone
stated that lions struck with the left paw;
ne taught that all animals are left-handed
David 5. Jordan who has been Shaking
/ hands with parrots to verify this observa-
tlon, Inds that the left-handed habit may
pc induced in parrots from the fact that
IN oHer-nS one finger for the parrot to
EI&sp IL Is usually that Of the right hand.
me parrot therefore puts his left claw
forward. II the left finger be offered the
parrot VIII put forward the right foot
lie says, however that there is apparently
a smaN preference for the left foot but
TINS ne accounts for on the ground that
! .eLt-lootedness is most always induced
IN parrots from the fact that those who
any DO so with the right hand Repetition
/ OF tnlS process, ii would seem tends TO
make the parrot more or less left-footed.
The time-honored scheme of rolling m
a piece Of paper and using it for a lighter
mas been utilized by an inventor in the
m4anui9cture Of matches, says the Boston
JOuIHdl or commerce. The invention
| promises 10 revOlutOnize European match
iuanuIacturlng, and is particularly timely
because the wood for this purpose is be-
come exhausted and thus more costly
Inc new matches are much cheaper than
wooden matches and also weigh less, an
! important factor in expectation The
SUCKS or these matches consist of paper
Tolied together on the bias. The paper is
Strong ana porous, and when immersed
~ "a, q .ooIutIoH OF wax, stearlne and similar
substances will easily stick together and
nuIh a with a bright. sm9keless and odor-
less lame. Strips of half an inch in width
are first drawn through the above com
DusuDie mass and then turned by ma
chlnery into long, thin tdbes, pieces OF the
ordinary length of wood matches being
cut Off automatically by the machine:
they are then dipped into phosphorus by
the same machine.
The prolonged roll of thunder is readily
explained by comparison with a volley
fired along a line of troops saws the Bos-
ton Traveller. Suppose troops to be drawn
up on line in such numbers as to extend
Tor mile and ordered by a signal that
all could see TO fire at once. One standing
at the end of the line would hear the
l report OF the musket nearest him instant
~. lie would hear the others successive
". Thus report $50 feet away would
come to him in half a second. and he
) would not hear the last report for five
/ or SIX seconds after the gun had been
nred. This would produce a sort of roll
2 which would gradually increase in inten-
Slty II the listener stood exactly midway
between the two ends of the line the re-
ports from both ends would reach him
2 at once, and the sound would be but half
5 as long in reaching him as If he stood at
9 one extremity If the soldiers formed a
circle there would be one sharp explosion
Flashes of lightning may be considered
as representing three lines of troops
along which the explosions occur at the
same time. Consider the variety of dis
, tance and position of the listener, and we
e account for the variety of sound in thun-
der. In mountainous regions the rolling
e is augmented by reverberations or echoes
We never seem to realize that a large
proportion of the inhabitants of this
l country are practically vegetarians at
the present moment, says the Westmin-
ster Review. 1t is true that they are
| compuIsorily 50, but the fact remains
How much meat can an agricultural la
borers family have out of a wage of Is
| Shillings a week? If a small quantity of
salt pork be occasionally eaten it is OF
value chiefly as respiratory food. Yet
= our laborers, who have subsisted on this
diet for generations are strong in other
european countries the peasantry are
still more evidently vegetarian for all
PRACTICAL purposes. Even in Russia ac-
! cording to Prince krapotkin, the peasant.
gets only corn, and not enough of that
e sometimes. Yet the Russian peasant is
not wanting in vigor. The evidence is the
same if we glance at non-European races
| Ihe hardy Arab or SOudanese is satisfied
l with his dates, the Zulu with "meaIies. =
the Hindoo with grains and pulse The
5 japanese have a similar diet varied Oc-
easionally with fish. Stanley says of the
6 Waganda with the banana plant he Is
l happy, fat and thriving. Without it he
I IS famished, disconsolate, woebegone
wretch The Jats of Rajpootana are de-
scribed as "a very intelligent, fine race.
while both men and women attain great
eat meat. These instances, which mig6t
be multiplied are quoted to show that
vegetarianism is the ordinary practice of
| numerous races which are not among the
lowest and which show no sign of race
deterioration. In face of these facts the
| mere random assertion sometimes made
that vegetarians are subject to "poorness
of blood" must be taken for what it is
. worth; Eros both of diet and hygiene
/ ! may be committed by Vegetarians az