The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In al parts OF the east Sneep milk is
extensively used as a substitute for that
of the cow.
"A captive bee striving to escape has
been made to record as many as $3.50
wing-strokes per minute in late test.
"A blazing tail of pet cat alarmed Mrs
Arthur Gibbs of Huntsville, N. Y, and
enabled her to rescue her baby from a
fire.
Some Birmingham. England, trades
men has turned loose in the streets pair
of herons with advertisements attached to
them.
"A Woodford county. Kentucky, man
buys all the old broken down horses he
can get for 81 a head kills and skins them
and feeds the flesh to the hogs.
In North Dakota the killing of quail
and English and Chinese pheasants is pro-
hibited until 1896. and beaver and otter
cannot be trapped or killed until 1903.
Thousands of head of antelope are to
be seen along the Short Line track around
Backwith, Idaho, They have been in that
section all winter and are little hunted
One band is believed to contain fully $500
head
Cigarette buttons killed a famous trot-
ting ostrich, which had been broken to
harness by a man at Denver There is
no telling what might have happened to
the bird if it had used cigarettes, instead
of the buttons.
The basement of the old st. AIMS
church in New York city, which struct-
ure was recently torn down. was, accord
ing to the New York Sun, the nursery of
considerable dramatic talent. There Mrs.
James Brown Potter, an enthusiastic if
somewhat awkward amateur, began her
career, and Robert Taber was another of
those who, beginning in a basement as an
amateur, ultimately succeeded in getting
very much higher in the profession he
chose.
"A man in Washington who has for
years been collecting newspaper accounts
of railway accidents declares that no loco
motive engineer ever came out alive from
his third disaster. He does not insist that
err gineers are never killed in their first
or second accidents, but he maintains that
after man has had two "close calls he
will, if wise, abandon railroading. I'm
doubtedly the safest and surest way of
avoiding the fatal third accident is not to
become an engineer.
There is now on exhibition in London
is star sapphire from the mines of
Ceylon; it is five inches in circumference
and weighs $40 carats. The stone is said
to be flawless, and is not cut in facets,
but polished zen cabochon," to use the la
pidary's term. The color is pale blue,
clouded with a delicate white mist, and
when lighted from above six quivering
rays meet at the apex, a characteristic
which gives this variety of sapphire its
name.
Bacteria, as one might infer from their
simple structure, seem to have appeared
with the first life on earth, says the Lon
don Mail. In a study of the early rocks
NJ. r. Renauit has found indications of
the presence of microbes in bones teeth,
scales and coprolites, as well as an abund-
ance liz vegetable tissue, especially in the
spores and sporanges of ferns. The sec
ond or globular form appears TO have been
earlier than the bacillar or rod-shaped, the
| species, as a rule. having been different
| from those now living.
The New York Times very properly
| calls attention to the fact that the phrase
white squadron has lost it's definite
| meaning. When the Chicago, Atlanta,
| Boston and New York made their first
trip to Europe they were a squadron,
| they were white, and no other warships
| were of that color. Therefore, to cali
| them 1.-The white squadron meant sone-
! thing. Since that day all of Uncle Sam 5
new ships have been painted white. Hence
we no longer have a white squadron"
| we now have white navy"
| Prof. James, of Harvard, together with
| Charles Elliot Norton, Prof. Royce, Dr.
| Everett, Prof Peabody, Dean Briggs and
| Prof. Dolbear, have been making investi-
| cations, says the New York Times, as to
4 the relative intelligence of an orang-out-
| ang and a chimpanZee in the Boston
| ZOO" Although scientists claim that the
| chimpanzee is possessed of a development
| higher than that of the other simian tribes,
! it was found in this instance that the
| orang-outang possessed the brighter mind.
1t is claimed that this is due to the fact
| that the orang-outang has had longer
| association with the people of Boston than
| has his defeated rival.
An interesting note was recently pub
| lished in one of the technical journals call
ing attention to the recent explosion of a
| military balloon just as it touched the
| ground. The balloon was consumed by
| fire. 1t is suggested that the cause Of the
fire was probably due to a spark discharge
| due to the charge of electricity received
| by the balloon in the upper layers of air.
similar to that acquired by clouds and
which when discharged to earth produce
| ngnJning udSneS. mus IN reality the eX-
| posion was due TO a miniature lightning
| flash which occurred as soon as the bal
loon was near enough to the earth for
! the discharge to occur.
"A most peculiar misfortune befell Miss
Alice Miller of McNeal street, while at
work in Kremer & Standings bleachery
a week ago last Monday, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch. While apparently in good
health and the best of spirits she was
amazed and almost stupefied to find her
self stricken speeches. She had lost all
power of articulation and could only
| barely be heard by straining her voice
which sounded somewhat sepulchral. Sew
eral physicians were called, but none
could explain the phenomenon, and advis-
ed her to go to a specialist in Phiadel-
/ phia. This morning as Miss Miller arose
she found that her speech had returned.
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