The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-21


by man in Presburg. Austria The mo-
ton of the wheel grinds out a tune like
a handorgan, and the rider rolls along TO
the strains Of delightful harmony.
Although Australia was the first in
the field as regards the frozen-meat trade
vet, from various causes, the trade was
allowed TO decline. 1t is only within the
last four or five years that it has been
vigorously prosecuted.
-Charlemagne never. asked the advice of
any one about his love affairs or mar
riages, but married as he pleased, and
when he became tired of his queen sent
her away and took another, in all having
five successive wives
In the shop of ST. Petersburg watch
maker human-faced clock is on view
the only one of its kind The hands are
pivoted on its nose, and many messages
that may be spoken into its ear are re-
peated by monograph through it's
mouth.
The average weight of the brain Of an
adult male is three pounds four ounces.
The nerves are all connected with it di-
rectly or by the spinal marrow. These
nerves, with their branches and minute
ramifications, probably exceed 10, OOO,O in
number.
1t is curious fact that the delicacy
as to mentioning the age of women is no
piece of modern senstiveness. In the
Old Testament, although great numbers
of women are mentioned, there is but one
Sarah, Abrahams wife-whose age is
recorded.
The pass of Thermopylae was defend
ed, not by 300, but by at least 1900 Greeks,
Or according to some writers, 600 The
300 were the Spartan contingent who
showed no more bravery on that occa-
sion than their companions in arms from
other Greek states.
Constantine the Great was not a saint.
He murdered his wife, one or two of his,
sons, a considerable number of his other
relatives, and was guilty of a score of as
sasslnations and murders. He was a Chris
tan only in name, and seems to have
known little or nothing of the religion he
protested.
The German agricultural papers make
the remarkable statement that the imports
Of American apples into the German en-
plre last year were more than twenty
times as large as in any previous season.
the shipments in 1896 having amounted to
no less than 100000 centners-the cent
ner being equal to hundred-weight.
1t is a strange fact that while the teeth
of the negro on the old plantations were
remarkable for their whiteness those of
the freed negro of the present day are in
an Indefinitely worse condition than those
of his white brother This is owing en-
tirely to the change of diet and the col
ored mans weakness for sweetmeats
-Cortez obtained in Mexico five emer-
aids of wonderful size and beauty. One
was like a rose, another in the shane of
a horn third in that of a fish, with dia-
mond eyes; a fourth like a bell with a
pearl for clapper; the fifth was a cup.
with foot of gold, and with four little
chains, each ended with a large pearl
He had also two emerald vases, worth
100000 crowns each.
"A herd of $4,000 sheep has been bought
in Oregon by A. J. Knollin of A. J. Knoll
lin & Co, live stock commission mer-
chants, and is now being driven overland
to Kansas, where the sheep will be fed
next winter, preparatory to their sale at
the yards here next spring, says the Kan
sas City (Mo.) Star. This immense herd
is divided into twelve bands, each of which
IS driven by eight men. The method of
driving the sheep is to allow them to Craze
along the roadside as they travel, covering
six or seven miles each day. The drivers
are furnished with horses and a camp
ing outfit, and while the drove Of sheep
rests at night the shepherds sleep in tents.
The bands are driven about twelve miles
apart, and Mr.. Knollin expects to reach
Kansas with the sheep by October. BY
driving the sheep overland instead Of ship
ping them by rail the commission mer-
chants will save $4,000, as the transporta-
ton charges from Oregon TO Kansas
amount to 81 a head. The only expense
will be in the salary OF the men and the
cost of feeding them and their hundred
horses.
"A micromotoscope has been invented
which is a kaleidoscope for photographing
shell life in motion as seen in the micro
scopic field, says the Boston Transcript
The pictures are taken by the gelatin film
at from 5000 to 1900 magnifications and
at a rate of 16 to $500 per minute The
images being magnihed thousands of
times when projected upon a screen, the
views of some OF the families of microbes
are very realistic. 1t has been learned
that some of them possess great inteli-
gence. The photographs of blood in cir
oulation in the thinnest part of the ears
and webs of the fingers showing its ca
pillary and arterial motion and the
changes going on in the white cells. are
of great interest. They indicate some
thing of the nature of life and disease
is so swift that the eye cannot keep pace
with it, and the changes i'm the white
blood cells are correspondingly rapid
Some of the pictures show a white cell on
the fast moving stream. like a white cup
on the sea, constantly changing its shape.
IL throws out or takes in its arms ike
an octopus. Selling the microbes in its
path. In disease this movement of the
arms takes place with much less ener-
gy than in health. These pictures cam
not fail to be Of great value in the study
OF diseases. The micromotoscope will
greatly aid in the investigation OF phe-
nomena Of action Of amebold life in wa
ter.
An extensiv monograph on the
Graphic Art OF the H.skimo'' VIII appear
IN the forthcoming annual report of the
National Museum, being the result OF re-
searches by DR.. W. J. Hoffman OF this
city, now United States consul at Mann
heim, Germany, says the Washington
star. The work Is one entirely new to
scientific literature In consequence OF
the Intense interest manifested IA the
discoveries OF gold I'm Alaska. literature
bearing upon, or relating TO. that remote
region is pngoriV sought aff.r and afttftaF