The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

missouri a1ter -FOUR years OF disuSe.
No fewer than 1888 patents on kitchen
utensils have been taken out at Washing
ton.
AT the bottom of the deep sea the wa
ter is only a few degrees above the freez-
ing point.
The students in the University Of Chi
cago have rejected a scheme for an honor
system.
In Holden, Mass, the taxpayers will
take off their hats when the lady tax col
lectors call on them.
of the 1900 tons of ice consumed daily
in Greater New York in the summer time
about 20 per cent. is artificial
Lowell, Me-. has postmistress. wo-
man physician, woman stage driver and
a woman justice of the peace.
of the $3.50, 100000 worth of goods ex.
ported from the United States last year
1904 100000 worth were agricultural pro
ducts.
1t pays to have the cleanest streets
in the world. The street bureau in Paris
finds itself with surplus of $4,000 at the
end of the year.
President Mckinley has already dis
tinguished himself by shaking the hands
of 1885 callers at the white house in thir.
ty-one minutes.
Rev. Mr.. Backus of Worth county, Mis-
souri,, believes firmly that the earth is
fiat, and he challenges the scientists to
prove him wrong.
Queen Victorias salon in her private
railway coach was furnished at a cost
of $4,000. The carpet cost $3.50 and each
door handle like amount.
I'm one hour the earth travels 5000
miles; yet in this distance its orbit
swerves from straight line to the ex-
tent of only two and one-third miles.
In the ninety-three years since it's es-
tablishment, the British and foreign Bible
society has distributed 147.Ss6 500 Bibles.
testaments and books of extracts from the
scriptures.
The Anglo-Saxons double their popu-
lation in Europe in fifty-six years; in the
colonies in twenty-five years, while the
Germans take 100 ana the French 40 years
to double theirs.
In Ireland a belt of a woman's hair
is placed about a child to keep harm
away, and garlic, salt bread and steak
are put into the cradle of a newborn
baby in Holland.
An Italian inventor has produced a ma
chine for shocking vineyard insects to
death The electrocution of cinch bugs
ana grasshoppers would be pleasing ad-
vance in agriculture.
There is an extensive trade carried on
between Great Britain and Belgium in
old, WORKOUT horses, which are shipped
in a most pitiful condition to Antwerp
and Client from English ports
Prof. Noble, the well-known plant
psychologist of Saxony, says that he has
produced, ION a commercial scale. pure
cultures Of the different bacteria, which
are efficient in afiXing the nitrogen of the
air in form available for plant food -
and he has them for sale in small glass
bottles" says the Philadelphia Ledger.
1t is said that soil can be inoculated with
these organisms for the modest sum of
$125 an acre. 1
"A Westminster Gazette correspondent
writes warning sufferers from influenza
against the indiscriminate use of antipv-
rine. He says: MY physician, a distin-
guished man, told me only this morning
that he ascribed the great death rate from
influenza in France to the careless use of
antipyrine. 1t seems there is a lotion. the
name of which / forget largely composed
of antipyrine, which French people have
ready against the malady. If they take
small doses it will not do much harm. But
they are not content with small doses
when they have influenza, and it kills
them" Death, of course, is then error e.
ously ascribed to influenza, the fact being
that they die of their medicines. 4"
Man becomes almost amphibious in
certain regions, says the Spectator. Tenn
perature permitting, he swims as well.
dives better than many animals-better
for instance, than any dogs The Greek
sponge fishers and the Arabic divers must
have sight almost as keen below water
as that of the sea otter. They have even
learned by practice to control the con-
sumption of the air supply in their lungs
The usual time for hippopotamus to re-
main below water is five minutes. The
pearl fisher can remain below two and a
half minutes. In a tank a diver has re-
mained under water for four minutes.
But temperature marks the limits of
mans amphibious habits.
The College of Agriculture of Cornell
University has, under the Nixon, or ag-
ricultural extension act, undertaken to as
sist. free of expense. all teachers who wish
to introduce nature into their schools. saws
the new 1Ork tribune. Nature study "
says Mr.. Roberts, the director, "or seeing
familiar things in a new light, is a VAL
liable factor in education. How many
people can explain, so that a child can
understand, why water puts out fire, why
some young squash plants bring their
shells out of the ground on their backs
and others do not; or show the difference
between a leaf-bud and fruit-bud of the
apple; or tell whence all the house flies
come? The world is full of such common
things, about which people do not in
quire."
One effect of the earth's rotation is
to counterfeit TO some extent the force of
gravity-to diminish the weight of all bod
les on its surface, says the philadelphia
Record. The effect is the
greatest at the equator, de-
creasing to zero at the POLES.
man Weighing 1874 pounds in a high north
ern or southern latitude would weigh bur
1893 pounds at the equator. weighed with
a spring balance. 1t is this "centrifueai
force which caused the earth to bulge
In It's equatorial regions. az a time whom
IL was In plastic state. The earth's
equatorial diameter exceeds its polar Inv
tWcnty-six miles. Long rfvare rr,,t.+.