The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Shanghai, under the auspices of the
American Trading Company of New York.
/ It is The third cotton mill erected in
China 1t has 1900 spindles and two en-
gines Of 1,6o0-horse power now in motion,
and number of looms will be added soon.
There are few persons that have not
! looked into the dictionary especially who
know how the term ''spinster'' originated.
! We often find IL in Shakespeare and other
| OF the English classics, but it is not al
/ ways used TO define spinner. This is its
specific meaning. Its general significance
! IS wider. There was an Old practice, in
| the years agone. that a woman should
never be married until she had spun her
| self a set of body, table and bed linen Ii
| IS not difficult to see how easy the term
| became applicable to all unmarried Wo-
men, AMI finally became law term and
/ fixed.
In Galicia, in Austrian Poland says
the Roxbury Gazette there is a remarka-
bic underground city, which has a popu-
! latiOn of over 1000 men. women and chill
dren, scores of whom have never seen the
light of day. It is known as the City of
| the Salt Mines, and is situated several
| hundred feet below the earth surface.
1t has its town hall. theater and assem-
| bly, room, as well as a beautiful church,
| decorated with statues. all being fashion
| 1t has well graded streets and spacious
| squares, lighted with electricity. There
are numerous instances in this under
| ground city where not a single individual
| in three or four successive generations
| has ever seen the sun or has any idea of
how people live in the light of day
A French scientist calculates that in
an average day the sun will pour on two
and half acres of ground heat which
| might be turned into energy equal to The
muscle power of 4 1913 horses. Mr.. MOu-
chot believed that this heat might be
| utilized and made to do the work now
| done by steam and electricity. He found
| that by condens ng the heat playing on
less than a yard and half of ground he
could boil two pints of water. BY arrest
ing sunshine and condensing it small
steam engines have been operated success
fully in Paris, but nothing has yet been
done to realize practically the great hopes
of revOlutonizing civilization by using di-
| recty the enormous power which comes to
US daily from the sun. This power is
calculated as that of 216.000 000,OG0 horses,
and a thousandih part of l per cent. of it
would run all the factories the world will
ever need
in the commune of Monceau-sur-O Disc,
not far from Paris, says the San Fran
cisco Argonaut a little village of only $50
inhabitants. the streets are lighted by
electricity, electric lights are found in the
church, in all the houses and even in the
stables, and the farm buildings in the
neighborhood of the village are illumi-
mated in the same manner. More than
TINS, the commune possesses a large
threshing machine driven by electric
power and capable of threshing 900 sheaves
of grain per hour besides turnip cutters,
crushers, sorters, pumps and other agri-
cultural machinery, all set in motion by
electricity. The power is derived from
waterfall and by combining their inter
ests the inhabitants of the commune have
made science illuminate their streets and
houses at night and drive their machines
by day more cheaply than these things
could be done by the old methods
Alexis Drouad, gardener at Bouin. La
Vendee, in France, found some days ago
in hole four infant rabbits that seemed
deserted. Taking pity on them he turned
| over in his mind how to rear them. Ths
! thought struck him that cat which had
recently been deprived of three out of
| litter of four kittens would have no OBJ
lection to bringing them up. He first
took a little white thing resembling the
kitten she was nursing. She received the
! founding in the kindest way and set it
on to q teat. The others were brought
one by one and treated in the same way,
but the cat does not like to see the young
rabbits bouncing about, and corrects them
for so doing. She evidently thinks their
manners bad, and tries to make them
smoother. The single kitten and young
rabbits play, but they do not know what
to make of the youthful feline when it
thinks it fun 70 strike their noses with
its paw. The cats anxiety about her
adopted family make her quite feverish.
"A sandstone on Cape Cod. back of
Providencetown, is something more to be
. | i
Scientific American. When the wind blows
in gale from the northeast the soft
light sand drifts in immense clouds, com
pletely obscuring all objects around fur
Their than ten feet away. 1t is worse
than snow in many respects. 1t not only
covers up the road or trail in a short
time. but it changes the general features
of the landscape permanently. People
get lost in the standstorms, and often
when the storm subsidies, the landscape
is so altered that they are bewildered and
puzzled in trying to locate their homes
The sand may not be as freezing cold as
the snow, but it is far more injurious It
cuts and grinds the face as it strikes it,
and performs about the same operation
as a sandblast. Men who nave been lost
out in the furious sandstorms, and mem
bers of the life saving patrol have re-
turned home at night with their faces lac
Grated and discolored so that they resem-
bled raw beef. Even the glass windows
of the houses are SO ground by the flying
sand that they have to be replaced often
! by new ones. After one heavy storm it
is almost impossible to see through the
glass. People now shut the blinds of the
houses facing the wind during sandstorms
in order TO save the glass. No man can
long face the sand clouds and endure the
pain.
"A ques ton which has lately been much
discussed, namely, Are Athletes
Hea.thy?" is, says the British Medical
Journal one of considerable Importance
The key TO the answer lies in the fact
that health depends on the integrity of
the digestive and assimilative organs and
that perfection of muscle is quite a secon-
dairy consideration. Many perfectly
healthy men are certainly anything but
muscular while many laborers who do an
amount of muscular work which, measured
in foot-pounds per day, would astonish
some of our cricketers, are far from
healthy, and in fact the same is true Of
many athletes themselves. In the discus