The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST

AuGlG has UtGn very little Slnt6 that year.
SiXty-tive per cent. of the population live
by rearing sheep and cattle, and IS per
cent by fishing.
If the latest additions to the nomencla-
ture of fashionable colors be generally
adopted by milliners and dressmakers Ia
dies will be much puzzled when they come
to choose their hats and gowns for early
autumn wear, says the London Telegraph.
This, it appears that manufacturers are
offering to the wholesale buyers reds dis
tnguished as Sport" "Cretan" and
"Athenian." Golf and "Spiritism'' are
new shades of blue; some exceedingly bril-
liant greens have been denominated the
Asparagus" and the Erin" and silvery
grays are to be known as aluminium"
and Nickel" Grand mere is a laven-
der tint. and recent events in the states
have made a distinction in yellows as
Dollar Cold and Mckinley" Jose
phat' is hardly suggestive, but it means
a grass green; "Apotheoss' is a pink,
and "Recamier' is an orange How far
such subtleties will commend themselves
TO the average purchaser and wearer re-
mains to be seen, but it became necessa-
ry to enhance the difficulties of the prac-
teal tests of visual perception on the part
OF signaImen or seamen, they might be
useful for examination papers,
The Hatcn experiment station Of the
state college at Amherst has just issued
bulletin No. &c, which is on The Habits
food and economic value of the American
toad" The bulletin is the work of A. H.
Kirkland, assistant entomologist to the
gypsy moth committee. Mr.. kirkland has
devoted considerable time to the study of
the toad and embodies the results in the
bulletin. He finds that insects constitute
n per cent of the food of a toad. To show
the number of worms which a toad de-
stroyS, he states that in the stomach of
single toad were found SO army worms, in
another So gypsy moth caterpillars and in
third 81 tent caterpillars. He records an
experiment where in three hours time
toad had consumed between 80 and 50 fun
grown celery worms. He found by exami-
nation of large number of toads that 81
per cent. of the insects it destroys are in
furious to cultivated crops or in other
ways obnoxious to man. A toad would de-
YOUR in the months of May, June and
July the following: 1912 ants; 2,208 cut
worms; 1910 myrapods; 2,2OS sour bugs;
1868 wevils, and 1858 carabids. OF these,
1886 are injurious insects and 1868 are bene-
hcial insects. Mr.. kirkland then figures
out the amount in dollars and cents which
a toad may be worth. Confining his at
tention to but one element of the food, the
cut worms, and assuming that 10 per cent.
OF these insects would have been killed
by the carabid beetles it still leaves 1883
cut worms to the toad's credit; and If the
damage the cut worms would have caus-
ed be estimated at 1 cent per worm. a
figure which gardeners and tobacco grow
ers will probably consider ridiculously low,
it will be seen that toad might destroy
cut worms which would otherwise have
destroyed crops to the extent of $l9SS.
in two of the museums of Roman an
ter heaters which indicate that the prin-
ciple of the water tube, the crowning fea-
ture of modern boilers, was fully under
stood and appreciated some 1900 years
ago, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. w T.
Bonner of Cincinnati, o., has been inves-
tigating these heaters, and found them to
be as interesting as they are beautiful
One of them consists of an outer shell
twelve inches in diameter and nearly sew
enteen inches high, surmounted by a some
what hemispherically shaped top. Inside
this she'll is an internal cylinder, also hav-
ing hemispherical top, which is ten
inches in diameter and twelve inches
nigh. The two shells are connected at the
bottom by rim, like the mud ring of
locomotive firebox, and the space between
them was filled with water. The crate
was formed of seven tubes made from
sheet bronze, rolled and soldered or braz-
ed. These tubes open at both ends into
the bottom of the space between the
sheets, thus forming a water tube CRATE
for the fuel to rest upon. Charcoal was
probably used with this heater and was
placed on the CRATE through an opening
4.S inches high and inches wide, closed
by beautifully decorated door The
gases from the fire escaped into the outer
air through three small openings formed
by tubes crossing from the inner to the
outer shell, about Sc inches above the
CRATE. The whole apparatus was raised
about twelve inches on a tripod so as To
allow air to reach the fuel. In another
boiler of somewhat the same type the
outer shell has the form of an urn, while
the inner shell rises from a water tube
CRATE TO an opening in the side IL is 10
inches in diameter at the widest part and
II.6 inches high, and supported on a tripo5
about four inches high. Its general shane
is much like that of the silver cream
pitchers known as the Paul Revere pat
terms, although, of course, it is much
larger and has top closed by a lid. If
has been suggested that these utensils
may have served at some time TO heat
WINE, as well as water. which suggestion
appears reasonable, as many historians
state that the Pompeiians made great use
OF not drinks. IL may be that they were
round IN one OF the termpodi or cafes
OF which there were several In Pompeii.
hiONleuBe lnal dis
eases have, as a rule, their local babi-
tations, says the Saturday Review. some
like tropical animals and plants, live only
in the tropics; some, like CONSUMPTION. are
gradually spreading oyer the whole earth.
others, like leprosy and smallpox. are
gradually becoming limited in their dis
tribution and may actually be tending
toward extinction. Again, there are re-
glons 70 which diseases have never reach
ed. on the submits of high mountain
ranges and in the circumpolar snow felds
the earth and air and water are so barren
OF the microbes of disease as they are ~
animal life. Without question IL Nansen
and his companion had been exposad
TO the same hardships and the same un.
sanitary conditions In these islands. tha
lowered vitality OF their bodies certainly
would have been unable to resist the
continual bombardment Of germs TO
which We all are subjected In a country
IKE Britain, thickly populated for many
centuries. and with the freest circulation
OF population, II cannot be doubted that
every yard OF surface contains the germs
or the morn common diseases; and the ma
tive Of some newer land, brought over
here fallt victim TO our plague-stricken
soil BY generations OF a destructive |
elimination we have become highly re-