The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The common pond frogs natural life
time is twelve to fifteen years.
There are twenty-five allusions in the
Bible to the east wind, nineteen of them
being of a disparaging character.
The remarkable echo at Eagles Nest.
on the banks of the Killarney, Ireland, re-
peats bugle call 100 times. each clear and
distinct
The Island of Malta has a language
of its own, derived from the Carthaginian
and Arabian tongues. The nobility of the
island speak Italian.
of the children born alive one-fourth
die before eleven months, one-thrd before
the twenty-third month, half before their
eighth year. two-thirds Of mankind die be-
fore the thirty-ninth year, three-fourths
before their 51st year, and of about 1900
only one survives whole century.
A member of the English parliament
cannot resign. When he wishes to retire
he accepts the stewardship of the Chiltern
Hundreds a nominal office in the gift of
the crown. and paying a salary Of %
shillings a year. No member of parlia.
ment can remain in his seat after accept
ing a government appointment other thar
a cabinet position, and this fiction of the
stewardship has thus been perpetuated
for at least 600 years.
M. Forel, in his excellent work on ants,
has pointed out that very young ants de-
vote themselves at first to the care of
the larvae and pupae, and that they take
no share in the defense of the nest or
other out-of-door work until they are
some days old. This seems natural be-
cause their first skin is compare lively
soft; and it would not be well for them
TO undertake rough work or run into dan
ger until their armor had had time to
harden.
1t is certain that ants Intentionally sane
ton the residence of certain insects in
their nests. This is the case, for instance,
with the curious blind beetle Claviger,
which is absolutely dependent upon ants,
as Muller first pointed out. 1t even seems
to have lost the power of feeding itself,
at any rate 1t is habitually fed by the
ants, who supply it with nOurlshment as
they do one another. There are a half
score of insects that ants treat apparent
ly as guests. An Unauthorized interloper
would be at once killed.
AT Bassora, Turkey, where they have
no timber but the wood of the date tree,
which is like a cabbage stalk, they make
with a nail and a bit of string, describes
a semicircle on the ground, lays his bricks
fastened together with gypsum cement,
on the lines thus traced, and, having thus
formed his arch except the crown brick,
it is carefully raised and in two parts
placed upon the walls. They proceed thus
till the whole arch is finished. This part
is only half a brick thick, but it serves
them to turn a stronger arch over 1t.
in the world is that executed by a Flemish
artist. 1t is painted on the smooth side
of a grain of common white corn and pic
lures a mill and a miller mounting a stair
with a sack of grain on his back. The
mill is represented as standing on a ter
race, and near it is horse and cart, while
a group of several peasants is shown in
the road nearby. The picture is beauti-
fully distinct, every object being finished
with microscopic fidelity, yet by careful
measurement it is shown that the whole
painting does not cover a surface of half
an inch square.
"A scientist has discovered that light
mae be procured from sugar. He has sue.
ceeded in taking several photographs by
the light supplied by sugar only This
sugar was first exposed to a direct sun
light for two hours, and then placed in
dark room. Immediately on being placed
in the darkness the sunlight stored in the
sugar began TO glow, family at first, but
quite brightly after a few minutes. After
about twenty minutes, during which time
the photographs were taken, the light be-
gan to die away and gradually went out
The photographs taken by sugar-ght are
quite distinct, though not as clear as an
ordinary photograph.
"A tiger with glass eye is at present
in the menagerle at Stuttgart and looks
as fierce with his glass eye as with the
real one. A serious affection of the mus
Giles caused the beast to lose the sight of
one eye. AS the public didn't admire a
one-eyed tiger the beast was put under CO.
caine and the useless organ removed
This was tickhsh operation several
strong keepers holding the beast down
while the eye was taken out, and the orbit
measures for a new eye which has to DO
made with a special degree of ferocity.
For the first week the animal tried hard
to rub it out; but he now rests contented,
and few visitors detect the substitution
weather in the far north, says the Mod
orator, is so elaborate that it Is difficult
to understand how deliberate boy or girl
in Lapland can be ready for breakfast be-
fore dinner time First, two suits Of thick
wooden undertaking are put on, and over
these goes a shirt of reindeer skin with
cloth bands TO fasten at the wrists; some
times two of these shirts, or kaptas, are
worn, and reindeer vest beneath them
The trousers are of reindeer skin also.
Two pairs of heavy wooden stockings are
worn, and the child who puts these on
when they are damp is sure to have trou-
bic with his feet. Around the feet a pecu-
liar grass, well dried, is carefully bound
and over all this goes the shoe Buttons
and hooks and eyes are scarce in Lapland.
all clothing is fastened by strings. and it
IS dreadful to think of all the hard knots,
that Lap children have fumbled over while
too sleepy to be amable
The new library of Columbia UNIVERSE
" Is illuminated by an artificial moon
which diffuses a soft radiance grateful 70
the eyes and not binding like the glare
of an electric arc light. Electricity. how
ever, is the source of these RAYS. which
are produced by powerful arc lights ana
focused through strong lenses on the great
white sphere suspended from the dome
Inc New York Herald describes the arti-
1clal moon as hollow sphere, seven feet
IN diameter, constructed of wood and
painted dull white. 1t is suspended thir