The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

SooOOO recognized species, and it is believ-
ed that the actual number of existing spe-
cies is very much larger. An estimate of
the number of insects harbored by the
earth gave 100000. but a well-known aus
thority has recently stated that in his opin-
ion moderate estimate of the number of
insect species would be 100000.
AT a meeting of the British association
not long ago Sir John Lubbock exhibited
a wasp which he had tanned in three
months. The little creature seemed at
tached to its owner, never singing the
| hand which fed ii with sugar, and allow
ing itself to be petted and gently stroked
1t lived in a bottle, but was not kept in
close captivity, it's master indulging it
with frequent trips into the outer air dur
ing the day. At night it always returned
of its own accord to the bottle.
Scientists are arguing about the COM
mon fear of high places which many ami
mails exhibit and which is acute with some
human beings. Prof. Hall of Clark uni
versity says that this terror is "a vestigal
trace like the gill-slits under the skins of
our necks, ante-dating limbs and inherited
from our swimming ancestors" Prof
Wesley Mills of McGill university disa-
grees with this, and points out that while
the youngest mammals and birds exhibit
peculiar manifestations when placed near
the edge of an elevated surface, yet a tur-
tie will walk off any elevated support
again and again, and a frog will jump
almost anywhere" These exceptions he
thinks, make Prof Halls theory difficult
of acceptance.
1t is said that ever since the marble
tablet and brass star were placed in the
Baltimore and Potomac railway station at
Washington to mark the spot on which
Garfield fell when assassinated. the COM
pany has received frequent complaints
from people who disliked to be reminded
of the great crime every time they had
occasion to take a train or to enter the
the waiting room, says the New York
Times. The railroad officials did not see
their way clear to removing the memo
rails, though it is said that they have long
regarded them as Instantaneous in a
business way. A slight fire which broke
out in the station on the evening of
March 4, seems to have given the needed
excuse. The tablet was somewhat dam
aged, but the star escaped injury. In
the course of making the repairs necessi-
tated by the fire, both were removed and
neither has been replaced. The historic
spot is now marked only by piece of red
thing, which will pass unnoticed except
to those familiar with the station and the
tragedy that took place there.
"A colored youth recently from Ten
nessee, who is employed in a private
family, says the New York Times, was ad-
monished to avoid falling into bad COM
pany by his employer. mo danger of
that sir" he promptly said. "Colored
folks around here don't take much to
southerners." Pressed for an explanation,
he said: well it's about this way. Col
ored folks in New York like to sociate
with themselves, and they think a south
ern colored man amt just good enough for
them. When you get in among them they
poke fun at you and say: We don't do
this, or that, or the other. like you do in
the south; we are different folks here
Then they say that none of their folks
ever were slaves; and they don't seem to
have any use for a southern colored man,
because most of our parents or grand
parents were slaves. They say they were
always free, and they look down on any
man who comes from what they call slave
stock They make it mighty unpleasant
for us southern people, and 1 just keep
away from them on that account"
The man who makes a business of
hunting the strangest game in the world.
says the Philadelphia Record, is w. F.
Walmsley of this city, who catches sea
monsters googlygaws, jelly fish and
sponges for the Academy of Natural
Sciences. He travels in every cline, dip
ping up the creatures which make their
home in salt water, and pops them into
bottles of alcohol, to grace the shelves of
museums and astonish the people. While
primarily connected with the Academy of
Natural Sciences and in charge Of the
department of sea fauna there, he is
known in every scientific institution In
the country, and contributes to many
museums. Indeed. MIR. Walmsley may be
said to monopolize the better class of bus
mess in this line. His latest addition to
I ~ !.
organism known as q sea pen," which
came couple of days ago from the Med
iterranean. 1t has a stem eight or nine
| inches long, with countless little phospo-
resent stars clinging to feather-like
| branches, the whole very much resem-
bling an old-fashioned quill pen.
Keen interest is being shown by sugar
| manufacturers and refiners in the num-
Der of avenues which are being opened
up in which electricity is simplifying and
| economizing the processes of the sugar
| industry says the Pittsburg Dispatch. 1t
would seem that before long every stage
of sugar manufacture, from the express
| sion of the juice to the turning out of the
refined product will be electrically effect
| ed. In Russia this question is equally
engrossing M Baudry, the manager of
a Russian factory, now proposes to purify
beet root juice by single electrolysis, with
has discarded the Schollmeyer, Benin,
Dammeyer and earlier processes. He finds
that the electrolytic method gives him
better work. reduction from one hour to
thirty-hve minutes of the time required
| for carbonation, more rapid evaporation
| and increase of from 20 to % per cent in
the daily work of the factory, the reduc-
| ton of the coloration of the juice from
100 20 % and the complete suppression of
| fat in carbonation. In addition, the filter
press station, which was formerly too
weak, has now become too powerful. The
| application of the process is most simple
Lime is added to the juice after diffusion
it is then filtered and electrolysed. Ac-
cording to NJ. Baudry, the electrolysis acts
by modifying the non-sugars. The con-
sumption of zinc Is 30 kilogrammes per
day for 500 tons of beets.
That the blood corpuscles of the eye
may be seen by the eye itself seems alb
surd, but that this is possible was proven
by Prof Todd, whose article on this Gu
rious and interesting subject may be found
in science. 1t appears from Prof Todd's
experiments and deductions that IL the eye
be turned towards dimly lighted blank
space, and adjusted to see distant Objects