The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-24
ITEMS of INTEREST.

In order to capture nSh Soutn
American tribe whips the water with the
wood of a tree which contains substance
having a narcotic influence. 6n the fish,
which are then readily caught.
"A turnip seed increases its own weight
Is times in a minute. On peat ground tur-
nips have been found to increase by growth
1888 times the weight of their seed each
day they stood upon the soil.
The British war office has ordered that
the One Hundredth Regiment CRoyal Ca
nadians) be recruited in Canada and that
recruiting offices shall shortly be opened
in Ottowa, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax and
other cities.
A German biologist has calculated that
the human brain contains 3OO,OOO,OOO nerve
cells, 100000 of which die and are sue
ceeded by new ones every day. AT this
rate, assuming the correctness of the Ger
mans guess, we get an entirely new brain
every sixty days.
Kansas City has a manual training
school, in the second year class of WHICH
there is but one boy among 'steen girls
The curriculum includes the making by
each pupil of a shirtwaist, and the boy
pupil proved to be as proficient in this
exercise as We're any of the girls.
People speak of their eyes being tired,
meaning that the retina, or seeing portion
of the eye is fatigued; but such is not
the case, as the retina hardly ever gets
tired. The fatigue is in the inner and
outer muscles attached to the eyeball, and
the muscles of accommodation which sur
rounds the lens of the eye.
The nails of two fingers never grow
with the same degree of rapidly. The
nail of the middle finger grows with the
greatest rapidly and that of the thumb
least. It has been computed that the av-
erage growth of the finger nail is one thir-
ty-second of an inch per week, or a little
more than an inch and a half per year.
In connection with Lii Hung Changes
new mission-to inquire into the overflow
of the great Yellow rivera Chinese mer-
chant in Boston says that the stream has
always been of its present color, except
one day about three thousand years ago,
on which occasion a great man was, born,
and the river was perfectly clear.
In 1860 there were 1879 silk mills in the
United States, worth something over S.
OOO, coo; in 1890 there were 472, valued at
over $S7. 900 COO. In 1860 our manufacturers
Of silk supplied but about Is per cent. of
the domestic consumption; to-day it is es-
timated that So per cent. of the silk goods
used in the United States is of domestic
make.
If Jerusalem was the birthplace of
Christianity, Antioch was the place of
baptism. Antioch was the greatest city in
the empire after Rome and Alexandria
1t possessed-as was computed-some half
a million of. inhabitants; it was a vast
emporium of trade and commerce, and
ranked practically as the metropolis of
the East.
The four-masted, square-rigged steel
ship Kenilworth has arrived at New York,
after having achieved the remarkable feat
of covering the 1006O knots between that
port and Valparaiso in sixty-six days-an
average speed of over 1872 knots per day.
On the five days beginning Oct and end
ing Oct. the Kenilworth made the splen-
did consecutive daily runs of $50, &c., 1856,
$50 and 245 knots-an average of 241 knots,
which is tramp steamship time.
in a discussion on the subject of provid-
ing sanatoria for consumptive patients, Sir
James Crichton Browne of England gave
it as his opinion that if the present rate
of decrease in phthisis cases continued,
the disease would have disappeared from
Great Britain in about thirty years time.
To maintain the present rate, however
fresh measures would have to be intro
duced, and of these agencies the provision
of fresh air and healthy sanatoria are
among the prime requisites.
Within few weeks some experiments
will be made over the wires of the Penn
c1rixy Poll NH ob
portant bearing on the methods of sending
and receiving telegraphic messages The
experiments win be made with the multi
pick device invented by Prof. Henry A.
Rowland of the Johns Hopkins Uunvers-
ity By means of this invention it is DOS
sible to send eight Geographic messages
over the same wire at the same time, four
in each direction.
"A New York oculist is reported in the
Scientific American Supplement as saying
that Americans are too reckless of their
eyes in exposing them to the electric light
rays, and if a reform is not had sight
less race may be developed" What
should be used,' he says, ARE fluorescent
tubes, which cost no more than the pres
ent electric lights and which give a steady
light. In fact, l would not be surprised
to see huorescent tubes in general use
throughout New York city within a short
time" 1t is said that arrangements are
being made to light an entire block in
New York by fuorescent tubes.
SO injurious is life on a torpedo boat
that years continuous service will men
tally and physically incapacitate a man.
This assertion is made on the authority
of Lord Chrles Beresford, but that the
strain on any one serving on these craft
is very great, is shown by the fact that
to one months service the British naval
regula lions allow one week off Austria
is endeavoring to mitigate the hardship
of service on these boats, and life on one
built for the Austrian navy and tried on
the Thames recently was demonstrated to
be pleasanter than on those of the Eng
lish navy.
The first attempt at scientific forecast
ing of the weather was the result of a
storm which, during the Crimean war.
Nov. A., 1854, almost destroyed the fleets