The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEHEST.
"A Paris paper tells this incident that
happened in that city in the cos: Said
Pasha, who was on a visit TO the French
capital wanted a dozen and a half of
snuff boxes 10 distribute among as many
people whom he delighted TO honor. He APP
Piled 10 the members of a celebrated firm,
who undertook to provide him with the re-
quired number at the rate Of 4,O00 francs
each. 1--WE have only half dozen ready,
your highness, but the moment you have
disposed of these We shall deliver another
haif-dozen." And they did They failed,
however, TO complete the third half-dOzen.
They could only furnish five. And the rea-
on? Because one of the recipients among
the second half-dozen had gone out of
town before the jewelers. could get at him.
Exception is taken by the Journal of
Hygiene to Prof. Aliens rule that a per-
son should drink from one-third to two
fifths as many ounces as he weighs in
pounds-a man weighing 1853 pounds re-
curing therefore, one and one-half to
four pints daily. The comment on this
by the Journal is that the amount of wa
ter required depends rather, on the season
OF the year, the amount of work done
and the kind of food eaten; i'm hot wealth
er, that is, more is demanded than in
cold, because of the greater loss through
the skin, though this is in part made up
by the lesser amount passed away
through the kidneys Then, too, if a man
labors very hard he requires more than
If his labor is Aght-a man working in a
foundry, where the temperature is high
and the perspiration profuse, not infre-
daily.
The novel argument is made in one
Of the technical journals that if murder
Gus deeds are done in cold blood" the
proper time for such acts should be be-
tween Il O'Clock at night and 1 o'clock
in the morning, this being the interval
when the temperature of the human body
falls to its minimum. That is, healthy
beings, it is assumed so through a regu-
lar daily cycle Of variable warmth; the
maximum heat is reached at o'clock in
The morning when in persons under
twenty-five years the temperature stands
at 80 degrees Fahrenheit this being main
tanned until o'clock following, when ii
slowly and steadily fails till an hour be-
fore midnight, the decrease by this time
amounting TO something over two degrees
then, al about 3 o'clock in the morning,
The upward turn is taken and the heat
increases till O'Clock. The point is made,
however, that this extent of change oc-
ours only in young bodies, old people pre-
serving a nearly equal degree of warmth
through all the twenty-four hours.
The dedication Of the new Church of
the Saviour in Jerusalem will take place
on Oct 81. Besides. the Emperor William
and his Empress there will be present
most of the German Protestant princes, as
we'll as representatives of other Protestant
courts england and Holland have already
accepted inviIations), the Protestant can
tons of Switzerland, etc The band of the
imperial yacht HohenZOlern, as We'll as
the sailors chorus of the fleet viii contrl-
butte the music OF the ceremony. Ihe En-
peror's retinue win number three hundred
persons. and viii travel on horseback ana
in carriages from Jaffa to Jerusalem, TAX
ing two days and two nights for the jour
ney They will all occupy tents, which Wld
be furnished by the Sultan from Constan-
tnople, and the camp will probably be
pitched nOrthward from the gate of Da-
mascus. The horses and carriages 10 be
used viii be brought from the imperial
stables in Berlin. The Turkish government
is said TO be displaying a feverish activity
in improving the roads that the Emperor
viii have to use.
One of the latest subjects Of popular
discussion is the relative performance Of
light or dark eyes, and some interesting
Times from which it appears that, taking
the average of Europe and America, 44.6
is the percentage of men having light
eyes, including blue and gray, and the
proportion of girls and women having such
eyes is by the same computation 34.2 per
cent; in other words blue eyes are De
cidedly rarer among women than among
men. But it appears that though men
have light eyes more generally than wo-
men, it is shown that in the intermediate
range of color between light and dark the
percentage Of the two sexes is very nearly,
though not quite, the same, there being
in this intermediate category both brown
and hazel eyes, neither pure light nor
genuine black; the percentage of these
among men is found to be 43.1 and among
women 45.1 The percentage of dark or
black eyes is 20.7 per cent. among women,
while among men it is 12.3-that is, of the
whole number.
Among the garden plants commonly in
vogue which possess a poisonous nature
botanists mention the flowers of the jon
quill, white hyacinth and snowdrop, the
narcissus being also particularly deadly,
so much so, indeed, that TO chew a small
scrap of one Of the bulbs may result fatal
ly, while the juice of the leaves is an
emetic. The berries of the yew have kill
ed many persons and it is pretty well
known nowadays that it is not safe to eat
many peach pits or cherry kernels a once.
The lObelias are all dangerous. their juice,
if swallowed producing vomiting and gid
diness, with pains in the head. Lady'5
slipper poisOns in the same manner as does
poison ivy, the bulbs seeming TO be the
most harmful Lilies of the valley are al
so as much so. There is enough opium in
red peoples to do mischief; and the autumn
crocus, If the blossoms are chewed, causes
vomiting and purging. The leaves, and
flowers of the oeander are deadly, and
the bark of the cataipa tree is very mis-
chievous; the water dropwOrt, when not in
flower, resembles celery, and is viruent.
In a recent number of the Photograph
&c Magazine, William Whitford points out
that il is very essential a stenOgrapher be
possessed Of exceedingly acute hearing,
coupled with a goodly supply Of what is
vulgarly called 'gumption." This is very
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