The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-05
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ing sucked by she wolk passes for IA
bic, but the researches of naturaiists lend
it color. In India native children have
been nursed by wolves and lived with
them. Negroes aver that anthropoid apes
have sucked babies. Romanes has cited
as a fact the sucking of three young rats
by cat whose kittens had been taken
from her.
Mexico is richly endowed with prec-
ious stones. The opals of Queretaro, San
Juan del Rio, and Tequsquapan are ia
nous for their changing fires. They are
found in crusts on the calcareous rocks.
which are easy to work, also in the gran
lite, which has to be blasted, and this often
breaks the gems. The opal beds are sell
dom more than ten or twelve feet below
the surface.
The Prince of Monaco continues his re-
searches on the fauna of the Mediterra-
mean and the Atlantic at great depths
Near the Azores he has discovered a vol
canc bank fifty miles long. and a Portu-
guese captain has discovered a second bank
close by. These banks are the resort of
numberless fishes. The Prince is having
a new vessels of /, 400 tons built for further
explorations.
Prof. Ray Lancaster. in a recent lee
ture in England, gave a clear and easily
understood explanation of how NEGOTIATIONS
of mild disease will cure or prevent the
severer kinds. Protoplasm, he said, had
the capacity for being taught to tolerate
a chemical action from which it naturally
shrank. A mass of protoplasm attracted
in the direction of a solution of sulphate Of
iron would at first grow down to the edge
of it and then draw back, but in a little
time would plunge boldly through ind
across it, and this protoplasm thenceforth
would have no fear of sulphate of iron
The amoebold corpuscles of the blood are
attracted by what is called ''chemotaXis''
to the germs of disease entering the body
and swallow them up; but these bacteria
in their turn produce a poison which re-
pels the corpuscles The latter however,
can be taught by gradually increasing
doses to tolerate the poison, and in this
way the body can acquire an immunity
against even the full strength of the dis
ease.
The supremacy of American made ma
chinery and tools was strikingly displayed
says a writer in a London mechanical
journal, in the recent Stanley cycle show
The well-known English firms, he says
were all conspicuous by their absence and
with but three or four exceptions, the
stands occupied were not those of manu-
facturers, but those of the English agents
of American firms. This feature in truth
has become so common that one expects
it and looks for il. But it is not credita-
Bile TO British manufacturers, nor does it
augur well for the business of the future
Here is a huge national industry, which
has grown up during, say, about twenty
years; there are scores of factories, and
many thousands of hands engaged in the
manufacture of cycles, yet the best equip
ped of these factories, the most mod
ern, the most successful, are equip
ped wholly, or almost wholly not with En-
glish, but with American machine tools.
The American lathe, ne says, has also
gone into the English market to stay, and
he declares that it is much handler for
use than the standard English makes
When drawing attention about a year
ago to the bipedal movements of certain
Australian lizards, notably the comical
little chlamydosaurus, or "frilled lizard"
whose photograph is now familiar, Mr. Sa-
ville-Kent referred to an unconfirmed ru-
NOR that the Mexican iguanoid lizard also
possesses the power of running on its hind
legs, being led to this by the correspond
ence in general structure of the creatures,
especially the abnormal length of the hind
limbs. In Nature he publishes a letter
from gentleman living in the West In
dies which shows that there also all the
lizards, from the large tree iguana, five
feet long, down to the tiniest mites which
scamper about among the stones are ac-
customed to run erect on their hind legs
when hurried The correspondent adds the
interesting information that on the rocks
about the watershed of the Guiana are
old drawings of lizards running erect Mr..
ScUilla- bo
ity, which year ago was doubted by
many naturalists, but which has now been
shown to be common to so many different
species of lizards, deserves attention as
pointing to- bipedel locomoton in some re-
mote ancestor.
-Rapid-test soundings were required in
some work on railway line between Paris
and Havre, where the cast-iron viaduct Of
Bezons was replaced by an arch bridge
alongside. The old foundations for six
channel piers were removed to the bottom
of the river 1t was required that the river
bed should be carefully leveled. After it
had been dredged the bottom was explored
by means of horizontal bar of iron about
twenty feet long, which was suspended at
each end from a framework uniting two
HAT boats in catamaran fashion. This beam
was lowered close to the bottom and the
direction transverse to the length of the
bar. When the scraper encountered no
lrregularity, the suspending chains hung
vertically, but as soon as either end was
DETECTED by contact with any obstruction
an electric circuit was closed which caus-
ed an alarm to be rung. The boat was
stopped, and the obstruction located by
means of sounding poles. In this way
small stones, down to diameter of four
inches, were easily located and the bed
of the river was leveied to within that
amount of irregularity. This method
proved rapid and successful.
The common salutation in England and
America is: How do you do?" The Ger
mans say: How do you find yourself?"
In some parts of Germany brothers kiss
each other every time they meet. The
Chinese inquire of equals: Have you eat
en- your rice?" The answer is: Thanks
TO your abundant felicity" The japanese.
when they meet SUPERIOR remove their
sandals and exclaim: Hurt me not!'
Moor will ride at full speed towards a
friend or a stranger, stop suddenly, fire
pistolAover his head and then consider
that he has been very courteous. Holland
ers salute their friends by asking: Have
you had a good dinner?" The Burmese
rub their noses against each others cheeks