The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-09
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on board one of the warships with a view
to making the hghting machines less in
fiammable. Constructor BoUles, who was
instrumental in having the woodwork
which enters into the cabin and the lnte-
rior fittings of naval vessels treated by the
electric hreprOOfng process, has taken
step further. He recommended that me-
talic furniture be furnished the ships of
war and with view 10 testing the propo-
sition a quantity of such material has
been purchased and will be placed on
board the Atlanta. A report Will be in
vited from the commanding officer IN re-
gard to the strength, durability, and APP
pearance of the furniture, and upon the
result of the experiment VIII depend the
| purchase of similar cabin furniture for all
Warships II is in the line of reducing 10
| the minimum the amount of wooden ma
| terial on board vessel of the navy.
Warrants in favor Of the following red
men have been issued recently from the
| treasury department.: Shot-His-M other-in-
Law, Cut-A-Hole-In-It, Finds-Them-and
Kills-Them, Knis-Over- Beyond-T Other,
| Hoop Bear-GOes- To-Other-
! Grounds, Crazy-Sister-in-Law, Points
| Gun-In-His-Face Got Many Enemies,
| Looks-At-The-Ground Steals on The
Camp Hears Every-Way Strikes-On-Top-
Of-The-Head. On Top OF . The House,
Eings-In-T Mountain, ThoWs-lt- Away,
| Bullion t-Fan-Down, DOes-Many Good
| Things -DOwn-Spotted. Yellow-In-The
| Mouth, Bull-In-The- Water, Dummy IT
| Run, Holds-On, Kettle-That- BOils. Strikes
At - Night. Kills Coming To-The-Birds,
| Bird-Tail- That-Rattles, Charges Madly-
| Ou-The-E Enemy. Gets HoldOf-T he-Dead,
| Knot Between The-E Eyes. Shot-ln-The-
| Nose. Goes-To- Look-At -The-Prisoners and
| Sits-In-The-Midd
Among the glaciers found in the
! Rocky mountains and recently described
! by James p Kimban, is Grasshopper gla-
| cier, which derives its name from the
| enormous quantity of grasshopper remains
| that are found on and in the glacier. Peri
| Odically the grasshOppers that thrive in
! the prairie to the north take their flight
| southwark and must needs cross the
| mountains. Their favorite route seems to
! be across the wide glacier, and in the
| passage scores of thousands of them sue
| cumb to the rlgOr of cold and wind. fall
| helpless upon the snow and are finally
| entombed in the ice. In the course of
! time billions of them have been the vic
| Tins OF this glacier. They are, of course
| carried by the Ice river down into the val
! ley and deposited a the melting edge of
| the Ice, and Mr.. Kimball says that thou
| sands of tons Of grasshopper remains are
| the principal material at the lower edge
| of the glacier. We hear very often of
| ROCKS dlu SdHQ us FORMING the tCIuludl
moraine of glaciers. but here is a glacier
whose principal morainal material is
| grasshoppers.
For some time physicians in various
parts of Europe have been experimenting
as to the nutritive and medicinal qualities
of the various kinds of nuts, and in some
| cases have advanced views favoring the
use of the articles as food, under certain
| conditions, for special diseases. 1t Is
| stated that they contain a certain kind of
salt adapted for lubricating or softening
the muscles of the arteries, and by some
| it is said that elderly people would be
benefited by some extensive diet of this
| kind. The only evil 10 be overcome is
| that nuts are difficult of mastiCaten
| which process must be thoroughly per
| formed. so that no hard pieces may enter
| the digestive organs. In France the alb
sence of Indian corn as an article of diet
among the poorer classes is TO certain
| extent replaced by the popular chestnut.
! The peasants of that country also eat wal
nuts with bread that has been smeared
| with garlic, of which diet the hygienc eff
fects are considered good, replacing meat
in large measure. They also make
bread of chestnuts.
"A writer in a German paper while ad-
hitting that the German educational meth
DDS and institutions are held up as models
and rightly so, to the other nations of the
world, and that 10 such methods and in
! stttutions large measure of Germany's
prestige is due, raises the question whether
| such success has not been attained by sap
ping the neart blood of the nation This in
CURRY he accompanies by the remarkable
statement that during the ten years end
ing in 1895 not less than 4O7 school children
of whom 331 were boys, in Prussia alone
succumbed under the strain of education
and took their own lives before they had
arrived a the age of Is years, the extreme
~ significant fact appearing also that
! without a single exception these children
were pupils of elementary schools and
schools where training for particular pro
| fessiOn is given Not unimportant is the
statement that the ordinary workingman
in Prussia is very poor, and as the price
of meat of all kinds there is terribly
dear" it is evident that the pupils of The
elementary schools cannot, as a rule re-
ceive the nourishment necessary to sustain
them during their hard school life.
Scientific men agree, with a remarka-
BILE degree OF unanimity, that mans SUI
periority in the scale of creation, if main,
tanned at all must he based upon the re-
| lation and connection of his brain cells,
these allowing the development of his
vastly superior mental powers. But here
a strange field of exploration has been
opened up to view An examination of
mans skull and brain shows that the ia
cial angle is very large, and that the
brain is also large, both absolutely and
relatively. Thus il forms less than one
| five-thousandth of the weight of the fish.
one one hundred and eightieth of the
weight of the average mammal, one-fif-
| tieth of the chimpanZee, one thrty-siXth
of man, these figures, of course, being APP
proXimate. Further the cranial capacity
of man is from seventy to one hundred
cubic inches, of the gorilla about thirty.
The brain of Cuvier weighed sixty four
and five-tenths ounces. while the lowest
weight of the normal human brain is per-
haps thirty to thirty-two ounces. The
brain of the gorilla weighs under twenty
ounces; but the difference in weight of
brain between the highest and lowest men
| is far greater, both relatively and abso-
lutely, than between the lowest man and
the highest ape.
in recent clinical lecture DIR. Stew
art Mcclure exhibited patient who illus