The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Birmingham turns out every week SOo.-
10000 cut nails, 100 900 900 buttons 900 miles
Of wire of different sizes, five tons Of hair
pins, 500 tons of nuts and 10000 pairs of
spectacles.
A Kentucky farmer, noticing a tree
on his place filled with something that
looked like black fruit, inspected it more
closely and discovered that hundreds of
blackbirds were frozen to the limbs.
"A well known professor says that over
a large area of Central Russia the mag
neic needle does not point north or south.
1t is in one part DETECTED to the west,
and at another part to the east, and at
one place it points due east and west.
-Pekin has a tower in which is hung
a large bell cast in the fifteenth century.
and another tower containing a huge drum
great danger should threaten the city. No
one is allowed to enter these towers.
1t is a rule at the we'll known banking
house of CouttS & Co., London, that none
of the bank clerks wear mustaches. 1t
has long been considered a point of bust
ness etiquette that all the gentlemen en-
ployed at the bank should wear frock
coats during business hours.
Travellers in Australia complain that
almost the only trees in the continent are
eucalyptus, and they afford little shade
edgeways to the sun. The botanical gar
dens in the cities are, however, declared
to be dreams of beauty
"A Belfast (Me.) man, Elbridge s
Pitcher by name, has a leather wallet of
an extremely Old pattern, on the inside of
which is written: This pocketbook was
taken from Benjamin Wentworth's pocket
after he was wounded in battle, by Sion
Wentworth, his brother in the French
war. 1856
"A German scientist states that mus
taches among women are commoner az
the present time than they used to be. He
has observed that in Coustantinople and
Madrid one woman out of every ten has a
dist mustache while in Philadelphia
quite per cent. of the ladies bear unmis-
taxable signs of down upon their upper
lips.
"A Lewiston (de) merchant has in his
store an oid-fashioned clock which is pc
il any one steps into the store or goes
by, it will start again, and if a horse
steps on a certain spot in the street it
will start. A man who happened to no
tice It, and who had one like it himself,
said that his would not run after he had
started his furnace in the fall. In the
spring, after he ceased TO keep a fire, it
would run all right.
A unique Maori mat, composed of the
feathers of the "kiwi" Ghe wingless bird
Of New Zealand) was sold in a London
auction room the other day. In the mat
we're two panels of feathers of the white
variety, which probably no living person
has seen in England. 1t is said that it
took the tribe-whose chief. doubtless,
used it as a prayer mat-ten years to col
lect them. The mat fetched 80 guineas,
and was bought, it is said, for the Natural
History Museum.
Editor Edmonds of the Manufacturers
Record writes: How big is Texas did
you ask? Well, 1 won't try to tell, but
when you are in the northern end of the
state you are closer to st. Paul, Mimi,
than to the southern end of the state.
They tell a story of a man down there
who had a reasonably large ranch-not
one of the big. ones, just a moderate-sized
one-on which the front gate was twenty
miles from the house-a very convenient
evening walk for lovers who want to
swing on the gate before saying good
night"
"A new theory of the circulation of the
blood is put forth, says Electricity, by DR..
M j. Rodermund of Wisconsin. DR.. Rod
ermund believes the blood is driven through
the arteries and veins by the oxygen in
the lungs and not by the muscular con-
traction of the heart. Instead of the
blood carrying the oxygen through the
system ne thinks it is the oxygen that
carries the blood, thus exactly reversing
the theory held by Psychologists since
Harveys discovery of the circulation of
the blood three centuries ago. DR. Roder-
mund boldly challenges the generally ac-
cepted doctrine that the heart acts as a
force pump. He says that the heart is
merely the automatic governor on the
engine to keep the pump from working too
fast, and that the real motive power of
the blood is the oxygen of the air, acting
by electrical energy. II is a well known
law in physics that all positive electric
bodies repel each other, while negative
and positive bodies attract each other.
DIR. Rodermund holds that the oxygen in
the air cells of the dungs charges the
which causes them TO be driven violently
away through the arteries, and furnishes
them with force necessary to make their
way through the network of tiny capiIlar-
les throughout the body. The moment
they have gotten through and have had
the oxygen absorbed out of them by the
muscles ana organs they become negative
electrically and begin to be attracted back
to the lungs through the veins. AS
soon as they get back into contact with
the inflated air cells they are recharged
from the fresh air in the lungs and The
process is repeated. Thus DR.. Rodermund
would have US believe the diaphragm and
the lungs are the machine of perpetual
motion called life, and not the heart. as
generally supposed.
The new Viceroy of India, Lord Cur
zon, is gaining a good deal of credit for
the tact, courage and good sense display
ed in his public addresses, saws the New
York Post. He furnished an illustration
of these qualities in the reply which he
made the other day to the Central Mo-
hammedan Association, which COMPLAIN
ed OF the manner in which Mussujnnans
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