The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| Lake T1ttcaca. A chain or an anchor can
| be left in it two weeks, and will be as
| clean and bright as when it came from the
| foundry, which is probably owing to the
| action of some of the chemical salts in the
| water.
On the gate OF a cemetery in Rio jan
GIRO is a notice in Spanish. French and
English that no dogs are admitted unless
| led by the owners. This is how the an
] nouncement is made In English" mo
BILE mesdames and gentlemen who may
| desire a dog to follow in this tombs-yard
| will not be permission unless him drawn
| by cable round him throttle"
A suburbanite is thus quoted in the
| Philadelphia Record: ut would be inter-
| esting 10 compute, If one could do it, the
| thousands of dollars which layer OF snow
| over the country saves to the inhabitants
| thereof. Where does the saving come in?
| Why, in light. In my house before this
snowfall we had to light the gas at 5
] O'Clock in order to read the evening pa
perS, but as soon as the snow came we
could to read ill $50. 1t is because
| the snow. you know, forms tho most pow
| erful kind of reflector. Now, there Is
about Is cents worth of gas saved to me
every night by the snow, and to every
| householder wherever snow is lying there
| is a like saving"
The twentieth century, which will be-
gin on Tuesday Jan. /, 1901 will have
| twenty-four leap years, the greatest num-
Der possible, says the New York Tribune.
February will have five Sundays three
| times-1920, 1913 and 1876. The earliest pos
sible date on which Easter can occur is
March IL. The last time 1t occurred on
| that date was 1918. The latest that Easter
| can occur is April %. 1t will occur but
one time in the coming century on that
OF tn H.. Al
will be Jan. /. 1851 There will be $50
| eclipses during the coming century. In
1888 there will be seven eclipses. There
| will be eight solar eclipses visible in the
| United States-19lS, 1929 1925. 1915. 1854, 1879
1884 and 1924. There will be twelve transits
of Mercury There will be no transit of
! Venus until 2004.
Many Englishmen have said that the
| phrase, 81 admire" with The meaning, 81
wonder" is a vulgar Americanism" But
| the Boston Journal notes the fact that In
letter written by a Londoner TO Joshua
| Barnes in 1892 the sentence occurs, 81 ad-
mire you should take clerk for law
| term, which is nothing but 'clericus;'
| and the Buffalo Commercial adds that
| admire" in the sense of ito like very
much"-'I should admire TO go''-has been
used in New England, and it is thus used
| to-day. John Pickering in 1916 said: 1T
is never thus used by the English" He
| was mistaken. The word has been used
| commonly in Leicestershire and North
| amptonshire: "Ah should admoire to see
'er well took-to'' q should be delighted to
see her well scolded); II should admire to
go to London to see the Queen"
The young maharajah of Mysore. In
| dia, is now about 16 years of age, and is
rapidly following in the footsteps of his
late father both in intellectual attain
ments and in those social qualities which
! endeared the late maharajah to both Eu-
| ropeans and natives alike. He has made
| great progress during the last four years.
| and his knowledge of English is above
| the average while his conversational
powers are far beyond those of most
youths of his age. His sporting instincts
| are, to use the slang expression, sound"
| and he is good at all the sports in which
| the English schoolboy is expected to ex-
| eel. He spends the year between Mysore,
| Bangalore and Ootacamund. This winter
| he is to make a tour, accompanied by his
| tutor and MIR. era wford, the British resi-
| Gent at Mysore, when he will visit all the
| places of interest in the northwest prov
inces, finishing up with visit to the vice
| roy at Calcutta.
The London Lancet has sounded a note
of warning against the dangers of high
attitudes for elderly people. If at a hight
| VI tldtl fiUUv l6eI 10 O,UUU leSt ABOVE
| the sea level a certain amount of strain
| is put on normal heart, and by a rise
| of pressure indirectly also on the large
| peripheral arteries. must not this action
be multiplied in the cases of heart trou-
bic or in the cases of arteries with thick
| ened or hardened walls? 1t Is specially
| the rapldity of the change from one alti-
| tude to another which must be considered
| as a call made upon the contractibility of
| the small arteries on the one hand and
| on the amount of muscular force of the
| heart on the other hand, and If the struc-
| lures in question dad not respond to this
| call, rupture of an artery or dilation of
| the heart may ensue. In the case of peo-
| pie totally una ccustomed to high attitudes
| 1t is desirable to take them by degrees, in
| two or three stages with stay of one
or two days at the intermediate places.
An amusing litigation between San
dow, the strong man, and Harry Leigh,
| professional pianist, was recently brought
| to a conclusion. Sandow had engaged Mr.
Leigh to assist In an exhibition which he
| was giving at the Empire theater, in
| Liverpool. The musicians duty was to
| impersonate Paderewski, and, after giving
short musical recital, to sit tight on his
stool, which was attached to the instru-
| ment, while Sandow carried both piano
! and performer off the platform. This en-
! tertainment had been given without mis-
nap during tour or some length. But on
| this particular occasion, while the strong
man was carrying his double burden off
| the stage, he shot both the instrument
| and the artist over his head, smashing
! the former and injuring the latter. For
| this untoward incident Mr. Leigh claimed
damages. maintaining that at the time
| when Sandow attempted to do the accus-
| toned feats he was exhausted by several
previous displays OF physical prowess. The
! strong man, on the other hand, vigorous
| ~ denied this impea chment, and asserted
that he had tripped on a crease in the
carpet which it was Mr.. Leighs duty to
| have removed. After some deliberation the
| jury returned verdict in favor of the
plaintiff and awarded him s625 by way of
| compensation.
A Baltimore dispatch says: DIR. Henry
a. Rowland, professor of physics at the
| Johns Hopkins University, claims to