The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-28
INTEMs OF INTEREST.

Fritz Korwein, who was forced TO
take a bath before being put into a cell
in the county jail in Chicago. has brought
suit against the sheriff for 100000 on the
allegation that the enforced ab!ution
| blinded him in one eye and threatened the
sight of the other. through inhamma-
ton The plaintiff says he was made to
undress Immediately after a chilly ride in
patrol wagon and TO walk over a cold
tagging and plunge into the bath without
any chance to warm up.
An instrument devised by Mr.. z. r.
Nichols has been used at the Yerkes OBJ
| serVatory to measure the heat of the
| stars. Persons out at night under a clear
winter sky get the impression that the
stars are very poor radiators. but Mr..
| Nichols seems to be able to detect heat
| rays coming from them His instrument
| consists essentially of two light mica disks
attached TO a horizontal rod which is sus-
pended by a fine fiber in a vacuum. The
| disks are blackened. When a heat ray
strikes one of them with more force than
| the other there is a movement which can
be measured. In practice the rays to be
tested are concentrated upon the disk by
means of q mirror With the apparatus
properly arranged a detection is given by
candle fifteen miles distant.
Modern science has brought to light
nothing more curously interesting than
| the fact that worry viii kill More re-
markable still, it has been able TO defer
| mine, from recent discoveries just
| how worry does kill 1t is believ
| ed by MANY scientists who have followed
most carefully the growth the science of
| brain diseases that scores of the deaths set
| down to other causes are due to worry,
and that alone, says the Journal of
| Health. The theory is a simple One-so
| simple that any one can readily under
stand it. Briefly put it amounts to this:
| Worry Injuries beyond repair certain cells
of the brain, and the brain being the nu-
| tritive center of the body, the other or
| gans become gradually injured, and when
some disease of these organs, or a com
| bination of them, arises, death finally en-
| sues Thus does worry kill Insiduously
| like many another disease, it creeps upon
| the brain in the form of a single. con-
| slant. never-lOst idea and, as the dropping
of water over period of Years will wear
a groove in a stone, so dozs worry grad
| uGlly, imperceptibly, but no less surely,
| destroy the brain cells that lead all the
| rest-that are, so to speak, the command
| ing officers of mental power, health and
| motion. Worry. to make the theory still
| stronger, is an irritant al certain points,
which produces little harm If it comes at
| intervals or iTregularly. Occasional Wor-
| rying of the system the brain can cope
with, but the iteration and reiteration of
| one idea of dsqueting sort the cells of
| the brain are not proof against. 1t is as
| if the skull were laid bare and the surface
| of the brain struck lightly with a ham,
mer every few seconds, with mechanical
| precision, with never the sign of a let-up
! or the failure of a stroke. Just in this
| way does the annoying idea, the madden
| ing thought that will not be done away
with, strike or fall upon certain nerve
| cells, never ceasing, and week by week
| dinnipiG hing the VifqlitV of these delicate
organism that are so minute that they can
| be seen only under the microscope.
Creatures that need neither to grasp
their prey nor to climb trees nor to dig
! burrows. but which feed by browsing and
seek safety in fight, have feet strength
| ened for running or standing without ia
| tigue. 1t is easy to see that a foot with
| two strong long toes would be better fit
| ed to bear a weight and the shock felt in
| running over hard ground than a foot
| with five more slender digits, the bones of
! which would be far more likely TO break
| or be injured Ancestors of all hoofed an
finals have five toes on each foot, but the
plan which has been carried out in per
! fectng their descendants for different
modes of life has been by degrees to
lengthen and strengthen one or more of
| the five, and more or less to do away
with the rest. Elephants have kept five
toes. Deer, antelopes, goats, sheep and
cattle tread on two digits, answering to
our third and fourth; and the horse. which
surpasses them all in feetness and endur-
ance, uses one toe only the third, an
swering TO our middle digit As thumb
Is useless to an animal that never grasps.
this is the first digit to disappear as fos-
sill remains teach us Next the second and
fifth digits become smaller and weaker
In a pigs foot traces OF the second and
fifth digts may be plainly seen. but from