The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-26

1t has often been stated that sixty
miles an hour was the utmost rate at
which a swallow could fly. Recent
experiments upon Compeigne and Ant
werp proved that a swallow in hur-
~ can cover 12sh miles in an hour.
When feeding, the stride of an os-
trich is from twenty TO twenty-five
inches: when walking, but not feeding,
twenty-six inches, and when terrified
eleven and a half to fourteen feet, or
at the rate of about twenty-five miles
an hour
Originally the common or domestic
goat was a native of the highlands of
Asia NaturaIsts generally regard it
as having descended from an animal
found in the Caucasus mountains and
the hill country OF Persia, called in
the Persian language the pesang.
-Four hundred and fifty acres of
land have been obtained at Blairgow-
RE, Perthshire. Scotland, to enable
Scottish peasants to try the Irish
scheme of small holdings, but without
aid from taxation. Fruit growing and
fowl rearing are to be insisted on.
New kinds of living butterflies can
be produced from existing forms by
greatly increasing or decreasing the
temperature of the place where the
butterflies are kept. A difference in
coloring and even in form has thus
been obtained by Prof. Fischer in re-
cent experiments.
German professors are not likely
to grow rich. Seven years ago 1871
drew salaries of $3.50 or less, 81 went
~ A 10 z "a n
$1,000 and q to $1,000. There are IA
that obtained between that sum and
$4,000. 10 as high as $4,000, up to So
900, and above $4,000.
Sixty mastodons have been found
in New York, mostly along certain we'll
marked belts Outside these belts the
state is barren. They, therefore, had
distinct feeding grounds, and that, too
in not very remote time. They are
usually found resting on the boulders
of old streams and in comparatively
thin LAYER of peat.
'Magasinitis" is a new word coined
by a French physician to describe the
state of mind, similar to intoxication,
produced in kleptomaniacS when they
see the tempting display of seemingly
unguardcd articles in department
stores. DR.. Dubuisson thinks that
the owners of these stores should try
to diminish temptation, as we'll as to
punish thieves.
The lord provost of Glasgow,
whose office corresponds with that of
Mayor in this country, told at a din
ner recently how he was tipped" by
an American sight-seer. A party of
tourists from the United States were
viewing the splendid municipal cham
bers in Glasgow and were especially
enthusiastic about the great marble
staircase. The lord provost happened
to pass and offered to guide them
about, While doing so he gave them
some interesting information about
the rise and growth of his interesting
city AS he was leaving, one of the
Americans quietly slipped a half dol
lar into his hand. The provost had
not recovered from his amused aston
ishment until the Americans left the
building.
Strange clubs have been founded
in Paris from time to time. There
have been social considerations of
opium smokers, hasheesh eaters, alb
sinthe drinkers, abnormally stout men,
and people with pasts, who banded
against DldCkIIldll61S, &C.
cording to The London Telegraph. A
silent club has now been discovered.
The members are all deaf and dumb,
and communicate with. each other by
signs. They meet in rooms in the
Montparnasse district, and there drink.
smoke, play cards, and read the news
papers, the magazines and the newest
novels. The servants attached to the
club are also deaf and dumb, and
move about noselessly and lnysteri-
ously. They are ordered to put down
plates and glasses without a sound,
so that a silence nearly as complete
as that prevailing in Cistercian or a
Carthusian cloister is maintained The
president of the Club du Silence" is
man who fought of old against Red
Indians in North America, and whose
tongue was cut while he was a pris-
oner among the savages.
The postoffice directory shows an ex-
traordinary list of towns with freak
names. For example, the new directory
shows the following:
Beans. 2 Peach Orchads