The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Turkeys eggs take twenty-eight
days TO hatch.
An incubator in use in Australia
has a capacity of 11,44O ducks eggs or
14,0sO hens eggs.
Wax is natural secretion of the
bees. and is only produced by them
during heavy honey flows.
AS a rule gray horses attain a
greater age than those of any other
color, but with increasing years they
turn white.
Golden eagles are increasing in the
Scottish Highlands through the efforts
of the land owners for their protection.
What is known as an angel shark,
an ugly fish with an eight-inch mouth
containing three rows of teeth, has
been caught with a hand line at Felix
stowe, England.
The largest mule on earth, three
year-old jinnet, belongs to Michael
Murray of Hereford, Mo. She is IS
hands, or six feet, high at the Shout
ders and weighs 1.705 pounds.
A peculiar sensitiveness to light
ming has been noted in fishes. In sew
eral recent cases trout and other fishes
in tanks and pools have been killed
by lightning flashes, which, however,
struck some distance away.
1t is said that the profitable hen
eats sixteen times her weight in a
year. Her eggs are six times her own
weight, and worth six times the cost
Of hAr.
oats, grit, clover and bone and less
corn.
The German archaeological Society
has been conducting experiments with
pigeons, and finds that when liberated
at hight of 5000 feet down to as lit
tie as 2,70O feet they drop rapidly to
a much lower region of the atmos-
phere.
The skin of the diamond-back rat
tlesnake is utilized in Florida as a ba-
rometer. When preserved like raw
hide and hung up the skin will begin
to emit beads of moisture at the first
indications of storm, even though
several hours before the arrival of the
atmospheric disturbance.
The town of Winchester Mass, is
now almost entirely bereft of cats. The
superintendent of the state fowl hatch
cry, finding that the animals wrought
great havoc among his poultry, fixed
up wires and at night ran a powerful
electric current through them. During
the past two years over 200 cats have
been electrocuted.
The means by which sea birds
quench their thirst when far out at
sea is described by an old skipper, VINO
tells how he has seen birds at sea, far
from any land that could furnish them
water, lowering around and under a
storm cloud, Gathering like ducks OH
hot day at a pond, and drinking in
the drops of rain as they fell. They
will smell a rain Squall a hundred
miles distant, or even farther off, and
scud for it with almost inconceivable
swiftness.
Many fish can produce musical
sounds. The red gurnard has earned
the name of seacock from the Growing
noise which it makes, while another
species is called the piper. Others, no.
tably two species of ophidum, have
sOund-producing apparatus, consist
ing of small, movable bones, which can
be made to produce a. sharp rattle.
The curious drumming made by the
mediterranean fish known as the mall
grerean be heard from a depth of thir-
ty fathoms.
When Senator Hanna was on his
way to Washington recently he and
some other travellers got out for an
airing at Pittsburg and were left be-
hind, having made a mistake as to the
waiting time. The party included sew
eral members of the Bonded Ware
house Association, one of whom went
to hunt for Pullman car accommoda-
ton. The Pullman division superin-
tendent was very sorry, but he could
do nothing until he learned that Mr.
Hanna was among those present. Then
special was made up in a hurry and
the travellers were soon on their way
once more,
-Apropos of the killing of Miss Has
sett in Philadelphia by Barry john
stone, the actor, it is not recalled that
an actor has ever suffered the death
penalty for murder. The remarkable
circumstance was brought out at the
trial of Robert B. Gentry, who killed
Madge Yorke in the same city several
years ago. In spite of the able defense
of the late Charles W. Brooke, one of
the foremost criminal lawyers in Amer
lea, assisted by George F. Munce of
Philadelphia, Gentry was convicted of
murder in the first degree, but he has
never been hanged. Other cases
equally as fragrant could be recalled.
There are about 10, 000, 900 migra tory
sheep in Spain which each year travel
as much as 200 miles from the plains
to the mountains. They are known as
rans-humantes and their march, rest
ing-places and behavior are governed
by special regulations, dating from the
fourteenth century. AT certain times
no one may travel the same route as
the sheep, which have the right to
Craze on all open and common land on
the way. For this purpose a road
ninety yards wide must be left on all
Enclosed and private property. The
shepherds lead their f1ocks, which fol-
low after and around. The fiocks are
accompanied by provision mules, and
by large dogs to guard against wolves.
The merino sheep travel forty miles
to the mountains, and the total time
spent on the migration there and back
is fourteen weeks.
"A letter from Rome to the PhiIa-
delphia Press says Naples at the
present time is in high state of ex-
element concerning a girl named
Emilia Dinacci, who has recently he
come subject to extraordinary hallu-
cinations. She declares that whereve-
she goes she is accomnaniad h., +ho