The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22


way into a cupboard among a lot of
wine glasses. Evidently the cat saw
that to capture the mouse in that re-
treat would be a somewhat difficult
task, so, jumping on the top of the
cupboard, from a plate there he gent
ly precipitated a piece of cheese on
the floor-and waited. For over an
hour the cats eyes were glued on the
decoying mOrSel, and not in vain. AT
last the mouse could resist the tempta-
ton no longer and made rush for
the cheese. when the problem which
the cat had seemingly propounded to
himself found solution and the mouse
was caught.
One of the efforts now making to
lure and destroy harmful insects is
by the use of trap lanterns. Ento-
mologists are making experiments in
various parts of the country, and at
one station, where the trap has been
used every night for five months, it
has been found that the most harm
full insects avoid the light, as a rule.
OF the buffalo tree-hopper, the squash
bug, the chinch bug and the bee
moths, for example, very few speci-
mems were caught; while, on the other
hand, icheumon flies, lacewings, lady
bugs and other insects useful to the
farmer were caught in great numbers.
Another singular fact is that of the
harmful insects lured into the traps
a majority were males, whereas it is
the females that do the most dam
age.
There has just occurred at Madrid
a case that is extremely rare, it not
absolutely unique, in criminal annals
of v1,ar nm tho
charge of murder, and being sentenced
to death and afterward reprieved with
out his knowing it. The man, named
Jose Espero Cuellar, had, in Circum-
stances of great provocation, murdered
a faithless sweetheart, and, although
he was in Jail, trial for the crime had
been conducted without his being pro-
duced, or even knowing that the case
had come on. Even when sentence. Of
death was pronounced, nobody deemed
it his immediate duty to inform the
person most concerned. One day, some
time after, reading newspaper that
had been allowed him, Cuellar there
read the announcement of his reprieve,
and, petitioning to see the governor Of
the prison, learned for the first time
all that had happened.
No practicable way to measure the
hight of some of the dome shaped
chambers in the Mammoth Cave of
Kentucky had been found until DR..
Hovey conceived the very simple one
of using the toy balloon. This he did
last summer. After some preliminary
experiments he had some balloons made
of a special pattern, and of thinner
and more elestic rubber than that gen.
orally used. Then, with five balloons
tied in cluster, each of them inflated
with hydrogen to a diameter of ten
inches, he made his tests. An acety-
lene light furnished illumination
enough to show the balloons when they
touched the ceiling. The measuring
tape was a light silk thread, and he
found that the Rotunda is just forty
feet in hight, and the Mammoth Dome
119 feet 6 inches. In Gorins Dome,
however, wandering air currents rem
dered the balloons Interchangeable when
about two-thirds of the way to the
ceiling.
TO cut third set of teeth at the
age of SO is a remarkable occurrence"
said a dentist, according to the Phila.
delphia Record, but such things have
happened. Samuel Croxall, the trans
lator of Aesop's Fables, died at 80
from a fever that the cutting of his
third set of teeth occasioned. I used
to know Manayunk woman who be-
gan to lose her second teeth at the age
of %. She let them go, and, as one
by one they went, one by one others
succeeded them, till this woman had
at 26 third full equipment of very
white, strong teeth. A man came to
me two years ago to show me a front
tooth, third one, that was growing
in behind a second tooth. 1 pulled out
the second tooth, and the third, after
little persuasion, came forward, and
took it's place. One after another, in
this way, this man got eight third
teeth. To get third teeth, therefore, is
not an absolutely unheard-of thing,
though it is uncommon. The cutting
of third teeth, by the way, is attended
with great pain"
"A writer in an English publication
declares that birds way their tails
when they are happy. 1.-THE gander,"
he says, when he has to his satisfac-
ton driven off a dog from the pres
ence of his spouse returns to her cram
ing his neck toward her and wags his
tail with pleasure. Our jackd aw-or
rather jilldaw as it is a female-on our
return few days since after two
months absence cried out Justify to
us from the bush where she was perch
ed, and on our going to greet her she
received us with profuSe tail-wagging
to show her particular friends in the
household by wagging her tail, crouch
ing on her perch and cawing in an I'M
dertone." Another observer finds that
some birds blush. He writes: 1--WE
have a very fine specimen of the blue
and yellow macaw which displays this
trait-not often, for he is remarkably
good the blush is an
invariable sign of anger; so much so,
that we warn all friends that while
his cheeks remain white all attacks
are feigned and in play and can be
disregarded, yet if the danger signal
-red-shows, to look out and keep out
Of reach" The owner Of a blue and
orange macaw says that its white,
parchment-like face becomes bright
pink, especially above the beaJ1- when