Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-22

chamber in confusion. declaring that ne
would rather sec the man die than saNeo
BY another's skill.
In none of the accounts Of Wagner's
funeral published by the London press
was mention made that the mausoleum at
Wahnfried had been used already. When
the composers dog Russ was poisoned py
some miscreant few years since, ms re-
mains We're placed in the tomb desLIhea
to receive the body Of his master. ag-
ner had carved by the entrance 10 the
mausoleum the etfigy of his fayOrlte IN an
attitude of repose. and underneath the le-
gend, "Here Russ rests, ana waits.
A most remarkable electrical phenome-
non, says the Chicago Times, manifested
itself on the line of the Union Pacllc
Railway recently, between North Platte
and Sidney, Neb. The influence, now
ever, was felt perceptibly beyond those
points. The rails were sufcharged Win
a current of electricity, moving from west
to east, to so high degree that hand cars
standing on the track were lmpelied at
fair rate of speed by it. one hand car at
Brule got away from the section NEIL
Victorien Sardou has one criterion when
young author comes to him with MS
manuscript and asks advice. The author
of Fedora asks: "Have you studied
Scribe? Do you know thoroughly the
works of Dumas perez II the new
conner smiles with the disdaintul superior
ity of 'sanother school, in llterature-luT-
nished with a brilliant specimen-Sardou
says: swell, then, sean the one ana ana,
lyZe the other. When you have attained
the cleyerness of Scribe and the VlgOf Oh
the other you will succeed"
In the matter of divorces, switzerland
surpasses every country in the world ex-
cept this. According to return lately
published by the Federal Statistical Blu
reau, the number of demands for divorce
in 1881 was LII, as compared with !, 10Y
in 1880. and the divorces pronounced IN
1881 were 945, against 500 IN 1851. Inc
proportion of divorces to marriages
throughout the Confederation is about
per cent; proportion unequaIed IN any
other country, and in only one clty-ber-
lin. On the other hand, the rate IN Ge-
neva is still higher $50 per cent? In
Thurgau the proportion is 9.22 per cent.
Every great dramatist has been guilty
of plagiarism, although few have been so
frank to admit it as George Sand. She sent
one day to Dumas fils "A new comedy
which she had just completed. ''It is very
good" said Dumas, ''but do you not see
one thing! 1t is absolutely like lie Ro-
man DUN Jeune HOmme Pauvre,' of Oc-
tave Feuillet." 500 you think SOP" at
is perfectly plain," and he showed her the
remarkable points of resemblance which
existed between the two works. ''Iiens,
tits true" said, softly, George Sand, II
can doubt it no longer. Let us speak of it
no MORE" taking her manuscript which
she had written with ardor, and read with
so much pleasure, and throwing it in the
fire.
The most costly of all the presents made
to the Crown Princess of Germany at the
recent silver wedding, was made by the
members of the household of the Crown
Prince and Princess, who have served
them since the wedding. 1t was mag
nificent grand piano, the case made i'll
the Louis QuinZe style, with white panels
and ornamental carved work of figures
and flowers. On the inside of the lid is
painted the gala equipage, drawn by three
pair of horses in gorgeous trappings, in
which they made their public entry into
Berlin, and the panels contain paintings
of BalmOral, Windsor. the new palace,
Potsdam, scenes from the Riviera and
other places, and scenes intimately asso-
ciated with their welded life.
'EWe live" says recent medical
authority on the germ theory OF disease
sat the bottom of a vast aerial sea, thick
" peOpled with dead and living things.
Of course the bulk of the dust of the air is
not made up of the germs of disease, but
the common bacteria of putrefaction enter
largely into its composition, as we
soon find when we leave exposed TO the
air any organic matter. These germs
seem to circulate in clouds, or, we might
say, flOcks, as we observe, when num-
h0r Of OCT frIh nos fai
ter is exposed to the air, that they are not
all affected at the same time or alike.
When disease appears in a country or
part of a country, we see the same thing
in its attack of certain regions or individ-
uals and escape Of Others"
The courage and the persistence Of the
promoters" of the channel tunnel pro-
duce now and again a spasmodic quake
in one quarter and another of the little
island and an enumeration of the obsta-
cles in the way of its completion and the
means by which it could be destroyed if
an invading army threatened England.
The precautions to be taken consist in
first class fortress, a permanent garrison
Of some 5000 to 10000 men and a system
of mines connected with various parts of
the Kingdom by electric wires. Three
million is the estimated expense of the
submarine tunnel and of the supplement
tary one to connect the Chatham and
Dover with the Southeastern Railway.
The construction and armament of the
first class fortress would be 1900, 900 more,
Finally-the revenue of the ''Scheme"
would have to bear the charge of paying
and maintaining the garrison. With this
assurance the average John Bull sleeps in
peace.
The Ashburnham Papers.