Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

SENIOR GORILLA again predicts that a
republic in Spain is inevitable.
The largest observatory dome in the
world is now being made in Cleveland for
the University of Virginia. 1t will weigh
ten tons and measure forty-five feet four
inches at the base.
a VOLUME containing Petrarch's songs,
printed in Venice about the end of the tif-
teenth century, was recently sold in Lon
don for the sum of 50 There is said
to be no copy of the work in that country.
THE electric railway motor is success.
1t runs charmingly, and when it comes to
a curve it goes off on a tangent and dumps
its passengers in the ditch in due form.
What steam locomotive ever did better or
worse?
PRIVATE advIces from Honduras state
that Gen. Luis Bogran has been elected
President of the Republic, as the success
sOr of President Soto, and that the event
was regarded with satisfaction as tending
to peace.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in San Fran
cisco to establish line of coal ships to
bring coal from Washington Territory, on
Puget's Sound. CalifOrnia's coal supply
at present comes all the way from Aus
tralia and England.
THE Independent Labor Party of the
State of New York" has filed articles of
incorporation with the Secretary of State
at Albany. This gives the Independent
Labor Party an evidence of existence
which it will be pretty hard to get around.
IRISH pOplins are coming into favor
again. Queen Victoria has set the fash
ion in England, and it is only question
of time when the serviceable and hand
some fabric will be stylish enough in
America to suit the most fastidiOus belle.
In is positively stated in the New York
World that a subscription is being pri-
vately circulated to build a theatre in
New York for Henry Irving, which he will
manage In conjunction with the Lyceum
in London, playing alternately SIX months
in each.
A TRIBE of Indians having tails from
6 to inches in length is said to have
been discovered in Paraguay. Should
this announcement prove true, the Jour
nal Of Science protests in advance against
t1eir being paraded as ''the missing link"
since the anthrOpoid apes have no tails.
IT HAS been so prosperous year in
Bengal that the number of coolie emf
grants who left was fewer by $500 than
those of last year. The northwest pro-
Yinces and Dude, where the struggle for
existence is the hardest in India, supply
the greater portion of emigrating coolies.
Those who returned last year brought
back on an average 500 apiece.
THE Gazette Hebdomdddire publishes
the results of a series of investigations
continued for eight years into the COM
position of the Paris atmosphere. 1t was
found to hold in suspension cotton, hemp,
wool. hair, down, pollen, starch, particles
of skin, carbon, various salts, iron, dead
insects. ova of infusOria, and especially
spores of cryptogams and bacteria.
TWENTY-FIVE years is long time for
a man to live the life of a recluse, and
vet this was the fate of one who died the
other day. who fed to the wilderness of
Northern Maine and lived that period of
time as a hermit. His name was Will
liam Cunningham, native of Washington,
in Knox county. 1t was the old story of
false love, broken fortunes and blasted
hopes.
THE recently established through train
of the International Sleeping Car Com
pany between Paris and COnstantinople
seems very efficiently equipped. The ORR
ginator of the enterprise is Mr.. Nagel-
hackers, a Belgian, nephew of Mr.. Frere
Orban. Mr.. n. thoroughly studied here
our sleeping car system, and resolved to
introduce il into France, but had to con-
tend against many difficulties. a train
leaving Paris now reaches COnstantinople
in 81 hours.
THE AGED Pasteur Louis Dubois, of
Vevey, Switzerland, who died few weeks
ago. has left the sum of 5000 francs to the
of Vevey for the erection of
a memorial in the Church of st. Martin to
the English s'regicide'' Ludlow. Ludlow
and Broughton found an asylum in Vevey
In 1862. 1t was there the former wrote
his memoirs, which were printed at Am
sterdam after his death. Ludlow's house
was pulled down some years ago, and the
tablet which he placed over the door was
to England.
AFTER the negro rising IN Jamaica, in
Gov. Eyre's time, some 10 years ago, the
Government of the island
was abolished, and the colony became
what is called a Crown colony, ruled by
officials appointed by the colonial once In
London. An influential partyin Jamaica
now claims that the condition of the island
is so much changed for the better that 1t
is quite time to reinvest the people with
self-government. An influential deputa-
ton recently saw Lord Derby on the mat
ter. who told them that the government
had carefully considered the question.
and 'sintended to introduce something of
an elective element into the new arrange
ments that would be made"