Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AN Egyptian has entered Cornell. lie
is a triie over 5000 years old.
ALL Of Southeastern Europe is revolt
ing against too heavy rates Of interest.
4 MILLION Hindu tracts were recently
printed at the expense of native Prince.
MARY ANTOINETTE' harp, richly in
laid with ivory, has-turned up in an old
curiosity shop in Berlin.
THE majority in favor of the woman
suffrage bill i'm the lower house of the
Washington Territory Legislature was
IA tot.
A NEW ENGLAND physician says that
if every family would keep box of mus
tard in the house one-half of the doctors
would starye.
THE steamship MaripOsa, built on the
Delaware, has made the fastest passage
ever known between san Francisco and
HOnOlulu-6 days and hours.
The average salary of quartet choir
singers in New York, 5000, is almost the
maximum in Philadelphia, according to
the EceRiRg Bulletin of that city.
"a HIDEoUs she-mOnster" IS the sig
nificance of the word Mormon in Greek.
and the first MOrmOns were, doubtless,
ignorant of the appropriate meaning Of
the term.
REV. DIR. JOHN HALL, of New York,
saws that Professionalism can hardly be a
failure when it started with nobody in
1900 and controls populations to the eX-
tent of 40S, 600, 600 to-day.
BELGIUM is called the classic land of
bells. Mechlin possesses the finest though
not the heaviest carlton in Belgium, and
il was there that Victor Hugo rose in the
night and wrote his poem on the bells.
CATHOLIC JOURNALS profess much
amusement about the advance of the
Salvation army on Rome. They think
that the Eternal City will soon be an apt
illustration of the tower of Babel with its
numerous sects.
THERE is a farmer living near Hopes
ton, ILL.,. who has boy abOnt IA years of
age with a weak spine. He has tied a
straight stick to the boys back, extend
ing the full length of the spine and above
the head. The boy is strapped straight to
the stick, and works right along.
FRIDAY is beggars' day in Havana, and
then the halt and the blind, in every phase
of filth and misery. take possession of the
streets. Strange tn say, the beggars IN
Cuba are mostly Cinnamon; while in the
Western States of America the almond
eyed Celestial is a pattern of industry and
frugality.
ONEDAY last week Miss Fannie Kemp,
one of the teachers of the public schools
of Funkstown. Pa. had occasion to pun
ish child of Mrs. John Kendall. and that
lady, becoming highly incensed, proceeded
to the school house and, calling Miss
Kemp out, slapped her face. This little
L I'll r,sn1 slrnl nf n
ment in the quiet little town of Funks-
town.
PRINCE BISMARCK, it is said, has taken
to industry on a large scale. The first
mills for making paper out of wood were
Austrian, and even to this day the paper
for MANY a British newspaper is manu-
featured in Austria. Prince Bismarck
has founded a large establishment of this
kind in his forests of Narzin, and he IN
tends founding another in the Sachsen-
valid in Lauenburg.
A NEW PLAY was produced at the OdeOn
Theatre, in Paris, on October 10 under
decidedly novel circumstances. An au-
thor had brought an action against the
manager because, after accepting play,
he had delayed its production, and the
court. beside awarding t120 damages,
ordered the piece to be produced forth
with. Played accordingly 1t was, not
"by special request" but 'by judicial
decree"
1T is said that glass is gradually Begin
ming to take the place of wood and iron in
the construction of bridges in England. The
inventor makes blocks of glass. which he
hardens by a special process. In sOlidity
il is said TO leave nothing TO be desired.
The experiments already made have given
surprising results, and the cost is below
that Of bridges of wood or iron. More
over. the glass cannot be injured by in
sects, like wood, nor rusted like iron.
PROFESSOR NEWTON, of Yale College,
answered reporters question, "Why
was the seventy-ffth meridian chosen on
the Atlantic coast in the new time sys-
tenn" thus because the Philadelphia
meridian, the one to be conveniently used,
ran the closest to the centre of the pOpu-
IatiOn of the country. / have reckoned 1t
that, including the places which are but
from 10 to 10 minutes distant from the
seyenty-fifth meridian, there is a popula-
ton of more than 100000 people along
it in the United States"