Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-27

The United states uses three times as much
paint as any other country.
ENGLISH b~ondholders hold Mexican securi-
ties to the value Of 100000.
Is the public schools of Greece the four Cos
pels Of the New Test ament are used as a
reader by the children of the most advanced
classes Of the primary depa tment, and the
new Minister Of Education proposes 10 extend
their use into the higher schools.
FIFTY THOUSAND woodchucks have been
killed in New Hampshire during the present
year. on which the State pays a bounty Of 10
cents each. making a total for wOodchuck
killing of 5000. Reckoning each w0odchuck
to weigh five pounds, the total weight of the
$1,000 viii aggregate III tons.
RECENT sounding over the bed of the At
! lantic ocean prove the existence of a sunken
/ ridge often less than 1000 fathOms from the
surface. while on either side the water has a
depth Of $500 fathoms. The elevation Of the
oceans bed to a height sufficient to make it
mountains varying from 1900 to $4,000 feet in
| height. The higher points of the sunken ridge
now form the AzOre Islands.
a CROoKED piece Of timber rushing 400 feet
| down a chute into Lake Superior. instead OF
taking, after striking the water, the direction
that a straight stick would have done, shot
out sideways and struck a raft on which a
| number OF men were at WOFk. cutting on the
head of one Of them as II done with a knife.
From there it flew and struck a yawl. in
which were the Captain of the rafting tug and
two men. The Captain was crushed and killed
instantly. There are few more hazardous
occupations than numbering. to judge from the
long weekly list of serious casualties which
the lumber journals contain.
THE late Duke of Wellington got a letter
| once from a lady saying she was soliciting sub
scriptions for a certain church IN which she
was much interested, and had taken the lib
ertv to put his name down for Goo. and hoped
he would promptly send her a check for that
amount. He forthwith replied that he was
riad she thought so well of him: certainly he
would resDOnd 10 the call; but he. too. was in
terested in a certain church which needed sab
scriptiOns, aud counting upon his correspond
ent's ~wen-knOwn nberality, he had put her
down for GOO. land sO.r he concluded, mo
money need pass between US"
WHILE SCHUYLER Colfax was Speaker of the
House the late John MOrrissey, of New York,
went to him in his room at the Capitol one
day and deposited on his desk a box Of cigars,
and which Mr.. MOrrissey had no hesitancy in
informing the recipient cost $500 a box. AFTER
each had sampled the supposed bavanas, Mr.
MOTrissey inquired of the Speaker If he knew
why he (MOrrissey) had come to Congress.
Mr.. COlfax admitted that he did not. well"
SAID the New Yorker, Il have a son growing
up, and after q few years and he becomes Of
age, men viii say to him, Your father was a
prize fighter Well. SIR said Morrissey, Il
wanted him to be also able to say, NY father
was q Congressman. was yOursF" Mr.. Col
fax then observed that he was not sure
whether Mr.. MOrrissey had mended his repu-
tation by coming to Congress or not-possibly
not.
ONE world has three great constitutional
documents, the Declaration Of independence.
the Declaration of Rights Of 1855. and Magma
Charta Of King John. The original Of the first
named is preserved in the independence Hall.
Philadelphia, and Is familiar TO most Ameri-
cans. The Bill or Declaration Of Rights that
followed the Revolution Of l6SS is preserved in
the Somerset House, London. 1t is written in
a small, but plain hand, in English, and
covers a parchment twelve inches wide aud
nearly thirty feet long. such was the form
in which. in those days, the records of the
House OF Lords were kept. The original OF
the great Magma Charta Of King John has
had a varied history. having been many times
moved, and barely escaping destruction in
the great fire OF 1866. 1t is written on very
heavy parchment, in size 30X42 inches, and
surrounded by the seals of the Is barons who
forced the Plantagenet King 10 execute the
document on the plains Of Runnymede on that
June day CSC years ago. Tn text Is IN old
Latin, the exact translation OF which has
given rise to a great deal of learned cOntro-
versy. At the bottom right-hand corner -
the signature Of the King in q bold hand