Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE color line in the New York city public
schools has just been abolished, and the pupils,
white and black, attend the same schools
Hitherto the blacks were furnished with sep
arate schoOlhOuses.
THE quadricycle is the name given to
wheeled vehicle invented by James O. Brown.
of Boston. 1t has two small wheels in front
and two large wheels behind. The inventor
says that it Is far superior to the bicycle or
tricycle..
REV. MILES GRANT, who is called a Boston
evangelist" has been warning the people of
Chicago to prepare for the destruction OF the
0rudently refrains from fixing
W0rid. no which he claims will occur
Gste foT tne on otS or few ears He also vol
~ q lev tho eomewbat ambiguous prediction
that Goods people, will come TO Inelr own
this fall.
THE Chinese troops are uniformed in the
hues of the rainbow, besides black and white.
Imagine 100 laundrymen in scarlet blouses
ard royal purple trousers drawn up in line,
adjoining them a company in pure white,
then company in bright green, then one in
light blue, and you have Chinese regiment.
When they march they lift up their feet ike
cats in the snow.
THE summer house of the late Secretary
Folger, on Seneca Lake, is a modest cottage
under a dark slaty cliff, The beauties of the
lake, which has romantic associations with
the powerful tribe Of indians whose name it
bears have been celebrated by the poet Perci-
val: From Fro, its great depth i has been conjee-
tpred that the %"ater has formed a cavern I'M
der the soft limestone foundation.
THE other day Daniel Peake, Of Wellsboro,
Pa, ald a party Of berry pickers were in the
woods near Antrim. Mr.. Peake was sepe-
rated from the others, and near the summit
he stopped near large black stump, when
suddenly he heard a gooI-sized black bear
and a cub within a few feet of him. The
strangest part of the incident was that he
noticed that the bear had a ring in its nose.
Il THINK,'' says a letter writer, ''she most
impressive monument | have ever seen, save
that to Napoleon in Paris, is the dying lion of
Lucerne, cut in the living rock, in the shadow
of overhanging trees, reflected in a clear pool
az water below it, which makes it beyond the
reach of even the touch of the hand. 1t is q
breathing, agonized creature, whose agony be-
comes painfully real as you gaze upon it; yet
its dignity and majesty are supreme 1t was
a glo ious conception, and IS as much mOnu-
ment to Thorwaldsen as to the brave Swiss in
whose commemOratlon he made IT."
THE jute manufacturing industry in Scot
land; which forms large portion of the trade
| of Dundee, is threatened with serious cOmpe-
/ tition on the part of German manufacturers.
Returns recently published show that the jute
/ manufactures OF OeIudug nave duucu lusUVV
4 spindles to their existing machinery, giving a
/ capacity for turning out 100000 hundred
/ weight per annum OF the various fabrics man.
ufactured from this material. The news has
! created great alarm north Of the Tweed, where
/ %, 900 persons are now engaged in this indus
] try. as the capacity of the German mills is
now nearly equal to half the capacity OF
! all the mills in Scotland.
/ PRINCE KRAPOTKINE, anarchist, man Of
/ science, and claimant to the Imperial crown
of Russia, just now the inmate of a French
prison, has been varying the monotony of hi;
/ thraldom by a curious and amusing study
| Having made friends with the prison cat, he
| has been engaged in reducing its ways to q
system. Among other experiments, he hal
| sought to discover whether the Jail puss would
recognize her own identity in a mirror; and
after long observation, has come to the con
! clusion that she can and does. He writes to
| scientific paper in London that the cat no
only sees a cat in the glass, but percelves tina
\ it is a reflection of herself. 1t has often beer
| a subject of conjecture with students of natar
| al history whether this is true of the dog, al
animal Of far higher perceptive faculties; anC
the conclusion has been generally reached tina
the dog certainly does not discern the imag'
in the mirror to be himself. Prince Krapot
| kine's discovery adds an interesting item Il
! feline history and literature.