Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The real estate agents of all the States meet
in New Orleans in January.
DURING the last couple of years glacialist,
DIR. F. Svenonius, has been engaged in study
ing and me assuring some of the glaciers in
Norway, and it is learned that there are
! about hundred glaciers in Sweden, but tnat
they are very small, the whole covering
altogether only nine square miles,
A VOLCANIC tree exists in the japanese viii
Iage of Ono in the province of Yechigo, so the
Japan Weekly Mail says. ut is fine strong
tree, GO feet high, with girth OF 10 feet, ana
is said to be centuries old. Every day Whlte
smOke-like mist issues from the summit, last
ing from early afternoon until evening"
THE Society for the Preservation Of the
Irish Language in Dublin has issued circulars
to the clerks of unions in all the Irish-speak-
ing districts, urging on the several Boards OF
Guardians the desirabillty OF filling up 1uture
vacancies in their medical stats by giving
preference to candidates having knowledge
of Irish.
BIRDS in Sweden and Norway are better
protected than in any other country, and the
consequence is that they are tame and famil-
lar. A resident of Sweden says that every
morning fOcks of sparrows come into the
room while he is eating breakfast, and run
about the room picking up crumbs or washing
themselves in basins.
THE Arabs of Sahara are very particular as
to the color of their horses. White is the
color for Princes, but does not stand heat.
The black brings good fortune, but fears
rocky ground. The chestnut is the most &C
tive. If one tells you he has seen a horse fly
In the AIR, ask of what color it was; if he re-
plies chestnut" believe him. In a combat
against a chestnut you must have a chestnut.
The bay is the hardest and most sober. IL
one tells you horse has leaped to the bottom
of precipice without hurting himself ask OF
what color it was, and if he replies ebay"
believe him.
THE British army returns just issued show
the military force maintained in Ireland dur
ing 1888 was q, 494 men, exclusive of officers.
OF these l7,7l1 were infantry, 2,2S4 artillery
and 1851 cavalry. This number shows fall
ing off of nearly 5000 on the previous year
and 1000 on 1881; but it is higher than the
total for any other year since 1873. The num-
Der of recruits raised in Ireland during 1888
was 2,979, which is higher than the numbers
for 1881 and 1882, but less than the totals for
each of the five years preceding. The total
number of Irishmen at present In the army is,
according to the return, 3l,7OO.
THE Arlberg Railway from Innsbruck to
Bregene on the Lake of Constance was for
mally naugurated on Sept. 20 by the Emperor
Francis Joseph. The passage through the
great tunnel occupied 20 minutes. The air
was fairly pure, owing to good ventilation.
The tunnel is the third longest in the world,
being only surpassed by those of St. Gothard
and Mont Gents. 1t is 1920 metres long, yet
its construction occupied only two years,
while the st. GOthard, which is 1850 metres
in length, required eight years, and Mont
Cents, 3,450 metres, fourteen years. The Arl-
berg tunnel is the first bore through the Alps
in the direction from east to west.
A GOOD DEAL of ingenuity is displayed by
opium smugglers in the central provinces Of
India in running their contraband goods. In
one case two and half maunds of foreign
opium were discovered slowed away IN the
saddles of two camels and in another case nVe
and half maunds of the same material were
found packed in vessels supposed to be full of
oil. On examination of these vessels 1t was
discovered that tube running down the
centre of each was filled with oil, the remain
ing portions of the VI ssel being packed with
opium. Despite the successful detection OF
the offenders in these instances, it is daily be-
coming matter OF greater dltncuIty 10 ueCecV
opium smuggling.
THE increasing pretenslons of foreign ar
lists threaten eventually to exterminate the
genus impresario. People saw without sur
prise the failure of Italian opera last season
here and in England, for they had long
reached the conclusion that 1t would be i'm
possible for any manager to cope with the IN
creasing rapacity of Italian artists. But we
are taken aback by the latest news that the
French opera also is on the very verge OF fall-
ure, though the manager has liked suoscrlp-
ton of 100000 year, in addition to winch ne
even these enormous advantages fail to keep
the wolf of bankruptcy from his gate.
A Willy Greek at Korosko, near DongOla, in
Egypt, settled himself outside the Korosko
Notifications with about f30 worth Of maize,
which he proposed to sell at famine prices to
Major Kitchener's Bedawin. he was not
aware that the Colonel in command was In the
habit of firing the alarm cannon to keep his
men on the alert. One night at the first re-
port of the guns the Greek took to flight for
Assouan A tranquil BedaSVi met him and
said: "Whither then?" 1.-THE enemY!" "And
your corn?" ''The enemyv' "Tll give you
dollar for it," Hand over" And the Be-
dawi not only resold the willy Greek his corn
at full price, but pointed the moral by saying
that of course no enemy could possibly have
arrived without his outposts being aware
of 1t.
A NUMBER of New York actors and journal
lists Friday afternoon paid their respects to
Miss Thauma, from London. Miss Thauma
had been at Crystal Palace, sydenham. for
half year before she started upon her jour-
! ney to this country, and she received a great
many visitors there, which is not strange, be-
! cause Miss Thauma is not only a very pretty
| girl, with frank and agreeable way calcu-
| lated to awaken admiration, but she is also a
! very curious girl, and the people who gaze
! upon her marvel while they gaze. For
| Thauma is only half girl. She ends at the
waist, so that although she wears handsome
| clothes, yet her wardrobe does not cost nearly
| as much as that of a girl built In the usual
| SLyle. MISS 1nduInd ID SIOppluS az pT6bcub III
the Eden Musee, where an audience room
| has been built for her in the crypt. When
| the curtains of her retiring room were
| drawn aside yesterday this sin
| gularly abbreviated young woman was dis
! covered resting upon narrow plank sus-
| pended from the ceiling by slender chains.
! She passed her fan under the plank to show
there were no mirrors there to deceive the
spectators. The plank was removed and she
| supported herself by grasping the chains.
! She conversed pleasantly with her guests, and
answered all their questions with much good
humor. She swung to and fro like a pendu-
! lum, and seemed TO enjoy it, The visitors
| stood at q bar within two three feet of
Thauma, ana many of the gentlemen leaned
forward and grasped her hand. The curtalned
sides and back OF the recess IN which she was
suspended seemed to be plainly visible. The
visitors gave it up, and the general public
! will have an opportunity to take the same
safe course with regard to the phenomenon
for fortnight, beginning tomorrow. The
| young lady refused to turn her back upon the
! spectators, because that she said, would not