Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-04
cnNrn ~ tn the nnin1on al Prof. Loomis, .

CONTRARY to the opinion OF frol' LooAl7i u
Yale College. DIR. Lewis Swift. Director OF the
Warner Observatory, thinks that the red sun
rises and sunsets are not the result Of the
recent great earthquakes and volcanoes, be-
cause the phenomenon appeared simultane-
ouslv thousands of miles away from these To-
califles. Nor, he says, can 1t be eometary
matter as that does not refraet the red rays
Of the sun Whatever this mysterious extra
terrestrial matter is. DR.. Swift thinks IL mas
come to remain.
THE colossal apartment house craze has
broken out afresh in New York city. Thus,
within the past few days, contracts have been
signed for a story structure OF that class
on the southeast corner OF sixty second street
and the Boulevard, to cost $325O0O; seven
fOur-story brown stone private dwellings,
Seventv-sixth street and Ninth avenue. 70
cost $4,000; SIX ditto. seventy nintn street
and Fourth avenue $4,000; three five-story
brick stores Greene, near Houston street,
Sl75. 600: seven fve-story flats, Eighth avenue
and One Hundred and Thirty fourth street,
$4,000.
IL Bavaria it is Illegal to criticise, even IN
friendly spirit the actions Of the King. Soon
after the termination of the Franco-German
war a story was told of a meeting in the
streets Of Munich between the King of Ba-
yaria and a wounded soldier, during Whlch
the King. finding that he was not recognized,
expressed his surprise. "HOW should know
your Majesty" said the soldier In eXplana-
ton. ''YOu never 90 TO the army, and never
go TO the play" To the publication OF TINS
anecdOte may probably be attributed me de-
termination taken by the King not to tolerate
remarks Of any kind on his private move
ments.
SOME idea of the growth of this country
may be gathered from the postal statistics
lust published in Washington. In the year
1889 there were 70 post offices and 2,275 miles
Of postal route. The revenue of the depart
ment was $3.50. and the expenditure $3.50.
rbn nafl for frqnGnOTfaflOO So
56S The population of the United states at
that time was 3,929,2l4. The figures Tor 1857
give the number of offices at 1921; extent IN
miles 343.6lS: revenue. S4l.SSS.Oo0: eXpenol-
ture. $40. 4S2.O2l; paid for transportation $22,-
SIG 1l2: postage stamps, etc, issued, 40,sfS053;
money orders l3,4O0, lis; letters received In
dead letter office, 4,2S5,2S5; population, d.
155,7S3.
BUDA-PEsTH intends, like Vienna, to cele-
brate her deliverance from the Turks by
series of popular festivities. The event oc
Cured three years later than the raising of
the siege Of Vienna. namely: on the 9th of
September. 1856. \ committee OF the citizens
and a committee appointed by the hungarian
Historical Society have taken the matter IN
hand and have drawn up programme. A
record of the history of Buda-Pesth IN 1856 IS
TO be written, and a commemorative medal
viii be struck. The members of the imperial
and royal family, as well as representatives
of all those Austrian, Hungarian and foreign
families whose ancestors assisted in the re
conquest of Buda-Pesth, are to be invited to
the celebration.
4 TEST for wine was given at the recent an
nual meeting of the California State Viticultu-
raj Commissioners by Arpad Haraszthy, a
Hungarian nobleman. who emigrated to Cali
| fornia many years ago, and devoted himself
| to Crane culture Aroma and bouquet, he
| said, are too often taken to mean one and the
same thing. Flavor pertains especially 20 the
! lingering after-taste of the wine when swal-
| lowed. Aroma and bouquet appeal only to
| the smell. and the former exists IN the grape
/ itself while bouquet only manitests itself long
| after fermentation is completed. Bouquet IS
/ never present except in the purest wines. Ii
! seems to arise from a union Of several agreea-
bic odors, and any mixture would surely de-
! strOy it. There are no truly fine wines With
/ out a strikingly marked agreeable bouquet,
| and Mr. HarasZthy asserts that, where all
| other qualities are of equal perfection, the
| bouquet makes the distinction and carries
away the prize
VENTRILOQUIsM is declared by an expert to
be very largely humbug. There is no such
possibility as throwing the voice to distance.
The old stories of Wyman the Wizard, in
which he figured as exploiting such ability in
the midst of a crowd, were necessarily fiction.
| What passes for ventriloquism consists simply
of mimicry and facial lmmOblllty. The per-
| former must be some distance away from his
| audience, or Is powerless. Whenever he
| wishes to make them believe that his voice
! sounds at a distance, he merely lowers 1t, and
| indicates the direction Tor their Imagination
to take. He can deceive them sideways, up
ward. downward or backward, but he never
| undertakes to produce the effect of a speaker
| at their rear. To a listener close by no ven
triloquist can be in the least deceptive. MOI
is there any truth in the theory that he talks
with the top of his gullet, or with aught else
I than the organs intended by nature to be vo-
cal. BY holding his lips as fixed as possible
and avoiding such words as cannot be pro
nounced without palpably moving them, he
that he can get on without a screening nous
| tache.