Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-09

Conservatism" To NJ. Jules Ferry belongs
The honor OF its authorship. 1t is one OF the
most warmly applauded sentences in his pa
triotic speech at the unwilling of the Gambetta
memorial at CahOrs.
PRINCE BISMARCK, who was once admon-
ished for whistling on the Sabbath day in
Scotland, and has never forgotten it, will not
be IN the least surprised. whatever other peo-
pie may feel. when he hears, as he Will with
grim satisfaction, that Mr.. Gray. a member
OF the Helensburgh, Scotland, United Presby-
terrain Church, who had been elected TO the
office OF elder, has just been refused ordina-
ton by the Session, on the ground that he
took walk in the country on the Sabbath
afternoon"
AMUSING stories begin to be told of the hor
ror with which the Puritanical delegates Of
the Transyaal witnessed some Of the social
customs Of France. during the recent sOjourn
IN Paris. The BOer ladies appeared at every
entertainment with dresses closed up TO the
neck. and when the men were introduced 70
the fashionable and lOw-necked beauties OF
Paris they steadily. when addressing them,
looked over their heads. When they were at
the opera they turned away their eyes when
the ballet came on.
An ingenious theory Of the Pyramids has
been recently advanced by Mr.. f. Cope White
house, a distinguished American savant and
explorer. The general idea is that the lime
stone hills which once filed the Nile valley,
south and west of Cairo, were "weathered
into fantastic shapes, TO which horizontal
strata gave an artificial appearance and pY-
ramidal submits. These rocks were mined
like coal and salt. The inferior material was
cut into blocks, lowered from above and
pushed into place to build the Pyramids"
THE total receipts from the late pedestrian
contest in New York were $50, 446 The total
expenses including Is per cent. of gross re-
ceIpts to manager for advancing money for
rent and all preparations for the walk, were
Sl9.493 SO. The money remaining to be divided
among the pedestrians is SlS,352 80, including
81, 400 sWeepSt axes. the stakes to be divided
among the first three men only. Fitzgerald
Will receive S9,456 Is, including $3.50 stakes
ROWel $3.50, including $3.50 stakes; Panchot
$1,000 rs, including $40 stakes; NOremac
Sl,lS6 Go; Herty, $S47 81; Nint, S67S o.; ElsOn,
S5OS So.
Mr.. GILTAY, Of Sussex, lEng.), has discov-
cred that a gloved hand win do for a receiving
instrument when il is IN a telephone circuit.
He used an Adler microphone the primary of
an induction coil being connected to it, and to
three Bunsen cells. The secondary Of the
coil was in circuit with nine-cell Leclanche
battery and the line, the ends of the wires,
were held in the naked hands Of TWO persons,
standing IN a room some distance away. On
whistling or singing near the micrOphOne the
sounds were distinctly heard by one of the
persons holding the line wire, when the other
pressed glOved hand firmly against his ear.
In the case OF speech the sounds were too fee
bic to enable more than few words to be I'M
derstOOd.
A CURIOUS phase Of the system of caste in
India was brought to light in a recent suit in
the Bombay High Court. The defendant was
the eldest Of three brothers, whose mother had
been put out Of the LOhana caste for mi.con-
duet. The plaintiff, who was manager of the
whole caste, made an agreement with the
family. under which the three sons were to be
rcadmtted into the caste and married to girls
of the caste, on their giving a feast and max
ing present Of caste vessels. The plaintiff,
before he had performed the agreement, lost
his position as the representative OF the caste,
and his successor refused to carry it out. The
plaintiff now sought to recover $500 rupees,
which he alleged was due to him under the
agreement. Mr.. Justice Scott held that the
plaintiffs successor alone could express the
wishes OF the caste, and he thought the suit
was not maintainable on that ground, as well
as on the ground that the contract was i'm
moral and contrary to public policy, even in
the present state of matrimonial relations in
India. To marriage brokers, his lOrdshlp re-
marked, legal status should not be given,
such as would enable them to enforce their
| contracts by law. The tendency of such de-
clsion would be to still further degrade the
| position OF women and to perpetuate the IN
| equality of their relations. In his opinion the
contract was void. and he gave a decree for
| the defendant with costs.