Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-07
ITEMS OF intellect.

TIE size Of parasols has so increased in
Paris that they are almost as large as UNI
brellas. and the enlargement is the more
noticeable as bOnnets are becoming smaller
and smaller.
ONE Of the younger members Of the Cornell
faculty was greatly edited the other morning
BY freshman approaching HIM in kindly
and sOciable way. and conndentlaIiY lnqulr-
ing II this was his first term.
DIR. RAE, the Arctic explorer, asserts that
canniJalism took place as surely among some
Of sir John Franklin's people as it did among
the Greedy party. His authority for the charge
is the testimony Of some Esquimaux whom he
met while In the far North.
TIE fire in the Royal Palace at Copenhagen
destroyed ten soldiers and a number OF the
works OF the famous sculptor, Thorwaldsen.
The grief over the loss OF the latter IS great
throu ghOut Denmark. The idea seems 10 De
that the soldiers can be easily replaced, but
the works of art never.
The current number Of HarDer's Weekly con-
tains some interesting illustrations Of the "old
British frigate shannon" in which Broke
made his famous fight with the chesapeake.
Unfortunately for the artist and the author,
the ship Shannon, now In New OrE- was Dulit
for the Australian packet service IN 1907.
REV. NEWMAN HALL has attained approx
mate ideas Of the size Of this country. He said,
in conversation, while on the Saguenay, II
had no idea Of the enormous extent Of the
country. until after travelling westward a
thousand miles. at least, i came to 81. LOUIS.
where ! was dumbfOunded on being asked II l
intended TO go West"
4 SERIOUS accident has occurred to the
Archduke Joseph, the heir to the Austrian
throne. While walking in the TrIvelwald, in
Moravia. Austro- Hungary, he fell some 80
feet of a precipice, breaking his collar bone
and iniuring his skull. He was at once taken
to Aussee, where the celebrated Professor
Bilroth was summoned In haste TO attend MIN.
Notwithstanding his critical condition there
is said 10 be chance Of his recovery.
ADMIRAL PORTER told New York inter-
viewer that his novel, which is to be pub
lshed by subscription, has nothing in it about
the sea except IN two pages. In six months
he ground out 249 closely written foolscap
pages to occupy his mind" The book, which
Is in the hands Of the Appletons, Is, accord
ing 10 the interviewer's statement, wonder
fully sanguinary without containing word
of fact The title is "Allan Dare and Robert
le Diable." There is certainly no salt water
flavor about that.
GERTRUDE DONALD, l6-year-old school
girl Of Alliance, Ohio, was shot and instantly
killed on Thursday last by peculiar acci-
dent. While a wagOn-load Of household
goods was passing through the street, a
drawer in one Of the bureaus slid out, and on
the cart. 1t 50 happened that loaded pistol
was in it. and the force Of the fall to the
ground discharged it, SingularlY. the ball
struck Miss Donald in the back and killed her
almost instantly. she lived only long enough
70 say, 80, I'm shOt!'
THE Swedenborgians have built in the
university quarter Of Paris, beside the Lycee
Henry w., a small temple known as the New
Jerusalem. Adjoining it is a library re-
stricted to the works Of Swedenborg and the
commentaries thereupOn of his chief disciples.
s lady attired in black receives visitors and
keeps watch over the books. The number OF
Swedenborgians in France is very small, and
has shown a diminutiOn for many years. At
one time all the officers Of the Twenty-third
Regiment of the line became converts to
SwedenbOrgianizm.