Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

MUCH NEEDED STEP in the right direction
has been taken by the establishment in Cal
cutta of a zenana or wOman's library. One
of the stock arguments against the education
of Indian women is that when educated there
is difficulty in providing them with books fit
for female reading. The library, 1t Is said,
has already been great success.
FROM a paper contributed by the veteran
scholar, DR.. Edkins, to a recent number Of
the Chinese Recorder, it appears that about
b. c. 220O the Chinese possessed a knowledge
of the art of writing, a year of 366 days with
an intercalary month, the asJrOlaOe, the 70
diac, the cycle Of sixty, of twelve musical
reeds forming a gamut, which also constituted
the basis of denary neurology for measures
OF length, weight and capacity, divination and
a feudal system.
THE comparatively rare but beautiful
phenomenon of a lunar rainbow was seen at
Mendoza, H., at about 1870 Tuesday night.
The cOlors were by no means as distinctly
marked as are those Of a solar rainbow, but
vet were sufficiently so as to discern an orange
tinge on the outer edge, with gradual mix
ture of the prismatic cOlors IN the centre and
terminating with delicate blue within the
arc 1t lasted for nearly forty minutes, but
was twice Obscured by clouds for few min
utes.
FROM Turkey comes the news that a dispute
has arisen between the Roman Catholics and
the Greek orthodox clergy at Jerusalem, as
to which is to have the privilege of replacing
the stone of the floor of the chapel of the Vir
gin in the holy sepulchre, which is SO worn as
10 require its removal. Feeling ran so high
among these religious fanatics that the pre-
sence of the Turkish troops alone prevented
the rival parties from deciding the important
question BY a recourse to blows. The matter,
finally, has been referred to the Porte. France
warmly supports the ROmish side.
Mr.. THACKERAY is criticised in a curious
way by some correspondents of the Boston
Transcript, who have been earnestly discuss
ing the question whether "Henry EsmOnd' is
a proper book for Young people to study. In
one of the arguments IN the negative lazy
writes: "At the summer hotel where the
articles have been read and discussed, one
young girl from Boston said she delighted IN
Thackeray-he was prime favorlte OF hers;
but she would confess that when she had
finished 'Esmond' she had read so many Oaths
that she felt like going right on swearing
through all her talk"
GUIBAL, the assassin, has just been con-
victed at Perpignan of the murder of girl
named Marie Cerbere. The evidence which
proved him to be her murderer was very Gu
rious. Guibal had been suspected Of having
killed the girl, as she had never been seen
since one day when she was known to have
been in his company. But he streHuOusly de-
MED all knowledge OF her, and the case was
about to be abandoned for want OF PROOF,
when a girl came forward who had been
possessions of the accused" she said, land
see if you can find among them gold ring
set with a woman's tooth instead of a stone.
The tooth is mine-heTe Is the space from
which il was taken-and had It set and gave
il to Marie Cerberc as token OF friendship"
The ring was found among hoard OF trink-
cts belonging to Guibal, and on nearing OF Its
d discovery he confessed.
THE statistics of crime in the principal cap
itals Of Europe for 1881 make quite favor
able showing for the English. The populations
are as follows: London, 4,Sl4, s3S; Paris, 2,225,-
go; Berlin. !, l22, 1856; Vienna, 1,0S2,7 Lon
don having g, $50 policemen; Paris, $500; Ber
lin, 3, 1876, and Vienna, 1929 In murders Pa
ris is far in the lead, having had l46, while
London had only Is, a smaller number than
either of the others. The French capital, like
wise leads in rObberies with violence. 2ll hav
ing occurred in that place, against l3l in
TOndOp. while Vienna is at the bottom Of
the list with SO. In burglaries the
latter CITY stands first by large
majority, the figures being LIZ, London hav-
ino second place, with 500, and France being
last. with 26S. In cases of manslaughter Paris
srain rushes to the top, and London falls once
more to the bottom Of the list, the relative
Numbers being l,I42 against 81. In IOrgerles
and rapes Berlin carries the palm, having z5I
Of the former and 22S CT the latter, Lonuon
having 95 and IS. But in larcenles from the
person London leaves all competitors Tar IN
the background, for she records for that year
the amazing number of 2,657, vienna having
$40, Paris 3S9, and Berlin only w.