Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AANiA'p an NC StCn AGOm buG nlSu ldua hV0-
Jacks n, Amador county, Cal, a distance of
sixty miles.
Hon. ERAsTUs CORNING, Of Albany, has
collection Of orchids for which he has been
offered s675,C00. 1t is said to be the largest
ana best collection of its kind in this country.
ONE ought to know the money in his pocket
by the touch without having to take out
handful-in church, for instance-to pick out
the coin he wants. 1t is, probably, to avoid
the danger OF bringing out a cent that people
IN church leave the quarter dollars in their
pockets.
THE gold and scarlet of the sun" Is rivaled
in the cupolas of st. Peters cathedral just
finished at Moscow. There are five OF the
cupolas, and no less than 800 pounds of gold
were used in OVERLAPPING them. The doors of
Jhe temple cost $3l0, 900, and upon the marble
/ floors were expended 81, 10000. Ten thou
sanu Worshlpers can be comfortable If their
souls let them within this Sl2,500,00O temple,
THE visit to a police court in Montreal or
Quebec may not be the most pleasant form of
entertainment, but it is interesting on account
of the pathological exercise Both French and
English are used. according to necessity, and
! the Judge. lawyers and Jurors are required to
! speak either language. sometimes both Ian
guages are spoken at once, and particularly
curious effect Is observed when French
| Canadian who has learned English from an
! lrlshman Is called to the witness box.
A COLLEGE of music Is about to be built in
Paris. 1t VIII comprise a free school of music,
theatre capable of holding two thousand
persons, concert and lecture halls, dancing
school, IN exhibition of painting, sculpture
and architecture, free school of painting on
| china, an ARTISTS club. in which gambling will
ne strictly prohibited, immense fencing
| hail. billiard rooms, conservatory, shooting
gallery, library and reading rooms, and finally
a wing containing forty small suites of apart
ments, which will be reserved for the foreign
| members Of the club.
The explorers In the Congo valley are sur
prised by the crudity of life there. The ma
! tives have no domesticated beasts of any sort,
nor do they raise catch any animals to eat,
! as they know nothing Of flesh for food. No
| semblance of clothing is worn, and diet is
practically confined to spontaneous products
| OF the soil. Letters from missionaries say,
4 too, that the negroes there are 80 low in men
tally that any hope of Outstanding them
| must be based on long and patient course OF
| intellectual training They are too densely
| ignorant to comprehend the simplest state
ments OF doctrine. l0N 1l
EDWARD BURGESS. of Boston, the designer
of the yacht Puritan, never attempted to
build large boat before, but had been very
successful in designing fast small boats. He
was invited by the Boston men who offered to
| build an American Yacht to present designs.
He presented but one, which. with some
modification, was accepted. He says the
model is the product of "gradual develop
! mbnb Oh HIS lucAS upon b0e subject. burgess
is modest young man of greeable manners
and expert at free hand drawing. The canvas
for the yacht is made by the Russell mills at
! Plymouth and woven on a new principle, the
warp and wool being of threads of the same
size, so as to insure even stretching of the
| duck. No pains have been spared to produce
the best sail possible.
A REPORT is current that John ". Mackay
Is negotiating with James Gordon Bennett
for the purchase of the New York Herald,
with the intention Of putting John Russell
| Young at the head Of its editorial staff. Mr.
| Mackay is interested with Mr.. Bennett in the
Bennett-Mackay cable, IN the construction of
| which 100000 is said to have been sunk.
| For Mr.. Benefits share of this enterprise Mr.
Mackay is reported to hold mortgage on the
| Herald. Mackay's wealth is much talked of
in this connect ton. He is said to have $751;
600 900 in securities locked up in his strong
box-S5000, 900 in United states per cents,
100000 in rentes, 50, OO0 in consOls and So,
900, 600 IN State bonds and similar securities
of this country, bearing to per cent, inter-
est. In addition to this is his cable invest
ment and his interest in the bank of Nevada.
| The gossip runs that he would be able to back
the Herald with S30,0O0,000.
MRS, JOHN A. LOGAN, who has been in the
East with her husband. reached Chicago Wed
nesday morning, to remain there probably
until the meeting of Congress in December.
She looks remarks ably well, and declared that
the report recently telegraphed about her and
I
| Lawrence river was rldiculOu5ly false. 1t
was literally manufactured out OF whole
cloth by an imaginative reporter. Mrs. Lo-
gan says that her husband has been working
hard for the last few months, and is now
taking a needed vacation. Among other
things, he has been writing a book, not, as
has been stated, of war "reminiscences. but Of
the events, incidents and political movements
that led to the war between the States and the
abolition Of slavery. The book IA now In
press in New York. and will be given to the
public in few weeks. Gen. Logan, who ia
still in the East. will return to Chicago next
week in time for the meeting Of the Army of
the Tennessee. ... --r
PASSENGERS on the Ulster couuty(N. "
express Saturday night had an exhibition OF
ungentlemanly conduct and saw the same
neatly rebuked. A lady was Occupying seat
behind man who persisted in keeping the
window opposite TO him open, nOtwithstand-
ing the fact that the lady had requested him
to close 1t. 1t was raining, and the Storm
which did not annoy him, came upon her
The scene was taken in by the gentleman in
the next forward seat, and ne immediately
raised his window, which caused the rain to
beat upon the man who had refused the re-
quest Of the lady. He complained. and lean
ing forward asked to have the window Closed
when he got rebuke he will doubtless long
remember. II heard the lady," saldSthe gem
teman. task you to close your window be-
cause the rain was beating in upon her and
you refused. just so long as you keep yours
up shall NINE" The man was so obstinate
that he would not yield, and took the rain 20
his journeys end, while the passengers who
had witnessed the occurrence enjoyed his dis
content.
REV. GEORGE LEWIS is the latest pulpit sen
sation in Chicago. He was sentenced to "a
years imprisonment in the Joliet peniten-
tiary for assassinating a man who had threat
ened his life but not long since was released,
after serving II wears of his term. Soon after
being placed behind the bars he Inexperienced
a change OF heart" and took his place at the
mourners bench during the first religions
service held in the State prison after his in
generation. He instituted a rigid system
OF fasting, sometimes going without
food for nearly a week This told
upon his general health, and with
the hard work incident to stone emitting.
caused him 10 lose one of his legs by a diseased
bone. He was % years old when he went into
the penitentiary. He was, in the end plactd
in the knitting department, and where he in
vented an Improvement upon the knitting
machines in use. which was so great boon
90 the institution that the Governor of the
state learned of bis case and struck OF four
teen years OF his term. Although offered
large salary to remain and superiniend the
prison KNIT ng department. he declined. and
says he will devote the rest Of his life to the
saving Of souls.
SPEAKING OF diamonds recalls the fact that
some OF the young children at Saratoga wear
them at the stted and precocious hot house