Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-16

Some implements of cookery discovered there
were covered with curious hieroglyphics and
were quite ancient IN appearance.
THE Prussiau army counts among its higher
officers Field Marshal Generals, So Generals
of infantry and cavalry, II Lieutenant Gen.
erals. 100 Major Generals, $50 Colonies, 216
Lieutenant Colonies and LAS Majors of all
arms of the Lieutenant Generals about
per cent. do not belong TO the nobility; OF the
Major Generals, IS; of the Colonies, IS; oil the
Lieutenant ColOnels. Al, and of Majors about
a. per cent. This proportion is nearly re-
the category Of Captains ana subalteFn ON
GERS A singular fact Is that the number OF
smaller and smaller; the highe number IN
any one regiment is 20 in the Twentieth In
fantry.
As Mr.. Lamar walked along with me. says
a correspondent, he said: Ibid you ever read
political novel called DE Vere?'" He ad-
ded any father was somewhat nervous
man, and my mother used to tell the children
not to disturb him when he was reading. One
day he was reading book, and my mother
made the usual admonition, when he looked
up and said: Never mind, they cannot MS
turb me; am reading novel; He remarked
after he had finished II that II was one OF Inc
best political novels that he had ever READ.
Not long ago." said Mr.. Lamar, 81 ran upon
this book, and, while think the purpose of n
novel hardly compartments political treatise,
4 ull hllllUk " NktNN WIN my ANbhNA bhaN
this novel did its political work in very
artistic and agreeable way"
The Chinese King Pc, or, in English, Pekin
Gazette, the Oldest newspaper in the world, is
now published in the style In which it was
first issu I'd a thousand years ago. 1t is
pamphlet-like in shape, printed upon very
soft, thin paper. the leaves being about ten
inches lang lY four wide, Each Issue con-
tains from fifteen to twenty leaves, printed
on one side ouly, in Chinese characters, COM
meucine at the right hand and progressing
/ leftward to its end. Each number is enclosed
( in a thin yellow cover of slazy paper, the
! cover and leaves being lightly stitched to-
: gether at the back. The edges being un
7 trimmed, tbs Appearance q the paper as II
/ goes to the public creates an impression OF
| unfinished shagglness not altogether consist
ent with Western ideas OF neatness. 1t con-
| tans only imperial edicts AMI Official Inf"::-
/ nation.
/ TIE Austro- German Alpine Club has re-
Gently made an etor to explore the remark
able river Reka, which rises in the Austrian
province of Carnola and disappears in a Sc
ries of caves known as the Karst Cavcrns.
/ At spot some twenty miles distant stream
/ called the TlnmVo nours out OF hillside, and
there is reason to believe that this is Identical
| with the Reka, which thus flows twenty miles
| under ground. Tie party engaged In the re-
! cent explorations followed the subterranean
course Of the Reka about one furlong, and
/ passed six waterfalls, until they reached a
! seventh fall, which it was impossible to get
over without the construction of special APP
| paratus. as the river has no banks at that
| poi 3. the explorers employed The magne-
| SUM light to illuminate the dark course of the
| stream. one Of the eayerns through > hich it
| runs Is large enough and lofty enough to hold
/ st. Peters Cathedral, at Rome.
The jugglers of India arc unsurpassed in
natural magic. Chambers journal furnishes
an illustration, which, though not new is re-
| ,,,orly iuoClar foOL a9rthan 20
Lot, Alicd ii with earth moistened with a
little water, and placed among the earth a
! mango seed which had been examined be-
| fore hand This done, h threw sheet over
/ the pot and almost Immediately removed 1t
again, when ii appeared that the seed had,
| in the space OF say half a minute, become a
| young mango tree. Again the sheet was
| thrown over the pot, and, on being a second
time removed, the mango tree had doubled
| in size. The same process was repeated a
I third time, and now the tree was covered
! with small, unripe mangces rms time the
juggler plucked the tree up out OF the earth,
displaying the roots and the remains of the
| original mango stone from which the tree was
! supposed to have sprung.
THE scramble for places reminds an old gov
eminent employe of the time when the Re-
publican party came into power. He recalls
the case Of particularly tenacious office
seeker who had gone through all the stages
from hotel to boarding house and fiaally had
| landed in the cheapest OF the cheap, down by
| the river. His aspirations had likewise de-
! creased, and his sole ambition was to become
| a watchman in the Treasury. One day,
while crossing the canal bridge, at Seventh
| street, he discovered q mans body hoattng IN
the water. on examination he found that
the dead man was none other than a watch
man in the Treasury whom the very day be-
70 e he had seen about the building. GIVING
| hasty alarm he ran TO the Treasury, and,
rushing breathlessly into the presence of the
Secretary, he demanded an appointment to
| the vacancy. why, my friend" said the
| Secretary. ''thc place has already been filed"
! "Filled," shrieked the mad man, 'by whom?
why. just saw his dead body pulled out of
| the canal" - don't doubt that" SAID the
Secretary shut the place is filled, neyerthe
less. hnvc just given it to the man who saw
| him fall in