Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

lit looked as if there would be at the present
session of Congress most strenuous efforts
made to compel the administration and the
party in Congress, against their own Just
Judgment, to enter upon career of extrava-
gance unknown even ia Republican ex-
perience."
THAT HIGH PRIEsTEss OF DRESS. the Prin-
GEES Of Wales" says the JeueIers' Circular,
"did the American women a favor when she
encircled her own fair throat with band OF
velvet ribbon held closely In place by a little
diamond ornament in the form of a buckle,
and thereby gave the precedent for some sort
or colarette to shorten the effect of long,
thin neck" That some Of our sweethearts
have swan-like necks there's no denying.
THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, with a view
of interesting more persons in the cultivation
Of the soil, has resolved to create a number Of
small holdings on the Eaton Hall estate in
Cheshire. The rent of these holdings will not
be higher than the rent pail by tenant farm
ers for agricultural land of the same nature.
Mr.. Haywood Lonsdale, of Gredington park,
has returned 10 per cent. upon all the rentals
of his Cheshire estate, and intimated in a
sympathetic letter to the tenantry that the
remission will be regularly made half yearly
for three years.
ANTON RUBINSTEIN is now giving In Wen
ma his Cyclus, or series of seven concerts,
illustrating the whole history of piano music.
Selections from the works of thirty zone COM
posers are to be performed. The first con-
cert opened with selections from early Eng
lsh composers. namely. THE Carman' s
Whistle" by William Bird, and ''The Kings
Hunting Jig" by DR.. John Bull. Beethoven,
Schumann, and Chopin are each to have one
whole evening devoted TO them; but the Bee
thoVen programme is rather trying. for 1t COM
prises eight sonatas.
THE MERsEY TUNNEL, being very nearly
completed, is on the eve of opening for traffic,
" no md nf ha arta # "a tad
that trains will be RAINING regularly and fire.
quently between Liverpool and Birkenhesd
The ventilation is secured by means of pow
erful fans, which in the air shafts produce a
current of air of the force of 81 miles an hour
Access to the tunnel for passengers will be OBJ
tanned by stairway, an inclined way, and an
lmmensr lift capable of carrying 100 persons.
1t is hoped that the Prince of Wales may con-
sent to open the tunnel.
ONE OF the oldest merchants of Phnadel-
phia says there is so much dread of competi-
ton which would grow up from patronage of
home establishments that Philadelphians are
building up New York at the expense of their
own city. The preference for New York is so
strong that he has been compelled to sell his
goods secretly to Philadelphians, sending them
to third party in New York and then having
them shipped back again. Philadelphia buy
ers give their heavy o ders to outsiders, and
patrOniZe local establishments merely for ar
tices to fill in with. To buy at home would
be to encourage rivals and lead to COMPETE
ton.
PEKIN, in the far north Of China, is now
connected by direct telegraph line through
Canton with bungalow, on the frontier of
TOnquin, the extension from Canton to the
latter place being made during the recent
war, purely for military PURPOSES. This great
line, stretching through the Chinese empire
from north to south, Is to be supplemented by
line along the southern borders of China.
Starting from Marking, in kwangsl. it will
extend for nearly 800 miles to Munglih in
South Yunnan. The work is being carried
out by the Chinese with the assistance Of one
European.
PROBABLY the oldest newspaper now ex-
tant in Germany is the Suabian Mercury. 1t
has just celebrated its centennial birthday
anniversary by printing fac smile edition
OF its first issue-a small quarto- sheet. Apro-
pos Of the British elections now taking place,
and the prominence of the Irish question IN
them, the following news item under the head
OF England may be noted: at Is now pro-
posed to unite Ireland entirely with England
after the same plan by which in 1907 Scotland
was made one body with England. There
are important difficulties in the way, how
ever. such as this, that Ireland would lose It's
own Parliament" The Aercurvis still owned
by the family of its founder, and ranks high
In the journalistic world Of Europe.
REMAINING upon the apparent phenome-
non of the unusual size of the sun and moon,
in rising or setting, stroobant points out the
common error that Intervening objects enable
an observer to better estimate the real size of
the heavenly bodies, in that the same effect ia
visible at sea, and indicates the fallacy of sew
Ell al other theories. There are. he as erts
two real causes of the phenomenon in cues
ton, both purely physiological-one, the
greater senstiyeness of the eye to angular
magnitudes near the horizon the other. a d.
rect effect Of the feebler light in the enlarge
ment OF the pupil, which, it would seem.
tends to magnify objects, even when artif-
cially produced. Thus it is shown by expert
ments that the distance between two lumi-
nous points within room suffers the same
apparent change as in the consultations.
when, without altering the distance from the
eye, the altitude is gradually increased.
MUCH is said in favor of the new kind NJ
bricks made from the waste sands of glass
factories, which often accumulate in sueb
large quantities as to occasion much incon-
venence. For utilization in this wav the
sand is subjected to an immense bydrauiic
pressure anu then baked in furnaces at a high
temperature, so as to produce blocks of yaTi-
Gus forms and dimensions, of a uniform white
color, which are composed of almost nure
slick. The crushing load is from two to three
tons per square inch. The bricks when
plunged IN chlorhydric and sulphuric acid
SHOW no trace OF alteration. The product is
said 20 have remarkable soliditYAand tenacItv.
ii Is not affected by even the heaviest frosts'
or by the action of sun or rain; 1t resists very
nigh temperature. provided no lux is presenf.
1t Is very light, its specific gravity being only
Id; and, being of fine white color forms
pleasing architectural combinations with
other materials.
WIDEAwAKE PERSONS no longer look TO the
story papers for thrilling, not to say blood
curdling, love adventures A case in point:
Near Haverstraw stands High Tor, a moun-
tain OF romantic rocks, beetling lodges. preci-
plces, zlg-zag paths and that sort of thine
On Tuesday Mr.. Blakledge and Miss MilIicent
Porter, lovers. were coming down the noun
tain toward Haverstraw, when he fell head
long from CT n. No doubt he shrieked. hut
the chronicler does not so write, Anvhc w
his 'nale" race was seen gazing up from a
tree that had caught the falling form, and the
heroine knew she must rescue him WILLING
myers ripped her cloak (how fortunate thaf
she did not have her seal sacque onD and
lying the four shreds to other shreds noblv
obtained by the truly heroic sacrifice OF a pef
ticoat she let the rope down. When in bad
been grasped by the youth up he came, hand
over hand, ana down he limped TO Haver-
straw.
1T USED TO be a humor OF Sarah Bernhard
when she felt particularly hateful and sour OF
soul, TO get in coffin and pretend to take a
nap. But Bernhardt's playlulness seems
trlfiing, indeed, in view of the dreadful mis-
adventure Of Nine. Natalie, who also trod the
French stage. While Nine. Natalie was
playing IN pantomime az the Folies- Drama
Iques she swooned and passed into the state
of rgidity that marks one who is dead So
hey put the poor girl in a CONN. But, 10! AZ
M hfst rap of tbs hammer on the lid Nine
atalie awoke and stood up, To the amaza-
nent and terror OF all az the grave. Nine.