Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
SOMETHING of sensation was caused among
colored citizens OF Railway. n. j., or Sunday
by the appearance of colored man, Jacob
Strong, who had left the place about four
years ago and who was reported to have died
Whlle undergoing surgical operation. Many
people declared that he was StruAg's ghost,
ana refused to associate with him.
TN coming down to New York to lick you
for letting me lose my money" was the way
letter began that came to the desk Of Wall
street stock broker. A Connecticut man was
the writer. The loss was something like
Si,OOO; II whisked away IN about one week
after the Yankee decided to make fortune
out OF 1t by stock exchange speculation. The
SEQUEL is not yet.
IT is reported from Vienna that great ice
cavern has been discovered on the southern
| slope OF the Dachstein, or Schueeberg, the
very conspicuous lofty mountain in lower
Austria which is visible from the ramparts OF
the capital. The general direction of the
cavern runs from south to north, annd 1T has
been explored for distance of 6cometres, a
sharp precipice seemingly fourteen metres
deep having stopped for the time further pro-
gress; The cavern is from five to six metres
oroao ana very lofty, giving an impression
tnat the ice Is enormously thick. The ex-
plorers are OF opinion that subterranean
lake Will be found in the cavern.
The last part Of the TRANSACTIONS OF the
chronological Society OF Japan Is wholly &C.
cuDied with an laborate paper by Prof. Milne
of Toxic on The Volcanoes Of Japan" No
| fewer than l29 volcanoes are Indicated on the
map which companies the memoir. and of
these 81 are still active. About 239 eruptions
| are recorded d. and it Is noted that the greater
number have occurred In the months OF Feb
ruary and April. One of the most interesting
| parts OF the paper refers to the famous Full
| san, or, as foreigners generally call 1t, Fust-
yama. After many observations Prof. Milne
concludes that the height Of this mons excel
| sus ct singularis, as kampfer termed 1t, lies
| between II, 400 and IL, $50 feet.
THE Republican Centennial Paris Exhibit
ton of 1889 is DOW being steadily organized.
| The foundations are already being prepared
| In the Champ de Mars. where q wooden fence
is being run mp around the Intended grounds,
| and the works will be regularly carried on
| through the winter. to provide employment
| for the hundreds OF men who would other
| wise be idle during the cold weather. The
| colossal Eiffel tower will probably stand at
| the entrance OF the Pont de jena, OF the left
| hand bank of the Seine, and after the exhibit
| erty for twenty years, then passing to the
| government. The gardens are to be especially
| extensive and beautiful, and will be lllumin-
ated by the electric light.
A PARIsIAN NEWSPAPER, called LEtoile de
| France, contains in recent Issue very vio-
lent attack, in the shape of a two-column
leading article, against NJ. Urban Dubois,
chef at the Imperial Court of Berlin. the
| well known author of several excellent works
| on the culinary art. The Etoile de France
| bitterly reproaches HIM for his loyal and de-
| voted services to his employer, the King of
Prussia, accuses him Of being German spy.
! and depores that the sleur Dubois neglected
| the splendid chance of earning the eternal
| gratitude of the French nation, which would
| have been his, together with fame as immortal
fEoF Is l.,lff 10 tI,a
morrow of sedan he had mixed a little rat
poison IN the imperial soup. and thus had sent
| all this vermin to sup with Pluto!
A WASHINGTON county, Oregon, farmer,
| when asked yesterday for an item of news,
said he did not know anything new, but that
| he had lawyers story which the people in
H!llsborough we're laughing at. Itwas some
| what old, no said, but worth telling. An
| old couple who had been married for thirty
five or forty years concluded that there was
| 100 much accountability OF temper for them
to live together longer, and they separated.
Each applied for a divorce. The man owned
| wagon and team. He engaged Tom
| Tongue to prosecute his case. The won an
owned SIX cows. She retained Tom Handley
as her lawyer. After the cases had hung
fire in the courts for two years or so a divorce
was refused. but by that time Tongue owned
the team and wagon and Handiey the cattle.
Ton REED of Maine revels In the works of
the Elizabethan era, and says that. next TO
the Joy Of domestic life. the only thing really
| worth living for is the companionship Of men
of wit, learning and cultivated manners. he
| thinks the mon who rreo nented WHIPS coffee
house the most favored OF mortRls. & . knows
| that he should have been one OF them had he
not been born hundred years or so too late.
lie often asserts that there rs greater fame to
| be won By the man who can write OF the
House OF Representatives with wit, graphic
pIcturing and shrewd mOrallLing than by any
one who shares in bloodless battles; but he
insists that It Will lake genius to do 1t well.
| Sometimes Reed jots down notes in the House,
| and there are suspicious that he may have
como idea OF winning literary repute in this
way.
THE celebration of the two hundred aud IT.
tieth anniversary Of Harvard brings into
more than usual prominence the claim of an
tiquity OF that institution of learning. In
| connection with this the dates OF the fou udipr
of other American colleges will be of interest
| The list given below includes those founded
| before the present century: Harvard UNI
| versity. 1885; Yale University, 1901; Prince
ton College. l746: University OF Pennsylvania
| l749; Columbia College, 1857; Bro m Uni
| versity, l76S; Dartmouth College, 1859; Rut-
| gers College, l770; Hampden Sydney College
| I775; Washington ana Lee University, 1851;
| Dickinson College, 1888; st. Johns College
1854; University of Georgia, 1885: University
| of North Carolina, 1883; Georgetown College.
| 1888; University of Vermont. 1891; Williams
| College, 1873; BowdOin College, 1894; Union
|
| The vastness of the British Indian Empire
| is curlously illustrated by the enormous re-
cords of the mortality, which are taken quite
as matter Of course by the Sanitary Com
missloners' reports. Thus, as the Times of
India points ont, in the report for Bengal dur
! ing the last year, 1t is incidentally stated q. n
| latter of no particular moment that in
| Orissa a one no fewer than Is, 900 persons
must nave persisted through the effects of a
| cyclone aud storm wave without any record
| or their death being Kept. The chowdIkars
| who should have reported the event t. The
! government were swept away with tho viii
| lagos: no one wa left TO tell the tale. Again.
| cholera RACED in 10000 villages, causing l73 +,
| 767 deaths, while l,042,042 persons died from
| fever. Altogether, one and a half millions of
| deaths were registered in Bengal, exclusive
| of the go. 900 caused by the cyclone, On the
| other hand, there were l.600,i 90 births to
counterbalance the loss of popu alton.
THE story of Gen. Gordon and Khartoum ia
already ancient history, but a letter written
on Dec. 81. 1855, shows that DR.. Enim Bev.
an Austrian serving the Egyptian govern
ment as Governor of its southernmost posses
sions. called the Equatorial provinces, was at
| that date still holding out against the Mahdi' 5
| adherenis, and was unaware that Khartoum
| had fallen. Since May, 1888, he has been cut
| off from all communication with the world
He WAS subject TO Continual attacks, but
| owning to the devotion aud bravery OF his
| ho has mn oil naA