The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-12
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SAYS literary gossip: 81 CHANGED to see a
Few days ago letter written by one of our
large publishing houses. addressed to jay
| Gould, in which the offer was made of $50. 900
cash and royalty Of per cent. on all copies
that would be sold OF the work. for a volume of
"reminiscences TO be written by the noted finan-
Ger say 'written'-I should have said die
tatei, Tor { e use Of a comDetent stenographer
"1s o al, IN the o;fer But proposition III
/ Volvlng $4,000 is probably very insignificant
matter IN Mr.. Goulis eyes, and he has not
as yet even ventured reply to the letter.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Roma saws that
Signor Crispi related to him the following
anecdote: During my first interview with Bis
marck at Eredrichsruhe the chancellor caused
TWO enormous slasses OF beer.Cp b. BROUGHT, and
| invited me to drink the one placed bef IRA me
L protested that drank only wa e., wn.reat The
prince seemed ast)niShed beyor measure blI'
SAID nothing. But when he had empti ID mis- own
glaSs, ne slowly drank the one which had be N
intended for me. Shortly afterward two large
pipes filled with tobacco were brought The
prince lit his own ana handed the other to me-
your hlghness, l observed, many thanks, bat
10 not smoke What" exclaimed Bismarck
rather lmpatently. You don't drink, and you
uon SMOKE. What sort of a man are YOU.
them" '~'
SPECIAL to the Liverpool Courier, a govern
| ment organ, says: THE Samoan difficulty,
which was supposed to be settled, may vet
give rise to serious trouble between Germany
ana the United States Throughout the Berlin
conference the Washington government had its
own way on almost every point. Prince Bis
marck mad determined to be conc ihatory and
went to the full length of submitti lg to Ameri-
can demands' but Mr. Blaine, since the text of
the treaty IS been Scrutinzed by him IS ex-
pressed MS dissa tisfaction with some IF the
causes. Althouf h he won't directly with 1rav
from treaty which he authorized the Ameri
can delegates to sign, he may Indirectly inn =
n ref
foreign office has further cause for irritatioI
with the Washington government. The new
american minister to Germany, Mr. Phelps is
dela ed in assuming his functions till january
next making gap of nine months in the min
| lSterlal representation of the United States in
| Germany Mr.. Blaine has meanwhile sent a
cohsuI-general to Berlin who is ignorant of the
herman language and of consular business
Ills rows with the German officials and with
Others combined with the general dissatsfac-
tlon prevailing in official quarters with what is
called american bunptiousness, may lead to
serious trouble. +, Ince Bismarck Is believed to
nave gone as far as he will go toward cultivat-
ing friendship with Washington.
The woman who loves fresh air to the extent
that on chilly day she throws open the win
COWS OF horse car to get it, was recently en-
countered by New York Herald reporter.
The car was crowded, and the moment she got
seat, young man having given her his, she
lowe ed the window behind her and heaved a
sign; Sun she seemed unhappy. The open
window evidently had not the effect she had
hoped Tor. Then she arose and. eevating her
umbrella, poked open the little ventilatinS win
dow In the roof Immediately opposite and re-
sulned her seat. A second later she rose again
ana, prodding passenger in the back, mo-
TONED him to stand aside. He obeyed Then she
poked open the window over his head AS she
was sitting down she bethought her of the ven
tliators on her own side. She reversed with
marvellous rapidlty, considering her position
anu finally let IN more fresh air. By that time
her mind was madeup, and she carefully pushed
open every ventiating window in the car AS
she sat down she cast reproachful glance at
tne larger windows shut of from her reach by
the other passengers. Then she glanced at a
lamp post and called out: Il wish to alight at
the next street, conductor" The car stopped
the lady allghted, after having ridden exactly
one block, and the passengers, for whose benefit
she had opened the windows, shut most of them
tightly again, and then laughed in unison as
they watched her retreating form.
A NEW GRorTo has been discovered and
opened to the public near the famous Cavern of
Stalactites at Adelsberg in Carniola. 1t seems
likely to be more renowned, writes the London
StGnddd DIS Vienna cores ondent, than the
Adelsberg Caves, the largest and most mag
nificent hitherto known In Europe. The new
grotto is, in the first place, better connected
Jhan the old one. walk through it occupies
rather more than two hours. 1t is snew-white
in color. relieved only by portions of grayish
is yellowlsh. The grotto opens with q deep
ravine and number of comparatively shallow
caves, in which the stalactites take the form of
curtains, or widely spread wings, and
the drops and stalagmites have the ap-
pearance of huge cactus plants with
beautiful white glittsring pendants The
next cave shows forms of various animals
Going further, the visitor walks through a sue
ceSSlon of lofty domes until the 'oaIl room" is
reached, three times as large as the correspond
ing dancing room at Adelsberg. The roof of
lA sIaol fNL 4
dreds of flags and SureamerS, each flag having
its staff formed of 4ndant tubes around which
the standards or banners are wound, The most
remarkable cave has Awaited roof; its farthest
wall Is formed by snow-white rock of lime
stone, which divides the grotto from the mount
ain river Polk, which ruSnes behind it. and the
two sidewalks are covered with indentations
mostly formed of single drops There are enor-
nous trees in the center of the cave some ris-
ing to a height of forty or fifty feet each with
numerous branches strewn with drops Instead
OF leaves in wonderful regularity of form"
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, in an account Of his voy-
age to America, which appears in the London
Daily Telegraph, says: Every day we see play
ing round the ship and Swimming up and down
the ve-hollows companies of lovely little terms
and sea swallows the latter no larger than
thrushes. These fearless people of the waste
have not by any means followed us from the
land, living, as gulls often will, on the waste
thrown from the vessel. They are vague and
casual roamers of the ocean, who, spying the
great steamship from afar, have sailed close
up, to see ii we are rock or an island and
Will then skim away again on their own free
and boundleSs business. Yonder tiny bird
with purple and green plumage. his little
breast and neck laced with silver, is distant
1000 miles at this moment from a drop of
fresh water, and yet cares no more
for that fact than did the Irish
squire who lived twelve = miles from a
lemon If his wings ever grow weary, it is but
to settle quietly on the bosom of a great billow
and suffer it for a time to rock and roll him
amid the kissing spindrift, the milky flying
foam, and the broken sea lace which FORMS
ana CLEANS, and disappears again upon the
dark slopes. When he pieases, stroke of the
small red foot and beat of wonderful wing
launch him off from the jagged edge of his bill
low, and he fits past us at 100 knots an hour
laughing steam and canvas to Scorn, and steer
ing for some pameless crag in Labrador or
Fundy, or bound, it may be, homeward for
some island or marsh of the far-away Irish
coast. Marvelously expressive of power as is
our untiring engine which all day and all night
throbs and pants and pulses in noisy rhythm
under the deck, what clumsy, Imperfect affair
1t Is compared to the dainty plumes and delicate
muscles which will carry that pretty, fearless
seaswallow back to his roostr''
GEORGE w. CHILDs will have as his guest at
Wootton all next week Paul du Chaillu, the
traveller, explorer and author. who more than
twenty years ago, after one of his excursions
into Africa, had the honor of introducing the
gorilla to the notice Of the civilized world M.
du Chaillu came over from New York yester-
day, and in the afternoon he and Mr. Childs