The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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THURLow. when Attorney-GeneraI, was travel.
inS from London to York with "a very sanity,
good man" who undertook to while ay the
time by reading aloud Paradise Lost" The
good man began to read out his hilton. Present
" ne came to the passage where Satan eXclaims
Better 10 reirn ia hell than serve in heaven, :"
Upon which Thurlow exclaimed, "a - fine
fellow, aud hove he may win "
''THE average stipend of curates Of the Church
Of England who have been twenty-five years in
holy orders is only els year" So it is stated
IN the report of the curates' AUGMENTATION
tnnd. I g annual meetiny of the council was
held yester ay, when il seems there was a very
large number OF applications which the council
Tor want OF means were compelled 10 postpone
until another year. Many of these were press
ing and some even distressing cases. The grants
made amounted to nea ly 81 500
a GROUP of capital visitors was passing
through the corridor near the United States
supreme court chamber DAY or two ago when
senator walked hastily a,ong on his way 10
the House OF Representa- ives The visitors
stepped aside, and their guide, who, it is said
was none other than the sOckless statesman
Jerry simpson, said to them in stage whisper:
Ihat Is Senator Blair of New Hampshire, but
ne doesn't amount to much. He is only a
ngurehead in the Senate; q mere nom de plume
in fact
THERE has been discovered about half mile
west of the Bargytown Lodges" in Connect
cut, twirling stone Of about five tons weight
II has always been regarded as q bowlder ana
from the way il is poised on the rock baueath il
no one could see why it should not rock.
Hundreds nave tried to rock it in vain, and the
surprise OF the man who first felt it move under
pressure may be imagined" 1t movrs hard, of
course, but it moves as if it we're placed upon
pivot. 1t has been carefully examined, and
while it looks like a bowlder several alege that
1t must be ceremonial stone set there by some
a. fu r~1t-ss far.e-
terest among the bowider hunters of eastern
Connecticut.
The Electrical Engineer cites a bit of its
own experience with the long distance teIe-
phone to illustrate the remarkable facilities for
The transaction of business that have attended
the evolution of the talking wire. The business
manager of that journal had occasion recently
70 spend day or two in this city, and W lille
here he called up his Office in New York had a
big batch of morning mail read to him over the
wlre and dictated replies to q steDographer in
New FORK. Since that occasion he has followed
this method of attending to business upon
every trip to this city. When that day arrives
10 winch tn re will be telephone connection
over every line now covered by the telegraph
the facilities for transacting business will be
something startling to contemplate.
WHEN John G. Keadle of Talbot, Ind. left
home in 1861 as volunteer in the Twentieth
Indiana Regiment he took with him lock of
his young wife's and 3-months-old daughters
hair, carefully enclosed in Bible which was
gwen him by his wife. He lost the Bible during
a battle. A friend from Georgia, visiting
Ge9rge K; Harper in Jefferson county, Indiana,
pany A. Third Georgia regiment, had und
Just such Bible, with the name and all in it.
Harper did not know Kneadle, but advertised
the book In Grand Army newspaper, saying it
had been placed in his keeping. Keadle saw the
advertisement. can to Madison and recovered
his treasure. The daughter is now 80 years old
and married, but her mother is dead.
DURING an etymology lesson, mistress OBJ
tanned an answer from girl which may be
characterized both as ingenious and ingenious
The lady was dealing with the common nouns
and their cognate abstract forms In order to
insure that the class should thoroughly appre-
bend the subject of her discourse she took
care to put before them the very plainest ex-
ampes; such as common noun Judge, lab
stTact noun iustice; tcommon) coward,
(shstracQ cowardice, etc. She then
surmised, that she might safely vent
ure TO elicit from the girls themselves a few
examples of such cognate forms. Accordingly,
toward the close of the lesson, she made the
request. After some time, one child timidly
raised her hand. There's O good girl said
the teacher; NOW, what is your example of
these common and abstract forms?" please,
ma'am. answered the girl, "(common) body,
(abstractl bodice"
THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF INDIRECT TAXES in
France has just published the results of the
vintage in 1890. 1t amounted to q, 416, 327 hec-
tottres, being an increase of 4,1S2, 1855 hectic
ltres on last year, but $780, 6S less than the
ave age OF the last ten years (1660-S9l. The
area under vine cultivation was L243 hectares
less than in 1889, proof that the efforts to re-
store this branch of farming are not succeeding.
Ins is FAR from the average produce of 80, OO0,-
UOO hectohtrsS, as about the year 1870. The
average price of the hectolitre has fallen from
3Sf. to 36f; but taking into account the great
increase in quanty OF this years produce, the
Total value (9SS 94.00Ot., or, in round numbers
339, SOL, 700, is greater by about 1917 726 OOOf
(about t t,309, 900. The average production was
- bectolitres per hectare, against 10 last year.
The manufacture of arthc al wines is on the
increase amounting for 1890 to 2,429 2S5 becto-
| ltreS, being COS, 156 hectoitres or over 80 per
cent, more than last year. No allowance is of
course. made in these figures FIR illicit m anu
| facture. Sweetened wines amounted to 1,947,-
600 hectolitres, or 4oS 600 lover 80 per cent?
more than last year. The Algerian reports
show oy yearly steady increase in viticulture.
In lS9O the produce was 2,S44 900 hectoltres
| being an increase of 332. 600 over last year
THE FOLLOWING appears in G1honanfs Mes
senGer: Mr.. and Mrs. Littledale's adventurous
journey across the Pamr and the Hindu Kush
into India will bear fruit in volume of travels
which should be one OF considerable interest,
The travellers left Odessa in the early simmer
and, crossing the Caspian, reached Osh in the
heart OF Central Asia, in May. They we're &C.
compaHied by Russian and Persian inter
| pr ter, and six or seven followers. After fol-
| lowing the Gucha river the three passes crossed
were from 10, 900 to ID, $50 feet high. The Bash
Gambaz pass was blocked with snow. so the
AhCuuE river was IOuoWeQ, and the kharQOSh
Pass crossed, after which descent was
| made to Kila Panjab. in Afghan territory
The scenery is described as magnificent a
high range with glorious peaks bounding the
view to the south, separating the Pamir from
Wakhan. Crossing the Kojigit Pass the party
reached the Little Pamir, and then, going a onp
the Wakhau river, arrived at Sarhad ,1uly 70
Sarhad is in Afghan territory, and the Afghans
were friendly though there appears at first to
have been some commotion, the party being
suspected of being spies. halt of ten days
had to be made to fit the travellers for the
arduous work of crossing the Hindu Kush
Crossing the Warhan and over the DarkoU Pass
they arrived on Aug. at Gigt, where thew
were welcomed by Lieut. Manners Smith and
DR.. Roberts
INSTEAD of seeking in Phoenicia, the primitive
home of the alphabets of our modern world. we
shall have to look for it in Arabia. Canon Isaac
Taylor in his History of the Alphabet" had
already found himself compelled by palaeo-
graphic evidence to assign much earlier date
to the alphabet of South ARABIA than that
which had pre- vioIsy been ascribe to il and the
discoveries OF G aser anu .HommeI show that he
was right AS soon as we reverse the problem
and assume that the Phoenic an alphabet is later
Instead Of earlier than the Min8n, we obtain an
explanation of much that has hitherto been
puzzllng. The names given to MANY
of the Phenician letters are at Iasc
founi to agree with the forms of the latter
1t is only in the South Arabian alphabets. for
instance, that the letter called pc, 'the
mouth" our P, has the form of mouth. or
that the first letter ''aleph IAN OK " resembles
the head If that animal Moraovar - -. -----.