The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

CoRNELIA SoRARJJ, at all, olive-skinned Hindoo
girl, is a notable figure among the students of
Oxford University. She is a remarkable scholar
and at the age of Is became the professor of
literature at Bombay; but she longed for an
advanced education, and went to Somerville
seeking admission to the historical and litera-
ture classes Her examination papers attracted
considerable attention on account of their brill
fancy. Her papers on Roman law. written after
K months study, were dec AIRED by the exam
iners to be the dolest written at the uuiver-
sity by any student of either sex. The young lady
wears native dress usually of pale blue Grape.
with gold embroidery and an embroidered
mantle over her Shapely head.
HERE is a picture OF Chauncey Depew as he
makes an after-dinner speech. He loo rs more
like preacher than a club man. and as he
stands swinging his glasses in his hand, looking
out of his sober blue eyes up and down the
table, his cultured. clerical face makes you
wonder when he stepped out of the pulpit, and
whether after all it is not a mistake and he is
not about to ask grace He begins to talk. His
words come freely and naturally. He smiles
little as he tells good story, and his blue eyes
twinkle as he wittily replies to the sally of one
of the men from the other side Of the table. AS
he goes on, his face beams with good fellow
Ship and you note that his IS years have not
made him old, and that though his hair and
beard are frosted his soul is as young as that of
any boy at the board. AS he continues, you
find that bis speeches are more than stories
You note that he has ideas as we'll as wit, and
tor, but man, and great man
THE editor of one of the Baltimore weekly
publications had novel experience the other
night. 1t was one that he will not soon forget
He was just about retiring, when his door bell
iingled merrily. 1t was after midnight. The
editor slipped on his trousers. slippers and
dressing gown and answered the bell A lady
was at the daor-one of his neighbors-who
said there was drunken man in the back yard
OF her house grooming and going on at a ter
rible rate. Her husband was away; her chill
dren were nearly scared out of their wits.
What could she do? Would not the editor please
come and drive the man away? The editor
would. He armed himself with his re-
volver ana accompanied the frightened woman.
Through her kitchen be went out into the yard.
Tightly he gripped his ''gun." He heard the
groans. They were of such character that
he concluded the person who uttered them
must be well-nigh helpless. He was brave. He
peered into the darkness to find the man. But,
10 there was none. Perched upon a barrel in
the far corner of the yard was q chicken. The
editor discovered that the fowl was doing the
grooming. and from his experience with barn.
yard pheasants he knew that the chicken had
the roup. Ets
A LICENSE to wed in California was granted
Sept 5 to Ellen Marie Highly, widow OF Con
gresham William Highly, and Charles g. Calan
by the clerk of Alameda county. Two days
later the nuptiais were celebrated at the brides
home in Oakland. Ellen Marie Highly is 81 years
of sge and has gold and bonds in the Oakland
banks and valuable lands in
Sonama County and elsewhere. Callan
poss asses nothing in worldly goods, but mas q
valuable store of worldly knowledge. Mrs
Highly became a widow in 1887 and since that
time has been an ardent worker in the Cali
fornia Society for the Reformation OF Crlmi-
! mails. While making visit to san Quintin
! prison she was attracted to q convict named
! Charles Callan who had been mt up from San
Francisco in 1888 to serve two years for hitting
negro in a barroom brawI with
a.. beer erus glass, and paid Si.,,. him numer-
leased in July, 1890. and promised TO reform his
ways Two months later, however, he struck a
| policeman over the head with the officers own
handcuh, and was bound over to the superior
court in 81 600 This second break of her pro-
| tege somewhat discouraged Mrs, Highly and she
| allowed him to lie in jail for month before size
| furnished bonds. Callan led a secluded life in
| Oakland after his release and O few months
| later joined the Christian churoa together with
| Mrs. Highly. Upon their marriage it was agreed
that CaIlan's record should be buried, and it is
| probably unknown to Mrs. Higbys associates
| outside OF a few Intimate friends. The couple
| have since been living at the Highly house lon
| kirkham street where the three daughters of
Mrs. Callan by her first husband still dwell.
THE BEGINNING of the new movement in
China, the awakening Of the new life which, to
my mind, underlles so many Of the sporadic
| conditions of present unrest in the empire,
writes John Russell Young in North american
ReUie0. may be attributed 10 the influence and
personal character of Ii Hung Chang. the vice
roy Of the northern provinces, aud virtual prime
minister. From his yamen come the ideas
which slowly perWeate the empire When was
familiar with China, Tientslc, the home Of the
viceroy, was ever the centre of a unique and
progressive authority. The atmosphere OF the
viceroy's yamen was different from that of Can
| ton, Foo Chow, Wuchang, or elsewhere To
pass from Hankow to Tientsn was like coming
| from China Of the middle ages to what one
| might call the China of the nineteenth cen
Of ~. vic.
| roy had much to do with 1t. Il haSA seen"
| said Gen. Grant to me on one occa sion, -four
| great men in my journey Bismarck, Beacons,
HsId, Gamostta, and ii Hung Chang. / am not
sure that Ii IS not the greatest of the four"
| friendship might say an intimacy-with the
viceroy for some years confirmed with me an
opinion akin to this of Gen. Grant A strong
positive, dominant nature, with firm will an
irasclble temper, he had seen much of the
foreigner. and-what the earnest Cbipaman
never thinks of doing-had adjusted the per
foreign lands. He had governing qualities.
The soft, tranquil nature, the morrow and ever
the morrow temperament which MARKS the
Orlen al, was foreign to him. Unlike any
other Chinese statesman whom then knew. he
believed in war and preparation for war
The one question which seemed to
interest him was the military possibilities of the
empire. The one ruler VINO impressed his i'm.
sginatlon was Grant, because he saw in him the
so der Although singuariy accomp ished
man, aud in time of peace assured of advance
meat even in China. where education means
promotion, he had risen by arms and believed
in arms. Almost the first wish he ever ex-
pressed to me was that the American govern
ment would allow him to send some Chinese
lads to Annapolis and West Point and it was
hard to explain that the doors 10 these acade-
mics might be open to Japanese and young
gentlemen from South America but not to
Cinnamon. II was his assured purpose, he told
me. to have ia China schools moielei upon the
West Point and nnapolis principles and he
had gone so far as to have selected some point
on the Hangtze near Marking for the military
and Chefoo for the naval station.