The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST,".

The new German artillery. which VIII shortly
be introduced, is said to be the most terrible
war instrument ever produced. Experiments
| made at the lnterbogk ranges deeply impressed
| the experts, the kaiser being present. The first
SHOT fired at target placed so PAGES from
wood, missed the target, but ploughed its way
through the woods for ], 800 feet. The splinters
| OF she'll burst by the powder over a circle
OF 900 feet A she'll fired at an enormous tar
| get, constructed by the emperor's orders, Gov
| cred 1t with tens OF thousands Of holes bat
| terry OF the new artillery would It is assured
annihilate an entire division, once the range
| was found.
THERE are fashions in tombstones as we'll as
In sealskin sacques or spring bonnetts says the
Philadelphia Press. There is not a very wide
range to the fashion. but it is pronounced. Just
now marble is mot in it" in monumental
| way The change from marble to granite has
| been going on steadily for the past year or two
IF we're to cut a fine marble monument and
| put 1t out on exhibition in the front OF my
| yard, said an uptown sculptor of memorial
| figures and tombStoaes, II should consider it
| Just so much money badly invested, If not lost
| There is little or no demand for marble now.
| Granite Is taking its place. Why? Because in
this climate 1t is more enduring; it is not SO
easily solled as marble and is more easily kept
clean: There is constant demand for granite,
and II you look through the marble yards in
Philadelphia you will find that it predominates
IN all the display pieces"
The first two weeks of 1892 will be remem-
bered in English history as q fatal fortnight.
| The long obituary of last year sinks into insig-
| nificance when compared with the death record
| or the last fourteen days. England has lost the
| Duke OF Clarence next heir but one to the
throne; Egypt, the khedive. The names of
Lord Lichfed, CharIemont, Abinger and Dill
| lon. as well as those Of Dowager LADY Bath,
| Ladies Hsrlech, SandhurSt and Frances Cor
| don, z. +. Kenyon and R. Daily may already be
erased from the brand-new editions of the peer
| age. The Roman church mourns for Cardinals
| Manning and Sineoni and the archbishops of
Genoa and Cambrai The English bishops Phil
p pot and Z Reeves Of Down are no
| deprived of the services of Emile de
Laveleye. Sir George Airy, Sir James Redhouse,
NJ. Quatrefages de Breau, the great naturalist,
and Dr.. Motecot, whose diploma dated from
the first empire. John D. Watson has painted
| his last figure Society will miss Sir William
| Cope, Mr.; Whitley. NJ. P, may be looked for
! future army list will contain the names of Gen.
Sir George Maxwell, Col. Hyde Villiers or Col.
Sir Spencer Clifford. The world OF music loses
| Joseph Blses, reformer of the clarinet, and
| Henry Dorm of Berlin, who was an infant
| prodigy when Waterloo was fought and Chol-
| let, doyen of French singers, born in 1898 and
| debutant IN 1878.
RETURNED TRAVELLER relates some curious
stories about Thibet, says the China Mail An
! old monk. about 20 years old, Is said to be a
| god who has come to this world for a temporary
| soJourn. In his previous existence he was the
/ head monk of the old temple in which he lives
now. One day he called together his followers
| and told them that his soul would leave its
| abode to be born again ON q certain day in a
| certain family; that they should assemble ct
the time OF his new birth in the house and well
come his arrival with prayers, and that he
would show his knowledge Of them by lifting
up certain light musical instrument out of a
number placed before the infant The
eventiul DAY came; the followers marched
the infant was brought forth, pray
er5 were read, and strange, but
true, the lIfantile lips moved as if in prayer
| the puny hands wandered about the table
touched several musical Instruments found the
! right one, and held it up for a second, then
dropped it. His parents were greatly rejoiced
| at having prodigy In their midst. At the age OF
he was made monk and returned to the tenn
pie. He again became the head one The year
before last, when the English surveyors entered
| Ihibet one day the aged monk was fasting
with closed eyes. Suddenly he exclaimed:
| strangers have entered our country hundreds
of Ii from this place. These strangers are willy,
experienced and deeply crafty. Tell the people
to guard against them" This monk often said
he would depart at 50 years of age from this
mortal earth and then re-enter it ia q new form
THE blessing of the river Nova (Russia) took
place ct st Petersburg on Thursday, JAM Is. In
the presence of the czarina and other members
of the royal family. The ceremony assumes
the proportions of a national pageant and has
been thus described Close to the chief
entrance of the winter palace q small platform
is run out from the granite quay Of the Neva
supporting tiny pavilion with 9 blue dome
shaped roof, whence plank stair leads down to
tue frozen river. A narrow passage Is kept
! open between this pavilion and the pelace gate
| by two gray walls topped with steel, formed by
the soldiers Of the Imperial Guard in their long
| frleze overcoats An around It the forest OF
yellowish brown turrets and pinnacles sur
| mounting the winter palace and the golden
lance OF the admiralty tower beyond the boule-
ward and the granite column of Alexander I
ia the great square between them look
| down upon a sea Of closely packed heads
| and shoulders The great pontoon bridge
! leading to the island Of Vasilt Ostroff IL
crowded to the very bal ustrades and the eeunt
wilderness of the silent Eeva itself is blackeping
/ with creeping swarms OF spectators Az the
sharp bang Of the midday gun peaIs on the
| frosty air Inc great mass tremhles with culver
and hum OF expec alton. Then the palace gate
10 sean to swing slowly back, and forth stsps a
single figure. 1t m0y be the car himself But
| tie mighty shout that rolls along the frozen
Neva and echoes back from the walls of the
| Petropaulovsk citadel like a peal of distant
thunder shows that the spell of Imperialism ha }
not yet lost its power iH Russia Then she him
priest descends the stair to an opening previ-
| ously cut in the ice, and dippng the cross in
the dark waters beneath pronounces the words
OF consecratlon. and as they are spoken
| the pale CLEAN OF sunlight, that is If the
sun does shine, falling through the cold
| gray sky upon the gorgeous robes and
flowing hair OF the solitary figure that utsers
| them seems like the fading glory OF Rrssia's
past throwing its last rays into the deepening
darkness Of her present." According to an
Gent custom the car drinks some OF the river
water out of goblet furnished for the occasion
| by the city In return the car was supposed to
return the goblet to the chief magistrate of ST
| Petersburg filed to the brim with gold pieces
But the custom had its Inconvenience That
| drink used to cost more to the emperor than
| Cleopatra's celebrated toast to Marc Antony
| Each year the goblet grew till it attained huge
| proportions. It became every year more and
| more a burden on the Little Father to fill the
goblet with money, and at last it was decided
that the car should pay specific sum instead
| as yearly present to the chief magistrate