The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

g. K. GILBERT and Marcus Baker the former
! chief geologist Of the United States geological
survey, with force Of men, have returned to
Flagstaff from Canyon Diablo, Arizona, where
they were sent by the government to take OBJ
servations and make map of the region where
SO much meteroic iron has recently been found
They spent sixteen days investigating the mann
moth hole In the ground, supposed to have been
made BY meteor. This hole is o55 feet deep
and 21S miles in circumference The theory Is
that from the appearance of the walls and ehe
fact that they found many pieces Of meteoric
iron around the hole, the msteor penetrated the
earth to a depth Of 700 or 800 feet before II ex-
ploded and this accounts for the strange phe-
nomsnon. Three pieces OF the meteor weigh
ing 800, 600 aad 800 pounds respectively were
FOUND on the MESA within two miles OF the
crater and are now in the Smithsonian Inse1-
ton. Besides these they found many pieces
Weighing from two ounces upward.
Rev. DR.. LYMAN ABBOTT says; 81 want to
say that believe the Bible ia an inspired book.
but do not believe that IL is infaiiible. We
may believe that Moses was infalllble. bat we
do not believe that the copyists or tTanslators
were lnralible The value OF the Bible IL not
Ia its infalhbility. 1t is something Of a great
deal more Importance and value than that
We have one infelGble book, written long be-
| fore the New Testament, and that is Euclid's
| Geometry. believe there has never been an
| error found in that. But it has never been OF
! the value of the Bible IL Is the Divinity and
not the infallibility that makes tho Bible sacred
ucShlao IL WAS HflJLSn Dy inSH VINO ndu UOd IN
their hearts, and the pOper of communicating
the light OF the Bible to other men. If our
| higher criticism or new theology Is pluokng
! God out OF the book and reducing it TO mere
systems Of theology, then it is bad but II It IS
bringing VIZ nearer 60 the hearts OF mon aud
making the truths of God clearer, then 1t Is to
be accepted and welcomed"
MRS. F. r PORTER sends to the Springfield
Ono } BeGdsr Office most interesting publica-
ton called Brother Jonathan" issued on the
Fourth of July, 1s4s. In New York. 1t was a
semi-annuAl paper, appearing only on July 4
and Dec. % The paper is eneeliShed with
numerous Illustrations, which, after lapse Of
forty three years, are equal in many respects
TO the wood cuts of to-day. The first page cen
tains the portraits OF Thomas II. Benton, Heary
Clay. John @. Calhoun and Daniel Webster
taken from "daguerotypos by Plumbe." These
pictures are Of heroic size and are really WORKS
Of art On the third page is q representation
in-fao smile of the declaration ofNndependence
in the body Of the work In the handwriting OF
Thomas Jefferson, with alterations in the
hands OF John Adams and Benjamin Franklin,
to which ara appended the names Of signers,
also in fac sihiie. The fourth and fifth pages
have double page illustration Of tho storm
ing of the Castle OF Chapultepec by American
Army under Gen, Scott" while every page is
variAblY equipped With ourls while the bang Is
conspicuous 0y is shsanoe- One 81 she eodats
Incorporated ia the paper Ia by J. L. Baker Of
Ohio; Oar eountry--Womah-May their
bRSdf7eNOfNn GtSS 6AlGaA Sh6atcF W tu9 Allekl-
oan fhsahtfy."
SENATOR PLUMB's last speech in congress, "
che Wichita Eagle says, was against slip-shod
work. 1t was In the secret session Of thu Sen
ate Friday afternoon. Senate Plumb, chair
man OF she public land COMM tttes, took ooca-
sior TO criticize tue reported confirmation OF tie
reg stsr OF the land office In North Dakota and
called attention. SO the facs THAI tins nomination
had NOS aee0 acted upon by bis committee. Mr..
al A.
Senate upon tAs oarslses way tAo cenarmetiops
were being rushed thr0ukh, one day over
500 nominations had been opnflrrned ia
Sa aT minutes sss; He 'Aia that he
pointees would not get thesr sAlaRssa II they
were got confirmed, but be did not Rsteve that
II woiha cause great amount Of 6SafFAAge-
ment IN the public service IL ocnarmRtions were
delayed day or even 8 week while the char
acter and fitness OF the nomiueeg wore made a
| subject OF inquiry. he movsd that the COO
frmation be reconsidered. Senator Harris OF
Tennessee suggested that perhaps the PreB-
denS had 6een notified. in which case reconsider
alton was impossible; and while bhis matter
Was being looked into o republican SENATOR
| made q few remarks in the line of Senator
! PIumb's. He was interrupted by Senator Man
| dersOn, who was presiding, who announced that
| the report OF the registers oonflrna alton was a
mistake on the part Of the clerk, as the confr-
nation had not occurred. There was general
| laughter at this statement Senator Plumb
ended the episode by another little speech in
which he said that he did not regret his pre-
| vious remarks, and expressed the hope that
| while this instance has righted itself, the seDa-
! tors would still feel the necessity in the future
| for avoiding indus haste in the matter OF con
! frmatIons"
THE PIG WOVEN and trinket dealers who used
| to do thriving business ia the corridors Of the
House end Of the capitol are hoping that
| Speaker Crisp will permit them TO come back "a
their old haunts, where they have been con-
| spicuously absent fer over year. Speaker
Reed very seRsibly drove them all out in the
first session OF tho Fifty -drBt congress. Among
Mr.. Reeds victims was Mrs. OEalloran, who
sold milk and pies 10 the basement; Mrs. Smith
n soldiers widow. who dealt in gingerbread and
cookies just at the entrance 70 statuary hall;
the Ereenback pulp man near the House door
and the plsthorio Irish card writer, to say moth
Ing OF Aunt Clara, the old French woman
| whose witch Ike face and figure the millions
who have visited the capitol can hardly forget
lnston and somewhat OF nuisance.
She knew Henry Clay. and few
modern statesmen have escaped az acQEaint-
ance with her. Ste has lived In Washington at
tive different periods Of her hfe. The FIRST was
when she know Mr.. Clay; the second began In
the first year OF the war. She had in rho inter
val gone 90 Foy Orleans and ESTABLISHED a
millinery store, which was yielding handsome
return whom the war broks out She was loudly
loyal to the union, and her property was eonfs-
Gated and she and her two children were Obliged
W ny ENF0thASJ 4AubAEc1 DoE nlluu SHKlElY.
She appeared in few weeks In the Senate gar
lery, where she caused iHcessanc disturbances by
waving little silk flag wheaever a rouSin1
union speech was made. To quiot her and
give her something to do Charles
Sumner obtained permission for her
10 keep a little notion stand in one OF
! the Senate eorriderA where abe soon did a
rushing business In selling guide books, photo
graphs Of public men, copies Of the Ce,Sores-
siOfIdl GIo6s, and sundry other artoJes of noAr-
chandIse. After Summers death she was
moved over to the House side OF the rotunda
where she was donniclled when Tom Reed got
after her. The old lady knows every crook and
Granny Of the capitol, and not iAfreousntIy left
her photographs apd greenbaok pulp busts to
appear suddenly before some senator or con
gressmsn in his cogAmittes room and start a
political discussion She is a money maker and
owns nice homo, besides having educated her
soa and daughter, both of whom spent several
years abroad. II Speaker Crisp allows the pie
and pulp dealers TO return It win be largely
tarouea Aunt Clara's persistent appeals TO his
charity aud his natural kind -heartedneSs.