The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AAA~o ~ AN ALASASSAs
7 Gen. W. L. Cabeu cold Tige'O. of the CON
tederate army, says that if a war with for
eign country arose the -confederateS
would De among the first 70 the front.
1t is reported that movement is on foot,
with its head quarters at Pittsburg. to girdle
the earth with a series of religious conven-
tions on the 19OOth anniversary of the Chris
tan era; A great eXpedtt o will start out.
mum erlug, II Is thought, some 1000 persons,
who viii 20 entirely around the world holding
ro1sing Z religious services AZ every
service viii be held in san Fran
cisco and the last in New York Bombay.
Jerusalem, Rome and London will g taken
Ia on the way. he services are to be en-
! tlrely non-se tartan. Several weeks will
elapse between each service, and 1t is calcu-
latea that the expedition Will take avear in
making its rounds, and that il will cCSs each
OF the crusaders about 81 900.
The Chattanooga Times has endeavored
vainly to verify the assertion that Senator
| Harris, of Tennessee, is 70 years of age
Valnly so far as any recent authorized state
ment has been made. 1t finds that away back
IN IoIS the senator permitted the Congress
slonal Directory to say that he was born in
1918, but that valuable publication has since
Deel silent on that point, giving the
place OF his birth, but not the time.
nessee.' says the Times that
ne is OF an age somewhere between IS and
liO. whether he became risky and coy about
his age, after 1879, or whether he lost the fam
| lily Bible when he rushed of to MaXimilian
domlnlons. in 1865. and isn't quite certain
about his longevity, we cannot pretend to say
hut 1t Is certain that he has not given the
Date OF his arrival on the mundane sphere
IN any authoritative way for nearly twelty
| years"
trial has just been concluded al Aber-
deem, Scotland, which has attracted great at
t ntion in Great Britain. The Society for the
prevention of Cruelty to Animals had two
raDbls indicted. as a test case, for killing
| bullock after the Jewish manner. Several
| Hebrew doctors and others testified that the
| Jewish method Of slaughter was less painful
| that the flesh of animals thus
| slain was healthier. The prose
| cutlon submitted evidence to show
| that the animal, on the killing of which the
suit was based, lived in conscious agony for
seven minutes after his throat had been cut
Instances were cited where animals SO killed
| had lived longer than this. L he flesh of AMI
mails killed according to the Jewish method
underwent, according to the prosecution
witnesses, morbid changes that rendered it
unit for food. The magistrates decided
| that as the experts disagreed. the charge of
cruelty was not proven, and discharged the
accused
According to the reports just issued by the
DO tors of the Salpetrere. at Paris, the Wan
derlng Jew was not myth, but an entity, or
rather succession of entities, some of whom
OAlol W lu6 present DAY. IL seems JEaJ the
Cartophilus and AhaZuerus of the legend have
their modern coun erpart in certain Hebrew
| neuropaths who have passed through the
y lpetriere hospital in the course of their
tea5eless wander1ngS In search OF relief. The
photographs accompanying the report repre-
sent them as men of dOwnC asst, furrOwed
countenance, with long beard and strongly
marked features, aged beyond their years.
not be still Whenever they IT,
to settle down, the uncontrolla' lie
Il ASira n Gnigpa md ~ no
obedience to the irresistible and mysterious
impulse. They mostly hail from the orders
OF Poland and Germany, districts densely
populated by the lowest class of Hebrews. 1t
is these neuropQth travellers and wanderers,
ceassiessly following one another, mere to.
day and gone tomorrow. who have jointly
contributed to preserve the personality and
the legend OF the Jerusalem coObler who
Knocked Christ on his way to the cross and
was condemned in consequence thereof TO
wander over the face of the globe without
resting anywhere until the end OF all eternity.
One OF the marine wonders Of the world is
the great barrier reef of Australia, This stu
pendous rampant of coral, stretching in an
almost unbroken line for / 2 miles along the
northeastern coast of Australia, presents
features Of interest which are not to be
equaled in any other quarter of the globe,
says the Pail Mall Gazett2. Nowhere is the
action of the little marine insect, which
builds up with untirlng industry those
mighty, monuments with which the
impressive; nowhere are the wonderful
constructive forces of nature more apparent
BY simple process Of accretion there has
been reared in the course of countless cen
turtles an adamantine wa l. against which the
pillows Of the Pacific, sweeping along in an
uninterrupted course Of several thousand
miles, dash themselves in Intellectual fury
lnclosed within the range of its protecting
arms is calm inland sea, so, 900 square miles
in extent, dotted with a multitude of
coral islets and presenting at every
objects n n
the unlearned traveller and the man
of science. Here may be witnessed The singu-
lar process by which the wavy, gelatinous
living mass hardens into stone. then serves
as collecting ground for the tiotsam and
letsam OF the ocean, and ultimately develops
into an island covered with luxurious mass
IN the serene depths of placid pools extraor-
binary forms Of marine life aglow with the
most brilliant colors and producing in their
infinite variety Il bewildering sense of the |
vastness of the life OF the ocean.
Ennui, like chic, is FrCn h word but little
understood and sub. ect to much misinterpre-
tatiOn especially in this busting. active |
country, where ennui is practically unknown,
says the New YORK Tribune The majority of |
Americans are far too busy to experience the !
sentiment. while the leisure class, still in an
emDryo state, are as a rule too new to their
condition to have the feeling. To suffer from |
ennul implies such degree of knowledG of |
events thereof have no longer anv |
power to interest the mind. Ennui is not |
WEAKNESS nor tediouSness, as described in |
the dictionaries, nor yet is il possible to ac- |
ceptt he London Spectators translation Of |
the word as boredom. 1 he French word that |
expresses the latter Is the somewhat vulgar |
verb 'emheter' Boredom differs from ennIi |
in that it is not necessarily the outcome of n |
high degree OF civilization, which ennni GER |
tanly IS. An ntutored savage of Central |
Africa or Of the wilds Of Australia NAV be |
bored; So too, may the ignorant hours of |
oriental harems and zenanas Even
an energetic business man may feel |
temporarily bored by enforced bodily |
or meatal inactiOn, or by dreary as |
ISOLATION. But that can scarcely he described |
as ennu1, to experience which in the true
sense OF the word you must be thoroughly
blase and oppressed with feeling of moral
and physical safety. You must know everv-
thing, have had all your wishes n ambitions
satlshed. all Obstacles rem oYeQ from your
path and pass your way through life with the
firm Conviction that there remains nothing
either to interest or arouse your ambition:
that on are condemned forever to hundrum
mOnotony and to commonplace.
We are indebted, says the Pomona 0all
Progress, to L. B. Hawks, recently in the GOV
eminent Indian service in Arizona for a de-
s,riptive OF the manner in which some OF the
braves in the Ara-he region prepare their
deadly arrows Although the Apaches have
had little or no use for their poisoned weaDonS !
for years, still they, because OF a tribal in |
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