The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Dhuleep Singh's eldest son and successor
has announced his determination OF making
no use Of the title of Maharaiah. or king
borne by his late father, and will continue to
remain known as Prince Victor Dhuleep
Singh. A protestant, and a godson of the
queen. he Is lieutenant In the First Royal
Dragons, and recently got into trouble ut
Aldershoot as the chief organizer Of prize
tight, which was stopped by the police. He
is noted for his prowess as a boxer, is a
capital swOrdSman, and now inherlts an in
come OF Sl25,0o0 year from the British gov
eminent
Much CONSERVATION has. been caused at
Bucharest by the discovery that somebody
has deliberately forged the signature of the
king TO document granting a free pardon to
convict OF the name OF Schwalb, who was
serving long term of Imprisonment for the
forgery Of ofncial documents. The king had
been repeatedly petitioned to grant his free
dom but had always refused to comply, owing
TO the helnous character Of the mans Of
tense The discovery that the prisoner has
obtained his liberty in defiance of his
maJeSty's expressed wishes, and by means Of
forged signature, angers the king greatly.
Gassendi, pronounced by Boyle to be "the
greatest philosopher among scholars and the
greatest scholar among philosophers" had.
at the age of II, s. thoroughly mastered 5000
Latin verses as to be able to repeat them
either backward or forward with perfect ease.
After growing to manhood he is reported to
have daily exercised his mind by repeating
from OOO 10 l.JUO verses IN all modern Euro
pean languages Cardinal MezZofant, the
most remarkable linguist the world has ever
known is said to have been able to use every
word OF any considerable Importance in over
100 different languages and to have been able
TO carry on a conversation in forty five or
fifty others.
A new standard time came into operation in
Italy recently The standard time has hlth-
erto been fifty minutes earlier than that of
Greenwich, whereas the difference now is
exactly an hour. AS regards time the cOun
tries of Europe are now divided into three
groups, that of the west, consisting of Eng
land, France, Spain, and Portugal Holland
and Belgium. which take their time from
Greenwich; the central group of Sweden
Norway, Denmark, Germany, Austro- Hun
gary, Switzerland and Italy. whose standard
time is exactly sixty minutes earlier; and
finally, the Oriental group of Russia, Tur-
key, the Balkan States and Greece.
whose time differs two hours from that of
Greenwich.
Submarine soundings, which have recently
been made with extraordinary care and pre-
cision. rendered practicable by means of
superior instruments in hands most ex-
perienced and expert, show the existence in
the Pacific OF trough or basin OF eXtraor-
binary depth and extent along the east coast
of Japan and the Kurile islands, and under
the kuro Siwo, or Japan or Black stream, the
basin exceeding any similar depression yet
found in any other region of the great ocean,
says the New York Sun. In run of thirty
miles after leaving the coast Of Japan, the
surveying officers for the proposed trans
Pacific telegraph cable found that the waters
deepened more than 800 fathoms. and upon
the next cast of the lead the wire broke after
some 4,643 fathoms had been run out without
bottom having been reached. The depth Of
the deepest cast, which was 81 miles, being
the deepest water yet found is remarked as
sufficient to hold two mountains as high as
Japan's great FuSiyama, one on top or the
other, and then the summit OF the highest
would be nearly twothlrds OF mile under
water.
The London newspapers, according to the
News, occasion considerable mirth to their
Indian contemporaries by the spelling of In
dian names. 1t appears that, in referring to
the native princes and nOhlemen who were
present at the opening of the Imperial Insti-
tute, we tried tostrike out on an original lire
but we're only able to spell "Gaekwar' IN
seven different ways ana "BhOWnugger' in
four Indian papers, it seems, are not wholly
ucceSSsful. We still occasionally see Puma"
and "PoOna' Hindu" and "HindOO.' "Da-
colt" and "Dakait," and so on, according TO
the taste and fancy of the speller. In a sup
PIGMENT to the Bombay Government Gazette.
we now have a revised alphabetical list of
Madras place-names, which is ito be strictly
adhered to- In this list, while retaining such
| monstrOsities as Observation-Disclosures Sundar-
aperumalkoyu, Gannamanayakkunur and
Ammayananayakkanu large proportion OF
the popular versions are retained. with the
thin disguise Of a *" for a &c" Three-and-
/ tication are occupied by a list of place-names,
! 'in which the system of transliteration has
| been followed and a wonderful list it is.
There is a well-known fable, says the Edin-
burg Review, that one of the ephemere,
! destined like its fellows to lifetime measur-
able only by hours passed the whole period
of its br ef existence in watching the slow
course of the sun across the heavens. 1t
noticed that the mighty Orb-tO which il owed
its brief span Of life. and in whose rays its
| companions were playing-waS slowly sink
! ing to the horizon in the west; and. before II
died, it summoned the other ephemera
around it, and addressed to them words of
warning. 1t had carefully ObSerVed-SO il
Satd-the progress of the sun; it was able
confidently to predict that the time would
ultimately come when it would sink below the
horizon; which ii was, even then, steadily ap-
preaching: and it was able, with equal con
! hdence, to assert that, when that supreme
hour came. the beams of the great luminarv
would be quenched and the life Of all eDhe-
merae would cease. W tn these words of
warning wisdom. il breathed out its short ev-
istence, and left its fellow-insects to play in
the sunbeamS during the few hours of dav
which were still left to them. But the means
of forecaSting the future of the human race
, seem to US so imperfect that the most
thoughtful and best-nformed prophet is only
! little better furnished for the task than the
/ ephemera Of our fable. An experience of the
few centuries over which history extends an
acquaintance with the doings at the present
time of the various races with which the
world is peopled, form a weak and faulty
framework for II 3ture of the future In
pubic as IN priv ate affairs it is the unforeseen
! that always happens, and, if the common ac-
cldentS OF life upset our calculations for the
morrow, they are almost certain to faIsify our
predictions for the succeeding centuries
Hhok ID