The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ 1000 women are clamoring TO enter the Chris
| tian schools.
The papers from the United States of
| Colombia relate the falling down of the enor
! nous tamarind tree which shaded the coun-
I try house at San Pedro Alejandrino, in which
/ Bolivar, the Libertador, lived during his last
| days OF misfortune. Neither the house nor
/ the statue erected near the porch suffered
any damage from the fall Of the tree.
Not long since s'.native came into Bombay
loaded with coo pounds of chain. He said
that he had been a very wicked young man
I and as punishment had chained himself up
from sin. His plan did not work, however,
and he had been adding to his chains con-
stantly. When he Travelled by train he was
charged partly as passenger and partly as
freight.
There have recently been found In Akhmin,
Upper Egypt q number Of lamps with the
monogram Of Christ. Besides these there are
rings and other articles Of characterization
Christians. In many cases these relics rep
resent events such as the crucihxion of
Christ, and are exactly the same as those
round IN the Catacombs OF Rome
The death of Henry Broadwood, senior
partner of the pianoforte manufacturing firm
OF John Broadwood & Sons at the age Of 50,
sewers an interesting link with the past. 1t
was his fathers house Of business that young
John Jacob Aston, from Waldorf, in Germany,
the founder of the vast AstoF fortune. worked
as poor clerk, and scraped together enough
money to pay for a steerage passage to Balti-
more.
The German chancellor, Caprivi, in com.
munication to the Evangelical High eonsis-
tory in Berlin declares that the imperial
government is not opposed to the orqaniza-
ton OF German congregation and the build
ing Of an evangelical church in the city of
Rome, but II is recommended not to call it the
Luther Memorial church-for which S25 900
mas been raised-for fear of giving offense to
the pope.
A. r. Sutton, Chicago engineer, is work
ing on plan to connect the Great Lakes with
the Atlantic as a private enterprise. He
proposes to deepen the Welland Canal and
connect 1t with Lake Ontario by cut to the
niagara near Ihorold, Ont, then deepen the
81. Lawrence, cut a canal south to Lake
Champlain and from it's southern point,
whitehall dig canal to tho Hudson river at
Troy or Albany.
On every Christmas day since the Napole-
onic invasion of Russia in 1912, prayer has
been reclted in all the churches Of the Cars
empire, calling down the curses of Heaven
upon the French. Indeed, the anathema
formed part of the Christmas dav liturgy of
or the orthodox church. Last Christmas it
was for the first time omitted. by order OF the
emperor and in Difference to the susceptibil-
tiles of his new ally
Gathering wild fowls eggs has long been a
sport for boys living along the Atlantic coast
OF Maryland. The narrow reef tina: guards
the eastern shore counties is a famous breed
ing place Tor many kinds of aquatic fowls and
thelr nests are frequently invaded and wan
tonly destroyed There is sentiment against
the destruction of game tirds' eggs; the hun
dred-andone varieties of inedible birds are
protected by no such sentiment.
Gen. Hilario Daza, the ex-president of the
Republic Of Bolivia, who deserted his post
during the Pacific Chilian-Peruvian- Bolivian
war carrying with him in his fight the war
treasure OF his country. has Just been con-
demned once more by the congress of the re-
public. This assembly has unanimously de-
clared that Senior Daza shall never return to
MS country, and that he shall be Immediately
shot II ever he be caught attempting to return
Few of the members Of the British House
OF Lords can claim descent or even distant
relationship with the barons Of King Johns
time, who extorted from him the Magma
Charta OF the $50 temporal peers. no less
than $50 have been created since the begin
ming OF the present century, and 1876 during
whose titles were conferred prior to the year
1900 OF the entire number, only FIVE can go
back as far as the XIIth century
The misunderstanding about the frontier
question which had reached an acute stage,
threatening the friendly relations between
Ecuador and Peru, seems to be now on the
way to peaceful arrangement On Jan. s.
1894 Senior don Emilio Bonifaz, the new Pc
ruyian Minister to Ecuador. arrived at Quito
and the government of President Cordery i'm
mediately appointed Don Camille Ponceas a
special representative to discuss the frontier
question with the minister of Peru.
The steamer Aquila, which was nearly the
cause Of quarrel between Chile and Argen-
tina during the latest civil war in Chile. and
which finally remained the property of the
santiago government, was offered for sale
recently. That vessel was used as a Chilean
transport, and the government of Chile de-
clined to sell 1t to the Brazilian rebels or to
President Peixoto, as it desired to remain
strictly neutral between the rebels and the
regular government at Rio de Janeiro.
An interesting event in London recently was
the dedication of the new clock in the south
western tower OF st. Paul's cathedral The
clergy proceeded with the choir to the tower.
where psalms were sung. and the dean offered
prayer and read few verses from the gospel
AS the blessing was being said a Young ladv
having previously set the works in motion
the clock struck the hour with twelve rich
notes. This is the largest clock in the king
dom. It's pendulum weighs 700 pounds
Manuel Manresa, one of the latest of the
banditti who have been infesting Cuba, pill
Laying, kidnapping and numbering, under the
pretense OF being the imitators and successors
OF the glorious revolutionists of the last in
surrectton, has been captured at Camajuapi.
province OF santa Clara. He was one Of the
fellows who kidnapped the young planter
MeaVe, who was released on the payment of a
large ransom, almost all of which has been
recovered from the moneys found upon four
OF his kidnappers, who have been already.
captured
Diverse are the methods adopted nv the
European governments to test the Character
of the wounds which would be inflicted nv
their new regulation rifles. The Spanish
government few months ago experimented
upon live animals with that object in view
and the Roumanian military authorities have
recently been making use OF human corpses
Tor the same purpose. These were placed in
rows like soldiers on the field OF battle and
then shot at. At distance of 600 metres five
bodies were placed f1ftv centimetres apart
and at that range bullets penetrated three
bodies in succession.
In the Republic OF Paraguay the electoral
campaign for the Presidency is more active
than any previous one since the fall of Dicta-
tor Solsno Lopez who fought so braveIv
against the South American triple alliance
OF that time 1ee6), composed of Brazil. TJru
quay and Argentine. The two candidates for
the Presidential chair now occupied nv Sc
nor Gonzales, are Senior EgusquiZa minister
OF war, who is supported by the present adj
m1ntstratton, and Gen. Caballero. who Is an
adversary Of the Gonzales government but
who seems to have greater chances of being
elected than the administration candidate
The Reading Herald tells one of the most
extraordinary fish stories that has appeared
recently, and tells it as a sober fact. The
hero Of the tale was Mr.. Eckenrode. of that
town, and the scene OF his exploit the rnIne
hocken creek, where he was fishing for cells
1t says that there is a variety OF eel IN he
found in that stream called the tandem eel