The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-21


ameers son while ne is I'm London. Dor
chester house Is an immense limestone |
mansion, which has been empty since the
death of the late Mr.. r. 5. Holford, who /
purchased il from the fourth Marquis OF i
HEREFORD, whose notorious father (tne orig
inal OF Disraelfs Lord Monmouth and /
Thackery's Lord Steyne) died here in /
March. 1872, under circumstances which /
are related in Mr.. Greville's journal.
Female nudity in art comes from pre- /
historic Greece, and not. as is commonly /
believed from Babylonia, says NJ. balo- I
mon Reinach of the French Academy OF /
Inscriptions. Istar (Astarte) as a war
rior goddess is fully clothed and in armor; |
il is only in her humiliation, when she |
goes down into hell, that she disrobes
On the other hand. statuettes of nude fe-
males have been found in the Archipelago,
al Troy, and in Thrace that go back TO
1900 B. c. He infers that nude divinities
penetrated from prehistoric Greece 10
Babylonia, that the type was preserved
in Phoenicia, and thence passed back 10
historic Greece and to Rome.
Americans figure largely among the
staff correspondents of the London Times.
IN addition to Mr.. G. w. Smalley, who Is
to represent the Times in New York, there
is Mr.. Stillman, the distinguished archae-
olOglst and art critic who has for several
years been the resident correspondent of
the "Thunderer' at Rome, and Mr. Will
liam Morton Fullerton Yale man, IS one
of the two assistants Of NJ. de Blowitz at
Paris. the other being Mr.. John Alger, well
known in connection with his history of
the French revolution. The Vienna cor
respondent Of the Times is NJ. LaVino an
Englishman, in spite of his foreign name
NJ. Boucher is in charge of the Balkan bu-
reau of the Times at Sofia, having as as
ststant at Athens the university professor,
kalppOthakes. Mr.. DObson represents the
Times at St. Petersburg, Mr. Clarke at
Madrid and NJ. Chirrol at Berlin. The cor
respondent who writes so frequently in the
| Times over the signature of "A Twenty
Years Residence in Egypt, is Mr.. Mober-
! " Bell, now general manager of the paper.
/ It's foreign editor is Sir Donald Mackenzie,
| while its editor-in-chief is Mr.. Buckle.
1t appears says the London Daily News
| that the Brazilans are not satisfied with
| their present capitol, Rio de Janeiro, which
/ is not central, not very healthy, and per
/ haps not roomy enough. They a re about
| to build themselves a brand -new CAPITAL.
| embodying, as the projectors would say.
/ every modern Improvement. This news
was given says our Paris correspondent,
| yesterday afternoon to the French Acade-
| my Of Sciences by one of its members. NJ
| Faye. This noted astronomer has just re-
| ceiYed a communication anent the new
capital from Senior Cruls. who appends to
/ his name the substantial title of president
! of the Brazilian committee of preliminary
| investigation for the removal of the capt
| tai of Brazil to the center of the states of
! the confederation. Senior Cruls states that
the new federal capital will be built on the
| central plateau of Brazil, in a rectangle of
| about twenty-five miles long and seven
broad-quite a city of magnificent dis
tanceS, equal to anything in the United
! states. What IS more important. the sit
| viii be healthy one and, notwithstand-
ing the nearness of the new capital to the
| equator. the climate will be comparatively
mild by reason of the altitude.
in Long Island Sound. where the lus-
| cious Blue Points and the broad-backed
| Providence rivers come from, the beds
are surveyed by the fish commission and
as carefully laid out and allotted as the
new states Of the west. says the Boston
Transcript. Many thousand acres are un-
der actual cultivation. III old times there
| used TO be a great amount Of lawlessness
over the oyster beds; shotguns played an
important part in the industry and at
one time the Staten Island oystermen
mounted a cannon on the shore to keen
the Jerseymen from taking oysters from
the beds claimed by both factions. Anoth-
er change which has come over the oyster
business since the old times is in the
| style as il We're, of the oysters Then the
demand was all for Providence rivers, the
| larger the better, and to be able to swal-
| low an oyster as large as your hand while
still maintaining slightly bored and very
dlgnlhed air was one of the first requisites
| of a diner-out Either the esophagus OF
late days has degenerated, or oyster-eaters
have become averse to so great an effort
for the large oysters have now given place
to the little Blue Points, and are In de
mand only for the dinners of sword-swal-
lowers and glass-eaters.
The Egyptian goldsmith, says a writer
in the Atlantic Monthly, INDUCES in none
of these alien vagaries. He makes-as his
great-grandfather made before him
bracelets and anklets and necklaces, and
| ravishing cups that will not stand, and
beautiful, clumsy boxes that will not shut
and amulets like those l purchased al AS.
suan. These cannot be compared for a
moment with the exquisite Byzantine am.
ulets that hang in the old silver shops oil
Athens, richly chased. curiously bordered
inlaid with black enamel, and represent
ing with vigorous simplicity the triumph
of St.George over the dragoonor one of the
six-winged angels of st. Sophia's. half
smothered in her excess of plumage Tn,
Byzantine amulet is a work of art The
| Egyptian boasts of no such distinction
but it possesses one advantage over il:
Greek rival 1t is still object of recog
nized utility, not mere curio dangling il
a shop window for the allurement of unbe
| lieving strangers. There is hardly bare
footed little girl on the Nile who does no
wear one of these pious safeguards struns
| around her neck, and often enough sht
has second wrapped up in rags and hid
| den away somewhere amid her scant,
drapery. Even the donkeys provided
they are donkeys of substance, we'll fec
| and well cared for are decorated anC
sometimes by two or three according I,
the wealth or piety of their proprietors
The amulets worn by the donkays are tire
angular or cylindrical in shape, hun;
round with tiny balls, and hollow for TIL
accommodation of strips OF paper on
which are written the sacred texts.