The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The January sales OF raw iron at Pitts
I burg reached the enormous total OF 263.73l
] tons. exceeding by Nl.UU tons the sales
I OF January, 1s9f- This is said TO beat all
! previous records
I The japanese. with an extra war credit
f just voted. Of $l00000O0O. are organizing
I another military force. destined. it Is sup
posed, 20 attack the big island Of Formosa
Y IN the China Sea FOTnOsa is practically
q tropical island, containing three times
the area Of Connecticut, OF about double
thdt or Mas husetts. and bisected, longi-
tudlnally, by mountain range having
SUBMITS 1900 and 1900 feet high. some
/ peaks being covered with perpetual snow.
I Il Is a rich and fertile island, but IS largely
y given over, on the east side Of the noun
I tains. 10 wild people and wild beasts, The
worst gangs OF pirates ever known in the
/ China seas come from FOrmosa-
/ Both houses OF the Missouri legislature
I nave passed a resolution accepting prop
! osition from Sedalia for the removal Of
the state capital 10 that city upon the
condition that Sedalia erect state build
I lngs 10 exceed IN quality and beauty those
now owned by the state al jefferson City.
I Inc resolution does not need the guber-
I material approval Sedalia, however, will
not have an easy victory. as jefferson City
VIII light the transfer in the courts. Its
advocates point out that congress donated
four sections Of land 10 the state of Mis-
souri, FOR q capital, and declared the gift,
upon acceptance. TO be irrevOcable. A
city was laid out. ana lots sold TO the
citizens by the state upAn the guarantee
that this should forever be the capital.
/ The citizens believe they have some legal
rights that must be respected. and will
hight 10 the last ditch. They feel they
! have been outraged, and are not choice
I in their language when discussing the
f matter. They are satisfied there is a job
/ in II. bur are unable to discover it at
I present.
Boys and girls. old ard young. who
| enjoy immensely the frivolities Of a Punch
| and Judy show will be glad 10 learn, says
] the London Telegraph. that the exhibition
/ has a serious side as well as a comic one
| is, in fact, direct lineal descendant Of the
! ancient miracle plays which our ancestors
! were fond of some six or seven centuries
| ago. Az least that is the opinion of Rev.
! G.. r. Woodward, who on Saturday de-
! llVered a lecture on Ancient Carols in
/ the Chapter house of st. Pauls TO mem
| bcrs Of the PlainsOng and Medieval
| Music Society. He cOntended that the
! modern Punch and Judy show. with its
| tambourine, drum and bagpipe, represent
! ed the triumph of Nirture over Vice
/ Punch is very like POns or POunce (POn-
( uus) Pllate; judy was intended Tor JudaS
/ the traitor, or for Judith. who sleY Hol-
| fernes and Toby was evidently the dog
/ mentioned in the book Of Tobit. He,
/ therefore. discarded the Italian deriva ton
! of the word and held that the modern
/ form of the old religious show was simply
a corrupted edition of miracle play
| which had Pontius PLATE as its hero.
1t appears from the Harvard QuinQuen-
NAL catalogue that Oliver Wendell Holmes
did not receive the degree of master of
| arts until nine years after the degree of
/ him by his alma mater, and three years
! after he had been hOnOred with the highest
titles by Edinburgh, Cambridge and OK
/ ford. The Boston correspondent of the
Critic says that some time before com
mencement in 1889 DIR. Holmes wrote q
| witty letter to the governing board of
| Harvard. saying that the university had
| often lonized him. and that he
had received from it the de
grees Of A. B., n. d. and Ii. D.,
but ne had never yet received the degree
| of A. NJ. from any college. He would not
| presume to point out this fact. had not
Harvard already given him the higher de
! gree. which might be assumed to include
| the lower; still. he felt that nothing would
/ please him better than to be a master Of
arts of Harvard. The letter was in mod
| est, unassuminE tone, not making re
/ quest, but prOffering a suggestion. He
/ closed it in this characteristic manner:
A. N; yours 70 etc. qi iHt w We aHted
| on. and the genial autOcrat was made an
! honorary master of arts sixty years alter
| his graduation.
To the Thirteen Club" and the salt
Spilers'' comes the "Order of the Opal -
says the New York Advertiser. This is a
new organization designed to challenge
! i'll luck and show how easily 1t may be
oulled, when deliberately faced. The
new club has much of the same rites as
other clubs Of its kind. 1t meets on Fri
day. Its rooms are decorated with pea
cock feathers The members make point
of walking under ladders, eating thirteen
at table. going and coming on Friday and
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| break mirrors with elaboration; but any
body who does break a mirror is held in
great consideration by the other members.
The opal IS the badge OF membership,
and is, of course, put forth on all Occa-
sions 1t is urged, however, that all these
efforts TO overthrow superstition fail Of
their purpose inasmuch as i'll luck cannot
be invited. The element of chance is alb
sOlutely necessary to its success. An even
more element to be removed IS the pride
and pleasure most people take in their
| superstition. a superstition TO an actress
i'm the way of advertisement is only less
valuable than the loss of her jewels. To
other people superstitions are of impor-
tance in giving piquancY to biographical
notices and sketches of character now so
popular in current weeklies.
The Parisians vii mot have to wait until
1900 for the privilege of enjoying an eXhi-
bition as between the months of April
and October next n display of a remark
able character will attract many to the
| buildings of the last exhibition and the
| adjoining gardens of the Champ de Mars,
says the Manchester Guardian. After SO
many gatherings of the kind, il might be
thought that the promoters would have
found it difficult to introduce any original
| element into the scheme for the Paris
exhibition Of 1895, but this they have Sc
cured. Its title of Exposition Hippique
ct Ethnograp hique Russo fully explains
! its character. It's leading feature will be
! a display of every type of Russian horses.
| of which there are at least nifty different
races from the diminutive Finland ponies
| to the ma gnificent Steeds of the Turlo-
| msnr The ethn0araDic features of tho
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| exhibition will be at once distinct from
! and combined with the horse show. Thus,
| while there viii be a vast popular bazaar.
in which viii be given a representation
of one Of the great Russian fairs, at which
the products of the various provinces will
he displayed under charge of members of
the different races included in the Rus
sian empire. the horses win be stabbed,
as far as possible. in the manner to which
they are accustomed at home. There will
be complete exhibition of saddlery and
equestrian accoutrements generally, from
| the rudest to the most complicated, and
! nearly every kind of cant and carriage in
| Russia will be seen. CosSack horses will
bivouac in one or other of the open spaces
| and the horses of the SteppeS will be seen
| with their native owners. y strong and
influential committee of management has
been formed, and as the Paris municipal
council and other public bodies are di-
rectly encouraging the undertaking, it
may be assumed that the preliminary ar
| rangenents will be satisfactory. The late
Emperor Alexander had issued a ukase
directing that every facility should be
Afforded to the promoters and the i'm
perial patronage has been continued by his
successor. There will be no difficulty,
] IN, inc rlr no inf fOr,.