The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Commenting on the fact that trolley
road is about to be built to the foot of old
Cheops, the Cairo (EgypO Sphinx says:
Next there Will be a restaurant on the
top of that giant pile, and a hydraulic lift
to carry one TO the top. The times are in
deed changed, and we with them. Drink
Cheops Bitters3 pyramid beer is the
bestr After visiting Chufu's tomb, take
Parasyne brandyr These
and others viii greet the eyes of visitors
to the pyramid next year. The fates for
fend, and may the Society for the Pres
ervation of Egyptian Antiquities forbid!
Oh, Cairenes, if you wish to disgust the
best class of visitors you are going the
right way to do it,"
1t is quite impossible to present accurate
figures showing the volume of Cretan
trade, as the Turkish custom houses stol-
idly refuse to give the slightest informa-
ton. 1t has been estimated, however. that
during a prosperous year the export OF
olive oil is about 900 tons, of locust beans
about $500 tons, of valonia about 1850 TONS
raisins about 10000 cWt, of wine about
100000 gallons, and of soap about 1859
tons-exclusively for consumption in Tul-
key, the coast of Africa and Greece. OF
total imports valued a t $4,000, about fl4O,-
600 worth were Manchester goods. In this
department however, home manufacturers
have to count upon the competition of both
Austria and Germany, who are nearer the
market and do business on more favorable
terms. Altogether, from the purely pro-
sale standpoint of pounds, shillings and
pence, Crete does not appear to be worth
fighting about.
Bishop Francis Mostyn, who was last
year appointed to the newly created Ro-
man Catholic bishopric of Wales, has re-
Gently become the fortunate possessor of a
inter which is said TO surpass in magnifi-
cence and in exquisite workmanship any
thing of the kind worn in Great Britain for
many centuries past, says the Westmin-
ster Gazette. Of white embroidered silk,
richly ornamented with gold, it is studded
with 500 precious stones. The inter,
which is Gothic in design, bears on its
front a dove, symbolic of the Holy Spirit,
in gold repousse work, encircled by gar
nets and heart formed of a single car
buncle of large size. with jeweled rays.The
whole is surmounted by a cross composed
of thirty-three gems. On the back are the
figures of the Welsh patron saints, St.
David and st. Winfred, beautifully
wrought in the Welsh colors and sur
mounted by rubies emeralds and pearls.
At the apex appears the ma
tionaI emblem, the Welsh harp en-
is an exact copy of the ancient "Ariand-
lws," which tradition declares to have
remained in the possession of the Mostyn
family from early centuries.
If the report of a volcano in Great
Salt Lake is confirmed, the phenomenon
is one of much interest from it's rarity
in the United States, though only what
may be expected in almost any section
west of the Rocky mountains, says the
Philadelphia Record. Geologically speak
ing, most of that country is new, and
| evidences of recent volcanic action, often
of Titanic energy, are present almost
everywhere. The geysers of the Yellow
stone park are usually looked upon as evil
| dences of volcanic forces; there are small
volcanoes in Southern California, which
throw out miniature eruptions of sulphur
| Gus mud and many parts of the country
are covered with lava not yet decomposed
| by the action of the elements. In view
| of all these indications, it is rather sur
| prising than otherwise that one of the
many old volcanoes in that region does
not break out occasionally, as Vesuvius
| did after centuries of repOse, but, though
! such phenomena are reported from time
| to time, all of them, heretofore, have fail
| ed to stand investigation. If the Salt
Lake eruption proves an exception to the
rule, it w3n be almost or quite unique on
that account; but. as nearly week has
passed since the volcano was first re-
ported, and no further particulars nave
| been received since, the strong probability
is that the whole story was sensational
| and untrue.
| On the Upper Lachine road, few
miles from Montreal, is a handsome brick
| house occupied by a family named Decor
| RE, says the New York Times. Another
| occupant of the house, according to the
| servants and many of the people living
| near, was a good practicable ghost. This
creature had never been seen by any
| body, but for months past his or her
voice had been plainly heard, filing the
| hours of darkness on every stormy night
| with lugubrious means which believers in
! the supernatural regarded as awful, and
| even skepucs admitted that they were
| mysterious Finally the notoriety which
| the house attracted became uncomfortable
| to it's owner, and this week, after him
self making for the twentieth time a vair
effort to discover the origin of the trou-
| blesome commotion, he determined to cal
| in expert aid. To the surprise of his
| humber neighbors, Mr.. Decarrrie did not
| resort for assistance to a priest, but tC
| a plumber. The choice was justified by
| the result, for the knight of the solder
ing iron soon found that the ghost, such
as it was, lived in a hole in the cellar wall
| through which passed a furnace pipe
| and the wind. A newspaper stuffed in
| the opening sufiiced to silence the means
! while they were doing their very best
to make the plumbers hair stand on end
and later a few bricks and little NOR
tar drove the perturbed spirit away fol-
good and all The Physical Society might
have made a longer and more interesting
job of the Investigation, but 1t couldn't
have solved the problem more effectively
The curious superstition that there is
an ocean above the clouds is illustrated
by the following strange story, by an
| old English writer: "C2ne Sunday the
people of a certain village were coming
| out of church on a thick, cloudy day
| when they saw the anchor of a shiI
| hooked to one of the tombstones-the
cable, which was tightly stretched
| hanging down from the air The PEG.
pie were astonished; and while they were
| consulting about it, suddenly they saw
| the rope move as though some one labor
ed to pull up the anchor. The anchor
however, still held fast by the stone, and
a great noise was heard in the air, like
the shouting of sailors. Presently a
sailor was seen sliding down the cable
for the purpose of unfixing the anchor
When he had just loosened it the villagers
seized hold of him, and while in THEN