The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

At recent performance in the vatican
of one Of Father Perosrs. oratorios, which
have been attracting great attention in
/ Italy. Queen Margharita attended incog-
/ uiJo-a circumstance considered note
! worthy, in view IF the long-strained rela-
| tions between the court and the vatican.
/ Permission was sought Of the vicar gen
! eral 20 have a passage opened Tor the
! Queen from the Military Casino, which
Immediately adjoins the chapel where the
music was performed but received the
answer that he must apply to the cardi-
nal secretary, which he was unwilling to
do. The Queen therefore went as she did.
Though nowadays Italian counts often
become organ-grinders, few people know,
perhaps, that the original organ-grinder
became an Italian count says an ex-
change. He did. anyhow He was a name
less MAJ tive Of Tende and the first genius
to make a European tour with q ba;s a.
organ, a musical instrument which, in the
early stages of its evolution, was merely
a sort Of orchestra for the magic-lantern
it invariably accompanied. (Note: They
were magic lanterns then. The days Of
the ''stereopticon' as yet We're not) Well,
this Sandman eventually got together
enough money to buy from his king the
title of count of that district in which he
was born. He waited until war time and
didn't have to pay over a thousand gum
cas-. Thus enough was left TO buy a suita-
bic estate and a castle, over the gate of
watch was hung the Old lantern. His will
ordered that any of his descendants who
should destroy lantern or organ should
| thereby be disinherited and the patrimony
revert to the next heir, or, failing that, to
| the local hospital Consequently, up to
few years ago these precious relics were
stiA to be seen in the old Sandman castle
of Tende.
Proposed radical reforms of divorce
procedure in Missouri will go before the
legislature with the decided advantage of
! having the unanimous approval of the
judges of the stale, says an exchange. The
purpose is TO decrease divorces by placing
obstacles in the way OF their procurement,
and by affording TO seekers after divorce
ample time in which to consider the pro-
posed action. In this latter line is an
amendment adding a year to the time now
| required for divorce proceedings and in
vesting the judge before whom the divorce
case is tried with the power to revoke
| the first order in the action al the end
of one year. The procedure under the
| proposed amendment would be that if, at
| the trial Of a case, the judge was satisfied
/ llldl SiIllCA PAL ~ WdS 6IllallStI 10 d divorce
| a provisional decree should be granted AT
the end of a year the parties would again
| be summoned into court, and if the judge
I felt satisfied that his decision of a year
! previous was correct and chat nothing had
| occurred TO change the conditions of things
| he could render a permanent decree. Other
! suggested amendments would bar the Of
! Tending party from marrying again within
! three years, and would empower the court
in
defend, as is the practice in criminal cases,
when the prisoner is unable to employ
! counsel.
! "A recent dispatch from Constantinople
| announced that not only had reports of a
great eruption of Mount Olympus been re-
! ceived in the Turkish capital, but that
! they were corroborated by the appearances
on the horizon of a red glow such as vol
! canoes when in a state of activity often
| throw upon the clouds above them. Now
! says the New York Times, it is a good 200
| miles from Constantinople to the Mount
| Olympus, which, from an accompanying
| reference TO the Thracian frontier, seemed
TO be meant, and that is a decidedly long
distance for even so big a candle as a
volcano to throw his beams. The name
| olympus, or an approxima ton to it. is ap-
| piled to many ambitious hills in that part
| of the world, however, Greece itself haV-
| ing at least two of note, and Asia Minor
| something like half a dozen. If the light
! from an eruption really has been seen by
| the COMMUNICATIONS, therefore, the
| chances are that it came from one Of the
! less famous but much nearer peaks. Stiu
! it may be that it is the Olympus of the
| gods that has suddenly become a scene
of burning activity. Recent events have
| been calculated 20 awaken the old fellows
! If anything would. Their sometime wor-
! shippers are so far from what they We're
| in the old days, and in the late war with
| Turkey illustrated degeneracy in a man.
ner so startling that perhaps the Jovian
| company found it impossible to sleep near
them and are burning their abodes prepar-
atory to moving elsewhere. By the way
we do not remember ever to have heard
or read that Mount Olympus has any ia
! clltleS for Vo.canoing or any record Of
! achievements in that line. Some geoIogi-
cal sharp ought to be able to supply on
that interesting point information which
| the encyclopaedia have conspired to with
| hold from the public
The Gulf of Maine is a geographical d.
vision not marked on average maps
for it is chiefly referred to in scientific
treatises on the general subject of the tides
says Golfers Weekly. II is formed by the
! great curve of the American coast from
| Cape Race, the eastern extremity of New
| foundland westward and southwark to
| Cape Cod and Nantucket. Into this curve
| during normal conditions of sea and air
| a current sets perpetually from the far
] north, known as the Labrador current. 1t
makes its way southwark inside of the
| Gulf Stream, and cools the water, even in
summer, as far as Nantucket sound In
! the winter months, when northeriy winds
| prevail, a terrific sea is hurled against
| those rock-bound shores, and where rocks
are wanting the sands are torn up and
| shifted, forming islands and new bars
! here and there, involving the shifting of
myriads of tons in a single day that NAV
mean destruction TO the unwary or even
! to the most wary of navigators New
! foundland and Nova Scotia reach well cut
into the track of these gales, and theo-
| reticaily it would seem that their bold
| headlands might form something of a lee
along the shores of Maine and down. per-
| haps. almost as far as Nahant But in