The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

University of Leipzig, Germany, Presi-
dent Harper's choice to deliver the ora
ton at the summer convocation of the
University of Chicago, which will be
held on the campus Aug. 20, is a ma
tive of Philadelphia. While at Prince
ton he assisted Prof. Charles Hodge
for three years in the preparation of
his Systematic Theology" In 1873 he
became connected with the University
of Leipzig. He is probably the only
American professor in a German uni
yersity. -
The reported discovery of beds of
nitrate of soda in Nevada, says the
Engineering and Mining Journal, may
prove of considerable Importance. They
are near Lovelock, in Humboldt county.
and a company has already been form
ed to prospect and develop them. Chill
at present furnishes the worlds sup
ply and the use of the mineral for ag-
ricultural purposes Is increasing. A
large deposit which could be worked
and put on the market at a reasonable
cost ought to be a valuable property
The extent of the new beds is as yet
very imperfectly known.
Philadelphia reports the astonishing
fact that cargo of $4,000 bushels OF
wheat shipped to Londan has been re-
turned, says the New York Journal of
Commerce. This is no indication,
however, that England is independent
of our wheat. This wheat was a very
hard variety, and when 1t reached Lon
don the market was well supplied with
hard wheat, while there was a scarcity
of storage, and terminal charges are
high. AT the same time ocean freights
are very low. The wheat was brought
back because it was cheaper to pay
freight on 1t than to store 1t. In due
time 1t will probably cross the ocean
again.
Press, censorship in South America
leaves nothing to the imagination-or
everything, says Golfers Weekly. 1t
is impossible to learn much of the sit
uation beyond the fact that Colombia
has stirred up a revolution in Ven
ezuela, Venezuela has returned the
compliment in Colombia, and warlike
preparations are going on vigorously
at the borders. Our government has
determined in any event to protect the
freedom of traffic on the Isthmus of
Panama, but many persons think 1t
will be necessary to go farther to pre-
vent these firebrands from starting a
connagration that could not be put
out by one or two gunboats. The gov
ian of turbulent wards who have no
reciprocal responsibility and are cheer
fully reckless Of consequences. No
one knows what these waspish little
autocrats viii do when they take UP
their rifles and go on the warpath.
while listening to an open air con-
cert the other day." said a young man,
according to the Philadelphia Record,
liz ~ he Toe
which were so persistent that l could
hardly drive them away. l wondered
how the musicians, with both hands
busy playing, stood them, and l drew
near the shell in which they sat to see.
To my surprise / found that there was
not a fly in the shell, and then, to my
greater surprise, / discovered why this
was. The sound waves of the music,
rolling with tremendous volume from
the shell, kept out the flies The in
sects could not fly against the waves,
though they tried hard. Hundreds of
them were struggling frantically to
reach the she'll, but they might as well
have tried to fly against a tornado as
against those sound waves. Thus pro-
tected, inclosed by a magic curtain
made of their own music, the must
clans played Wagner, unannoyed by
the sticky and Fostering flies.
One of the romances of money
making, says the Philadelphia Tele-
graph, is the story of man who found
a newspaper inside a shark when fish
ing in Australia in 1870, and who learn
ed the news of the Franco German
war in this way early enough to make
fortune out of it. The story may be
true or not: everybody in Australia
knows 1t. Another after the same
kind is that of the Milford Haven
trawler, which, while fishing off Carl
ingford Tough a year or two ago,
caught up in the net a packet of pa
pers, tied together with red tape and
carefully sealed. The skipper of the
boat handed the documents to a law
yer, and it was found that they pro-
vided a missing link which stood be-
tween a woman and her fortune. They
proved the right of a Miss Macdonald
to certain estates in Ireland, which
she had claimed ten years before, but
which she had failed to win because
the will could not be produced. 1t
was this will which was brought up
from the sea.
-Curiously interesting. says the
London Lady's Pictorial, are the
Queen Elizabeth chairs. In the days
when Sir Robert Jermyn owned the
large red-brick moated mansion at
Rushbrooke, Suffolk, Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth and the French am
bassadors were several times enter
tanned by him, with which charges
and courtesies they stood marvelously
Contented." The Elizabeth Hall still
displays as much dignity as when roy
atty Toasted beneath its spacious roof,
and mobiles and ladies in all the SPLEEN
dor of the sixteenth century. waited
upon their sovereign within it's mas
sive walls. A great deal of interest
attaches to the two old chairs, which
formed part of the suite used by Queen
Elizabeth when she visited Rush
brooke Hall, and which are still re-
tanned by the present owner, Wynd-
ham Rushbrooke, Esq, as mementoes
of Her Majesty's visits. The high
backed arm chair is of carved beech
the back and seat are upholstered with
the original Genoa velvet with chenille
borders. The arms and legs are carved
and pierced; Gabrielle connected with
carved scrolled rail in front. The back
rails are turned. The chair at it's side
Is also a highback armchair, with
scrolled legs and arms. The front bar
between the legs is carved with the
royal crown and scrolls; the top rail
and plats at the back are carved with
cupids and royal crown; the seat and