The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

behalt or the British Museum for the
purpose Of inspecting the mounds at
Konyunjik. the traditional site OF part
OF the city of Nineveh, and reporting
on their condition. This was the scene
OF the excavations and discoveries of
Sir Austen Layard (1S45-1S47, lS49-1S51),
of Mr.. Hormunzd Rassam (1S54) and
Mr.. George Smith (1S73-1s76).
The following letter, written by a
woman missionary in China, recently
appeared in the Faversham (England)
News: Soon after our return a young
widow from the capital of the province
came to our Bible woman. This wo-
man had been a vegetarian for many
years, and had been living in a temple.
That day she took her rice with Mrs.
Chang. but not before she had the Cos
pei from the old woman. l am glad
to tell you that she very soon gave
up vegetarianism, and / have since
seen her eating fish and pork with as
much relish as the others. Oh. that
there were more like this dark soul
hungering for the TRUTH
Modern Society" is authority for
the statement that upon the marriage
of Levi p. Mortons daughter to the
Couna Bosom de Talleyrand-P erigold
the bridegroom's mother was deslrous.
of settling up her SON the sum OF $780,
600, but owing to the hopelessly invalid
condition of his father, the Duke de
Sagan, she was unable to do so until
she had proved to the satisfaction OF
the French courts that she had brought
a dowry to the Duke and was worth an
independent fortune of her own. After
considerable trouble the Duchess final-
ly obtained the desired permission.
Then she went again to the courts ana
got authority to transfer to her son
and his American wife a life tenancy
of the fine old mansion OF the Talley-
rands in the Rue Saint Dominique,
Paris. 1t was at one time thought that
Miss Morton would marry a certain
serene hignness Of German extraction
who was much smitten by her charms
and had a fortune of $10,000,000 in his
own right, but nothing ever came or II.
Consul Winter writes from Anna
berg: Germany imported in 1900 s2,76O,-
800 worth of paintings and drawings
and exported $1,S00,000 worth. the
chief countries with which Germany
carries on commerce in paintings are
Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy,
Holland, Austria Hungary, Russia,
Switzerland and the United States. In
1900 $685. 900 worth of marble statuary
was imported, 65 per cent, coming from
Italy, roughly outlined, to be polished
in Germany. Many German sculptors
have their residence in Rome, so
that a great part of imported stautary
is really of German production. Aus
tria furnishes Germany with more
paintings that any other country.
Nearly so per cent. comes from that
country, the great majority consisting
of paintings for church purposes.
Germany also imports a number of
paintings each year from France. The
export of German paintings in 1900
shows an increase over previous years,
which is to be attributed to the Paris
Exposition. There is a tendency on the
part of the German people generally
to purchase more paintings each year.
Accidents will happen in the best
regulated families and blunders will
creep into even the most carefully ed
tied paper, but the English seem to ex-
eel in making amusing newspaper mis-
takes. An Englishman is always fun
niest when he doesn't try to be, says
an exchange. A Newcastle paper, in
giving an account of an inquest re-
Gently, declared that Richard Wilkin-
son, one of the deceased, repeated the
evidence given by him at the inquest"
and a woman'S paper of London is au-
thirty for the statement that "On her
deathbed, and even after death, the
Empress Frederick showed her prefer
ence for everything English" In speak
ing of the naval manoeuvers a Lon
don paper declared that THE Deven-
port Institutional f1otilla left yester-
day to carry out their programme al
ready carried out" and another paper
records the startling fact that THE
Long Sutton School Board has arrang-
ed to grant the scholars attending the
- l.1IsI ~
month, so that the children can work
in the potato fields" Another paper
states that THE late Mr.. William
Carr, who was the highly esteemed
clerk of Waltham Abbey for eigty-tive
years. passed to his rest at the ripe
age of TO-
The Statehood Convention" which
was recently in session in Phoenix,
Ariz., appointed a delegation to go
to Washington and urge upon Congress
the admission of the territory as
state of the Union. says the Baltimore
Sun. In a series Of resolutions adopt
ed by the convention it is declared
that for the past ten years the pop
ulation and the wealth of Arizona have
been greater than the average wealth
and population of all the states OF
the Union at the time of their admis-
SlOn. Inc dloO OCNAdlS thub
in climate, soil and mineral resources
Arizona is without a peer and that
mo other equal area west of the Miss
issippi river has more natural re-
sources; her soil produces the oranges
and lines of italy. the dates of Egypt,
the grapes of France, the cereals of the
North and the cattle and sheep of the
Central states; her mineral wealth is
unmeasured, her mines of copper alone
are producing bullion of the par value
of $35, 000,0 900 annually" The territory
contains over $4,000 square miles. 1t
Is a dozen times larger than Mary
land and is as large as New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
and Maryland combined. The climate
is varied, but excessively dry. The
Colorado river flows 400 miles in Ari-
IONA through the Grand Canon, and
is considered in many respects the
most remarkable river in the world.
The hard-headed parent is again
brought to the front as the football
season reaches it's height-the father or
mother who is not ready to make prop
er sacrifices for the honor of some
institution of learning, says the New
York Evening Post. Two young men
on a. train approaching New York, the
other day, were discussing the outlook
for the game in the secondary school
which they attended. 80 is not
playing this fall" rmarked one; why
not?" His father won't let him." re-
piled the other. But why?" "Well,
suppose the old man is afraid