Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-27
GENERAL NOTES.

Sullivan, the priZe-fghter, says that in
training he relies much on the salt bath
He also eats three or four punches of eel
erv dav for the benefit Of his nerves and
respiration.
Twelve years ago Mr.. Joseph Morgan
started a cattle ranch in Ford county,
Kansas, on borrowed capital. He recent
" sold a choice herd of 1000 head for
500, 200 cash.
Proctor Knott is described as a flOTid,
portlv Southern man. with a stubble gray
moustache, a hat pushed knowingly over
his left eve, with cOmical look, mingled
with such shrewdness as tells the poorest
reader Of character that he is born wit
1t is now settled that Sir Garnet Wolseley
will take the title of Baron Wolseley, OF
Cairo, and of w Olseley in the county fStaf-
ford. while Sir Beauchamp Seymour will
take the title of Baron Seymour, of Alces-
ter pronounced Auster), in the county
of Warwick.
There are in San Francisco four palatial
houses, worth together more than $3,OOO,-
600. Their owners, Ex-Governor Stanford,
Charles CrOcker, Mrs. Mark Hopkins and
Mr.. Clinton, represent about $780, 900.
The magnificent structures stand unoccu-
pied about ten months Of each year.
The Adelaide silk factory, which was
formally opened at Allentown Pa, about
a year ago, has proved so great success
that its enlargement has been decided
upon. The mill gives employment to
about 600 hands, the greater part Of whom
are women. 1t is proposed to increase its
capacity.
London is now suffering from a severe
visitation of scarlet fever, and the greatest
embarrassment has resulted from the
want of proper means of is0lating the
fever patients. At last accounts every
bed in the fever hospital available for
scarlet fever was full, and many applica-
lions for admittance had, Of necessity, to
be refused.
A remarkable bet was won recently by
W. r. Travers, of New York. Months
ago he bet Charles WOerishOtfer three
thousand dollars that before the year was
out Denver and Rio Grande, which was
then selling at S41&, would sell at exactly
reversed figures. Thursday week the
stock touched 4S12, and Mr.. Woerishotfer
paid the bet.
A few days ago while Willis Johnson,
colored, of Cumberland, Md, was stand
ing at the foot of the smokestack of the
glass works in that place, a brick fell
from the top of the stack, which is 80 feet
high, and struck him on the head. He was
knocked down, but was soon able to get
up and walk home. The brick was broken
into three pieces.
A unique encounter of gigantic force
was witnessed the other day by party of
fortunate mining prospectors. This was
nothing less than the meeting ON Lake
Tahoe of two huge waves which had been
raised by a cyclone and rolled toward each
other from opposite directions with great
velocity. AS they met, a column of spray
shot up a hundred feet into the air and a
report, like peal of thunder, followed.
The great bridge which is to connect the
cities of New York and Brooklyn will, it
is now announced, be ready for public
uses about the LIST of next August. The
event will be becomingly celebrated by
the two cities in a grand popular demon
stratiOn. The bridge will unite two COM
munities that will have a total population
of not far from 1000, 900 of souls, atfOrding
opportunities, especially for New York, to
expand in the direction of Long Island,
which cannot but be productive of an
important diversion in the currents OF
population.
The Portland OregOnidR remarks that a
lovely and perfect rainbow by moonlight
was seen at Cascade Locks on the even
ing of October p, at half-past six O'Clock.
Viewed from Whisky Flat and looking
westward, the rainbow spanned the river
Immediately above the falls, the arch
springing from either shore, while the
river formed chord to the arc. The
cOlOrs were plainly dlscernlble "A re-
markable feature of this phantOm-like
scene was its apparent proximity to the
point of observation, it appearing not
more than a stones throw distant.
The town of Dunlap, Morris county,
Kansas, settled by cOlOred cOlOnists, has
met with remarkable prosperity. There
are now between 275 and 300 families
gathered there. Every settler is COM
PEELED to own his property, so there is
neither land nor buildings for rent. Lots
of land of various sizes, from 10 to 100
acres, are sold, and the terms of payment
are so arranged that the new settler has
four years in which to pay for land and
improvements. About 175 families have
each from 40 to so acres. A fine academy
is in successful operation, a church is
well filled on Sundays, and public IL
brary is popular evening attraction.
An establishment has been opened in
London called ''The Health Home" by a
DIR. Quentin, who proposes to cure all
diseases by a dietary system. The patient
is handed by a servant in black and gold
a card specially prepared, on which he
will find his soup, if soup is allowed; his
fish, if it is permitted; his joint, if it suits
his condition, and so on to the coffee.
There also he will find inscribed the
mineral water suitable to the state of his
liver, with directions respecting the
dessert, which will consist of digestive
pill or two, a pepsin sandwich, or some
equally attractive novelty.
What is known as the Royal Limited
Express train on the Pennsylvania Rail
road, as it is made up daily, represents
over $4,000 in cost of rolling stock. The
engine is put down at $12 600; the baggage
car at $1,000; smoking car, $4,000; dining
room car, 1000; five Pullman cars, $1S,-
600 each. Ordinary express trains are
rated at $500. as, engine and tender,
$4,000; baggage car, $1,000; postal car,
$4,000: smoking car, $4,000; two ordinary
passenger cars. $4,000 each, and three
palace cars, $4,000 each. When the roll
ing stock and the property conveyed are
included, the average value of freight
train is larger still. A general smash-up
is of more consequence to the railroad
companies, therefore, than the public i'm
agine.
A new system of transmitting force to a
distance is about to be tried in Paris, 1t
consists in maintaining in pipe system
by means of engines at a central station
certain degree of vacuum (57 centimetres
of mercury. A branch pipe enters the
house of each subscriber, and is connected
with a rarefed air motor devised by NJ.
latin. The sewers in the Boulevard Vol
taire and the Avenue Parmentier are util-
lied for the pipes, a distance OF 800 metres.
The canalizatiOn is calculated for devel-
opment of one kilOmetre distance from the
central station, and the losses by friction
in the pipes do not exceed per cent. The
pipes are mainly iron, but those entering
the houses are lead. The latin motor pos
sesses the necessary qualities of great
simplicity and easy replacement of pieces.
1t has vertical Oscillating cylinder. Each
motor is arranged to work at an average
speed. The work for all is thus sensibly
constant, whence results very easy
method of charging subscribers for their
cOnSumDtiOn of power,