Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-10
GENERAL NOTES.

The dome of the Washington caption Is
being painted, and It will take fifteen tons
OF white lead.
A Milwaukee woman has kept Kettle OF
boiling water on the stove for the past TWEEN
ty-two years in order to scsld burglars.
The Revue de Medicine records the case OF
lady whose hair turned from black to gray
between the hours of 2 and a. m. during
very severe attack Of neuralgia.
Eva Wehrl, Of Cincinnati. had pet Spite
dog, and, on deciding to commit suicide,
she frat hanged the brute. The two dead
bodies were found suspended side bY side.
In the high school Of Dedham, Mass, the
experiment is being made Of using daily
NEWSPAPERS instead of text books in the
reading class. The principal thinks that the
plan is successful.
A few weeks ago, during heavy storm,
the Rio Grande river suddenly changed Its
course by cutting through bend near
Camargo, and thus placed several acres OF
Inhabited territory within the legal limits OF
the Uuited States.
Agrarian crime Is rife IN the Baltic Prov
inces of Russia. Armed bands of peasants
threaten their landlords from the woods.
One landlord has been shot dead, and an
other has received threatening letter from
the agrariau Executive Committee"
The difference Of character between the
Prince Of Wales two sons, says the London
World, was very remarkably evidenced at a
dinner given in their honor in Queensland
by the Governor, Sir Arthur Kennedy.
Prince Albert Victor was silent and thought
full, Prince George all vivacity. The walters
were all Cinnamon, and whenever the Gov
ernor was not looking Prince George gave
hard tugs at their pigtsils. The Cinnamon,
with true Oriental politeness, maintained
an imperturbsble gravity.
The ravages Of the phylloxera among the
French vines have had q very beneficial
effect upon the Greek raisin growers, for
during the course of September upward Of
20, 900 600 pounds of raisins and curraDts
were exported to France. About 30, OOO,O 900
pounds were shipped at Patras from the
provinces OF Corinth, Patras, Missolonghi,
TrYphillls, Pylos, etc, 100000 pounds
Hglna, from the provinces OF n yialee,
Corinth, and the Donde, and about 70, OOO,-
600 pounds from smaller ports.
The total quantity Of land in Great Britain
returned in 1892, as under all kinds of crops,
bare fallow and grass, amounts to 81, $4,000
acres, as compared with 80, 2ll, 600 acres In
1881, or an increase Of 1O0,O 600 acres. A great
part OF this increase is ascribed ~ the col
iectors to the reclamation OF the moor or
mountain land. The whole of this increase
is In England and Wales. Scotland shows
a smaller cultivated area than last year,
there being several instances of decrease
caused by the conversion of sheep runs into
deer forests In the counties Of Caithness,
Ross and Sutherland.
Over seventeen years ago two farmers in
Bayham township, Canada, quarreled about
boundary line, and In fight that ensued
one Of them had his jawbone broken. Dur
ing the long years the fence has occasioned
a dozen encounters, has been several times
moved and removed at night, provoked
three lawsuits and almost provoked assas-
sination. One day last week a third party
brought about q reconciliation. A surveyor
was engaged to locate the line, and he dis
covered that one man had an inch or the
other mans ground. The fence has been
moved over, and the seventeen years war
brought to a termination.
The London Figaro remarks: president
Arthur looks ridiculous enough In the
fashion plate dresses and attitudes IN which
New York tailors publish him, but, accord
ing to what l am told, his real appearance
Is still more absurd since he took to dressing
himself in style more suited to the eHem1-
nate assthete than the President of a nation
of sturdy republicans. Silk socks, most
deliberately clicked; quilted white jackets,
deliberately embroidered Watstcoat, patent
leather pumps with rosettes, are but sam
pies OF the sartOrial affectadOns which he
now affects. do not hear that he has ap-
peared at the White House in velvet knick-
erbockers yet, but he is fast coming to
these"
Money was urgently needed by churc h
at Blandford, Mass, and q committee, with
the pastor at its head, devised novel
scheme. A challenge was sent to a number
of young men at Westfeld to come out and
hunt squirrels all day, and at night eat
supper In the church, the party which had
killed the least game to pay 81 each for all
the meals served. To the surprise of the
church members who Joined In the hunt,
the marksmen from Westfsld beat them;
but the Springfield Republican is authority
for the charge that when 1t came to count
a number of squirrels that had been shot
several days before were fraudulently intro
duced, so that the church came out finan-
clally victors.
One of the foreign journals presents a
singular statement in regard to diminished
altitui es-the Andes, it appears, showing
sensible decline. According to this state
ment, Quito was found by La Condamine'
in 1745, to be 9 500 feet above the sea; Hum
boldt, in 1903, could only make $40 feet Of
it, or &c less; Boussingault, in 1881, was sur
prised to find the measurement show only
| 1867 feet; orion, in 1867, found it reduced
to $3.50 feet, and Reuss and Stubel ascer-
tanned as late as 1870 that 1t had actually
shrunk to 1856 feet. Quito, 1t seems, had
sunk 246 feet In 1875 years, and Pichincha 2l8
| feet in the same period. The remarkable
fact appears, from definite determinations,
that its crater has sunk not less than 425
feet during the last 20 years, and Antisana
1865 feet in GA years.
Professor Tyndall gives some interesting
views in regard to what he terms the "proxl
mate future" Of Niagara. At the rate of
excavation assigned to it by Sir Charles
| Lyell, namely, foot year, Prof TYndall
says that five thousand years or so will car
| ry the Horse Shoe Fall higher than Goat
| Island, and, as the gorge recedes, 1t will
| drain, as 1t has hitherto done, the banks
| right and left of it, thus leaving nearly
| level terrace between Goat Island and the
| edge Of the gorge; higher up it will totally
| drain the American branch of the river; the
channel will become cultivable land; the
American falls will then be transformed in
| to dry precipice, forming a continuation
| OF the cliffy boundary Of the river Niagara,
| and, lastly, at the place at present occupied
| by the fall, there will be whirlpool.
Mr.. Henry Jones, an old and respectable
citizen of Goshen, Ohio, few days since,
on entering the sitting room discovered that
a fine canary bird had disappeared from the
cage hung on the wall. Approaching the
cage he saw huge house snake coiled in
the bottom Of the cage, and, watching his
| movements as he neared the cage, the snake
| began making frantic efforts to escape from
| his prison, but was unable to accomplish
| his purpose. The snake was killed and
| opened, and the mystery explained itself,
| for about foot from the snakes mouth the
| canary was found dead, of course, but en-
| ttrely intact. The snake had by some means
reached the cage, and being hungry and
| empty, passed into the cage between the
wires. After swallowing his prey his body
became so distended as to prevent him pass
| ing out IN the same manner as the entrance
was gained. The snake measured over four
feet in length.
The great St. Bernard establishment costs
between Sc, 900 and $1,000 year to main
tain. 1t accommodates from $1,000 to co.
coo visitors every year, to whom, in accord
anee with old tradition, no charge is made,
but in the hall stands a strong box, into
which any one may put what seems to him
| a proper acknowledgment. It is painful
| reflection on human nature that the sum
| found annually in the strong box barely