Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-01
GENERAL NOTES.

The British guard mas grown Since 1901
His average height then was feet 10
inches. 1t is now feet 101z inches.
1t is claimed in Boston that every build
ing in the city available for manufacturing
purposes is now occupied. and that suitable
sites for other manufactures are In demand.
The State of Rhode Island has been so
reckless as to cede Coasters Harbor Island
to the United States. 1t was heroic sacri-
fce-Rhody's mite from her slender store Of
land.
The Chamber of Commerce of San Fran
cisco, Cal, has appointed committee of
eleven to receive and entertain the Tariff
Commissioners should they accept It's urgent
Invitation to visit the Pacific coast.
Eva Briggs, Of Lawrence, Mass, who was
claimed to have been relieved OF hip dis
ease recently by faith cure. at Old Orchard,
Me-, was taken to the Danvers Insane Asy-
lum on Monday in crazed condition, owing,
tits said, to religious excitement.
A new company IN Astoria, L. l., makes
gas from a process Of combining nsphths
and super-heated steam which is raised to
temperature of seven hundred degrees.
Twenty-Five candle power is the light OBJ
tanned.
The United States Government did very
large real estate business last year, but not
very profitable one, having disposed Of more
than fifteen and half million acres and
received less than eight and half million
dollars therefor.
An officer of the Sultan's body guard cut
out the tongue of boatman the other day
because he charged him with keeping back
part of his pay and said he would get 1t from
him in the day Of Judgment. The officer
boosted Of his cruelty, expecting his rank
to save him, but the Sultan ordered him to
be punished Just like any other criminal"
In England military drill is Systematically
taught to the boys attending 1,172 day
schools; cookery is taught in 300 schools; In
l ,1S7 savings banks have been established;
and SCHOOL libraries in 1882. The expendi-
lures of the board schools are steadily de-
creasing; the average costper child through
out England and Wales has diminished
daring the last six or seven years by more
than 81 25.
Etiquette in Germany forbids the carrying
Of parcels, no matter how small, by gen
tleman. Under immense pressure Of neces-
sity lady may take home in her own hands
a small purchase, or carry book or roll OF
music to the house of friend. When
dressmsker comes to try on a little walking
Jacket small boy must needs walk behind,
bearing the garment on his arm An officer
cannot, under any circumstances, carry any
thing when in uniform.
There is kind of dwarf kangaroo in the
Staked Plains of northwestern Texas. It's
! body is about eight inches long; its forelegs
are not more than an inch and half to two
inches in length, while its hind legs are all
of six inches It has q tail about eight
inches long, completely bare except tuft
of long hairs at the end, and ridge OF
short hairs on its upper part. 1t is also a
msrsupial, the pouch being well developed.
1t is of soft blue color. Its only mode OF
loeomotion is by jumping, precisely like
the kangaroo. 1t can jump eight or ten
feet.
Saws the st. Louis Republicans "They
caught an improved bandit in Italy the
other day who was in many ways quite an
exact counterpart Of Jay Hubbell. de was
in the habit of posting himself on public
highway and inviting all passers by to make
voluntary contributions to a ruined church
in the neighborbood which he had taken
under his protection. He asked nothing
but free will offerings, but accidents were
apt 10 happen 10 those who refused his re-
quest, as they do to those who turn deaf
ear to Hubbell, and few people had the
courage to deny him
An important change has been decided
upon in the Russian army. With the ex-
ception OF the cuirassiers, life guards, and
Cossacks, the whole force of regular cavalry
is to be transformed into dragons, carrying
small bayonet rifles for the performance OF
infantry service. The existing regiments or
hussars, lancers, mounted grenadiers, and
others will retain their present titles, but as
regiments OF dragons. The main reason
for this change is the wish to lessen the
enormous expense which is entalled In
large army like that Of Russia by too great
a variety Of uniform and equipment.
Amsterdam, once the chief commercial
city In the world, will have an international
fair next spring. 1t was at first proposed to
have it an exhibition of Dutch continental
and colonial wares merely, but the scheme
was broadened. Circulars inviting contri-
buttons have been sent out IN every Ian
guage from English to Chinese, and many
favorable replies have been received. Inc
exhibition will have five principal sections.
The first will display colonial products; the
second, goods exported from Holland; the
third, fine art products and the products OF
and appliances of industrial art; the fourth,
special wares, especially those OF foreign
countries; and the fifth, scientific apparatus
and inventions.
There are increasing signs Of the complete
collapse of the strike Of the iron and steel
workers in Plttsburg and vicinity, and it is
anticipated that within few days the
strike will cease to exist as an organized
movement. One by one the mills have re-
sumed work with non-union employees, and
other large establishments are preparing to
follow suit. 1t seems to be settled that the
employers can get along without the union
men, though their decided preference Is
that their old hands shall return, and 1t is
expected that the element OF dissatisfaction
existing in the ranks of the Amalgamated
Association will shortly develop into open
revolt, and return Of the dissatisfied mem
bers to their former employment.
Baron Rothschild. OF Vienna, evidently
does not care to spend money merely for the
sake of spending, and he gave the rapacious
bonifaces of Bayreuth good lesson when
| he went there to attend the performance Of
| "Parsifal." The hotel keepers had laid
themselves out to bleed every visitor merci
lessly, in a Niagara Falls hackman sort Of
way, and they especially expected to tatten
| on the plethoric purse Of ROthschild. But,
| lol he came in his own private railway car,
attended by servants and cook. The car
was shunted on to siding, provisions sin
the rough" were brought by express and
prepared aud cooked and, eaten in the car.
And there the millionaire baron Gined and
| lodged during his stay at Bayreuth, and
| smiled with plying disdsin upon the batlied
pirates of the inns.
The London Echo speaks Of a modern
aspect OF Christianity as follows: 'The
growth of tolerance and Christian goodwill
| between the Catholics and Protestants, at
| least in those districts where Old Catholic
/ ism prevails, is a religious phenomenon
| which deserves to be ehronicled and held up
| as an example for other parts OF the world.
| We have before us the twenty-ninth annual
| report of the Protestant Kirehliche Hilfs-
verin of the Canton of Aargau for the year
| 1881, and one of the most remarkable
/ features in it is the list of kindly and broth
| erlv actions which the Protestant minority
/ has received in many communes from the
| Catholic majority. At Rheinfelden the
| Protestant congregation DOES not as yet pos
sess a church OF its OVID, although tits col
| lecting funds to build one. Hence it meets
| at present in a large room; but, at the recent
| installation of a new Protestant pfarrer,
| when this room was found to be too small
| to accommodate the number OF visitors who
| were expected st the ceremony, the Catholic
| congregation offered their Evangelical
| fellow citizens the free use Of the parish
| church, which was gladly accepted, and
many Catholics attended the service. Such
a fact shows growth OF tolerance on both
| Sides"
The Philadelphia papers, having exhaust
Oh The exnosure of the mere ordinary me-