Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-27
GENERAL NOTES.

Hod Bey, Turk Of former official prom
inence, is greatly venerated in Constantine
pie on account OF his age, which is believed
to be one hundred and twenty years.
The Princess Of Wales and her children
and their suite, and the King and Queen Of
Denmark and their suite, have all been liv-
ing together like one large family party at
Wiesbsden, and have rarely appeared in
public there.
The hardships he endured during his last
weary voyage and retreat have not cooled
the srdor of Mr.. Leigh Smith for arctic ex-
ploration, and he is already thinking of
fitting out new expedition TO follow after
the lost Ezra.
An Alpine guide with pack on his back
leaned against rail that ran along the edge
Of a precipice, and was warning his party Of
tourists Of the necessity Of keeping a sure
footing when the barrier broke, and he was
killed by the fall.
The doctors lately assembled in congress
at Geneva denied the claim OF Edinburgh to
be the healthiest Of the large cities Of Eu-
rope and aW Grded the distinction to Genera,
where the annual death rate Is only II per
l 1000, one less than thai Of the Scotch capt.
tai,
The resting place of Samuel Taylor Cole
ridge at Highgate is amid a scene Of desola-
ton and decay. Within the past year there
have been twelve applications made to the
man In charge by persons who wished to
visit the place, and eleven Of those persons
were Americans.
William Young, aged ninety-three, woR a
wrestling match and ran mile in five min
utes at an Illinois fair. 1t is charged that the
other wrestler was bribed, and the time
keeper for the race is also accused of corrup-
/ ton. But all agree, including Young him
self, that Young is wonderful old man.
A London burglar carried razor 10 his
pocket whenever he went out at night to
commit robbery, not to defend himself
with, but for suicide In case he was caught.
| His pals knew of his habit, but did not be-
| lieve that he would ever use the razor. They
were mistaken. Being captured after break
ing into house, he promptly killed himself
according to promise.
a Picking newspaper tells of the sale of a
Chinese wife by her husband. She had
fallen in love with the purchaser, who
agreed to pay $3.50 for her, but he neglected
| to bring the money when he called to take
| her away, and so the husband refused TO
| give her up. In that emergency the enam-
ored pair drugged him, forged his signature
to the bill Of sale and eloped. They were
arrested while eating their wedding break
fast and put into dungeons, where both
committed suicide.
Under the patronage Of the King of Italy,
an association has been formed at Urbino
to celebrate the fourth hundredth anniver-
sarY of the birth OF Raphael. 1t is proposed
| to erect his statue, in Carrara marble, upon
pedestal bearing bas reliefs illustrative of
his most famous works. For this public
competition is invited, and the models sent
| in Will be exhibited together for twenty
days, beginning with March 2S, 1893, the
anniversary 1t is proposed to celebrate.
Nobody lives In the moon except the one
lone, traditional man. No rivers flow across
the barren plains, no verdure touches the
| desolate crates and the gloomy mountain
heights. Silent craters, barren wastes.
mighty desolations, universal solitude, in
siderable, binding light of day, raYless,
starless, impenetrable darkness by night;
there is no cloud, no drop Of rain, no breath
OF air, no atmosphere; nothing but loneli-
ness and dreariness. Often, by the aid Of
powerful telescopes, the man in the moon
bias been heard TO say that he fClt like a
Greenback convention. Darlington Hao0k-
eye.
The tornado (which visited Winsted,
Conn.,, last week performed some curious
antics. Here and there, out of the direct
path Of the wind, solitary tree has been
torn aud twisted, while its immediate neigh
bors stand unru1fled. At one point seven
huge trees In group were forced together
and their trunks tWined into gigantic coil,
which still stands upright. But the most
surprising feat of the tempest was per
formed upon the person of John Burke, who
was whirled out of his room, where he sat
reading, and deposited in a pig sly four
hundred feet away. 1t is at least certain
that he was found uninjured in the sty, and
the community takes his word for it that he
was carried there on the wings of the wind.
An attraction OF the London Aquarium at
present is company Of Javanese musicians
and dancers. The musical instruments are
great drums, gongs, bells, flutes and viOlins,
all Of queer shapes. They are played with
considerable skill and harmony. The dances
are performed by four Java girls, and they
consist Of rhythmic movements, though the
occasional use OF the voice is introduced.
Their eVolutions are slow and consist in
peculiar shakings and quiet movements
with Bonded knees, the greatest part OF the
time being occupied by motions of the arms
and hands and the twisting of scarfs. The
hands OF the girls are singularlY long and
flexible, and the feet also are long, very
pointed, absolutely fiat, and without visible
instep.
New Zealand is making q push to secure
from Australia the trade in frozen meats
which are shipped to England in refrigera-
tor ships. The New Zealanders having been
taking especial pains to send off none but
the choicest meat, and this having been dis
covered in the European market, the
Australian article is relegsted to second
place and an inferior price. London and
Glasgow are the great markets for this meat.
What becomes of 1t would be interesting to
know. Nobody has ever yet seen it offered
for sale, nor seen a shop which &C
knowledged keeping the frozen flesh. Yet
the trade returns are not to be disputed.
They show that on such and such days car
goes of beef and mutton arrived. Probably
the refrigerator plan is still less popular
with consumers than with dealers.
Mr.. Bergh is on the war path against
melodramas. In recent letter to the In
spector of Buildings in New York he says:
''To the frightful use of fire and fame on
the stage, in close proximity to the most
inhammable materials, may be added the
intellectual and moral detriment to the pub
lie by the production of the blood and
thunder melodramas of the present day, to
the almost total exclusion of the refined and
ennobling plays which characterized the
performances of a former period. At the
present moment nearly every theatre In the
metropolis is representing the most exag-
gerated and demoraliZIng dramas, rivaiing
in their tendency the most hideous dime
novels Of the day. At one, house burglary,
assassination and murder form the princi-
pal staple Of the performance; at another,
the spectacle of dead and dying bodies
which cucumber the stage is succeeded by
a procession Of convicts In prison attire CO.
ing the 'lOckjsw step across the scene. Do
these managers think they are properly edu-
eating public taste by the production OF
such revolving exhibitiOns?"
The population of the earth has long been
a fascinating study for Statisticians Benin
and Wagner, who have just published an
amended edition of former work in Ger
many. They give the total as l, 433, 1887, 500
which is about q, 000,C COO less than their
estimate Of two years ago. They have con-
cluded that China has $4,000, goo less than
they formerly supposed. There has thus
been an actual increase OF about 81, 1000, COO
in the population of the globe-an in
crease, however, which must be spread
over ten years, as many Of the re-
cent ceususes are decennisl. Fer Europe
the present population is rated at 327 =
AS, 400, showing an increase of about 49,
100000 over the previous figures by the
operation Of the censuses. In Asia, maxi
ing allowance for the read iustment of the
population of China, there has been an in