Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-28

mines. in Tennessee, two years ago, and
has made several successful trades of
large scope.
Acute Americanitis is the name given
by a writer in the Medical Times and Ga
zette for disease asserted TO be caused in
Englishmen by visits to America. Ac-
cording to this harmless rOmancer the
symptoms developed by one of the suf-
ferers are that he is thinner, taller, lank-
jawed and sallow, with a loss of weight
of thirty pounds."> These difhcultles are
supposed TO show themselves after a six
weeks residence here, but subside rapidly
upon the unfortunate's return to England.
A new branch of industry has sprung
up in Sweden lately-the fabrication Of
paper from moss, not from the living
plant, but from the bleached and blanched
remains of MOSES that lived centuries
ago, and of which enormous masses have
accumulated in most parts Of Sweden. A
mandatory of paper from this material
has begun operations near bookkeeping,
and is turning out paper in all degrees of
excellence. from tissue to sheets three
quarters of an inch in thickness. These
latter are harder than wood.
The handsome capitol of Connecticut
has inches for the marble statues of
twenty-five of the States best men. The
canopies and the pedestals are already in
position, and the question is being dis
cussed, who are to be honOred? There are
also thirtv-four medallion blocks of mar
BILE, which are to receive likenesses of dis
tinguished Connecticut men, and seven
teen tablets set in the walls for historical
designs. The statues of Jonathan Trum-
bull and Roger Sherman have been put in
place, and the prOtiles of Noah Webster
and Horace Bushnell adOrn two of the
medalliOns, while ON one Of the tablets is
pictured the famous old charter oak
Nothing further has been decided on.
The State Fencibles, Philadelphia
military company of fashionable standing,
consented to become a part of theatrical
show. To the number of siXty-four they
appeared on the stage of the Chestnut
Street Opera House in scene of ''The
Lady of Lyons gave an exhibition drill,
and presented ieweled silver crown to
Mary Anderson, the Pauline of the play.
The spokesman, real Major, told the
actress that she was an illuminatOr of
the higher realm of the drama, that she
was fairer yet than the lovely characters
which she persOnated, and that she was
the sweetest flower and brightest promise
of the American stage. Miss Anderson
talked back in language quite as beauti-
lul. anu dII6T Tue CNIldlu lSll SnoOh nduuo
with each of the warriors.
During the past year the German Gov
eminent tried the experiment of establish
ing summer post and telegraph offices on
mountain peaks and other remote and
solitary places to which many tourists
pay short visits in the vacation season.
The result has been very satisfactory, and
will lead, it is said, to repetition of the
I oil lAff nfsl
are said to have been thus forwarded,
besides 1904 kilograms. More than $4,000
letters were dispatched from the Bastol,
a lofty preciplce in the Saxon Switzer-
land. From the Wartburg, in Thuringia,
10000 letters were sent, and an equal
number from the SchneekOppe, in the
Giant Mountains, and from the Broken,
in the Hartz, 10000. From the Broken
and the Schneekoppe were sent l,576 and
| 1879 kilograms, respectively.
In illustration of the burdens with
which entailed estates sometimes fall to
their life owners, the following facts
touching the Scotch properties of the Earl
of Haddington are cited by Land. When
Lord HaddingtOn succeeded, in 1870, the
estates were burdened, it says, to the eX-
tent of 9102, 1877, chiefly by "heritable
bonds" granted by Earl Thomas and Earl
Charles. Lord Haddington is now petit
tioning the Edinburgh Court of Sessions
for permission to pay off f2,427 Of this
sum, and to charge the remainder, Esq.,
70S, upon the fee of the entailed estates in
Haddingtonshire and Berwickshire. Lord
Binning, the Earps eldest son, assents to
this arrangement. sit is the possibility
of burdening estates in this manner" con-
tinues Land, (which has brought the law
of entail into disrepute. The mere per
cent. interest upon such debts as these in
itself absOrbs handsome income"