Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-14
GENERAL NOTES.

A memorial to Queen Victoria has been
agreed upon by certain Hindoo widows,
praying for relief against caste excommuni-
cation on remarriage.
The Princess Beatrice is now allowed by
lishment at all the palaces. She prefers
this with music and painting to marrying
German Prince.
Saturday Revieo! To ''encore," or even to
applaud extravagantly, is considered tsnta-
mount to an insult with German audience
at an opera Of Wagner, as 1t simply amounts
to the interruption of the action of the
piece, and therefore to the mutilation Of it.
Miss Mary Anderson visited Mount Au-
burn Cemetery on Decoration day and
placed a beautiful wreath OF flowers upon
the grave OF the poet Longfellow, who was
one of her kin est and most valued friends.
She also decorated the grave Of Charlotte
Cushmsn.
On May Is the Forty-seeond Highlanders
escorted the heralds and pursuivants of
Scotland to the Cross of Edinburgh, where
royal proclamation was made authoriEing
the circulation of British coins as current
money 10 Cyprus. The connection seems
someWhat remote to outsiders.
Card playing is prsciced in no country to
so great an extent as in Russia. All ages
and both sexes are passionately fond Of It,
The manufacture Of playing cards is gov
eminent monopoly, and there is only one
factory, from which "a 900 packs are turned
out daily, or over 1000, 600 year.
The Washington Republte suggests that
the custom Of strewing flowers over the
g
day could be improved by introducing the
custom of planting Towering bushes, so that
our silent acres Of the dead might be con-
verted into gardens of bloom and verdure.
New York Graphic: "a foreign observer
in New York once remarked that American
arlstocracy consisted of hotel keepers and
steamboat captains, but since his day the
ranks described have been swelled by ele
waited railroad guards and ticket agents.
Federal officials will, probably, ere long be
added"
BoyeottiDg took queer form in Leaven-
worth, Kansas, of a demand on a barber to
discharge workman because he had signed
the total abstinence pledge. The boycott
tiers were the proprietors and employees of
the hotel in which the shop was, ana they
did not like to see the business of the
bar injured.
The italian idea of Darwin is as follows,
from one OF their papers: "We learn from
our Euglish correspondent that Darwin, the
famous apostle of the apes, is dead. In
Drwin's opinion men are lot the creatures
OF God, made Of body and soul, and called
to immortality in another life, but merely
perfected apes"
"NothiDg," said an impatient husband,
$50 reminds me of Balaam and his ass as
two women stopping in church aud obstruct-
ing the way, to indulge in their everlasting
talk" "But you forget, my dear" retorted
his wife, meekly, "that It was the angel who
stopped in the way, and Balaam and his ass
who complained OF IT,"
A monument Of Indiana gray limestone,
in the form of an antique Grecian altar, has
been placed upon Bsyard Taylor's grave.
1t bears his bas-relief in bronze, and is in
scribed with his name, date OF birth and
death, etc, and half dozen lines from his
poem. "Prince Duakalion," and the text,
"He being dead yet speaketh."
The Liverpool Mercury reports the death
at sulby, May IS, Of Thomas Anderson, at
the age Of 107 years. His wife died last |
year at 9s years OF age, after married life |
extending over 81 years. Up to within a |
fortnight Of his death he was able to walk |
about and converse intelligentlY on the /
events Of his long life.
The elder Dumas said, in explaining the
difference between Victor Hugo and him
self, the former was theatrical: he was |
dramatic; Hugo required the tolling Of a |
bell In contrast with banquet scene, or the |