Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-12
GENERAL NOTES.

According to late statistics Russian manu-
featuring industries have doubled IN twenty
years.
Esthetic coachmen and footmen veal
button-hole bouquets of pale yellow jon
quils and scarlet tulip blossoms.
When a merchant in France sdulteratei
food the authorities publish his name; buI
when he does 1t In China they execute him
The students of the University at Tuscs
looss, Ala, had an eating match, in whict
the victor ate thirty-seVeu biscuits In six
teen minutes.
Ralph Alcorn, an S-year-old Brooae eoun
ty, Ky, boy, wears an eight and quarter
hat, his head measuring twenty-six inches
4 circumference.
For a block Of land comprising 4,9li
square miles in the north of South Australia
only 81 IS q mile was lately Offered; fol
another of 5,05S square miles only 80 20.
The total number Of persons lately evictec
by Lord Cloncurry was four hundred HI;
grandfather was almost the last polltica
prisoner confined IN the Tower Of London
as an Irish patriot.
1t is said that Mr.. Bennett transferred tC
Mrs. De Long four per cent. bonds to the
face value Of twenty FIVE thousand dollar:
when the Jeanette sailed, and that after
ward he doubled the amount.
A passing flock Of wild ducks struck the
electric light cluster at the top OF high
pole in Cleveland, Ohio, the other night
and three Of them were killed. Five OF the
lamp globes were broken and the lamps
extinguished.
Cincinnati has its FIRST four-inhand drag
and describes It, OF course, as the finest in
the world. Even the whip cost $50, the
harness once took prize at fair, and the
monogram Of the owuer-a theatre manager
is most gGrgeously multiplied.
Some Californians are preaching and prsc
ticing a new form of vegetsrianism. They
eat the vegetables raw, believing that cook
cry is contrary to nature. Rumford, leader
of the movement, has lived for months OF
broken wheat, pears, melons, grapes, apple:
and tomatoes, all uncooked, and he declares
that he is very happy on that diet.
On recent Sunday evening a Boston d.
vine suddenly paused somewhere near the
end of his sermon and said; "We would be
glad If that young man In the vesttbule
would come inside and satisfy himself
W0ebler eQe Is OF Is uOb mere. 1Qab HOQfO
be much better than keeping haf-inch
draft on the occupants Of the back pew"
Dresden has had an exhibition comprising
more than 1900 periodicals, printed in 81
different languages. There are 291 in Ger
man, 124 in English, 155 IN the Latin Ian
guages French. italian, etc J. "a IN Slay
dialects, z in Finnish, and IS in AsiatiC
tongues aud others. Among them are 90
illustrated periodicals, 60 comic papers, and
592 scientific and industrial journals.
Art lovers are all agog over the reported
discovery Of Leonardo da Vinct's original
design Of the famous Last supper' panel
1t is twenty feet long aud three feet wide,
representing the Last Supper. Il was pur-
oil color disappeared and tempera paint
ing was found beneath, signed "Leonardus
da Vinci, pinxit, 1889"
Strawberry Hill, the "grotesque house,
with pie-crust battlements," as Macaulsy
calls It, which Horace Walpole built at
Twickeuham in the middle of the last cen
turv. and about which the favor Of diet
tanieism and modishness still seems to cling,
has passed into the hands Of an American
hotel company. This the London Standard
considers one OF the most ironlcal perform
ances ever credited to fate.
Golden, pauper-stricken farmers son,
refused seat in the Cabinet, and, subse.
quently baronetcy and privy councillor
ship. Grote refused peerage. Drs. Stan
lev and Naaghen bishoprics, the latter
twice. Chambers, Of Chambers Journal, has
refused knighthood. Such fefusals Of dig
mites, however, bear a very small proper
ton to the requests for them. Prime Min
listers can tell curious tales on the subject.
Acting under a recent decision Of Chief
Justice John Appleton, of the Supreme
Court of Maine, that Masonic lodge is not
a charitable institution, the local Assessors
are assessing taxes upon the property OF
Masons, OddFellows, and Knights of Pythias.
1t is said the Masons intend to make fight
against the decision of Judge Appleton,
and that they have retained the Hon. j. FL.
Drummond as counsel.
Laura A. Trimble was "amicably" d.
yorced from John A. Trimble, lawyer, in
Cincinnati, on Saturday, the grounds being
gross neglect of duty In failure to support.
She testified that she was widow with
some property when she married him, and
that the only Support" he had ever ex-
tended to her was four concert tickets, and
one of those he took away before the hour
for the concert arrived.
A scientist says that every adult person
carries enough phosphorus in his body to
make at least four thousand Of the ordinary
two cent packages of friction matches. That
Is a scientific fact that is of very little value
to q man who comes home In the night,
smashes everything on the bureau In search
ing for a match, and realizes that 81 the
four thousand match power phosphorus
concealed inside Of him will not light the
gas.-7eras Sytirgs.
In point Of number the order Of the Lead