Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-20
GENERAL NOTES.


beauty of FOrepaugh's Circus, is now
tending bar in saloon Of her own in
Philadelphia.
The stock raisers OF Colorado estimate
the aggregate value of theirs flocks and
herds at $50, OOO, 900. The number of horned
cattle is placed at 2,25O,000.
The Winnipeg people are denying, with
as much warmth as is possible in that
section at this season, the story Of a rival
city that the thermometer recently mark
ed 81 degrees below zero at that place.
Boston has a new charge to make
against Mrs. Langtry. At dinner in a
public restaurant she tilted back in her
chair and rocked herself, took Off her hat
and played with the feathers, and used
her knife and fork in gesticulating.
Electricity has already come into use as
an ornament. In recent performance at
Savoy Theatre, London, the head dress of
the fairy was adorned with bright cleo
trio star, the light being furnished by an
accumulation worn on the fairy's back.
The 100-tOn Armstrong breech-lOader
fred its proof rounds with perfect success
at the recent trials at La Spezia, the Ital-
ian naval port. The highest charge fired
was 40 pounds, with a projectile weigh
ing 1000 pounds. The muZzle velocity of
the shot was ,S34 feet to the second, or n
total energy of $4,000 tons.
Passengers on a Milwaukee, Lake Shore
and Western train had an incidental bear
hunt. The locomotive struck the brute
and knocked him into ditch, so that the
imprOmptu hunters had no difficulty in
surrounding him; but he was very lively
on coming to, and scattered them right
Al l. =
neer finished him.
An Ottawa telegram to the Montreal
Witness says: at is now stated on good
authority that the Princess Louise will
make prolonged visit in the United
States, taking in all the larger cities.
She will not return to Canada before the
expiration of the Marquis term. His
LOrdship, however, will return for the
opening of Parliament"
Maurice Bergen, of Monroe, La, felt
premonition that his death was near. He
said so to friend, declaring that he would
be dead before December ). He was
laughed at, but his response was an offer
to bet $40 suit of clOthes--as he was
tailOr-against a coffin of equal value.
The wager was made, and Bergen won.
The loser provided a handsome burial
Some light is thrown upon recent mani
festatiOns Of the growth of Liberal opin-
ions in Japan by statistics published in
the Japan Mail According to these, out
of a population of 35,000,00O, including
nearly 7,250,000 hOusehOlders or heads of
families, 20 per cent. alone possess politi-
cal rights. The ratio Of veters to the entire
population is only a little over AZ per
cent.
The beau monde Of Berlin is busily en-
gagged at present in discussing the some
what eccentric conduct of the fashionable
beauty and great court favOrite, the Coun-
tess G.. One of the Countess kitchen
maids having been caught in the act of
giving her sweetheart a handsome supply
of victuals from her mistress larder, the
Countess proceeded to administer a severe
chastisement to the erring damsel with
a hunting whip. The aggrieYed scullery
maid went to doctor, who bound up her
wounds and gave her a certificate of in
jury, on which she sued, and, to the amaze
ment of Berlin, caused the Countess to be
mulcted in heavy damages.
The Rev. j. d. Shaw, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, associate editor
of the Texas Christian AdcOcdte, has with
drawn from both church and paper on ac-
count of heretical views on inspiration,
the divinity of Christ, Ficarious atone
ment. and future punishment. He does
not reject all these dOgmas, but is in doubt
as to certain aspects of them. He holds
that Christ was the Son of God by adop-
ton. and shared the Divine nature by con-
junction. He believes that the Scriptures
ought to be interpreted only by rational
processes. As to future punishment, he
accepts the idea of restoration. His stand
ing in the church has been such that in
the last General Conference he received a
number of votes for Bishop.
The Tendon Lancet, speaking of those
nervous sportsmen who are unable to
avoid trepidation or palpItation when
up to a dog at its point, or if a
bird or cOvey rises suddenly without being
pointed by the dog, says: ''Such nervous
ness ought rather to be designated as ex-
1t is nearly always constitu-
tional, and therefore incurable. In short.
il is not disease or morbid condition, but
A state of impressibility, though it NAV be
temporary and connected with some def
cheney of the power of control. Steadi-
ness, as regards the nervous system, is
much a question Of reserve force. In
some cases the nervousness of the sports
man is a direct consequence of his enthu-
siasm. He is SO anxious that, IN the en-
leavor to acquit himself creditably in the
field, he is unable to make even respeeta-
Die appearance. The heart beats, the eyes
lance, the hand trembles, and, of course,
good shooting is out Of the question. This
IS the reason why many man who IS
lair shot when alone is unable to hit hay
stack, as the saying goes, when criticizing
Eyes are upon him. Practice may, in GER
ain cases, reduce the magnitude Of the