Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-25
GENERAL NOTES.

daily and conducts himself, says the LONDON
World, like a commanding black saw
age"
The young Princes, sons of the Prince OF
Wales, who have Just completed the tour OF
the world, were confirmed In Whippingham
Church on the 8th inst. by the Archbishop
Of Canterbury.
A girl slept seventy-three days at Beau
Join, France, and then awoke very slowly,
the use of the faculties as well as the limbs
returning only by gradual steps. Speech
was restored last.
The Burlington Hd,Oksye tells OF heart
broken widower at Waterloo, Iowa, who
erected pine slab over his wife's grave and
presented handsome piano to the young
lady who was so very kind to him during his
sad sffiction.
The recent crusade against adulterated
beer has forced the beer-brewers to defend
themselves from the charge, and some of
them have offered a reward of 81 900 for the
detection of any poisonous or deleterious in
gradients, or any authorizations whatever, in
the lager beer brewed by them.
1t is reported from Mahoning valley,
Penn, that Brown, Bennett & Co., owners
of one of the largest iron mills in the coun-
try, whose pay roll is over a million dollars
a year, have offered their employees the old
wages, and say that II the offer is not &C
cepted they will hire nOn-union men.
John Jsmison and Lucy King started in a
buggy from Dallas, Texas, to attend camp
meeting. The horse ran away, and, when
Jamison endeavored to reach over the dash.
board, kicked hole In Jamison's head; the
lady was thrown out and fatally injured and
the house ran against tree and dashed out
his brains.
Those persons who have been worrying
over the possibility of the coal supply CIV
ing out may rest easy under the assurance
that OF bituminous coal alone we have an
estimated reserve of 10000, 100000 tons
more than all the rest of the world possess
es, and enough to last, even II applied to its
present uses, anywhere from five hundred
to one thousand years.
1t is proposed to conduct the hot water
from the Sutro tunnel through iron pipes
beneath the surface of the soil, near the
roots of thousands of fruit trees which are
to be planted, and in a similar manner to
give the necessary warmth to a number of
hot houses to be used for the propagation
of early fruits and vegetables.
According to native Japanese paper, the
picturesque old junks which have so often
figured in stories and pictures of maritime
life in the far East, are rapidly disappearing,
at least as far as Japan is concerned. Ac-
cording to this authority, bodybuilding in
Japanese style is so far giving place to for
eign construction that by and by there will
be no such thing as junk, except in paint
ings."
The Denver Tribune says: ga distinguish
ed trio occupied one Of the boxes at the
Grand Opers House last night. They were
Pig-iron Kelley, Silver-ore Tabor and Colo
RADIO stone Moore. Such an aggregation of
talent had not been brought together since
Emma Abbott sang here, and there was
naturally quite a futter Of excitement
among the Trojan group surrounding Hec-
tor and Andromache in the red, white and
blue picture over the drop curtain"
A story in natural history from Kansas,
but not snake nor fish story. Three mice
rolled an egg down a stairway without
breaking it. One held the egg in close EN-
brace while the others rolled him like a ball
from one step to the other, always manag-
ing to let him strike on his back, thus pro-
tecting the egg. The man who says he saw
it does not hesitate to add that they rolled
the egg to a small hollow in the floor, which
steadied it while they cut through the shell
with their teeth and emptied it.
The American Watch Company OF Wal
than has just completed a new clock for
the use of the Signal Service Bureau at
Washington. The case is made of brass, OF
sufficient height to allow the swing OF a
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has been so constructed that the afr can be
exhausted, allowing the works to operate
In vacuum, and thus avoid atmospheric
variations. An ingenious electrical attach
ment winds the clock as it runs, the spring
being thus kept at a uniform tension.
Mrs Chadbourne, wife of President Chad.
bourne, while attending the commencement
exercises at Bowdoin College a short time
since, accidentally scratched one of her fin
gers on hat pin. The wound was consid-
cred so slight at the time that it probably
did not receive the attention it should have
had, aud few days after Mrs. ChadbOurne's
return to Biddeford, she was confined to her
bed on account of it, the hand and arm hav-
ing swollen badly. For day or two lock
Jaw was feared, but she is now much i'm
proved.
An exchange says: "There is not a
woman of fair intelligence in the United
States to-day who cannot tell what XII d of
clothes Mrs. Langtry wears, while not even
the critics-to say nothing of her American
manager-can form the slightest shadow of
an opinion about her acting. Bessy Darling,
It is said, when asked by a manager what
she could do, got up and threw open the
doors Of her wardrobe with conscious power
and pride, and the overwhelming answer got
her an engagement. This is what they call
on Wall street horse sense; in Pearl street
they designate it practical business instinct;
on Union Square it is known as frankness.
In the abstract world 1t is called the utili-
tartan spirit of the age"
An eyewitness to the battle Of Cedar
Mountain describes the appearance of Gen
erel Stonewall Jackson on the day OF the
battle, August 9, 1862: "While the dead
were being buried, l saw for the first time
General Stonewall Jackson. He was stand
ing in an open field quietly observing the
ambulance corps performing their sad duties,
with that gay cavalier, General Jeb Stuart,
by his side. He was dressed in faded gray
suit, looking quite austere, as Stuart, with
his accustomed hilarity, chatted merrilY of
the events which had so recently transpired.
| approached to within a few feet of where
they stood, to get good look at the General
whose fame had already become world
wide. And during the half hour | was near
him never heard him speak or saw him
even smile. Stuart did all the talking,
while Jackson's eagle eye was scanning the
movements on the field in our 'front.'"
Among the American successes in Eng
land the victory of the cat-boat "Gleam"
over English cutters may perhaps rank with
the triumphs celebrated by American beef,
horsefesh and some other products of high
training or judiciOus skill. The "Gleam"
was built by the Herreshoffs, and managed
to enter an English race under the invita-
ton of 80 sailing match for all vessels not
exceeding twenty six feet on the water
line.n She was steered by her owner, Mr..
F. A. Cover, who tries to teach the English
a few American notions about telephones.
10 the COWes race Of August 3 the "Gleam"
beat ten cutters, finishing a triangular run
In four hours ifty-three minutes and fifty
seconds, to four hours fifty-six minutes and
twenty-five seconds scored by her chief
rival, the "Daisy," measuring twenty-five
feet six inches. Mr.. Cover complains that
his American boat is not admitted to Eng
fish regattas.
Mr.. Margoliouth of New College, Oxford,
England, seems 10 be the champion" stu
dent. He had already taken several prizes,
when there recently fell to him the valuable
Derby scholarship, which can only be
awarded to such students as have already
secured first class in classical moderations,
fret in classical greats, or a second, to-
gether with two Of the chancellor's prizes,
and two of the three classical university
scholarships. Mr.. Msrgoliouth did all this,
nd ho