Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-01
GEN ERAL NOTES.

projects is one for uniting Cologne with
Antwerp. A Dutch engineer is the author
OF It, and is said TO have already secured
from the Cologne Chamber Of Commerce a
promise of warm support. he has peti.
toned the German Government for hnanclaI
assistance.
Il was thoughtful act in Sir Nathaniel
Rothschild to send to the English troops in
Egypt that little gift of fifteen tons OF to-
baeco and Is, 900 pipes. And Sir Garnet is
said to have ordered the distribution OF these
novel supplies with an alacrity which indl-
Gated that he held the soothing narcotic In
high esteem as war rattons.
A Sunday or two ago Brooklyn man sat
in Plymouth Church pew and fell soundlY
asleep under Beecher's sermon. This kind
of commentary upon the power of the
preacher could not be tolerated, and the
sleepy-head was pulled out Of the pew, hus-
tied out Of church and walked to the near
est police station to finish his nap.
About fortnight ago a bird of vast size
was seen flying between the Bank Of Eng
land building and the post Office in London,
until at noon it alighted on the cross OF the
steeple Of st. Vedast Church. BY the AID
of a good telescope a tradesman in the
neighborhood discovered that the bird was
a vulture. 1t remained for some time on its
lofty perch.
The sea serpent lately reported as having
appeared in Harlem river has believers. One
man who says he saw 1t has faith enough in
his eyes to make a cage to put the monster
in when caught. The cage is on the shore,
but the thing has not been caught yet.
There are lots of people watching and walt
ing and hoping to get grip on the long
tailed "gasteropodous aphidian OF the genus
hydrus."
Near Nigdeh, in Asia Minor, there is a
gold mine known as the Boulgar-Daghi,
which the Sultan's Minister Of Commerce
and of Mines and Forests is making great
efforts to work. He believes that the mine
contains considerable deposits of the
precious metal, and has forwarded a sum of
eta 600 to carry on the works. He intends
soon to forward further sum Of 9T10, 900.
There has already been extracted con-
siderable quantity OF ore.
1t is said in England that the feeling
among British ship owners in favor OF the
building OF the proposed new canal across
Suez is very strong. The grounds Of objec-
ton to the present work are these: () 1t is
exposed TO interruption by complications in
Egypt; (2) it is not deep enough; (3) 1t is
not wide enough; az 1t imposes so much
Delay upon ships in transit, forty to fifty
hours being often taken, instead OF seven
teen, in passing from Suez to Port said,
and (5) the, charges levied by the canal
company are excessive.
The Rev. Granville Moody, the lighting
parson," maintains that q prayer he offered
up on a certain occasion, while closeted
with candy" johnson, was the means by
which the tide of war was turned and the
Southern rebellion crushed. Mr.. johnson
had sent for him at a critical time in the
Tennessee troubles, and asked him what
would best be done. "Let us pray" was
the response, and the two knelt together,
and Mr. Moody prayed long and fervently,
working up the spiritual faculties OF his
companion to white heat. When at last
he said 'Amen" Mr.. johnson sprsng TO his
feet and cried with a tremendous oath,
"Moody, think that prayer Will pull US
through;n and from that time, so claims
the "fghting parson." victory perched upon
the banners of the Union.
NJ. Worth is declared to be in trouble be-
cause he wishes to retire from business and
cannot do so. He has no one to whom he
would be willing to leave the business, his
two sons being inclined to military life
rather than to a man milliner's. IL Is not
generally known that M. Worth is a Lin
colnshire, England, man, and that he served
his time at well known London establish
ment. He has a country house at Plassy
which IS one of the most interesting houses
ia the neighborhcod Of Paris. 1t has an
aviary attached to it, which is perhaps the
finest private one In France. M. Worth gets
many valuable hints as to color combina-
tions from his brilliantly feathered birds.
There are rumors that the dissemination Of
the young Worths to become dressmakers
will lead to the business being turned into
limited liability company.
The Laramie Boomerang bewails that
Brigham Young's grave is not kept green.
1t is stated that for time after the proph-
cts death his widows went out to the grave
yard every day in a body and irrigated the
mound with commingled floods OF tears
which kept the grass and flower shrubbery
in good growing, green condition. But 1t
seems this gracefully touching daily act OF
love and memory has been discontinued and
the grave abandoned to the sand and sun.
The place is as fat and bare of verdure as a
turnpike. and nobody now visits the saints
shrine. 1t seems a dozen widows are no
better than a single widow to mourn for a
man and pay fearful attention to his tomb.
1t is suggested that one reason for this
wholesale neglect is that the widows are
beaming their smiles and playing their
charms upon the members Of the Utah COM
mission, and further than this the Boomer
daag saith not.
Margaret Parker, an old professional beg
gar of Cincinnati, accidentally let the cat
out of the bag the other day. She had long
been living on charity, and getting permis-
sion to stay 10 upper rooms and novels, rent
free. When she became q nuisance on &C
count of filth and putrid meats in one place
she was advised to mOve-so she has been
moving around for years, and reap.ng at
every place the benefit OF a new charity
clientelage. Her last move was unfortu-
nate. The movers by accident dropped an
old trunk belonging to her in the street; the
trunk split wide open, and out popped two
heavy bags OF coin, which also burst by the
rough handling. Weight, over twenty-five
pounds of silver and gold, worth from
S.. 900 to SC, 600. The old mendicant whined
piteously that now she'd be robbed, as peo-
pie would know she had money. She was
advised to bank It and use it to live on as
required.
Scotsmen are taking a great deal of Just
pride in the record their countrYmen made
at Tel Ell Kebir. One of them writes to an
English paper that, although Scotland has
only one-tenth of the population of the
United Kingdom, she has nlne-tenths Of the
glory" The records show that Of Scots
men there were 81 killed and 40 wounded
in this fight, against IA Englishmen killed
and 165 wounded. He further points out
that the General commanding In Egypt has
studiously refrained from making any men
ton In his dispatches Of the Scots or Of their
General. The Highlanders might have
beer doing garrison duty tp Hong Kong on
the 18TH OF September for I'll the allusion
made to them. He has given all their glory
to their brethren, the Irish, who undoubt-
edly deserve their own share, but it is out of
all proportion in comparison with that OF
the Scots, five regiments Of whom lost so
men, while two OF Irish lost only s."
NJ. Tarnier, the surgeon Of the Maternity
Hospital, in Paris, struck by the great NOR
tally among infants prematurely born, and
those which are very sickly after birth, has
conceived the ingenious Idea, says the Lon
don Lancet, OF constructing a box which is
almost exactly similar to the incubators
used for poultry. This box is divided into
two compartments-the lower one being
used as a reservoir for hot water, while the
infant is placed In the upper one, which is