Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-12
GENERAL NOTES.

A desperate man in Bloomington, ILL.,, ad-
vertises for ga cook, good or bad, with or
without recommendations, to remain for
life or only few months" He further
comedies that ''the family will be doeile and
obedient."
The King of Siam wants the walls of q
new palace he is building decorated with
ancient family portraits, and has sent an or
der to England for their rapid production.
The portraits OF three of his ancestors al
ready exist. but for likenesses OF the army
Of other relatives the painter will have to
draw upon his imagination.
Mrs. Garfield has written a letter to the
Women's Silk Culture Association thanking
1t for the dress pattern recently presented
to her, and saying that it shall be preserved
as an heirloom and a memorial, and adding:
"Hsd General Gsrfeld's life been spared it
would have given me pleasure TO have pu'
this fabric into dress suitable to honor
some worthy occasion"
The grave of Sargent s. Prentiss is among
the decaying ruins of an old family burying
ground two miles east of the centre of
Natchez. A plain upright slab bears this
simple record: Sargent 5. Prentiss. Born
in Portland, Maine. Died in NatcheZ, Miss. "
The proprietY of erecting a more enduring
and imposing memorial has been suggested
by some of the countless admirers of Mr..
PTentiss.
The correspondent of the Plttsburg pa.
Dispatch, at Wheeling, West Virginia,
writes: "For the last few days, at intervals
of some hours, stones OF all kinds have been
falling In showers In Marion county, on the
west fork of the river. These stones range
in size from a walnut to a mans head, and
are ali intensely hot. On the farm of Isaac
Honsacker the fall has been the largest, and
crowds of scientific men and others have
visited the place, and intense excitement
prevails"
There has been discovered in the sand
stone rock at the Nevada State prison the
marks of the sandaled foot of q human
being, and tie marks OF the track of a man
motn in the same piece of sandstone, or
upon the same level, showing that man and
mammoth lived not only in the same age,
but in the same year, and, perhaps, in the
same day. These marks were found In the
sandstone quarry at a depth Of fifteen feet,
on what is supposed to have been, at the
rtime the marks were made, the borders OF
lake, where the man went fishing and the
mammoth to drink.
The theft of the Earl of Crawford's body
from its tomb st Dun Eycht has worried the
British police hardly less than the Dublin
assassinations, and the more the affair
develops the less creditable does their man
agement OF the case appear. One Of the
men now under arrest for the crime had
gone to a Glasgow book publisher to arrange
for the publication of book on the subject
OF the crime, in which he proposed to give
all the details of the robbery. The family
decided not to renter the body at Dun
Event, but to have 1t placed in vault at
the Lancashire family seat.
The United Order Of Foresters in st.
Louis are In a state Of ferment, and have
been for some time. A prominent member
OF the Order, one who stands high and has
had a voice in it's councils for long time,
said recently; "We have got tired; the bur-
den is too heavy, and we must drop It, We
have been robbed, and have borne it with
out a murmur." There are about 80 Courts
of the Order In that city, and of these 1t is
said not more than five will remain In the
Order. Il is said the different courts will
simply surrender their charters or declare q
dissolution, as was done in Chicago and
Massachusetts,.
The Nilometer used for the purpose Of
measuring the height OF the Nile Is situated
on the Island Of Rhoda, opposite Old Cairo.
1t consists Of 3 square well or chamber, in
the centre of which is a graduated pillar
divided into seventeen cubics, each. about
81 7-l6 inches long. Owing to the elevation
of the bed of the Nile, the relative proper
ton of the rise of water has been altered,
and 1t now passes about one cubic and two
thirds above the highest part OF the column.
The state of the stream Is proclaimed In
the streets In Cairo during the inundstion
every day by several eriers, to each OF whom
particular district is allotted. From
twenty-four feet to twenty-six feet may be
taken as the ordinary maximum OF the rise
at Cairo.
About two months ago woman brought
a child to one of the Anglican clergy in
Toronto, Canada, and asked him to christen
It Mohammed. BE refused on the ground