Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-15
GENERAL NOTES.

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losing their prestige for all that is presump-
tive and extortionate. Their business is
very light this year, snd 1t is said That tneY
are very civil and make Few attempts 10
swindle.
Before the dreaded ophthalmia can make
havoc with the English troops In Egypt It
will have to overcome the resistance OF blue
spectacles, of which twenty-five thousand
pairs have been ordered by the government
at five cents pair.
The new opera house In Frsnkfort-on-the-
Main illustrates the manner in which cleo
tricity now enters into the eonveniences OF
daily life. Il there serves as fire alarm,
door-closer, q heat-indicator, q hft-measu-
rer for the yentilator, general illumination
and a time-beater for the orchestra.
President Arthur is going West in Sep
TENDER, and number Of Chicagoans have
promised him "a welcome that shall fitting
" express our high regard for you person.
nallv and our respect for the exalted office
YOU so worthily I'LL" When such diplo-
matte language is used, 1t is difficult to tell
whether q four-hush or pacing race is De-
ing arranged for Mr.. Arthur.
Indians will not cook in their wigWsms
because they have theory that If they were
to cook inside the steam would collect In
their clothing and draw the lightning. The
Rev. Thomas Dana, an educated Indian,
says he does not know whether or not It Is
attributable to that fact, but 1t is certain
no Indian wigWam was ever struck By light
ming, and that no Indian has ever been
killed by that fluid In one hundred years.
on
grand occasions, are shorter and less eiaoo-
rate than are those given in Paris or In the
United States. The ladies leave the table
unattended. the gentlemen remaining be-
hind to enjoy their wine. II the dinner is
given to any special lady guest, the signal
for the departure Of the ladies is given DY
bow from the hostess to the lady in honor
of whom the entertainment has been given.
The Belgian Academy offers prize Of
S,OOOfr. for the best essay on the destruction
of fishes by the pollution Of rivers. Intend
ing competitors will be allowed until Octo-
Der l, 1884, 10 send in their papers. Among
the topics suggested for treatment are the
investigation and indication Of practical
means for purifying the waters issuing from
particular industrial works, so as to render
them compatible with the life Of fishes
without compromising the particular In
dustry.
HHand me the navy" said the Secretary
of the Navy to his private secretary. 81
would like to see 1t this morning, and, II 1t
needs any repairs hand It to Mr.. Robson,
who Is waiting in the rotunda" The prl-
vste secretary blushed as he inquired:
"Where is it?" The Secretary scratched his
head, looked perplexed, and after a mo.
ment of thought said, meditatively: III
my Youngest son isn't using 1t for horse
cart you will find it up stairs doing duty as
window rest. And, hurry up; Secor's
waiting!"
The home of the widow of Admiral Dahl
gren, at South Mountain, Md, is quaint
old structure of rough stone and gray
stucco. 1t contains twenty-six rooms, the
windows of which are small diamond
shaped psnes, while the furniture is OF ma-
hogany, of antique design. The dining
room was designed by Mrs. Dshlgren her
self, and is the most characteristic room in
the house. In one corner is q mahogany
cupboard more than two centuries old, and
opposite it stands tall clock made long be-
fore the war of the Revolution. The heavy
mahogany dining table once belonged to
Henry Clay.
1t is said that one of the chief causes OF
the failure of the famous Sullivan farm in
Illinois, the last small section Of which has
Just been closed out, was the ex-Governor's
too rigid discipline, not founded on com
mon sense. The farm, ten miles long and
seven miles wide, was divided into three
sections. II, for instance, the first Of gang
of forty ploWs broke down, none of the
others was allowed to pass 1t, but all had to
walt until the damage was repaired. No
oyerseer could dismount for a moment to
perform ny manual labor, hewever urgent,
and no employe, OF whatever grade, was
permitted to do even the most trivial thing
not properly belonging to his department.
The great machine had no elasticity and so
it broke down.
During a recent debate In the English Par
lament, the Earl of Kimberly, Secretary of
State for the Colonies, announced that the
revenues and expenditures of Cyprus would
not meet for long time to come without
Parliamentary grants. He estimated that
the deficit this year would be very large, but
that in future years 1t might be reduced to
100000. With regard to colonizing the
island be was not very saDguine, as the cul-
tiva'ion of the land was very expensive, aud
there was not employment even now for all
favor OF encouraging emigration to Queens
land than to Cyprus. England evidently
has a very expensive elephant in Cyprus, land
one which is not relished by the Liberals!
though it was Bescons6eld's parting gift.
The Mexican authorities in Sonora are
having very poor success in their encoun-
ters with the hostile Apsches. During the
past twelve days raids have been made by
over 200 warriors in the Mszatlan mountains
near Ures, and within a radius OF twenty
five miles of that town fortY-fve per-
sons have been murdered, among them be-
ing two government officials. The Apaches
bear testimony to the extraordinary folly
of the United States Governments Indian
policy in the fact that they are supplied
with Winchester rifles and cartridges marked
"U. s." which they received during theil
soiourn at the San Carlos Agencies, while
the Mexicans have nothing but old fashioned
muzzle-loaders. An invitation to General
Cook to go over TO Sonora and assume
direction of operations against the Apachei
would settle the campaign 10 short order.
An ingenious apparatus for recording the
total duration of rainfall in the course OF 6
day or a still longer time has been devised
by NJ. Schmeltz, of Paris. II consists of 6
box having rain funnel In its top, BY
which the rain can enter and drop upon q
band of travelling paper which passes below
within the box. This paper is the usual
Morse strip treated In a solution of sulphate
of iron and dried carefully, then brushed
with tannic acid or powdered cyanoferride
of potassium mixed with resin. A roll oil
1t is placed within the box, and is unwouud
on to another roller outside the box. The
latter is driven by chain from the hour
hand of a common clock, SO that it rotates
once in an hour. In this time, therefore
the paper has been pulled along beneath
the rain funnel length equal to the cir
conference Of the roller. The falling drops
dye the paper and indicate where the rain
began and left off. Correction is made for
the increasing diameter of the winding roller
as the paper is wound upon it. The iHstru-
ment is said to work well, and to indicate
fine showers, which are lost upon the ordi-
nary pluviometer.
The Bonaparte luck seems to follow the
young Prince Roland more closely than even
the most sanguine of the fatalIsts of the
family would have predicted when his dis
solute father, Pierre, the murderer of Vic
tor Noir, was living off what his wife could
make in London millinery shop. Prince
Roland, says the Philadelphia Times, will
come in for several millions by the death OF
his wife on Thursday, she being one of the
three heirs OF the estate of 1000, 900 OF
$25 600, 900 left by her father, M Blanc, the
proprietor of the Monte Carlo gambling hell.
Roland hadn't silver when he married,
and was only the second choice of Miss
Marie, who had vsinly tried to capture an
Italian Duke Of older and better pedigree.
But a Bonaparte passed for "pis aller, "
and, to reconcile the young man more
readily to the match with the dead game
ster's daughter, his cousin. Prince Napo-