Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-26
GENERAL NOTES.

Five hundred and thirty million dollar;
have been disbursed for pensions since the
close Of the war.
TIE White House Is repaired more than
any other known structure. In the last six
years 1t has been pu! in perfect order foul
times.
The United States army has become sadly
depleted, thirty of its members having de
serted sin all directions" II thirty more
j9Urn for want Of quorum.
A New Yorker, who contemplated suicide
the other day, discharged q pistol at him
self four times without infiicting any injury.
An exchange thinks that he probably was
one Of the reserves Of the American team.
London has it's anti Chinese movement,
too. A company Of Cinnamon doing bust
ness in that city have gone into a scheme
for importing their countrymen IN large
numbers for employment as servants, farm
laborers, and in the trades. The project is
being denounced In mass meetings.
A Chinaman is said to have inscribed upon
one grain OF unhulled rice an original poem
containing thirtY-tbree distinct and we'll
formed Chinese characters written out in
fun. The curiosity is kept under msgni-
tying glass IN q silver locket, aud is consid-
cred one Of the wonders Of the world.
It appears that the late DR.. PdseY had
given grounds for great anxiety to his friends
for some time previous to his final symp-
toms of fatal sinking. He had been several
times in q condition OF dangerous nervous
prostration, although he had kept up his
literary and theological studies wheney he
was at all able TO do so. During the past
summer he passed most Of his time at the
Convalescent Hospital of Ascot Prlory.
The movement to place q memorial Of
Mr.. Longfellew IN Westminster Abbey is en-.
listing the support OF many eminent English
authors, artists aud statesmen. 1t is hoped
that a sufficient fund viii be raised, in addi-
ton to procuring this memorial, to found a
LOngfellOW scholarship at Oxford or Cam
bridge, possibly at both. The treasurer of
the committee is Mr.. Francis Bennocb, the
trusted friend Of Hawthorne, Fields, and 8
host Of other Americans.
The fence along the Canadian bank at
Niagara Falls, for which an appropriation
was made by the Canadian Government, is
to be OF at least four lines of iron wire ex-
tended on iron posts cemented in the lime.
stone rock at small distances from one
another. The fence will extend along the
bluff from the railway extension bridge TO
the brink of the Horseshoe Fall, and, Of
course, viii offer no obstruction to the view,
while It will be of inestimable value as a
protection against accidents.
Reports from Skye indicate that the
croftus troubles are taking on still more
Irish character than formerly. Two officers
recently attempted 10 serve notices OF inter
dict on behalf OF a landlord, but so soon as
their object was known, the women and
children, Ia the absence Of the men, turned
out IN body and compelled them to retire.
When the men return from fishing it is ex-
Dected that they viii make matters verse
stir, and what the landlords vii DO IN that
emergency remains question.
Residents OF Woolwich were astonished a
fortnight ago by the appearance In the
atmosphere, q considerable distance above
the earth, OF an immense cloud Of WINGED
insects. The wind was blowing at the time
from the northeast. At first there appeared
q swarm of large flies and then a dense host
q small drab-cOlOred, light.Winged insec| S,
(which filed the air like misty rain and
covered the clothing of all who were
abroad" It is estimated that the cloud
was TWO miles wide. It consumed about
half an hour in passing Woolwich.
During his recent stay ia England Getty
wayo was taken on board Her Maiesty's ship
Cambridge, and permitted to fire a broad
side by electricity. When he had touched
the key aud heard the unexpected and
laundering result, he is said to have "fairlY
bounded into the air" Your careful Eng
Iishman, when he entertains a savage who
may be one day an enemy, thus very care
fully combines useful instruction with
amusement. CesyWayo will not soon go TO
war again with nation that csn fire off 3
broadslde simply by touching buttons.
Thirty years ago fifteen young Philsdel-
phians, members OF q fire company, organ
ICED 'last mans club" Four Of them
still survive, the eleventh having died on
Sunday last. Toe survivors have had a sup
per together annually on the % OF January,
at each supper plates being laid for the full
original number. At the last supper Robert
Riddle, who has Just died, presided, and q
wager was made that he would, as had ell the
other Presidents OF the club, die before the
other members. In view of the fate Of the
Presidents Of the CLUB, candidates for the
position are backward about announcing
themselves.
One of the most extensive tree planters in
the world is declared by the English journal
Land to be the Duke Of Athole. Every
year, It says, he plants from 10000 to
1000 coo trees. During the present season
he has covered with trees a plantation Of
some 1900 acres. By the gale which de-
stroyed the Tay bridge his plantations were
denudad of so 600 trees. One OF the Dukes
of Athole is still known as the Planter Duke.
In the year 1774 his Dunkeld hills were
almost entirely bare, and he began to plant
on a large scale. Before he died he had
planted 100000 trees, which covered
Is. 900 acres.
1t appears from chemical investigation
that opium is generally worse even than it
appears to be, from he fact that, on account
of It's many adulterations, its strength can
only be guessed at. Some samples lately
analyzed showed that over third Of the
mass was composed Of crushed iinseed.
Other samples are found mixed with
liQuorice, csshew, sesame oils, gum arabic
and tragacanth, sand, vegetable earth, lead,
starch, and animal eKcremenC. A lot I'M
ported into England looked well, but con
tained only per cent. OF morphine. Bull
leaves, tubercles Of helianthus, dahlis, col
chicum, and dried mushrooms are found,
the resinous character of the substance
being supplied by plentiful use Of pitch.
Turkish opium contains raisins, crushed
poppy. desiccated eggs, wax, rosIn, and pull
verified brick.
A London paper says: "slr Garnet
Wolseley's action in first feigning to take
measures In the direction Of Abouklr and
then promptly descending on Port Said AND
Ismailia, Is In accordance with msxims he
has himself embodied in his Soldiers Pocket
Book He there lays It down that q
General commanding should so keep his
counsel that his army, and even his staff
around him, should be not only in ignorance
OF his real intentions, but convinced that he
aims at totally different objects from what
are his true ores. He adds that, what you
lead your army 10 believe will soon
be credited by the enemy, whom it will
reach by means of spies, or through the
medium Of those newly,invented curses to
armies, mean newspaper men, In another
part Of his book Sir Garnet points out how By
spreading false news among the representa-
tfYes Of the press, q General may use them
to deceive an enemy"
Some one has found in one of Ecker