Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03
GENERAL NOTES.


| Abraham Lincoln could be alive to hear 1t.
The official returns Of persons apprehend-
ed by the police in England and Wales dur
ing the official year as confirmed drunksrds
give the number at 81, $40 OF these, q, S78
were males and 10,062 females.
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. has been
unanimously elected President Of the Bach
elors' Club, and by the new rule nominating
him as President It is provided that it shall
not be necessary for the President to resign
| on marriage.
A daughter of the late President johnson
is living near Albany, shsckleford county,
Texas. She will be best remembered as
| Miss Marv johnson, but is now Mrs. Daniel
| Slower. With her son and two daughters
she manages farm and ranch in prosper
ing manner.
Even pianos are not exempt from the mod
ern craze for decorations, and their smooth,
| fine surfaces afford a perfect harvest field for
the best amateur painters. Monograms,
| sprays of flowers, vines, peseock's feathers
and other striking but simple designs, are
very freely used.
The sale of seats for the last performance
| of Madame Patti in New York this evening
took place Wednesday. The seven boxes
sold for an aggregate OF 1866. making the
cost OF each Of the fttY-six seats In the
boxes $l4 Al. About five hundred seats IN
all we're sold. the premiums alone on them
aggregating $4,000.
| With somewhat curious tss e ieweler in
Mod ebury, Vt, has constructed clock
| containing a representation in miniature Of
the scene of the assassination of President
/ Garfield. The sutomats are OF wood. about
two inches high. The whole movement,
which includes the execution Of Guiteau,
takes about three minutes.
Ex-Governor Stanford, of California, says
that ultimately the entire output of Calfor
MIA grain for Europe and the Atlantic coast
will go over the Southern Pacific Railroad.
/ Ships which will take the grain from New
| Orleans to Europe will he fitted to carry
hack emigrants TO New Orleans at very low
rates. He says that the popular table wines
OF California are better than the ordinary
poor stuff of France, Germany and Italy
| In a recent lecture before the "Civil aud
Mechanical Engineers Society,"" Prof.
Keer said that human beings who work in
bad atmosphere often live as long as those
under healthier conditions, but at a very low
/ ebb of vitality. When ventilator was put
into certain vilelv ventilated workroom the
/ girls became lively instead OF remaining dull,
and, Ike Oliver, "ssked for more" Their
| sppetites had so increased that they could
do more work, but couldn't live on their
wages.
English missionaries have begun to work
in the peninsula of Corea-a land from
which almost all Europeans have heretofore
been jealousy excluded. The area of Cores
IS ninety thousand square miles and the
| population about ten million souls. The
| language is quite unlike both Chinese and
| Japanese. and much difficulty has been ex-
perienced in learning it. Some progress
has, however. been made in this direction
and translation Of the New Testament has
been begun by Presbyterian missionary
named Ross.
Mr.. Henry s. Chapman, whose death in
his 10Th year is just reported from New
| Zealand, has had a somewhat remarkable
| colonial career. He became a memberof
| the English bar in 1910, and three wears
later was made Judge Of the New Zealand
| Supreme Court, office which he con-
tinued to hold until 1852, when he was made
| Colonial Secretary of Tasmania. In 1857 be
was nominated for Attorney General of Vic
| tOris, but held Office for only two months,
| and in the following wear formed Cabinet
which remained IN office for one year. He
sfterward served on the Supreme Bench Of
| Victoria.
The King of Burmah has still en- insaia-
BILE thirst for blood, his latest victim being
the son of one of the princes who was de-
ported to Chunar FOR his share in the rebel
lion of 1865. Theebau's serious Illness in
December last caused some OF he courtiers
Il RI cost ohOfIf for q I'm - . QUAINT Of
the Kings death. Their choice Il on the
young Prince referred to, but, u n 'ortunately
for their arrangements, the King got well
| and proceeded forthwith to wreak his ven
| geance on the Prince. A velvet sack and
the waters of the Irrawaddv closed the
career of this aspiring monarch, while bis
followers. three in number, were summary
dispatched.
Emigration from Switzerland has become
so great in late years that predictions are
made that unless it ceases certain districts
will lose the greater part of their inhabi
tants, if they do not become literally de-
populated. Returns are at baud for Berne
which show that since 1921 the ratio has
| steadily increased, and In the past three
years a. a greatly accelerated pace. In 1877
| only $50 persons left the canton; in 1878 the
| number was AT; in 1879 II was 94l; In 1880
1 10 WAS l,OOo, ana III 1901 6tCClg Mull6 lOT 1909
| the number is expected to be larger still.
Nearly all of them sailed for the United
States. Only $50 went to other countries,
and of these $50 went either to South or to
| Central America.
British Burmah is making rapid progress
in it's population. Ten years ago the coun-
try had only 2,747, 14S persons within its
borders; now It has 1886, III, which shows
an increase of SO per cent, only 12H per
cent. being due to immigration More than
% per cent. was due to the excess of births
over deaths. 1t would require at this rate
only twenty-five years to double the pOpu-
lation. OF these 3,736,771 persons, 81 per
cent. are Buddhists, and only % per cent.
Christians. Marriages are entered into
much earlier in Burmah than in European
countries. Between fifteen and twenty one
years of age thirty-one women in every one
hundred are married there, as against three
in every one hundred in England.
A Boston correspondent Of the Chicago
Advance writes: "Rhode Island is the only
one of the New England States that does
not observe day of fast. The suggestion
is made every year that the annual fast
come upon Good Friday. The old Purians
have hitherto objected to this on the ground
that their day was a high day, and they
could not consistently come under the ban
ner of the Church calendar. 1t is well
known that our State fast has come to be a
'high-day,' In a very bad sense. And now
the pious churchmen turn upon the sugges-
ton to blend the two days into one, and
pupcture It with the keenest sarcasm, by
Saying their Good Friday is a sacred day to
the church and they do not wish to see 1t
desecrated and destroyed by the unbridled
license and revelries of the State annual
fast"
The birthplace OF William Wherefore,
the heir of a long line of wealthy mer-
chants originally from Wilberfoss, parish
10 Yorkshire, is still standing in Hull. It is
a picturesque old mansion, one of the few
houses standing back from the road. The
walls are covered with old oak wsinscot.
black with age. There is a noble staircase
rising from a marble-paved hall. Wlber-
force succeeded to property worth $50, 600
a wear, but election contests and bad invest
ments had greatly reduced it before he died
A large sum was sunk in a wild scheme to
supply London with milk through pines.
His eldest son, who inherited the remains of
the family property in Yorkshire, was a man
of no force. He lived at Versailles most Of
his life, and became a Roman Catholic
The Bishop of Winchester, another SOD,
married an heiress, and died well of. His
eldest son has handsome estate in Sussex.
In communication to the Indianapolis
Journal, Mr.. Daniel Kirkwood, 'of Blooming
ton, makes this suggestion: "All of the ma
ior planets exterior to Venus are now known
TO have satellites-.a fact sufficient to 1ustifva