Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-25
GENERAL NOTES.

The American system of ipost office
boxes has been adopted in Rome.
An Illinois physician has been COM
PEELED by jury to pay $1,000 damages for
unskillfully setting broken bone.
On the German Emperor's next birth
dav, the odd Of March, the foundation
stone of the new Parliament House on the
Konigsplatz will be laid.
A gold watch, two silver watches, two
twenty-dollar gold pieces and gold ring
were found in cleaning out an INSTRUCTED
drain under a Washington hotel on We'd
nesday,
The largest fruit seller in New Orleans,
on being asked what became of all the CO.
coanut shells, replied that he sent annu-
ally 800, 900 to New York to be ground up
with black pepper.
Logan said the other day that General
sherman was the only man he ever knew
in the army who would pull bottle from
his pocket and take drink without offer
ing to those around him.
1t is stated that paper made from strong
fibres-as linen-can now be compressed
into a substance so hard that it cannot be
scratched with anything but diamond
In view of this the Pdpier ZietuRg thinks
that before long great variety of house
furniture will be made of paper instead of
wood.
The party sent out by the New Orleans
Times Democrat 10 explore the Everglades
of Florida have completed their trip, The
party travelled nearly 500 miles through
country hitherto almost unknown. They
declare the Everglades the American gar
den spot.
They have a phenomenal hackman in
Ottawa, Canada. He saw a lady drop her
purse in crossing a street the other day,
and got down from his cab, picked up the
nurse. ran after the lady a considerable
distance, and gave it to her before she
missed II.
The remarkable durability Of mortar In
italy. a fact which is well known, is at
tributed by the London Builder to the
practice of allowing the lime to remain in
a pit covered with water for two years
before it is used, whereas in England lime
is slaked and used the same day;
The annual report of the State Railroad
Commissioner, now nearing completion,
shows that the total passenger earnings
in Wisconsin were S4,597, 161; total freight
earnings. 1882 900; total, $1S,OOO,OOO,
against $l5, 000,0 600 for the previous year:
One hundred persons were killed ana 3a0
injured in the State during the year.
A London dentist uses a small incandes-
cent carbon lamp TO illuminate the cavity
of the mouth during dental operations.
II is fitted into a vulcanite cup and cover
ed for safety with glass shade. The
lamp is stated by the inventor, who freely
offers its advantages to his fellow dentists,
''to give a bright light just where it is
needed, without producing undue heat"
4 statue of Robert Burns is to be
erected on the Victoria embankment in
London, by Mr.. Crawford, retired Glas,
gov merchant. The work will be intrusted
to Sir John Steel, the sculptor of the Burns
statues recently erected in Dundee and
New York. The London effigy of the
scottish ooet will be of bronze, the pedes-
tai being of polished granite. Tho entire
monument will stand sixteen feet nigh.
On the basis of the recent census of
Hungary, DR.. Karl Keleti, the Director of
the hungarian Statistical Bureau, brings
ont some instructive results as to the va
rietv of races that form the population OF
that kingdom. The population OF Hun
gary. excluding Croatia-Slavonla, Is 1o,-
los. 500. OF these there are {, 165, Ooo whose
mother tongue is Hungarian, 500, ioo
I,19s,373 German, 1, aSO,3Io
Sloyak. 6a5. 125 Croatia-serSia ian, %, oo4 alus
thenian. the remainder being divided
among Wendish, Armenian, Gypsy ana
others