Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-27
GENERAL NOTES.

Lady u. Douglas ana nef Oaker husband
are doing a good work by selling sound
bread at fair weight in very poor dis
trict of London.
A Christmas gift for Pope Leo XIII.
from special contributions taken up in his
behalf in New York, is valued in dollars
and cents at S1S,362 So.
The deaf and dumb girls have some adj
vantages. One such girl in Detroit kept
the tablet on which her lover 'spopped the
question" and its production in court set
tied her suit for breach of promise.
Suit was brought by the city of San
Francisco against J. c. Flood to recover
taxes on $500, 900 worth of mining stock in
Nevada. He proved that the mine is sit.
uated in California, and thus won the suit
A New York policeman, who took it in
high dudgeOn because the President of a
bob-tailed car line attempted to eject him
for refusing to put his fare into the box
and arrested the President, has been fined
S25 for assault.
In the old world marriage often makes
greater difference in the lot of sisters
than here. Thus, one of the late Bernal
OsbOrne's daughters is Duchess and the
other the wife of an Irish Police Magis.
trate in moderate circumstances.
1t takes a man a lifetime to obtain so.
cial footing in Philadelphia, according to
one of its newspapers. "Stin," it adds.
''mOney is not a bad credential. Decent
fellows with bags of coin may pass the
inner doors without knocking very hard"
According to the ReUae iSctentifque a
number of merchants of Bergen have pur.
chased the right to cut large blocks of ice
for shipment from the enormous glacier
Fonor-Syartisen in Norway. Its distance
from the sea is only about two miles. The
glacier is 100 miles square.
So unexpectedly small has been the con.
sumption Of wine of late that of the usual
quantity laid in the capacious cellars oil
the Mansion House by incoming LORD
Mayors of London a large proportion has
remained undrunk at the close of theil
year of office, and has been disposed of by
public sale.
The highest bid ever made for a grey
hound was the offer of f1,5O0 by Mr.
Mayer, of Derby, for Princess Dagmar be-
fore this years Waterloo Cup had beer
run for. This was at auction, but hei
owner, Mr.. Reilly, reserved her at 81, 700
She was sold the other day for breeding
purposes for $50 guineas.
DIR. Benson, the new Archbishop of Can.
terbury, was, like so many other English
dignitaries, once an assistant master al
Rugby. He has had the misfortune to dis
please the Cornwall NOncOnformists, hav.
ing accused one of their societies of issu-
ing "crafty yagaries and printed falsi-
ties"
Mr.. Henry Labouchere is believed tC
have inherited 100000 altogether from
his father, who died senior partner in the
well-known banking house of Williams
Deacon, LabOuchere & Co., but his specu.
latiOns and investments have at least
trebled his Inheritance. He has a share
in the Daily Nel1S and owns Truth.
Abd-el-Kader's second son has arrived
in Paris from Damas to undergo an opera.
ton for a cataract. Out of a family OF
twenty-four children, this famous Emil
has only eleven surviving, who live with
their father at Damas, with the exception
of the eldest son, who was carried away
some years ago by an African tribe. Add,
el-Kader is in his 10Th year.
There are in Prussia 215 persons with al
income of over $36, 900 a year, and l, All will
incomes between that and ST., 900. OF the
215, 81 are Berliners and % live in Bres
Attu. VI Tic ObllClSs CldIlIS IL anu
Breslau 1879. Krupp again heads the in
come return just published. He pays
81, 800 tax. The fact that its chief mil
liOnaire is a maker of mankillers is highly
symbolic of Germany to-day.
The commune of Chatel Guyon, in the
Puy-de-DOme, Paris, has been converted
en- masse to Professionalism. The initiative
was taken by the Municipal Council
which vOtad cnunro1 raCoI1ttiOnc n
tory of the decision. The vote was, with
the exception Of three members who were
unavoidably absent, unanimous. On the
following Sunday the whole commune
turned out, and, headed by the Mayor,
went to attend divine service in an i'm
prOvised Protestant church.
Acting-GOvernOr Tabor, of Colorado, has
issued pardon to one John r. S. Steele,
who was convicted and sentenced to death
for murder nine years ago and afterward
had his sentence committed to imprisOn-
ment for life. The pardon has been issued
in the belief that he is innocent and was
unjustly cOnyicted,tbut as he has no rela-
tives in the State and few resources, it is
not to take effect until March, it being
thought merciful to allow him to remain
in the prison during the winter.
Paris is just now suffering acutely from
an invasion of rats. When the Seine rose
during the recent floods it drove the rat
from his comfortable home in the sewer,
The elected army of rats has billeted itself
in more comfortable winter quarters, in
the Rue Dauphine, in the Rue de BAG, the
Rue dies Saints-Peres, for instance, taking
possession with the greatest GOODNESS, and
maintaining strict military order, as if in
obedience to a common general. The
houses on the river banks they have
avoided, keeping well to the bOulevards.
Some of the host are said to be enormous
in size, as big as cats, says one chronicler,
of unparalleled audacity, and with teeth
long enough andlsharp enough to take a
piece clean out of a Deputy's leg with i'm
punity. They turn up in all sorts of odd
places-In boots, trousers, petticOats,
boxes, drawers-and one virtuOus bonnie
nearly died from the shock when she sur
prised an enterprising rodent in her bed.
They are not to have il all their own way,
however, for an opposing array OF all the
available dogs and cats is being levied, and
the cafes are ringing with the feats of
the various champions.
Considerable attention is being drawn
by statisticians to the great rate of in
crease both of the population and emigra-
ton throughout Germany. The pOpula-
ton of Prussia increased between 1916
and 1864 from 1880, 600 to ~, 26O,OOO, while
up to 1875, inclusive, it had mounted up
to 21,500,000 or 105 per cent. in sixty
years time. From 1875 to 1880 the pOpu-
latiOn of all the German States has been
increasing about $4,000 per annum. AT
the last census, in December, 1890, the
number of inhabitants was 45,250,000,
which, if maintained at the same rate,
would be 60, 600, 900 in 1900. The increase,
as compared with that of France, is very
remarkable, the French population during
the last five years showing an in
crease of only 1886, 900, while the increase of
the German population during the same pc
riod was 100000, the birth rate il the lat
ter country being 3.91 per 100, whereas in
France it is only 2.47. There is also this
great difference between the two, that in
France the increase has been almost en-
tirely in the large towns, whereas in Ger
many the increase is general throughout
the country as well as the towns. The
number of emigrants that have left Ger
many during the last sixty years is over
3,500,0O0, of whom the greater part have
taken their departure within the last
thirty years, the United States having alb
sorbed in 1881 no fewer than 24S,323. DR..
Kappe estimates the amount taken away
by each emigrant at not less than $113.