Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-30
GENERAL NOTES.

Gen. Grants dinner party to the Japa-
nese Prince cost $4,000.
They say that Minister Astor is really
becoming quite a favOrite at Rome. He is
liberal with his money, and talks Italian
with all the 1luency of native Hibernian.
Over 100000 volumes of the works of
Charles Dickens have been sold in Eng
land during the last dozen years. This is
the conclusive test of their hold upon the
popular mind.
In letter to a London weekly on 'Man-
ner and Conversation" Lady Wilde tells
us that ''people are growing weary of the
tiippant grOtesque." How tired the old
lady must be of Oscar.
Charles E. Upton, the Rochester bank
defaulter, attributes his ruin to a stroke Of
lightning. An order to unload his oil
stock was delayed nine hours by the cleo
trio storm of November 10, and that's
what broke him up.
The Marquis de LOuyille, who recently
created some stir in New York and New
port fashionable circles, and who was
charged with being an adventurer, and his
title declared to be bogus, has returned to
Paris, and is publishing volume ON aris-
COcratic America.
As Mr.. Mantilini would put it, fashion
seems to be going to the '"demnitiOn bow
vows" A Paris letter writer describes
dress worn by Marie Van Zandt as being
''Of crimson cloth, embroidered all over
with very small dogs in varied shades of
brown, while the draperies at the back of
the skirt were caught up with two small
pug heads carved in wood and united by
a slender silver chaln.'
In Parkersburg, Chester county, Pa,
Mr.. George L. Huston is building a dwell
ing house wholly of iron, and resting on
a foundation of solid rock. Every part of
the house is of iron, including floors, Win
dow stills, sash, etc. The floors are made
to represent thing. The walls are hollow,
and the space between them is used in
stead of chimneys. Hot smoke and hot
air passing from furnaces between the
walls it is thought, will be sufficient to
warm the house in the coolest weather.
When. in the course of Congressional
events, Senators and Representatives sent
by pages their autograph albums around
among their fellow legislators, Congress-
man Moore, of Tennessee, thought the
little fellows who brought him the books
were soliciting for their own collections.
So, in a kind, fatherly way, he put some
good advice, of the copy book maxim
stvle. in each album. In Senator Ed
munds' he wrote, with flourish: "Be
good boy and you will become good
man. and the Green Mountain states
man is making it one of the jokes of the
season.
A Bowery photographer in New York
has suddenly jumped into lucrative bust
ness in making cheap photographs. His
specially" which is the secret of his
success. is letting costly seal skin sacks,
Gainsborough hats and other finery to his
subjects" who are mostly poor shop
girls, to make their pictures snowy. The
special charges which he makes for these
privileges, which offer temptation which
few girls can resist, bring him in great
profits. '"The only difficulty in the bust
ness" he says, sis to get the sealskin
sack and silk cloak off the girls when it is
got on. They have a bad way of hanging
round and looking in the glass, and keep
ing a whole line of anxious sitters wait
ing"