Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-22
GENERAL NOTES.

A New York jury have awarded wo-
man S, 500 for a finger cut off in a factory.
jefferson Davis has given the Society of
the Army of the Tennessee Southern
one hundred dollars towards the erection
of a monument to General Albert Sidney
Johnston, who fell at Shiloh.
Among the trees which grow in Alaska
is one called the yellow cedar, which has
a fragrance somewhat like that of sandal
wood and nearly as marked. 1t is grain
less wood. of straw color, and the Russians
formerly built many ships of it, for which
purpose it is admirably adapted.
The Notre Dame University, at South
Bend. Ind. is to have the finest dome in
the country except that of the capitol at
Washington. 1t will be 200 feet high, and
the statue surmOunting it will be illumi-
mated at night by an elipse of electric
jets. There will be thirty-siX allegorical
paintings on the inside by Prof. GregOri.
The material will be iron, and the cost is
estimated at $25, 900 to $4,000.
The census shows that of 22,6OO native
white persons of the age of ten years and
upward in Nevada, only 240 are unable to
write: and of the 1885 foreign born citi-
Zens of the age of ten years and upwards
in the State, 1875 are unable to write.
There were SOL cOlOred persons OF ten
years and upward in Nevada, of whom
2154 are returned as unable to write.
These include Chinese and Indians who
live on ranches.
Liquor dealers are alarmed at the enor-
nous stock of whisky in bond, over S4,-
100000 gallons, and will bring a great
pressure to bear ON Congress for an eX-
tension of the bonded period from three
years indefinitely. But the longer it is
extended the greater, apparently, will be
the Over-prOductiOn and the accumulation
of stock. 1t is said, by the way, that the
American tax of ninety cents per gallon
is lower than that collected by any other
government where it is taxed, and the dis
tilling interest is not at all strenuous for
a reduction.
The Boston Transcript, which has been
very friendly in its criticisms of Mrs.
Langtry, says of her Boston audiences
''These audiences generally relapsed into
sort of tolerant satisfaction at Mrs.
Langtry's personal charms, without the
least tendency to enthusiasm. Coupling
her appearance on the stage with the pue-
rilities of her acting in some respects,
the sometimes harsh desOnance of her
voice. and the few occasions in which she
adequately filled the part taken, and still
the performance was one that did not alb
sOlutely enrage the purchaser of high cost
tickets"
The story is told that His Royal High
ness, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on
one of his numerous pleasure trips to
Paris, whilst the train stopped at Amiens,
went into the restaurant and bought a
piece of sponge cake. Before his princely
appetite could be appeased, however, the
bell rang for the train to start, and the
Prince, laying the unfinished cake on the
counter, proceeded on his way. The sor-
did restaurant keeper quietly put the rem
nant under glass case, labelled it Great
curiOsityl The Prince of Wales bit this |!
For Salev And he renewed the cake as
fast as tuft-hunting Englishmen bought
the piece they thought had been hallowed
by rOVal teeth