Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-15
GENERAL NOTES.

The great-grandfather of Sir Homer
Bass, the new bitter beer barOnet, was a
carrier between Ashbourne, Derbyshire,
and London.
Greek recitation; Benevolent professor
| prompting )-'Now, then, Eipas -"
( Somnolent Soph remembering last nights
studies ~ make it next" lie goes it
alone before the faculty.
The wife of a Milwaukee physician is
going to Jail for fifteen days rather than
pay a fine of$5, which was imposed on her
for persistently keeping an unlicensed
dog. She wishes to be martyr for prin-
ciple.
A beverage that is said to have taken
the place of absinthe to considerable ex-
tent in France has been introduced in
New Orleans. 1t is called amei-picon,
and is believed to assist digestion, to be
an aperient and febrifuge, to stimulate
agreeably, and to kill with certainty II
afforded full opportunity.
Additional tests made by NJ. Bacle seem
to prove that low temperature has but lit
tie to do with the fracture of railroad
tires. Other things being equal, the tires
are as strong, he says, in severe trOst as
when the temperature is normal; but low
rigiditv of the road and its inequalities,
and so renders the shocks received by the
tires very violent, producing at times dis
asters which are attributed to changes in
the metal.
John II. McVicker, father-in-law of Ed
win Booth, and one of the oldest theatre
managers in the country, has been lee
turing in Chicago on the prejudice under
which the drama labors. He says that
the Church and the press are alike antag-
Onistic; that the former condemns with
out taking the pains to understand the
subject at all, and that the latter is so Sc
we're in its criticisms that the actresses
and managers get no encouragement from
that source.
Justice Nayes, of West Alexander, Pa,
recently married his two thousandth
couple. For sealing these happy bonds
he received the sum of $6,262 IA, or an
average of SO 12K per couple. The regu-
lar fee was originally 81, and after 1865 1t
was 50, although some couples paid moth
ing and others from S. to 500. The lowest
sum paid was 80 cents. Thirty couples
have been colored, fifty of the men were
named Smith, and fourteen women did
not change their name. Business ranged
from six couples day to none.
The official world in the neighborhood of
Avignon, in the south of France, was the
victim of rather a cruel joke the other
dav. The Project having sent out linn
tied number of invitations to dinner to be
given in honor of NJ. de Many, Minister
of Agriculture, some practical joker pro-
cured one of the cards, and having had
aboutthree hundred more printed to match,
forwarded them to Mayors, Judges and
other big-wigs with the utmost liberality.
AT the dinner hour, troops of these func-
tionaries made their appearance at the
Projects door, only to receive civil
apology from the secretary, and to return
to their own tables.
In what is claimed to be the most deli
cate pair of scales in the world, according
to the account given in the scientific pa
pers, the beam is made of rye straw, and
together with the pans, which are made OF
aluminium, weighs only fifteen grains. In |
the most delicate scale heretofore made |
the beam and pan weighed sixty-eight |
grains-the beam being made of aluminium
land the instrument was capable OF |
weighing TO the one-thousandth Of grain. |
This new scale, however, weighs TO the |
one ten-thousandth OF grain. A piece