Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-28
GENERAL NOTES.

ulSIduCG Is OI1S a Ail1tlGA Vi LOO miles. allO
the Captain is confident of raising the
necessary funds.
The agency of the South American
theatres has engaged Sarah Bernhard
principally for the Brazil for fifty repre-
sensations, the salary being $165, 900. She
will start from Paris on the Goth of neXt
April, and will remain absent one hun
dred and thirty-tiye days,
During his recenttour around the world
Joseph Cook delivered two hundred and
fifty lectures, all in English. He was
surprised to find how generally the Eng
fish language was spoken and understood
Mr.. Cook believes that English will be the
universal language of the future.
Californians find the cultivation Of wal.
nut trees as a regular crop extremely
profitable. Ten years growth produces a
tree twenty inches in diameter. Why
should not other States find remuneration
in walnut tree culture? The demand fol-
the wood for manufacturing purposes is
as great in other sections as in California
All stories respecting Sir Garnet
Wolseley are interesting just now, says
the London Truth. 1t appears that he is
fond, like Napoleon, of addressing himself
directly to the soldiers under his com.
mand. ''Now, my man." he said, ''if you
were told to tighten your kit by half a
pound what should you throw awayp'
1.-THE Soldiers Pocket Companion =
answered the man, as he respectfully
saluted his commander.
The first flour mill in Minneapolis was
built in 1860, and in that year the ship
ments of flour were 10000 barrels; in 1877
they were $500 barrels, and in 1881.
3,142, 974 barrels. The quantity of wheat
ground into flour in 1881 was $500, 00C
bushels, being 100000 bushels more than
the entire receipts at Chicago in that year
The foreign export of flour from Mime
amounted in 1881 to 1,1S1 ,324 barrels. The
products Of the manufacturers for the year
were valued at $15,000,000.
For distant communication in time OF
war, when other means of conveying in.
telligence to an intercepted body of troops
are rendered impracticable by the enemy
the following method, due to the inventive
genius of NJ. Mangin, may prove of great
service at night. A small, captive, trans
lucent balloon, containing an incandescent
lamp to which electricity is conveyed by
suitable means, is elevated by hydrogen
gas to any required height. By interrupt
ing the current at certain intervals mes
sages may be conveyed to the remote OBJ
servers in the Morse or any other conve-
nient alphabet.
Min, the reverend actor, is not discour-
aged by the slings and arrows Of outra-
geOus press notices which have been SC
freely hurled at him. He expresses his
determination to stick to his new prOfes.
sion all his life. ''NeXt spring." he says.
81 shall so to Europe for the purpose OF
studying the English, French, German
and Italian schools of acting. Especially
shall | pay attention tO'that greatest OF
modern actors, ROssi, and to the come
dams of the Theatre Francois, besides
perfecting myself in the German edition
of Hamlet that on my return l may al
ternate the English and German Hamlet
in this country"
Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas, the
seventh Duke of Newcastle, and Earl OF
Lincoln, a young man only Is years OF
age, is now in Chicago. He arrived at
Boston from England several days ago,
with the intention of travelling through the
United States in quiet way to benefit his
health. He has been an invalid from
birth. Born in September, 1864, he became
Duke of Newcastle on the death Of his
father nsFebruary, 1879, when he was
not yet 10 years old. He has two sisters,
one of whom was married last June to
Prince Alphonse Doria of Rome. The
Duke is accompanied by Henry Parmeter,
an old friend of the family.
A portrait of Columbus has been lately
discovered in the Madrid Museum. An
oil painting of an old man in an eighteenth
century wig had long been called COlum.
bus, but of course not considered genuine
The Inspector of the Museum, rubbing the
paint in one corner, found the inscription
''COlumbus Lieur: Now Orbis ReptOr.'
Gradually the outer coating was peeled
away, revealing an excellent likeness OF
Columbus as young man. The features
strongly resemble those of the Duke OF
Vergara, who lately presided at the con-
gresS of Americanists in Madrid, and who
is a direct descendant in the thirteenth
generation.
Lucy Stone is out with denunciation OF
Grip Van Winkle' as presented by Jetfer-
son. ''By his exquisite acting" she com
plains. " he wins his audience to sympa-
thy with a drunken husband who spends
his days and nights in grog shop with
boon companions who roar with laughter,
while the neglected wife tolls on alone
with poverty and want until she becomes
cross and sour from the hardness of her
lot. Mr., JetfersOn's audience is made to
hate the woman and pity and admire the
man who has broken his marriage vows,
wrOnged his wife, and embittered all her
life. The whole effect OF the impersOnatiOn
is immoral and unwhOlesome."
One of the Chinese students, formerly at
Hartford, was understood to have been
deeply enamOred of girl whom he met in
society there, and to have had some eX-
pectatiOn of winning her. But he writes
back from China that he is involuntarily
a husband. He found on returning home
that his parents had chosen wife for him.
Il tried to break it off, he says, ''but
without success, as the Chinese consider
an engagement of marriage the most
sacred contract. If it is once made it can
never be broken. According to the
Chinese custom the younger brother can
not marry before an elder one. have two
Younger brothers who have to wait for me
to marry before they can. Therefore i
was urged very strongly by my relatives
to marry right away, so l consented. OF
course it is not a love affair, but l shall try
to do my duty"
Jamaica is almost ripe for rebellion.
With the curious indifference or blind
ness of Englishmen to the state of colonial
opinion Lord Kimberly insisted that the
island should pay the damages of an in
ternational suit. This has led to an agi-
tation which is now at fever heat. Pub
lie meetings are being held; the walls are
covered with revolutionary placards; the
newspapers are full of indignant COM
ment; the Legislative Council is de-
nounced as body of men whose only in
terest in the island is their salary; and
L. Gladstone ic ranFOh0fnH nv the colo
nists, who seem to have heard of the Egyp-
tian war, as one who tramples on the weak
and trembles before the strong. At no
period since the great uprising of the
blacks has jamaica been so deeply stirred,
and if her demands are refused and she
feels sure of obtaining the moral support
of the world she may soon try to throw
off the yoke under which she has been
FESTIVE for 200 years.
The property left by Thurlow Weed is
estimated to be worth from one to two mil
lions. Only small portion of it consisted
of real estate. The bulk Of his estate is in
first-class railroad securities, although he
owned a considerable amount of bank
stock. city railroad stock, etc. The for
time was largely derived from the accre-
tions of invested capital. 1t was not until
he had reached the age of fifty that he
seemed to realize the value of money. BE-
fore that time he was almost Indifferent on
the subject of money-making. His fortune
was accumulated after he had passed the
time when man usually takes an interest
in lettering his financial condition. His
income ranged near $4,000 a year: His
estate is of a character that can readily be
into cash, Mr.. Weed made a
fortune by wise and careful investment
and reinyestment of accrued profits When
his income was, say $4,000 a year, he