Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-21
GENERAL NOTES.

horses dangling" for the Republican nomi-
nation for Governor of Massachusetts.
Brigham Young's application for license
to marry his first wife, Mary Ann Angel, is
on file IN the Probate Judges Office in
Chardon, Ohio.
AS an act Of grace, on the occasion Of the
sixth anniversary Of his accession to the
throne, the Sultan of Turkey pardoned
sixty-nine persons suffering Imprisonment
for various offenses.
School libraries are greatly on the IN
crease in France. In 1865 the number was
only 4.s33, and in 1874, 1868 There are
now IS .9i3. This does not include the
teachers libraries, which number 2 346,
with sn aggregate OF five hundred thousand
volumes.
Capt. Mayne Reid, who is now a resident
Of England, is hereafter to receive a pension
from the United States of SIS month. He
served as Second Lieutenant in the First
New York Volunteers IN the Mexican war.
He is reported to be quite poor, and living
On a small hired farm.
Statistics have been collected showing
that the number of blind persons IN Prussia
has considerably decreased within ten years
10 spite of an increase of 10 per cent in
population. The falling off was from 49,
97S in 1871 to %. 677 in 1880 L. is declared
that this improvement has been due 10 the
progress OF scientific methods in the treat
ment OF children.
New electric lights have recently been
introduced at the British Museum. Four
Siemens arc lamps have been placed in the
reading room and been go adjusted as to
equslize the light over the whole room.
They will remain in operation from the first
| OF September until the first Of April, the
room being lighted until O'Clock. Outside
the museum are two new Swan lamps, while
other lamps give light in the hall and out
offices.
Steps were recently taken in Russia which
promise that the Cars coronation will not
undergo any further postponement. Count
| TolstOf instructed certain officials TO hasten
the election of deputies 10 the coronation
| from the local peasantTy, and the coronation
| robe OF the Czarina is declared to have been
! finished. This robe is richly embroidered
with gold and silver and is trimmed with
| ermine.
For the last third Of the month Of August
the receipts OF the Suez canal were ]. $780,,
600 francs, which, with those for the first
and second thirds, gives a total OF 4, 100, coo
| francs for the month. or the English war
| ships only two transports had paid their
| dues for transit, and for being stationed in
| the canal, and ~ ships and transports re-
NAMED yet 10 pay. 1t was declared fort
night ago that, for the future, war vessels
would pay their dues, on entering the canal,
/ in the regular way.
Louise Michel some time ago told the
women OF Paris who listen to her harangues
| that the way for them to do when oppressed
by their husbands was to strike. she mas
| now gone further than mere words IN this
matter She is engaged Ia forming what
she calls an "International League Of WO-
men Against their TYcan s." aud has started
| 8 subscription In aid Of her OH CT. She
proposes that mep, until they have accorded
certain politic1l rights to women, shall be
socially "boycotted."
China leads civilized countries in fading
a use for its ants. Prof. Riley, OF the Agri-
cultural Bureau, Washington, has recsiyed
from Han Chow an account OF q curious use
| made OF ants in that part OF China. 1t
| seems that in many parts OF the province Of
| Caution the Grange trees are injured by Ger
| tain worms, and to rid themselves of these
| pests, the inhabitants import ants from the
| n6ighboriug hills. The hill people through
| cut the summer and winter find the nests Of
! two species OF ants, red and yellow, sus-
| pended from the branches OF various trees.
| The trees are colonizsd by placing the ants
| on their upper branches, and bamboo rods
! are stretched between the different trees, so
as to give the ants easy access to the whole
orchard. This remedy has been In constant
use at lesst siLce 1910, and probably dates
| from q much earlier period.
An underground telegraph system between
Paris and Msrseilles is nearly ready for use
in France. Three weeks ago $50 men we're
engaged in pushing forward the work from
both ends, following the main roads and the
right bark Of the Rhone. From descrip-
| tion by Iron, the English journal, it appears
| that the pipes are laid at depth OF more
| than metre and o half, and chambers for
| facilitating repairs are now placed at about
/ every 500 metres; they resemble large cast
| iron csldrons with covers, and have aper-
! lures for receiving the ends Of the two
| pipes which they connect. Every 100 me
| tres the pipes are united by cast iron coup
| lings, which will permit OF inspecting and
repairing the cable, and the Joint between
| each pipe is made with an India rubber
washer or lead collar. 1.-THE work is pushed
forward with vigor," adds the same paper,
| 'aDd it Is proposed eventually to connect
this cable, which will traverse France from
north to south, with the cables of the Medi-
terranean and Atlantic"
Lighting the building at the Institute
Fair, now in full blast at Boston, is besuti-
fully done. The Edison Company IS run
ming FIVE hundred and fifty lights, and has
| Just erected a beautiful canopied Office
made of gilded iron work, which is neatly
| fitted up. A beautiful portable electric
| lamp is q feature. The Office is lighted by
| handsome ive-light chandelier. The Wes-
| ton Company is low in fair running opera
ton, working sixty lights, aud will soon
| operate eighty. 1t lights the entire gallery
| with the arc light, and will illuminate the
| textile exhibit with the Weston incandescent
light. The American Company is running
| fortY-fve lights, and will run sixty. Two
new thhty-light, tWenty-five-hOTse power
| ThompsOn-H Houston m8chipes were started
Thursday night. The machines are au'C-
matte, and their power eau be graduated
from one to thirty lights without waste.
The number Of elect c lights of all kinds
now used in lighting the building Is six
hundred and fifty five. The number will
reach seven hundred and twenty-five by
Saturday. The brilliancy must be seen to
be appreciated.
The marriage aid associations are aid as
sociations It seems in more ways than one.
Recently young man IN Mississippi, who
was engaged to be married, found SO much
opposition on the part Of his parents that ne
began TO despair OF being able to make the
trip. the young lady lived in a neighboring
town and was willing to become q wife,
provided her lover could manage to run
away with her. At this juncture, party
who was interested In the love scrape to the
extent OF sundry marriage aid time policies,
which were 10 danger Of expiring, appeared
on the scene and succeeded in carrying off
the fair damsel for his principal. The ardent
youth, by a preconcerted arrangement,
boarded the train en- route to New Orleans,
where, upon arriving one day last week,
license was procured and the marriage
ceremony performed. Thus two young
hearts were made uuutterably happy, and
the assistant a richer man by many thou
sands. Now i5 viii be in order for these
rapidly sccumulating associations to issue
special policies for the benefit OF runaway
couples.-heaO Orleans Times Democrat
The duties that fall to the members Of the
British House of Lords are not exhaustive to
human energies. The new Earl of Berke-
ley Las reached the advanced age of 50.
fact which has brought out the further
statement that the House Of Lords contains
a large proportion of men who have reached
or gone beyond four score. Thus, the Mar
outs OF Cholmondeley, Lord Halifax, the
50 Lord Hammond, Lord Winmarleigh,
the Earl of Erne, Lord Berwick,
Lord Churchill, and the Bishop OF
Chichester have ell reaChedtheir eightieth
year. The Earl Of Shaftesbury, the Marquis
~ Vglpchaetpr Lord RaOfrv and lord