Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-16
GENERAL NOTES.

Says the Boston Star: "Some young men
to be seen on the streets Of Boston seem to
be afraid that they will be mistaken for
native. born Americans, If their cockney
canes, coats and CANNES indicate anything"
The sunhower agony is beginning in Paris.
Nos bellies petites are already appearing with
two or three baby sunfowers on the left
shoulder, and The PdriSiG1 predicts that the
aesthetic flower will soon be witnessed there
in the full bloom of its glory.
Hearts of Oak-Augelina (who has never
seen a revolving light before)-How patient
and persevering those sailors must be, Ed
win. The wind has blown that light out
six times since they first lit 1t, and they've
lighted It again each timel-Ptnch.
Newspapers will go free Of postage through
the Canada mails on and after June 10. The
surplus in the Post Office Department will
reach $6000,000 this year, 1t Is said, ana
accordingly the Finance Minister has de-
cided to remove this tax on the dissemlna-
ton of knowledge.
The Alta California'S idea Of "noble work.:
"And If our principal boarding house pro-
prietors will make up their minds not to be
scared for little while, they can do noble
work by announcing to their guests that after
July 4, 1882. they will not let suites OF rooms
TO any one who has his washing done by
Chinaman."
The famous Cathedral of Saint Front, at
Perigueux, unique specimen of its kindin
France, has just been finished after thirty
years. work of restoration. The greater
part of the building dates from the eleventh
century. The architecture is In the Byzan-
tine style, and the work OF restoring 1t Is
said to have been carried out with singular
fidelity and success.
A mild tempered resident of Clinton, Onei-
da county, N Y, respectfully" advertisesin
the local paper to the following effect, over
his own name: "The parties who took away
my gate, last Saturday night, will think BET
ter of themselves some ten years hences II
they will return it unawares to Its former
position" It is to be hoped that gate has
been restored ere this
Ex-Congressman James B. Weaver, OF
Iowa, contradicts the report that he has
been having political negotiations with
Senator voorhees, and other prominent
Democrats 81 did write Senator Voor-
bees " he saws. ga personal letter concern
ing Iowa politics, but 1t is not OF the char
acter indicated in the dispatches, nor OF
any interest whatever to the public"
In Norway woodpeckers damage tele-
graph poles by boring through them, sup
posing that the humming sound produced
by the wires is caused by the insects upon
which they feed. Bears also remove the
supports of the poles, instinct leading them
to suspect that the cumming is produced by
wild bees and that the poles contain honey.
Instinct, like reason, is not iufalltble.
These are Mr.. o. Comes observations on
the effect of light on the transpirations OF
plants: The transpirations Of water is eff
fected by light as well as by the other physi-
cal agents influencing evaporation; and,
therefore, plants transpire more by day
than during the night, and the amount is
proportional to the intensity of the light,
and the parts of the plants which transpire
most are those which are most intensely
colOred.
To an insurance man in New London,
Conn, ex-SecretsrY Blaine has written:
tYou pay me a very great compliment In
naming your Office building for me, all the
more gracious aud grateful because we are
not acquainted personally. | trust that
your business may prosper iu the new office,
| and that YOU may write thousand policies
! for one year. and in the end be securely IN
derwritten yourself for this life and the life
to come II you should visit Washington
pray pull my door bell"
| A good deal of CONSERVATION was caused
| among the American and English art
students who are in the ateliers connected
with the Beaux Arts, such as Gerome's and
| Cataud's, by the directors of the public art
| schools passing q resolution to abolish the
| painting ateliers the 1st of January, the
| principal cause being that the schools were
| Overrun by foreigners. delegation OF
! Na1 In
directors, but met with little encourage
ment that the school would be continued;
so they will have to crowd into other ateliers
or form new ones.
The Prince of Wales, says Edmund Yates
in the London World, must have ward
robe as large as Mr.. Irving or any other
theatrical star, and must be quite as much
in need Of "dresser." At Portsmouth he
| appeared the first day In volunteer uni
| form: at the review he was in the uniform
of the civil service corps; the same night |
saw him at Government House In the red
tunic of a General officer. He can on occa-
| sion turn out as an Admiral, guardsman,
hussar, a Highlander, a Uhlan, or in the
flowing robes OF an Indian rajah, possibly OF
Chinaman or Jap.
/ see something Of fashionable people
here (wroie Carlyle to Miss WELSH, and
truly to my plebian conception there is not
a more futile class of persons on the face OF
the earth. II were doomed to exist as a
man of fashion, do honestly believe l
| should swallow ratsbane, or apply to
| hemp or steel before three months were
over. From day to day and year to year
the problem is, not how to use time, but
how TO waste it least painfully. they have
| their dinner and their routs. They move
4 !, fV.or orro rrad
| and enacted properly, and when the whole
is done, what is its Had the parties all
wrapped themselves In warm blankets and
| kept their beds, much peace had been
among His Msjesty's subjects, and the same
result, the uneasy destruction OF half
dozen hours, had been quite as wei at
tanned. No wonder poor women take to
opium and scandal.
"Auglomania" has seized upon the ''soci-
| etv people" Of the North to an alarming
extent At dinner party given in New
York a short time since to some EDglishmen
of rank and distinction, the conversation
| turned upon the close imitation Of English
| manners and customs which had become the
| rule Of the best society in our large cities.
| "Why,n said liberia minded British sub
iect who was present, edo you Americans
| COPY us in your dress, in your dinners, In
|
and, indeed, every social habit and custom
You have a different climate, wider and
grander range of country, more liberal edu
cation, and every means and appliance for
the creation OF a new order Of social habits
and behavior, stripped Of the insular preju-
dices which are blot on our Old World
civiliz alton. And yet you seize upon those
very blemishes, and copy them as IL they
were something to admire ?"
A characteristic scene in the House Of
Commons is mentioned in Shc English ex
changes. Mr.. Charles Lewis, who has a
srldent voice, was making speech which
nobody wanted to hear. Mr.. Lewis was Ia
order, and the House was completely at his
mercy. The House of Lords was not in
session, and Just in the midst Of Mr.. Lewis
speech Lord Mount Temple strolled In to
see what was going on. His Lordship, be-
ing slightly absent minded, forgot to remove
his hat, aud leaning gracefully against the
gallery railing he quickly became an object
| Of interest. Members began calling "order"
in loud tones. The cry started in the Irish
Quarter, but rapidly spread over the House
and swelled into a roar. Mr.. Lewis sup
| posed he had been SHINING and that the
cries were intended to drown his words.
He accordingly elevated his tone, warmed
TO the work, aud defantly continued his