Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-27
GENERAL NOTES.

German milk is the slang for lager
beer.
They swarm bees with a tin pan IN
Lynchburg, Va, streets.
Vincennes. Indiana, has butter dlsh
factory which turns out $4,000 to 9O,OOO
dishes per day.
The graduating expenses of the last
class at the Yassar College were about
$500 for each girl.
Little straw wheelbarrOws, nlled Win
strawberries, are the latest thing at what
are known as fashionable dinner partles'
Crushed strawberry colored village
carts are seen at Newport, and some are
drawn by donkeys whose carts are bound
with ribbons.
The Norwegian Storthung has resolved
that every able-bodied adult in Norway
shall receive a musket and be taught the
use of il at the States expense.
Mr.. Henry G.. Marquand's newly ac-
auired Rembrandt would appear to be a
bargain at SIS, O00.. An advance of $4,000
has been offered since the sale in London.
An Englishman in Paris has given So
500 to the sumptuous American Church
now building in Avenue de Palma. 1t is
a national scandal that the English
Church is not worthily represented in the
French capital.
Lord Sudeley, near Cheltenham, Eng
land, who planted 167, 900 currant bushes,
SO, 900 gooseberry bushes, $4,000 raspberry
bushes. fifty-two acres of strawberries
and numerous other small fruits two
wears ago, is now building a mammoth
jam factory on his estate.
A member of the Michigan Legislature
told Grand Rapids reporter that much
poker playing was INDUCED in at Lam
sing. He furthermore alleged that men,
Der from the Lake Michigan shOre-abOve
or below Muskegon-left the capital with
$1,000 winnings from poker.
There are now ninety-three police and
three roundsmen on the Brooklyn bridge
force. Twelve of these are eX-officers
from the New York and Brooklyn forces.
Fifty of the men are over six feet in
height. Seventy are now provided with
uniforms, and all are furnished with
clubs.
New Orleans has now deeper harbor
than New York. The White Star and
GuiOn lines dare not load their vessels
above twenty-siX feet, while the French
-
Orleans vessels drawing twenty-siX feet
of water have no difficulty or DELAY in
getting to sea.
The Journal Of Commerce has taken the
trouble to ascertain that the whole number
of cabin passengers leaving the customs
districts of the United States for foreign
ports during 1882 was 1895, of whom 3d.
200 sailed from New York. The number
of passengers other than those who went
in the cabin was 63,561.
Ben Deering is editor of a newspaper
and pastor of a church at Carthage, Mo-,
manages another newspaper and breaches
for another church at Carterville, has
still another church at Webb City, and is
now leading a camp meeting by way of
recreation. Benjamin was born in Ken
lucky and is Hardshell Baptist.
A splendid lot of polled cattle left Glas-
cow last week, consigned to Mr.. Hill, of
St. Paul. 1t includes fourteen cows and
heifers from the herds of the Earl of
! Strathmore, the Earl of Southesk and Mr..
Ferguson, of Kinnochtry. They cost
nearly $40, 600. With them was shipped
a two-year-old bull of Lord Fitzhard-
| inge's, which Mr.. Hill bought for $1,000.
The regulation governing the 'calls"
which are to be resumed on the New york
Iron and Metal Exchange this week, pro-
vide that the minimum quantities Of met
| ais which can be offered shall be as fol-
| lows: Pig iron, 100 tons; tin, 10 tons !;
! copper, $4,000 pounds Margins of 50 a
ton Will be required on iron, S25 ton on
tin, and one cent a pound on copper.
In New York there were 6S toy pistol
accidents last year, of which Is proved
fatal; in Massachusetts, 80, of which 26
produced death; in Pennsylvania u, of
which 10 were fatal; in Connecticut 10,
of which proved fatal; in New Jersey
10, of which were fatal; in Rhode Island
4, of which 3 were fatal; in Maine 6, of
which were fatal, and in Chicago go, of
which 10 proved fatal.
A New York sharper who attempted to
swindle Jerseyman out of twenty-five
cents on Wednesday evening was caught
in his own trap. He sold the man pair
of oyeralls for 81 %, and being rendered
81 80, refused to give the change, where
upon the customer seized another pair of
overalls. For this the dealer had him ar
rested. When the case came up III court
on Wednesday the Judge discharged the
prisoner and directed him TO swear TO an
affidavit against the clothing dealer for
the larceny of twenty-five cents. This he
did, and the swindling trader was sent to
Jail for want OF bail.
A curious bargain has been made be-
tween the French and Dutch governments.
The Dutch Government having authorized
a lottery, with six millions of tickets at
one franc each, NJ. W aldeck-ROusseau has
offered to permit two millions of francs
worth of them to be disposed of in France
on condition that the Dutch executive
committee of the international exhibition
of Amsterdam shall purchase at least one
million francs worth of goods of the eX-
hibitors in the French section. This
offer, which was made at the instigation
of the French Commission at the exhibit
ton, has been accepted.
An Eastern man in Dakota writes to a
friend intending to move out there:
''Bring plenty of warm underclothing,
vershirts-moleskins are recommended
oyeralls, and at least two double army
blankets, as soft and as heavy as can be
afforded. A rubber coat, hat and boots
are very necessary. Leather boots and
wide shoes with rubber sOles, for prairie
use. can be purchased in st. Paul. Can
vas coats and pants, such as trappers
wear, will be found of great service and
inexpensive. A buffalo coat is necessary
to afford protection from the penetrating
cold WINDS"
Oittirlira REmFniFa.