Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-30
GENERAL NOTES.

Austrian stocks have not been so high
for ten years.
Yucatan is to have two railroads in
running order next month.
The consumption of rubber goods has
more than doubled in the last three years.
The floral decorations of the churches
i'm New York city on Easter Sunday cost
at least $4,000.
Last week 100 tons of freight were
shipped East from Chicago-the largest
amount ever reached.
The Crow Indians of Montana number
about 3,4O0, and are chiefly engaged in
agricultural and stock raising.
Thomas jefferson wrote that great
cities were s'pestilensial to the morals,
the health and the liberties of man."
Austria and Hungary pay nine millions
a year in subsidies to steam navigation
lines, and propose increasing the sum to
twelve millions.
The local Indebtedness of the United
Kingdom is about "a per head, and nearly
all of it was incurred for schools and
town improvements.
There are 10000 square miles of almost
unbroken forests in North Carolina, COM
prislng pine, chestnut, oak, maple, beech
and hickory timber.
Dundee merchants, many Of whom
carry standing credits in the United States
of from $75, 900 to 100000, say they have
much fewer bad debts in the United States
than in Europe.
Bad sanitary arrangements, defective
plumbing, leakages and sewer gas have
been held by a Chicago Judge sufficient
fg,- dor
and sue his landlord for damages.
AS a cure for witchcraft, the people of
Northern Scotland, as late as the sixteenth
century, dug up corpses, cut off their
heads, soaked them in water, and drank
the water, which they called "dead bree."
The Northwestern States will have to
import corn for seed, and most of the
western roads carry it free. Oregon is
importing wheat, and the Oregon Railway
and Navigation Company is carryingit at
dollar ton.
Buffalo is rapidly becoming one Of the
most important coal distributing points in
| the country. More than 100000 tons
were received there last year, and the re-
| ceipts of anthracite were % per cent.
greater than for the previous year.
The Cable Construction and Mainten-
ance Company earned almost half mil
| lion clear last year, out of which dividends
| were paid at the rate of 20 per cent. and
over $500, 200 carried over. The laying of
submarine cables evidently is not an I'M
! profit table business.
French mails have increased in in
closures, ETC., sent from S65,00O,000 in
| 1877 to 1.340. 900. 900 in 1881; French tele-
! grams from S,174,000 dispatches in 1876 to
! Is, 1866, 900 in 1881; French money orders
from $1.341,000 in 1879, when. they were
Established, to SO, 775,OOO in 1881.
/ The public analyst of the city of London
found that the majority of the samples of
milk tested last year were adulterated.
| The teas were pure, but of inferior quail
/ ty. Butter was pure, pepper dirty and
! sandy, and disinfectants from % to 30 per
cent. weaker than they protested to be.
Antwerp, a city of 100000 inhabitants,
| had no water supply but wells and canals,
and in 1879 works were built to filter the
waters of the Nethe by passing them
| through filters of sand and spOngy iron
and gravel. The plan has proved success
| full, but the supply is very small accord
ing to American ideas, being received in
a tank of only 100000 gallons.
The long correspondence between Har-
ward and Yale having finally closed with
! an agreement on all the points in dispute,
! even length Of bOat-"middle of the
| boat first across is winner'-it has been
suggested that the unlettered authorities
| of the turf will take into consideration
! the length of horses and decide that here
| after they must start and finish by middles.
| A Sheffield firm has taken a foreign con-
tract for steel rails at f5 a ton delivered
on board. Reckoning the duty under the
new tariff, this would bring the price up
to S41 80 a ton and freight delivered in
this country. In other words, the price
of rails in this country must advance 81 a
ton before there is any chance of profit
able impOrtatiOns, even if ocean carriage
were free.
Complaint is made that there has been
very little social gayety in the American
circle in Paris this year, Mrs. Mackay be-
ing at MentOne recuperating her health.
! On the other hand, strange as it may seem,
/ a correspondent, writing from AleXan-
dria. says that the town has been very
| gay, that there is an excellent club there,
and very agreeable society, with an
| abundance of dinner parties and dances.
! The Czarina's coronation mantle will
be marvel of .heraldic embroidery. The
ground will be solid cloth of gold, from
which the Russian black eagle will stand
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of Moscow. while the arms of the prov
inces of Kazan, Siberia, Poland, Astrak-
han, Georgia and Finland, and of the
| Grand Duchies of Kief, Vladimir and
Novgorod, will be emblazOned- on the
wings.
Mr.. G. F. Watts, r. A., English artist,
tells his countrywOmen that extreme
tightness of dress is a very hazardous eX-
pertinent. Even beautiful arms, when
very tightly enclosed, look not little like
sausages. But it is always to be remem-
bered that folds, with their infinite change
ableness of shape, light and shadow, are
more beautiful than anything, excepting
that perfection of form which is rarely
found.
The Nation ventures, when DIR. Dix re-
iterates his question, what does ''higher
educationv mean for women? to inform
him that the theory on which it is asked
for. is not that woman ought to do mans
work, as DR.. Dix suppOses, but that lit
tie more knowledge than she now gets
will fit her better to do her own work.
eve will be so cruel as to add that we
think DIR. DiX's reasoning processes, if
correctly reported, would inevitably be
improved if his female audiences had had
little training in elementary logic"
Rats were represented by Professor
Huxley, in an address before the London
Sanitary Protection Society, in the light
of sanitary pickets or inspectors, for
where a rat could come through then GER
tainly bad air could find entry. A COM
plant of rats in the basement Of his own
house led to an investigation, which
showed that, years before, workman, in
LAYING a drain under the house, had not
closed Joint where there was change
of direction. This had been unsupported
until the appearance of rats led to its dis
cOvery.
Newly married couples will find the fol-
lowing, about wedding celebrations, of in
terest: At the end of the first year comes
the cotton wedding; at the end of the sec
Ond wear, the paper wedding; at three, the
leather: at five, the wooden; at seven, the
wooden: at ten, the tin; at twelve, the silk
or fine linen. or both: at fifteen, the crys-
tai: at twenty, the china; at twenty-five,
silver. After this the gifts grow more
and more costly. At the end of thirty
wears the pearl wedding occurs; at the
fiftieth anniversary, the golden; and at
the seventy-fifth the diamond.
The brains of James II.Of England have
lately been discovered at the old Scotch
College in Paris. The dethroned monarch
in exile took such interest in the semi
nary that he bequeathed to it his brains,
and the relic was religiOusly guarded I'M
til the time of the French revolution, when
the mob plundered both the college and
the adjoining English nunnery. Since
then the treasure has been missing; but
now. through some draining operations, a