Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-07
GENERAL NOTES.

Texas expects to have population OF
4, 600, 900 in 1890.
a Mexican woman, Ill years old, has
Just died at New Laredo.
A beverage made from Algerian plants,
called Amer-PicOn, has become power
full rival of absinthe in Paris.
A jury composed entirely of clergymen
is to be empaneled to try the next liquor
case at Grand Rapids, Mich.
A West Point cadet begins with the
same pay which a Prussian Captain re-
ceives after twenty years of service.
Spain produced in 1881 9O,672 tons of
lead, 23,47S tons of copper, 1862 tons of
spelter. an increase of nearly three-fOurths
over 1880, 1872 tons of quicksilver
The State House bell in Philadelphia is
fahe twenty-first in a list of large bells,
weighing $4,000 pounds. The biggest in
the world, at Moscow, weighs 443, 40
pounds.
There are still to be seen on the door of
the Chapel of the PyX, at Westminster
Abbey, traces of the skin of a malefactOr
who was tlayed alive for trying to rob the
Kings treasury.
The telephone system is so well organ
lied in Western New York that people for
thirty miles around Rochester shop and
market there, having supplies sent out by
afternoon trains.
Pneumonia and kindred diseases caused
nearly One-fifth of the deaths in Philadel-
phia and other seaboard cities during the
middle of March, a share nearly half
again as large as the usual proportion of
deaths from these causes.
British peerages to the number of
thirty-seven, One-tenth the whole number,
became extinct in the last fifteen years !:
800 peers and 234 peeresses died at ages
from two to three times greater than the
average of the community.
A new French gun is twenty-nine feet
six inches long, weighs fifty tons, and
costs $12O,OOO. 1t is wire-wound, and is
expected to put a ball through fifteen
inches of armOr. heavier than any on our
monitors, at a distance of seven and half
miles.
Among the theatrical eccentricities of
the last week of March in London was a
Julia of some forty odd summers; Car
dindl Richelieu of eighteen; boy Romeo,
with long arms like a semaphOre in ac-
ton; and Princess ZeOiide, of charming
ineXperience.
alighting from the train at Pfttsburg,
were: ''Oh re beautiful Zitee! re pure
air! re clear sky!" and before she could
say anything more she began to choke
and cough, and her eyes looked like two
burned holes in a blanket.
CalifOrnia's agricultural outlook is
gloomy. San Francisco papers say there
is no use Disgusting the fact that without
a good rain in ''the next fortnight the
main cereal crops will be total or partial
failures. In all the counties, with not
more than half dozen exceptions, the
winter sOwn wheat and the grass are
burned up by drought, and will not yield
more than half crop, with rain; without
it they will be total failure.
About year ago it was stated that the
Queen contemplated relaxing in certain
cases the very vigorous rule which pro-
hibits ladies who have figured in the
divorce court (however blamelessly), or
who are iudicially separated from their
husbands, from appearing at court. 1t is
now said that by obtaining special leave
from the Queen herself, ladies of this class,
who might fairly claim dispensatiOn i'll
their favor, may now pay their duty to Her
Majesty. A lady in this category attend
ed the first drawing room recently. The
Queen has sent kind and gracious mes
sage to the Warehouses of BlandfOrd,
who. if so disposed, will also be at liberty
to go to court.
A young Australian gentleman who
has Just been trotting right round this
little globe of ours, thus writes to friend
i'm London: "Since left Melbourne two
things only have completely realized my
expectations, the Falls Of Niagara and
ST. Peters, at Rome. The architecture of
these two great works differs in several
minor details, but they are equally grand
and quite fill the. bill. 1 have seen the
Notifications at Ras-el-Tin, etc., and no
longer wonder at the success of the Eng
lish bOmbardment. So flimsy are they in
construction that 1 was frightened to blow
my nose for fear the reverberation should
complete the work of destruction" Lon
don society thinks this quite as hippant
as ANYTHING possible even for an American
to say.
Apropos the Queens penchant for her
German kinsmen, the singular good for
tune of her husbands family is made a
subject of comment. They have been the
most thrifty favored of princely families
since Leopold, afterward King of the Bel
gians. was lucky enough to be elevated
from sdualid poverty to the position of
husband of the Princess Charlotte, and
DOssessOr of $50, 900 year, settled on him
for life bv the Tory Ministry of the day.
1t was entirely through the manguvres
of this Leopold that the marriage of Prince
Albert with the Queen was brought about.
There are rumOrs that in process of time
Prince Albert Victor Will be advised to
select as his wife the Princess Clementine
of xe-Coburg. daughter of the King and
Queen of the Belgians. The Princess is
now only 13 years of age. These affairs
are always practically settled long way
ahead.
London initiates Paris even in the man,
ing of its theatres. OF the new Eden the
special delight is said to be that in all the
popular parasitic promenades, the an
nexes and adjacent halls-smOking is per-
mitted. il is only forbidden in the re-
served seats. The consequence is that
Thousands flock to the circus and the bal
LET and the Eden is crowded to excess.
AS i'm all probability the laws concerning
amusements will be thoroughly overhaul
ed bv Parliament, and restriction replaced
by liberty. il might be worth the While
of the Alhambra directors, says run, so
TO construct their new theatre as TO enable
them to turn it eventually into an Eden
theatre. where smoking Will be permitted
under certain restrictions. A finer house
for ballot and Craftsmanship could not
well be imagined, and at present London
is very ill-prOvided in both respects. Half
the clowns af the music halls, and on the