Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-25
GENERAL NOTES

New Hampshire records one divorce for
every ten marriages.
The Kansas City Journal says that
within five terms, covering fifteen months,
st. Louis courts have granted 1000 di-
yOrces.
Many of the great English lawyers have
been very uncultivated men. This was
prominently the case with Sir William
Follett, the most brilliant advocate of the
century. He knew nothing but law, to
which he gave almost all his time When
student at Cambridge.
Mr.. Berthold, of Breslau, Prussia, used
his railroad directors pass to- frank his
wife and daughters baggage, and was
condemned to a weeks Imprisonment for
obtaining fraudulently 81 IS worth Of
accommodation. He appealed, but SEN
tence was confirmed.
4 married woman, who has had trouble
with her female help, sends this recipe to
the press: 'Put all your old love letters
in a pastebOard box in the servant girls
room. A supply of old love letters has
been known TO keep a girl cOntented in
one place for three months at a time."
That handsome but very eccentric wo-
man, says the London Truth, Princess
Pignatelli, is about to become a public
singer, to the great disgust of her rela-
tiOns. whom she delights in tOrmentIng.
She is the sister of the beautiful Countess
POtOcka, of Vienna, with whom she is at
daggers drawn.
The Queen is urged to bestow the Order
Of the Garter upon Lord LOrne on his re-
turn from Canada. But the only stall
now vacant in st. Georges Chapel is the
one which was occupied by Lord Beacons-
field and the Queen has positively refused
to have that filled. Her Majesty's ca
price is an unprecedented, and, l must
add. a most unaccOuntable interference
with the patronage of the Prime Minis
ter,'' says Mr.. Labouchere.
In Prussia duels are not tolerated ex-
cept where there is legitimate caHse for
them. When one officer feels himself ag-
grieyed by another, the question whether
the cause of offense is one that necessari-
IN involves a resort to arms is referred to
a tribunal of honor. When a duel takes
place in France, where gentlemen are
very fond of this mode Of arbitration, it is,
in nine cases out often, the fault of the
seconds not being sensible men Of the
world.
Naval officers who know Majunga,
which the French bombarded for six
hours, describe it as being absolutely I'M
defended. consisting, as it does, of few
huts and some wretched apologies for
public buildings. Its inhabitants have
always been regarded as utterly devoid
Of a warlike spirit, and, irrespective of
the question of its prospective annexation
by France, the naval display made before
descending upon the inOffeRding port is
rcilessly ridiculed in England.
The spelling match has broken out
again in Syracuse, n. Y, with the usual
disastrous results. A student in the
Syracuse University spelled dough
dow; a clergyman got left on ''bap-
tiZable'; Professor kinne, principal of
the Madison school, spelled twelfth as
if it were sstwelyth," and Professor Grlf-
fin. teacher of Latin, Greek and German,
in the high school, got stuck on '1omniy-
Orous, +" ''Myrrh" was spelled ''M-i-r-r.h"
by young lady who said she intended to
spell il with gu"
One of the Chinese models in the Lon
don Fisheries Exhibition represents a
'-fOot-boat,'' a clever continuance for con-
yeying a single passenger. The boatman
carries under his arm a paddle for steer
ing purposes, while with his feet he works
a wide-bladed oar. In this manner .he
often rows from eighteen to twenty hours
at stretch, only pausing for few mo-
ments occasionally TO take his food, az
operation which is very simply performed
on the boat by means of a small portable
clay furnace close beside him."
Some 1900, coo children are being taught
in the japanese public schools on the
American and English systems. Besides
the schools under government control
there are a great many private education
al enterpriSes scattered about the cOun-
try. With a view of training young men
for special professions there are also
schools and colleges in connection with
the various departments, as also school
Of foreign languages, medicine, transla-
ton, etc. Separate institutions are estabs
lished for the education OF girls and are
meeting with good success.
A young lady at Albuquerque, in New
Mexico, went to the altar to be married
lately, but when the formal question was
put to her whether she would take s'this
man to be her lawful husband" aus
swered ssMy God! can't, | can't and
rushed into another room. The groom and
his friends did their best to secure
change Of mind. but she was infexible
and the match is declared on she bad
taken the preliminary steps with great re-
Iuctance, and decided at the critical mo-
ment that il was better 10 refuse than TO
have a divorce suit afterwards.
The German army is at the present
time distributed over 304 garrisOns, thirty
nine Of which have an effective force Of over
1000 men. Berlin, with IL 1913, and Metz.
with 14,34l, are the only two towns which
have garTisOns Of over 10000, The garTi-
son Of sfrasburg numbers e,e6s, that Of
Aayence 7,7i2, that Of Cologne 1900, that