Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-24
GENERAL NOTES.


The funded debt of st. Louis is S23,OOO,-
900.
There are 1900, 900 acres of waste land
in Ireland.
The cost of the Brooklyn bridge so far is
$14,627,OOO.
Three billion pins are used in this cOun-
try every year.
Up to May l, tobacco paid tax to the
government of 1925, 100000.
Eight Massachusetts railways last year
carried Al, 129, 285 passengers.
1t is estimated that in New York about
10000 girls earn their living as shop girls.
Statistics put the net revenue in the
United States from the dog tax at SIG, 000,-
600.
The largest coffee plantation in Brazil,
and probably in the world, contains 1,7OO,-
900 bearing trees, and it takes 600 slaves
to work it.
New York city has 1000 ragpickers,
whose collections are valued at $3.50, 600
per year, while the hand carts engaged in
the same business gather $3,0O0,000
Syracuse has been imposed upon by two
young men, who sold painted. sparrows
for canaries at 81 each. Two good sing
ing canaries were carried along as adver-
tisements.
DR.. Lyon Playfair, in recent speech on
the Scotch universities, said: "Whereas
the English universities taught man to
spend 9100 year with dignity and intel
ligence, the Scotch universities taught
him to make it."
About $25, 100000 are invested in the
manufacture of bread, cracker and other
bakery products in this country, repre-
senting some 1000 establishments, $40
100000 in material, giving an annual pro-
ductiOn of $70,000,00O.
The New Orleans Presbyterian Synod
has adopted report that the marriage of
man with the sister of his deceased wife
is not prohibited by the divine laws that
blood relationship continues, but that af-
tnity by marriage terminates with the
rupture of the tie by death.
Sin fifteen years." sighed DR.. Willard
Bliss at the Army Of the Potomac reunion
''therc will be a great thinning out of the
ranks of veterans. Did you see the gray
haired men in ranks? 1t won't be long
until all that are left will be gray or bald
Then they Will do very little marching
They will ride if they 90 at all. l marched
in the procession yesterday, and it half
killed me-"
MinneapOlis.is reported to ship annual
ly, beyond her local consumption 1861
$50 barrels of flour. 'These," saws the
T'ribune'S statistician, sit piled one above
the other, end to end, would reach $50
miles. The flour would make about 49,.
255,000 lOaves of bread, the ordinary size
of bakers lOaVes. These, piled in a pyra-
mid, would make, roughly calculated,
square pyramid with a base 300 feet
square, and with a height nearly 1000
feet"
If there is any reason to suspect that
moths have made inrOads in upholstered
furniture, it should be sprinkled with ben
zine, The benzine is put in a small water
ing pot, such as is used for sprinkling
house plants, and the upholstered parts
of the furniture thoroughly saturated
with the fluid. 1t does not spot the most
delicate silk, the unpleasant odOr passes
off after an hour or two in the air, and it
will completely eXterminate the moths.
A hen may be calculated to consume
one bushel Of corn yearly, and lay ten
dozen or fifteen pounds of eggs. This is
equivalent to saying that three and one
tenth pounds of corn will produce, when
fed 10 a hen, tiye-siXths of a pound of eggs;
but fve-siXths of a pound Of pork require
about five pounds of corn for its prOduc-
ton. Taking into account the nutriment
in each and the comparative prices of the
two on an average, the pork is about three
times as costly food as the eggs, while
it is certainly less healthful,
An old man arrested in st. Louis the
other day said that his son-in-law, with
whom he had made his home, was unable
to provide for him any longer. He be-
came discouraged and proposed to put an
end to his earthly existence and troubles.
For that purpose he went down to the
river at : O'Clock with the intention of
throwing himself in, but could find no
place at which he might not be observed
and rescued He then retired to a lum-
ber yard, and drawing forth a trusty but
very ancient barlow knife placed the
point OF the blade to his left breast and
began hammering the heft with piece
of wood. He succeeded in making a
wound about an inch long three inches
below the nipple, but his suicidal project
failed.
German papers comment upon the
strange fact that Italy seems to have
taken the greatest stride in the political
OF women. 4 movement is
on foot to reorganize the provincial and
district electoral laws. with view to in
sert therein the right of suffrage of wo-
men. Like the men, they must be OF the
age of twenty-One years, have the posses
sion of full civic rights, and also be ex-