Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-26
GENERAL NOTES.

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SAYS, was brick, of Louis Philippe plaster,
and of the second empire, stone.
A mammoth pulp mill, employing one
/ hundred hands, has just been started by
the Penobscot Chemical Fibre Company,
in Maine.
A colored grave digger, aged III years,
was married few weeks ago in 1onkers,
| y. Y, to pretty mulatto girl just out OF
her teens.
Florida is called the Spring Capital be-
/ cause most of the Senators, Congressman
and correspondents have gone there Tor
| recreation
Holland, in 1896, offered $4,000 guilders
for the discovery of a Northeast passage
/ 10 China, and NordenkjOld has just for
mally claimed the money.
| A blind man, who has been an inmate of
| the poOrhouse in Wethersfield, Conn.,, for
over fifty years, can repeat every sermon
! that he hears almost word for word.
New York city spends $24 per capita an
nually on all its expenses, and Paris,
which is said to have the most extrava-
CANT city government in the world, only
| So %.
Even Socrates, says the Saturday Re
rielc. could make no head against an OPP
nent who argued ''that if a dog was yours
and was also a father, then the dog was
| your father
A man in Winthrop, Me-, plays the pr
ano, organ, violin, banjo, cOrnet, fife,
xylophone, bones and guitar, and whistles
! like a nightingale. The Maine people are
| proud of him.
A Paris woman adyertises for sale
monkey, cat and two parrots, on the
ground that she is soon to be married and
will have no use for them. She has differ
ent ideas of matrimOny than some women
| outside of Paris.
The hurricane of 1866 blew over num-
berless cocOanut trees in the Bahama
Islands. Instead of dying. each PROSTATE
! tree sent up an upright shoot from the tip.
| Now these branches are from twenty to
| forty feet in height, and yield abundantly.
| There is nothing like mutual trouble to
bring people into harmony. AllalOng the
| Mississippi river, in Arkansas, Louisiana
| and Mississippi negroes and white men
are working side by side, day and night,
| to keep up the levees and prevent an nun-
dation.
About 1000 boats and $4,000 fishermen
are engaged in the sardine industry on
the French coast. There are about 200
! factories in which 1900 to 1000 women
are employed. A good catch for a boat
would be $4,000 fish day for which they
| get about thirty-tive francs.
A bronze mortar, weighing sixty pounds,
which was used at the siege of Louis
| vile, Canada, in 1145, was found a short
| time ago among the old junk of brass
| foundry at Bangor. 1t was purchased by
| the G. A. Il. post of that place, and is to
| be mounted and placed in their hall.
4 Doctor of Divinity living opposite the
| capitol grounds in Denver was having a
/ we'll dug. when the workmen, at a dis
/ lance of thirty-eight feet below the sur
| face, discovered rich bed of coal. The
| we'll project was abandoned and a cOmpa-
/ ny has been formed for working the mine.
| The contents of Ruskin's books are not
always duly set forth by their titles;
| contemporary writes that ''Notes on the
| Construction of SheepfOlds'' a little
| pamphlet on church discipline chad a
| considerable run among the moOrland
| farmers, whose reception of it was not
/ tlattering."
! The Germania Library, in Rio de Ja-
metro, contains 1900 of the most modern
1 and most distinguished authors of Ger
/ many. France, England and Portugal. 1t
| takes twenty-siX German, four Brazilian,
/ four French and six English periodicals,
| besides all the new books of special note
! in these languages.
The extent of many Mexican estates is
almost beyond realization. The bound
/ aries of one estate, on the central table
| lands of Mexico, extend over 100 miles
| north and south. The mountains travers-
! ing it abound with mineral wealth, and
| fine farms and extensive towns are met
with at frequentintervals.
Jessie Ace, the keeper of the Mumbles
| lighthouse on the coast of Wales, is the
| English Ida Lewis. She saved the lives
! of two Prussian seamen during the gale
/ of January -, storm so terrible that the
| lifebOat from Mumbles was wrecked and
four of its crew persisted. The Queen has
since sent for the heroine's photograph.
a man in Bridgeport, Connecticut, cut
| branch from a cherry tree and placed
it in water, with which he mixed, the first
day, five grains of nitrate of soda. The
dose was increased one grain each day,
and in less than week the buds began to
swell and the branch was full of blossoms.
1 The man expects to have ripe cherries in
few weeks.
The art of palmistry is coming into
vogue, and the bellies of society are eager
| " studying a treatise on the art, pub
| lshed in 1871. This study of hand Ian
| guage is indescribably fascinating, and
/ piQuant Interpretation of the mysteri-
Gus palm lines always insures attention.
/ and makes the interpreter the heroine of
| the moment.
| The Speaker of the British House of
! Commons begins his Parliamentary din
ners with the Cabinet always, and grail
ually gets through the whole House.
These banquets must cost him at least
! $1,000. His salary is S25, 900, with a splen-
/ did furnished abode adjoining the House.
| The Lord Chancellor, though Speaker of
| the House of Lords, does not officially feed
| them.
There are, in the belief of the London
| Spectator, at least three frst-class doctors
in London whose incomes flow almost en-.
tirely from men with brains which are
| OverwOrn, but not shattered, who seldom
! know what is the matter with them, but
| who one and all confess that their nerves
! are ''OYerStrung," or ''understrung," or
''gOne to pieces" or $50 excited" that
they can neither sleep nor work nor re-
main quiet.
a piece of Plymouth Rock has been for
warded by the Pilgrim Society of Ply
mouth to the Rev. Henry Alton. of the
Mission Chapel, IslingtOn, London, to he
| built into the chapel pulpit. Plymouth
| ROCK Is sheltered now by q handsome
| granite canopy, the floor of which is built
! around the Rock, so that only about two
square feet of it are visible. This was
/ found necessary to preserve it from the
| depredatiOns of visitors.
! An aged blacksmith in a Yorkshire.
! England, town died fortnight ago in a
howell outside the village of Well, and lying
/ on an upper beam in the howell was found
| a sum of $4,000, while in an old chest
/ were mortgage deeds for several hundred
pounds additional. The miser had been
missed from his shop for several DAYS,
4 when a search was instituted and he was
/ found lying dead in bed. He has no rela-
4 tives, and the entire estate, therefore,
| goes to the Crown.
a suit brought by Mrs. Fanny MOrdaunt
against Frank Mordaunt to compel an
| allowance for maintenance is now pend
| ing in New York Mrs. Mordaunt's cOun-
! sci asked an order from the court for a
! temporary allowance, and said his client
was actually starving. Justice Powers
/ looked at the lady's sealskin cloak,
4 trimmed with sea otter fur, and remarked:
THE most absurd thing, | think, / ever
| saw was in the play called Romance of
/ Poor Young Man. where the poor young
man was shown dying of starvation in
I garnet with very fine pair of new boots
on his feet, their clean new sOles turned
up to the audience.