Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-11
GENERAL NOTES.

Pennsylvania produced $40 per cent. of
the 2,752,47 tons of coke made in this
country in 1880.
An Austrian railroad company uses the
telephone to signal its trains from station
to station.
A Pennsylvania village is to be built in
Cuba to work the mines of the Bethlehem
Company there.
The House OF Lords is composed of he
reditary landowners, who collectively
own 14.25S, 527 acres of land, whose collec-
tive incomes are about E15,OOO.OOO.
The Swedish Government grants $500 to
an entOmolOgist this year, his duty being
to advise farmers on the most certain
method of destroying insects which dam
age their crops.
The French Deputies voted themselves
the favor last year Of travelling on all rail
WAYS in the country for 120 francs a year,
while y, 800 francs is what it would have
cost otherwise. There are no free passes
in France.
In private collection of curiOsities in
Maine there is a large silver spoon which
represents all the money paid for building
a saw and grist mill, the payment having
been made in silver which was melted
down and cast into the spoon.
The French Government have the light
house at Cape Grisnez in operation. 1t is
the first of forty along the coast to be il
Illuminated by electricity. The expense of
this undertaking iS/estimated at 5,000,0 900
francs, and the time allowed for their COM
pletion is eight years.
The last st. Louis story about the Chi
cagO girl is really too bad. 1t says that
she insisted upon throwing her shoe after
a newly married couple. The carriage is
a total wreck, the bride is i'm the hands of
a doctor, and the groom was with difficult
ty dug out from under the ruins.
A lady of rank and title who has been
making great efforts to raise money for a
charitable institution in London, says
that she finds it exceedingly difficult TO
obtain contributions in the West End, and
SAYS that it is easier to collect ESQ east of
Temple Bar than 60 west Of it.
Mr.. Chamberlain is said to be getting
worse with the Channel Tunnel. He is
pestered in and out of the House with
questions. He makes up his mind night
after night to move for joint committee
of both houses TO report whether the safe
tv of England would be endangered if a
submarine railway were to be made from
Dover to Calais.
In all the royal palaces in England a
most careful distinction is made between
State property, which descends from one
sovereign to another, and private proper
ty. At present almost everything at Bal
moral and Osborne belongs to the Queen
herself, but, excepting 2 few pictures and
ctotuoS, sbo has no personal proDerty at
either Windsor or buckingham Palace.
The main building for the Southern EX-
position, which opens at Louisville, KY,
on the LIST of August, is now in a suffici-
emily advanced state of construction TO
give some idea of its proportions. 1t will
be one of the largest of the kind ever built,
covering an area of 677, 400 square feet,
being inferior only to the main building
at the London ExpOsitions of 1851 and
1862, and the Centennial Exposition.
louisiana and California are going to
exchange not only their heavy agricultu-
raj products, such as sugar and grain, but
Iuxuries as well. California having sent
a quantity of wine and fruit to New Or
leans. the Southern State reciprOcates
with car load of its best oysters in the
state to San Francisco. This may be the
opening of new and important trade be-
tween the two States.