Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-04
GENERAL NOTES.

thirty-eight years.
The Venezuela COW tree Yields liquid
with the flavor of cream.
Germany boasts Of $50 pOetesses and
authoresses on the roll Of fame.
The Loudon Daily Standard claims an
average circulation of 1872, ZOO copies.
There is said to be one physician to
every thirteen families in the United
states
An entire suite OF bedroom furniture
made of glass is the freak Of a Spanish
gTandee.
An Eastern editor says that the new
ware peach orchard.
An Iowa editor. being asked by CORE
spondent if hogs paid, has looked over hi 5
subscription list and decided that they do
not.
The land upon which Cincinnati now
stands was purchased by J. c. Symmes
ninety years ago. for siXty-seyen cents per
acre.
Cayenne pepper is an excellent tonic
for canaries. Hang a red pepper pod in
the cage, allowing them TO help them
selves.
A sudden April shower makes apparent
the encroachments Of hanging signs upon
the sidewalks in the number Of torn um-
brella covers.
A lady who spent 100000 of her own
money during the war in aiding wounded
soldiers, is now living in great poverty in
Asheville, y. c.
The novels of Miss Evans, Mrs. South
worth and Mrs. Holmes have been Danish
ed from the Cleveland public library as
being too trashy.
Portable houses are coming into vogue
in England, especially at the sea. shore.
The same kind Of houses would be handy
for New Workers.
The number Of persons killed by lorna
does in this country in 1851 was 1S7; in
1882, 1863, and up to date this year the num-
Der is estimated at 80.
James Gordon Bennett estimates the
value of the New York Herald at $4,000
900, and says it is paying per cent. per
annum interest on that amount.
The census OF missions to be taken next
year, will, it is estimated. show an in
crease of 100000 native Christians in In
dia, Burmah and CeylOn during the last
ten years.
The colored church at Austin, Ark,
being half full of water one Sunday during
the recent floods, the preacher mounted
the roof and preached to congregation
assembled in skifis,
The orange trees in Southern France
have been so damaged by frost and snow
that blossoms for bridal wreaths and bou-
quets are difficult to procure, and their
cost has gone up decidedly.
Emerson's Conduct Of Life" BE
hayiOr." Couture" and Beauty are
proposed by Boston educators as a Win
ter's work in a morality department to
be established in the public schools.
Horse flesh is sold in some parts of Lon
don as beef. 1t has the peculiarly rosy
appearance which people like, and it must
be proven TO be ''unfit for the food Of man"
before its sale can be legally forbidden.
The exports, during March, of the Do
mInion Of Canada, were nearly s., 200 less
than during the corresponding month last
year. whild during the same time the i'm
ports were 1859, 900 in excess of those Of
March, 1SS2.
The bOrers Of an artesian we'll in san
Bernardino. Cal, have encountered at the
depth of 80 feet a tree which stands per-
pendicularly. Great pieces Of the wood,
which appears to be sycamore, are brought
up in the pipes.
The new diamond mines in Southern Ba-
hia are said to be the richest in Brazil
The latest reports from there tell Of great
sickness and mortality among the miners,
Of a superabuRdance Of dirt, filth and all
the vices customary at such places.
Dry coke will absorb - per cent. Of its
weight in water, information which HOr-
ace A. Allyn thought worth giving the
American Gas Light Association "for the
information of those who believe in dis
posing Of water under the name of coke.''
Fat is said, by DR.. F. L. Oswald, to be
the best lung food and among all fat
containing substances sweet cream is the
best. salt pork the least nutritious. Con-
sumptiyes should avoid all scOrbutific
articles Of diet; salt meat, pickles, cheese,
pungent spices, made dishes and all in
tOXicating drinks.
An old maid who recently died in Nor
way directed that her estate be equally
distributed among six discarded lovers,
all of whom were poor, explaining her
bequest as follows: These lovers either
may now have, or else they loved me, and
for that reason they shall have the
money. because / believed them
The Master Plumbers Association of
Chicago. warming to allegorical poetry
over their charcoal furnaces, adopted at
their last meeting a seal, whose signifi-
canoe the Secretary explained as follows
''The central figure is a copy Of an ancient
statue in the British Museum-Hygeia.
The rainbow indicates allegorically a
promise of better work, and also, as after
a summer shower, our surroundings are
in better sanitary condition. so by the
efforts of the association the sanitary con-
ditiOn of our homes will be improved. The
top bar of tubes around which the banner
is rolled is sYmbOlical Of In union there
is strength"
An extraordinary saurian of a rare
species was rently killed in Brazil, after
receiving thirty-six balls. Its body has
been dried and is thus described: 1t is
twelve metres long from snout to point of
tail, which latter is flattened. Besides
the anterior head, it has four metres be-
hind, two small but completely formed
heads rising from the back. All three
have much resemblance to the head of a
dog. The legs are short and end in for
midable claws. The legs, belly and lower
part of the throat appear defended by a
kind of scale armOr and all the back is
protected by a still thicker and double
cuirass, starting from behind the ears of
the anterior head and continuing TO the
tail. The neck is long and the belly large
and almost dragging on the ground.
The travelling altar of the Emperor of
Austria is taken on all long journeys,
whenever a court chaplain is in the suite.
This altar dates from the time of the En-
peror Rudolph III. Ferdinand I. said his
prayers before it, and it accompanied the
Emperor Joseph /. in the Turkish wars.
and also the present Emperor's brother,
the Archduke Ferdinand Max, on his i'll
fated Journey to Mexico. The altar con-
sists of a strong wooden case with iron
fastenings. The cover shows a picture of
the Lords supper. When opened, the
two sides are turned up to give the altar
due length, and four feet which are hid
den in the case are lowered. The conse-
Grated altar stone is then putt n the middle
of the mensa; the three altar cloths are
laid on, and the cross and wax lights are
fixed. The altar accompanied the present
Emperor on his journey to Jerusalem, in
1868, and to the opening of the SueZ canal.
DIR. Beda Dudik, travelling chaplain and
historiographer, read mass before this
altar on the open sea.
March on, March on to Victory.