Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-22
GENERAL NOTES.

Connecticut has 1,O55 clergymen and
1,1S9 bartenders.
The French iron trade is prosperous and
new firms are in process of formation,
The Holland postal savings banks pay
interest at the rate Of 2,04 per cent, per
annum.
The cost of the government in the city
of Paris is little more than $5O,0OO,0OO
annually.
An Indiana boy of 18 is defendant in
breach of promise suit preferred by a
woman of "a.
France stands tenth among the postal
nations in the proportion of post offices to
the number of inhabitants.
France has maternal schools for desert
ed children under the age off. 1t takes
a good many schools for the deserted ille-
Ultimate children of France.
TwO-thirds of the 1880 inhabitants of
Jaffa go barefoot the year round, dress
like the Philistines of old, and do not yet
know the decent use of a pocket handker-
chief.
Food, rents and labor have advanced %
per cent. within a year in Palestine, and
the government has issued an order pro-
hibiting the landing of Jewish immi-
grants.
A German court has decided that pas
senger can recover no damages who cuts
his mouth because of the sudden stoppage
of the train while he is feeding himself
with knife.
The winter months would naturally be
the most prolific in railroad accidents, but
August is the worst month in the year in
this respect. 1t is probably the result
of large amount of traffic and much of it
irregular.
There are over 1000 savings institutions
in Italy and the total deposits show that
the people are saving at the rate of $15,-
100000 year, There are now on deposit
almost $500, 0OO,0 900, represented by almost
1900, 900 books.
A gentleman entered Portsmouth, n
H., drug store and asked for the ''dark.
possibility of bright IDEAS" The clerk
looked nOn-plussed and said he hadn't it
in stock. The customer then explained
what he wanted-a bottle Of ink.
Naples has about as many people as
Chicago, and Milan rather more than
Baltimore, Turin and Palermo would rank
with Cincinnati and the Eternal City has
population of 0,467. Population in
Italy increases a little less than l per
cent. per annum.
The gross weight of diamonds which
passed through the post office of Kimber-
ley, South Africa, in 1880, was 1440Z
pounds aYoirdupois, valued at Ed, 1851, 1897.
AT the end Of last year $4,000 black men
and LOO white men We're employed at the
mines in that region,
A chemist namOd Ditman has discOy-
cred process of sOlidifying coal oil, and
arrangements have been completed at
Baku, Russia, for manufacturing candles
from kerosene which will have greater
Illuminating power than tallOW, and can
be sold much cheaper.
When the. Chinese Emperor Quang-Su
saw the comet he sent for the Astronomer
Royal, who told him that it meant the
gods were displeased with the Ministers
of Worship and Public Instruction, and
the ministers received their letters of
dismissal few hours later.
About 1900 boats and $4,000 fishermen
are engaged in the sardine industry ON the
French coast. There are about 200 facto-
ries, in which 15,0OOto 1900 women are
employed. A good catch for boat would
be $4,000 fish day, for which they get
about thirty-tiye francs thousand.
man living near Lake Louise, in
Manitoba, picked up an armful OF sticks
one day last week, and, carrying them
home, threw them under the stove. In
few minutes two of the sticks commenced
crawling away, having developed from
the heat into good-sized moccasin snakes.
An unpopular English @Judge, ANXIOUS
to sit next a distinguished noble at dim
ner, privately put half sovereign into
the buffers hand in order TO be seated
properly. The butler returned it at once,
saying: 'Thank you; but His Grace has
just given me sovereign to place you at
the other end Of the ROOM"
Mr.. Trevelyan has discovered that the
people in the West of Ireland are living
ON sea'Nyeed rather than 90 to the work
houses provided by the government. He
held for long time that they only pre-
tended to be starving, but now it appears
as though, unless relieved, they will carry
the deception so far as really to die.
Five per cent. profit on the money in
vested satisfies the owner of a Belgian
wooden mill. He pays only third of l
per cent. in taxes, and gets his coal deliv-
cred at the mill at 50 80 a ton. The highest
wages paid are $12 to some of the over
seers. The average wages for seventy
hours labor week is only "a to So.
The widow of the ill-starred Col. Flat
tiers will soon be led to the hymeneal altar
in Paris by General of brigade. To
become his wife she viii sacrifice the rather
pension that Gambetta obtained |