Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-05
GENERAL NOTES.

A valuable deposit of mica has been dis
covered near Greenville, South Carolina.
The German proyerb, ''If rest rust
is Americanized to read, ''lf l trust,
| bust
Mr.. George Hall, of Marion county,
| Florida. has an orange tree thirty five
feet high and two and a half in circumfer-
| ence.
The population of Dakota Territory has
doubled in two years, and now reaches
| 100000. The amount of taxable property
| is $50 100000.
There are in the State of Tennessee
more than 500 insane people outside of
| the lunatic asylums, and without proper
care or medical treatment.
The Duke of Wellington once joined
famous London gambling house, that he
might be able to blackball his sons if they
ever became candidates.
At Nice the other day the rector of
Willesdeu was nearly strangled in front
of his hotel on the Promenade des Anglais
and robbed of $50 and gold watch.
A Cincinnati clairvOyant ''reveals the
| deepest secrets. unveils the future. brings
separated together, and causes speedy
marriages" for twenty-five and fifty cents.
Count Won MOltke said of the late Gen.
| Chanzy, that he was zone of the few
| generals of the day capable of command
/ ing an army of 200, 900 men without losing
their heads"
! An Englishman who boosted of his de-
| scent from Napoleon was asked, Show is
| that? The other day you said the Duke
| of Wellington was your great ancestor"
''Oh, that was by another mother"
| In st. Louis landlord wishing to get
rid of tenants who refused to move,
/ drowned them out. Living in the room
/ above them. he tore up the floor in several
| places and poured buckets of water
! through the openings. The tenants moved.
Some of the papers of Benjamin Frank
lin which came into the possession of the
late Henry Stevens, were found in a tailor's
! shop, where they had been for seventeen
years. One was cut into a sleeve pattern.
! The most curious is the original petition
of the Continental Congress to the King.
\ cOlored woman named Martha john
son. residing in Marshall, Texas, while
lying down smoking her pipe, suddenly
rose. and saving she was smOthering,
gasped and fell dead. A COrOner's in
| quest returned a verdict of death from
suffocation. caused by nicotine in the
throat.
A Danish sailor, in a ship sailing off
Cape Leuwin, West Australia, went alOft
with can of oil and was pitched over
board. The oil left such a trail on the sea
that the man was traced and picked up
/ more than an hour after the accident. 1t
is always we'll to east oil on the troubled
waters.
Stearns Carpenter, of Granite Corners,
\. y. aged eighty years, is the strongest
man in all the country round. SOmeyears
ago he grasped a twenty-fOOt iron rail in
each hand and walked off with them. Once
he shouldered a cannon that weighed
| /, 400 pounds. and the next day lifted a box
weighing 1900 pounds,
\ Methodist preacher who refused prof
fered money because, against his protest,
the young people who made up the gift
| INDUCED in kissing games at his house, is
! advised by the Christian AdrOcdte that he
might have accepted the money if, when
the donation party was over, the persons
! concerned had acknowledged their error
The English Cabinet, as now cOnsti-
| tuted. consists of fourteen members, sew
en- peers and seven commOners. The av-
J erage age of the peers in the Cabinet is
! nearly sixty; that of the cOmmoners a
little over fifty-fOur. thus giving for the
| whole Cabinet an average age of fifty
/ seven. The average of President Ar
thurs Cabinet is about forty-nine years.
Frank Rose, a river pilot of Louisville,
died at Mobile, where his remains were
placed in a costly casket and shipped
| home by express with c. Q. ID. bill for
Sl34. relative sued out writ of deliv-
erv. armed with which constable took the
corpse from its elaborate receptacle and
gave ii to friends for burial, leaving the
| express company 20 return the casket.
The month lust closed was an eXtraor-
binary one in the number of calamitOus
fires. floods. explosions, railroad COLI
sions, earthquakes and other disasters at
home and abroad. A summing up of the
! destruction of life shows that over a thou
sand persons persisted, the steamship
! Cimbria. Russian circus and Milwaukee
hotel horrors contributing the greater
number of victims.
Mr.. Serjeant Ballantine tells the story
of foreign prince who complained to his
steward that his horses looked thin. ''The
| cOrn-dealer will supply no more oats till
| he is paid" said the steward. ''WhO will
trust us:'' asked the prince. After deep
! and long consideration. the steward said
| that he thought they still had credit with
! the pastry-cOok. Feed the horses upon
tartsl" said the prince.
| The Rev. Mr.. Northcott, pastor of the
| Third Congregational Church of Toledo,
| got his pay weekly, and the Treasurer of
/ the church always handed him over a lot
| of mutilated coin that had come from the
| contribution box. As barrOOms were the
| only places where that sort of money was
/ taken at par, Mr.. Northcott objected so
| strenuOusly that he finally brought upon
himself the hostility of the church, and
| now he must go.
The largest seaside hotel in the world,
the ROckaway, was sold at auction on
Wednesday for $4,000. The first bid was
made by an elderly man who carried
broken-headed umbrella and wore a faded
bOttle-green Derby hat tilted back on his
head. His bid was 100000. John L.
CadWallader. representing DreXel, Nor
gan & Co., entered the lists and carried
! the price 10 $4,000, when the elderly man
dropped out. Gen. Francis G. Barlow
| took his place and ultimately the hotel,
paying $1,000 more.
Mr.. E, c, HAMMER, the Danish Consul
at Boston, suggests as a means of pre-
venting steamship collisions in a fog a
system of signals. He says a short blast
of the whistle might indicate that the yes
sci runs due east; two blasts, due west;
one prolonged blast of ten seconds, due
south, and two prolonged blasts, due
/ north. Northeast would be indicated by
one short and two prolonged blasts: south
east by one short and one prolonged blast;
southwest by one prolonged and two short
blasts, and northwest by two short pre-
ceding two prolonged blasts.