Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-28
GENERAL NOTES.

The house in which Gambetta died. at
Vile d'Avray, is offered for sale.
The latest new industry reported from
Alabama is a goose :arm, with 800 birds.
Three-lifths Of the 2.200 convicts in the
Texas penitentiary are negroes and MeXi-
cans.
Mr. Bergh is needed in Bracket, Texas.
They have cock pit there and fight
chickens on Sunday.
According TO official reports India can
raise wheat at 12l5 cents a bushel, and
has IS, 500. 200 acres in wheat.
LOndOners have a superstition that for
eigncrs who gamble in English railway
cars are always unsuccessful.
The mules of the planters Of NOrehouse
parish, in Louisiana. are said TO be dying
from the bites Of buffalo knats.
Prussia imposes an income tax on every
body who has 1925 or more per annum,
and has Just RENTED the tax from 3.740.-
/ 900 people who earn less.
There is a female barber in Haley. Ida
no. who makes from $40 to S2j a day. She
is pretty, and charges four bits a shave.
while the male tOnsOrial artists get but
two.
France has the largest national debt in
the world, the result Of the Prussian in
demnity. 1t amounts to $4,6S3. so, 900, or
Sl1I - for every man, woman and child
in the country.
Captain Carey, who some Oyer-zealOus
aristocrats demanded to have cOurt-mar-
tailed after the young Napoleon met his
death in Africa, died very suddenly last
month in kurrachee.
The Gar has one friend. Among his
coronation presents none eXcites more at
tentiOn than group of armed figures, in
massive gold, presenting scene COM
memOrative of Russia's aid TO the Prince
of Bulgaria, who presents it. There are
innumerable other presents.
NJ. Garcia, in his new book. The
Actors Art says that the celebrated
French actress, Dejazet, who played the
part Of young lovers at the age of seventy
used To get rid Of her numerous wrinkles
by means of elastic wigs. that kept the
skin tightly drawn from the forehead.
\ dentist in Plattsburg. n. Y, recently
received this order for set Of teeth: MY
mouth is three inches across, five-eighths
inches through the jaw. sum hummOcks
on the edge. Shaped like a horseshoe, toe
forward. Ii you wish me to be more
particular | shall have TO come thar"
An international Congress for the pro-
lection of animals is to be held at Vienna
in September next. Administration So
cieties will not be invited by the promo
tiers Of the conference. Eminent men Of
science do not consider them as societies
for the protection of animals, and hold
them to be generally incompetent regard
ing questions relating to such protection.
"Debreet's Peerage," etc. is i'm the 10th
year of its publication. This year it has
l.572 pages, bound in bright new orna-
mented cover, with Gilt edges. The ar
mortal bearings are said to be 400. The
whole is brought down to the latest date.
but it has the additional features of in
formation respecting the predecessors of
peers. 1t has the great mistake of 1882
on Its back.
The pug's curly tail is henceforth to be
utilized. In Paris an ingenious veteri-
nary surgeon Sacrifices the tip of the poor
pUg's tail, makes slight incisiOn in the
skin at the back Of the neck and deftlv
inserts the tail into the wound, bandag-
Ing il carefully until the parts head and
the handle is completely firm. Thus the
tail preserves Il graceful curve. but is
useful as well as ornamental, for the
precious animal may be lifted by his low
dirtiest streets.
\ few nights ago the editors at work on
the top floor of the tallest newspaper Office
in New York heard the fire engines gath
ering at its base about midnight. Stepping
to the telephone, one OF the editors called
to the police headquarters a mile away:
rs our office on fire. No. came the
prompt reply. Its a little building
round the corner" 1t took less time TO
ask the question of a man a mile of. who
knew all about it from routine reports.
than to 20 down stairs and see for them
selves.
The electrOscope-the very latest scien-
tific discovery-of Or. Guidrat, Of Victo-
ria, was exhibited at Melbourne in the
presence of forty scientific and public
men. Sitting in a dark room, they saw
projected on a large disc of white bur-
nished metal the race course at Fleming
ton, with its myriads Of active beings.
Minute details stood out with perfect
fidelity to the original. and as thev looked !
at the wonderful picture through binOcu-
lar glasses, il was difficult TO imagine /
that they were not actually on the course
ITSELF and moving among those whose I
motions they could so completely sean.
Bohemia is a sparsely peopled country /
now. One or two men, who really knew /
its crowded haunts and its few solitudes, |
its cheerful highways and its sad byways, /
wrote about il and made it familiar to the 1
world. Then came the inevitable cloud /
of imitatOrs and pretenders, and made /
poor old Bohemia an impossible place TO |
live in any longer. Its name is so cheap /
ened that the very mention of il has a /
ring of sham sentiment and sham mirth; /
even its tried gold has been so Iacquered
that it looks like pinchbeck. But there
was a Bohemia worth knowing, |