Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-10
GENERAL NOTES.

One OF the best living sculpt0rs cannon
carve a turkey.
The use of instrumental music in church
worship is increasing in England.
DR.. Benson is to be enthrOned as Arch
bishop of Canterbury on April Sd.
Recently 100000 pounds of haddOck
were brought to Boston in a single day.
They weighed them in scales.
Westminster Abbey towers have been
dwarfed ia eject by the tall new houses
built near the church, says Hamerton:
Bowie knives, razOrs, loaded pistols and
cans of dynamite were discovered among
packages sent by United States mail last
year.
Ex-senator Mcdonald, of Indiana, will
remain in Washington during "the sea-
son." He is shy of newspaper cores
pOndents.
At tie age of ninety years 'Grand-
father'' Prescott, OF iowa, sets type every
working day in the composing room of the
Corning Gazette.
The New York Life Insurance Company,
which already has a branch at Vienna,
has applied for authority to do business
in France with an office in Paris.
Girls who enter the English postal SER
vice GET y 80 per week at fist. If they
are real good girls. after few years they
get 30 cents or 81 more. Aapy of them
remain single, because the salary Is not
large enough to support husband.
Lord Keane, of England, in his will,
which was proved g short time ago, set a
good and much needed eAaEgle by ex-
Dresslv stating that his funeral must not
cost more than $3.50 $50. MY fathers, :"
he added, ''cOst $500, which | consider a
shameful waste of money"
The WytheYille {Ya,} Dispatch says
that the extent TO which the scarlet fever
is spreading throughout the Valley of
Virginia is appalling. About month
ago it broke out near StauntOn, and has
since reached that city, and spread to
such an extent that many of the schools
have been forced to close.
The subscription for memorial to the
late Charles Darwin has awakened much
interest in Sweden. The English commit
tee have received contributions from more
than 400 persons in that country, in
Guiding all sorts of people ssfrOm Bishop
to seamstress," and varying ia amount
from twopence to five pounds.
Mile. Dinelli, the most popular actress
of the Palais Royal Theatre, Paris, has
become insane. In the middle of a new
comedy. when the audience was perfectly
quiet and attentive, she turned to the
other players and said; ''Do you hear how
they hiss me; l cannot finish this piece
Next day she tried 10 Kill herself, and had
to be taken to an asylum.
1t has been thought expedient to post
pone Prince Albert VictOr's residence at
Oxford till the Easter term, and perhaps
wisely, as the place is not particularly
healthy during the early months of the
wear The Young Prince will pass some
time both az Oxford and at Cambridge, as
it is the Queens wish that his education
should be conducted on the lines drawn
out for the Prince Of Wales by the Brince
CensOrt.
A Maine man has perfected an invention
for starting the kitchen firein the morning
without getting out of bed. Before retir-
ing he empties a bod of coal into the range,
and then closes the hampers, so that there
will be Just draught enough 10 keep the
fire from dying out. Byan ingenious con-
triyance a wire connects with the damper
and runs along the walls UP through the
tioor IN :he sleeping room. When the man
wakes he gives .he wire jerk, the damper
fiies omen. and in half an hour a brisk
coal fire is burning.
The chateau OF Cannes, occupied by
Mr.. Gladstone, is one Of the fiHest in the
town. 1t stands upon an elevated and
position, about mile and
half away from the centre of business,
and from il ore enjoys an extensive view
of the Mediterranean end the surrounding
country. The place is quies and excluded.
y - not
been inhabited. and was prepared for Mr..
Gladstone quite hurriedly. Mrs. Glad
stone. the soa, stephen Gladstone, and
Lord and Lady W olyerton are with him.
The gradual emancipation Of the slaves
in Brazil has not only permitted the coun-
try to prepare itself for the adoption Of
free labor, but its influence on immigra-
ton has also been most marked, From
1864 TO 1872 the average yearly number of
was under 1000. In 1872
law was passed in favor of gradual eman-
and from that date to 1879 the
averaged very nearly $4,000
annually almost three times the average
before the enactment. The next two years
showed nearly the same results5 but then
a notable increase was observable, and
from the 1st of January TO the 3lst of De
cember, 1881, 80, TS4 immigrants landed ia
Brazil.
The London Truth tells this story of
London barrister: "When
ais young wife, TO wdom he was devotedly
attached, was upon her death bed, heavy
and important case in which he was re
tanned came on for hearing. His presence
being absolutely indispensable in the in
terest of his client, Mr.. Webster, with
wonderful self-control, took his place in
court, and spoke for several hours, re-
at the end of the day to his wife's
side in time to hear her last words. The
next morning, though he was heart
broken and overwhelmed with grief, he
appeared in court again, pale and deter
mined, and resumed his speech, only
leaving when he could safely do So"