Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-09
GENERAL NOTES.

A cheese mandatory mas Deen stdI teu
in yucatan.
The Cuban sugar crop last year was the
largest ever known.
The American Peace Society has invest
ed funds amounting to 100000.
A contemporary newspaper announces
as one of its features "literary letters from
Boston"
More billiard tables are in use in Vene-
zueIa in proportion to the population than
in the United States.
American merchants and American
goods have a better hold in New Zealand
than in any of the British colonies.
The first direct cargo to Ceylon from an
American port has just arrived. 1t was
of pine lumber and kerosene oil.
During the year 1882 the ship builders
of Essex, Mass, built thirty-seven vessels,
aggregating 4,S0S tons, at total cost OF
$240, 900.
About 1000 volumes relating to the his
tory of Canada have been purchased in
New York, for addition to the Canadian
Parliamentary Library.
The Juice of the COW tree of south
America has been analysed by
French chemist, who finds that it really
possesses many of the constituents OF
cows milk.
Hold Bey, an officer of the Turkish army,
claims to be 100 years old and to have en-
tered the army during the reign Of Sultan
Abdul Hamid in 1777.
The number of Roman Catholics in
Great Britain is rapidly increasing. In
England and Wales there are 1,1SS
churches, 2,112 priests and II bishops.
Ranhoffer, Delmonico's chef, says quail
can be cooked in thirty-four ways, each so
different from the other as to be plainly
distinguishable by fairly well-educated
gourmet.
Connecticut is rapidly forging ahead III
the cultivation of oysters. About 10000
acres are now planted, and thirty steam
ers and many sailing vessels are engaged
in the trade.
Complaints come from Nice of the large
amount of counterfeit money in circula-
ton there. 1t is chiefly in five franc
pieces, which are believed to come from
the gambling tables at Monte Carlo.
At a recent execution in Japan thirteen
strokes of a sword were necessary to be-
head the victim. The edge of the instru-
ment had been blunted purposely, so that
the agony of the doomed might be as great
as possible.
Verdict of a Baltimore COrOner's jury
over dead. colored woman: owe find
that she came to her death through natu-
eral causes-cramp collie, produced by eat
ing sausage for breakfast-and in the
opinion of the jury the sausage was good"
The San Francisco CAL is responsible
for the somewhat incredible story that the
'sTruckee river is now frozen to the bot
tom," and that ''whole schools Oftrout may
be seen firmly fixed just where the cold
wave struck them"
TObaccO'manufacturer buy licOrice at
fifteen cents a pound and sell it as tobacco
at three times that sum. They appreciate
the fact that licOrice does not contain
nicotine, and in using it they feel that
they are doing a service to the community.
The strongest and commOnest sort of
paper in use in Japan, for handkerchiefs,
napkins, ETC.. is made from vegetable fibre
that of the bark of shrub called mitru-
ma. 1t grows on very poor land, and
springs up again from the root after being
cut down.
The latest novelty in stationery is eye
ragged edge" note paper. 1t is made by
hand in London, the peculiar rough edge
not being attainable by machinery. Let
tiers of coincidence and begging letters
should, in the fitness of things, he written
upon this style of paper.
The population of Victoria, Australia
is less than that of New York city; that of
New South Wales is less than that of Phila-
delphia; that of South Australia is less
than that of Boston; that of Queensland
less than that of Baltimore; that of New
Zealand loss than that of GhipaUO-
A reporter of San Francisco paper re-
Gently found five generations of one family
living within block or two of each other.
The Observation-Disclosures is seventy
one years old. the great-grandmOther fifty
six, the grandmother thirty-eight, her son
twenty-One and his baby daughter six
months.
Mrs. Mary b. Young, of Fall River, has
offered to erect high school building in
that town and to deed it to the municipality
providing certain teachers shall be APP
pointed by persons named by herself. She
will also endow the school, which Will be
a memorial of her deceased son, and the
total value of the gift will be 100000.
In 1852, King Louis XIV, of France, sent
as a gift to the ssgracious Lords of Berne"
six siXteen-pOund cannon, cast by the
SwitZer MorritZ, at Strasburg. Afterwards
Berne sent two of these cannon to Naud,
and for many years they have been at the
Castle of Chiffon. Recently they have
been removed TO the Castle of MOrges.
In Russian town the club is reported
as in a great state of excitement over a
set of new rules, among which are the fol-
lowing: s"NO one shall enter with dirty
boots or clothing smelling of pitch, leather
or fish. No velvet waistcOats OF green
vlr.rr- Ill 60. II
forbidden that during SOiree ddRSdnte
members shall use the window curtains
as pocket handkerchiefs."
A woman went to a Michigan clergy
man for advice as to a business venture,
and implicitly followed the directions
which he did not hesitate to give. The
result was disastrous. She now sues him
for 81, 500, that being the amount of the
damage which his bad counsel caused.
His defense is that, while his profession
made him an expert in spiritual affairs,
the woman had no excuse for relying upon
his judgment in business matters,
The great demand for embroidery as
dress trimming has caused much excite
ment on the subject in some parts OfSwit-
zerland. Whoever can scrape together
enough money invests it in embroidering
looms. Shepherds leave their iocks,
peasants their plows, farmers their fields,
and landlords their inns, in order to learn
to embroider. Capital is being raised by
subscriptions to companies, and every
one expects to make a fortune from en-
broidery.
Post office saving banks, on the model
of those established in England, have
been opened in Austria, and the success
of the system seems assured. The sale
of books and stamp tickets was enormous.
In all the districts the post offices were
besieged by thousands of people, and the
whole stock provided by the government,
amounting to 100000 books and 100000
tickets, were sold during the first day.
The Emperor was the first depositor at
the post Office in Vienna, and his book is
No. /.
Elizabeth Baily, a washerwOman, on
Monday recovered a verdict against Ron
aid Thomas, a wealthy New York broker