Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-03
GENERAL NOTES.

Fear is expressed that Senator Fair, the
wealthy Nevada Senator, will not live out
his term.
Two years ago WessOn, Miss, was only
a pine forest. 1t has now cotton mill
employing one thousand hands and nearly
three thousand inhabitants.
The youngest inventor on the records in
Washington is Walter Nevegold, lad 10
years of age, of Bristol, Pa, who has pat
ented important improvements in rolling
mill machinery.
The one hundred-ton Armstrong breech
loader just tested at La Spezia, Italy, was
charged with seven hundred and seventy
six pounds of powder to cast projectile
weighing two thousand pounds.
Professor Julius Schrader's great paint
ing, ''Milton Debating the Paradise Lost
to His Daughter" was sold at auction in
Berlin last week for 1900 marks. What
a contrast between Berlin and Paris
prices!
A school girl at Montrose, Pa, put her
finger into knot hole in her desk at the
academy, the other day, and was unable
to pull it out again. The desk had to be
split open with an axe before the youthful
prisoner could be liberated.
The Indian Rights Association of Phila-
delphia has been organized with Hon.
Wayne MacVeagh as President. The
object of the association is TO secure
to the Indian the same rights and privi-
leges as are enjoyed by citizens.
At Horsforth, in England, recently, a
supper was given to four hundred of the
inhabitants of sixty years and upwards.
There are in HorsfOrth, out of pOpula-
ton of six thousand, five hundred persons
who have passed the age of sixty.
German papers take delight in COM
menting upon the fact that, beside the
three German-American members in the
present (Forty-seventh) United States
Congress, there will be five more in the
next one, meeting in December, 1888.
Mr.. SENEGAL, of Montreal, is suing the
Courier de Montreal for $4,000 damages
for having said, in the course of an arti-
Gle. that Mr.. SENEGAL had plundered the
country by his sale of the North Shore
Railway to the Grand Trunk Railway.
On Long Island the sand industry has
grown to extraordinary proportions. Only
four firms whose invested capital did not
exceed $4,000, existed five years ago.
The capital invested in the business at the
present time exceeds $2.000,000. An aver
age of 1880 tons of sand are shipped in
boats to New York daily.
An Indiana avenue lady dropped in on
one of her neighbors for an afternoon call.
ssHow is your daughter?' she inquired.
''Splendid. She has just got back from
the State Nominal School, where she
ciphered clear through from ambition to
chemical fractures, and then she took up
pottery and jobbery, and says she can
snacuiate the internal calcutiOns "-Chi-
cdgO Cheek.
A New York correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Record thus discourses of Patti:
''Have you ever noticed the ugly way
Patti has of holding down her upper lip
on one side? Well, away up on the right
side of her upper gum she has a long
tooth that pokes her lip out, She is per-
fectly conscious of it, but instead of hav-
ing it out, she pulls her lip down over it,
which gives her mouth very ugly eX-
preston. Patti is vain, but she is very
much afraid of being hurt; so the tooth
stays"