Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-13
GENERAL NOTES.

Silver has been discovered near Mont
vale Springs, Tenn.
The 100000 just added to the endOw-
ment fund of Vanderbilt University by
VIM. II. Vanderbilt makes a total endOw-
ment of 100000.
Thirteen per cent. of the sheep in West
Tennessee were killed by dogs during the
month of June. This was also the average
of the whole State.
After the mischief has all been done by
the American Eagle and the Goddess of
Liberty. the workingman is sweetly adj
vised not to take trade dollars.
Statistics show that the growth OF tim
Der in Kansas is yearly increasing beyond
the consumption. 1t was feared at the
first settling of the State that the timber
would disappear in few years.
French Canadians are coming into
Maine in larger numbers than usual this
hav season, the large crop demanding
more help, and consequently higher
wages, than for some years past,
A vessel from Pensacola discharged a
load of lumber at Boston, and, in shaking
out topsails to depart, huge water moe
casin. brought all the way from the Pen
sacOla docks, fell to the deck.
There are $4,000 cab drivers in New
York, and it speaks well for their honesty
that during the past year nearly 10000
articles left in their vehicles were
turned over to the safekeeping of the po-
lice.
Boston is said to be one of the three
places where the business of counterfeit
ing postage stamps expressly to delude
collectors is most largely carried on.
Glasgow and Hamburg are the other men,
bers of the trio.
Mr.. Wakeman says that there are not
many divers, and that "here is vocation
that is not overcrowded." Webster used
to tell Young men that there was room at
the top, but Wakeman assures them that
there is room at the bottom.
A large colony of HOllanders is to be
settled in New Mexico. The land designed
for its occupancy comprises about two
million acres, and was purchased thirteen
wears ago by the Maxwell Land Grant
Company. 1t is now largely enhanced in
value.
One of the South Dakota papers figures
it up that of the $1,000 square miles south
of the 10th parallel about 43, 900 are Indian
reservation lands, leaving for the pro-
posed State, for which some of the South
Dakota people are clamOring, only $4,000
square miles.
A cave on the Colorado river, over one
mile in length, and in some places thirty
feet in width, is attracting considerable
attention at Lampasas, Texas. This cave
is about sixteen miles from the town and
has two small streams running through
it, which are about two feet deep.
A curious Chinese delicacv is picked
eggs that have been buried for years that
their flavor NAV. like wine, be improved.
A similar custom prevails at Manila,
where ducks eggs are brOOded until the
Young are formed. and then are boiled
and sold in special stalls, as are oysters
here.
1t takes a good many years to make a
lifetime in a slow town. The mortality
of Philadelphia during the first six months
of the present year included 2l7 men and
292 women who had passed the age of so.
Of these one man died at the age of 107,
and two women aged respectively 103 and
1O4.
The Duke of Marlborough, who died
on the 9Th inst, has during the last few
years been disposing of his valuables. His
gems brought 1888, 100; his Sunderland Ii
brary, $500, 900; his pictures and enamels
brought $65,610. This made a total of
$549, 1860.
Erastus Brooks says he has seen more |
than 100 journals live and die in the city |
of New York alone, and he believes that |
more than $40, 000, 600 have been spent on /
the city papers since 1886. Only five of /
the 120 daily journals in existence in S36 /
and since then now survive, and 104 dis |
in the space of 20 years.
The clay of imperial Caesar does not eX-
actly stop hole to keep the rats away,
but on the spot where he fell in Rome a
store is now doing a thriving
business, while the gilded youth of the
Eternal City delight themselves with
variety show just above the place where
the ashes of Augustus were laid away.
The Prussian Ministry Of Public In
struction has caused no less than thirty
six new seminaries to be built during
1913 and 1882, at an expense of upwards of
Il 100000 marks. For the building and re-
pairing of public schools in the seven
years from 1874 to 1881 over III, 100000
marks were expended, the number of new
school houses built being 1915.
Says the Rochester Democrat, speaking
If sun spots: "Homer's record of Apollo
larting fiery rays and killing the Greeks
before Troy, is no myth in the
light of to-day. 1t may not be wholly
mythical that the rivers about Troy were
et ON fire and seethed within their banks.
We have in Homer's description poetic
recount of a great drought, when the
iyers actually blazed."
HIPS Hair Dye, black or brown, fifty
ents.