Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-19
GENERAL NOTES.

| Queen Victoria. Christian, has more
Mohammedan subjects than followers of
Jesus of Nazareth.
Stock raisers in Nevada say that 20 per
cent. of their young lambs are annually
destroyed by coyotes.
! The State Auditor IN Indiana was pro-
| fame in the presence of a policeman, who
| Immediately dragged him of to cell.
a new throne of richly carved black
oak, costing S, 600 or $4,000, is being pre-
pared for the coming coronation of the
| Gar.
Mountain cork has recently been used
| in Germany as substitute for animal
charcoal for the removal of color from
| mOlaSSes.
The par value of a share of stock in the
Chemical Bank of New York is 500, but
if you wanted to buy one it would cost
! you $2,015,
For the last month 10000 men have been
engaged in harvesting ice on the Hudson
river. They have cut and stored nearly
! 100000 tons.
1t is said that the old omnibus company
| of London, which runs $50 vehicles. annu-
ally loses 10000 through the dishonesty
| Of its conductors.
| f-UlAC 0IC N0iAEu AAlNhdAAu CNCNAC NhC
vilest of mankind.n He retorted with
proud humility, lit would be glorious
world If ! were"
Persons who use ice taken from ponds
/ of impure water, should first boil the ice
| to destroy the germs that otherwise will
| destroy the health.
A vein of bituminous coal, eight feet
thick, has been discovered in Line county,
| Oregon. Specimens Of anthracite coal
were also found near by.
| The French National Library is the
| largest in the world, and contains 2,07S,00
volumes. or twice as many as there are in
| the British Museum.
COlOrado's contributions to the wealth
of the world in precious metals is $780,
| 600 greater than last year, and is said to
show no signs Of exhaustion.
The tanneries of Fioga county, Pa, con-
sume the hemlock bark from about $4,000
acres annually. Millions of hard wood
are going to waste in the country for want
Of mills TO work il up.
An English paper asserts that it costs
as much to transport bushel Of wheat
twelve miles ON a turnpike road in Eng
l1and as nom an American seaport across
three thousand miles Of ocean.
Instead of looking at the dress Of Sia-
mese 10 estimate bis rank, it Is necessary
to cast the eye upon the servant following
him, who bears upon tray the badge
which designates his masters rank.
Lord Tenterden, at one time Chancellor
of England, expired with these words on
his lips, :sGentlemen of the jury, you win
now consider yonr yerdict,"' Lord Her.
mand. the Scotch Judge, said on his
deathbed, "Guilty, but recommended to
the mercy of the court"
One of the professors in Cornell Uni
versity, lecturing on the effect of the wind
in some Western forests, remarked: "In
travelling along the road, even found the
logs bound and twisted together to such
an extent that mule couldn't climb over
them, so went round.1
4 saloon keeper Of Williamsburg judges
of the capacity of his customers to carry
more liquor by taking them 10 the door of
the saloon and asking them whether they
are able to distinguish in the distance the
difference between star and the light in
the fire alarm bell tower.
The Mexicans represent his satanic
majesty as @President Of He'll" Evil
IDENTIFY they are Of the impression that the
country referred to is a republic. 30 one
would blame Mexican for thus thinking,
in view of his own experiences of a Fepub-
lican form of government.
Miss Lille Rupp, great beauty of
Youngstown, Ohio, whose portrait APP
peared in the New York Grdphic's col
lection Of types Of American beauties, it
has lust been discovered, was married
secretly last August at Bedford Springs,
in Pennsylvania, TO Marshall Reamer, a
wealthy citizen of Louisville.
When Cavendish, the great chemist,
perceived that his end drew near, he
ordered his attendant to retire, and not
return until a certain hour. The servant |
came oack at the appointed time, TO find |
his master dead He had chosen to |
breathe out his SOIL IN solitude and |
silence, and would not be disturbed by |
the presence of man, since vain was his /.
help.
The English press is calling for better |
gallery l. which 10 exhibit the pictures |
belonging to the Royal Academy. Every
newly elected r. a. gives TO the Academy |
one Of his pictures, and as the custom |
has existed since the days of Sir Joshua |
Reynolds, the collection is a very large /
one. 1t is in the top of Burlington /
House, where it has quite odtgrown its /
accommodations.
The proposed change in the manner Of |
issuing patents should interest inventors,
inasmuch as the cost would be only 81, |
whereas it is now from $50 to 800, This |
fee would be for simply registering the |
claims of inventors, leaving the matter of i
the value of their works TO be afterward /
tried, and that of infringement to be |
tested in the courts, as is practically and
really now the case.
A veritable Swiss Family Robinson life
is that led by the McKees, husband, wife
and children, on the crib in Lake Michi-
gan where the Chicago water supply en-
tiers the tunnel two miles from the shore.
Caufafn Mckee last visited the city on