Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-28
GENERAL NOTES.

Three-fOurths of all German beer is
brewed from potatoes.
America is the best customer for
Birmingham gunmakers.
Greek priests, unlike Catholic priests,
have wives and children.
The one railroad in all Greece is five
miles long, and each mile of it took year
to build.
San Francisco real estate is rising. 1t
is the last city in the country to feel the
present boom.
Great Britain has no less than 1874
Generals in her army, but only go Of
them are in active service.
Fargo, Dakota, will soon have manu-
factory where a three-stOried hotel or a
diminutive shanty can be bought ready
made.
An academy of pharmacy, for the in
structiOn of women in the profession of
apothecaries, is about to be opened in
Louisville, Ky.
The body of John Hampden, which was
eXhumed in an English village 200 years
after death, was found in Il perfect state
of preservation.
The single mining district of DOrtmund,
in Westphalia, produces almost $4,000, 900
tons of coal year, and $4,000 miners are
employed in 200 mines.
When the Rev. w. G. Richardson, of
the Amherst, Mass, Methodist Church,
got sick few Sundays ago, his wife took
the desk and preached a sermon,
The armament of Germany has been
completed. 1t was begun in 1873. The
expenses have amounted to 1872, 100000,
paid out of the French war indemnity.
This notice was posted on the doors of
an Iowa bank after the sudden disappear
ance of its cashier; '1Another pioneer of
American civilization lights out for Poly
nesia."
The amount of deposits and cash bal
ances in the joint stock banks of Ireland
in June, 1882, was ESQ, 667, 900, an increase
of more than two millions over the preyi-
Gus year.
The Mormon missionaries are finding
many converts in the district of Erlanger,
in Germany. Recently eight were bap-
tiZed in one day in the ice cold river Roe
telheimer.
A San Francisco firm is making prepa-
rations to go into the Touring trade in the
hope of building up ON the Pacific coast
the same condition of affairs that exists at
Minneapolis.
Nearly all the guns sold to Africa have
long, bright barrels and old-fashionea
flint-lOcks. The latter are preferred to
percussion locks, owing to the difficulty
of getting caps.
England imports 2OO,OOO,OOO pounds of
butter year. 1t is estimated that one
fourth of this is artificial, coming from
Holland, where sixty manufactures are
engaged in making it.
A sculptor in Athens has recently sent
a request to Queen Victoria begging her
to return to the AcrOpOlis the friezes of
the ParthenOn and other antiquities,
which were carried away by Lord Elgin.
The Society for the Prevention of Crime
in New YOGI, have reported 433 saloons to
the Excise Commissioners where wine
and liquor is sold without license. There
are 9,129 licensed saloons, making 1862
in all.
A flag that belongs to no State and to no
nation was flung to the breeze on the
main street of Richmond, Virginia last
week, and still flies. 1t is the Confederate
States battle flag, and bears the Southern
cross.
The tobacco industry is one of the most
important IN Germany. There are $4,000
600 persons earn their living by the
growth and manufacture of this important
article.
The heaviest sale of mining property
ever made in Montana occurred last
week. The Drum Lummon mine was sold
by Thomas Cruz to an English syndicate
for $685. cash and 81, $4,000 to be paid
in April and June.
The Clarendon Press has a full set of
Chinese types, and it's first work will be
the printing of Catalogue of the Chi
nese TRANSACTIONS of the Buddhist Tripi-
TAXA, the Sacred Canon of the Buddhists
in China and Japan"
An English author, on being told by an
American lady that she came from Mis-
souri,, exclaimed. missouri. let me see
what State is that in" missouri is a
State" replied the American. "Ah, yes,
yes, to be sure it is; it is Mississippi was
off,
The highest rate of wages paid for con-
vict labor in the New Jersey State Prison
is sixty cents day, and the lowest fifty
cents. The State receives but $195 a day
for the labor of $40 cOnVicts. Most of the
prisoners are employed by Pennsylvania ]
contractors.
Fire insurance statistics for the past
year show some queer figures. The Far
ragut Fire, of New York, took in $3l Is in |
premiums and lost only 81. The Ameri- |
can Exchange took in $1119 and lost $11 70. |
On the other hand sixteen companies took |
in So, 900 and lost $l0l, 900.
st. Louis and Boston have both had |
examining their water sup
ply. The report in lhe former case re- |
special facilities for filtering /
water, and in the latter that |
greater care be taken in guarding the |
sources of water supply by protecting the /
banks of the pond from which it is drawn.
At public sale in New York on Satur-
day, a case containing a compound of
wine, beef and iron, addressed to Presi-
dent Garfield, and held for unpaid duty,
was sold for 81, The compound was sent
to President Garfield by London, Eng
land, chemical firm, arriving on the day |