Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-12
GENERAL NOTES.


killed east of the Yellowstone river, in
Montana Territory, this season.
Ohio has one county which made in
1882 66S.00O pounds of maple sugar, which
may make up for the Vermont failure this
year.
Rockford, H., has a new social craze in
sOap-bubble parties. at which prize is
given the lady blowing the biggest soap
bubble.
Eight out of the twenty-seyen Cover
nOrs that Massachusetts has had during
this century have been graduates OF Har-
ward College.
The California foot prints, the DUke-ot
Argyle thinks, are a confederation of the
Scriptural remark, ''there were giants Ill
those days"
Nitro-glycerine was first used as a medi-
cine by DR.. Herring, of Philadelphia.
TWENTY-FIVE years later it came into use
as an explosive.
The average period Of sunshine for the
last three months, in London, has been
about half an hour a day, not more, a cor
respondent writes.
The United States has one veterinary
surgeon to every 100000 domestic ami
mails, against France. which has one sur
geon for every 100 horses; Germany one
for every 800.
More than half a century ago, widow
Ross, OF Lyman, Maine, advertised in the
Kennebunk Gazette for information of her
son. whose name, singularly enough, was
Charley Ross, and who had mysteriously
disappeared.
a man by the name of Battell has
bought between 1,200 and 1,500 acres of
wild land in Vermont, intending to use it
as a deer park. He will inclOse it with
barbed wire fences, and stock 1t with fifty
deer, costing 81 head.
1t took four policemen to carry into the
House of Commons the 3J0-pOund petition
for the closing of public houses on sum
day. and it was afterward said that four
thousand policemen could not carry out
the law if it were passed.
The best story told recently about a new
mine is that one of the owners, with ham,
mer and chisel, cut out a lump contain
ing $500 in gold. One of the men was
sent OFF with a message when the ledge
was struck. and while he was absent his
employer took out $4,000.
An old clam digger has just died in
New Bedford, Mass, leaving several
thousand dollars in a bank, and large
amount Of money hidden away i'll tomato
cans and under the flooring of his miser-
able hovel. 5000 of which was so badly
mutilated as to be worthless.
A novelty has been introduced at the
afternoon teas in London by a lady who
receives a great deal. 1t is silver cake
litter, very much like a pair of sugar
tOngs, only shorter, and with broad, nat
ends. 1t is used for carrying cake to the
mouth, and prevents soiling the gloves.
The Oyster-grOwers on the coast Of
France have discovered that oyster shells
which are thrown back into the sea pro-
duce thirty or fOrty-fold in two years. The
theory is that the young oysters attach
themselves to the old shells in preference
to any other object on the bed Of the sea.
Women's dress is said by London Truth
to be threatened with terrible clumsi-
ness. After the taut trimness Ofthe recent
| past. tllnics have come in with as much
fullness above as below, and pleated into
the bodice quite closely. All the folds
are drawn across from right to left, gath
cred into a small space, and fastened with
one of the fashionable clasps.
\ committee appointed by the San
Francisco Stock Exchange reported that
it was absolutely impossible to obtain
Trustworthy information about the Com
stock mines, and that the superintendent
paw no attention whatever to the territOr-
ial law compelling them to report TO the
officers of the company whatever dis
cOveries are made with the diamond
drill.
Lord TOrrington, one of Her Majesty's
Lords in Waiting, is now commonly
known in the London clubs as ''John
Brown the Second" ON the ground that at
John Browns funeral Her Majesty, over
come with emotion, put her hand kindly
on Lord TOrringtOn's shoulder and, to the
unspeakable disgust of that peer, OBJ
served: "GOU are now my oldest personal
attendant
Amelia Cricklane was remanded at Bow
street last week on a charge of attempt
ing suicide. She had thrown herself into
the Thames, near Cleopatra's Needle,
when dog ran down the steps, and plung-
ing in. dragged the woman to the steps,
where she was pulled on shore, The dog
accompanied his master, Mr.. Lyiord, into
the witness box, and, standing on his
hind legs, took a survey Of the court.
DIR. Webb's cross-eXaminatiOn appears
to have brought out many details, and
added various delicate shadows to Carey's
infamous character. He was punctil-
iOus attendant at holy communion, but
he remarked with pleasant laugh that
his reason for planning the removal OF
Mr.. Forster was that she would not wish
to meet him in Heaven, and the best way
of avoiding it was to send the good man
to his reward" AS for Brady he never
wanted any.
For want Of words to praise the Ameri-
can singer, Mile. Van Zandt, Partisan
critics take to fiction. Her new opera,
'Lacme," so successful, makes her a pref
" Indian heroine. \ Paris paper says
"Miss Van Zandt once had an adventure,
when a child, with tribe of American
Indians, after which the tribe all became
deeply attached to her, and she has re-
tanned many snatches of the songs she
heard them singing. Hence her fascinat-
ing melodies"
Carson Trevor, ID. D., rector of Bedford,
is reported to have refused to christen a
child Ellie who had been registered by the
name of Iphigenia. The Registrar General
writes to him that it is not requisite to
give any name to the registrar on regis
tering the birth Of a child, and if a name
be given a child may be baptized by an
other name. Second, that the registrar is
ODll1eu " IcSlSltI int DdpllSllldi HdlilC Ill
his register, on production of baptismal
certificate within twelvemonth, on pay
ment of the fee of one shilling. Third,
that the baptismal name the true Chris
tam superseded the other.
\ little book is circulating in England
entitled "IllustriOus Abstainers," among
whom the author claims Sir Garnet
Wolseley and DR.. Samuel Johnson. Lord
Wolseley has written a letter to a teeto-
taller in which he says he takes a deep in
terest in temperance, etc, "but | am not
a total abstainer, and have never claimed
the character for myself, but whenever /
have found it necessary to enforce on the
troops under my command a total Austen
ton from alcohol, / have invariably OBJ
served this practice" Those who forget
the 'WhO's for poOnch'' of DIR. johnson,
cannot help knowing that he drank wine
when no one was to be injured by it.
The London illustrated journals make
merry over the Vanderbilt ball-rather,
the newspaper stories about it. Thus one
says: "a well-knOwn young lady repre-
scented a cat. Her Overskirt was made
entirely of white cats tails, sewed on a
dark background. The bodice was formed
of rows OF white cats heads, and the
headdress was a stiffened white cats skin,
the head over the forehead of the wearer
and the tail pendant behind. A blue rib
bon. with ''Puss'' inscribed upon it, from
which hung a bell, worn around the neck,
completed the dress" The comment of