Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-06
GENERAL NOTES.


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$4,000, 600 a year in Italy.
The Spanish Ministry wants sI7,oo0,ooo
for internal Improvements.
Nine thousand Marshal Mel roses on
one vine IL the record for one year made
by a grower in Newport r. !.
True Blue Presbyterianisn'' Is a refer
enoe To the dark blue gowns in which
Knox and his companions preached.
The Italian Government charges admis-
sion 70 all the art galleries. always free in
the past. and makes $4,000 a year out
Of it.
A metallic coffin was found floating
down the river al Louisville, Ky. 1t con-
tanned the body Of a boy some fifteen years
Of age.
The proposed country park IN Montana
win have an area Of 1900 square miles,
nearly ten times that Of the whole Of
Rhode Island.
A boy in Vermont swallowed handful
Of birdshOt to cure boils. The boy died.
but the effect Of the dose on the bOils is
not stated.
Boscawen is 10 celebrate its 10th ami
versary this summer with such show as
benefits the birth place Of Webster, the
Fessendens and Dix
Recently, al Bay 81. Louis, Miss, while
a boy was pulling dogs tail, the animal
turned on him suddenly. bit of the tip Of
his nose and swallowed il.
a leading French physician, in paper
read recently before the Academy Of Medi-
cine. saws that there are 49, go houses in
France without a single window.
Russia, Norway, Austria have each
third Of their surface forest; Sweden,
Hungary and Germany a fourth; Italy
and Switzerland fifth; France and Bel
GUM a sixth.
A man ninety years old, living in Unity,
y. H., without using spectaeles, recently
shot four squirrels with an old musket
which once belonged 10 soldier in the
Revolutionary war.
A MObammedan paper states that an
inhabitant Of India, who is eighty years
old. has just paid 1890 rupees for the hand
Of girl Of eleven, and the marriage will
soon take place.
A Connecticut advocate Of total absti-
hence concludes that 50 long as the State
displays on its shield three vines, ''em-
! blems Of drunkenness, the cause Of tenn
| perance will not prosper.
During the past three years, ivory has
risen at least 100 per cent. in value, and
/ pearl. which is also largely used in haft-
| ing cutlery and other goods, has advanced
very materially in the same period.
4 Portland. Ore, couple had all the fun
and romance Of an elOpement taken out Of
/ them By the united statement Of their pas
! and mas on their return that they We're
| all the while in favor Of the match.
\ copy Of the ''relacion" or official re-
port Of the Lord De La Ware, whose pOr-
trait recently reached the City Hail. which
I had once belonged To Sir Francis Drake,
I was sold in London at auction last week
/ for S152.
To prevent mould on the top Of glasses
Of jelly lay a lump Of parafine on the top
! Of the hot jelly, letting it melt and spread
/ over it. No brandy paper and no other
/ covering is necessary. If preferred the
paraffne can be melted and poured over
/ after the jelly is cold.
1t is said that the Captain Of an ocean
steamer recently served out some Of the
! cabin roast beef to the crew. \ man was
sent in remonstrance to the Captain, who,
! tasting the meat and finding it all right,
/ demanded the reason Of the complaint.
| "Well SIR said the spokesman, as he
| shifted his quid, ''we don't like it; there
! amt no chaw in it,
The legaliZed sale Of SKINNED milk is
objected to on the ground that a large
! proportion Of the fat globules which make
| pure milk 50 nutritious have been taken
away. thus creating a low grade Of food
which tends very materially to increase
the rate Of mortality among children
| under ) years Of age, particularly during
] the trying summer months.
! DR.. FarquharsOn, Mp, speaking at
| the Scottish Educational Congress in
Aberdeen, strongly condemned the effect Of
! the present system Of teaching upon the
4 health Of children, and urged the appoint
ment Of medical inspectors Of schools,
whose duty it would be to watch over the
health Of the pupils. The professors and
| leading educatiOnalists approved and
| supported this view.
A committee, consisting Of Drs. E. Sc
| guin and NJ. Putnam jacob, Of New
York, and Margaret A. Cleaves, Harris
burg. have issued a circular to our yari-
Gus medical colleges, in which they re-
| commend instruction in medical colleges
| on insanity by means of: !. a chair or
lectureship on psychiatry; 2. A clinic Of
! psychiatry, held in an asylum for the in
| sane. About twelve colleges have lee
| lures on this subject.
AT recent meeting Of the Baltimore
/ Conference Of the Methodist Episcopal
/ Church, President McCauley, of Dickin-
| son College. stated that that institution
would celebrate its centennial this year.
| 1t was proposed to increase the amount of
| its endowment fund by $4,000, One-third
| Of which would be for building purposes.
| OF this amount Sal 900 had already been
raised, Of which the Rev. ID. II. Carroll, Of
Baltimore, had given $4,000.
An examination Of the younger children
| Of the public schools, Boston, made by
| DR.. Stanley Hall, showed that Is per cent.
| Of the number had no knowledge Of a COW
| further than that gained from pictures;
| 81 per cent. Of those examined had never
seen an ant; 81 per cent. had never seen
| corn growing; 80 per cent. did not know
/ where their ribs were nor exactly what
| they were, while only 6 per cent. were ig-
| nOrant Of the location Of their stOmachs.
s'The three Democratic candidates for
| the Speakership have all temporarily or
occasionally been topers,' writes a well
informed correspondent. "NOthing is less
understood than drink and man. Persons
who never drink and cannot drink, like
women and saints, think they know all
about it. Warm men, warm in brain,
warm in mind, strong in ambition, gen.
orally flirt with the bottle at some time,
till experience and se1f-pOssessiOn regu-
late them. After all, the worst thing
about drink is the Improbable company
it brings, although the most dreaded form
of intemperance is the selfish, solitary,
back door drinker. The use of wine is
to warm the nature up, and make cold
men fraternal. That is why dinner leaves
men friends who began pale students of
each other. That temperance is to be sus-
pected which leaves the head and heart
at last formal and exact, like the two
brass tacks in dry goods store counter
between which everything is measured
off in yards-and often scanty yards, too"
A popular Partisan singer, as she en-
tered the theatre on recent evening, re-
ceived from the dOOrkeeper a bundle
which provoked great merriment when
she opened it I'M the green room. 1t con-
tanned roasted chicken with note from
an ardent admirer, begging that she
would send her portrait and "sOmething
belonging to her which she held to be
precious" to a given address. As the lady
happens to be married, her husband UNI
dertook to cool the ardOr of her CORES
pOndent by a reply which ran thus: ''Sir,
as NV wife is busy dressing her last baby
a girl, dear sir) she requests me to
answer your note and to send you my
portrait, her husband being, she assures
me. what she deems most precious-at
least, at present. With regard to her
photograph, you will find this at Madras,
and / may tell you that the renowned
photographer makes a great reduction
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