Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-27
GENERAL NOTES.

ders and one hanging in ten years.
Hudson's Bay is to be explored to see
whether grain steamers cannot be run in
the brief summer.
The season in Canada promises well for
crops, the snow having gradually disap-
peared without destructive floods.
California wine production, as measured
by receipts at san Francisco, has risen
from 1864, 6O7 gallons in 1879 TO 100000
in 1882.
Rents have reached the limit of their
upward advance in New York city and
have begun to fall, the sure sign that the
end of an era of speculation is near.
By order of the King of Bavaria the
Royal Opera at Munich is. to be devoted
exclusively to the performance Of Wag-
ner's operas. All his works are 10 be
given in turn.
A bookseller tells the Publishers weekly
that if American novels were printed in
cheap fifteen and twenty-cent forms their
sale would be enormous and large enough
to pay big profits.
The Edison electric light, having been
introduced in the English House of Com
mons. went out with a snap one night,
leaving the chamber, Mr.. Labouchere
SAYS, IN DldCk udThueSS.
Kerosene.is being used to light the New
York Elevated Railroad stations, because
il is cheaper than gas or electricity-a
fact every economical householder knows.
Candles, the oldest light, are cheaper yet.
The French Government is building
. eight new irOnclads, two Of which will
carry eighty-ton guns-heayy enough to
sink the English naval Jumbo, InfeXible.
The cost of these vessels will be $2.200.0O0
each.
The English are to-day the nation whose
dress controls the habits of the civilized
world, Just as the French were 100 years
ago, the Italians 200 years ago, the Span
iards 800 years ago, and little earlier
Venice.
New Orleans has the best fish market in
the country, San Francisco the best fruit
market, meat is cheapest at Chicago, and
the best general market in the world is on
the Delaware and Chesapeake BAY, shared
by Philadelphia and Baltimore.
The forthcoming coronation festivities
at Moscow are reported to be greatly slim
ulating the trade in false iewelry in Paris.
One lady, attached to the Russian Court,
has ordered $4,000 worth of them, and
went in person to Paris TO select the de-
signs.
Annie Grant is young servant at
New York boarding house who attracted
the attention of a boarder. He caught
her as she was passing through door
and buried his teeth in her left cheek.
The wound proved poisonous, and he has
been arrested.
Hypoazotic acid is a new French eX-
plosiye. which, instead Of replacing vari-
Gus atomic portions of cellulose, as in gun
cotton, OF the alcOhOlS, as in nitrO-glyce-
rine. by nitrogen, does this in compounds
of petroleum. The result is Il vastly more
powerful explosive.
The Chinese have some queer medicines,
as this, for instance, known as the five
poisons Dried snakes, pulveriZed, 1 o.;
wasps and their nests, y o.; centipedeS,
o.: scorpions, 6 or, and tOads, 10 OF.
| These choice ingredients are ground into
powder, mixed up with honey, and made
into pills.
English travellers speak Of the Chicago
limited express as a triumph of speed and
comfort. With the completion of the new
Chicago line from Marion, o.. this sum-
mer, competition IN both speed and luxury
will be the order of transcontinental pas
senger trains. The Americans will travel
more than any people in the world. with
more kinds of objects and motives, if they
be expedited nObly.
A seamstress of Milan, Guiseppina
Rosa by name. was recently in such dire
poverty that she was forced TO sell for
/ trifling sum an old painting, the sole relic
| left her by her dead mother. She had
| scarcely dried her tears, when back came
| the picture dealer with a large roll of bank
! notes. He had discovered that the Ia
fann ,toA roll MO form nf mn
! bale Caracci-a fact scarcely more re-
| markable than his own honesty.
Some samples Of cheap coffee analyzed
by the directors of the Paris Municipal
| Laboratory were found to contain the fol-
! lowing substances: Bread dust, ground
acorns, red earth, vermicelli, plumbagO,
/ flour, caramel, sand, brickdust, ashes,
! ground peas and beans, carrots, figs, beet
! root, sawdust, red ochre and mahogany
! shaVings. Some more expensive speci-
mems differed from this only in having
chiccOry added to this appetizing mixture.
| New York photOgraphers-that is, the
/ famous Ones-are still distracted over
/ their engagements to photograph Mrs.
| Vanderbilt's guests in their fancy cos
! TUNES. One is often obliged to wait one
| or even two hours. Some ladies, to whom
expense is no object, have had back
! grounds specially painted in keeping
with their dress. The result is posi-
! lively artistic production, which will be
/ handed down TO pOsterlty, or, II the W0-
man be pretty, sold at fancy price.
/ \ man in Wisconsin married widow
before her dead husbands child was
| weaned, thinking that she was rich. At
/ ter marriage he discovered that most Of
/ the property was willed to the baby, 50 he
! had himself appointed its guardian.
/ When he went to settle his guardianship
account, he filed a claim Of $37 against
! his infant wards estate for nurse for
| the child. On investigation it was found
! that the nurse for whose services he
! charged was his own wife. the child's
! mother.
/ An Ottawa letter to London weekly
! journal says Mrs. Langtry's reception in
/ Toronto was what might be expected
/ from a city always foremost in the appre-
! citation of London stars. Coming after
! some rather equiyocal experiences on the
| other side of the line, the ovation awarded
! Mrs. Langtry in the social capital of Eng
| lands chief colony very much moved the
/ Jersey Lily, whose unaffected mOdesty
and unexpected stage proficiency brought
| down the house over and over again.
Russell Sage, the famous dealer in
puts and calls on the New 0rk Stock
Exchange, is regarded as the most phe-
nomenal leader the street has ever had
! natural, almost wOmanly, with mind
averse to violence or sinister things, and
a feeling also prevails that he has a CLASH
cal education, which he does not claim for
himself. He was in Congress thirty
years ago. was the Treasurer Of Troy City
and County many years, andpOsseSsed
popularity then as now. In Congress he
wanted the government to buy Mount
Vernon.
IL is said that two English sailors were
watching japanese juggler at Hong Kong
and were SO much pleased that at the end
of each trick one of the seamen, child-like,
would exclaim, "Now, wasn't that clever?
Wonder what he'll do next" After a
large number Of tricks, followed each time
by the same remark, the juggler made a
mistake and-drOpped a burning stick on