Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-13
GENERAL NOTES.

Turbot takes the place Of the great roast
OF Joint in Lent.
The Delaware peninsula is to be strung
on a telephone wire.
Land on Wall street is worth Slj,OoO,OOO
an acre: on Broadway S2,OOO,OOO.
Three-ffths Of the Russian newspapers
are published in Paris or switzerland.
Michigan burns bird's-eye maple for
fuel. and LiyAH11nHi 49, = - . a. - . ~
Building in New York this year will
reach s7O,OOO,OO0, judging from the pro-
gress in January.
At the end Of the revolutionary war
there were only forty-three newspapers
published in this country.
Under the laws Of Illinois a thief who
steals a copy Of morning paper from
subscribers doorstep can be fined 800,
The seaweed known as Irish moss has
become an article Of daily diet in Ireland
among people living along the coast.
The largest coffee plantation in Brazil,
and probably in the world, contains 1,7OO,-
900 bearing trees, and it takes 600 slaves
TO work it.
Toronto, a police officer there says, has
more than twenty criminals who iled from
this country and are enjoying life there
quietly.
Senator fabor's last wife is given the
cold SHOULDER by the ladies in Washington
society. Mrs. Senator ffill kept her nus
band from going TO the wedding,
A Mexican physician, DR.. CarmOna del
Valla, thinks he has discovered the germ
Of yellow fever in parasitic mycelium,
to whose presence the "blaek vOmit'' is
due.
Physicians are the only professional
men for whose exclusive use the govern
ment provides at Washington a free CIR
cplating library, supported at the public
expense.
The Emperor Nero was the first to use
an opera glass at the theatre. He was in
the habit of scanning the features Of the
performer through large emerald mount
ed in gold.
One hundred match heads pulYerised is
the faYOrite dose tor suicides IN Germany
at present. 1t has replaced Paris green.
Turpentine in small doses is the antidOte
for phosphorus,
4 Namur, Belgium, COW died Of intes-
final inflammation. A post mortem dis
closed the presence Of a valuable gold
coin, a quadruple pistOle, Of Franche
COmte, struck at BesancOn in 1873.
In Wilmington, Del, chained cOnyicts
are led the whole length of the main street
of the city to the railroad station, where
they take the train for New Castle, which
town still holds the county Jail.
Egyptians are shOrt-sighted, owing to
the ophthaigia and the bright sunlight;
fact which has probably registered itself
in the blunt, rounded character Of the
outlines in ancient Egyptian plastic art.
The Germans are filling the tunics Of
their soldiers with cartridges 10 provide
ammunition for the rapid firing Of breech- |
leaders, and adding horse with pack
load Of ammunition TO the equipment Of
regiment.
John Fernie, an English engineer, in a
paper Fead before the English Institution |
Of Civil Engineers, pronounced tae miId |
steel fire-box in use on the Pennsylvania |
road ga perfect fire-box." The English |
still make copper fire boxes.
Mrs. Henrietta Wiley, daughter Of |
Henry Harbeck, worth 100000, living |
near New York, got drunk enough to /
knock her coachman's hat into the gutter /
in playful way, and the courts are asked /
by her daughter and him to adjudge her /
an habitual drunkard.
The Polyphemls, the new English tor
pedO boat and ram, has proved failure.
Her average speed is only fifteen knots,
her 'slOcomOtiye' type OF engines are TO
be taken out as unservicealde, and her
tOrpedoes will not work. leaving
the vessel at any angle but the right one.
A Cape Cod man who has kept diary
Tor twenty-nine years says that a success
sion Of eight stormy Sundays, which Oc-
,urred this winter, was an event quite
In 1873 five successive
sundays were more or less stormy. In
1854 there were only eleven stormy Sun
lays,
The DuRkards, VINO are the best farmers
n Virginia, are selling their lands in
Valley at from $50 to $3.50 an
lcre. and then buying farms in the tide
water counties, the exhausted tobacco
ands. at from So to SIS per acre. The
Ounkards went TO Virginia from Penn
jylvania before the revolutionary war.
An elderly Partisan topper, ON his way
ZONE from the drinking saloon, stumbled
nto the square surrounding the obelisk.
lie was seen to clutch frantically at the
ron bars of the fence railing. After cir
ling around and around for some time,
nv Of despair escaped from him: sob,
he m-m-misible wretches! They've
one am lock- me inp'
A Cecil-county, Nd, couple, who had
cen living unhappily together lately,
dopted novel and simple method Of OBJ
aiming a divorce. They piled their house,
old goods on three wagons. The wife
Ook control Of two, the husband Of the ;
bird, Then they drove to Texas. At
ross-roads in that State the wife drove
ne way, the husband the other. IL