Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-30
GENERAL NOTES.
The ladybird insect destroys the aphi
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end of May. After that it is very hot.
\ London weekly says that the de-
ceased wife's sister bill will be dropped
for this session.
Resides his duchy of Cornwall, the
Prince of Wales owns real estate valued
at $4,000 a year.
One billion seven hundred and seventy
SIX million letters. cards snd newspapers
last year went through the British post
office.
The pistol which a Cincinnati woman
said was the one with which her husband
threatened to shoot her proved to be a
beer faucet.
The Duke of Portland's deer are again
attacked by a parasitic lung disease which
afflicted them two years ago. The keeper
attributes it to the excessively wet sea-
sons.
1t was stated in 1874 that the net profits
of the Brooklyn Union Ferry Company
were estimated at $4,000 a year on a
paid up capital of 100000. steam ferry
boat began to ply in 1914.
Old-fashiOned flint-lOck shOtguns are
still made at birmingham, England, for
use in remote places where, should the
ammunition for patent guns give out, the
hunter would be helpless.
4 play by the late George Eliot was
offered to Miss Genevieye Ward a few
years ago, and was rejected by her in
favor of the melOdrama of "Zillah,' which
I proved a disastrous failure.
The gigantic elephant at the SchrOn-
brunn Imperial M~enagerie, neal Vienna,
was poisoned the other morning ''by COM
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We're administered to him, after swallow
ing which he died in less than eight min
utes.
President Eliot of Harvard says that
the ''seminaries bid against each other
for young mendicants, who think that the
community owes them a theological edu-
cation" and that "the clerical profession
has been deeply injured by beneficial
endOwments."
An, immense amount of building is in
progress at Washington. Many govern
ment employees at from $4,000 to $4,000 a
wear own handsome houses in more or
less fashionable quarters, and invite the
Z reflection that they must be marNelOuSly
good managers to do it.
While the Swedes are discussing the
project for obtaining a guarantee of neu-
trality and abolishing their army and
navy, the Danes, fearful Of the menace
Of their powerful neighbOrs on the east"
are strengthening their coast defenses and
constructing armOred gunbOats.
Philadelphia has no less than twenty
eight distinct funds in trust for charita-
BILE purposes, amounting to $10,2S4,027 80.
The funds are managed by the Board of
City Trusts, whose chief occupation is
managing the Girard estate, the princi-
pal of which amounts to a little over &c.
100000.
NJ. Ferd. Reiber, of Strasburg, has pub
lished a book on beer, in which he states
that it has already invaded the south of
France, and is rapidly making its way
into Italy. He gives a curious reason for
the fact. "Beer is the only liquor" he
says, (which one can drink and enjoy
while smoking"
When sinners have supposed themselves
to be dying and prOfessed to be converted.
but afterward have unexpectedly recov-
cred, in most cases they have lived as they
did before. This is the general opinion of
pastors who have seen these supposed
death-bed conversions, as reported by
the Christian AdcOCGte.
Prof. Conn, of Breslau. believes that
states lead to shortsightedness, and would
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tured in Pilsen. Black or white is proved
by experiment to stand out most clearly
to the eve. The Zurich School Board for
bids States. They are noisy. and invite
dirty habits in erasure.
In March, 1912, Brooklyn could not
boast of a single barber, j. Burke, who
had long lone business in that capacity.
having removed to New York. The in
convenience was so great that a number
of citizens met at the hotel then kept in
Brooklyn by Barnum (afterward famous
as a Boniface in Baltimore to raise funds
to tempt a man to come, which was done,
\ Chicago undertaken said the most
costly casket he ever saw was for a
widow, who left $1,000 to be spent for her
funeral expenses. The casket itself cost
s 1,400. 1t was lined with black and pur-
pie silk velvet, and had a solid gold plate
which alone cost $500. The florists bill
was 500. Drapings, carriages and nU-
merOus other incidental expenses made
up a bill of So 900.
According to carefully prepared official
statistics, the decline of the native race in
Fiji has been arrested, and a slight in
crease in the population has taken place
during the last two years. This result
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which the government have taken to
soften the contact of the natives with
civilization and to promote among them
some knowledge of the laws of health.
The Russian Government has begun to
execute its scheme for cOlOnizing the
lower part of the AMOR province, adioin.
ing the Chinese frontier, by dispatching
from Odessa $40 emigrants, constituting
go families. If the project, which con-
templates the removal OF 1901 900 persons
to the new settlement, is carried out on
the scale on which it has begun, the eX-
pense will be e-nOrmOus-not much less
than $10,000,000, in the opinion of the
Moscow Gazette. The cOlOnists already
dispatched were supplied with flour, oats,
agricultural implements, forty mil stones,
1000 w~agOn-wheels, several thousand
pairs of boots, and other articles of cloth.
ing, nails, screws, axes, saws and window
glass, and a family received $50 with
which to build a hut.
The official statistics of the Russian
armies at the present time show that at
the beginning of 1881 the number of officers
was 80, 49,, and Of the rank and file $685.
2Tj. In the course of the year 1850 Off
GERS and 2T0,16 rank and file left the SER
vice. while LOIS officers and 224,370 men
entered. The number of recruits was
lessened on account Of the extension of
the period of service to five years for the
fleet, the line and field artillery, and six
years for the other branches. AS to edu-
cation, 100, 500 could neither read nor
write; while those whose learning en-
titled them t0Sshorter service amounted
only to 4,455. In respect to religion, 160.-
J61 were of the Orthodox Church., %, 739
Roman Catholics, 7,24j Lutherans, SIS
Jews, 1896 MOhammedans, and 800
heathens, besides others in small number.
Burglars blew open and robbed a bank
vault in the village of Marion, Wayne
county, New York recently. They en-
tered a building, part of which was used
as a bank and part as a hardware store.
by breaking a rear window and unbOlting
the rear door. The outer door of the vault
was drilled, and the combination broken
by means of jimmies. They tried to drill
the second door of steel, but gave it up
and injected a large amount of powder
through crevices. When it was exploded
the whole front of the vault, eight by ten
feet in dimensions, and set in a brick wall,
was blown out with such force as TO de-
molish' the windows in the front of the
building, No one heard The report, and
the burglars were not seen. They obtain
ed 500 in silver and valuable papers. In
a bu~rglar-prOOf chest, which was too
heavy to carry away and too strong to
break, were $4,000 to $4,000 in cash and
negotiable paper, which they left.
Kansas has a population of nearly
1000, 900. The property of the State is
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