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

1t is estimated that over l 200, 900 orange
trees in Orange county, Fla, will come
into bearing during the current year.
Three defaulting directors of the 1t.
Petersburg Mutual Credit Society have
been sentenced to transportation TO
Siberia.
Japan has 113 newspapers, besides l3S
miscellaneous publications, and her news
paper circulation is said to amount TO
80, 449, 529.
All the existing portraits of Gambetta
are taken in profile. He had but one eye,
and always refused to allow his full face
TO be photographed.
An African spider, which spins silk-like
thread, has been discovered, and French
silk manufacturers talk of attempting to
introduce it in France.
The bell used at Wellesley College,
Mass. is from an ancient Buddhist temple
in Japan, and was given to the college by
Mr.. j. L. Graves, of Boston.
Five officers of the Sixteenth Grenadiers,
Army of the Caucasus, have been dis
missed from the Russian service and will
be secretly tried for Nihilism.
Seven million dollars are to be raised by
internal taxation in Japan this year, in
order to increase and equip the army, in
view of the hostile attitude of China.
a leading French physician, DIR. Proust,
in paper read recently before the Acade-
my of Medicine, says that there are 219,-
go houses in France without a single
window.
Five persons have been expelled from
the Salvation Army because they were
unable to give a satisfactory account of
the proceeds of a collection taken up in
Geneva, Switzerland.
Whether the baby boys name should be
John Frederick or Edward Gordon has
caused divorce suit in a Chicago court
between Mr.. and Mrs. Jones. Chicago is
where the trains stop fifteen minutes to
enable passengers to get divorces.
In a lecture recently delivered before
the Edinburgh Health Society, DIR. luke
stated that one of the great causes OF over
strain in youth was the vicious system Of
competitive examination. 1t detected the
mind of the child from the proper object
of education, and too often left the physi-
cal as well as the mental constitution a
wreck.
The peanut business is assuming large
proportions. 100000 bushels are raised
in Virginia, 100000 bushels in Tennessee,
and 100000 bushels in North Carolina.
The total value of the annual Weld is esti-
mated at 81, 800, 600, and the question as to
whether this traffic should be protected or
not threatened last year to become a pO-
litical issue.
DIR. J. Schenkel, after various expert
ments with petroleum, decides that an oil
which gives off more than per cent. of
volume below 40 degrees, and more than
10 per cent. below 800 degrees, is to be re-
jected. He asserts also that the CONNER
cial volume OF petroleum is to be deter
mined by the value of percentage which
distills over between the temperatures of
40 and 300 degrees.
Apropros of the demand for fire escapes
on colleges, Harpefs' Weekly pertinently
says that, when college students abandon
the practice of leaving farmers wagons
astride the ridge poles of gymnasiums.
stalling stray horses in chapel belfries.
and going hand-Over-hand up lightning
rods on a freezing night to execute a
scheme for muffiing the college BELLS
tongue with CONCEALED water, il will be
time TO appeal TO the wealthy alumni for
funds with which to erect and maintain
fire escapes.
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name was not mentioned, recently ap-
piled to the Court of Appeals in London
for leave to secure from Lord Beacon
fields private papers now in the hands Of
his executor, certain letters which she
believed referred TO her. In answer to
Lord Justice Lindley, the lady said she
had seen the Will and it contained no ref
erence to her, but she thought that the
documents in the possession Of the execu-
tors might affect her. The Master of the
Rolls said the court had no jurisdiction TO
interfere, and the applicant then with
drew.
Coffee was first introduced into Eng
land by Mr.. Daniel Edwards, an English
merchant of Smyrna, who brought home
with him to England a Greek, by the
name Of POsqua, who made his coffee, and
who was the first to introduce it to the
British public. In l66S, IT was first intro
duced into France by Solimin Aga, the
then Turkish Ambassador at Paris, and
who made coffee fashionable. 1t was
served TO the ladies in brilliant porcelain
cups, with damask napkins fringed with
gold, by kneeling Turkish slaves in gor-
geous attire. This splendid introduction of
the exotic beverage caused il to be quietly
talked about. and in 1872 an Armenian
opened the first public coffee house.
James Nasmyth, the inventor of the
steam hammer, records in his recently
published autobiography an interesting
fact about Burns. The first steamboat
that succeeded in threading the waters
like thing Of lifer was the joint produc-
ton Of Patrick Miller, of Dalswinton, and
William Symington, another engineer. 1t
was constructed on the double hull or
twin plan, the paddle being placed in the
space between the bulls, as in the case of
the modern Castalia. The trial trip took
place on the 14th Of October, 1883, and
amongst those on board were Robert
Burns and Alexander Nasmyth. Burns
was so little impressed by the birth Of