Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-03
GENERAL NOTES.

The American Peace Society has $780,
600 in its treasury. The battle is expected
to begin very soon.
The United States is worth $5O,OOO,O0O,-
900. or SC. 900. 900 more than England,
and SlS. OO0. 000. 600 more than France.
1t is a very significant fact that the word
Chicago begins with Chic. 1t explains
many things in the journalism Of that city.
The motto. BLOOD and Thunder" is
printed on the tickets of admission TO the
services conducted by the Salvation Army
now attacking Pittsburg.
4 Boston paper has computed that Gov.
Buffers pay is about $50 % per week, and
pointedly remarks that there Is no deduc-
ton on account of absence.
4 political economist from Paris recent
" had an audience of three, at the Cana
dian Institute, of Toronto. Colonel
Phipps was not among the number.
All the Barons of Prussia are to be
obliged TO prove their right to the title be-
fore next April. This Is done for the
especial protection of American heiresses.
The past year brought death to the doors
of no fewer than twenty-five eminent
English medical men, and all were far
advanced in age, the ages ranging from
- to 92.
Mr.. Thomas Lowry, Of Minneapolis.
Mimi, being about to retire from the prac-
tice of the law, has given his library of
over 1000 volumes to the Hennepin
County Bar Association.
When Sir Rowland Hill introduced his
penny postage. Lord Lichfield, the Post
master General, said: "Of all the wild
and visionary schemes which l have ever
heard or read of. it is the most eXtraOrdi-
nary"
The demand for Governor Buffers in
augural has been so great that the regu-
lar supply is exhausted. and a new edi-
ton is printing at private expense. That
is the result Of being chief butler of Mas
sachusetts.
The decrease in the native population of
the Hawaiian islands from 100 to 1898,
the year of the introduction of ChristiaDi-
". was $3.50, or 64.40 per cent; from
1923 TO 1866 the decrease was So, 2Sj, or
1888 per cent.
Recently five men got $780, worth of
gold in seven weeks of work in Alaska
The Young man who married Vanderbilt's
daughter got more than that by his resO-
luton expressed in that happy phrase,
III ask her"
In order to pay the expenses of the
coronation of Kalakaua, it is proposed to
pledge the Kings personal credit. Mean
while. peacOcks and turkey gObblers are
being robbed of their feathers to make the
royal paraphernalia.
Miss Margaret Thomas has finished her
colossal bust of Henry Fielding, which is
to be set up in the Tauntonshire Hall,
where already exist busts Of two other
English worthies-Admiral Blake and
John Locke. The bust will be executed
in marble, and will be unveiled at Taunton
in July by Minister Lowell.
The Darwin memorial subscription has
an enthusiasm in Sweden that
England herself is finding it hard to paral- !
lei. No fewer than 1,4O0 persons have !
come forward in that country with sums /
VARYING from 4 cents TO so. The United /
Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland has !
thus far produced only about 600 subscri- I
bers.
The Church of England has an income |
Of s4.435.OO0. OF this. Episcopal and 1
Cathedral officials receive s342.5 The I
patronage Of 1882 benefices, with an III /
come Of E1.513, 092, is ecclesiastical and /
collegiate: that Of So, with an income of /
I 297. 345. belongs TO the executive, and 1
that OF Sol. WIN an income OF ~. l5,50S. i
10 private patrons.
As to the defeat Of the whipping post I
bill in the Delaware Legislature. the Utica /
N.Y. Obserrer remarks: 1.-THE beater /
Of helpless women and children is a wretch 4
whose bare imprisonment at hard labor is /
scarcely an adequate punishment. While j
such brutes exist Delaware Will always i
have an excuse for the application Of the I
whip. even though it be cOntemptuously 4
designated in some quarters as relic of 1
Mr.. Irving, questioned by temperance
chronicle" writes: Il have no hesita-
ton in saying that the use of stimulants
for actors, when playing, is unnecessary
and injurious. With very few exceptions,
dramatic artists most carefully abstain
from all such when at work. The late
Mr.. Phelps carried this abstinence to
singular extent. What do ysu do said
4 friend TO him. If You feel tired or thirsty
when at work g What do / do? replied
he old tragedian; i bite my tOngueT"