Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-06
GENERAL NOTES.

1t is estimated that over $500, 100000
worth of various articles were manufac-
tured in Chicago last year.
Women are to be employed inthe French
post offices, and as an experiment are
first to be attached to the money order de-
partment.
A member of the Pittsburg bar, who
entered the ministry few years ago, has
gone to the third extreme and become
handler of baggage.
The head of the firm which manufac-
lures Maraschino is dead-at the age OF
sixty-eight, but the manufacture Of the
liquor will go on just the same.
City iotting in Salt Lake Tribune: at
is reported that the representative of the
Kingdom of God will be permitted to take
his seat in Congress-"
|. Land speculation of the widest kind
has superseded stock gambling in Aus
tralia. Villages that were sold twenty
wears ago on paper have never progressed
any further, and are now being sold over
and over again.
Colorado, whose history as State dates
back less than seven years, is certainly
advancing rapidly in civilization and now
proposes to have a grand State musi-
cal festival in May or June with Theodore
Thomas as conductor.
Even in Egypt, during the assault on
Tel-el-Kebir, was the life of private saved
by the Testament which bullet pierced.
"Her Gracious Majesty, the Queen, has
been pleased to accept" photograph of
the pierced Testament.
The Tombstone Arizona Epitdph hopes
the legislature won't have an economical
spell and abolish the office of Chaplain.
eff it does" the Epitdph says, 'some of
the members will lose an opportunity Of
hearing a minister of the gospel for the
first time
The perfdiOuS manufacturer now adul-
terates India rubber with finely pulverized
cork. Pulveried cork is worth about
cents per pound, while the India rubber,
| to which it is added, floating quality" is
worth 81 % per pound, or more, which
allows a considerable margin of profit on
| the fraud.
In some of the rural districts in France,
notably the departments of Auvergne and
| Dauphine. wolves are a positive plague,
and their destruction is provided for by
| the government. The amount annually
voted for destroying them is $50, 900 francs,
| and the number of wolves actually killed
| during the twelve months passed by those
who received rewards amounted to ,225.
The Calcutta papers are urging the es-
tablishment of crocodile farms in India,
| in view of the demand in Europe and
| America for the skins for various uses. 1t
| is proposed that regular breeding estab-
| lishments should be started in those To-
calities most frequented by "mug-
gers so as to develop new branch of
| industry and at the same time turn a
into of mr.
perity.
Mr.. Philip Calderon, r. A., an admira-
| BILE artist, with head whose levelness is
slightly above the average of the studios,
in recent lecture to a struggling art
school in Long Acre (LondOn), remarked,
aprOpOs of the remarkable degree of plain
common sense which distinguished GER
| tain of the greatest masters, that "the
nearer you get to perfect sanity the nearer
YOU will be to God" The cranks have
undisputed possession of the floor.
Treasurer Gilfillan recently received a
| contribution of $40 in an envelope post
marked Washington, D. c., which also
contained the following note: ESTIMATED
amount of customs due on articles brought
| home from Europe. If | could have made
| head or tail of the tariff would have paid
| the duty honestly at once, and would not
have suffered myself to be Overruled by
the other members of the party and not
| beguiled into paying the custom house
| inspector, instead of the United States"
! A romantic and checkered career, that
| of 4. A. Denison, son of Lord Londes-
| borough, ended in Denver a few days ago.
| At eighteen he was required by his step
! father to enter the army, but this he re-
| fused to do and ran away to Belgium.
Here he became penniless, and as last
resort shipped on a vessel to Philadelphia
| as a cabin boy. On land again he ac-
| cepted employment at picking strawber-
ries, making from ten to twenty-five cents
day. Returning to England in 1881,
and having reached his majority, he OBJ
tanned some of the private fortune which
belonged to him. Coming to America a
second time, his means again became
exhausted, and in roughing it in the West
he contracted a pulmonary disease that
eventually took him off.