Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-02
GENERAL NOTES.

There are 10000 grain mills driven by
wind in Holland.
Many of the Finnish Guard at st. Pc.
tersburg have been arrested for disloyalty.
The English budget for the coming year
| is based upon an estimated revenue of
fSS,000,000.
! 1t is estimated that 100 deer have been
shot this winter in the vicinity of North
| Stratford, y. III.
! Some of the apOthecaries in New York
city contemplate forming league to OPP
| pose the sale of patent medicines.
In Italy 400 new operas were produced
between 1851 and 1860, and 534 between
1868 and 1881, making a total OF 1,033 ope-
ras in thirty years.
/ The cost of raising wheat in Dakota is
| twelve to thirteen shillings a quarter,
| against five to six in India. So much for
heather cheap labor.
One of the best farmers in Maine is Miss
Martin, of South Auburn. She carries on
a farm successfully and pays much atten-
ton to fine stock raising.
The making Of sassafras oil is now
leading industry in many parts of Vir-
ginia. The raw root costs a dollar and a
half for thousand pounds.
The new bridge across the Tay will cost
! $500, 900, and, it is thought, will take six
years to build. Its centre and longest
span will be 245 feet in length.
Americans find living in China particu-
larly tough at the beginning of the Chi
nese New Year. Every man in China has
to pay his debts at that time.
A Chinaman at Rock Springs, WyO-
ming. WAS so much delighted at the birth
of a son and heir that he gave party to
600 friends, at an expense of $4,000.
The Savoy Theatre is lit by 1,194 Swan
lights, S2I on the stage. The fairies carry
small lamps on their fOreheads, fed by
battery carried under the wings.
Norway had zoos leprOsy cases in 1875,
and 1852 in 1882, the disease being slowly
disappearing. Norway sends a large i'm
migration to the United States.
Ten years ago lone steamboat barely
paid expenses running down the East
shore of Puget sound. Now ten boats are
kept constantly busy over the same route.
A young man in Iowa has written home
to his parents in Connecticut for one thou
sand dollars to enable him to marry a rich
widow, which circumstance shows the
value of little capital to young men who
go West.
The Nihilists have been circulating a
pretended imperial manifesto to the
Russian people, in which equal division
of the land, the abolition of taxes, the re-
ductiOn OF the army and revision of gov
eminent appointments are promised.
The statistics Of the London police
courts show that more crimes are COM
mitted in that city on Saturday that dur
ing all the rest of the week. Lord Bram-
II ~, l..
Saturday ''pay day, drink day and crime
day."
They are trying to root out the horrible
disease of leprOsy from the Hawaiian
Islands. Fifty lepers have recently been
removed from Honolulu to the leper set
Element at the island of MOlOkai, to be
separated from their friends and families
forever.
An object Of interest to those histOri-
callv inclined is the hull of the old ship
Usage, which was burned by the British in
the war of 1912. 1t lies sunk near Essex, Ct.
and can be seen at low water, Many keep
sakes have been made from the wood of
the wreck.
The oldest inhabitant in Virginia is a
cOlOred man, living in Augusta county.
near StauntOn. He still lives with the
family to whom he formerly belonged, al
though he has long Outlived his original
owners. His age, which is well authen-
ticated, is 112 years.
Mr.. Labouchere: 81 have no sympathy
whatever with the people who object to
musical or other noise in the. street on the
ground that it interferes with what they
call their mental work. / am inclined
to think that the man whose mind Will not
work because of noise in the street will
never himself make much noise in the
world"
Engineers in Berlin are making inter-
esting experiments in war balloons, pho
tOgraphing the earth from a height suffi-
cient to be out of range. Good views of
the surrounding country have been OBJ
tanned i'm spite of the rapid rise of the bal
looms. by the use of electric apparatus that
limited the exposure of plates to frac-
tiOnal part of second.
sit looks just like yOu," is the highest
praise that can be given a house or a cos
tune. 1t is this underlying, peryading
sense of a personal presence which makes
all the difference between Il dwelling place
and home, and which involves personal
thought and care, and cannot be relegated
entirely to the most skillful decorator,
however valuable and necessary an ally
he MAY DS.
The government recently sent Prof. j.
Fleming White, the chemist of the tor
pedo station at Newport, and the engineer,
A. Augstrom, to England to inquire into
the way in which gun cotton is made for
the English Government. They were most
conrte0usly allowed the run of the royal
gun cotton mandatory at Waltham
Abbey. and skillful WOrkmen were detail
ed to take machinery apart for their
benefit.
A scientific journal eOrrects the erro-
neous popular opinion that few births
take place in Paris. The week ending
January the births exceeded the deaths
bv fifty-six, whereas IN New York the
number of deaths generally exceeds the
births. The number of legitimate births
exceeded the illegitimate in the proper
ton of $50 of the former to 303 of the lat
of illegitimate births is about One-third Of
tha whole number of births.