Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-04
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOIES.
Boston women, it is predicted, will take
kindly to Lady Habberton's divided
skirt
Many Wall street men have come to the
conclusion that they might as well be
farmers.
Bismarck neuralgia" ''KnickerbOcker
gout'' and the vanderbilt cough" are
fashionable Affections.
Selma, Alabama, has over asiXty arte-
sian wells, and the water from no two of
them is exactly alike.
\ Buchanan Mich schOOlmistress
Furnishes refractory children by making
them stand in an empty barrel.
The New Orleans Picdyune AYERS that if
the teeth are good the mouth may be worn
open with the poke bonnet
Four Attorney COWS are kept at one of
the Saratoga hotels for children, and fami-
lies make contracts for so many quarts
per day.
1t is proposed to celebrate the twenty
fifth anniversary of the discovery of gold
i'm Colorado next September, and it seems
to meet with general approval.
1t is expected that the journey from
Paris to ConstantinOple will soon be made
i'm seventy-ive hours. A through train
with fOrty-two beds now runs twice
week.
New York Aldermen have prohibited
the sale of toy pistols to minors: A
twenty-five calibre pistol, carrying
ball, passes for toy pistol. About 5000
boys of that city have them in their
pockets.
Some time in July the Viennese sports
men will cOngregate in the Prater with
dogs and hOrsemen to hunt some thirty
kangaroOs which have been brought from
Victoria expressly for the occasion.
A man named Knight, of MissOula, Da-
kotah. fired off a revolver a few days ago,
i'm order to scare two men who were
quarreling, and killed soldier named
Mahon and slightly wounded another by
stander.
The Austin, Texas, newsdealers have
agreed to discontinue the sale of the New
York Police Gazette, as its circulation was
detrimental to the morals of the hun
dreds of students at the local universities
and schools.
Boston girls in 81 jerseys, scarlet skirts
and rough-and-ready straw hats-siXty
cents untrimmed-are already playing
tennis on the Isle of Shoals beach, and
having abundance of wholesome recrea-
tiOn," la Emerson.
The total number of books in the Chica-
90 library on June l was 94,606, being an
increase of 9,416 volumes in the year;
5000 of these were acquired by purchase
and 1851 by gift. The number of PAM
phlets added to the collection was l,452.
Cucumbers, according to NJ. Deliee, ca
terer of the New York Club, should be
peeled and put to soak in ice-salt water
at least an hour before served. The salt
extracts the poison and the ice renders
them brittle and easier to be digested.
Obituary notice from the Kansas City
Journal: 9 'Nine-toed Annie,' a parsonage
well known in the upper circles Of HELPS
Half Acre society, fell into the Missouri
river last evening and was drowned. She
was a daughter of the late lamented Scar
faced Maggie and cousin of 'One-eared
Sam and 'Ginger-cake joe
The State Board of Equalization has
Just completed the total valuation of the
State of New Hampshire, on which the
public taxes will be based for the next
four wears. The valuation is fixed at
1927, 914, 543, as against $206, OH for the
last four years, an increase of $20,959, 526.
The amount deposited in savings banks is
S3S, ,507 go, an increase since 1879 of
13,524,034 30.
A post norton examination of the body
of Jonathan Chesley, Of NOrthwoOd Cen
tire, n. H., blacksmith who died sudden
" last week, showed that his stomach
had been eaten through by the common
bOtt, a grub worm which attacks horses.
1t is supposed that he swallowed the eggs
of the bolt fly which had been deposited
on the legs of the horses that he shod, and
that they hatched in his stomach.
The Indian army, to which'the military
world is greatly indebted for its valuable
experience with the heliOstat, or sun tele-
graph, is now trying experiments with
pigeons as a means of communication,
and a service of these birds has been
established in connection with the intelli-
gence branch of the QuartermaSter Gene
RAILS Department. Moreover the birds
have been placed under the charge of a
Lieutenant Colonel of the Third Sikhs,
and consequently can claim the honor of
forming a distinct regiment of Her Ma
iesty's Indian forces.
A man who was cutting turf on MOnjoy
Hill, Portland, Maine, few days ago,
turned up with his spade a metal bar
which, except for glistening point where
the spade struck it, looked like iron. The
suspicious CLEAN caught his eye and in
duced him to carry the bar to an assayer,
who pronounced it fine gold, and estima-
ted its value at $3.50. The discOverer con-
lectures that the ingot was buried in the
early days of the colony, either by some
official to prevent its capture or by some
freebooter who had helped to plumber a
Spanish treasure ship.
The annual session of the Grand Lodge |
of the World of the Independent Order of |
Good Templars has just been held at Hal |
flax. n. S. There was large attendance |
of representatives. including those of the |
Grand Lodge of England, Ireland, Scot |
land, Wales, the Isle of Man, Sweden, |
India, Cape Colony, Newfoundland, Nova |
Scotia. Massachusetts, Florida, Tennes- |
see, Virginia, South Australia and the Ba- |
hamas. The reports of the officers showed |
the worldwide character of the order, and |
that there had been an increase in |
members each year since the last meeting |
in Ireland in 1881, there being thirty-four |
grand lodges and total membership of |
277. 600. The progress of the order had |
been very marked in Europe, the British |
isles having 900 adult members and |
Sweden $4,000. besides 1000 in Africa, |
4 600 in Asia, 1900 in Australia, 1000 in |
the West Indies and 5000 in North |
America. to which must be added 81 900 !
Juveniles i'm various countries. The next |
session will be in June, 1883, at Stock |
holm, Sweden.
Very Well Put.
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