Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-20
GENERAL NOTES.

Texas is figuring on population of l.
900, 900 in 1890.
Mr.. joaquin Miller would like TO be Gre
mated after he dies
A Pennsylvania plaintiff in an eject
ment suit is l0l wears old
Violet lie Due said that the locomotive
was as great piece Of pure architecture
in its way as cathedral.
Maine papers have already begun TO
chronicle the finding Of May flOwers-the
fragrant Trailing arbutus.
Gen. 2. G. T. Beauregard, the famous
Confederate, who is only siXty-twO years
old, is now visiting Mobile.
About 45O miles of thread are made
each day in American mills. 1t was all
imported thirty years ago.
The French manufacturers last year
made S6.OOO.OOO worth of umbrellas.
Turkey is their best foreign customer.
The University of Berlin advertises for
persons TO translate scientific works into
modern Greek, ROumanian and Servian.
The New Orleans Times Democrat re-
ports that sweet potato put to boil on
the stove of a lady in Natchez the other
dav exploded with terrific force, nearly
killing the lady.
The Marquis de BirOn, President Of the
French Jockey Club, who died a fortnight
ago in Paris, aged 80 years, was once a
page of Louis XVIII. and afterwards an
officer of the Royal Guard. He had been
President of the club for thirty-twO years.
The British Association for the Ad-
yancement of Science will probably meet
next year in Montreal. There is a move
ment to make it an international confer
ence bv inviting the American assOcia-
ton to assemble at the same time and
place.
Liquor sellers in Maine are put to
strange devices in order to conceal their
contraband wares. On recent police
raid in that State in one house the bottles
were found in the we'll tightly cOrked and
with Strings round their necks for cOnve-
nience in raising. In another the bottles
were under the cooking range in the ash
pit. One liquor seller, a woman, had two
Nat bottles hooked to belt which she
wore under her overskIrt, and another
dealer concealed his under trap-dOOr
beneath pile of hay in a cock loft.
John Neihoff, a centenarian, living in
East New York, was born two years after
the Declaration of Independence was
written. He is 105 years old, native of
Holland. and a shoemaker. His age is
vouched for by his son, himself man of
eighty. and his great-grandaughter, a wO-
man of forty. Neihon fought at Water
loo and soon afterward came to the United
States. He no longer earns a living and
is dependent upon his grandchildren for
livelihood and tobacco, of which he has
always used very large quantity.
A child has been born in Turkish Kur-
distan with a full beard and moustache, a
perfect set of thirty-two teeth, and no
fewer than forty distinct and well formed
fingers. Naturally. such a prodigy at
tracted great attention. but several visit
oTs inspected ii at their cost; for it
snapped it's thirty-twO teeth at everybody
who came within range with such energy
and success that it became necessary to
extract all the front ones. 1t is a wonder
full thing to see the infant lying in its era
die, strOking its beard with its forty fin
gers.
Gloves have the honor of sharing in the
censure of modern medical dictatOrs, who
declare that they injure the skin, and by
being worn very tight cheek the circula-
tion of the blood. There is little fashion
can dot tries to prevent the imitation
of the vulgar by declaring sometimes for
sac gloves which reach the shoulder, or
with the same length in an lnnumerable
number of buttons; now that they shall
be worn on the dress, and now on the
bare arm; now that they shall be painted,
now beaded now that they shall have
rutfles or insertion or net.
The London Spectator devOtes little
more than one of its ample pages to an
article on "Women and Commercial
Gambling in Chicago: 1t discusses in a
philosophic vein the result OF women
making large investments In commodities
or stocks. and gravely intimates that there
is no GOOD reason why women should not
be admitted freely to the various eX-
changes of Europe and the West. And
this labored essay is basedupOn Chicago
sketch Of what was nothing more nor less
than a females bucket shot IN It's best
days. and failed to stand the test Of "the
survival of the fittest."
Soon after the Chinese Legation at
Washington was established in its present
quarters, a beggar called on professional
business. Tohis amazement he was usher
ed with elaborate bows and gestures into
a luxurious room, where an attache kindly
asked how he might serve him. n cOllec-
tion was then taken up for his benefit
among the members Of the Embassy, ana
he was invited to refresh himself with a
lunch of delicate CONNECTIONS. As mat
ter Of course his singular experience was
known to every beggar in town within
twenty-four hours, and the Legation has
been besieged ever since by unprepossess-
ing visitors
'Number One,7 whose photograph was
identified on Brady's trial, bears the name
of lyman, is about forty-iiye years OF age,
above the average height, of powerful
build, and wears a jet black beard reach
ing down 10 the middle of his chest. The