Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-29
GENERAL NOTES.

Paris has about thousand fires year.
The crater of Kilauea is reported as I'M
usually active.
England has an export and import trade
of $13, 800, 100000.
1t is estimated that about 10000 persons
sail annually to Europe.
There are 6,791 miles of railway in the
State, assessed at $2S, 832, 739 20.
1t only costs four cents a pound to send
butter from Nebraska to New York
The Tappan Zee, on the Hudson River,
is to have five new lighthouses this year.
The principal horse car company in
Boston has given up the use of the bell
punch.
Deposits of one cent can be made in a
Nebraska savings bank, which has organ
lied children's department.
The President of the New York police
commissioners says there is not gamb-
ling house IN New York to-day He is
absent minded at times.
The man who appeared before the pO-
lice court to answer to a second charge
of drunkenness, was not very gentlemanly
in appearance, but nevertheless he was
refined.
Reports from twenty-One counties in
Nebraska give a decrease in the acreage
of spring wheat, and six an increase, and
they all give the outlook for a good crop
as very fine.
Mabel and Jennie Moody, of East
Rindge, aged seven and eleven years, re-
Gently nailed 1000 boxes in day at
shilling hundred. They have nailed
10000 this season.
The salmon caught this season in the
Penobscot have nearly all weighed over
twenty pounds apiece, and it is thought
by fishermen that the run of salmon will
this year be large.
They are well-red people in Paris this
season-everything is red; entire suits
are made of red velvet, cloth, satin and
silk, and to pile on the agony, the trim
mtngs are red also.
1t is said that ladies whose feet, like the
hand of Providence, cover everything, are
bitterly opposed to the short walking
dresses, which they declare to be growing
shorter and shorter.
Excessively tight trousers, pointed toes
and the pronounced cutaway coat are
now declared vulgar, s'dudish,m etc.
Young gentlemen will please cut this out
and paste it in their Derby,
On the day Ex-Governor Israel Wash
burn was buried some of the friends of
his youth planted a tree as a memorial of
him in front of the church near the old
homestead, in LivermOre, Me.
Willow-ware and bamboo trunks are in
favor with all except baggage smashers,
who, try ever so hard, cannot damage
them. They take che place of the old
Saratoga and are fine substitute.
The expenses of Mr.. John Morley, NJ,
p, at the late election at Newcastle,
amounted to fi,624 13s. ID, and those of
Mr.. Gainsford Bruce, the unsuccessful
Conservative candidate, to e., 267 1Ss. lid.
The Detroit Free Press asks: ''How tall
are the women of Ontario, anyway? A
telegram the other day told of four women
walking mile and a half through snow
ten feet deep. No female less than four
feen feet high could do it.
Mr.. Mulhall, of the Royal Society of
London, estimates the value of all the
property in the United States at So, OOO,-
0O0,O This he states to be more than
SO, 900, 000, 600 in excess of the aggregate
wealth of Great Britain,
A man fell out of a balloon in Tennes-
see. Fortunately, he was drunk and fell
out before the balloon was let loose,
otherwise he might have raised a lump on
himself. AS it was, he only fell fourteen
inches and never broke bone.
The skeleton of an Indian has been
found in Athens, Penn, his face looking
towards the east, his feet drawn up I'M
der him, and his right arm raised to his
shoulder. He was probably pitcher for
A.. no nj xxrbn hn h
fate.
Tom Carroll, a hydraulic miller of
Washington, Nevada county, New, weighs
over 200 pounds, is feet AZ inches high,
measures A inches around the chest and
151@ around the biceps, and can put out
204 pounds with one arm and with a
strap raise 1900 pounds. He is only %
years old.
The fame or the Jersey spreadeth.
Down in the market the huckster cry:
s.Jersey potatoes, Jersey chickens, nice
Jersey asparagus" A simple son of the
sunny South set up barrow of the tempt
ing Italian fruit, and cried: "Lemmins,
nice lemmins; Jersey lemmlns, cent
apiece"
A New Haven Justice decides that the
cleaning of the family teeth cannot be
demanded of a servant girl, and citizen
who refused to pay servant girl her
wages because she had broken his wife's
false teeth while cleaning them and had
rubbed stove backing into the parlor car
pet has lost his case.
Harvard alumni will be glad to know
that a recognition of the claims of Ameri-
can scholarship is about to be made by
the English University of Cambridge in
the person of Prof. W. W. Goodwin. The
eminent Greek. scholar is to receive the
honorary degree of Ii. ID. at Cambridge
on the 18th of June in company with Sir
John Lubbock, Matthew Arnold, NJ. Pas
teur, the great French chemist; George F.
Watts, the painter; Gen. Menabrea, the
Italian Minister, and others.
Mr.. j. 1. Daniels, Mcintosh, Ga, says: