Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-27
GENERAL NOTES.

A hen in Revere, Mass, has recently
laid eighteen pIgmy eggs, whose weight is
but four and a half ounces.
1t is stated that in New York city there
is one retail liquor store to every one
hundred and twenty-five inhabitants.
\ young lady in Bamberg, Germany,
was fined and made to pay costs for play
ing the piano near an open window at
night.
The Inspector of Milk in Hartford, Conn.,,
recently found seven samples of milk out
of thirty-tiye adulterated with water or
skim milk.
The Prussian provinces Of SaXOny and
Hesse-Nassau have been chosen for the
next military maneuvres under the direc-
ton of Emperor William.
Deaths by violence average over 10000
year in Russia, there being an average
of ten murders a day. About !, $50 are
frozen to death every year.
The Royal gorge in the Colorado canyon
is to be illuminated with thirty-fiYe cleo
tric lights. EXcursiOnists from Denver
are the moths to be attracted.
Eighty thousand buffalOes were killed
last winter. This winter, owing to the
rapid extinction of the animal, the num-
Der killed is comparatively small.
Austrian railroads have been COM
PEELED to buy equipment abroad, the or
ders for rails and cars being far ahead of
the capacity of the Austrian works.
A Las Vegas man recently advertised
in a Kansas paper for wife. He should
have advertised in New England, where
the supply is greater than the demand.
The Athen9um declares that the recep-
ton given in New York to English beau
ties and English bards is perhaps the
most touching spectacle Of modern times.
There is a cat ranch in Cleburne, Tex
as, with no less than 500 Tables, of every
color known to the feline spectrum. They
all live in pens once devoted to wheat
threshing.
There has been generous distribution
of decorations in the French army in the
shape of the Legion of Honor, which, con-
ferred on officer or soldier. carries a
pension with it.
Australia imports seed wheat from In
dia, English wheat being unsuited to the
hotter parts of Australia, where it does
not ripen quickly enough, and becomes an
easy prey to rust.
In December, 1882, the export of petrO-
leum and its products was 30,2O1 ,639 gal
Ions, valued at $2,952,914. The total eX-
port of the year was J03, 1862 gallons,
valued at 81, 623,O74.
The priests of st. Louis Church, Os-
wegO, refused 20 let the members of a
Grand Army Post enter the church to at
tend the funeral of a member unless caps
and badges were removed.
The Russian Government proposes to
make use of the AmOOr territory as a
place of exile for political offenders.
Strongly fortified prisons, capable Of hold
ing 800 persons, have been built there for
that purpose.
The channel has been bridged after all.
The Rdillrdy Age announces that light
ming express train now runs daily be-
tween London and COnstantinople, and
through sleepers are also run from Paris
to st. Petersburg and COnstantinOple.
Mrs. Matilda Paulitsch, professional
singer, has obtained a verdict in New
York of $12,5OO against the New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad for
the loss of foot, amputation having fol-
lowed injuries received by a fall while the
lady was entering a moving car.
BOston's eighty-fOur city fathers spent
over $780, 900 last year for dinners and car
riage hire. 1t has become the practice to
dine at every committee meeting, and one
committee spent an average of $50 at each
meeting ON that account. The total was
more than five times as much as was
spent in 1878.
The Partisan chemists are making arti-
fetal turquoise from phosphate of alumina
and phosphate of copper combined, and
subjected to high pressure. 1t is an ex-
cellent imitation, and indeed ought to be,
since the chemical composition is very
nearly the same, the real stone being a