Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-29
GENERAL NOTES.

usual annual grant OF SoU.UOO nlInerIO al
lowed the cathedral for organs and choir,
but the usual subsidy of 100000 for the
opera is continued.
Cremorne, the celebrated English race
horse, who won the Derby, the PriX de
Paris and several smaller races in 1872,
making $20,0 for his owners, is dead at
the early age of 10 years.
A feud between the Universities Of
Heidelberg and Konigsberg was settled re-
Gently bv duels between three delegates
from each college. konigsberg won, having
drawn blood fourteen times.
Of Oscar Wilde's future plans the Lon
don World says: HE goes back to Ameri-
ca in the fall, then to Australia, and
ultimately to heaven" Could he not be
induced to reverse the order of his trip:
The Hennipin canal scheme will have
Jealous and able supporter in Cullom, the
new Senator from Illinois. He says his
ambition will be to have the enterprise
completed during his services in the
Senate.
A bill has been introduced in the Legis-
lature of New Jersey which proposes that
the cashier of every bank in the State
shall, before entering upon his duties, give
security in the sum of $4,000 for the safe
performance thereof.
Two propositions are being considered
to protect the obelisk in Central Park,
New York, from the weather. One is TO
place a plate glass sheath around 1t, and
the other to build museum with dome
for the shaft to stick up in.
An anonymous SENATOR of the United
States tells ''Gath" that Blaineis secretly
as much of a candidate for President as
he ever was; that Frye, of Maine, Is
Blaine's bitter enemy, and that Window,
OF Minnesota, has nightly dreams OF the
White House.
A young woman living in Dayton, D.,
had her fortune told by an itlnerant
astrologer, and was so impressed with
what he told of her future that she
became insane, and was killed few
DAYS later by railroad train While wan
dering through the country.
A New York Alderman proposes max
ing it unlawful to keep any metre for
measuring gas upon the inside of any
house. He wants them placed outside,
adjoining the front wall, Sc located that
in case of fire the supply of gas can be
effectively cut of without entering the
premises.
An effort is to be made TO secure the ad
mission of women to the lectures and eX-
aminations of Columbia College. in New
York. That city has an Association for
Promoting the Higher Education of Wo-
man. not vet year old, which is moving
powerfully on the conservative knicker-
booker college, with fair prospects ot'sue-
cess,
Boston Corbett, the man who killed
Wilkes Booth, is living in Kansas, en-
gagged in the cattle business. He has
become a religious enthusiast, and in a
recent letter to a friend in Camden he
SAYS that he has been directed by God to
inflict daily corporal punishment upon
himself as a penance for having taken
human life.
4 fruitful source OF damage to boilers.
and one which has ruined thousands, is
the practice of blowing the boiler off and
Immediately refilling it with cold water
while the brickwOrk is red hot. Nothing
will tear boiler to pieces quicker than
this, Boilers have exploded with disas-
trOus effect from this cause hours after
the fire had been drawn.
An idea may be formed of the way the
tariff rakes the money out Of the pockets
of the people from the fact that the Gus
toms collections for the port Of New YORK
average more than 100000 per day for
every working day in the year, This is
the tax ''for revenue only The tax for
protection is quite as heavy, but 1t goes
into the pockets of mOnOpOlists, instead of
the public treasury.
Complaint is made that newspapers and
/ letters sent from this country to Ireland
do not reach those TO whom they are adj
| dressed. Thirty years ago Sir James
Graham was detected opening letters
from Italian patriots to their London cor
| respondents. Public Indignation was
aroused, and the offender was compelled
TO resign his position as Chief of the Eng
lish Postal Service. This spirit ought
still 10 exist among the people of Great
| Britain.
An English inventor has devised huge
listening trumpet, by which a faint sound
at sea is caught up and rendered audible
TO an officer on shipboard. Such an appar-
ratus has been erected on the North sun
derland pier, and il has been found that
if ship is hailed from this pier the person
hailing can hear quite distinctly through
the opening in the vibrating funnel the
reply sent. Experiments are yet wanting
to test the efficacy of this simple apparatus
in fOgs at sea.
Two hundred and eiehty-fOur steam
ships and large river steamboats, met with
disaster during the year 1882, and many
have proved total wrecks, and only few
have been flOated or repaired. With them
were lost 2,002 lives. There were 1872 Bril-
fish vessels, Il German, l6 American, 16
French, II Spanish, and 3 Russian; l4l
were stranded. 81 fOundered, 50 were sunk
by collision, were abandoned in sink
ing condition, 6 were sunk by ice, were
destroyed by explosion and p are missing.
Several letters from prominent Scotch
men have appeared in the London journals
Of late concerning the falling off in the
population of the Highlands. More re-
Gently some one has found, by a study of
the census for various years, that since
1881 the population of Argyllshire has
actually declined from 100,9I3 to 16, 46S,
and that of the latter number no fewer
than 30, 49, belong to the urban class; so
that the rural population has been re-
duced in the course OF nifty years from
s.. 973 TO 46,0S1, or nearly One-half.
The Danes are conducting a vigorous
war against drunkenness in their capital,
Copenhagen. The number of public
houses is to be reduced from 1850 to 800.
No showily dressed girl is to be allowed
to stand behind drinking bar to fasci-
nate youth Of the other sex. Landlords
are forbidden TO serve out drink to any
person under Is years Of age, male or fe-
male. or to any one already under the in
fiuence of drink. \ drunken person is to
be conveyed to his own dwelling in cab
or covered carriage, at the expense of the
landlord in whose house he took the last
glass.
An ingenious swindle was worked on
the Lake Shore on Saturday. Some one
went through the smoking car, asking
the passengers to show their tickets. A
little later, one of the passengers who had
purchased a ticket for Buffalo found that
his ticket read TO La Porte. The crook
who had persOnated train emplOye had
changed tickets, returning La Porte
ticket for a Buffalo ticket. The swindled
party returned to Chicago for some more
money in order TO complete his journey.
Only a few DAYS before Postmaster Palmer
had the same trick played on him on the
same road. and was compelled TO return
TO Chicago.-ChicGgO Times.
4 Boston fireman is perfecting a novel
fire-escape, intended for permanent use
upon hook and ladder trucks. From each
corner of the truck is placed a five-inch
round pole, nine and a half feet long.
Stretched across Is stout canvas. which,
when the poles are set, will be about
eight feet above the top Of the truck.
Above the canvas is placed a very stout
netting. which. when any one jumps in
will give. letting the body fall easily on
the canvas. At each of the four corners
will be placed a chute, through which
ANYBODY NAV slide TO the ground. This
Will raanh n tho