Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-19
GENERAL NOTES.

city who support themselves.
The Queens private yachts costs the
English Government $lOS,OOO year.
st. James Palace has been refitted and
looks like a new hotel rather than real
palace.
American minis furnished last year
St24. 30. 093. a trifle more than half the
coinage Of the world.
At a stenOgraphic exhibition at Paris
postal card was exhibited which contain
ed 1900 words
The German chemists are trying TO
make quinine alphabetically, and have
already come very near il.
The Meteorological Office at London
told an inquirer that Virgins prediction
was utter nonsense.
1t took 3.2O5 pounds Of powder to dis
lodge 5000 tons of limestone in Salt
Lake City quarry few days ago.
An advertiser in Western paper in
Quires for partner with $1,000 TO take an
interest in a female base ball club
1t is choice fiattery to woman Of South
ern Europe when told that she is not in
any one feature like an English woman.
In the First Church of Salem, Mass, is
preserved the tall desk which Hawthorne
used in the custom house OF that place.
DIR. Hall has said that taking walk be-
fore breakfast has put more people into
their collins than the ailments they were
seeking TO get rid of.
The Library journal thinks that SELF
mate or mixture of blood produces in this
country a distinct mental resemblance to
the French There is truth in this.
The name 'Oratorio'' arose from the
fact that the earliest sacred plays were
performed in a room adjoining the church,
called an oratory, or in Italian ''OratoriO.'
A former pastor Of Philadelphia, the
Rev. DR.. J. H. EcclestOn, now of Newark,
y. J.. is said TO be the only clergyman in
the United States who has refused three
bishopries.
In California the ranchmen use guns
for the purpose of splitting logs. The
weapon is screwed into the butt: thelgun-
ner goes Off and so does the gun, and the
log is split.
In Philadelphia and New York the flo
rists succeed in forcing the grand roses in
mid-winter, which in England attract the
nobility TO the fetes and gardens in the
month Of June.
The flagship Lancaster, Admiral Mich
olson, has steamed $1,000 miles. and has
visited thirty-six different ports, and has
been in port tifty-three times since leay-
ing New York in the autumn of 1881.
A New York shipping agent places the
damage done to the commerce of that port
by the Virgins scare at 1000, 900, occa-
stoned by the fact that so many vessels
were afraid tc venture out for fear of
hurricane.
One Of the great elms for which West
Springfield, Mass, is famous was recently
voted unsafe in March winds and cut
down. 1t took two coed choppers two
DAYS to fell the tree, and it Yielded ten
cords of wood when cut up.
Providence, r. l., has movement to
drop binders on horses. The Arabs con-
slider both binders and shoes a gross bar
barism. their horses never wearing any,
thing heavier than racing plates, and
these only in mountainous region.
The John Jones collection of furniture.
porcelain, enamels and books illustrating
the same, just presented to the Kensing-
ton Museum. is valued at S1.500, 600, con-
tains only so objects and $50 volumes.
There are several tables which cost 500
in 500 bills.
Boston has a novelty in the shape Of a
retired actor who has turned preacher.
The theatrical world knew him as Bob
Hart. whose profession it was to make
people laugh and forget their sins. The
religious world welcomes him as the Rev.
Mr.. Switzerland, whose duty it is TO
make people weep and repent their sins.
In July. 1873, a sailor of Elberfeld sent
a letter to his son in NikOlaieysk, Siberia.
The letter arrived too late and was re-
turned to the sender. The journey took
three years. 1t was again directed. this
time to Hong Kong. 1t had the same mis-
fortune; the sons ship had sailed, and
lately, after nine years Of wandering, il
again reached Elberfeld.
By the death of the Earl of Stamford
the title and estates 90 TO a poor relative
who has lived for many years at Cape
Town. in South Africa. Since the late
Earl's demise he has resided at Wynberg,
on the sandy flats. in an iron house of two
rooms. By his first wife he had no issue.
By his second wife he had issue, a daugh-
ter. On this wife's death he married
HOttentOt. by whom he had three chill
dren. He insists upon being called my
lord but passes his time picking up fir
cones and bits Of stick in the woods to
keep the domestic fire burning. whilst his
children run about the flats bare-fOOted
and only partially clad.
The Prince of Wales son George struck
up a violent MILDLY Irritation at an Aus
tralian ball, with a lovely little girl Of
fifteen Cooking older, as girls do there.
1t was artlessly open and frank, but the
authorities took him in hand. bringing
him back TO the dais to be poTtiOned out
properly. The boy was not to be baffled.
He slipped into the crowd and secured
his .'girl'' again. Recaptured, he was
brought back to the platform and con-
frOnted by an indignant lady, the much.
respected daughter of the Governor of the
colony. who assured him with emphasis:
If you do that again l will box your
royal ears" The boy. seeing that she evil
IDENTIFY meant what she said, did not do it
again.
Miss Ada Leigh, Of whose remarkable
work in Paris the newspapers have been
full recently, writes to the London Times
TO record the terrible fact that infant sui
eide in France has actually destroyed
twice as many children's lives in four
years as her Orphanage cOntrIved to save
in eight years-that is, that the energy
lulUNu lUlU lIldut Sultluc has utCH more
than four times as productive Of result as
that Of the charity which she dispOses.
One hundred and ninety-eight boys and 40
girls under the age Of ID, she says, de-
stroyed themselves in four years, and of
these 200 were over II years of age, q
between u and 10, 4 over 10 years. below
., and l was only Z, Surely, in no other
country except France does not merely
despair. but that impatient intolerance Of
misery which cuts its way out of life
rather than await the end, invade the
minds Of such babies as these.
A learned physician once declared that
the manifestations of disease were so
varied that he should not be surprised at
any symptom, however peculiar. If that
physician is still alive he ought to start
for Charlotte, Y. c., to assist
in the diagnosis Of a malady which for
month past has afflicted boy named A.
NJ. Wilhelm, aged Is. If an ordinary
bath tub is filed with ice-cOld water and
that wretched youths feet are placed in
il. the water grows hot so rapidly that
within six minutes il is at the boiling
point. Wilhelm suffers intense agony,
and his tubs have to be con-
tinually changed. which is no light
task, considering that his feet raise
the temperature Of the water thirty
degrees a minute. And vet, in
the divine economy, even such a melan-
chOly fate as Wilhelm's has its eOmpen-
satiOns. 1t is manifest that he would be
invaluable in a Russian bath establish
ment. for if he can make tub of ice water