Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-28
GENERAL NOTES.
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Abnut 900 lives were saved last year Oy
the British National LifebOat Institution.
General Bradley t. Johnson has just
finished writing a book on the early his
tory Of Maryland.
The French government owns altogether
2.S16 miles Of railroad, which. as a whole,
pay very badly.
The cross surrounding the entrance 10
the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, Paris, was
removed on June 6.
The French authorities this year esti-
mate for 200 tons Of ironclad ship build
ing, the English for 1900.
Mrs. A. I. Stewart is reputed to be the
second largest bOndhOlder in the United
States. She has So. 000. 900 invested.
Mount Etna Is now to have railroad
which will go a considerable way up It,
and connect many villages lying around
its base.
Gladstone is passionately fond Of frogs
legs. and has a special order for them at
the fshmonger's to send them daily while
in season
A traveller through the Merv oasis dis
covered seven Jewish families who have
been established there for an unknown
period Of time, and who have preserved
intact the customs. religion and language
Of their ancestors, who were PROBABLY
Chaldean-
Mrs. Margaret F. Sullivan, wife of the
President of the Irish National League Of
America. is writing a new book, which
the Appletons are to publish. 1t is 10 be
entitled England. Ireland and the United
States,' and viii be economic, historical
and social.
A German economic writer says that
Russian gold mines yielded last year $685.
100000. The great increase in production
dates from 1877, when the government
abolished the heavy tax on gold mining.
The output promises TO become very large
indeed.
a New Haven physician travelling last
season in Germany was so much taken
with diminutive clock exhibited in a
window that he bought it to take home as
a curiosity. His surprise may be mag
/ ined when, upon opening it to wind II. he
I found the imprint Of the company whose
mandatory was within half dozen
/ blocks of his own home, at New Haven
Mrs. Herbert Aver. since the failure Of
her husband in Chicago and Youngstown,
has been profting by her thorough knowl-
edge Of French and her taste for litera-
/ ture. She has just finished the transla-
l ton Of a French work into English, which
was so well done that she has been asked
| to undertake the translation of scien-
| tific work for the medical faculty Of Paris.
According TO a correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press, ChicagO's fame as the
city in which gambling is protected most
openly rightfully belongs TO Louisville.
| 1.-The central part of the city," the CORES
pendent saws, sis one vast faro bank
| Everybody CANDLES at faro or keno, and
| especially on horse-racing. The amount
which changed hands in one establish
ment last year on the latter form of bet
ting was between $6,0OO,O00 and $1,000
| 600.
General and Mrs. Jessie Benton Ere
mont are living in one of the beautiful fat
houses owned by a married daughter, on
Fifty-ninth street, New York, and over
looking Central Park. Mrs. Fremont is
| in excellent health, and goes about the
house a great deal. The General is alb
| sent at present. Mrs. Fremont is anxious
| 10 obtain information as 10 the where
abOuts of a marble bust of her father.
Thomas II. ("0ld Bullion Benton,
which was mistakenly sold several years
ago along with other household effects in
l 0er dDeeuce.
One by one the employees in the silet
mill at Fort Ann y. Y. J die of from silet
consumption, caused by inhaling the fine
particles OF flint from which silet is made.
A recent post mOrtem examination
showed that one lung Of the victim was so
/ full Of the sharp sand that 1t could be
heard grating on the knife as it cut
| through. There is always a rush for the
vacancies, although the applicants know
| it is but a question Of time until they fol-
/ low suit.
Germany Will do honor to the memory
| of the reformer, Martin Luther, on the
occasion of the forthcoming 4O0th ami
versarv of his birth. The Emperor has
| ALWAYS been a devoted adherent and men,
| Der Of the Evangelical Church, and takes
/ a warm interest in the approaching de-
mOnstratiOn. He has Just issued a decree
| that the occasion be sOlemnly observed by
| the holding of church festival, on No
vemher 10 and IL next, in ali EVangeilcaI
| churches and schools.
David Davis, since marrying and set
Ting down in Bloomington, has conceived
a great fancy for flute music. He used to
| play flute quite well when young man,
| and he has now returned 10 the pastime.
/ Persons passing his house of an evening
a
| window evoking soft melancholy strains
| from an elaborate flute. and are reminded
/ of Old Pan. On account of his long term
/ of public service the neighb0rs put up
/ with the nuisance quite good naturally.
| Fine examples of the ''Old masters"
| command large prices in Europe and some
| of the most noted current sales are TO
| American BUYERS. Thus a splendid Rem
| brandt was purchased in London last
week for Mr.. Henry Maryland, Of New
| York. Landseer's "Titania and Nick
Bottom brought $3T 800 at the same sales
/ 1t is reported that Mackay, OF Nevada.
| has paid 500, 900 for Sir Philip Miles fine
| collection at Leigh Court. In art, as in
| business, Mr.. Mackay prefers the whole
| sale method.
Not content with pushing their colonial
enterprises in the distant parts Of Africa,
/ Asia and Polynesia, says the st. James
/ razette. the French have made a cast
| startlingly near home. They have an eye
uDOu a portion Of what hitherto have been
| considered British islands. To many the
Ecrehos group may sound as though they
were in the Indian Ocean or the Pacific.
/ But they are only four miles of the coast
/ of Jersey. They are small, and chiefly
used as fishing grounds ana as deposl-
tory of sea weed, which is of value as
manure.
Senator Conger says that at a recent
meeting of Ferry's creditors it was found
that many of his debts were secured to
| four times their value. An adjustment
was then made, and all the creditors gave
an extension of three years. The ex-Sen-
atOr's brother says the Utah mine is clear
| ing 5000 a month. This will soon place
| the firm on solid ground. The ex-senator
| is in Europe. Had he not left when he
| did he would probably have died from the
great nervous strain under which be was
labOring, He is now rapidly regalning
his health.
The Yale class of 1888 has $40 men Of an
average of % years and ) months. OF
these 80 smoke, "a INDUCED in hazing dur
ing sophomore year, 70 have attended all
the rushes. IS drink liquor, Al are Con-
gregationalists, L. EpiscOpalians, 10 Pres
byterians, MethOdists, Baptists, 2
Catholics. Reformed and l Jew. As to
professions, 30 viii study law, II medi-
cine. theology, / surgery, ID will teach,
p enter business. g journalism, 3 civil
engineering. and "a are undecided, The
average expenses have been lighter than
usual-SSS3 for freshman year, 1903 for
sophomore, 1894 for junior, and S1s0O1 for
senior.
In relating the circumstance Of the
death of native HindOO at Mhow, from
kick alleged to have been given by an
European lady, the MhOw correspondent
of the Times Of India adds: lit does not
appear to be a deliberate act committed
with the intention of killing the man, who
was muchi by caste. and who was found