Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-24
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
There are 5000 professional acrobats IN
the Northwest provinces of India.
The Llano Estacado is to be made the
greatest grazing ground on the Continent
by sinking artesian wells in 1t.
The admirable road-bed of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad saves a great deal of time
to busy people who write on the cars.
Italians working on railroad at MARI
boro. n. j., kept their giant powder IN
stove on warm days. Three are now IN
hospital from wounds received on cold
day.
An AYRSHIRE paper is authority for the
statement that there is not single copy
of Burns poems in the Free Public Libra
nv at Mauchline. Verify, ga prophet IS
not without honor, save in his own coun-
try"
The people of Royalston, Mass, have
been excited by the discovery of tracks
made by some large animal in the snow
crust in that place. The tracks We're SIX
inches across and the steps nearly three
feet apart.
The Savage Club, of London, uses Cete-
wayo's club to call its members to order;
the Senate at Washington little ivory
spOok. the French Chamber of Deputies
large dinner bell, and the House of Lords
has no gayel.
The following advertisement was recent
" published in an English country news
paper: "Ann Jones wants to sell her child
Ia little girl): it is twelve months old;
shall be sold for 81 los. to any one who
will be good to It,"
A large crematorium has just been built
in Milan cemetery. 1t is adorned with
a statue to Paolo Gorini, who, according
to the inscription, Gin reviving the Wis
dom of the ancients, revived cremation
for the health and advantage OF nations"
According to recent authority, 1t is as
dangerous to life and limb to ride one mile
in a passenger elevator as forty on sur
face railway, or, to put it differently, the
chances of a safe delivery to the passen-
ger is as forty to one in favor of the rail-
roads.
In Lancashire, England, boys and girls
marry in their teens. Saturday is their
favorite wedding day, and on Monday
morning the newly made husband and
wife take their places in the mills. Old
crones take care of the babies for shilling
a week.
lJdlldn muIutI6Io dIS Vel loCAg
hanged, but their fate is, if convicted, far
from pleasant. Passavante, who tried to
kill King Humbert in 1878, is fastened to
the wall of nearly dark cell by a tive-foot
chain riveted to his ankle. He has be-
come imbecile.
1t has been discovered that the primary
cause of the break in the canal at Wind
sor Locks. Conn.,. by which break the mills
oh, 6c
of employment and 100000 lost, was the
work of a muskrat that burrOwed through
the embankment.
Jeronimo Callao de Maghalaens da
CANA Monez Vellasco Sarmento Alarcao
Bulhoes de San de Maria Salema was the
name of a man in the dock of Paris PO-
lice Court, who apOlogized for being
obliged to take up so much of the Judges
time in prOnOuncing it.
The steamship Quebec left Portland,
Me-, on New Years day and reached Liv-
erpool in fifty days thereafter, having
broken her rudder. She took 176 cattle ON
board and landed 40, and out of SOS sheep
saved 1909 alive. But during the last fit-
teen days the cattle had nothing to eat,
and the crew and passengers lived on the
sheep.
The annual yield of the lead mines of
the world is estimated at 100000 tons, of
which the United States furnishes one
fourth, or about 100, 900 tons. Spain takes
the lead of all lead producing countries
with 10000 tons; New Granada supplies
more of the quota from South America,
and Mexico, Canada and Australia make
up the rest Of the grand total.
A girl, sixteen years of age, is the Cap
tain of band of Los Angeles, Cal, hood
lums, whose exploits have made them
terror of a certain section of the city.
They-are not only thieves, but burglars,
as they recently cut pane of glass from
a jewelry show window and distracted
a large quantity of valuables. The maid
ell Captain plans all the movements OF
the gang.
At the recent municipal election in Utl-
ca. the voter who could not possibly get
out tied his ballot on a string and let it
down from his window, a political friend
then took it, held 1t above his head and
carried it across and down the street to
the polling place, the voter paying out
the string, and then the inspector took
the paper, looked at it, at the string, and
at the man holding the other end, and de-
posted it in the box.
The natives of the northwest coast of
Guinea, near Astrolabe Bay, are in the
lowest stage of civilization, employing
only implements of stone, bone and wood,
and being quite ignorant of the use of
metals. Their dead are placed in a sitting
posture and covered with the leaves Of the
cocoa-palm, while women are obliged to
keep fire burning near by till the bodies
are dried. The corpse is buried only when
there is nobody to keep fire.
One of the most important GASES Of the
Desert of Sahara, and one which will be
of great importance to the French in case
they construct trans-Saharian railway,
is that of Ouargia. 1t is situated in a
large valley which, tradition says, was
once a vast garden containing 125 villages
and over a thousand artesian wells. To-
gether with the adjoining smaller GASES it
now has more than 100000 palm trees and
artesian water is found at 1l5 feet.
In Paris, of the 100000 francs in hand
from the Salon of 1882, a sum of 50O,0 900
has been voted for the purchase of pic
lures and statues for the nation. The
Administration DIES BeauX Arts expended
800, 900 francs last ear in buying works
of art for the Government of France. Of
this sum 81, 800 francs have been for origi-
nal pictures; 1880 for copies Of the old
masters; 47,700 for antique marbles for
the museum; 10000 for modern sculp-
ture, and 1900 for medals,