Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-08
GENERAL NOTES.

The famous chestnut tree on Mount
-Etna measures 2l0 feet at its base. Its
age is at least so years.
A recent whirlwind caused water
/ spout fifteen feet high on the Piscataqua
river. near the Portsmouth bridge, in New
Hampshire,
Glass images of HindoO deities are
manufactured in Birmingham and shipped
to India for worship by the devout idola-
tors of that c0untry
An English correspondent Of Gibraltar
/ telegraphs that slaves are sold publicly in
/ the streets. a few yaris from the English
Legation at Tangier, for from so to $40.
The Prince of Monaco, thanks TO the
rapid increase in his share of the receipts
I from the gaming tables at Monte Carlo,
has just been able 10 increase his stand
ing army from twenty-five to eighty men.
OF the candidates for admission TO the
Calcutta University only l ass out of 5000
were successful, 1900 passing the eXami-
nation of First Arts" So out of 120 tax
/ ing the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and
I 10 out of 30, that Of Bachelor of Medicine.
/ Very few of the Irish nitrO-glyeerine
/ c0nspiratOrs have the nerve Of the Mill
I ist who. while the Moscow mine was
making. supped behind a key Of nitro
glycerine which Sophie PerOffsky was
I ready to explode the moment the police
I entered the house.
/ 1t is a custom in the Prussian ROYAL
family that every prince shall be appren-
/ ticed to trade, in order that. in case of a
[ revolution, he may be able to earn his liv-
| ing. In pursuance of this rule the pres
( ent Crown Prince was taught watchmak-
I ing, and is said TO be a fair workman.
There are $4,000 miles of underground
wires in the towns of Great Britain and
| Ireland, and there is a constant cutlery for
I them in the country in England, owing TO
I the destruction to open lines by gales and
I snow storms, but the cost, of the under
/ ground wires confines their use TO large
/ towns.
The editor of a paper in New York State
/ advises young men to keep out Of office,
/ and a disagreeable rival recalls the fact
that he has been supervisor, school COM
missioner, weighmasteT, member Of As
sembly. librarian of Assembly, assistant
/ assessor Of internal revenue, assessor of
internal revenue, postmaster, and canal
auditor.
The geological station in Naples has an
annual income of. between 60, 600 and
$4,000, of which Il, 200 is derived
from the public aquarium, { 900 from the
rented tables, about $500 from the sale of
publications, including 260 annual sub
scriptiOns of sos. each for monographs,
$500 from the preparation department,
and 81 800 is the amount Of the German
| Government subsidy.
4 disagreeable comparison is presented
to the English people by the Irish Register
| Generals returns of illegitimate births,
which are but 0.8 per cent. of the total
number in COnnaught, Is in Munster, and
! % in LeinSter, while in the strong Pro-
| testant county OF Down the highest
/ figure, over per cent. is reached. In Lam
cashIre, in England, the percentage of
/ illegitimacy is over 20.
| The little bedroom where Shakespeare
was born, in the house at Stratford-upon-
| Avon, is just such an uninteresting room
as New England farmer generally re-
/ serves at the top Of his house to store his
! seed corn. The walls are closely written
with the lead pencil autographs of thou
sands of people, Sir Walter ScOtt's among
| the rest, and the window panes are
! scratched to that degree with names as to
| be almost worthless.
An autographed society has been
started in London, the objects of which
are Ito probe the inner and unknown
moral and social life of society,"" Every
one who has time is requested to send in
his autOgraphy at once. so that he NAV
be ''probed in his inner and unknown
regions" Vanity Fair expresses interest
in seeing the replies of General Hamley,
/ Lord WOlseley, Lord LOnsdale, Captain
O'Shea, Mr.. Parnell and Number One.
Il had one insane man under nearly in
cessant observation" wrote the late DIR.
Leserques, the famous French doctor.
He was a cultivated patient, seemingly
quite sane and highly intelligent visit
ed him three times a day. He implOred
me to haze him set at liberty. One minute
with the most persuasive elOquence and
the next with irrefutable logic. so irrefuta-
bic that at the end Of eight months / gave
the certificate OF freedom. Two days after
with one stroke of the knife he killed his
Wife"
There are two courses open to heroes:
either they must not be humbugs, or they
should, at least, take care not to dis
illusionize US by printing memoirs. Mrs.
Carlyle's letters" says the Saturday Re
Utelc. shave really nullified the sage's
thirty-seven volumes. How many promis-
ing young men will be converted into
hopeless unbelieVerS by those letters no
one can say. We have only now to hear
that King David of Israel used to cudgel
Bathsheba and our last shred of reverence
for prophets will be gone"
\ splendid piece of mosaic work, we'll
preserved and measuring about 40 feet,
has recently been discovered buried in the
sand on the beach of the Gulf of Carthage.
1t has three inscriptions in Roman CAPT
itals, and on each side a seyen-branched
candlestick, also figures of birds, lions
and fishes, ornamental scrolls, etc. The
inscriptions chronicle the construction of
a synagogue. erected by the Jews resident
in the country under the domination Ofthe
Romans. OF the outer walls of the build
ing of which it must have formed a part
nothing remains but the foundation. and
the pavement, which are buried three or
four feet in the earth.
A recent tourist in the Isle of Wight
came across the insular retreat of the
English poet laureate. "DOes Mr.. Ten
nyson live here:" he asked of a man who
was leaning on the poets front gate.
Eyes, he does" the man said CURLY,
'The great poet has simple tastes"
unused the traveller, looking about. ''Well,
/ don't well know what you call great"
said the native, ''but Tennyson only keeps
one man-servant, and he does not sleep in
the house. That isn't what we call a
great man here" This is like a witness
in famous criminal trial, who being
asked what he called a respectable man"
replied. zone who keeps a gig;" the
origin of Carlyle's pet phrase, ''gig re-
spectability."
Edwin Booths triumph in Germany
was not limited to the Germans. One
writer says: ''The English language had
been so persistently decried at the most
unmusical, particularly as the least
adapted for song, and almost entirely I'M
suited for musical dramatic uses-that |
Mr.. Booths voice was a soft surprise. |
'IagO" opened the dialogue in sOnOrOus, |
melOdiOusly cultural German. "0thellO'sv |
answer, in dry, neryously clipped Eng |
lish, 'Tis better as II is caused thrill |
more easily imagined than described, |
Then, If 'twere now to die 'twere now to |
be most happy ETC., was spoken with a
melOdiOus pathOs which was to |
me like a revelation of previously I'M
dreamt of musical possibilities. That
hush of profound attention which is such
a delightful characteristic of German au-
diences seemed intensified at the opening
Of tl<. y2lf.B-ye4-, eicorE-u WIFI 1dgU
and attendants. This air of eager atten-
ton was his only welcOme-not hand
was raised to applaud him among the
relatively small American contingent { a
niece of tact worthy of commentator J.
The German portion of the audience,
cOOllv critical, likewise remained passive
until the fall of the curtain. when the |
most bOundless applause followed