Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-22
GENERAL NOTES.

A new soft shade of blue is called Eau
de-Suez.
Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, is
worth about $25,OOO,OOO.
1t is asserted that British capital to the
extent of $30,000,O00 went into Wyoming
and Texas last year.
Sixteen hundred of the citizens of Chi
cago are Socialists. OF these 400 are
armed with Springfield rifles.
Pieces written for a particular actor or
actress are regarded by a careful London
journalist as generally ''one-horse affairs"
A company in Lyons, Iowa, will erect
match factory that will produce 300, 900
matches day and employ about sixty
men.
About 100 Normandy horses have just
arrived in New York. Their selling price
in this country is from $1,000 to 81, 500
each.
Ministers in New England, notwith-
standing some of them receive very large
salaries, only average as follows: MethO-
dists, $3.50; Baptists, trifle more; Pres
byterians, $40; EpiscOpalians. $500.
The high license bill has passed both
branches of the Illinois Legislature, after
a prOtracted struggle, and has been signed
bV the Governor. Saloon keepers will
have to pay $500 yearly for licenses here
after.
Captain COstentenus, the tattOOed Greek,
is already blind in one eye, and will
eventually lose the sight of the other, as
the pigments used in tattOOing his fore
head have slowly worked their way into
the vessels of the eyes.
1t is said that Captain Webb intends to
attempt to swim the whirlpool rapids in
Niagara river. If he fails, the sum he
would have received for his exploit Will,
by arrangement, go to his family, which
is now in this country.
The Rev. 5. G. Green, whose death in
London at the age of 80 years has been
announced, was one of the best known
NoncOmformists in England. He preached
the last sermon of his slXty-three years
ministry last summer.
The tallest man in Massachusetts, ac-
cording to the latest returns, is Charles
H, Holmes, of TOpsfield, who measures
6 feet s inches in his stockings, He is the
son of John Holmes, a former United
States Senator from Maine.
An indiscreet paper in Sacramento,
Cal. referred to one of the contributors of
flowers on decoration day as san aged
lady," and so angered the lady or her hus-
band that the latter published a card in
another paper to say that his wife is not
old.
When Sarah Bernhard passed through
Hamburg recently on her way to Copen-
hagen and Stockholm, she had forty-siX
trunks full of baggage, and waxed furious
when the customs officers insisted upon
nv MINING tho oOnfnOfG of nVpFV ono IN
the very bottom.
JOhnson's Island, in Lake Erie, was the
principal military prison for Confederate
officers during the war, nearly three hun
dred of whom are buried there. The
graves are neglected, the headboards
fallen or gone and the lettering on those
remaining well nigh Obliterated.
The nettle, growth common to nearly
all of the States, and which has hitherto
been a source of great trouble TO farmers,
has now been found to yield fibre which,
il is claimed, will supplement cotton in
the manufacture of cloth. Cloth made
from il. on trial. has been adjudged equal
in texture and appearance to linen.
The great Northwest is receiving an un-
expected impetus this year In the shape of
immigrants. In 1880 the population of
washington and Oregon was 100000; this
year the two territories will contain pro-
badly 4O0,0 900. 1t is estimated that steam
ers monthly land 5000 passenger immi-
grants at Portland, oregon, and that the
increase for this year viii easily reach
$1,000.
william IL, Beatty, wealthy banker of
Toronto, was asked one day recently to
lend his four-in-hand to drive the Marquis
of Lorne and the Princess Louise from
their hotel to the race course. Mr.. Beatty,
who had two $1,000 bills in his hand, said:
ssNot much, | would sooner tear these
notes up and throw them into the street
than lend that party my four-in-hand."
A Pittsburg jury gave verdict against
a railroad company for the amount of
money stolen from passenger In sleep
ing car. "Since the defendant" said the
Judge. sssold a ticket for 81 in addition to
the regular rates of passage, and offered
the facilities for sleeping as an induce
ment to pay the extra money, it bound
itself TO protect its patrons while they
were asleep, and for the time being help
less.H
The Chicago Exposition Of Railway Ap-
pliances has proved wonderful success,
the daily attendance averaging nearly TO-
600 persons. all OF whom are greatly in.
terested in the hundreds of appliances ON
exhibition. The principal railroad OFF,
ciais have not only visited the exposition,
buf have generously paid the expenses of
thousands of their employees, that they
might pront By q careful examination of
everything needed In the running of a
road.
sIr. Orrin Gowell, a millionaire Of
Nevada, goes about his fine place in
workingman's attire, which sometimes
leads to funny mistakes. One day q
tramp, seeing him at work near the FENCE,
called cut: sssoy, Pat, can't yee's slip
into the kitchen and git me a bit Of
bread.v ssThe poor fellow looked honest"
said Mr.. Gowell. $50 ! went in and got
him some of the best the cook could give
me. When / brought it out he congratu-
lated me ON my skill in making such a
good haul"
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one
minute.