Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-19
GENERAL NOTES.


an elevation of two feet and dislocated
his neck.
In France a reporter generally makes a
writing desk of the back of the individual
he interviews.
1t is against the law to fish with net
between the LIST of May and the list Of Sep
TENDER in South Carolina.
There is an extens i've establishment in
New Orleans for the manufacture of wine
from imported raisins mixed with dried
currantS.
Poushkin. the Russian poet, said St.
Petersburg is unsuited for lovers, the
nights being too cold in winter and too
clear in summer.
A grand piano was sold for three dol
lars at a recent Paris sale. 1t was bought
by an artist to use the mahogany wood to
paint pictures on.
A company has been organized in San
Francisco 10 resurrect $25, 900, 0C0 of treas
ure sunk by the burning OF a Spanish fleet
in the Bay of Vigo, Spain, in the year
1902.
A Utica woman goes out at night, kicks
open the doors where her husband may
open to be, and brings him home, accom-
panying herself with appropriate re-
marks.
The petrified remains of an ichthyOsau-
rus have been found in chalk fOrma-
ton. resting on a stratum of gypsum, on
the ranch of John Barker, in Kern county,
California.
A farmer in West Tennessee tied a small
sheep bell to the neck of a buzzard, and
that otherwise unmusical fowl tinkled
himself INTO general notice flying through
the country.
According to Mr.. F, II. King, of the
Wisconsin State Survey, the bird popula-
ton of the State is 4,565, O0O consuming an
aggregate of over twenty-One billion in
sects every season.
y. b. Dudley, of Logan county, Ky. has
a Holstein heifer which dropped bull
calf on the 10th of May, which at ten days
old weighed 40 pounds. The COW gives
fOrty-ive pounds of milk per day.
The Secretary of the Interior has re-
ceived from the Northern Pacific Railway
Company checks for S23,625, to be paid
the Flathead Indians for right of way
through their reservation in Montana.
Up to 1876 the standard capacity of
freight cars was 10000 pounds. In 1877 a
few were built to carry 10000, and since
1879 the standard cars, both of the East
and West, have been built to carry 10000
pounds.
If pluck and grit will win, Miss Lizzie
Dufield, of Davies county, Iowa, de-
serves success. Last April she struck
out boldly for Dakota and pre-empted a
quarter section of land. She had small
shanty erected on the prairie at once, and
| when she moved into it there was only
one other lady within five miles.
While Fred. Putnam, aged 16, was going
home from church in Jordan, \. Y, SUM-
day evening, two fellows in disguise de-
manded his money. He gave them all he
| had-fifty cents. One of them had the
| impudence to ask him if he was satisfied;
| he replied that he was not, when half OF
| the money was returned, and the robbers
| fed.
To keep an appointment to be married,
| George Warrell, of Rapid City, Mimi,
swan the fiood-swollen Spring Greek with
a rope around his body and with
| the help of men on the bank, drew his
clothes and two saddles one for the lady
over on a raft. The horses were then
| lowed over with the rope. The procession
| then formed again and moved on to the
/ brides residence.
The Japanese believe that ammOnites
are petrified snakes. Fossil brachiOpOds
| Clampshells) are called ''stone swallows"
| and are said to come to life and fly from
their hiding places at the approach of
wind and rain, changing again to stones
| on the return of fair weather. Fossil fish
| appear and disappear at pleasure. Their
| appearance is prognostic of plentiful
| harvest and prosperous times. The stones
if burned have decidedly tishy smell.
The VirgiRid People of Thursday says:
''Mrs. Stephen Mayo, of Pulaski county,
who, regularly, at the beginning of each
| quarter, walks to Newbern to draw her
| pension. is the widow of revolutionary
soldier. Her husband, stephen Mayo,
who died in 1S47, was born in GOochland
county in 1857, and served as a private in
the Continental Army. Mrs. Mayois now
| in her siXty-seyenth year. She was mar
ried in 1884, at the age of seventeen, her
| husband being then in his seyenty-seyenth
| year."
The Rev. Joe Cook has got a whack
from another direction. He stopped over
Becently and charged gross immOralities
upon the theological students of the Uni
versity of Leyden for the purpose of
throwing discredit upon the work of kue-
men. but he gets a straight blow from the
Rev. Philip III. Wicksteed, an accepted
| authority on Dutch theology and theolO-
gians. The charge is denied in toto, and
| Wicksteed goes so far as to say: MIR.
Cooks calumnies appear to me so sense
less that the only escape from the
suppOsition of willful falsehOOd lies
in the possibility of some mere
misunderstanding on the part either of
Mr.. Cook or his informant. 1t occurs to
me to ask in what language these start
ling revelations on the banks of the Rhine
were made, and | am reminded of an en-
inent theOlOgian who translated ''sinn-
reich sensual" In reference to ''the hall
at the head of which Kuenen stands"
where morality is not Indispensable to
membership of theological Glass; Mr..
Wicksteed thinks it enough to say that
there is no such hall in existence. Keunen
presides over no hall, and is not at the
head of any theological faculty.
st. Louis, as a city, lies in an atmos-
phere of poetic legend and story. Within
three miles from the business centre, on
the Illinois side at the old French town
of CahOkia. generations are born, live and
die, who do not speak the English lam
guage. The people are provincial in the
extreme, and jealous of their French ORR
gin, customs and language. The Partisan
accent is by no means preserved in its
purity, however, and a native Frenchman
might experience a slight difficulty in
cOmprehending the local yernacular, but
in this mOngrel mixture is the pride of
the foreign descendants sustained. For
five miles back from the river banks is
there a scene of desOlated life that
surprises the tourist. The soil is light
sand. The trees are low and ''scrubby."
The houses are built ON a stone founda-
ton from six TO ten feet high. 1t is not a
basement-has neither windows nor doors.
but is simply the foundation ON which the
house proper rests. And why! On ac-
count of what in native parlance is known
as the "spring RISE" The river governs
all and determines all the conditions of
life. In its annual flood-tide of spring
usually occurring in May-it rises to the
level of the houses above the stone walls,
and people 90 about in canoes. Malaria
abOunds, and the resources of these pro-
yincial households consist largely in the
quinine bottle and last years almanac
A WOman's Experience.
Mrs. William Downes, of UXbrIdge,
Mass, writes on March Is, 1888, as fol-
lows: