Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-08
GENERAL NOTES.

In some parts of Germany the police
have lately mad the new duty instructed
to them Of prohibiting boys under sixteen
| from smoking in the streets or from en-
/ tering alone establishments where intoXi-
eating liquors are sold.
The British troops are to stay in Lulu
land for six months, in company with
CetewayO, who has just been conducted
TO his new Kraal, near Ulundi, and in the
annexed territory, which is euphemisti-
cally called 1.-The Reserve
One cannot help regretting his age at
times. FOntenelle, when far away amid
the cold of the nineties, was once in con-
versation with a beautiful woman, when
he suddenly exclaimed: sob, madame, if
were only four score againw
At a recent agricultural exhibition at
Ledenberg, Germany, was exhibited a
threshing machine which was driven by
electricity at the rate of ], 400 revolutions
minute, and which at the same time
illuminated the Enclosure in which it
worked,
Hall, the Newark forger, who has just
been returned from Canada, says the jails
in that country are very much nicer than
here; that for long time he had large
room all to himself and was very kindly
treated. The next interesting comparison
is to be looked for from Phipps.
A President of a local fire company
makes very good showing of asset earn
ings-so good as to confuse some of his
country stockholders, who do not under
stand how he takes advantage of the rise
in the price of good bonds to sell and take
the profit which he has over the purchase
money.
The practicability of phOtographing
landscapes from the windows of train
running at a rate of forty miles an hour
has been recently proved by Doctor Can
die. who uses what he calls a gyrOgraph
for the purpose. An exposure of only one
One-hundredth of a second was needed,
and after little practice wonderfully dis
tinct views were obtained.
The editor of a Japanese newspaper APP
parently does not find it an easy matter to
fill its columns. A recent number appear
ed with a large space left entirely blank
The editor apologized by saying that, at
the last moment, he found what he had
written was entirely wrong, and hence it
had to be taken out. He had no time to
obtain matter enough to NIL up the vacant
space,
William Il, stelle and his wife, Of Son.
erville, n. j., celebrated their golden we'd
ding on Friday. Father Webb, so years
old, who married them in 1888, was pre-
sent. After the golden wedding supper,
the bride sat at her spinning wheel and
spun ball of Irvine, and two bridesmaids,
who were at the ceremony then, assisted
her. Six children and ten grandchildren
were among the guests.
,ollov,af, vVhO has pOOa 1OxK-r1 IN ho
world sufficiently to trade in stocks is not
regarded in England as deserving of
much. When messenger called at the
London Stock Exchange for Lord Walter
Campbell the porter regarded the appen-
dage TO the name as an insult to the DEM
Ocracy of the place. '.Lord Walter Camp
bell?" said he; ''we have no Lords here"
and then he shouted, "W alter Campbell is
wanted"
The pleasure of coming back from
duel-not French duel, because they are
perfectly safe-was felt by Lord Alvanley
when, on reaching home after an encoun-
ter, he gave the cOachman guinea. The
coachman had a conscience-whieh al
most renders the story incredible-and
said: ''My Lord, this is too much; only
took YOU TO -" AlYanley replied:
''My friend, the guinea is not for taking
me TO -, but for bringing me back
Scientific men have for some time sus-
pected that parts of Greenland are slowly
but steadily sinking. Some recent obser-
vations confirm this belief. Between lati-
tude go degrees and 20 degrees buildings
have TO be continually moved inland, or
they get beI0Y tue level of the sea. on
the other hand there are evidences that
the land is rising in Sweden and Nor
way. Buildings have TO be continually
removed so as TO bring them down to the
level of the sea.
The custom house reports for the past
year show that the duty collected on
European dolls amounted to $276.73l
which Is third Of their value. Many