Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-21
GENERAL NOTES.

Alabama has l,.24' more women than
men.
There are G0,0OO orange trees at Bay St.
Louis, Miss.
An electric eel was found in water
pipe in the Tombs.
Richmond, by police census, has
population Of 1854; in 1880 it had $1,000.
Bureaus Of associated charities now
exist in twenty-five of the largest cities
in this country.
The longest word in the English Ian
guage is Notwithstanding which has
eleven syllables. 1t is appropriate to
Congressman and such dignitaries. since
it signifies the state Of being honorable.
When the Tennessee papers sent i'm
their bills for advertising, according to
the published rates, the State authorities
cut down the charges 30 per cent. This
was taste Of the sweets OF reputation.
\ slab Of marble marked sc. Gross
Brock" has remained in the freight office
at Greenville, Ala. for the past seventeen
years. 1t was originally intended TO be
erected over some soldier grave. Whose
Where:
\ Washington diplomat, engaged in
acquainting himself with American life,
ordered beer in Topeka, Kansas. and was
profoundly surprised when il was served
TO him in a tureen with ladie. by which
he was expected to dip it into a coffee
cup.
Only eight insane asylums had been
built in the United States in 1891. be-
ing state institutions; by 1910 sixteen
were built: by 1850, twenty-four: by 1850.
forty-fOur, and by 1850, ninety, Of which
siXty-siX are supported wholly or in part
by State aid.
New York is to have an exhibition Of
taxidermy May ). The demand for stuffed
and mounted birds and beasts has vastly
increased under the demand for them i'm
decoration. They are fragile things, and.
considering the rapidity with which they
grow shabby, expensive ornaments.
At the railroad station in West Corn
wall, y. Y, the travellers were stupefied
at seeing a young woman attempt the diff
ficult feat Of entering the car through the
window. She had never before seen a rail-
road train. having lived in the inland
country. and said she thought that was
the regular method Of ingress.
America supplies the world with gossa-
mer waterproof garments. The Gossa-
mer Rubber Clothing Company, Of Boston,
Mass, turns out 5000 garments a day.
and their drying tables cover forty acres
Of ground. The goods are sold i'm Austria
liza and South Africa, Europe and Asia.
South America and the Sandwich Islands.
Some cannon were recently made at
Lille Of much less than ordinary weight,
but the breech, after being cast, was care
fully wound round with silk threads,
which were afterwards covered with a
protection Of rubber. 1t is thought that
the tenacity Of the silk will be even greater
than that OF the steel, with much greater
elasticity.
One of the special features Of the London
Fish Exhibition is to be fish dinner, pro-
yided at a very low price, and which will
be served every day from IL TO ). Some
kinds Of fish will be furnished as low as a
penny. The object Of this is to introduce
fish as food among the lower classes Of
English, who have, it appears, an intense
prejudice against it.
A COptic church Of the fifth century has
recently been discovered among the ruins
of Thebes. The way down to il is by five
brick steps, the floor is tiled and the
walls are Of rough bricks, bearing inscrip-
tons. On a stella, covered with a hard
white substance, are 800 lines, written in
red ink in Theban, forming part Of a SER
mon directed against heretics.
The .'BOstOn Herald Railroad" begin
ming at Sanford, Florida, and running
twenty-five miles to Orlando, is being ex-
tended TO Kissimmee, twenty miles fur
Their. The Herald people have already ex-
pended, it is reported, about 100000 on
this little road, and it is returning them
over u per cent. in dividends in doing the
business of Orange county. When Gen.
Grant visited the State in 1880 he threw
up the first spadeful OF earth in the
of the Boston Herald road.
The vicar of st. Johns Harlon has been
formally committed to take his trial at the
assizes for Obstructing the funeral Of Mrs.
Graves by closing the chief gate of the
He gave bail in the sum of
600. The new vicar of st. Simon's, Bris-
toll, refused the tolling of the bells for a
dissenting parishiOner, giving as his rea-
son that "The tolling of the bell is an i'm
portant part of the church service, to
which no Dissenter has any claim; sec
Ond. because as a Church of England
clergyman he cannot recognize Dissen-
tiers, believing them TO be morally wrong
in the sight of Cod
a dramatic writer Of London says fiat
teringly Of American theatres: 'Mr.