Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-26
GENERAL NOTES.

Twenty billion wooden hoops are used
annually in this country for barrels only.
In a recent speech the Prince OF Wales
said London now had about 100000 in
habitants.
Hartford. Conn.,, boasts of $25,000,0O0
bank deposits, or about 5000 to every per-
son in the city.
The largest milk pan on record, holding
600 gallons. has just been made for an
Iowa creamery.
Rattlesnakes weighing ten pounds and
Anna mountains.
\ party of Cincinnatans have bought
5000 acres in Florida, known as the
ApOpka Mountains, and will build a
500. 600 hotel there.
Tue average life of Maxim incande-
scent electric light has been found to be
!. 900 hours. although some have been
burned between 5000 and 4 900 hours.
The new pawnbrokers' law in New
York exacts a license of $500 and bonds in
$50. 600, and is said to concentrate the
business in the hands of dozen rich men.
Port Gibson Miss. J, a little place of
l.;5OO, shows its enterprise by raising $780,
GOO for a cotton factory, $4,000 for an oil
we'll and 100000 for a railrOad-S100,0 in
all.
Manhattan Island contains about 1880
acres, of which $500 are covered with
houses, ], 900 acres in parks, and 5000 are
still unOccupied. In the last ten years
1000 acres have been built up.
A spaniel dog ran into store in South
Boston, Mass, on Tuesday last, and up
three flights of stairs to the roof. whence
he leaped at once to the ground. He
struck upon his head.
a Leadville woman recently stole four
gold watches from as many persons dur
ing the dinner hour at restaurant. The
watches We're recovered, and she is be-
hind the bars for ninety days.
New MeXico's wool production last
year amounted to 80, 600, 900 pounds. There
are upwards of 12,000,000 sheep in the ter
ritOry, and the clip this year is not expect
ed to be short of j0,00O,000 pounds.
The keys of the Marysville zeal. Jail
were locked up in the Sheriff's safe the
other day, and then the Sheriff forgot the
combination. 1t was several hours be-
fore access could be gained to the prison.
About forty indignant citizens nailed
handles to a claim jumpers residence,
near FaulktOn, Dakota, recently, and car
ried it to the Nixon river, where it was
launched and started on a voyage down
stream.
The opium and morphine habit has
spread tremendously in Paris, and a step
in the right direction has been taken by
the Tribunal of the Seine by sentencing a
pharmacien to a weeks Imprisonment,
$40 fine and $50 damages for supplying
the deadly medicament to one Of his GUS
! toners.
India is endeavOring to manufacture
her own paper in future. Instead of send
ing the raw material to England, then re-
ceiving it back as paper, after paying
freight both ways, there is beginning to
be an effort to save the price of carriage
and to spend the money now ''squandered
abroad among her own natives.
As showing the growth of steamships,
the President of the British Iron and Steel
Association in his recent address said:
''The largest vessel built by Messrs.
Elder, of Glasgow, up to the end of 1869
was an iron steamer of 1903 tons, with
compound engines of 5000 horsepower,
working at 60-lb.- pressure. The largest
vessel now on the waves is the Oregon, of
=
while the speed has increased from ii to
Is knots. In the former vessel the super
/ fetal area of the largest plates used was
22H square feet; in the latter it is BOG
square feet"
An important discovery Of Roman coins
| has Just been made on the estate of Lord
| Darnley, at Gotham Hall, near Rochester.
! In digging up the roots of a tree short
| distance from the hall, the wOrkmen came
| upon a large earthen-ware jar, which was
| found to contain quantity OF Roman
| coins in bronze. The coins, which num-
| Der between 800 and 900, mostly bear the
| date of the fourth century, about 100
| wears before the Romans left Britain, and
I are chiefly of the reigns of the EmperOrs
! Constantine, COnstans and COnstantius.
| 1t is worthy of note that many of the coins
| bear the ldbdruHl, which was the first en-
| blem of Christianity adopted by the EN-
perOrs. The spot where the coins were
| discovered was near to the old Roman
| Waiting street, which ran through Cob
| ham Wood towards London.
Frank Bellew, the artist, adds his testi-
mony to the often repeated statement that
men who make a business of humOr are
| apt to be lachrymOse individuals person
/ allG. He says: perhaps like the hired
| boy in the candy store, theyg OF sick of
| sweets. Or, like the flower girl in
| Miss Killmansegg,' they hate the smell
! of roses" Sure it is that many OF the
prominent caricaturists have come to
| doleful ends. Gilray died in amadhOuse;
| Seymour committed suicide; Leach died
! of breast pang in his prime; William
! Newman. a teetOtaller, one of the first
! caricaturists on Punch, was found dead
! in his bed in Brooklyn; John McLennan
| gave up drinking and died in six months;
Z GfnnLr
! his prime, a pauper on Wards Island;
and here comes poor, kind hearted Jump,
| to end the list with his brains blown out
| i'm Chicago.
The editor of the Anaheim (COl.) "a
zette has been investigating the habits of
Ostriches on a ranch near that place, and
says that the old story about the female
covering up the eggs and then leaving
them to be Matched out by the hot sun is
all bOsh. "The female" he SAYS, ''sits on
the eggs in the day time, and the male as
sumes that duty at night, allowing the
female to seek rest and recreation while
he attends to the household duties. 1t
must be noted here that the male is much
more sOlicitOus for his household than is
the female. 1t not unfrequently happens
that the latter prefers to cad about rather
than take her turn at sitting, and on such
occasions her lord and master administers
to her a deserved chastisement by kicking
her heartily around the paddock until she
manifests proper cOntritiOn and signifies
her willingness to settle down on the
eggs.'' The eggs weigh about three and
half pounds apiece, and are said to be
of not unpleasant taste. One of them con-
tains food enough for plentiful breakfast
for four persons.
A tunnel of eighty-siX feet in length,
with two chambers of eleven feet, has
been bored into the heart of Granite
Mountain, on the line Of the Iron Noun
tain Railroad. In order to get the granite
into better shape for quarrying purposes
it is proposed shortly to let off a charge of
s 600 mounds of Dynamite in the tunnel