Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-11
GENERAL NOTES.


London World to be the last social craze
in England.
Oakland county, H., has spent $4,000
in trying a man for murder three times
who was acquitted at last.
1t is not generally known that ripe
strawberries, particularly wild varieties,
are an excellent dentrifrice.
An English pilgrimage to Lourdes will
take place on the 21st of this month. The
Duke Of Norfolk Will lead 1t.
New York State prisons have begun to
run behind. the first in which contracts
have expired at the rate Of $4O,VOO year.
Fifty raw eggs, two bananas and
hearty supper made an evening meal for
a man in Vienna, H., who slept soundly
after it.
The birmingham. not the London police,
made the most skillful dynamite dis
coveries. The famous Scotland Yard de-
tectives are not distinguishing them
selves.
The northern portions Of the island Of
Borneo are being rapidly settled by
Chinese and other foreigners. The Chinese
own 137, 600 acres Of agricultural land IN
one district.
Owing to competition. the price Of
tickets from Swallow to Hong Kong, 100
miles, including meals, is only twenty-five
cents. Three dollars carries passenger
TO Singapore and Bangkok.
The English death rate, between the
ages of ) and p, has fallen from p to 30
per cent. in the last thirty years-a clear
Increase Of human happiness, if the early
years Of life are the happiest.
4 hawk flew against large plate glass
window in the Episcopal church at
OswegO. last Sunday, and brok the glass
into thousand pieces. The bird fell to
the sidewalk and was captured.
When the boat people Of Canton hear
the first sound of thunder in their new
year, they always hammer the boards of
their boats, which ceremony is supposed
IL drive away the bugs and other parasites
with which they are tOrmented.
A shooting party in India composed Of
His Highness the Maharajah Of DurVanga
and several English noblemen, made the
following record in March last: tigers,
A. bUffalOes, 80 pigs, 467 deer, 30 hare,
fiOriken. $50 partridges, 20 quails, 80
snipes, Us understanding total OF ,6S3
head.
Some imaginative Turk writes to the
Levant Herald about a wonderful omni-
geneOus monster. He says Roumanian
woman gave birth to a female being with
a head like an owl; the eyes being set in
the forehead: the nose and mouth like
lions: the ears like q hare's, with craW-
fish marked on its back.
Ladies of rank in the last century did
not know how to spell very well. Lady
STAFFORD wrote Of the death-struggle of
l., 20, Il oh ir1r m he
as follows: GAS it leyed soc il dyed, full
of Low leening its head on my bosom,
never offered to snap at any body in its
hOrrid tOrteT but nussle its head to us and
lOOck earnestly upon me and Sue, WhOe
cryed for thre DAYS as if it had been for
childe or husband"
The difficulty Of obtaining education for
girls in HOng-Kong is shown by the fol-
lowing paragraph from an official report;
"As a curious illustration Of the con-
tinued prevalence of kidnapping practices
in HOng-KOng, | may mention that 1
noticed in 1882, several cases in which
Chinese girls, living at a great distance
from schOOl, and having to traverse TO and
from school the most crowded portion OF
the town, were dressed like boys and at
teuded, all through the year, girls schools
in boys dresses"
Patti, at $1,000 a night, will get about
five dollars breath in Lucia" She is
on the stage, by the watch, just siXty-two
minutes during the three acts. This gives
her eighty dollars and some odd cents for
every minute. The average rate Of respi-
ration is about eighteen minute, so that
each breath is paid four dollars and forty
four cents. In "Lucia'' there are 200
words and $500 notes, so that Patti is paid
four dollars and sixteen cents word and
one dollar and seventy-fiye cents note.
For little run Of a dozen notes twenty
dollar bill is very fair pay.
A fac-simile copy Of the London Times !
for October 3, 1898, is in the possession Of |
President futile, Of Wabash College. 1t |
consists Of four pages, being twenty-three |
inches by seventeen in size. One Of the |
news items states as a great achievement |
the fact that Mrs. SiddOns performed at |
Brighton, Bath and London, within the |
incredible short space Of ninety-siX |
hours. To-day she might play, II she |
were living, i'm the three places within the |
space Of sixteen hours. In the same /
paper Nelson's victory of the Nile is first |
which had taken place two |
months before.
While a great elevator was being built |
in Kingston, New York, a day or two ago,
a remarkable exhibition Of GOODNESS and
Of mind was given by one of the
workmen. He was standing on a scaffold-
ing about sixty feet high, when one OF his
thoughtlessly removed