Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-17
GENERAL NOTES.
A Paris surgeon advertises that he wi

supply people with all the dimples they
may desire at napoleon apiece.
Murderers in France, if they have
money. are compelled, under the new law,
to pay large sum to the family of their
victims.
The diamond mines Of Brazil were first
opened in 1927. 1t is estimated that since
that time they have produced at least two
tons of diamonds.
An Illinois man boxed his wife's ears
for investing 81 in a lottery ticket. She
went 70 her fathers home. and her ticket
soon after drew 5000.
The Jews in Great Britain are said to
have more children who can read and
write. in proportion to their number than
any other denomination.
A man in Vermont recently tried swal-
lowing a dose Of lead shot to cure boils,
but one Of the shot went the wrong way
and worked into his brain, causing death.
James Kelly, a brakeman running out
Of East Portland, Ore, a few days ago, was
seized with a fit Of vomiting and threw up
a live lizard, fully two inches in length.
The two-cent stamp, to be used for let
ter postage after October, will bear the
profile Of WashingtO like the three-cent
will be different.
Professional incomes in Germany are
very small i'm comparison with those Of
America. The average income Of a Judge,
lawyer, doctor, professor or superior on
Ger. is not generally more than $1,000.
A letter has been received by the Secre-
tary of Castle Garden, from man in Gin
cinnati, asking him to look up wife for
him among the immigrants, as he lacks
the courage TO ask woman to marry
him.
Madame Scalchi, of the MaplesOn Com
pany, has been engaged by Abbey to sing
in New York next season, for the small
compensation Of Sj,000per month. Madame
Scalchi thinks Mr.. Abbey is Every nice
young man."
The Paris salon will have contributions
this year from GIL French painters, 2j2
sculptors, 246 architects, and 127 engrav-
ers. The foreign contributors Will be loo
Bainters. 81 sculptors, AZ architects, and
81 engravers. Sixty lady artists exhibit,
Of whom 30 are French.
The methods Of farming in Spain are Of
the most primitive description, having
made but little progress since the days Of
the MoOrs. The same sort Of pillow used
then is still employed: oxen tread out the
corn. and women WinnOw the grain by
tossing it in the wind.
Russian florists are in san Reno and
Ventimiglia contracting for the purchase
Of all the flowers in the principal gardens
for the festivities in Moscow The flow
ers will be forwarded every morning by
special train of refrigerator cars, and will
be used mostly for decorating the Kremlin.
The sanitary inspectors of Paris lately
came across an establishment where
ground acorns and burned wheat were
made into a stiff paste. which We're
stamped into coffee beans and cOlOred
with an alcoholic solution Of cOlOphOne
.stO give them a rich Mocha color" The
beans were then packed in bags to be sold
as pure coffee.
William Barnes, of Washington, takes
back an earlier and hasty declaration by
advertising in the Washington Post: E'NO-
tice-I was mistaken about my wife's in
tentions when she left me and went to her
own home sick with fever, to be with
her children. l revoke my former adVer-
tisement, and acknowledge ! was hasty:
regret its appearance
A Vermont man, who was in Boston
day or two ago, said: You can hardly
imagine the state of things up there.
Farmers are just breaking roads into
their sugar-places, and have to dig regu-
lar trenches. On my way down saw
one man at work with his oxen, and actu-
ally nothing but the backbOnes and horns
of the cattle appeared above the snow"
A boy of eight years, in one Of the Mas
sachusetts schools. was asked by his
teacher where the zenith was. He re-
piled: 1.-The spot in the heavens directly
over ones head" To test his knowledge
further, the teacher asked; ''Can two per-
sons have the same zenith at the same
timer s.They can" "HowF' "If one
should stand on the others head"
According to the shooting register kept
on Prince SchwarZenberg's estates i'm
Austria 75,401 head of game have been
shot there during the past year. Among
them were S52 deer. 1888 rOebuck, 2O9
wild boar. 2,245 pheasants, 26,70j part
ridges, Do 95 hares and 2,410 wild duck.
The remainder of the list includes every
other species Of game in Austria-Hungary.
Sandringham Hall, the country resi-
dence Of the Prince Of Wales, is a real
English home, and not grand castle re-
served for show, 4 tablet set above the
yestibule entrance bears the inscriptions
Prince Of Wales, and Alexandra, his wife,
in the year of our Lord 1870" The house
is situated near the western coast Of Nor
folk.
An opera house on wheels is the latest
dramatic novelty, and company, with
headquarters at Kansas City, has been
organized tO'build and manage it. 1t is
to consist of eight railway cars, which can
be expanded by ingenious mechanism
into "a capaciOus structure with auditO-
rum and stage complete, and is designed
for the benefit of communities which do
not possess facilities for the production Of
plays. 1t will run from place to place on
the railroads, and carry portable track
upon which it can be switched off and
transformed into a theatre.
The first installment of the fve-cent
nickel piece of the latest design has been
received by Treasurer Wyman from the
Philadelphia mint. 1t amounted to only
$500. More are expected soon, and they
will be put into circulation when re-
ceiyed. This issue of the nickel piece has
the word cents inscribed under the Roman
numeral V, and is intended as a substitute
for the new nickel piece which bore no in
scription to designate its value beyond
the figure V. There are already about
1000, 900 pieces Of this coin in circulation.
When DIR. j. NJ. Gregory, formerly re-
gent Of the Illinois Industrial University,
was a boy, he used to live in the same
Baptist neighborhoOd in the Green Noun
tain State with the Green Mountain boy
who is now President OF the United States.
And Chester A. Arthur and J. NJ. Gregory
used to be tOw-headed school boys to-
gether. The doctor used to know the
Arthur girls, the Presidents sisters, and
when he was young man used to sing
in the Presidents fathers church choir.
Consequently, when Mr.. Cannon went to
see the President in Mr.. GregOry's behalf,
il was soon decided that he would be
good man to have on the Civil Service Re
form Commission, and that's how he came
to be one Of them.