Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-31
GENERAL NOTES.

The Church of England has an income
of ga, so, 900.
The salaries of the officials of all the
bonanza mines have been reduced.
Two small diamonds were lately found
in the crop of peahen in Havana.
The first newspaper published in Japan
was established only tWenty-three years
ago.
The New York ''Passion Play will re-
quire the services of 734 people on the
stage.
The number of men who daily frequent
the Hemenway gymnasium, at Harvard,
is estimated at 600.
A 100000 cottage on a 100000 lot is
building at Newport for Miss Catherine
Wolfe. the richest single woman in
America.
1t needs only the addition of an to turn
laughter into slaughter; it takes only the
loss of an to turn Schuylkill into cool
kill, slightly misspelled.
Joseph GOurieri, an Italian, for wager
of $25, carried dressed hog weighing $50
pounds distance of nearly a mile in
Youngstown, Ohio, last week.
New York insurers are served by five
less companies than year ago, but the
liabilities in losses have increased, while
the assets and income have fallen off.
Oscar Wilde declares that it is only in
comparatively shallow water that you can
have fine color. Is the fact that he is CON
sidered off color due TO his extreme depth!
Professor Langley estimates that the
rainfall on Manhattan Island, for three
months, loaded as ice, would fill train
reaching from Jersey City to san Fran
cisco.
An English railway company has adopt
ed the plan of painting their cars with
Balmain phosphOrescent paint, which af-
fOrds sufficient light while passing through
tunnels.
A Manitoba man advertiSes: "Wife
wanted-must not be over twenty-five;
good cook, good housekeeper, and able to
milk four COWS. If lady means business
send photo"
Illinois is one of the prosperous States
that has slightly reduced its local indebt-
edness during the past four years, while
the capacity for paying the interest and
meeting the principal has largely IN
creased.
At the burial of the unrecogniZed vic
tins of the Milwaukee fire, twenty-three
bodies were awarded to the Protestants
and twenty to the Roman Catholics. 1t
would have been safer to give them all to
the Catholics.
A literary man who used one blade of
pair of scissors to keep his window from
rafting, thus twisted Shakespeare to
Justify his experiment: ''The busted SciS-
SOrS, dead and turned to clay, may stop
hole to keep the wind away"
The Lancaster bingham Mills, at Clin-
ton, Mass, are the largest mills of the
kind in this country. They employ two
thousand hands, and produce 2O,0O0,O0O
yards Of cloth every year. Their products
are sold mainly in Pennsylvania and the
Southwest.
They have some snow storms on the
Rocky Mountains, but a train was re-
Gently buried on the Bala and FestiniOg
Railway, in Wales, so badly that five
miles Of snow, in some places eighteen
feet deep, had to be cut through before 1t
could be reached.
The Vassal Club is the name of a new
club for ladies and gentlemen, organized
in Cambridge, Mass. 1t takes its name
from the mansion which it has rented and
reftted-the old Yassal House that was
occupied by that good old Tory, Colonel
Vassal, before the revolution,
Harvard issues this year a prospectus
for veterinary school, to open in 1888.
1t is to give three years course of in
structiOn. 1t is hoped that in few
years there will be enough veterinarians
on hand to keep the base ball players of
the school in trim for Rotations.
An American went to see NJ. and
Madame Damala in Paris, and asked
Sarah's husband what he could wish him.
The eX-actOr (for he will never tread the
boards again responded, after rejecting
for some seconds, ''Wish me patienceH
Sarah is trying, when in bad temper.
"a cOffin," said the Irishman, sis the
place where man lives when he is dead"
''This funeral" says the great De Blowitz,
in his soon to be historical dispatch to the
London Times on the procession that
marched through the streets of Paris after
Gambetta's corpse, '.this funeral has been
the greatest success Of his life:"
The late Earl of Wemyss was one of
the oldest members of the peerage. His
great age, eighty-seFen years, is exceeded
only by the Earl of Mount Cashel, ninety
one; Earl of Stradbroke, eighty-nine;
Viscount Ryersley, eighty-nine; Earl Of
Buckingham shire, eighty=nlne; Lord
Brougham and Yaux, Lightweight; Lord
Mostyn, lightweight, and Lord Teynham,
lightweight.
Mr.. Labouchere may fatter himself that
he knew more of public feeling in 1874
than Lord Beaconsfield did. The latter
happened then to have the lease of house
which Mr.. Labouchere wished to sub-let.
Lord BeacOnsfield was inclined to take it.
but thought it rather too dear for him.
The London editor offered to let it to him
on these terms: Double rent whenever
he was in office, nothing whenever he was
out of office, and this arrangement to con-
tinue until he retired from public life.
A new keyed instrument has been in
vented by Herr Wilhelm Piascher, Of
Leipsic, and he has given it the name of
the adiaphon. In place of strings tuning
forks are used, which are struck by ham,
mers through the medium of the ordinary
mechanism of a grand piano. The tone is
said to be of remarkable charm, and the
instrument possesses the great recon-
mendatiOn of never getting out of tune.
OF the practical results of the invention,
saws the AthenRum, it would be premature
at present to hazard any opinion.
Baron HuddlestOn, of the London bench,
has become famous through the earica-
lures of the London Punch, which, with
both courage and cleverness, has satirized
week after week the Judges conduct on
the bench. The Judge wisely fOrebOre to
summon the offender to the bar of justice.
But he said to friends II do think
Punch is too hard. ON me. How can he
suppose l am toadying TO the aristOcracy
I. who have two Duchesses in my fami-
ly?'' The Baron, by the way, came origi-
nallY of poor family, but he married a
Duchess and now acknowledges no ances-
tors but hers,