Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-20
GENERAL NOTES.

within year.
One-tenth of the foreign immigration TO
this country in the year 1881 settled IN
Pennsylvania.
The Shenfelder Brothers, of Reading,
Pa. make Ii, 900 pressed brick a day. or
twenty-five minute.
The Italian Government has begun 10
substitute bronze for the steel guns no"
used for field artillery.
At Turin, in 1884, there will be opened
general Italian exhibition, to embrace
physics and general chemistry, with thelr
applications, and mathematics.
In Churchville county, New, is nil oil
moving sand four miles long, mile VIDE
and from 100 to 400 feet high. Within
few years the hill has Travelled mile.
A Baltimore manager lately succeeded
in securing a large attendance at his
theatre by announcing that jars of pre-
served fruit would be distributed among
the audience.
The foreign settlement at Shanghai is
lighted by the Brush electric light. The
Chinese Governor has issued an order for
the removal of the lights, thinking them
unsafe.
During the past ten years the valuation
of real estate in New York city has risen
from $797, 125, 115 to $1,O35, 2OO,S $40, while
that of personal estate has fallen OF fully
One-third.
A Russian Princess at. a recent ball
given in Nice. wore dress made entirely
of peacOck's feathers. Heads of the birds,
with eyes made Of garnets, were used IN
the looping.
A society has been formed in England
under the Presidency of the Archbishop of
Canterbury which has for its object ''the
Outstanding, simplifying and cheaper
ing funeral and mourning ceremonlals."
Near La Paz, Mexico, has been discov-
cred the largest pearl the world has ever
known. 1t is light in color, oval in form,
one inch in length, and .three-quarters of
an inch in its smallest diameter. Its
value is $4,000.
An elevated railroad is needed in Paris.
The Austrians already have one con-
structed on the New York model. The
Paris Figaro hopes that France will not
lag far behind her sister republic in the
comforts it affords travellers.
A lady in Brunswick, Me-, lately called
in physician to prescribe for her sick cat.
In short time the cat died, and coffin
was purchased, costing $l2 30. Finally
cable dispatch was sent to the lady's alb
sent husband. announcing pussy's de-
cease.
A man in Stockport, England etried to
kill comrade for the purpose of getting
his place. Unfortunately, he attacked the
wrong man, and did not discover his mis-
take till he had knocked him about the
head with an axe so ZealOusly that his
victim was past help.
The her day a publican at Wellington,
in Shropshire, was suddenly deprived of
the license of a house which he had kept
respectable for several years, because the
police had tardily discovered that in 1859
he had been convicted of stealing faggOt
of wood worth two pence.
A negro in Mobile, Ala, created a SEN
sation and caused himself to be suspected
Of murder by making a false grave and
putting near il a corn sack saturated with
blood. His object was to 'hOOdoo" the
witches who protected supposed buried
treasure, which the negro was in search
Of.
Respect for the majesty of the law may
be carried too far. In the course of an
inquest on the body of boy who had
committed suicide by hanging, at Gates
Hcdu. IL lTdlSlilcu lDdJ HIS HOlutI Ddu
refrained from cutting him down, as she
understood that sit was Illegal to do so
until the arrival Of the police"
Lindlay, o., has an eccentric evangelist
named J. II. Weber. who at recent re-
yival approached Mrs. NJ. j. Sheets, one
of the most respected ladies, and said
''This woman has a devil in her. She is a
bad woman. Come down, God, and take
the devil out of her. is said the meet
ing came very near breaking up in row.
The death of Herr Won FlOtOw having
made a vacancy among the foreign cor
responding members of the Institute of
Paris, the following names have been
selected, from which the new members
will be chosen: Edward Grieg NORWAY ),
Jahannes Brahms (Austria), II. Tschai-
kowsky (Russia), Armand Limnander
and Peter BenOit (Belgium).
Last Saturday night week was one of
the fiercest and stormiest ever known on
the Sierra Nevada Mountains since the
completion of the first railroad. The wind
blew hurricane, the snow was light and
dry, and the air was so filled with storm
driven particles that it was impossible, at
times, to see an object ten feet distant. 1t
was fog of Wind-driVen ice lances. The
stiny frozen particles Of snow and sleet
cut like needle points. The sensation was
much the same as if Il shower of glass
dust had been hurled against ones face
and hands. The wind tore the branches
from trees, started avalanches to rolling
down the mountains, and howled and
shrieked and rayed like a thousand de-
mons, 1t piled a drift about thirty-flve
feet deep by the side of Caldwelps house
at the Summit,
A Chinese temperance tract-a pictO-
rial one, of course-is something of a nov
city. The subject is the abuse of opium,
and its consequences are depicted in
series of warning tableauX. The first
sketch i'm this Chinese version of "The
Rake's Progress" represents All Sin TAX
ing his first pipe, which he doesn't seem
to like. 1t is inscribed: ''He takes opium
for pastime only" In the second picture
he is found out and scOlded by his father.
He kneels before the good old man, but
his penitence is evidently only partially
sincere, as he is apparently keeping his
eye on his child, who IS making OFT with
the opium pipe. In the third picture the
disastrous consequences of opium are
made evident by the fact of his
companionship with damsel who,
attired in red and green, is playing
on cithern. He next sells his
real property. He smokes at home while
his wife weeps. Irritated by her remon-
straaces, he beats her with a bamboo as
long as a One-handeG trout rod. Next he
loses his appetite; his wife leaves him:
he lodges in shed; he becomes on out
cast He now lives beside linn i'm very
pretty mountainous country, but scenery
has lost its charms. Winter comes on
and he sinks half naked into cave to
die. 1t is not believed that this tract has
been issued by the British Government,
whose profitable trade in opium is hardly
consistent with the strictest sense of NOR
ality, but the hand of the average mis-
sionary is conspicuously apparent.
A Brave and Faithful Guardian of Our
Homes and Property Rescued from Inn
minent Peril.
A very popular and well known men,
Der of our police force, who has performed
duty twelve years at the Union Railroad
Depot, on Exchange Place, in Providence,
r. l., gives his unsolicited testimony.
Hear him:
81 have been dreadfully troubled with
disease of the Kidneys and Liver during
the past six months; at times l was so
severely afflicted that | was unable to
stand on my feet, as my feet and lower
parts of my legs were very badly
swollen; my urinary organs were i'm a
dreadful condition, my blood was in a
Yretched state, and it had become so
impoverished and circulated so poorly
that my hands and feet would be cold and
numb. and SO white as to appear lifeleSs.
| could not rest nights, but was so dis
tressed all over that could not lie still in
bed, but would keep turning and rolling
from one side TO the other all night so