Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-10
GENERAL NOTES.

OEN EI(AB NOIES.
Twenty hotels are now building in the
City Of Mexico.
Scarlet is still the favOTite color for sun
shades in London.
Louisiana is cheered by the prospect Of
big orange and sugar crops.
There are now 191 cotton factories in the
Southern States, and most Of them are
making money.
Oyster culture was commenced in Nor
way in 1877, and at last they are having
good yield Of spat.
"f 5. d." was the religion with which
three candid persons in the census Of
Victoria, Australia, credited themselves.
The returns from Nova Scotia mines for
1882 show that 1,365, sl1 tons Of coal were
produced, ~, 13j tons Of iron and IA, l07
ounces of gold.
When Queen Elizabeth died, twenty
seven fans were found in her wardrobe.
One Of them was valued at 800; the
handle was covered with diamonds.
Louisville and Cincinnati produce mer-
chants are sending out their circulars,
begging Southern planters to raise less
cotton and more hogs and hOminy.
1t is estimated that the British work
men and women spend more than fifth
of their wages or 975,000,0 900 out Of $780,
100000. for beer and other strong drinks.
The Wesleyans Of Great Britain have
sent a petition to Parliament for the clos
ing of public houses on Sunday, on a roll
Of paper ~ miles long, containing $50, 1872
names.
Nebraska has increased its population
1896 per cent. in twenty years, and its
taxable property 1l2O per cent. Its per
cent. Of illiteracy is less than any other
State or Territory.
1t is proposed to deepen, widen and
straighten the Weser for a distance of
fifty miles, 50 as to allow sea-going YES
sells drawing twenty-seven feet of water
TO reach Bremen and pass each other on
the way.
Individual tea pots are much used in
China. The innovation is a sensible one,
as each member of the family can eXer-
else his own taste as regards the strength
of the beverage, and even a late conner is
sure to get a hot cup of tea.
The Omnibuses of Paris, which formerly
carried 10000, OOO passengers a year, now,
such is the increase in the city, carry
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along the line Of the "grande bOulevards"
are seriously contemplated.
a crown is for sale in the London mar
ket, the price being 100000, the purchaser
to assume the name, style and title of
king. The kingdom is an island lying
somewhere to the east of Sardinia. The
port of the island, however, is the proper
ty Of King Humbert.
/ AHiUaforc xyrifaS nr TanSbaII m tho
Forest and Stream, may be partially
tanned. When he talks to them they rise
to their feet and keep up a constant hiss
ing and whisking of tails as if they liked
TO be talked to. DR.. ROmanes mentions a
similar fact in regard to them.
DIR. Cory, Of the London Government
Board, in a report on drinking water
reaches the conclusion already established
in this country by the work of the Nation
al Board of Health, that the safety of
waters cannot be determined by an
analysis alone, unless something is known
as to their origin, many dangerous forms
Of contamination Offering slight traces of
pollution.
EXasperated in the night by cats, it is
said, Dubuque man went out on his
back porch, swung a heavy club to let fly
at them, caught it in the long tail of his
night shirt, knocked himself down the
steps and broke his arm. On the follow
ing day a man in the same city, while alb
systematically trimming a tree, sawed off
the limb that he was sitting on, and was
half killed by the fall.
The Paris GdUlOiS improves on the idea
of the clerical journal of Rome which Of
fered every annual subscriber 600 masses
free of charge. The GautOis offers world
ly prizes-insures the life for 1000 fancs
to each annual subscriber, and a smaller
sum for injuries through accidents during
the year. Moreover, the purchaser Of
single copy Of the journal, If il be found
on him at the time Of injury or death,
is entitled to the prOportiOnate amount.
The great ladies Of the court Of Louis
the Fourteenth, instead Of having their
trains attached to their dresses, used to
put them on and off half a dozen times a
day, according to the accounts Of Mile.
st. Simon, because il was not etiquette 10
appear before La Grand Monarque with
out them, and yet they could not move
with them. The dress Of old and young
in these days was quite distinct, insuring
dignity and variety. In our day the fris-
Ky mother is in tulle and daisies, and the
Daisy Millers in sombre cut velvet folds.
A London physician talks about light
after this manner: eve know that sun
light will bleach linen, that it will pro-
duce photographs, that trees and flowers
turn to it and that vegetation and indeed
life in every form absolutely needs IL. Yet
we. who dwell in great cities, absolutely
ignore light. We know that dirty water
is dangerous and avoid it. We know that
bad air is dangerous. We do not draw our
drinking supply from the cutters, or our
breathing supply from the sewers, but we
take no precautions whatever TO secure
pure light"
Call on your Optician and get pair Of
the celebrated CellulOid Eye-G lasses. The