Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-07
GENERAL NOTES.


The career of an American army Off
Ger: He cuts wood, plays poker and is
fired out.
Extensive gold and silver deposits have
been discovered on the northern end of
Nancouver's Island.
In Texas the county is the political di-
vision, with voting precincts sometimes in
ill-suited and inconvenient localities.
There were three women in Somerset,
KY, one day last week who are the moth
ers of fifty children, nineteen, seventeen
and fourteen respectively.
A manuscript Life OF st. Patrick, in
Latin. has been discovered in the Royal
Library at Brussels. 1t formerly belong
ed to an Irish monastery at Wurzburg.
Mile. PiccOla, Partisan actress, drove
six burglars out of her house with a re-
vOlyer the other night, and then held two
Of them, who had climbed up a tree, until
the police arrived.
The grave of Charles Lee, first attorney
Of the United States, is located two miles
from Warrenton, Va, and, as matter of
course, has been for nearly a century un-
cared for and neglected.
OF all semi-tropical CalifOrnia's wonder
fully remunerative industries, the one
that pays perhaps the very largest reve-
nue. is patch of the best raisin grapes
properly cultivated, cured and packed.
\ careful inquiry among New England
leading manufacturing agents and COM
mission houses ELECTS the following: The
dividends earned by the factories will
average fully as we'll as last year or the
past few years.
The Kentucky law says: ''No marriage
shall be solemnized without a license
therefor, issued by the clerk of the county
in which the female resides at the time.''
Nothing is said here about the county in
which the male resides. Has the male
Kentuckian no rights!
Twenty-Five thousand young trout from
Seth Green's State hatchery in MumfOrd,
n. Y, were successfully planted a few
DAYS since in ''Sweet Pond,'' st. Law
renee county. Twenty thousand of them
were the speckled brook trout, and five
thousand were the California rainbow
trout.
If your lace bed spread and pillow COW
ers are sOiled, wash them, and, instead of
bluing them, dip them in some very weak
cold coffee, and they will receive from it a
delicate shade of ecru, which is so pOpu-
lar for laces just now. Curtains and other
articles of the kind may be treated in the
same way.
The Supreme Court of Nebraska has
ruled that a not transferable railroad
ticket, if sold to a third party, cannot be
seized by conductor from the holder on
the ground of breach of contract, the
holder being entitled to possessionin order
that he may recover the amount paid for
it from the vender.
I1o Il
free scholarships in the Royal College of
Music, lately established under the special
patronage of the Prince of Wales, are a
mill girl, the daughter of a brickmaker,
the son of blacksmith, who took high
rank in singing, and the son of a farm
labOrer, who eXcelled in violin playing.
David Pearson, of Carrollton, ILL.,, aged
seyenty-seven, and Mrs. McFadden, of
that city, aged seventy, were united in
marriage the other day, and took their
departure on bridal tour, which will in
clude the noted watering places of the
East. The bride is spoken of as ''lead-
ing society married belle of half century
ago"
Apropos of the rumor that General
Crook has been killed while fighting the
Indians, it may be stated that Secretary
are bass fishing on Lake Erie, General
sherman is rusticatlng at White sulphur
Springs. and General Hancock is cruising
up and down Long Island Sound in a new
steam yacht.
The Boston Globe is responsible for the
following: If you cannot go to sleep at
night repeat this stanza very slowly
seven times and then see where you are:
AEIOU
If owe and f and I.
And sometimes w and Y
1t must be love that o U,
And love thatyou |.
SO Cupid cOmes-receipt the bills.
While Somnus dots the eyes.
''Did you see anything that particularly
struck your fancy when you were looking
around the furniture stores to-day?" ask
ed Young Someryille husband of his late
Iy made wife on her return from tour of
furniture inspection. eyes," she replied,
81 saw something exceedingly pretty in
looking glasses" ~ have no doubt you
did" he observed, ''if you looked into
them" The halo of a calm, sweet peace
rests upon that home.-SOmeFUilte Jour
nal.
A Watertown, New York, man, who has
kept an account of the weather, claims
that it invariably repeats itself, and
gives the following as the result of his
viz: All years ending in
8, 0 or are extremely dry; those ending
in 3. 3, 4, or are extremely wet; those
ending in or s are ordinarily well ball
anced: those ending In have extremely
cold winters, those ending in 2 have an
early spring; those ending in l have a
late spring; those ending in or are SUBJ
ject to great floods.
The excellence of the best Burton beer
depends upon not only the skill of the
manufacture, but also the quality of the
materials, malt and hops; both are of
the best that can be bought, and there is |