Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-21
GENERAL NOTES.

The ruins Of the Tuileries have been
sold to a contractor for $4,000.
Snow has fallen for eleven successive
sundays at Bar Harbor, Ne,
Punch says that the English reward of
bravery is a garter and wooden leg to
wear it on.
Eggs are thirty-flve cents dozen, and
butter twenty-five cents pound in Albu-
querque, New Mexico.
The works of lola have been suppressed
in Germany. Any book seller having
s.Nana, or ssI'AssommOir'' on his counter
IIaUIv TO me anu lmprlsonmont.
4 LOndoner adyertises a powder which
will prevent cats running around and
making noise at night. 1t is black, and
is put into a gun and makes noise itself.
There are three distinct kinds of petro-
leum found in New Zealand-one a fine
lubricatlng oil. a true paraffine oil and an
illuminating oil giving 81 per cent, Of good
kerosene.
The author of a Jealous and immOderate
pamphlet against tobacco, says that the
United States uses half of the quantity
consumed by the whole world, the money
value thereof being $500, 900,
Out Of seventeen models submitted TO
the Dominion Government for a statue to
Sir Charles Cartier, five were sent by
American sculptOrs. The price TO be paid
to the successful competitor Will be S10,-
900.
Kentucky still retains the provision
that mo person, while he continues to ex-
ercise the functions of clergyman, priest
or teacher of any religious persuasion, So
eiety or sect, shall be eligible TO the Gen
eral Assembly"
Hdrper'S WooLlD considers the fact that
the mouth of the Youghiogheny is blocked
by 3 vast ice gorge as merely righteous
retaliation, and observes, triumphantly,
that now the YoughiOgheny knows how it
feels to have its own mouth blocked.
\ new clerical journal lately started at
Rome has hit upon charming device for
increasing its circulation. Each annual
subscriber to the journal i'm question:.
GOfredO-is TO be entitled to 900 masses,
to be celebrated by any priest he likes.
The American system of education has
been introduced into New Zealand, and
there are "a, 400 pupils in s36 schools, the
University of New Zealand being en-
powered by royal charter to confer de-
grees ranking with those of Cambridge
and oxford.
While General Thomas Brady is giving
up his house and Dorsey has parted with
his rancho, one of the detectives who
played fast and loose between the govern
ment and the culprits is putting up fine
shOddy residence in Washington, called
by the surrounding citizens, smelling
Hail."
A case of nicotine poisoning occurred
at Hampton, Neb,, last week. A little
daughter of Herman Tiede picked up her
fathers pipe and put il in her mouth,
when the nicotine which was lodged in
the stem was drawn into her mouth. For
three hours she was apparently lifeless. |
but by medical assistance her life was
saved,
There is in Illinois a family named His !
key, whose aggregate weight is 1857 |
pounds. The father weighs 4s0 pounds, |
the mother 3S6, the oldest daughter BOT, !
the next 275, the third $50. the oldest son |
220, the second 202, the third 280 and the |
fourth III. The paterfamilias has two
sisters who tip the scales at $40 and 270 !
pounds respectively. Such family carry
great weight in any community.
There are 147 convicts in the Maine
State Prison, an increase of thirty-seven
over last year. Of these twenty are ser.
wing sentences for murder in the first de.
gree, six for murder in the second degree,
md two for manslaughter. The prison
never had so many convicts for life as
now, the present number being thirty-six.
There were committed during the year
orty-two. Of these there were four life
for murder.
About five kilometers from the Spanish
own Of Arroniz, in an open field, a gen.
leman has recently found a treasure
rove of Roman remains, consisting of
Imph0rs, tear-bottles, coins, instruments
4 iron and bronze, and a perfectly pre-.
eryed mosaic, representing in various
OlOrs Roman bath, The mosaic was so |
cOlored as to appear almost
byzantine, Such work was called by the
romans nl0SdicHm ceFmiculdtuDl, 1t is |
imposed that Roman city once existed ,
n the site Of the discovery. and inyestiy
atoms are TO be made by the Commits
Ion Of Monuments. {
The first Of the thousands Of guide {
ooks to Washington that have been pub ]
shed was written by Tobias Lear, who {
larried two of Mrs. Washington's nieces,
nd finally cut his own throat in the {
apital city. A single copy of his book '
-as bought the other day for fifteen dol {
lrs. No one knows why Lear ended his ?
Tn life after such a rufian fashion, I'M
'ss it was for eribbing Jefferson's letters 4
ut Of Washington's correspondence, v
'hich he had charge Otto oblige Jeffer- 8
IN. He had been three times married, n
nd was in good circumstances, was re-
arded by Jefferson with a foreign posi-
on.and place in the War Department.
nd yet he cut his throat one day without
wing any notice.
Mr.. Cramp, the Delaware shipbuilder, IL
'eaks Of the good luck that American