Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-13
GENERAL NOTES.

ported thirty years ago.
Violet lie Due said that the locomotive
was as great piece of pure architecture
in its way as cathedral.
Mahogany, ebony, rosewood and cedar
are used as fuel By the poorest people IN
some parts of Mexico.
The Turkish Government is trying to
get proposals for railroad from Ameri-
! can contractors in New York.
The annual sum received by the Prince
of Wales from the Duchy of Cornwall
ranges between s63, 600 and $4,000.
A woman tourist at Jacksonville, Fla,
took to a ieweler live lizard, asking him
to mount it in gold for a scarf-pih.
Dude turns out to be word for years
past in use in Salem and other old New
England towns-a survival of old Eng
lish.
In Canton Vaud, Switzerland, heavy
waterfall is to be utilized so as to dis
tribute light at a cheap rate through the
canton.
Four pounds of gold, worth about LOCO,
were collected from the SCOT adhering to
the inner Innings of the chimney of the
royal mint in Berlin.
The London Metropolitan Board of
Public Works has spent S100,0OO,0OO in
twenty-seven years, about as much as
New York has wasted in fifteen.
Rock salt on Vermilion Island, OFF the
coast of Louisiana. is twenty feet thick,
and has to be blasted with dynamite, 200
| tons being mined daily in this way.
New York city has 1000 rag pickers,
whose collections are valued at $75O,OO0
per wear, while the hand carts engaged
| in the same business gather $3,OOO,OO0
worth. The entire rag trade of the coun-
try reaches about $50, 100000 annually.
Philadelphia has, or will have in the
i public buildings, the costliest city hall IN
actual cost of construction in the world
| by two or three-fold, and one of the twenty
| cOstliest buildings now in use. lnde-
pendence Hall was, in its day, the dearest
| building in the country.
Ellen Knapp, aged 10, picked up piece
| of mating worth five shillings, taking it
| home and saving ''see what | have found;"
a policeman saw it, took her before the
magistrates, who ''gave the case the best
| consideration" and the woman twenty
one days in prison with such labor as her
! age would enable her to perform.
Three or four women of fashion i'll Chi
cago have beautified their carriage poo
dies by putting black patches on the side
of their shaver noses. One hundred years
| ago such beauty patches ON the faces OF
| women were fashiOnable; now they are
| considered in France unmistakable signs
of the want, rather than the possession,
! of reputation.
In some parts of Spain where butter is
a rare article of merchandise it is sold,
not by the pound, but by the yard. 1t is
| he HfcfriRfC
like sausages that are ''tied OFF, with
! strings, in length as required by the buy
ers. To traders butter by the inch seems
rather curious bargaining. The product
is usually not very palatable nor partIcu-
larry clean.
Another case in which a soft answer
turned wrath into merriment: At a GER
tain party a gentleman, in the midst OF an
angry dispute, threw a bottle at his Oppo-
nent's head by way of emphasizing his
argument. Foote, who was present, I'M
mediately picked the missile up and laid
| it nn the table, saying, Friends, if you
pass the bottle as quickly as that you
won't be able to stand out the evening"
An accommodating Goldfish, the largest
ever heard of, is reported to have allowed
himself to be taken off the coast of New
foundland. expressly for the London EX-
! hibition. The said fish, according to the
| report given, weighs four hundred pounds
and measures over seven feet in length.
In 1878 Goldfish weighing one hundred
| and ten pounds, was actually caught,
! but this is the first time that ever rumOr
has reached four hundred pounds as the
! weight of one.
A French arOnaut is constructing an i'm
mense balloon, which is TO be propelled
by a screw worked by steam. This is not
the first attempt of the kind. Another
| Frenchman invented form OF balloon
with a screw for the motive power, at the
time of the Franco-German wal, and sue
cessful experiment was made, the balloon
being driven at fair speed against the
wind, in any direction. The screw in this
instance was worked by hand.
The SomeryiIle (Tenn.) Falcon brings
the following story of one of the daugh-
tiers of the dusky race who has just made
her first visit to the Episcopal Church in
that place. She did not 90 to attend di-
| vine service, but her divine mistress. On
reaching home, she said: ''LoOk here,
missus, never seed such dOin's as that
at church afore. The people they BEES
| prayin' and prayin', and the preacher he
boiler at UNI to get up, and den he gets
mad and turns his back on 'em, and don't
have muffin to do with 'em."
The bishop of Lincoln, England, calls
on his clergy to use collect of his own
devising as prayer for the maintenance
of the divine law of marriage-meaning
allowing a man to marry two sisters, one
at time. Strangely, marrying brothers
is never named. This call would seem to
have reached the bounds of defensible agi-
! tatiOn, for even spiritual lord. 1t is not
so many years ago when all the bishops,
in order to make a Dukes offspring legiti-
! mate, removed with one act the stain
| from all the unhappy children, up to date,
but after the blot must lie.
1t is said that the gigantic statue of Ger
many to be placed at Neiderwald, near the
Rhine, is to contain forty-five tons of
metal. The blade of the sword alone
weighs one ton. On the tip of one of the
fingers ofthe left hand of the figure Is the
imperial crown of Germany, and the body
is clad in chain armOr. figure OF the
MOselle is to stand opposite; another, rep
resenting the Rhine, at the foot of the
statue, and each of these will be eighty
feet high. Different portions of this
bronze Colossus and its attendant groups
are being cast in Berlin, Dresden, Nurem-
berg and other places.
The correspondent of the Boston Tran
script relates the following incident, which
took place at Heidelberg: Scene "A res
taurant frequented by students. An
American student enters, not knowing
the customs of the place; he quietly sits
down and orders beer; is soon hustled
| and has his toes trodden upon by one Of
the gallant band of dozen students. The
! American strikes him, and is at once at
tackled by the whole crowd, more Ger
nldnicO: the American retires behind the
serving table, upon which is piled heap
! of porcelain beer stands, with which he
proceeds to pelt his adversaries; being an
| active fellow; he soon rOutS the-entire
| band. and they retire with black eyes and
/ cut faces. The affair is hushed up by the
! Germans. while the American pays for
the crockery and is thereafter let severely
] alone.
A little while ago sorceress entered
the cottage of Mrs. Evans, Yorkshire
(England) }. peasant, and, after shutting
| the cards, said mysteriously: "You have
| an enemy!" Upon inquiry, it was dis
\ covered that the arch fiend was in the
very house with her, and that it was none
! other than her mOther-in-law. Such was
/ the power of the seeress that the victim
| Immediately meditated murder in self-de-
tense. and paid the old hag for dose of
medicine or a charm which was warranted
to ssparalyze' the dear old lady. 1t would
! have paralyZed her, indeed. In twenty
! four hours she would have ceased to be