Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-06
GENERAL NOTES.

There are 100000 opium eaters in the
United States.
The Lighthouse at Sydney, New South
Wales, has an electric light of over H.
200 candle power.
A Board of Supervisors in California
recently appropriated $3.50 to provide a
pauper with a wooden leg, and charged
the amount to permanent repairs and
improvements"
The Russians have added strength to
their army by enlisting a pack of dogs
with each company. The dogs are pow
erful and well trained. They are sent
with sentinels on picket duty.
The Cambridge Oxford boat race will
occur this year on the 18th or 10th of
March. The spectators will not be obliged
to leave London by candle light, as the
race will be rowed on an afternoon tide.
A fire balloon has been made, in which
the lower part is constructed of asbestos
cloth, while the upper part is covered with
a fire-proof solution. A spirit lamp is
used to supply the place of hot air for in
fiating it, and being fire-prOof there is no
risk.
During 1882 the murders committed in
the United States averaged two a day,
while the executions only averaged two a
week. There were in the year 212 muir
ders and 50 executions in the South. New
York State had 131 murders and only four
executions.
The statues in the capitol at Washing
ton are to be protected from relic hunters
by spiked iron ratings. The Father Of
his Country is minus a toe, and Roger
Williams has lost little finger, while an
Indian woman, in the Columbus group,
has not finger LETT on her right hand.
The archives of Darmstadt show the
expense of executing criminals in the
fourteenth century: Boiling a criminal in
oil "a forms, burning him alive was IA
florins, to break him on the wheel was 6,
hanging him was 10, and branding him on
the shoulder or forehead, or cutting off his
ears or nose, was tiorins.
A commission was sent by Japan to give
a report of the influence of Christianity
upon morals in England. After eighteen
months of London life the decision was
that Christianity had less restraint over
crime, and especially drunkenness, than
Buddhism or the religion of SbintO, so the
public religion of Japan will remain UNI
changed.
One of the most heartily applauded
actors in a modern society drama is a-cat,
who comes on the stage, stretches herself,
washes her face, lies down before the fire,
and placidly eats the saucer of milk which
is set before her. She has been shut up
all day in box too small for her, and too
cold to be comfortable, and has had no
food meanwhile.
English women object to the cheap
telegraph rates." says Mr.. LabOuchere,
"because they say that men always use
them in preference to writing, and that
documentary evidence in breach of prom
Use cases will thus become very scarce. A
man who thinks so much about his eX-
penses ought, if caught, at least to make
an economical husband"
The mail from London to Dublin is q
rather expensive one. From London to
Holyhead the London and Northwestern
Railway charges for the use of the CHM
tied mail'' train $40, 900 year, and from
Holyhead to Dublin, about sixty miles,
the City OfaDublin Steam Packet Company
thinks it not excessive to charge ES5, 900 a
year for the same service.
A conductor of horse car at Elizabeth,
n. j., being unable to rouse an apparently
sleeping passenger to collect his fare,
shook him roughly and swore at him a
little. There being still no response, a
closer investigation was made when it
was discovered that the man was dead.
He had jumped on lhe car while it was in
motion not ten minutes before.
In consequence of trials which have
been for several years carried out on the
coasts OF the North Sea, the German Gov
eminent has just established a regular
plan of communication between light
ships and shore sstatiOns by carrier
pigeons. Birds bred for the purpose have
flown thirty-siX leagues in thirty minutes,
while heavy gale was blowing.
At the eighth annual commencement of
the New York Veterinary College, on
Wednesday evening, the Rev. G. E. Stro-
bridge prayed that Providence would
abolish "the abomination of the check
rein; put it into the hearts of aristocrats
to exchange their fragments of embrOid-
cry for comfortable horse blankets, and
temper the wind to the clipped steed.'
The English gentlemen who negotiated
the sale of Caen Wood Towers, at High
gate, to the ex-Khedive Ismail, purchased
the property at 100000, and resOld it on
the following day to IsmaiPs agent for
LJU,UUUs HIS IL even " DtbtcI pIOHb Judn
was obtained on some of IsmaiPs loans.
The nearest approach to the secret of al
chemy in our time is certainly financing
for Khedives.
The position of Field Marshal in Eng
land is not. after all, so profitable as has
been generally supposed. 1t carries no
pay or allowance except in time of war,
when sixteen guineas a day and forage for
forty-foul horses is the usual grant. AS
Field Marshals are never known to take
any part in active service, this conditional
allowance doesn't count for much in the
yearly estimates,
A prestidigitateur has been arrested as
an incorrigible rogue and, vagabond by
the police of Birmingham, England. The
fellows price-list for services was as fol-
lows: "The great prophet will reveal your
future seven years, sevenpence; marriage
and Othe particulars, two and sixpence;
how to cause lovers visits, ditto; Won
derful supernatural records, one and six
pence to five shillings,"
They make short work of Latter Day
prophets in London, A ''persOnage" has
just been sent to prison for 'sdisturbing
the peace of the metropolis, by preaching
the doom of the city," from the steps of
St pauIss CathedraI When mildly re-