Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-23
GENERAL NOTES.

Professor TOrchOn has started on jour-
ney to Sicily. whittier he goes for arch9o-
logical purposes.
At a recent stenographic exhibition in
Paris postal card was exhibited which
bore 1900 words.
The green three-cent stamp will have
been in use thirteen years when the new
rate goes into effect next October.
Coal mining in Austria cost, in 1881,
49, lives and 204 men seriously injured.
TwO-thirds of the deaths were due to falls
of rock.
The Queen of Italy has Neapolitan
physician who sits at the royal table to
prevent Her Majesty from eating unWhole-
some food.
Wine, adulterated with Bordeaux red,
a new naphthaline dye for coloring wine
red. turns silk to a granite red. and the
addition of a little ammonia turns the
wine brown.
Belfast. Me-. boasts an Irish beauty
who works in a mill there. The manager
is obliged to let her off from her work half
an hour before her companions, that she
may escape the crowd which gathers
daily.
\ little three-year-old girl, while her
mother was trying to get her to sleep one
summer evening, began to ask questions
about a noise outside. When told that it
was caused by cricket, she wisely re-
marked, Mamma, / think it ought to be
oiled"
To be bold and self-reliant at the right
moment. to do what is expected in what
ever post one has TO fill, is the secret of
success, both on the field of battle and
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her grandson.
Statistics of crime in seven of the larg-
est cities in the United States. and b ased
upon population, show that san Francisco
leads in the number of homicides, follow
ed in the order of mention by Cincinnati,
Baltimore. New York, Philadelphia, Chi
cage and Boston.
Queen Nictoria's racing stud at Hamp-
ton Court has greatly run down of re-
cent years. The deterioration of the thor
oughbred stock has increased to such an
extent that the yearlings came to be stig-
matized as the "royal rats" and fetched
poor prices accordingly.
\ recent English traveller tells of 1.-THE
Hoffman House. which boasts the finest
drinking bar in the world, Of which the
proprietor is the notorious Fiske, who got
off so easily with brief incarceration for
shooting Mr.. Seward on the staircase of
the Fifth Avenue Hotel"
At st. John, \. B., the other day, when
six women acted as pail bearers at flu
neral. they were arrayed in black dresses,
the monotony of which was relieved by
white gloves and wells, They carried the
coffin successfully in and out Ofthe church
and lowered it into the grave.
In sweden, during recent display of
aurora bOrealis. the extent. vividness.
and magnitude of which. it is reported.
has not been observed in that country for
years, the big clouds which from time to
time passed below the aurora did not af-
feet in the slightest degree the phenOm-
ena.
\ writer on etiquette says of hand
shaking that it is indicative of character,
and Classics hand-shakers as aggressive.
superciliOus, Emphatic, imperative, sus-
piciOus and emotional. \ gentleman
must not take Il lady's hand unless she
offers it. and is warned not to squeeze or
retain it even then"
The new census Of India reports 50, 93,.-
40 HindOos. 20. 80 Mohammedans,
6,426,j11 native wOrshipers, a,4lS.SS4
Buddhists and ]. So. 634 Christians in that
are Catholics. There are, besides these.
several millions of minor divisions Of
Oriental religious beliefs.
In Cyprus the most severe shock of
earthquake experienced there for many
years occurred on the morning of March
at $50. lasting about fifty or sixty
seconds. 1t was impossible for foot
passengers in the streets to keep their
balance without assistance, while horses
and mules staggered about as though in
fits.
THE general opinion which ranks vani-
ty among the lighter feelings of humanity
commits a serious mistake" says a new
novelist. - Vanity wants nothing but the
motive power to develop into absolute
wickedness. Vanity can be savagely sus-
picious and diabOlically cruel. What are
the two typical names which stand re-
Yealed in history as the names of the two
vainest men that have ever lived: Nero
< German fas recently patenteu umue.
wear manufactured from sponge. 1t is
said TO be more flexible than wooden,
more easily cleansed and to absorb the
perspiratiOn without checking it. After
thorough cleansing and beating the
sponges are dried and shaved into thin
slices, which are sewn together to form
the garments. In addition to other vir-
tues it is claimed that this singular
closing is durable.
Some recent statistics collected in
France 90 TO show that railway travelling
is, in fact, much less dangerous than the
old method by stage coach. When ''dili-
gences' were used in France, one passen-
ger in every $4,000 was killed, and one
in every 10000 wounded. Now, with
railways, one is killed per DIS, 400, and
wounded in $50. 40. Stage coach travel
was, therefore, twenty times as danger
Gus as that by rail.
rich widow living at Auteuil, near
Paris. has suffered much loss and annoy
ance from the mysterious disappearance
Of her jeWelry. Her son, on keeping
watch with a loaded revolver, about mid
night heard the footsteps Of some one
stealthily advancing, and fired, but. to his
surprise. wounded his own mother. The
widow was a sOmnambulist, and had been
transferring her own jewels TO an unused
cabinet, where they were all found.
Denmark has new laws for the preven-
ton Of drunkenness. No woman is TO be
allowed to serve customers in any public
or other place Of drinking. Selling IN
tOXicants TO either sex under eighteen is
strictly prohibited. A drunken person
unable to walk is to be taken in a covered
carriage at the expense Of the house
where the drunkenness was developed.
The number Of public houses in COpen-
hagen is reduced from $50 to 800.
To clean greasy books, separate the
sheets and dip them in a solution of pO-
tasse caustique, then in a bath Of eau
dejarel with fourth part Of clear water,
and lastly into a bath of sulphate Of
soda. Then hang up the thin sheets to
dry on strings stretched across the room.
When paper is ''cOttOny'' and rotten a
bath in water in which gelatine has been
dissolved with a little alum may be re-
commended, SAYS NJ. Meray. i'm the "An-
naire DIES BibliOpile," for 1882.
Daudets sub prefet-reduced TO a copy
list for dramatic authOrs-is much i'm
pressed by the number eff excellent meals
eaten in all these plays. There was al
ways champagne-always oyster and
yenisOn pastries people who talked with
their mouths full and napkins under their
chins: while he who wrote out these de-
tails was breakfasting on a roll at two
sous which he broke off stealthily in the
bottom of his pocket. He came to the con-
clusiOn that the theatre and life are two
very different things.
The American Consul at Vienna gave
"sheet and pillOw-case" party to celebrate
his birthday, to the no small amusement
Of the ordinary Niennese mind. ROBBED
in sheets, with head covered with the pill
Iov-casp and wearing masks a Ghost Of