Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-13
GENERAL NOTES.

San Antonio, Texas, is to have $4,000
home for fallen women.
The Augusta, Maine, post Office handles
100, 900 pieces of mail month.
One day last week there was sold at Key
West $9,319 90 worth of sponge.
Brighton.wants to spend 100000 in be-
ginning the work of putting in electric
lights.
Wheat in the stand to be delivered in
August is being sold in Virginia for 81 10
per bushel.
Shingles were split and tin roofs were
penetrated by hailstones In Brownsville,
Tenn, last week.
The sum of $l,O45, JIG was received at
the Vera Cruz custom house for imports
during the month of April.
There are twenty telegraphic wires con-
Meeting London and Glasgow and rum
ming along the west coast of England.
A Patagonian usually has but one wife,
but he is allowed as many as he can sup
port. He usually finds one all he can
take care of.
Washington tailors say the right arms
of nearly all men of note are from one to
two inches larger than the left, all on ac-
count of handshaking.
Gas is more out of favor than ever in
sitting rooms in England. The French
moderator lamp, burning COLA Grape
seed oil, is the favOrite light.
The giant who is being exhibited with
Barnum's circus was formerly slave in
Owen county. Ky. He has made 100000
by exhibiting himself.
There are only eight cases of suicide
mentioned in the Bible-Abimelech, Sam
son, Saul, his armOr bearer, Ahithophel,
Zimri, Rails and Judas IscariOt.
To show that Indians appreciate his
triOnic talent, it may be stated that two
Reno squaws purchased tickets to hear
Janauschek's 'Mary Stuart"
One Maine clotIes-pin factory keeps a
force of forty hands busily at work, and
the product is 200 boxes, of 700 pins each,
per day-140. 900 clothes-pins. The firm
has 1900 cords of birch wood on hand.
The anti-gamblingre reform movement has
extended diagonally across the country
from Maine to Texas, In the latter State
it has swOoped down on sundry solemn
salons who have iTregularly speculated
in chances.
An odd book has just appeared in Eng
land. 1t contains diagrams Of the palms
and backs of the hands of twenty-five
eminent persons, among whom are Mr..
Gladstone, Charles Darwin, Wilkie Col
Inns and the Duke of Argyle.
Twenty-seven girls of Council Bluffs,
by way of reminding their male friends
of remissness in the matter Of taking them
to entertainments, bought seats for the
theatre one evening and went in body,
with only a matrOn for escort.
An eating match against time took place
in Valley Falls, n. Y, the other night.
Richard Sullivan won, eating twenty-five
CLAIMS, one pie, seven chocolate bars weigh
ing two pounds, and one pineapple, in
seven and One-half minutes,
A matchmaker says watch should be
cleaned every year and halt and wound
up regularly. If this is done:a watch will
last lifetime. IL it is not cleaned it will
run for about five years with Indifferent
success and then become worn out.
An informal meeting of hop growers of
New York State was held in Albany few
DAYS ago, at which estimates of the
amount of hops now in the hands of grow
ers and dealers-that is, of the entire pro-
duct outside Of brewers stOck-shOwed
81, 769 bales.
One of the curiosities in the Laredo,
Tex, money markets is the introduction
of Mexican bank notes. The notes are OF
all denominations, and pass at the same
rate as Mexican silver coin. The first
paper money ever issued by Mexico was
in the present year.
A man on his way home was attac ked
by three men on the Mill street bridge, at
Poughkeepsie. They pulled him down
and were in the act Of rObbing him, when
a woman rushed out of house near by
with a club, and used it so vigorously
that the robbers fled.
The public attention has been much ex-
cited the past few days by the report rela-
tive TO the discovery at Puerto Principe, in
thescentral part of the island, of large
photographic stone quarry, that has been
proclaimed by experts to be superior to the
finest that is imported from Germany,
which has heretofore been considered the
best in the world.
There are twenty-one cities along the
line of the Mexican Central, having an
aggregate population of 696, 900; nine of
these are State capitals. There are seven
minis. and the amount Of precious metals
handled in them cannot now be less than
S35. OOO. 600. The annual agricultural
values i'm the twelve States and the Fed
eral district must be at least $4,000, 900.
A smaIl-sized valise burst open in
baggage car at the Portland, Me-, passen-
ger station the other day. Among other
articles. it contained the following: one
bottle of perfume, two hair combs, one
bottle of cosmetic powder, two bottles
hair oil, two lunches Of hair crimps, one
small screw-driVer, one oil can, two pairs
hose, two tooth brushes, one small-sized
garden rake, one bunch to0thpicks, lot
of white lace, and two pairs of corsets.
The following expressive poetic prose
was found on the interior of a box ear at a
Chicago depot by NJ. T. streeter. The
reader will be convinced, after reading it,
that there is at least one honest-minded
tramp in the world: "Barns and box
cars is my bedroom; ROB hen-roost
when can, take shirt off the clothes
line. am the stuff they spread on land
Counting ties is my occupation, hunger
gives me many a cramp; work and am
no relation; am Pennsylvania tramp"