Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-15
GENERAL NOTES.

England imports billion eggs annu-
ally and pays S1O,OOO,OO0 year for them.
In one shoe factory in Lynn, Mass, are
thirty women, all of whom are divorced
wives.
The United States Government owns
and is willing to sell 3, 400, 900 acres Ofland
in Mississippi.
We use 2l,OOO,OOO spools of thread
year and 5000 or 1000 cords of wood in
making the spools.
A railroad ticket twenty years old was
rendered and accepted recently on the
Consolidated Road for a ride between
Hartford and Boston.
The Presidents flag, with its pugna-
ciOus eagle in the centre of blue ground,
has been seized upon by a stomach bitters
man as an advertisement.
The United States in the last decade
grew two and half times as fast as Ger
many, three times as fast as England, and
fifteen times as fast as France.
New York has just made the discovery
that Central Park, from a carelessness
about drainage, is a source of malaria and
i'll health to the houses round about.
In the Egyptian war one English bullet
in every hundred did damage. In the
Franco-German war more than thirty
German shots in a hundred hit the enemy.
German universities have $4,000 stu
dents, taught by 725 professors, whose
total salaries aggregate $3.50, 0OO-one-fifth
the sum New York city pays its school
teachers.
The city of Mexico is almost destitute
of fish supplies. With a population of
1900 it is said that its daily receipts of
fresh fish do not average more than twenty
pounds.
\ kentucky mule deliberately put its
head through crack in a post and rail
fence. and stayed there until it choked
itself to death. The cause of the suicide
is not given.
A member of the Tennessee Legislature,
Colonel Coulter, practical man in other
respects, wears his hair like IA woman, the
switch falling to the statesman's waist
when he shakes it out during an excited
debate in the House.
San Francisco has an immigration Com
missioner who testified before an investi-
eating committee that, pending an ac-
counting at the close of his term, he has
put the State money into corner lots and
other private investments.
Salt Lake City restaurateurs display in
their windows oyster shells brought from
Utah mountains, 10000 feet above the sea
level, The men who ate the oysters from
these shells, died about 1000 years before
anyone knew how TO spell Noah.
Vanderbilt's home, on Fifth avenue, has
no number on it, but in Berlin, which has
the same law about street numbering as
New York, the authorities put a number
on the palace of Prince Charles on the
Wilhelmstrasse in the face of his strenu-
Gus protest.
Massachusetts has an expensive and
efficient State Health Board, with head
quarters in the State House, But this did
not prevent the Legislature from sitting
in a room whose air was pumped in over
a sewer and whose YentilatOr was boarded
up some time ago.
The London Engineer, discussing the
inability of man TO fly, notes his weakness
in physical strength as compared with
fowls, and says no flying machine will
ever be- successful until so constructed
that each pound of machine will develop
as much energy as each pound of bird.
In crowded boarding house on Jack
son street, San Francisco, four families
recently lived in one room, one family in
each corner of the room. Affairs went
along very quietly and tremendously
among them until one family took in
bOarders. The offending domestic circle
was broken up.
Old Mr.. Brown, of Providence, the other
day fell down a flight of twelve stone
steps and thrust his head through pane
of glass at the bottom. A cash on the
side of the head, a broken jaw, an opened
artery and a severed jugular vein were
~ hn noculfc Minor m liEp
his spectacles and false teeth were subse-
quently found behind the door.
Reading, Hillsdale county, Mich, re-
jOices in mOnstrosity in the shape of a
man who was born with nothing to repre-
sent legs except short appendage tOsthe
trunk on which boot can be worn. The
man travels around quite nimbly on his
one foot, progress being made by hopping
and without the use OF crutches,
South Kensington exhibits a Queen
Anne's doll house, which possesses unus- |
ual interest from the fact that the baby
mansion, with its doll master, mistress,
children and servants, was given Origi- |
nally by the good Queen to a daughter of
the Archbishop of York. The poor Queen |
herself was the mother of seventeen chill |
dren, of whom sixteen died in infancy; |
only One-the little Duke of Gloucester
~ d-C VI Inns rodU bC~
reavement gives a little>pathos to the |
sending the dolls house to the little maid |
far away in bleak Yorkshire.
Dolls are of greater antiquity than many |
may imagine. They are traced back to |
their probable first appearance in |
puppet shows. The practice of sending |
them from France to foreign countries was |
of very early date, In the royal expenses |
for 1891 figure so many s.liyres" for doll |
sent to the Queen of England in 1890, an |
other sent to the Queen of Spain, and in |
1877, third sent to the Duchess of Bava- |
ria. Henry ~. writes in 1900, before his |
marriage TO Marie de Medicis: ''Fronte- |
nae tells me that you desire patterns of |
our fashion in dress. ] send you, there |
fore, some model dOlls.'
One wintry day Hawthorne received |
notice at his Office that his services would /
be no longer required as Collector of Gus
toms, at Salem. With heaYiness Of heart, |
says Conway, he repairs to his humble |
home. His young wife recognizes the |
change, and stands waiting for the silence |
TO be broken. AT length he falters: II
am removed from offices" then she leaves |
the room; soon she returns with fuel and /
kindles bright fire with her own hands;
next brings pen, paper, ink, and sets /
them beside him. Then she touches the /