Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-05
GENERAL NOTES.

In an argand burner only twenty-four
parts Of the energy of combustion out Of
1000 parts give light.
Italy produces more silk than China,
and the two nations furnish nearly three
quarters Of the worlds supply.
In Japan last year :. 233, pa telegraph
messages were dispatched, IS per cent. Of
which were in the native tongue.
Four hundred ana fifty miles Of thread
are made each day in American mills.
Thirty years ago all the thread was i'm
ported.
The fast circus ticket seller distributes
80 tickets an hour and does the work for
nothing. running the risk Of the lovers"
in change.
A Phoebe. Nevada. Chinaman one day
bowls Of rice and four and half pounds
Of chicken.
a Hungarian Jew sent to a Vienna
paper a grain Of wheat on which he had
written 800 words taken from Tissot's
books on Vienna.
The first baby to cross the Brooklyn
bridge was Miss Mabel Morrison, and her
baly carriage was the first vehicle to
make the journey.
About 10000 head Of cattle will be
driven out Of Texas this year, and more
than 10000 head Of sheep We're sold out
Of Los Angeles last year.
Persons found in the streets Of Mime
apolis after midnight must give a salts
tory account Of themselves or accompany
the policemen TO a dungeon cell.
The gas companies Of Baltimore have
agreed TO charge only 81 per 1000 cubic
feet. and one OF the II. Louis companies
has reduced its price from 81 % to 81 %.
Springfield is the shire town Of a small
district in Massachusetts, and at single
term Of the Supreme Court held there last
week thirty-nine divorces were granted.
The Cunard Steamship Company made
over a million last year, out Of which am
pie provision was made for depreciation
and a dividend Of per cent. per annum
paid.
Sixty bronze hatchets have been found
Embedded in the ground only one metre
deep at Sa1ez, Canton of st. Gallen ),
which are supposed 10 be at least 300
years old.
a little girl in New York last week
jumped the rope 1OG times consecuuvely,
without making a single miss, and died
that night Of congestion OF the brain in
consequence.
There are about a thousand Indians in
Massachusetts representing about fourth
as many families and thirteen different
tribes. Very few Of them are of pure
aboriginal blood.
An estimate Of the probable value Of
the various private picture galleries in
Paris gives to that Of Baron Rothschild
$4,000 900: Due d'Aumale. $1j,000,0 600;
Sir Richard Wallace, $4,000, 900: VI. Score
tair. $1,000. 000 and Nine. COssin. 81 ,0O0,-
900.
4 panther climbed over a ten foot stone
wall around a cattle pen. in Woodstock,
Va, and. Selling calf, started on with
it. The calf was. however, tied by rope
10 a young steer. and in the morning both
were found hanging across the wall
dead.
The London Lancet publishes an article
from a German physician in favor Of
roller skating as an exercise for children.
especially such as are subject to bleeding
at the nose. and advocates the establish
ment Of a skating rink in connection with
all large schools.
\ man snamed O'Neil, in Alburgh, VT.
while plOUghing on another mans farm.
ploughed up forty pieces Of gold and
silver coin, which has caused great eX-
citement in the place. The coin is
Spanish, dating back to 1880. and shows
little wear from use.
Moccasin poison. Drs. Weir Mitchell
and Reichert lind, is not a simple poison,
but a mixture Of three; one analogous to
peptones and a putrefacient, one like
glObulins and much more fatal, probably
attacking the respiratory centres, and a
third resembling the albumens.
The cooperative loan and building
association, which originated in Great
Britain. where it has been successfully in
vogue for many years, was transplanted
to this country about fifty years ago, and
first took root in the vicinity Of Philadel-
phia. from whence it has spread through
other states.
The oldest wOrkingman in Maryland,
and probably the oldest in the Union, is
Robert Lewis, Of Hagerstown. He is
ninety-five years old, and has just finish
ed the mason work Of a cistern. doing the
work in a thorough manner. He is in
vigorous health. and bids fair to continue
his labor for years to come.
y rage for autographs is the latest ca
price Of fashionable Paris, and anybody
who makes any pretensions to be included
in good society, must have something
adorned with the signature Of some great
man Of the day. Victor HugO's auto
graph is greatly priced, and his name,
written by himself on fan, sells for a
price which makes the hair Of sensible
people stand on end.
The Fiji Islands afford a striking eX-
ample Of what the labOrs Of Christian
missionaries have done for the civilization
Of the world. Less than half a centuary
ago. these islands were the dread OF
mariners, who, when shipwrecked on
their dangerous reefs. invariably fell a
prey to cannibals. Forty years ago. two
Methodist missionaries resolved, at the
risk Of their own lives, to carry the gospel
to these saYages. Now there are over
800 Christian churches with parOchial
schools within the limits of Fiji, and these
churches are not only self-suppQrting. but
send out missionaries to other South Sea
Islands. and the Fiji Islands are a regular
repairing station tor whalers and trading
vessels from all nations.
An exciting scene occurred recently at
an English theatre during the perform
ance Of a pantomime. During a scene en-
titled Cairo en- tete." a camel which IS
supposed to be resting in the desert rose
before its proper time. The keeper COM
PEELED it to lie down again, and in doing
50 dropped his stick. The animal there
upOn rose again. and while the keeper
was endeavOring to obtain his stick the
animal sat down upon him. Actors,
scene-shifters and upernumeraries
rushed on the stage and endeavOred to re-
move the animal, and the curtain was
lowered amidst confusion. Although the
animal was beaten with guns and sticks,
it behaved so obstinately that it could not
be removed until a rope was passed
around its body and all present pulled il
away. The keeper, it is believed, was
mOrtally wounded.
The word handkerchief is not to be met
with earlier than the sixteenth century
1t appears first in the wardrobe accounts
Of King Edward ", in which there is an
entry Of Alice Shopstone being paid ID.
apiece for making ''fOrty-eight hand-cOver-
chiefs of Holland cloth" Lady Bryan
complained that her young charge, the
Princess Elizabeth, had no "hand kerr
chers," which was too bad, as her father,
the King. Haunted handkerchers Of Hol-
land. fringed with Venice gold and red
and white silk, or bOrdered with silver and
gold or Flanders work, and expected
those about him to be provided with
'suapkins." s.tO clean the nose
from all foulness." In 1881 Mistress Ar
moner received five pounds eleven shil-
lings and four pence for ''eleven dozen
handkerchers and sheets for those Of the