Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-23
GENERAL NOTES.
There are over 900 bicyclers in Boston

There are over 1,O0O Dlcyclers In Boston.
The average elevation of North Carroll
ma is $40 feet above the sea level.
The election in Connecticut this year is
for House and half the Senate.
Flowers. are eXtravagantly used on
dressy bonnets and hats of every descrip-
ton.
Strawberries weighing seven-eighths of
an ounce each have been grown in Della
ware this year.
Three children have died in Brazil, In
diana, within the past two years from
drinking concentrated I've.
There are more than 100000 Irish peO-
pie in Ireland who speak Irish, and 100,-
who can speak no other language.
Eight Bedford Mass. girls tainted dur
ing the recent High School commence
ment exercises.
Men quarrying flint in wood near Elk
ton, Nd, have, for some time past, been
disturbed by showers of stone coming, APP
parently, from the sky.
Russian men are, as a rule, handsOmer
than the Russian women. The Russian
woman has loud ways, and loud, un-
pleasant voice. She almost invariably
smokes.
There are now fully $4,000 wheelmen in
this country, and the popularity of the
bicycle is increasing. In England over
1900 bicycles are used in the mail service,
and there are at least 100000 English
wheelmen.
The General Synod of the Reformed
Dutch Church of America has passed
resolutions denunciatory of Masonry and
other oath-bound orders, and cautiOning
all other churches of the synod to dis
courage their members from joining secret
societies.
A traveller through the Merry oasis dis
covered seven Jewish families who have
been established there for an unknown
period of time, and who have preserved
intact the costume, religion and language
of their ancestors, who were probably
Chaldean.
The first corporation for the manufac-
ture of cotton was established in Wal
than, Mass, among the principal origina-
tors being Messrs. Lowell and Appleton,
who had recently returned from Europe,
where they had inspected the manufac-
lures of England and the Continent,
At the meeting of the American Fish
Cultural Association in New York it was
again stated that fish in the harbor of that
city were being poisoned and depleted by
the kerosene factories thereabout. Lob
sters have entirely disappeared, and now
oysters are deteriOrating and will soon be
destroyed.
The first cotton duck ever woven was
manufactured by Seth Bemis, in Water
town, Mass. 1t became well known
during the war of 1872. Mr.. Bemis en-
plOyed siX-hOrse team, which, during
the war, went between WatertOwn and
Baltimore, carrying duck and bringing
back -four.
During the fiscal year 1882 there was
in Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota and Indian
Territory an annual star route mileage of
6.SO3, O7S miles. maintained at a cost of
sos. 0S2, while in 1888, in the same States
and Territories, there was an annual
mileage transportation of 7,519,707 miles
at a cost of $695,066.
When Jumbo arrived in New York he
was lank, lean and tall. He has since
improved from weight 1860 pounds,
height IL feet . inches, girth a feet >
inches, to 20, 1870 pounds in weight, - feet
inches in height, - feet inch in girth !;
inches in height and in girthi
The original habitat of the black bass
ranged from Virginia to Florida, and
from Canada and the Red River of the
north to Louisiana and East Mexico; it
embraced the whole of North America
south of the British possessions and east
of the Rocky Mountains, except the wa
ters flowing into the Atlantic in the New
England and the Middle States.
The consumption of ice in New York
in hot weather and at present low prices
is averaged by the dealers to be from
5000 to 10000 tons per day, and with a
supply of 10000 tons on the Hudson there
is little fear of an ice famine. But there
is a prospect that unless the extreme low
prices create a greater demand for ice
than is expected there viii be from 700,-
600 to 100000 tons carried over into
next year.
Some of the queer mailable matter of
dutiable value intercepted by officers in
cludes jars Of homemade German pickles,
meerschaum pipes, bundles of cigarettes,
packages of garden seeds, ladies' silk
vests. surgical Instruments, large sized
paintings on tin from Italy, pedOmeters
for pedestrians, hair nets, a German
mushrooms, from France, picture frames,
druggists chemicals, shawls and valen-
tines.
The growth of the Japanese postal and
telegraph systems has been marvellous.
TeIegraphic communication is established
between each of the chief cities and all
parts of the world. There are now 1000
post Offices, besides receiving agencies,
street letter boxes, money order offices,
and postal saving banks. Some 100000
letter and over 1000, 600 postal cards have
passed through the Office in one year,
During the same period nearly e,OOO,0OO
were posted. showing an In
crease in the native press of Is per cent.
in twelve months.
Mr.. H. W. Tifins, BULBS Greek, Ca,
says: ssMy wife recovered very quickly
from malaria and biIiousness by using