Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-14
GENERAL NOTES.

near the head waters of Santa Ana river,
Arizona; also large deposit of borax in
the same locality.
The Texas Legislature has appropriated
5000 to purchase sets of the ten volumes
of the Southern Historical Society Papers.
The society are now having the 100 sets
bound.
A Danville, n. Y, merchant is out just
$500. He placed it in a stove for safe
keeping, when cold day coming on, he
built a fire, forgetting all about the cash,
which was consumed.
A number of Syracuse ladies have
formed syndicate for the manufacture of
cake, marmalades, jellies, salads. etc., for
sale to their neighbOrs who do not desire
to do this work in warm weather.
The State Treasurer of New Hampshire
announces that from June of last year to
March of this the State paid out $3,021 80
in bounties for animals and birds, de-
structiye TO property, which were killed.
Japan takes to the newspapers most
kindly. There are now 113 newspapers
published in the kingdom. besides 1873 mis-
cellaneous publications, and in the three
years, 1SI4-1S71, the circulation increased
from 5, 470, 269 to 33, AS, 529.
The following curious announcement
appears in a PoOna, India, paper: " The
thirteenth anniversary of the Poona Flo
quence Society will commence on the Sd
Nav. 1t is proposed to celebrate the oc-
casiOn with becoming pOmp and ceremo-
Mes"
The East Carroll (La.) Democrat says
the boom in the moss trade has subsidized
to some extent, but speculation has been
very profitable. One of the merchants
who invested contemplates retiring from
business, and is expecting to make tour
TO Europe.
An American woman was introduced to
an Italian lady in Florence not long since,
the latter being heralded as fine English
scholar. She presented a bouquet of
flowers to the American, who acknowl-
edged them by saying Thanks"
Weeks" replied the English-speaking
Italian.
Nashville is spreading and expanding
rapidly in all directions. So fast has
been this growth, and the demand so
great, that there are hundreds of in
stances where, within six months, lots
have doubled in value, and IN twelve
months have increased to three, four and
five times their first cost.
Boston has just opened home for the
accommodation of working boys who re-
ceive small pay-errand bows and Office
bOys-and they are boarded and lodged
for from 80 cents to 81 80 per week. Each
boy is furnished with single bed, sepa-
rate washstand and toilet arrangements,
and hooks to hang his clothing upon.
There are also reading, writing and recrea-
ton rooms.
Some of the Louisiana papers admit
''that should the railroads take charge of
the leYees, creyasses will become things
of the past, and our lands will be eagerly
sought after by men of capital from all
parts of the country. There is no reason
why plantation yielding $40, 600 annually
should not be worth $200, 900, except it be
that eternal fear of being creyassed which
has taken hold of the people, but particu-
larly of strangers"
One of the practices peculiar to Japan,
and one that naturally excites the Curl
osity of the stranger, is the singing of
men at work upon the foundation and
frame of any building that is being erect
ed. There is no set song they sing, but
they give voice to their wishes for the
prosperity of the owner aid builder, coin
ing their song as they proceed with their
labor, invoking the favor Of the gods for
their employer and all having any inter-
The Greensboro n. c. Patriot saysi
''The outlook in this section is for one of
the largest blackberry crops ever known.
1t is estimated that this years crop will
be worth between 100000 and 100000 to
the trade of Greensboro. The crop is
yearly increasing, and with the improved
facilities for drying the berries it promises
to attain immense proportions. Already
the picking of the crop furnishes employ
ment to hundreds and thousands of wO-
men and children, whose earnings range
from % cents to 70 cents per day.
The Standard Time Company has estab-
lished at New Haven a system of so-call-
ed synchronized clocks which, though
run independently of electricity, are con-
nected once an hour, or less. often, by
means of an electric current. This way
of giving correct time has been in use sew
eral years in London, but New Haven is
the first city to try it ON this side of the
Atlantic. The Standard Time Company
have now two circuits in operation, and
merchants and families at New Haven
can now ''rent' time as they do gas and
water, the time being 'supplied' from
the Yale observatory.
At the conclusion of the first number
on the Damrosoh programme at Denver,
a stout miner in the gallery bawled out,
ssThree thousand cheers for DIR. DAM
rOsch, who has come all the way out here
TO give us some good music.' There was
a great sensation in the audience, and
DIR. DamrOsch was somewhat embarrassed
for a moment. The man continued to eX-
press his admiration in loud tone, and
wound up by saying: "DOctOr, you must
excuse this bad weather; it isn't the kind
weusually have in Colorado; it is what is
keeping folks away from your concerts"
By this time the ushers and bOuncers had
hustled up into the gallery and had seized
the man and were dragging him out. Con-
trary to all expectation he proved entirely
sober, and he complained bitterly that he
was not permitted to express his ''humble
admiration of the music"
Professor John Tyndall, in a note to
Nature, says: Looking to the south and
southeast from the Bel Alp, the play of
silent lightning among the clouds and
mountains is sometimes very wonderful.
1t may be seen palpitating for hours, with
a barely appreciate interval between the
thrills. Most Of those who see it regard it
as lightning without thunder litx OhRe
D0nner, Wetterieachten, have heard it
named by German visitors. The Monte
GenerOsO, overlooking the Lake of Luga-
no. is about fifty miles from the Bel Alp
connected by telegraph, and frequently
when the Wetterteuchtea, as seen from the
Bel Alp, is in full play, have telegraphed
to the proprietor of the Monte GenerOsO
Hotel, and learned in every instance that
our silent lightning cO-eXisted in time
with thunder storm more or less 'ter-
rife in Upper Italy.
The Albany n. Y. Milk Association
has established novelty in the way of a
lunch route, the working Of which is thus
explained by the Secretary of the associa=
ton; 1.-The plan we have adopted is des-
tined to become popular during the sum-
mer months. We have quite a number of
customers now who are served with milk
for lunch. You see the intention is to
start the wagons on this route out at IL
O'Clock, and keep them busy until /, All
telephone orders viii he promptly an
swered, either by a route wagon or one
held in readiness. In warm weather a
business man doesn't care about leaving
his office for lunch, and, having bowl,
spoon and some crackers on hand, will
have his quart of milk placed in his bowl,
and with his crackers it will bridge him
over till supper time. We have been serv-
ing some lunch customers for month
past, and the number kept increasing so
fast that we decided on establishing @
regular route"
Annesley Hall, the home of Byron;s
ssMary,r now belongs to her grandson.
Mr.. Chaworth-Musters, His father, a
coarse, hard, country squire, known
throughout England as 'Jack Musters,"
soon dropped the name of Chaworth,
which he had cOYenanted to take on his