Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-18
GENERAL NOTES.
Over 1000 workmen are employed on
the new caDitOI at ALBANY.

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capitalists in the live stock business in
Wyoming and Texas.
A New York farmer declares that an
acre of the Hubbard squash will fatten
more hogs than the corn that can be
raised on the same ground. He has
gathered from six to eight tons from an
acre.
All religious instruction or even
alIusion to religion in the schools OF
France is so strictly forbidden by the new
laws on the subject, that the name of the
Deity is carefully eXpunged from the new
text books.
The planting of 100000 eucalyptus
trees on the Roman Campagna has coun-
teracted the effects of the deadly malaria
to such an extent that Ire Fontaine, the
abbey of the Trappist monks, is rendered
habitable through the entire year.
w. c. Greenleaf, Of Jamul, Cal, is a
much congratulated man. On the same
DAY a son was born to him, a fine twelve
pound boy. his cow had twin calves, a
sow Uttered eight pigs,'a turkey Matched
fifteen eggs. and hen brought ten chicks
Off the nest.
The Western Union Telegraph lines in
Texas have increased from $500 miles OF
poles, and 4,600 miles of wire on January,
1880, to 1890 miles of poles and nearly g.
600 miles OF wire on January 1, 1888, thus
nearly doubling its facilities within three
years, and still building.
Arabians say that it takes forty days to
purify the mouth that has been puckered
in a whistle. In Tonga and Iceland whis-
Ting is considered to be disrespectful to
God. In North Germany the peasants
claim that to whistle in the evening will
make the angels weep.
Capt. F. Wayland Bond, of EdentOn,
\. c., was wounded in one of the battles
near Richmond, and some years ago lost
the sight OF both eyes. But he still attends
in person to the asserting and packing OF
the fish caught at his beach, where he has
a considerable establishment.
A Louisville cashier was asked if Jay
GOuld's $3,0O0,000 check was the largest
ever drawn in this country. ''Ne, L
think not" was the reply; ''some time
ago, when the Wilmington Road was
bought by the Pennsylvania Railroad
the latter gave a check for So 100000"
The failure of the maple sugar crop in
Delaware county, n. Y, is the completest
for years. The absence of sharp frOsts
after the season began, limiting the time
of the flow of the sap, has reduced the
production very much, and damaged the
farmers some hundreds of thousand dol
lars.
The Baltimore and Ohio Company will
send to the Chicago Railway Exposition
the first locomotive built for their road
that proved successful. The first engine
built for the road, and the first construct
ed for railway purposes in the United
States. was built by the late Peter Cooper
in 1884.
In farm house near Boone, Iowa, lives
Mother Spence, aged eigEty-siX. In the
same house lives her daughter, aged sixty
four, her granddaughter, aged forty, her
great-granddaughter aged tWenty-One, and
her great-great-granddau aged two.
This is believed to be the only house in
the country sheltering five generations.
The population of Berlin, according to
the Statistical Imperial Almanac, is 1,122,-
33O-a number equal to and even slightly
exceeding the aggregate population of the
four next largest German cities, namely f:
Hamburg, 2S9.S59; BreSlau, 2l2,9l2;
Munich, 230,023; Dresden, 220,S1S, and
Dantzic, with 105,5j1 inhabitants, thrown
in.
Tom Carroll, a hydraulic miner of
Washington, Nevada county, New, weighs
over 200 pounds, is six feet four and halt
inches high, measures fOrty-fOur inches
around the chest and fifteen and a half
around the biceps, and can put out 2O4
pounds with one arm and with a strap
raise 1900 pounds. He is only twenty-five
years old.
The Germans devote much attention to
pisciculture. Prince Bismarck is an en-
thusiastic fish farmer, and the ponds and
brooks on his estate, which yielded him
less than 400 francs a year, now return
him $4,000 francs, and he hopes to make
them still more profitable. Piscicufture
classes are attached to all the Prussian
agricultural schools.
A shocking tragedy has occurred at
Brussels. The Russian Count de Lagoda,
who married a French actress, known in
dramatic circles as Blanche MirOir, had
become very jealous of what he cOnsid-
cred the too great attentions paid to his
wife, and in a fit of rage and jealousy he
shot her, and afterwards committed SUI
dide. The Countess is recovering from
her injuries.
A sensational statement has been going
the rounds of the press with reference to
an alleged catastrophe at a theatre at
Revel, Russia. by which one hundred per-
sons lost their lives. There is absolutely
no foundation for the report, which APP
pears to have arisen from the announce
ment that a gas explosion had occurred at
the Lotus Club, SCATTERING a few panes OF
glass. Nobody was injured.
American children are conspicuous in
I D., / n,
says, for their pronounced manners and
adult dress. English boys of sixteen usu-
ally wear Elton jackets and broad collars,
in juvenile contrast to the mans clothes
of a Yankee youth. Collier finds that
nearly all of the English women ''Of the
upper classes have clear, beautiful COM
pleXiOns, and the girls are always simply
attired, without jewelry.
A World reporter AYERS that he found
John Mccullough in Quincy, ILL.,, the
other day engaged in digging post holes
for a fence on a wager that he could build
more fence in a day than his host, Gen.
John B. Carson. His fence building, ac-
cOrding to the reporter, was very bad, but
the tragedian declared that he could sleep
from 10 o'clock at night until in the
morning, and that post hole digging was
a great success in that way.
An aged Indian, named We-as-kus, who
several years agOrenounced his allegiance
to the Nez Perez tribe, and become a citi-
zen of the United States and located a
homestead on the fiat nearly opposite
Lewiston, Idaho, died on the 18th ultimo.
He was a Catholic, and had acquired con-
siderable stock in horses and cattle. His
land is worth full $4,000, and probably his
will oh
more.
1t is stated that the making of milk SUI
gar has been begun by newly-invented pro-
cesses at at an Ohio cheese factory. Hith-
ertO the 100000 worth of milk sugar used
in this country in .cOmpounding medi-
cines has been imported from Europe,
mainly Switzerland, Germany and France.
1t is to be hoped that the new industry
will prove successful and applicable at
least to all our large cheese factories At
present this element of milk is in large
measure wasted.
BY the death of a newly-elected State
Senator in New Hampshire, a Greenbacker
and former Republican, who received four
votes for the Office at the last election,
and who had never been heard of before
except in connection with a local post
office fight, is going to be chosen by the
Legislature over the Democratic candi-
date, who was only defeated by a few
votes. Some of the leading Republican
papers object to this action on account of
its extreme craftsmanship.
Mr.. o. A. Hickok states that st. Julien
to all appearances is sound. but that he
has not given him any very fast work. In
all probability he will not start the horse
in n11hlic until tho meeting at Chica 90