Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-31
GENERAL NOTES.

Inc Hln0uS are Salu 10 nave 000,VUU,VUO
gods.
Texas produced 100000 more bales of
cotton last year than Mississippi.
Excursion tickets from Paris to Rome
were issued for 500 during Holy week.
1t is stated that 1000 persons year
take their own lives in Russia. Many are
prisoners.
"Please do not tumble down the shaft"
is the notice posted at the mouth of a Ne
vada mine.
At midnight on Saturday nearly $1,000
Eastsr cards had reached the New York
post office.
The sparrow, after April 8, by new
Massachusetts, law, can be killed without
mourning penalty.
One of our exchanges, the Siam Weekly
Advertiser, is four page weekly, and the
price is twenty cents per copy.
The first snow storm for thirteen years
fell in Rome two weeks ago, and the dome
of ST. Peters was white for several hours.
\ letter published in the Indian .Spectd-
tor saws that there is numerous tribe in
Orissa who worship Queen Victoria as
goddess.
The museum at Reading, England, con-
tains among its curiOsities bride for
merlv used to stop the mouths of scOlding
women in that town.
Spain has one General to every SIS men,
or three times the number of any other
country. The COrtes is anxious to dis
pense with some of them.
"Color," says Edmund Quincy, ''has
become the bane of music, and Wagner
and his orchestra have been one chief
reason of its becoming So"
Among the effects of the late Jacob Cot
ton, of FoXcroft, Me-, was found ''strOng
boX'' containing seventeen pounds of cop
per coin, mostly one cent pieces.
Gossip from Paris has this about the
last book by lola: ''The first thing to be
said is that it is almost completely chaste.
1t is a novel without passion, without
plot, almost without humanity"
The herring catch has been unusually
small in Maine this season. From East
port Il, 100000 were shipped this winter,
decrease of 13,410,000 from last winter.
Prices have averaged 80 cents hundred
against &C cents last season.
A hospital for Mussulman women has
been established by General Tchernaieff
at Tashkend. 1t is presided over eXclu-
sively by Russian female doctors, this
being the first time that Russian women
have been permitted to practice lndepend-
emily.
The Royal Portuguese Association of Ag-
riculture will open an exposition in Lis
bon next May. 1t has especially in view
the collection and comparison of the wines
of Portuguese production, with the object
of establishing what qualities are best
adapted for expectation.
. The season in Scotland has been no more
favorable to agriculture there than it has
in England. The wheat acreage will GER
tainly show 20 per cent. reductiOn-per-
haps more. A little hope may be derived
from potato planting, with which some
progress is being made. Price of potatoes
very high.
The average rate of charge on the
American railways per ton of passengers
for a mile is So %; the average per mile
for a ton of freight was 81 % per ton per
mile. The profit made out of carrying ton
of passengers a mile was 1878 cents; the
profit out of carrying ton of freight
mile was 0.53 cents.
At the last meeting of the French Geo
graphical Society, Madame de Ujfalvy
Bourbon gave an account of the eXplOra-
ton of herself and husband in the West
ern Himalayas, in the Valley of Cash
mere. in 1876 and 1880. She was the first
European woman who ever penetrated to
the KarkOrum Mountains.
1t is estimated that the daily sale of
natural flowers in Paris realizes some
10000. Gardenias are the most fashion
able flower, and sell at 81 each; next
come lilies of the valley, at 81 pot, roses
du rOi and purple roses, viOlets and car
nations. The camellia, at one time so
highly priced, is entirely out of fashion.
Private Owen ii. Lawrence, company
H., Twenty-fourth Infantry, tried to COM
nit suicide, and has been sentenced TO
three months hard labor and forfeiture of
nav for ssviOlatiOn of the siXty-secOnd Ar
ticle of War" in that he did attempt to
take his own life by Intentionally swal-
lowing a large portion of vial of strych-
nine, which incapacitated him from duty
for several days.
1.-The Eighteenth Century in England"
saws Frederic Harrison, sis the first stage
since that of Augustus which ever left
inimitable pictures of its own daily home
existence:o and he concludes that ''tOr-
rents of smart writing has given us
false idea of the real England of the vi
car of Wakefield, Sophie Western, Sir
Roger, and of Watt, Arkwright and
WedgewoOd.
The Council Bluffs NORpareH says that
there are in Iowa at the present time 135
breweries, representing in the aggregate
about S5.00O,OOO worth of brewing pro-
perry. OF this number eighty breweries
are represented in the State Association.
These eighty represent 81, 000, 900 worth of
property. and there are annually manu-
featured at these eighty brewries over
1s0, 900 barrels of beer, which are worth
nearly $1,500.000.
The people of BinghamtOn, n. Y, are
very much troubled by the unnecessary
blowing and screeching of locomotive
whistles as the trains enter the town,
these sounds being used by the engineers
as means of signaling to their wives,