Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-28
GENERAL NOTES.

Typhoid fever has followed the Ohio
floods.
A young woman in Iowa is named
Neuralgia"
The British public spends $5,OOO,OOO
year on patent medicines.
Hypodermic injections of coffee, In the
form of coffeine, are new medicalremedy.
A Logansville, Pa, doctor has found
man whose opium dose rose to a pound of
the tincture per day, his doses beginning
with an ounce.
Henry COttle was tried before Los
Angeles. Cal, Justice for cowhiding his
mother. The defense was that he had
been ''insulted' by the plaintiff.
Torn and solled clothes and a few
scratches were the results from collision
between the local editors of the San Ber-
nardinO Cal. Index and Times.
A prosperous moving village OF about
400 inhabitants follows the end of the track
of the Northern Pacific Railroad as 1T
crawls westward across Montana.
The Saturday ReUielg informs the Eng
lish public that "Ouida" gives good
proof of Wagner's pOwer-his own operas
being too ssabnormally long, to be listened
to.
A Prussian officer, who recently visited
West Point, says that the work there
seemed like a survival of the days of the
Great Frederick in the painful attention
to useless drill.
Russia. which owns the best natural
mouth of the two through which the
Danube empties. is talking of spelling the
Sulina mouth. co ,trOlled by Austria, by
turning the water out of it into the other.
Mr.. Josiah Quincy writes that in 1876,
during one of his visits to Philadelphia,
he was struck by a singular ecclesiastical
privilege which then existed in that city
the right to obstruct the streets by
chains during the hours ca divine service.
The subscription for a memorial to the late
Lord Frederick Cavendish has already been
closed. 1t will take the form of recum-
bent statue, to be erected iii the PrlOry
Church, at Cartmel, Lancashire, where he
was brought up and passed the early years
of his married life.
The famous race-horse Kincsem, which
was never beaten in any race, was shot a
fortnight ago in London with its foal, haV-
ing been taken i'll of CHAMBERS. she won
fiftV-fOuF races, but was lately WITHDRAWN
from the turf. Ten thOusOnd pounds
were several times offered for kincsem.
DR.. Sternberg has been making eX-
periments with saliva on rabbits and
pigeons and finds it deadly poison, and
DIR. S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia, says
in a paper on the subject, that this deadly
quality turns on ''the toxic activity of
certain individuals, not all so nncom-
fortably endowed as DR.. Sternberg."
wi n
lar is known all over the United States,
and whose face has graced several peni-
tentiaries, is handling mallet and chlsel
i'm the marble works of the Joliet Ill }.
prison. Matches is booked for fifteen
years for a bank robbery in which she was
the leading figure, at Galesburg, about a
year ago.
The women of Pittsburg are much eX-
cited over the size of Mrs. Langtry's feet.
1t was discovered the other day that the
actress had sent her shoes to a shoemaker
for repairs. A bevy of the fairest of Pitts
burg's daughters sent a committee around
to the shop to borrow the shoes. In
triumph they bore the shoes back to the
crowd of girls who sat waiting in their
stocking feet. One girl after another tried
to put on Mrs. Langtry's shoes. Not one
succeeded. The shoes were too small for
their feet. No more funny remarks are
made about Mrs. Langtry's "No. As
They have tramp in England who Of
ten has a taste for living quietly with
regular meals and comfortable sleeping
apartments. He then feigns madness
with considerable skill and is forthwith
sent to the nearest asylum. When weary
of this regular routine he becomes sane
again, and is discharged by qualified doc
tors as a pleasing cure. Unluckily for
him. he PLAYED the trick so Often-having
from first to last bestowed his patronage
on over forty different institutiOns-that
at last he lost count himself, andaVisiting
Chester once again was recognized as
having been in that asylum four times al
ready.
The Mayor of Manchester, at meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce of that city
month ago, stated that never before
have so many people been employed so in
dustrially, and that production is larger
than it has ever been before; that there is
a larger quantity of iron and steel turned
out, a larger quantity of coal extracted, a
larger number of ships built, and so on:
and that, although wages are moderate
vet prices are so low that wages go further
than they have ever done before, and con-
sequently that the condition of the work.
ing classes is exceptionally good. Still
English manufacturers complain OF small
profits.
Frank Rand is probably the most CON
spicuous of the fifty-siX men doomed tC
spend the rest of their lives in the Joliet
Penitentiary. He is one of the worst mer
that ever lived, and is as ugly as he is
wicked. Rand works in the saddlery shop
in a corner where he is partially removed
from the morbid gaze of visitors. He is 6
short, thick set fellow, with low fore
head, pug nose and dark complexion
His hair is black, and his eyes, deeply set
give him the appearance Of human bull.
dog. Rand killed six men in Knox county
ILL.,, one in Warren county, and hiSeightt
victim was murdered in st. Louis. Rand
is said to be an arrant coward and was
never known to be engaged in fair fight
but shot his men down unawares.
An amusing story is told of the new
Governor of Gibraltar's, Sir John Adye
energetic attempt at teaching the soldiers
the new regulations, dropping the mum
Der of their regiment and using their new
territorial name. The Governor is quoted
as asking, 'EWhat is your regiment, my
man!' ''FOrty-seyenth, sir" "NO, no
you're loyal North Lancashire man.
1'Yes, sir; FOrty-seventh always was the
loyalest and smartest regiment in the ser
vice: but amt Lancashire lad, please
sir: Pm an Irishman." To another SINH
lar query the answer was, "Fifty-siXth
SIR" ''But you've got another name now
Can't you think of it, my man?' awe
was PompedOurs, sir. | don't know
what we are now; they alters us about
So"
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