Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-26
GENERAL NOTES.

frontier becomes a deserter. and nearly
one man in six of the army as a whole.
The United States has 1j,0a4 saw mills,
with 637 in Quebec, Ontario and Mani
tOba. In 1881 these mills cut 10000, 900
feet of lumber.
Hmdoo marriages at 10 years old or
whereabouts are the cause of such evils
that the AnclO-Indian press is demanding
their prohibition by law.
san Diego is pronounced the best of the
health resorts of the Pacific coast, as far
as dry and equable climate is concerned.
by recent investigator.
The Norwegian StOrthung has resolved
that every able-bodied adult in Norway
shall receive a musket and be taught to
use IT. AT the States expense.
One other invention remains to be made
IA substitute for the yolks of eggs, which
are extensively used in the preparation OF
the Kid for glOves-a very costly agent.
There were more marriages in Victoria,
Australia, in 1882, than in any previous
year, viz: ), SO. Women have ceased to
be scarce in the colony, and now outnum-
Der the men by l0S to 100.
The railway exposition TO be held in
Chicago next month promises TO meet
with so great success that the managers
announce their intention Of using the sur
plus funds to found a hospital for railway
men.
In every tobacco factory at Key West
there is a reader" Cubans cannot talk
without gesticulation, and in order
to keep them from talking person is en-
ployed to read aloud to the "hands"
n n
sacred TO the memory of Mr.. McGinnis'
twins,H were the fatal words on the bot
tom Of customers loaves which ruined q
bakers business once upon a time, until
he removed the tombstone from the bot
tom of his oven, and replaced it with one
less ancient.
The average Of land devoted to the cult
walton Of wheat in the United States has
within the last ten years extended from 49,,
000.00 t0mOre than 81, 0O0, 900. In the year
1880 the States grew 10000, 900 quarters
Of wheat. of which upwards of 22,000 900
were exported.
Early immigration reports down to 1890,
or whereabouts, specify among Occupa-
tions gentlemen" Thus in 1922 New
York received twenty-three gentlemen"
and four ladies, New Orleans two, and
Philadelphia one. This form Of immigra-
ton has practically ceased.
One Of the most interesting features of
agriculture in California is olive growing.
1t is thought that the State could easily
raise a crop as large as that Of Italy,
which sells yearly for $50, 100000. One
ranch owner at Santa Barbara has de-
| rived profit OF So, 900 an acre from his
plantation.
The owner Of watermelon patch. in
Greenwich, Mass, received the following
note unsigned, the other day: ''Mr
/ Banks: Ne and another boy was going
through your orchard one night last year
and we picked some of your watermelOns
and ate them. Here's seventy-fve cents
to pay for them"
\ girl charged with poaching was re-
Gently brought up tor trial ut Pontefract
England. and acquitted by the justices.
who ruled that the law makes no proVi-
sion for the punishment Of women poach-
ers. \ few days later the same young
person was arrested for picking pockets,
and sent 10 prison for ten days.
\ review Of the literature. for and
against kOch's discovery that consump-
ton is caused by specific bacteria, by
the -uedjcaF NetrS, leads to the conclu-
Sion that. while it is not vet distinctly
proved that consumption is caused and
not merely accompanied by these bodies,
yet the balance Of proof i in that direc-
ton.
Some Of the best English jockeys are
women; daughters Of farmers, or of coun-
try squires, who have lost their fortunes.
They have been accustomed to ride to
hounds from their childhood, are perfectly
fearless. and their light weight in the sad
die makes them desirable as jockeys. Chas.
Kingsley's poem Of Lorraine LOree," has
one of these women jockeys for its heroine.
y loan exhibition Of paintings, opened
by an English. clergyman in one of the
worst parts Of London, White Chapel, has
had $4,000 visitors, but, to the disappoint-
ment Of the projectors, admiration was
almost universally given TO the frames:
and a fine picture Of a Girl mourning
over her dead Bird drew the terse criti-
cism, 1T is to be hoped she'll never have
nothing worse TO fret over"
\ Paris correspondent tells an amusing
story Of the actor Dumaine. who is said to
have the most powerful voice in France
One of his fellow actors, Machanette, dis
puted the honor with him one day, and
after much wrangling they agreed to set
tie their claims by actual test at the Porte
st. Martin cafe. IN lay a wager that
can break pane Of glass by simply call
ing come in" said 1Iachanette I'm
wager that you viii not be able to do it,
and that l will" said Dumaine. Done"
Dumaine commenced. The window rat
tied. but did not break: but there was
panic among the walters. Then Machan-
cite tried. and 10! ten panes of glass were
shattered. Dumaine owned that he had
lost; but it was not long before they both
found out that two Of their friends, over
hearing the wager, had placed themselves
outside the cafe and smashed the window
with their canes at the moment of Ma
chanette's believing,
This curious announcement appeared
September -16, 17715. in the Virginia Ga
zeue, published at Williamsburg. Va:
Fairfield, August 29.-Last evening was
married AT the seat of Thaddeus Burr.
Esq, by the Rev. NJ. Elliott. the Hon
John Hancock, Esq, President Of the
Continental Congress, TO Miss Dorothy
Quincy. daughter Of Edmund Quincy.
Esq, of Boston. Florus informs us
that in the second Punic war. when
Hannibal besieged Rome, and was
very near making himself master
of il. a field upon which part Of his
army lay was offered for sale and was i'm
mediately purchased by Roman, i'm a
strong assurance that the Roman valOr
and courage would soon raise the siege
Equal TO the conduct Of that illustriOus
citizen was the marriage of the Hon. Jno.
Hancock, Esq, who with his amiable lady
has paid as great "A compliment TO Ameri-
can YalOr and discovered equal patriotism
by marrying now while all the colonies
are as much cOnyulsed as Rome when
Hannibal was at her gates.
If the Paris student is less of Bohe-
milan than in Murger's time, his improved
responsibility is only on the surface. The
notions of life 10 which the young men in
the Latin quarter still adhere, with few
exceptions. find a mOurnful illustration
in the following story: A law student
twenty-one years Of age had, by a ruinOus
liaison with young feminine scapegrace
Of the Quarter, long caused his parents
the deepest anxiety. Persuasion having
no effect. the father determined upon
breaking off the attachment by stopping
the supplies. The son replied in truly
French fashion by attempting to poison
himself with morphine. lie, however.
recovered, and, under the parental
reOf, made excellent resolutions as regards
the future. After spending a fortnight at
home he was returning in cab to his old
quarters to resume his studies, when he
perceived among the prOmenaders of the
Bulevard st. Michael the young woman.
whom he thought incOnsOlable, hanging
on 10 the arm of another student. The
cocher presently hearing strange sounds
in his cab, jumped down and looked in.
His charge was writing in agony. He
had again poisoned himself and he died