Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-03
GENERAL NOTES.

Nickel ore has been found in Oregon.
The Holy Scriptures are published in
80 languages or dialects.
There is a saloon in Malvern, Ark,
named ''BIghted Hope"
1t is estimated that there are over 1000
pearl divers on the coast Of Lower Cali
fOrnia.
Skeletons. supposed to be those of giants,
have been discovered in North Carolina
mound.
There are forty-nine female physicians
in Brooklyn, y. Y, Of whom fifteen are
homgopaths.
Birmingham is to have a new railroad
station costing $1,25O,OOO, and covering
eleven acres.
An advertisement in a New York paper
offers family monument in exchange for
a gold watch and chain.
Failures in England are less this year
than last. Here they are more; but bust
ness is reported dull there.
a coal dealer lin a Connecticut town
presents half ton Of coal TO every newly
married couple in the place.
The hotel on the top Of Green Mountain,
Mt. Desert, Me-, is nearly finished, and
The first PenObscOt river salmon Of the
season were caught last Tuesday night.
They weighed twenty pounds each.
New Zealand wheat fields grow twenty
six bushels to the acre, the only ones in
the world which do except England's.
Oranges and lemons lose p per cent. in
transportation to this country; pineapples
80 per cent, and cOcOanuts 5 per cent.
Mexico city authorities put policeman
on each horse-car 10 see that it does not
carry more passengers than il has seats
for.
The average nightly attendance at Lon
dOn's thirty-siX theatres is u ,004, and the
average price Of admission is thirty-eight
cents.
An old lady in Holland scrubbed her
sitting room floor until she fell through it
into the cellar. This should be a warning
to hOusekeepers.
\ Boston doctor thinks he has found a
way to rectify spirits and produce all the
effect of aging by passing air through the
freshly distilled spirits,
The California Pharmaceutical Society
has raised $4,000, bought building and
opened a college Of pharmacy in San Fran
cisco, the first On the coast.
Miss Catherine Wolfe, the reputed $780,
900, 600 heiress, of New York, says she has,
on an average, one offer Of marriage every
day from unknown suitOrs.
Two hundred sacks of orange peel, to be
manufactured into bitter cordials and
marmalade, were shipped the other day
from san Francisco to Havre.
One Of the newspapers in Victor, n. Y,
in referring recently to a new board of
directors in a village bank, said, "they
are thought to be honest men,"
Bishop Whipple administered the rite
of confirmation to 247 Indians during the
recent visit to the Chippewa mission,
where there are now eight churches.
The Bible Society Of France reports that
2J,2j0 Bibles, Testaments and portions
thereof were circulated in 1882 at the ex-
pense Of the American Bible Society.
The leather trade, in which number of
heavy failures have happened recently, is
suffering from over production, great COM
petition and the startingiOf many new tan
neries.
Nearly a million feet Of lumber is annu-
ally turned into base ball bats. One firm
alone in Michigan uses half that amount,
and employs about 100 men at the turning
lathes.
Under the new system, Englishmen Of
family enlist as priyates in the hope Of
becoming officers. A single regiment, the
Fourth Hussars, is said TO have twenty
such serving in the ranks.
IIavre is suffering as a place of import
for cotton and other goods used by conti-
mental Europe, because French freight
rates turn trade TO Antwerp and Bremen
for Germany, Switzerland and Italy.
The three occasions which drew the
largest audiences to the concerts of the
New York and Brooklyn Philharmonic
and the New York chorus societies were
devoted almost entirely to Wagner's mu-
sic.
Anna Reider, of san Francisco, left her
baby with Charles Buscher and his wife,
and when the mother, few weeks later,
wanted her baby back, court and Dep
utv Sheriff were called in to make the
transfer.
According to a recent speech in the Cor
ties, the Spanish army is surprisingly
over-generaled, having one general to
every 5I8 men. In France the proportion
is one to $50, in England one to l, 100,
and in Germany one TO LOLA.
A Danish sailor, in ship sailing of
Cape levin, West Australia, went aloft
with can of oil and was pitched over
board. The oil left such trail on the sea
that the man was traced and picked up
more than an hour after the accident.
A cubic inch of gold is worth 500;
cubic foot, $685., $50; cubic yard, SO, 49,
1872. This is valuing it at SIS an ounce.
At the commencement of the Christian
era there was'in the world $427, OOO, 600 IN
gold. This had diminished to S57,OOO,OOO
at the time America was discovered,
when it began to increase. Now the
amount Of gold in use is estimated 10 De
Sc, 000, 000, 900.
There is living in Munich the daughter
Of Palm, the bookseller of Nuremberg,