Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-01
GENERAL NOTES.

Monks have doubled in mum Der in Bel
gium since 1850.
Hanging in one of the rooms of Bar
NUNS beautiful home at Bridgeport is the
original contract made by Barnum with
Jenny Lind.
A Russian nobleman, who claims to
have been fraudulently deprived of large
estate, has settled as matchmaker in
Richmond, Va.
1t is estimated that as many as 1000
women are annually caught stealing from
the shops in Paris, an incredibly large
proportion being titled ladies,
Recent investigations warrant the eon-
clusion that there are~if Cochin China
deposits Of gold and silver, beds of Ignite
and phosphate of lime, with veins OF iron
ore.
English Liberals are protesting against
a pension list of $35, 100000. We would
consider ourselves fortunate if our pen
sion payments were down to such low
figure. We pay 500, 100000 year.
The name Huguenot is said to be de-
rived from the French word hugon, mean
ing hObgoblin, and was given to those who
bore it because they were in the habit of
hiding through the day and coming out at
night.
Daniel Murphy. said to be the largest
land owner in the world, recently died at
San Jose, Cal. He owned 100000 acres
bordering on the Pacific coast, 100000
in the State of Durango, Mex, and several
counties in Arizona.
A colony of Franciscan monks and
nuns is about to settle in ClevedOn, Eng.
land. A villa with extensive grounds has
been bought for the nunnery, and the
largest hotel in the place has been secured
for the monastery,
A new organization, called "The Three
Drinks-a-Dat League" is said to have
been formed among the department clerks
at Washington. Any member going be-
yond the limitOf three drinks in twenty
four hours has to pay fine of 50.
$50 far as the choice of death is con-
cermed," said DR.. COllyer lin his Sunday
sermon, sswe are all like the poor fellow
who preferred to be hung on a gOoseberry
bush, and expressed perfect willingness
to wait until it grew large enough for the
purpose"
The Church of the Saviour at Vienna,
which has been in course of construction
for twenty-six years, will cost when finish
ed, $1,S75, 900. 1t is erected as perpetual
Thanksgiving for the preservation of the
mOnarch's life. The foundation stone is
block of marble quarried ON the Mount
of Olives.
Tea has been grown in India since 1912.
The chief seat of its growth is in Assam,
though it is also cultivated in Bengal
proper. Its manipulation and cure are
done by machinery and not by hand, as in
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considered cheaper than China tea, and is
coming to be largely used in this country.
The owner of a New Haven fac
tory boosted that he had made in single
year something like $T2,000, On investi-
CATION it was found that large numbers
of boys from eight to twelve years of age
were employed at the rate of fifteen cents
a day, and that they were compelled to
work ten hours a day in order to earn
that amount. The faces of these child
rem were ''colOrless."
"Mrs. Rooney" the female chimpanzee
of the Philadelphia Zoo, is making quite
a reputation for herself for her dexterOus
use of handkerchief. Mrs. Rooney at
first used it for the amusement of specta-
tors, but lately has found it very cOnve-
nient, being afflicted with a severe cold in
the head. 'MTs. Rooney is accused of
causing a great deal of domestic unhappi-
ness.
The organist at Westminster Abbey has
invented a new kind of piano, which he
calls the vocation. With one keyboard,
it initiates at the same time the metallic
tones of the ordinary instrument and the
strains of the human voice. 1t is manu-
featured in four sizes, the largest being
full and sonOrous enough for a cathedral.
Its superiority to the American organ
is claimed by the English, and it has been
adopted by the Kirk in Scotland.
The new observatory at Columbia Col
lege, New York, will have paper dome,
the fourth one erected I'm the world. Pa
per domes are an American invention,
being made only by Waters a. Sons, of
Troy, n. Y, the paper boat builders. The
three now in use are at the Polytechnic
Institute, Troy. at West Point and at Be-
lott College. They wear well, and if kept
well covered with shellae, seem imper-
vious to damage by wind or water.
The subscription to the Darwin memo
rial has awakened so much enthusiasm in
Sweden that the local committee there
formed has received contributions from no
less than ], 400 persons, including all sorts
Of people, from the Bishop TO the seam
stress, the sums varying from 95 TO 3 |
pence. The English committee, which |
has its headquarters at the Royal Society,
London, has now received inclusive of |
from abroad) $4,000, but |
the number of subscriptions in the United |
is only about $500.
Another experiment has been made in
wearing incandescent electric lamps on |
The person. A lady appeared at fancy |
lress ball at Hull with incandescent
amps arranged about her. II is quite /
impossible for an accumulation or battery /
. be concealed in the dress, The cleo. |