Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-22
GENERAL NOTES.

Justice Jim Smith sent Margaret Greg
DRY to jail for drunkenness at Washington,
Indiana, as a matter of official duty. Then
he went to the prison with clergyman
and welded the woman in her cell as
matter of personal choice.
Boston has gone far toward committing
itself to a worlds fair next August, but 1t
will be held in the building of the Me-
chanics' Association, enlarged for the
purpose. Agents have been sent to the
principal industrial centres of the Old
World to secure exhibits.
Adam Weber dislocated his neck in
Utica, and large number of physicians
and students gathered to see an expert
surgeons attempt to set it right. Death
was certain to ensue if nothing was done,
and was likely to follow the operation,
which. however, in this instance proved
successful.
The first daily newspaper printed In the
world was established and edited by
wOman-Elizabeth Mallet, in London,
1902. WOman-like, her paper was refor-
matory. In her salutatOry she said she
had established a newspaper ''to spare
the public half the impertinencies which
the ordinary papers contain"
Nine. Lacene, a sister-in-law Of Camille
Jordan, who had in her youth been per-
sonal friend of Nine. de Stael and Nine.
Recamier, died at Lyons, France, recent
", aged 105 years. She evidently retained
all her faculties to the last, for when asked
her age few weeks ago she sweetly re-
piled: 'Twenty-nine last birthday"
The State of Maine, having tried the
most stringent prohibitory laws for nearly
thirty Years, is not yet satisfied with the
result. Under all her laws Maine has
consumed a large amount of fire-water.
1t has been sent into her borders in
crOckery casks, milk cans, flour barrels
and bed ticks. Now constitutional pro-
hibition is proposed.
The Rugby colony, of Tennessee,
founded by Thomas Hughes (Tom Brown,
of Rugby, is now doing so well that it
promises to live and be strong. The recent
sales of land for Embarrassing purposes
has been large, attended, of course, by an
encouraging inflow of emigration, can
ming factory is building, the schools are
prosperous, and it looks now as If the
founders hopes might vet be realized.
Among the favOrite efforts of inventors
there are enormous numbers of methods
for transmitting power artificially created;
but the great waste of natural forces is be-
ginning to attract attention, and some OF
the brightest minds in the world have been
turned toward a utilization of these forces.
The regular rise and fall of the tides offer
an enticing opportunity to inventive tai
ent, and it is probable that ere long the
tides will be harnessed to the looms and
wheels of productive machinery.
The Sultan of Zanzibar, having made
visit to Paris, has returned to his own do
minions with passion for two things in
neutrality-suspicious. clocks and straw
berry ice cream; and he has engaged
skilltul cOnfectiOner and an expert watch
maker as a part of his regular retinue to
supply him with these two luXuries to his
| hearts content. His palace is furnished
with clocks in large number, and he takes
delight i'll watching them, and seeing that
they keep time with perfect accord and
strike the hours simultaneously.
A Colorado man who expected gang of
lynchers to come for him about the middle
of the night, took himself to the cellar,
leaving pet grizzly bear in his place in
bed. The lynchers didn't bring any lights,
but made a very plucky attempt to get
the bear out and lynch it, but gave 1t up
after three of them had lost an eye apiece,
two had suffered the loss Of thumbs,
chewed off, and the other six were more
or less deprived of skin. That man now
has tremendous reputation as a fighter,
and the bear didn't mind the work one
bit.
Dr. Playter, of Toronto, has gathered
facts in regard to cOnsumptives from $50
doctors. Their replies showed that the
average age of patients was twenty-seven,
46 per cent. were males, "a per cent. fe-
males, and that % per cent. were married.
The average size Of the chest was 3112
inches; the chest of persons of the same
average height, feet 81 inches, would
usually average 81 inches. About 90 per
cent. had light hair and eyes, two-thirds
did indoor work, had slept in small rooms
and wore no fiannels. Only 46 per cent.
had consumptive ancestors, and MAORI
ty were of nervous temperament.
E~The Diamond Dyes always do more
than they claim to do. Color over that
old dress. 1t will look like new. Only 10