Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-30
GENERAL NOTES.

Twenty thousand persons visit the New
York Post Office daily.
working the gFowler'' is New York
slang for buying lager beer in a can at
seven cents pint.
Inventor Edison is building an electric
locomotive to be used on an underground
railway in England.
4 young woman, aged eighteen years,
who lives in Lapeer, Mimi, has been
thrice married and thrice widow,
Augustus Cayauran is said TO be the
only sshired dramatist'' attached to thea
tire in this country. He writes plays to
order and to suit any actor.
President Arthur is said to have sixty
pairs of shoes. Gentlemen who would
like to be in Mr., ArthuF's shoes are doubt
less persons of great leisure,
Lord Robert Montague, brother Of the
Duke of Manchester, has gone back to the
Anglican Church, from which he went
over to the Roman Catholic in 1870.
David Neal, the young Chicago painter
who lives in Munich, is placed by the
leading German critics side BY side with
Max, Piloty. HaulbaOls AKA zimmerman.
The Duchess of Sutherland has signed
the total abstinence card at Canon Will
berfOrce's temperance meetings, and an
nOunced her intention Of wearing the blue
ribbon.
1t lis stated that Mr.. John Russell Young,
the United States Minister to China, is
engaged in collecting material for work
on China, which he hopes to publish in
two years.
Summer residences and rural retreats
will be beautihed this season with a new
departure in the shape of pOrtieres of
Chinese mattings, hand-painted, to repre-
sent bright scenes OF oriental character.
Ferdinand Schumacher, tie Prohibi-
zionist candidate for Governor of Ohio, is
the famous Oatmeal King of Akron. He
not only refrains from the use of liquor
and tobacco himself, but he compels his
employees, when about the mills, to do the
same,
A number of Sullivan county, 4. Y,
farmers are endeavoring to propagate
sugar cane, Past experience has demon
strated that this can be made paying
crop in that section, and a more general
attention to its cultivation will hereafter
be manifested.
Reno, Nevada, boasts of the boss pio-
neer in the person of Joseph Stanley, who
first came to California in 1912 on the
frigate United States, commanded by
Commodore Jones. He was a sailor on
the vessel at the time. Jones landed at
Monterey and took possession of the
country.
A. NJ. Clapp, who used to be Public
Printer in Washington, is an applicant
for the vacant city postmastership. Clasp
is now an old, gray haired man, but his
passion for office-holding amounts to an
absolute mania. Since leaving the Pub
lie Printing Office he has offered himself
for nearly every appOintiye office in sight.
A Muskegon Mich.) girl jumped from
the deck of a steamer to the dock We'd
nesday, when a gallant captain, rushing
forward to assist her, got there Just in
time. so that she landed squarely on his
head. knocking him down and mOmentari-
ly out of sight under a hillock of dry
goods. He isn't going to be as gallant as
he was after this.
A pOrtiere is made attractive by the In
of three colors in the hangings
for the panels. For the upper panel a
whitish yellow satin, salmon pink plush
for the centre, and for the border a deep
brown plush. A charming design in silks
is a light blue vase, from which proceeds
a spreading branch covered with peach
must be in their natural cOiOrs.
When lithotomy became necessary in
the person of Louis XVI, experiments
were made on several corpora villa, in
the persons of humble sufferers, who were
operated on by Chief Surgeon Felix, in
presence Of Fagon, the Kings physician,
at the house of Louvois, the Minister of
State. Most of the men died, circum-
stance seduIously concealed from Louis,
with whom Felix succeeded, but the sur
geon was so much agitated that he became
subject to nervous tremor,
and disabled for life patient, friend,
ON whom he was operating next day.
Henry Watterson goes wild over Mary |
as follows: ''Her 'Galatea' is
benison-like babe that opens its wide |
aVes for a moment on the world and leaves |
Il with sigh; like flower that breathes |
IN fragrance for day upon the earth of |
which it is nOti like a grand strain of /
music that floats and thrObs at twilight, /
and sinks away into the dim reaches of /
which we dream, but in which we cannot |
walk: too pure for the world, yet leaving /
behind a memory, perfume, harmony, |
sweeter, more exalting, etc."
The severe storm OF the past week /
caused one Of the most wonderful land
slides on Flume Mountain, Franconia
Notch, Wednesday, ever known in the
White Mountains. About one mile from
he Flume House, and plainly seen from
here, great volume ef water rushed
through the flume, carrying rocks weigh
ny many thousand tons through to Pemi-
gewasset river, half mile below. 1t has
made the celebrated place more wonder
al than ever, having extended the high
walls some five hundred feet. The scene
rs the water subsidized was grand beyond
description. No pecuniary damage was
lone.
Mrs. l. 7. Smith, WadIey, Ga, says