Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-27
GENERAL NOTES.

The largest game preserve III Tue NotAu
is in Pike county, Pennsylvania.
Two Bengalee girls have taken the de-
gree of A. b. at the Calcutta University.
Never plant tree without considering
how much space it will require fifty years
hence.
The French end of the Channel tunnel
is moving eighteen and the English twenty
yards day.
1t is said in Colorado that no native
resident of the State has ever died there of
consumption.
New York patrons of the Edison electric
light find their bills bigger than when
they used gas.
The Greeks are making preparations to
plant trees on both banks OF the famous
River Ilissus.
One of Bavaria's most illustrious
learned men (Steinheim) boosted OF
smoking 5000 cigars year.
1t is said that the Mormon emissaries in
the South have never succeeded in con-
verting a negro to MOrmOnism.
The London Economist has discovered
that the revised tariff was passed because
..the new Congress did not meet till March
9TH"
The New York Senate voted last week
to prohibit hunting on Sunday, but made
an exception in favor of the gentle art OF
angling.
The city of Hamburg proposes spending
hundred thousand marks (of which the
Empire will give fOrty) in rebuilding the
free harbOr.
The windows of houses in the Philip
pine Isles are made of pellucid oyster
shells, which admit light, but cannot be
seen through.
1t is not generally known that the Cana
dian prophet, Virgins, before he set up in
| the prophecy business. was a grocer IN
East Orange, New Jersey.
Facts and statistics show that there is
more whisky drank in Scotland than IN
/ Ireland, though the population of Ireland
1 is nearly twice that of Scotland.
! The Sussex county farmer in England
| plows with from three to five horses in a
/ single line, and cries to his animals, MA
Their woOt," or come hither, wilt thouE
A story comes from Canton. China, of
woman who, to punish female slave who
| had stolen some food, cut a slice from the
] girls nigh and made her cook and eat IL.
The Able Moigno, the French astrono-
mer. and the writer of $50 volumes, never
| had occasion to have recourse to stimu-
lants of any kind in order to work or OBJ
! tain clearness of mind.
A man in St. Tammany, La, freed
wild cat and set fire to the underground to
smoke him out. The fire got away and
burned forty panels of fence for neigh
| Dor, and the wild cat got away also.
Fencing has become a fayOrite pastime
with the ladies of Vienna, having been
introduced by the Empress of Austria,
who is said to be an expert in the use of
foil and very partial to tine exercise.
The latest advertising swindle is that
of a man who advertised a sewing ma
chine for twenty-five cents in stamps. He
found numerous dupes, who, in return
for their stamps, received a cambria nee
die.
The Indians of Nevada procure quail
for market by scattering upon the ground
wheat soaked with alcohol. The quail
eat, become drunk, and are easily taken.
The birds thus become food and drink, as
it were.
In Lyons. France, the cold bath method
of treating typhoid fever has been adopted
with marked success. In the civil hos
pitfalls the death rate was reduced from 20
/ to 8 per cent, and in private practice to
or per cent.
The South Downs, from which South
| down sheep take their name, are chain
of chalk hills running parallel with the
| English Channel and terminating in the
sea at Beach Head by perpendicular clirfs
about 600 feet high.
| French composing machines in use in
| Chicago set up from 10000 to 10000 ems
. day. One operator set up and loaded As
600 ems in nine hours and half. The
cost, including correction, was twenty
| five cents thousand.
The statute books of Kentucky still re-
tain the provision that ''no person, while
| he continues to exercise the functions OF
clergyman, priest, or teacher of any Teli-
/ giOus persuasion, society or sect, shall be
| eligible to the General Assembly"
The President of the Egypt Exploration
Fund, Sir Erasmus Wilson, has headed
subscription list with $500. Thus sup
ported, the'sOciety has begun excavation
/ on the site of Raamses, one of the two
cities mentioned in Exodus as built by the
/ forced labor of the Hebrews.
4 liquor dealer at Whitehall, y. Y, has
been found guilty, in United States Dis
trict Court, of 457 offenses, and fined 3d.
600. with $500 costs and months impris-
Onment. In default of paying the fine the
alternative is eighty years Imprisonment.
He has appealed from the decision.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has nearly doubled its facilities in Texas
during the past three years. January l,
1880. they had 1900 miles of poles and
1900 miles of wire: on January l, 1888,
1900 of poles and 5000 of wire. Many of
these lines extend into Mexico, and others
are being built.
An Indiana boy of five years is a me-
dunn at various spiritual seasons held in
Shelbyville. A large table is tipped at
the touch of his tiny fingers, and messages
from the spirit land are penciled on
slate in a clear, bold hand. The boy can
not write his own name. Who will ma
terialize the spectre?
NJ. DupOuchel, a French writer in the
Rerue de Deuc NOndeS, shows that the
desert of Sahara, instead of being lower
than the Mediterranean sea level, has
only single small tract about as large as
Connecticut which could be flooded. and
TO supply this with sea water would need
waterway as big as the SueZ canal.
The late Herr Wagner is said to have
been one of the number of the ''thirteen
superstitiOnists." He was born in 1918
and died February Is. The letters of his
name amounted TO thirteen; his second
marriage numbered thirteen years, and
the great fiasco of his ''Tanhauser," when
produced in Paris, took place on March Is.
The total number of persons arrested in
Andalusia for completely in the Anarchist
movement is 1,2OO. OF this number, 800
are charged with murders, agrarian out
RACES, and with being abettOrs of the
''Black Hand" Society. Sixty of the
prisoners have confessed their compiled
ty in four murders. \ branch of the so
ciety has been discovered in Portugal.
Call on your Optician and get pair of
the celebrated Celluloid Eyeglasses. The