Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-25
GENERAL NOTES.

Kansas farmers hold over J,OOO, 900 BUSH
els of old wheat, and over 100000 BUSH
els Of old corn.
The Second Presbyterian Church of Chi
cago has introduced a cornet in its choir
music, with bad effect.
Turkey buys the most of the umbrellas
made in France, which produced last year
I'll .S34, worth $6,00O,000.
French Canadians are called lard eat
ers'' in Biddeford, Maine, because it is
supposed they use it as butter.
The recent parade of cOlOred troops in
Charleston was enlivened by whistling
accompaniment of 800 of the men.
A rock weighing three and one-half
pounds was thrown up by an artesian
Well on farm near old San Bernadino.
Mr.. Rice, of Brooklyn, decided all his
property TO his wife, she bequeathed it to
her daughter, and Mr.. Rice has had to go
to the pOorhouse.
Arizona copper is worth 152l cents per
pound in the Chicago market; lead, $64
per ton; silver, 81 or per ounce: gold,
$40 per Ounce-all base bullion.
The total number of coke ovens in the
United States in 1880 were -, 279, employ
Of 5000 TO carry on the business.
The celebrated "Acqua Tofana," the
poison of which so many novelists have
made effective use, was a solution con-
tanning lead, arsenic and anthony. 1t
took its name from Julia TOfana, Roman
fortune teller, who used it. She died in
1851.
1t is asserted that 5000 young men and
women break down every year through
the excessive STRAIN imposed ON them in
London shops, where it is said the average
hours of labor of twO-thirds of the shop
assistants are from twelve to fifteen hours
daily.
\ Chinese peddler in Portland refused
to accept an English shilling, saying:
''NO good. Ne heap sabe-nO chicken on
him. The Oreq0nian is of the opinion
that when a heather Chinee calls our
glorious bird a chicken, it is time, indeed,
for him to go.
When articles are stored in a corner
stone cavity a toad should be included, so
that in future years when the stone is re-
opened the toad may be found and news
paper item made of it. \ toad that can
not thrive for thousand years Incased in
solid stone is not fit to live in newspaper
history.
Hattie Hall, an employee of the Stark
Paper Company at the State Linen Mill,
near North Bennington, found among
waste papers, while sorting them We'd
nesday, a solitaire diamond ring. It's
value is estimated at 1925. Two other
rings were found, the stones having been
torn out of their settings by one of the
machines through which they passed.
A man who weighs $50 pounds on the
earth, if transported to Jupiter, would
shake the ground with a ponderous thread
of 40, 900 pounds, or 22k tons! A hickory
nut. falling from a Dough, would crash
through him like a MIME ball. Water
would weigh fifteen times as much as
quicksilver. A moderate wave would
shiver to atoms the strongest irOnclad.
A lady was IN Peabody, Mass, recently
with twins, and an odd thing about them
is that their birthdays come on different
days of the week, in different months and
in different years. One was born just be-
fore midnight on December 81, 1882, and
the other Just after the clock struck u
so that the birthday came January 1.
1888. The mother does not know which
is the older.
The people of Pueblo, Col, are excited
over a proposal to cut down certain tree
of which petition to Council says: "Judg
ing from scientific rules, should decide
that the tree was over 1000 years old, and
its size, over twenty-siX feet in circum
ference, makes it the largest tree in the
State of Colorado, and it is questionable
whether, for grace and beauty, there is a
finer cottonwood within the bounds of the
State"
OF the inhabitants Of New Guinea, Great
Britain's latest acquisition, a recent wri
ter says: "The truth appears to be that
New Guinea is inhabited by at least two
different races; one, which is supposed tC
be the aboriginal, being the Papuans pro
per, who are black or dusky brown, with
frizzled hair and highly accentuated ne.
gro features; the other copper cOlored
straight haired, and allied to the Polyne
sian family"
J. H. Henderson is the Natty BumppC
of Alabama. He is sixty-three years old
has only one foot, the greater part having
been burned off since childhood. He was
reared IN Coffee county, and removed tC
COVington in 1915, since which time and
on one foot he has killed and secured Az
deer. How many he killed before his re-
moval from Coffee county is not stated,
but some of the witnesses to the above
fact estimate the number not less than
100. The number killed in CovingtOn
average little over ten per year.
AS an instance of what living on the
Piedmont range will do, DR.. Felix L. Os.
wald writes: "a few years ago an ema.
ciated Canadian miner came South for his
health. and located a small placer-claim
on the plateau of the Fort Mountain in
Murray county, Ga. The mountain is a
mile high, and the up-trip with a few
dozen eggs from the next valley farm
obliged the miner to stop every few
minutes to keep his chest from bursting,
but before the end of the year he was able
to make the same trip, without stop,
with bushel-bag fullOf corn meal.
When Albert Wolf and Vilemessant
together conducted the Figaro, Wolf once
left on tiff, and afterward, desiring to
return, wrote a brilliant article for its
columns, which was not inserted. Meet
ing the editor, he asked when his cOntri-
button would appear. "kever," roared
VIllemessant in rage. ''Fve sworn so
by the memory of my grandmother"
"And II said Wolf, "have sworn that it
shall by the memory of my grandfather, :"
But Yillemessant was ipeKorable. 'tSee
noW,r said the brilliant journalist, off we
cannot arrange this. We have known
each other for fifteen years; why quarrel
for the rest Of our liYesy We both are
bound by an oath. Let us stake the
memory of your grandmother against that
of my grandfather, and play it out in a
rubber of piQuet." The cards were
brought. The grandfather won, and next
day Wolf rejoined the paper,
The Due d'Aosta, brother of Ring Hum
bert, who represents him at the corona
ton at Moscow, is declared to be a
or possessor of the evil eye,
When he first wished to marry the Ouch
ess de la Cisterna, his negotiations were
and NJ. Cassinis, President
of the Chamber, who acted for him, blew
out his brains with a pistol. Some time
after the Due again tried his luck with
the lady and her family, and, being as
cepted, he rode beside her carriage on a
public occasion, when his steed threw
him, and so much alarmed her horses
that they plunged and reared, and a
was only with difficulty
ayerted When the Duo subsequently
was on his way to Stupiniggi, a royal
riage was to take place, the Count de
Castiglione, one of his suite, fell dead
from his horse, struck down by apoplexy.
And when the princely pair set out on
their wedding journey a balcony filled
with spectators fell, and several persons
were seriously injured; while, TO crown
all, at the moment when they set foot on
q steamboat, the boiler burst and killed
a majority Of the passengers.
Admiral Chandler is said to be getting
in his work In New Hampshire. He is