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

Mr.. Wilfred Blunt, ArabPs friend, is a
well-loOking man of 40. His wife is By
ron's granddaughter. She is an original
character. Mr.. Blunt is a Sussex Squire
and a Roman Catholic.
John G. SAKE now lives in Albany with
his son, and is a helpless sufferer from neu-
ralgia and dyspepsia. 1t is denied that
his mental strength is impaired, or that he
is suffering from sOftening of the brain.
drunken mans proverbial good luck
in falling was illustrated by young New
Yorker the other day, who, when intOXicat-
ed. jumped from Cincinnati express going
forty miles an hour and was not injured.
The Mormon city of Salt Lake, Utah, is
not so wicked but that it has an ordinance
prohibiting the sale of intoxicating
liquors on public holidays, The Mayor
ordered the ordinance to be vigorously ems
forced on Christmas,
Two Ohio farmers sold their seasons
crop of hogs in Dubuque, and were SPEND
ing some of the money in a saloon, when
a drinking match was made. The contest
lasted an hour, and ended in draw. On
their way home one of them fell out of the
wagon dead.
Madagascar is rather larger than France.
A belt of almost virgin forest runs around
the island. The population is about four
millions, and the soil will easily support
thirty millions. India rubber is princi-
pa export. The mineral wealth is enor-
nous.
The detailed project for the submarine
tunnel between Italy and Sicily has been
finished, and win soon be submitted for
government appreciation, The length of
the tunnel will be about eight and half
miles. The expense is calculated at $l4,-
10000.
1t is said that when Mrs. Emerson
asked her husband, Ralph Waldo, about
the christening of their children, he ex-
pressed acquiescence as soon as minister
could be found as good as were the chill
dren. Mr.. Canning christened the young
Emersons.
On recent fete day at Monaco, ire
mendous explosion scared every one in
the gambling rooms. 1t seems to have
been managed by dynamite bomb, with
the object of grabbing up the'gold on the
tables during the scare. The crOuplers.
however, were up to- the dodge.
The Boston journal Of Chemistry says
that in France manufacturers are using
an imitation of gold made of 100 parts of
copper, IA of zinc, 8 OF magneSla,- SO each
of sal ammOniac, limestone, and cream of
tartar. The alloy is represented as being
fined grained, taking ahigh polish and not
easily oXidized.
General c. III. Grosvenor, of Ohio, has
declined to accept the recent allowance to
him of $4,679 as arrearages of pensions,
saying he does not need it, and only
pressed the application to Yindicate the
honesty Of the claim after an open and
bitter enemy had falsely alleged that the
claim was a false one and ought not to be
granted.
NJ. Chernuschi has Publicly declared his
intention to bequeath to the city of Paris
his collection of Chinese and japanese
bronzes-a collection that is said to be UNI
rivaled. 1t was made by him at a time
when the opportunity to accumulate such
articles from the houses of Japanese
noblemen and from temples was eX-
ceptionally good.
1t must be pleasant sometimes to be
financially "solid." The mlm0r that Jor-
dan, Marsh & Co., of Boston, the largest
dry goods house in New England, were
financially embarrassed, brought on from
a New York house by telegraph an offer
of 100000 on call at 3 per cent. The Bos-
ton firm were able to reply that they had
$4,000 on hand which their New York
friends could have on call without inter-
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