Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-16
GENERAL NOTES.

An Omaha paper advertises marriage
toilets for gentlemen
Large quantities of opium are eaten in
Wheeling, West Virginia.
Only 2,4S0 dogs out of about 10000 in
Brooklyn have been licensed this year.
Black silk stockings are more worn at
present than they have been for thirty
/ years or more.
Corn blue is a favOrite color for new
cashmeres, veilings, sateens, cambrics,
calicoes and silks.
A LOuisvislian. who has no hair to spare,
makes the scientific assertion that no idiot
was ever bald headed.
The travel on the Brooklyn bridge last
week, as compared with the week before,
shows a decrease Of 340,975-
At the free baths in New York last week
/ 3.419 men and boys, and a, 49, women
and girls enjoyed free dip.
W. J. Bunton, of Hopkins county, Ky,
I killed twenty-eight squirrels at thirty
1 shots with a rifle in half day.
| A New York gentleman has offered to
| give Sa5. 600 to the Elmira Female College
+ if the citizens of Elmira will raise an
/ equal amount.
The Annamites, among whom are some
| Chinese, are very well armed with rifles
| Of precision, but, fortunately. they do
not know how TO use them well.
The sulphuric acid department of the
! Oeaka, Japan, mint, appears to have done
/ large business last year. According to
/ the ,JiGu .ShinbuR, the amount sold during
that period was 1,63S, All pounds.
\ new development of the jersey is an
| -. L., xx-orl- +sohf fttfnor ho1iao rna1a
in all shades, for evening wear. 1t is
| without sleeves. and is intended to wear
over another basque. buttOning up at the
back, with a quantity of small silk but
tons, Jersey style.
The Hochi Shinbun gives some particu-
lars of the army of Japan, as follows:
General officers. so; colonies, 25S; cap
tains. lieutenants, ETC.. 1859; staff off,
GERS. 2O62: cadets, rs; nOn-cOmmissioned
officers. 6,91S; rank and file 109, 1876; work
men, etc., 709; total, 12l,9O5.
In addition to a coinage system of its
own, Borneo has now postage system.
The only stamp which has reached here
has lion at the head, beneath which is a
Malay prahu, under full sail. walking
''the waters like thing of life" Two
cents are printed at the foot.
1t will be news to many lady readers to
learn the value of the ostrich feathers that
are exported from the Cape. Last year
over 253,OO pounds of feathers were eX-
ported. the value being { ,093, $3.50. This
is sevenfOld what it was ten years ago, SO
that the habit of wearing feathers must
have grown.
The Taos Indians, who excel all Others
in the celebrated .Matachln dance, are
preparing for its presentation at the Santa
Fe Tertio- Millennial Exhibition. They
also have several other beautiful dances
in preparation. b. NJ. Reed has under.
taken to arrange for the native Mexican
Matachin dance, which differs in material
respects from that given by the Indians.
The new English dictionary proceeds
apace in DR.. Murray's workshop at Mill.
Hill. The printing has progressed to the
end of the article ''alternate," and at that
point there are over 5000 entries as com.
pared with under 5000 in Webster. BY
the end of June the whole of the manu-.
script to the end of ''an'' will, unless some
Unforeseen delay should occur, be in
type.
In the City of Monterey, in Mexico, by
a peculiarly convenient arrangement, the
cockpit Is close to the Cathedral. This
insures it a good attendance, as the great
majority of those who attend the Cattle.
draI services also visit the cockpit. The
brutal sport is not put under the ban as il
is in this country, and some even of the
clergy make common practice of at
tending.
The annual products Of the British
American sea fisheries are set down at
about $50, 600, 900. In France 50, $50 sailors
manning -, 125 ships and smacks, are
] in fiGhinu Tho total nrOdnat (
from the French fisheries, including the
sum derived from the sale of oysters
amounts to about $35, C00,000 per annu IN
The annual value of the takes of fish in
Norwegian waters, is little over SIS,
900, 900.
A strange story is related by some per
sons who reside near LemOore, Cal. Il
relates to the foresight and invention
manifested by a large wolf that infests
that district. The parties in question haC
been missing poultry for some time. The
defamation had proceeded to that extent
it aroused to activity the defensive faculty
of the poultry owners. While one of them
a Mr.. Stark Hill, was looking about fol
some traces of the depredatOr, he came
across a duck that had been raised by W
r. Massmeyer. Its head was all that was
visible. The body had been buried, witt
the wings spread out and the GROUND
tramped down. The duck was still alive
although it had been missing for three
DAYS. 1t is evident that the wolf had hi:
| plan to supply its future wants, and haC
managed to keep the fowl alive, so that il
would not spoil before he should want it
One of the earliest of this seasons sea
shore bathers to fall under careful Obser
walton wore a garment of loosely wover
but rather thick blue flannel, dark navy
blue, with very short sleeves that fitted the
arm closely and a loose collar that showed
her brown throat From her neck to Just
below the knee it was one garment. Over
this she wore short skirt of the same
material, the belt Of which was broad
piece of blue webbing fastening with a
strong buckle. Moderate pressure on
the waist does not inconvenience the
swimmer" the writer says, ''and if the
belt should happen to give out, she could
easily kick off the skirt and come to shall
low water, where cloak could be given
to her in which she could walk to heI
bathing house. She was barefOOted, and
was one of the comparatively few girls
/ who haven't cOrns that render their feet
unfit for publication"
BETTY, the cOlored maid Of Edwin
Booths daughter, was, during the great
tragedian's tour in Germany, the object
of a degree of curiosity and attention
which displayed singular amount OF
ignorance respecting the negro race on
the part OF the populations of the German
cities. In many places Mr.. Booths
courier was seriously asked as to what
kind of food should be specially prepared
for her. In one town the inquiry was
made if she was not Zulu: In Berlin,
while accompanying Miss Booth in one OF
her promenades, Betty was grayely pre-
scented with a lot of plums by deeply in
terested young German who probably
took her for some kind of savage creature.
On another occasion, while she was pass
ing through the corridor of the hotel, she
was stopped by an elderly gentleman,
who applied his finger to her cheek and
gave the skin a vigorous rub, afterwards