Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-16
GENERAL NOTES.
Brazil is building four steel gunboats.

The Angl0-lndian Government has re-
dueed freight rates about five cents hun
drel to increase wheat exports.
The Brazilian Government reserves by
law the exclusive privilege of working or
putting up telegraph and telephone wires.
The name in fun Of His Majesty the
King Of Siam Is Somdeteh Phra Para
mindr Maha Chulalonkorn Phra Chula
ChOm klay.
There is to be SpOrtsmen's tournament
held at Montgomery, Ala, in May. The
manager is arranging to secure 5000 birds
for the shooting.
There is an incorporated company in
New York which collects the names Of
people who do not pay their debts, and
prints them for the use Of merchants.
A minstrel travelling through Vermont
sings .sHome, Sweet Home'' so effectively
that most of the audience get up and 20
home before he finishes the first verse.
A medical school for women is to be es-
tabIished at Toronto, Canada, and it is re-
ported that lady physician of that place
is to give $4,000 towards its endowment.
The youngest grandfather in Kentucky
is only thirty-six years old. He has
grandson eighteen months old. His own
grandfather and grandmother are still
living.
Cornelius, a street masher, was tarred
and feathered at Nashville, Ill.," is the
brief record which the Chicago Times
| gives Of great social reform just begun
in the West.
The India census gives 253, S91, S21 in
habitants in a space one-third the size of
| the United States, or 1928 square
miles, making India fifteen times as thick
| ly settled as the United States.
a scheme is being projected in Boston
| for the cooperative education of cooks.
One thousand housekeepers are to pay 50
\ apiece to maintain a school, pledging
/ themselves to employ none but graduates.
A vagrant cur, who wandered into the
| Wabash freight yard at Carml, ILL.,, has
| secured good living for life by dragging
| a little baby out of the way OF an ap-
| preaching engine when the hands were
| too far off to reach it.
An Englishman, who not long since
! published a violent attack on the doc
/ trines of Christianity, has been brought
/ to trial under an old law prohibiting bias
phemy, convicted and sentenced to one
years imprisonment.
The company who bought the ruins of
| the Tuileries on speculation find the in
/ vestment a poor one. The interior col
/ umns, which were supposed TO be solid,
| are merely mOuldings over rough blocks,
and the rest of the material is chiefly
/ rubbish.
The cultivation of the olive in Califor-
] MIA promises to be a great success. The
trees begin bearing in three years, and
! continue to yield for centuries. Some of
/ bo oil alpoodxr aiObf old
1 and produce $50 bushels of fruit to the
acre, representing 81, go in oil.
Columbia College has received only two
gifts of any great value since its fOunda-
! ton in 1854. One of these was $4,000
| from Mr.. Frederick Gerhard, and the
| other an uncertain amount of money from
Mr.. Stephen Whitney Phoenix, which will
not be available for several years to come.
Angelo Marinho, a pilot of Para, Brazil,
is the survivor of three wives, by whom
he has fOrty-fve children still living,
and through which children ne is called
| grandpapa by 119 persons, great-grand-
papa by 1S4, and great-great-grandpa
| by 260 more, his living descendants num-
bering sos persons.
Old customs prevail to an astonishing
extent in some parts of England The
curfew is still rung in many towns, al
though il is no longer obligatory on the
people to 90 to bed when they hear it, and
at Ripon a horn is blown at 8 p. IN. in
memory of King Alfred, who presented a
horn, still eXtant, to that city.
The death rate of Nantes is a singular
contradiction Of the accepted theory con-
corning the intimate relation between dirt
and disease. 1t is said to be the filthiest
city in all ChrIstendOm, and the streets
! IL CLEANED. still the n
nual death rate is reported as less than
"a per cent. Of the population.
a prominent lawyer in Massachusetts
is said TO have stated before a legislative
committee there the other day that he
knew a railroad Superintendent who told
brakeman that there was ''nO chance
for him just then; but some one would
probably be killed inside of ten days,
when he could have the vacancy"
1t has been noted that, notwithstanding
the great annual growth of London in
! population and residences, nearly 2,000,-
900 tons of coal less were entered for con-
| sumption last year than in the year pre-
| ceding. Several causes have tended to
produce this result. The winter was cold;
more people had to be warmed and fed;
but the anti-smOke agitation had its good
results in stimulating inventors to make
| the best sort of fireplaces, and inducing
people to adopt them.
A business man just returned from
Mexico says: Every train guarded with
| soldiers from Vera Cruz to the capital
| seemed to him to be warlike preface I;
| then in Mexico he saw the gentlemen of
the town riding with arms in the parks.
The people are, in general, meagre con-
sumers of anything but common drink
and common meat, and the agricultural
I farilfffac Of 10 fry n HVa rfpd
the uncertainty of the society and the as
yet immature, not to say demi-savage,
condition of almost everything.
Monte Carlo is crowded at this season,
and looks like London on the shores of
the Mediterranean. An Englishman, Mr..
5. Lewis, is the only big player, his
stakes being, as usual, 10000 francs a
! coup. This gentleman, not long since,
won 100000, but afterward lost the whole
of it, as well as another 10000 about the
same time, at one of the gambling bells at
Nice. Small players have still great SUI
perstition about lucky numbers. a gen.
tleman well known in society received a
ticket at the gesture for his hat and stick.
| Going into the concert room he found him.
self in a seat with the same number on it
as on his ticket. This was too much for
him; so he at once proceeded to a rOu-
lette table, and put louis on this num-
Der, which turned up on the first coup.
Hon. ID. b. Sickles, late United States
Representative at the Court of Siam, gives
a favorable account Of the American
missionaries and their work in that dis
tant country. In a recent lecture he
said: "Their influence in Siam is para
mount to that Of any of the representatives
of the Treaty Powers accredited to His
Majesty's court, and the King, though
nominally a Buddhist, is their constant
friend and supporter, contributing
| literally to their schools and missions
from his private purse. A few years ago
he established royal college and inaugur-
| ated system of public instruction, and
! appointed one of their most prominent re-
! representatives. to the high and responsible
position Of general superintendent. The
| missionaries are received with favor
everywhere throughout the kingdom, and
il is a remarkable and significant fact
that they are so popular among the COM
mon people that they are frequently in-
yited to preach the gospel in Buddhist
temples. Many Of them accept, and the
priests often attend and listen respect
fully.and sometimes reverentially to the
discOurses which, Of course, are always
delivered in the Siamese or Laos lam
guages."
Don't tread on my COrns," we often
hear in tones of anguish from those suffer
| ing with that terrible affliction. They
will be glad to know that COussens' Light
ming Liniment will cure COrns and Bun
/ ions. and is also a cure for Lame Back,
! onI DbounaficOa Dtioa IN