Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-05
GENERAL NOTES.

much demand even at that low figure.
There were 3,153, 1856 legal voters in
1880 who did not vote at all, not caring
whether Garfield or Hancock was elected.
About 5000. 900 did all the voting that was
done.
The Tuskegee, Ala, NelCS is authority
for the statement that Hon. S. W. John, of
Dallas, is the only membea of the present
Legislature who declined to draw per diem
for Sundays.
Rev. Edmund +. Slater, as executor.
has recently paid over to the Treasurer of
Harvard College Sill, 600, the major part
of a testamentary bequest to the college
by the late Mr.. George b. Dorr, OF Boston.
A Nevada penitentiary convict says
that he was sent to prison for being dis
honest, and is there kept at work cutting
out pieces of pasteboard to put between
the soles of shoes in place OF honest
leather.
The inscription "Ysnat'' on jar in a
Philadelphia Indian doctors shop, puzzled
a reporter until ne discovered that it was
''Tansyv spelled backward. With this
clue he read other names of mysterious
medicines with a clearer understanding
than before.
perated at Mark Twain because he failed
TO answer a letter, forwarded the humor-
list sheet of paper and a postage stamp
as a gentle reminder. Mr.. Clemens wrote
back ON a postal: "Paper and stamp re-
ceiVed; please send an envelope"
The immigration Society of San Fran
cisco reports that of the $4,000, 900 acres
of land i'm California still belonging to the
Federal Government 20,000,000 are suit
able for general agricultural purposes.
The society receives more inquiries from
Europe than from the United States in re-
gard to these lands.
! How capricious thing is fame, re-
marks the Pail .HdH Gazette. At we'd
ding quite recently, at which Victor Hugo
! was present as witness, the Mayor 5
/ clerk, who had evidently never heard OF
the great poets existence, was Obliged TO
ask him whether he spelled his name
/ ''Hugo" or "HugOt."
/ Mr.. Frey, the agent at Rogers, Ark,
says there have been shipped from Rogers
since about the middle of September and
up to December l. 11,000 barrels of green
| apples and $500 pounds of dried fruit.
| This amount of dried fruit is equivalent
/ to 10000 barrels of green, which would
make total of $4,000 barrels.
The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Herald draws this pen picture of
! Mr.. Senator Hoar: ''AIr. Hoar is naturally
( sour Mt the stomach. He is also hum
/ bug and much of wind bag. He puts
/ his foot into everything" Mr.. HOar
would not consider this a good likeness,
/ hut good many other people would.
Old travellers, on revisiting Venice, are
annoyed to find, instead of graceful gon-
dolas gliding noiselessly through the
/ Grand Canal, puffy little steamboats,, on
which ear-torturing whistles are sounded
| on arriving at and leaving stations, at
| the ferries and whenever another noisy lit
/ tie craft comes in view.
In 1881, Las appears by an official publica-
ton just out, ia, 4S1 persons were arrest
ed in England for the crime of drunken
ness. being an increase of 1922 over the
wear previous. The percentage of in
/ crease in population in England during
! the last decade was IL, and i'll the same
/ time drunkenness increased 1 per cent.
/ Charles Fetter, tramp, married a
woman who was keeping restau-
/ rant in Des Moines, lived with her eight
months. then sold out the establishment,
/ pocketed the money and ran away. 1t is
said Fetter has now two wives. The Des
/ MOines Mrs. Fetter is tracing him through
Missouri and getting left every time she
tries TO pounce upon him.
A Canadian paper says that Jews are
the longest lived people. The mortality
among infants, so great everywhere, and
said to be unusually so in Montreal, is
among the Hebrews but 10 per cent. The
mean age of Jewish life is given as forty
eight years. One-fourth of them live to
[ be seVenty-One, and another fourth survive
to see their sixtieth year.
The prize offered some months ago for
/ the best design for the enlargement of the
/ Sorbonne is Paris has been awarded to NJ.
/ Henry Nenot. His plans provide for a
ceremonial hall, capable OF seating 1000
persons. Some -, 1000, 0OOf. Will be eNpend-
ed on the enlargement, more than half the
/ sum being required for the ground. The
/ State contributes One-haH of the 22,OOO,-
| 000f and the city the other.
A declaration has been filed in the office
of the Secretary of State at Montgomery,
/ signed by Daniel 5. Printup and others, of
/ Rome, Ga, to incorporate the Rome and
/ Decatur Railroad Company. The road is
/ designed TO run from Rome TO Decatur,
/ Ala, and will pass through the counties
| of Cherokee, DeKalb. Marshal and Nor
! gan. They also design building branch
| from the road down to Gadsdon.
The Irishmen of the United States are
naturally very bitterly opposed to the
| scheme of the British Government, which,
under the plea of philanthropy, cOntem-
| plates the deportation of the Irish people
/ of the West of Ireland to this country and
/ to Canada. These people are not skilled
wOrkingmen. and are accustomed only to
/ the humblest toll upon a barren soil.
/ Thousands of them would have TO be cared
/ for by their brethren here, as the British
Government only provides a fund to carry
/ them away from Ireland.
In ST. Petersburg was celebrated on
/ Dec. Is the three hundredth anniversary
/ of Russian rule in Siberia. Dec. Is was
! chosen as the day for this celebration, not
/ because il was the exact date of the ac-
/ quisition. but because it was the name
/ day of the young heir apparent, Nicholas
/ AleXandrOWitch, the exact Siberian date
/ being unknown to Russian history. What
l is known about ii as fact, is that some
I time between Oct. - and Dec, y, 1882,
/ Ivan the Terrible received messenger
( from Yermak, the leader of the COssacks,
and accepted dominion over the country
which he and they had voluntarily sub
dued.
The number of stories in circulation in
L
wound recalls to a French journalists
recollection somewhat similar incident
in the career of NJ. Latfitte, Louis Philippe's
minister. One day after dinner he was
seized with violent internal pains, That
very day. as it happened, he had dined at
the Spanish Embassy, and the relations
between France and Spain at the time
were anything but cordial. Diplomatic
suspicious were aroused, and different
commentaries were passed on the occur
renee in London, st. Petersburg and
Vienna. Twelve hours after the news
reached the Italian Embassy. an attache
paid a secret visit to the Minister, to get
the true version of the affair. NJ. Latftte
led him to window corner, looked round
to see that nobody was listening. and then
whispered into his ear, in the most mystic
rious tone: TELL your government it was
the beef"
One of the most noteworthy recent addi-
tions to the city of Brussels is the opening
of a commercial museum under the con-
troll of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the
object being the exhibition of specimens
of both raw materials and manufactures
of all countries, so that Belgian merchants
and makers can practically study the re-
quirements and necessities of foreign Gus
TONERS, The classification of this most
useful institution is such that the visitor
can not only see the origin of each speci-
men. but also trace its industrial value TO
the end; and for this purpose his inquiries
are facilitated by an information bureau,
where all facts can be obtained respecting
the character. uses. and cost of each sam
ple. In this same office are plans and