Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-16

policies for $780, 900 on a single wedding
party going from Denver to Chicago.
Austria-Hungary pays S2,250,0O0 year
TO steamship companies. and is going to
pay $4,000, 900 so as to keep up with Italy.
A regular line of freight vessels between
New Orleans and Liverpool has been
started through the energy of the st. Louis
Freight Bureau.
At luncheon given to some friends IN
the Southern home of Augusta c. Evans,
the wine served TO the guests was made
by her own hands.
The Crown gets $4,000 which was dis
covered in the howell of an old blacksmith
found dead i'm bed. just outside the village
of Well, in Yorkshire.
February last, there were earthquake
shocks i'm Spain, Hungary, New Hamp-
shire and Michigan; February . in Hi
nOis, and February % in Rhode Island.
The first locomotive has just appeared
at Senegambia, where the first mile and
half of French railway between Senegal
and the Niger was opened in December.
Among the printed rules of hotel in
Los Angeles is the following: "No COM
bustibles suchas paper, old clothing, bet
ties or oyster cans to be thrown out OF
these windows"
DIR. A. L. Childs, by cutting down trees
whose age was known, has found that the
popular theory as to rings in trees as a
sign of age is false. In damp years tree
makes number.
The greatest pawnbrokers' shop in the
world IS the Mont de Piete, in Paris. 1t
charges only one and quarter per cent.
month. and it does a business of over
30,000.0OO francs year.
A series of experiments on muscular
pressure at Johns Hopkins show that
small ladies shake hands with more yigor
than large, and the pressure of men is to
that of women as 3 is to D. This is be-
lieved to extend TO kissing.
Arthur Farquhar is known in London
society as being one of the best dancers Of
his day. He is now Farquhar Bey, hav-
ing accepted the command of one of the
new regiments of the Egyptian army. He
formerly was in the COldstream Guards.
The old family doctor remained faithful
to the miserable and terribly wronged
Duchess de Chaulness-dying at last with
no relative to close her eyes. She gave to
him her splendid golden hair. After her
death they carried her with great pOmp to
the tomb.
4 slightly cOlOred boy in Washington
has been condemned to wear the name of
''Roscoe COnkling Bruce" during the con-
tinuance of his natural life. He is a son
of ex-senator Bruce, now Register of the
| Treasury, and his name is on every recent
greenback issue.
There is an Indian woman 100 years old
living in Fitzpatrick Ala, who was once
a cook on Andrew Jackson's staff when
he was cutting road from Alabama to
/ Florida. She still has some of the pots
and kettles in which she was in the habit
of cooking the Generals food.
The gross receipts of the Suez Canal last
year were over twelve millions, and will
warrant a dividend of 90 per cent. A
dividend of 13 per cent. was paid during
/ the previous year. A reduction of half a
/ franc a ton at the beginning of the year
took off 500, 900 from the revenue.
The prevailing terror in British India is
not policemen, nor communists, Mrs. Ly-
! dia Pinkham's likeness, nor ten cent ele-
/ waited fares. nor yet Virgins, but snakes.
| In 1881 snakes are reported to have killed
! 1860 persons. and probably some ele-
/ plants, wild bOars and such creatures.
| Only Russian operas and ballets will be
! given in Moscow during the coronation
! festivities. The first act and epilOgue of
| Glinka's "a Life for the Car and new
/ ballet EDay and Night will be produced
4 on the gala night; to be followed by Ru-
/ benstein's 'DemOn," and other works lit
/ tie known out Of Russia.
/ at is dangerous writes Benjamin
Franklin, in a letter just published, of the
way Kahn, the Swedish bOtanist, had
! dished him up, ''cOnversing with these
/ strangers that keep journals The va
/ grant writer from Europe who twists half
| he hears and misunderstands the other
half came over here early.
Michigan has grown to be a State noted
| for historical names. For instance, George
/ Washington is Sheriff of Bay county;
| John Quincy Adams, of Marquette, is a
member of the State Legislature; John
| Brown is Chief of Police at Muskegon, and
| William Shakespeare is QuartermasteT
/ General of the State militia.
Italy supplies the greater portion of
rags for paper stock to the rest of the
world, and rag-picking is in that country
a profitable business. In Rome chiffo-
/ nier goes about during carnival time,
/ dressed as q General, giving all the poor
children in his neighbOrhOod bread and
wine. On Shrove Tuesday he provides a
/ plateful of macarOni for all.
| Miss Charles Worth, the officer Of the
Salvation Army who was expelled from
Geneva, reports that she had "great fun"
before she left. She event down on her
! knees and prayed out loud" i'm the magis-
4 trate's room, "all the time keeping an eve
on the Inspector" which keenness of OBJ
servatiOn was certainly inconsistent with
the sentiment of devotion. "The great
! fun she goes on to explain, ''was that
| these cross magistrates and inspectors
were kept from their dinners"
The Queen is probably still in blissful
| ignorance of the fact that on her visit to
Netley last month she personally wound
ed one of her own gallant defenders, as i'm
pinning medal to the night shirt of an
invalid hero she pinned in portion of the
hero with it. The brave soldier, who had
faced Egyptian bayOnets, did not finch
under a pin prick, however, but bore it
with Spartan 1irmness, for, as he after
wards remarked, '1Bless her. her words
were so gracious that | couldn't mind il! -
The death i'm Mexico of ''Johnnie," 9TH
erwise Sir John, Hepburn, popular
land owner in the LOthians,' is thus COM
mented on by a Texas newspaper: "a
more generous, Open-handed young fellow
never lived. and all who knew him liked
him. On one occasion he won with the
single gold piece left out of the $500 he
had brought out with him from England
$26, 900 in the course of three or four hours
His friends begged him to send the money
home, as it would have paid all of his liza
bilities; but. though he promised not to
risk more than the odd thousand, he had
lost it all two hours atterward."
The Omaha tribe of Indians live on a
small reservation in Nebraska. Rev. DIR.
Owen Dorsey, who has lived among them,
says that pOlygamy is not prohibited by
the tribe, but it is the wife who extends
the marriage relations and not the man.
She selected the woman who was to share
with her the cares Of the household and
the attentions of the husband. For this
porpOse her choice almost invariably fell
upon her own sister or upon some near
blOOd-relatiOn. When a murder has been
committed among the Indians, the muir
derer is put to death by the nearest relative
of the victim. 1t is the duty of every man
to marry the widow of his deceased BROTH
er. Unchastity is a rare Offense. "Fi-
nally," Rev. DIR. Dorsey says, ''the rights
Of the mOther-in-law are oppressive. If
she does not approve the conduct of her
daughters husband she may take his wife
away by the exercise of her own arbitrary
will and give her to another man. There
is possibly a compensating advantage in
this for a husband who does not like his
wife. since he might secure a divorce by
merely offending his mOther-in-law.@
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