Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-01
GENERAL NOTES.

The semi-annual dividends payable in
Boston in June will amount to $4,097, 1G1.
Vancouver Island public lands have
been thrown open to actual settlers at one
dollar per acre.
1t is claimed that $3O,0OO,QO0 was in
vested last year by English and Scotch
capitalists in the live stock business in
Wyoming and Texas.
An electric light about the size of a
small bean has been constructed and used
successfully in Illuminating interior por-
tiOns Of the human body.
There are 1872 pianos in the Boston pub
lie schools, and they are kept in tune at a
cost of 81, 200 year by inmates of the Per-
kins Institution for the Blind.
At the end of the war Tennessee owed a
bonded debt of $2OOOO,OO0, MUCH the
greater part of which were bonds issued
in aid of the construction of railroads.
During the early part of this month the
largest mule in the world was sold at
Kansas City. 1t was 1872 hands high,
weighed 1875 pounds, measured 10 feet
from nose to tail. and was 6 years old.
The North american Recie1o has paid
George Z. Warning, Jr., $4,000 for one of
.
which is spoken of as the highest price
ever paid by any such periodical for sim
gle article.
The union of the two Bible societies has
called out a letter from a Connecticut
clergyman, who furnishes figures, if they
are correct. to show that it costs 81 to
distribute a Bible worth 81 under the old
fashioned cOlpOrteurage system.
The Harvard "Annex' for women en-
scOnces itself in four apartments-are cep-
ton room, a reading room, and two reci-
tatiOn rooms. Its reference library is a
nucleus collection of 600 volumes. There
is a small cabinet of apparatus for scien-
tific illustrations.
The first coronation of Russian mon
arch took place in TIA, when the Grand
Duke Vladimir, at Kietf, received from the
Byzantine Emperor, in COnstantinOple, a
crown. a cross made of what was suppOs-
ed to have been the cross on Calvary, and
other golden trlnkets such as EmperOrs
like. Vladimir was crowned by a priest
James Freeman Clarke's Comparison
of All Religions" just issued in Boston,
is probably the last important literary
work he will undertake. He is seventy
three years old, and not of strong ply
sique, and, Notwithstanding he has writ
ten so much and preached so steadily, he
is careful in his habits of labor, and
never consciously OvertaXes his powers.
The Dillon NJ. 7. Tribune says; "At
Wadams' ranch, ON the Medicine Lodge,
a chicken was Matched lately that Is
curious freak of nature and a fowl mon
strOsity. 1t has two heads, two backs and
one body, which is supported by four per-
o.
to manage its many legs, tumbled out Of
the nest and was killed, but it has been
stuffed and preserved as a curiosity"
The will of the late Baroness Ashburton
was proved in London a fortnight ago by
Lord Ashburton, her son. The value of
the personal estate in England amounts
Grafton. she gives the sum of $500, 900 and
to 1865. OOO To her daughter, the Duchess of
an annuity of 1000, and, after several
minor legacies and annuities, she gives
the residue of her fortune to her grandson,
Francis Barring. She desires that She be
buried with all her rings, and that plas-
ter cast of her late husband should be
placed in her coffin.
In 1880, 1929 pictures, statues, etc.,
were exposed, and ninety-three American
artists took part in the exhibition at the
Paris Salon; in 1882, there were 1912
separate works and ninety American eX-
Dosers: in 1888, at the present Salon, there
are A. 943 works and ninety-five Americans.
That is to say, relatively to the number of
works exposed, the number of American
artists has slowly increased. or, to put it
in another way, the percentage OF Ameri-.
cans who passed muster is higher in pro-
portion as the requirements for admission
become more severe.
In making a tour of inspection the
Bank of England officials give you lit
tie printed slip from which it appears that
in the course of five years the paid notes
amount to II, 100000 in number, and that
they fill l3. 400 boxes, which if placed side
miles. If the notes were placed in pile
they would reach to height of five and
twO-third miles, or if Joined end to end
would form a ribbon II, 445 miles long.
Their superficial extent is said to be rather
less than that of Hyde Park. They weigh
over ninety and twO-third tons, and their
original value was over f1,750, $4,000.
An advertisement beginning Goats
wanted" has been put up in the West
minister VT. post office by hermit-likes
citizen who eats, sleeps, cooks and works
in a house of but one room, tObacco-sOrt-
ing his vocation, cats his sole cOmpan-
ions and diversion. Last winter some
boys killed the pet of his household. Now
he wants ''the present of male kitten
about two-thirds grown" He goes on
'EOnly one need apply. Cats should be
brought IN sacks. Any cat brought for
examination and not wanted will be
drowned at the rate of ten cents each, in
advance. Said cat will receive the best
care, and will be ready for the boys to
shoot January ID, 1884," The report is
that he is a tender-hearted man, fond of
master of several languages, and
hailing originally from Massachusetts.
The various corOnatiOns of the House
of Romanoff undoubtedly form very
gloomy retrospect. Its founder, Michael
was crowned amid the ruins |
of Moscow, which had been destroyed by