Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-25
GENERAL NOTES.

More than !, 200 eggs are keeping warm
in a Lima, O., steam hatchery.
The Mennonites Of this country now
number 40 churches, 80 ministers, and
5000 communicates.
Nearly SI4,OOO,OOO worth Of cattle are
now grazing in what six years ago was
Indian country in Texas.
The commercial spirit is running art,
according to the Nation, because the big
dealers buy to suit sub-buyers. and paint
ers have no encouragement TO do anything
else.
Canadian manufactures have doubled
in a decade, the capital rising to $685.
500, 623 in 1881, or twice that in 1871. The
value of products, $309, 676, POS in 1881, has
advanced one-third in ten years.
In Alabama, two miles south Of Mont
gomery, lives man who has 229 mulberry
trees and 10000 worms at work in the first
and second steps which terminate in silk.
He expects TO make $1,000 this year.
In Germany q third Of the population
is married. per cent. widows, so per
cent. unmarried and per cent. divorced
or separated. This makes the last class
one in seventeen Of the married. or % to
the 1000, large proportion.
England imported no less than a mil
hon dollars worth of cured fish during
the month Of February, in addition
10 the amount imported during the pre-
viOus February, Of which the greater
portion came from Canada and the United
States.
At the port Of London alone, 100000
oranges arrived between October l, 1882,
and March . 1889. During this time
heavy shipments went also to Liverpool
and to Hull, as well as lesser ones 10
Glasgow Bristol and several smaller
ports.
The town Of Concord, Mass, has no
hotel, and, in view of the fact that the ses-
| siOns Of the Summer School of Philosophy
are held there. the people are engaged in
| perfecting plans for a coffee house, to be
| located in the historic building known as
| ''The Old Wright Tavern"
Table trapping and kindred manifesto
tations have taken such hold on the pOpu-
/ lar imagination in Bohemia, that it has
/ been found necessary TO announce under
/ episcopal authority. that whoever persists
/ in spiritualistic devices VIII be refused
/ absOlutiOn, even after confession.
/ custom house docks in England is known
/ as the Queens tobacco pipe" In this
/ gloves, lace, bandanna hankerchlets, cOf-
| fee, tea, cigars and spirits, which were
smuggled, were burnt formerly. Thirteen
! thousand pairs of French gloves were at
/ one time cast into this furnace.
4 man Of means in Rochester, who is
/ tired of spending his vacations in the con-
Z n ha1 0Hf fl1 ffaf
/ boat built, on which he and his family in
/ tend to spend the coming summer, drift
/ ing down the Mississippi, stopping wher-
| ever inclination suggests. The boat will
/ be supplied with comforts and furnished
/ in d hOme-like way. The expense viii
| probably not exceed the price Of board at
/ a good hotel.
/ Alfonso Daudet writes in his new novel:
$50 great is the faith of the 'Eyangeliste'
/ in the gospel that she thinks it acts on
| the neOphytes, even when they are too
! Young to understand, in the same way as
/ the inscriptions from the Koran which
/ the Arabs find on their fOreheads when
/ they are i'll. 1t is sad to see the nOblest
/ Of books spelled out, drawled out, stam-
/ mered over by these young peasant voices,
stained and worn by the dust of their
/ hands and by the tears Of their idleness.'
a young couple in StepstOne, Ky,
I whose parents thought they were DER
/ young to marry yet, were nevertheless re-
/ solved to link their destinies together, and
| hit upon a novel way of escaping from
/ their unyielding guardians. Midnight
/ trains, closed carriages, rope ladders and
! all the other paraphernalia of the ordinary
! elOpement were dispensed with by these
/ two, for they walked to the river in broad
/ daylight, engaged a skiff, and, each TAX
/ ing an oar. calmly glided down the Ohio
/ 10 New Richmond, where the lOve-link
was welded by an obliging clergyman.
/ Some months ago four wOrkmen, de-
| mOlishing an old building in Rue Nielle du
/ Temple, in Paris, came upon large cafe
| tieTe-shaped vase fun of gold coin. There
/ were 7.S22 in it. There were $40 coins OF
1 Jean lie Bon. who reigned from 13j0-l364;
| s. 1893 Of Charles V. his successor: 63 old
| counterfeit pieces; $50 feudal. The coin
/ were about the size OF silver quarter,
/ but extremely thin. They were sold at
/ Hotel Drouet. There was one piece OF
/ Guillaume de Beaure gard, the ABBOT, which
I sold for 1.640 francs. Another of Gull
| laume H., de Ia garde, brought 400 francs
! The attacks on Lady Florence Dixie 90
on. and are managed with irregular skill
| and malice. One man sends out twelve
to twenty slips of thin paper on which the
same paragraphs are written. Half a
dozen writer's, Of whom three are mem
/ bers of Parliament, thus appeal to many
thousands of readers every day, and the
/ result is very serious. so far as the repu-
/ tatiOn of Lady Florence is concerned
! The remarkable unanimity shown by the
| country newspapers is due to the fact
that most newspapers are owned by Eng
lishmen, managed by ScOtchmen. but
written for by Irishmen.
The official statistics Of the Russian
/ armies at the present time show that at
the beginning of 1881 the number Of officers
was SO, 80, and Of the rank and file s5S,-
/ 275. In the course Of the year 1850 officers
I and go. l61 rank and file left the service.
while 1,9lS officers and 224,370 men en-
/ tered. The number Ofrecruits was lessened
/ on account of the extension of the period
! of service to five years for the fleet, the
I line and field artillery. and six years for
I the OtheI branches. As to education, 100,
/ S96 could neither read nor write; While
I those whose learning entitled them 10
/ shorter service amounted only to 4.455.
In respect to religion, 100, SCI were of the
| Orthodox Church, %, 739 Roman Catholics,
/ 7,245 Lutherans, s. 77S Jews, 1886 MOham-
medans. and 365 heathens, besides others
| in small number.
1t is said that the first elephant on ex-
hibitiOn in New England, and probably
the first in the United States. was killed
at Alfred, Me-, in the year 1917, about one
mile west from the village, in a piece Of
woods near the Round Pond, so called, on
the old post road leading to Dover, y. H..
4 man by the name of Davis had an alter
cation with the proprietor Of the menagerie
the day previous, while on exhibition at
Alfred, and sought revenge by shooting
the elephant. The affair caused q great
sensation at the time throughout New
England. Davis was subsequently ap-
pretended, but from some cause escaped
the punishment he so justly deserved for
the commission of the dastardly act. The
locality is known and pointed out to this
day as the spot ''where the elephant was
killed.