Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-23
GENERAL NOTES

anu the NOoIUluuAs
The latest mathematical question runs
as follows: Two girls met three other girls
and all kissed. How many kisses were
exchanged?
The railroads of the country employ
over 900 stenographers, of whom fully
fifty are in the main Office Of the Pennsyi-
vania Railroad.
At church in New Haven, recently,
nearly 1000 men pledged themselves in
one evening not TO enter drinking saloon
for a whole year.
The coach in which Lafayette rode
through the streets of New York in ls24
has, until lately, been owned by John ID.
Yates, of Chittenango.
The Bombay National 4ohammedan
Association has determined to found
three scholarships for Mohammedan stu
dents in the university of that town.
In Bethlehem, Pa, shop window are
a pair of spun silk gloves, made in 1888,
and they are almost fac simile Of
another pair lying along side and made
in 1888.
A large sperm whale is ashore on
Smiths Point, Chesapeake Bay. The
tail of the whale, as it beat the water with
terrific force, kept the oyster PUNCHES at
tails length.
The first piano was made at Padua, in
Italy, in III, by Christofori. The first
one seen in England was made by Father
Wood, a monk, and very few were made
there until after 1860.
The following modest item appears in a
Kentucky paper whose editor had been
instrumental in obtaining relief for the
sufferers by the floods: ''TOo much praise
cannot be awarded our editor for his sue
cessful efforts in behalf of our needy popu-
lation."
The pistol which a Cincinnati woman
swore was the one with which her hus-
band threatened to shoot her proved to be
beer faucet. The husband was dis
charged, of course, but it was i've min
utes before the court could quen the
laughter which the exhibition of the pis-
toll caused.
The fashion of eunuchs is declining in
ConstaDtinople. This is partly owing to
the act of Abdul AZiz in abrOgating the
cruel law by which none of the male chill
dren born of Sultans were allowed to sur
vive their birth, and no Princess to have
sons that might become possible pretend
ers % the throne.
4 man in Santa Rosa (Cal. has hen
with very progressive turn of mind. She
has scratched around and laid for her
master a pair of eggs of entirely new de-
| sign. One egg contains the yolk, the
| other the white. Both are joined together
| by legumentOus membrane, something
| after the style of the Siamese twins.
The Fredericksburg, Va, house-a two
| story wooden building, with one-st0ry
/ brick wings and dormer windows-in
| which Washington's mother dwelt, is still
| standing. Washington was said to be the
| only youth Of the neighborhood who could
throw stone over the RappahannOck
| river, where it skirted his fathers farm
a seemingly impossible feat.
A Baltimore girl named "Jeannette
Marceline Jones" has been making snug
income in the obituary poetry business.
! She made patchwork poem by selecting
stanZas from different standard authors,
/ and was finally caught by Offering the
| same poem to two friends who had both
! lately lost children. For one copy JEAN
| nette had succeeded In getting 81 90.
Last year was a good twelve-month for
ocean steamship companies. The German
/ Cosmos Line made nineteen round trips
/ during the year. and earned net profits of
!
| cent. dividend was paid, and the company
| has a reserve fund of about % per cent. of
! its capital. The National Line paid )
per cent. diYidend-the first in seven
| years.
The latest story Of canine intelligence
comes from San Francisco. A gentleman,
! fond of whisky punch, on one occasion,
after taking his third glass, incautiously
/ trOd on his favOrite dog, which usually
| Law on the hearth rug in front of him while
| he INDUCED in his pOtatiOns. After that
| the dog carefully watched its master after
| dinner. and the moment the second
tumbler was finished gravely left the
room.
An "optiOn'' given in the time of Dan
! iel, probably the oldest on record, has
been found on a Babyi0HiaH brick, and
gives the buyer, Bel-ahe-iddin, the privi-
/ lege of taking possession of the home OF
Bel-rimmain at any time within four
| years on payment ofs1l manas Is drach-
| mas" of silver and, with a prudence
worthy of Wall street, Bel-ahe-iddin gets
| a guaranty that Bel-rimmain will contest
! no legal proceedings brought on the option.
At the trial of keeper in an English
lunatic asylum the Judge was much
struck with the high intelligence with
|
seem WE'LL" said the Judge. eyes, some
days better than others. To-day am per-
fectly WELL" ''What were you before you
| came TO an asylumY "a bankers coach
man. nv Lord" "And what was the
name of your employer '"The devil,
| nv Lord'' "Ah,' said the Judge, con-
scious that he had ''spOtted" the weak
| point, Il advise you never to return to
him; they say he is bad pay"
ToI,, nf pvrap, Xorlrcbi
who is said to be the wealthiest English
baronet, collects $s5O,OOO year, and owns
almost the whole of Huddersfeld; the
great manufacturing centre. The little
! BIT he doesn't own was q very NabOth's
vineyard to his father, who, according tC
popular tradition, once offered to its
Quaker owner to cover it with sovereigns
if he would sell it. "Edgewise, friend
Ramsden? quOth the Quaker; Gin that
| case it is thine; otherwise all Hudders.
field must still belong to thee and me-
'Edgewise" was rather more than the
baronet could swallow.
Vertical travel, by means of passenger
elevators, is rapidly increasing through
out the United States. The first one went
into operation less than twenty-five years
ago, and now between $4,000 and 50,00(
are in constant use, New York alone haY
ing $1,000. 1t is estimated that for every
new mile of railway which is constructed
a passenger elevator is built. The tFaye
on them Is enormous. The eight elevators
i'm the Equitable Building in New YOrI
carry up and down daily average Of 90.
600 people, while several thousand pei
diem is not an unusual number for large
stores and hotels in our great cities.
The lady of rank who got Mr.. Yates, o.
the London World, into his present diff
Guilty with the Earl of LOnsdale by send
ing Mr.. Yates a gossiping paragraph
about the elOpement Of young married
peer. is understood to be Augusta, COun
tess of Stradbroke. This lady, a daughter
of Sir Christopher Musgrave, the owner
of the famous goblet called the ''Luck OIL
Edenhall," married the Earl of Strad
broke quarter of a century ago. He
was her second husband, and was more
than sixty years OF age when he married
her. She has been contributor to the
| sEsociety papers, of London for some
years past.
The following story would be almost
incredible if the facts had not been stated
in evidence a fortnight ago before 6
French court. Some months ago NJ
Aurille. an architect. ordered of a Paris
| uphoIs .rer named Distruit suit of bed.
room furniture for $500 francs. He was
delighted with his bargain until one morn
inc his wife, while dressing, read on the
| back of the toilet table regrets eternels''
| engraved in the marble. The effect pro-
duced on her mind by this discovery led tC
further investigation Of the furniture. The
| marble top of a chest of drawers was
/ NJ. 4 4 . I.dn fnrc fd nd