Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-02
GENERAL NOTES.
Cincinnati has lots of smallpox and nc

Cincinnati has lots of smallpox and no
Health Officer.
The Treasury Department has graduated
one hundred brides the last four months.
The one-year-old child of John Bassett,
of Winnipeg, fell from its high chair and
broke its neck.
FlOrida's cigar product this year is estl-
mated at double that of last year, when
Al, SIS, SIS cigars were made.
Ohio has over 6 900 applications on nile
in the Post Office Department for posi-
tions worth from $500 TO $1,000 annually.
The nine-year-old son Of Francis Baer,
of Greensbdrg, Pa, suffered such a shock
in running against a table that he fell
dead.
A Long Island man has a curiosity in
the shape of a pig with seven feet. That's
about as bad as the average woman's
curiosity.
Henri Murger's well-known book, ''La
Vie de Boheme," is catalOgued in Chica-
COS public library as "Trayels in Ger
many and Austria
An Auburn n. y. hen, with literary
turn of mind, laid one egg the other day
with s.honey'' and some other words appa-
rently printed on it.
Robert Lewis. of HagerstOwn, Md,
who is ninety-five years old, has Just
finished the mason work Of a cistern
which he had constructed with his own
hands.
4 committee of ladies decorated the
Methodist Church at Gardiner, Me. Among
the notices they put on the walls was the
effete text: sit is not good for man to be
alone"
The Chinese legation at Washington at
tended every performance of the circus
when there. and declared that they had
enjoyed nothing so much since Congress
adjourned.
1t is said that the stars and stripes have
never floated from Mount Vernon since
Washington died, and the ladies of the
association are going to have formal
flag raising.
Epitaph of an Arizona man who loved
his neighbOrs' horses not wisely but too
well, and who was also bad in other ways:
HE was pretty mean in some respects
but then he was meaner in Others"
\ new plan of the distillers to get rid Of
the government tax on bonded whisky is
to send the liquor to Canada ilRtank cars,
much like those used for carrying oil, and
then, without unloading, to return it as
imported whisky.
Prof. William L. Thorn, of Roanoke,
Va, has reason to remember the 18th of
April. His wife died on the 18th of April,
his mother died on the 18th of April, his
father died on the 18th of April, he broke
his leg on the 18th of April, and he was
born on the 18th of April.
On a Bombay railway train an engineer
was seized with a cataleptic fit and fell
senseless on the floor of the cab. The fire.
man in alright jumped from the engine
and was killed. The train rushed by four
stations, but by means of the telegraph
the track was kept clear until the engi-
neer recovered and stopped the train.
A couple went up from Hungerford
township TO lie Mars, Iowa. a few days
ago, to be married. They quarreled in
the hotel about the Clergyman to be en-
plOyed. he faVOring Methodist divine,
while the lady wanted a Congregational
clergyman. The upshOt of the matter
was that the lady walked back to Hunger
ford township, and the man, after wait
ing a day for her to relent, also went
home.
AS an Illustration OF border life, take
the following from the Ell Paso Times:
Judge W. J. Berry, formerly of Yuma
and Prescott, a well-knOwn pioneer, has
come back to his first love and opened a
gun shop near the engine house, on Over
land street. Mr.. Berry has followed law,
journalism and mining, and, though he
has had the ups and downs too usual with
pioneers. he is still full of courage and
skill. He will do his work well.
Policeman McAfee, Of the Second Pre-
cinct, Brooklyn, saw Andrew Freary
climbing out of window at No. 10 Eliza
beth Place, early Wednesday morning. and
asked him what he was doing there.
Freary's answer was not satisfactory to
the officer, who arrested MIN. The pris-
Oner struggled to escape, and McAfee
dubbed him. At the station house it was
discovered that Freary had simply climbed
out of the window of his own home.
Then the prisoner was held on a charge of
being drunk and disOrderly.
\ gentleman who has just returned from
the city of Montezuma says that it is
constant topic of discussion whether the
subsidies to the American companies will
be paid much longer. One thing is clear
that any renewal of diplomatic relations
with England would make it almost i'm
possible for the Mexican Government to
carry out their obligations to the railroads.
Some arrangement as to the payment OF
the Mexican government bonds must pre-
cede any diplomatic arrangement, and
the very same import and export duties
are pledged to the government and the
railroad b0ndhOlders.
What canal travel is TO persons of a
leisurely turn of mind has never been so
well described as by Mr.. Stevenson, who
thoroughly enjoyed it: ''Of all the crea-
lures of commercial enterprise, a canal
barge is by far the most delightful to con-
slider. 1t may spread its sails, and then
YOU NAV see it sailing high above the
tree tops and the wind mill, sailing on the
aqueduct, sailing through the green corn
landslide most picturesque of things
amphibiOus. Or the horse plOds along at
a foot pace, as if there were no such thing
as business in the world; and the man
dreaming at the tiller sees the same
spire on the horizon all day long. 1t is a
mystery how things ever get to their
destination at this rate, and to see the
barges waiting their turn at a lock affords
a fine lesson of how easily the world may
be taken. There. should be many con
tented spirits on board, for such life is
both to travel and to stay at home.'
\ correspondent, in describing the eX-
cavatiOns at Olympia, writes: "The last
Olympic festival was held A. d. 1913, in
the same year, or the next, the great gold
and-ivOry statue of Zeus, the pride of
Olympia and of Greece, was carried off to
be set up in Constantinople, where it was
subsequently destroyed by a great fire,
which consumed large part Of the city.
In 395 Alaric ard his GOths ravaged the
PelopOnnesus; but it is impossible to tell
how much harm they may have done to
the massive structures Of Olympia. In
426 TheOdOsius H., in his eagerness to
destroy all relics of heathenism, ordered
the temple of Zeus to be burned, but, as
the whole temple, with the exception of
the roof, was built of huge blocks of stone
it must have remained standing after this
attempt at its destruction. The ruins, as
they were found during the excavations,
show that the overthrow of the great tenn
pie of Zeus, as well as most of the other
structures at Olympia, was due to earth
quakes, which are not by any means Of
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