Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-21
GENERAL NOTES.


Americans run the horse cars and man-
age the telephone il Mazatlan, Mexico.
Twenty-eight mining explosions Oc-
CURED last year, of which fifteen were
fatal.
A leaf transforms into useful work 80
per cent. of the energy absorbed, beating
an engine.
The last whaling season, 1882, was one
Of the most adverse on record. both about
Behring Strait and SpItZbergen.
Gaelic is the common language Of Cape
Breton Colony. that district having been
principally settled by Scotch High
landers.
Paris has 1921 periodical publications,
sixty-seveR daily political journals, sew
enty-three devoted TO fashion and three
10 Embarrassing.
The Austrian Government has apprO-
priated over sixteen millions of dollars
for the improvement Of that part Of the
Danube lying within its own territory.
Chicago had sixty-nine murders in
1882, and one execution. One-third Of
the murderers were drunk, and twenty
seven Of the murdered died in a quarrel.
Intemperance among women is increas-
ing in Great Britain. Some years since il
was five Incorporate women to ten men,
but later statistics make it stand seven
women 10 te1~men.
One of the curiOsities shown in the
Smithsonian, at Washington, is section
Of tree nearly twelve inches in diameter
which was cut down by minnie balls dur
ing the battle of Charlottesville.
Within ten days stages viii be carrying
passengers in forty-eight hours over the
gap between the ends of the Northern Pa
cific Road thus giving direct cOmmunica~
tiOn between the East and Portland with
out sea voyage,
The contract OF the city of Boston with
the Boston Gas Company expires April l,
and it is stated that the company has
offered TO renew the same for one year at
the rate now paid-Sl so per LOCO cubic
teet-0r Tor three years at 81 40, or five
years al 81 80.
Probably the only church in the cOun-
try which still draws its revenues, arter
the ancient fashion, from tax on all the
property in the parish, is the old church
of Lancaster, Mass. which is 80 years
old, and which in all that time has had
but eight pastors.
1t Is a singular commentary on the
superstition which regards the opal as
unlucky that the stone has always been
fayorite with Queen Victoria, while on the
other hand the eX-EmpresS Eugene has
/ always avoided it. considering it as
token of ill-fortune.
| The latest mineral discovery in CalifOr=
MIA is soap mine. The soap is de-
/ post of white fuller's earth, free from
/ grit, and impregnated with potash, IL is
I easily sliced into bars, and for cleaning
I purposes it lie said to be good substitute
/ for manufactured soap.
! Great Britain il reducing her national
/ debt each year about as much as the
/ United States reduces it per month. 1t is
/ still about twice in amount that of the
/ United States. The English can pay up
/ in full if they desired TO do so, but that il
no part of the national policy,
/ Oyster parks are rapidly Increasing in
4 France. There are now over forty thou
/ sand OF them. with an average size of half
an acre. Oysters sell at five or six cents
I a dozen. and retail in Paris and Lyons az
/ twenty-five to fOTty-fve cents, thus leay-
ing handsome margin Ter profit.
Mr.. Palmer, of Boston, passed the sum-
mer of 1880 at Winthrop, Mass, and had
with him a favorite and valuable dog,
which had been properly licensed in BOs-
ton. The Winthrop officials imposed a
fine, which he refused to nay, on the
ground that the BOSTON license legalized
/ the brute anywhere in the state, The
/ case has been carried to the Supreme
Court, and sl,5OO have been spent in cOun-
/ sci fees,
Several young HOnduranlans are now
/ being educated in the United States. Two
returned home last year, one with a di-
I'll - NJ n. l.
/ sity. and another with diploma from the
commercial department of the same in
stitutiOn. They also brought with them
wives, two young ladies natives OF New
York. who had Ia reach their new homes
by travelling over mountains on the backs
Of mules.
The AnglO-swiss Milk COndenslng Fac
tory at Cham, in Switzerland. was found
ed by United States Consul Page in 1866,
with S12, 600 paid in, and the first year
/ condensed only a little over 10000 cans.
The working capital has now risen to
! s.. 600. 600, and the product to almost 3d.
0G0,000 cans q year. An American is the
general manager, three out of the nine
local managers are Americans, and
Americans are still the principal owners
of the shares.
The publishers OF a German novel re-
Gently did neat thing in the way Of adj
yertising. They caused to be inserted in
most of the newspapers a notice to the
effect that certain nObleman of wealth
and high position, DESTROYS of finding
wife. wanted one who resembled the hero
inc in the novel named. ThereupOn every
manageable woman who saw the notice
bought the book in order to see what the
heroine was like, and the work had an
immense sale.