Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-22
GENERAL NOTES.

Pennsylvania will build more railroads
this year than in any recent twelyemonth.
The Egyptian war cost England $22,-
100, 900; "a third as much as the war in
Atghanistan.
There are over fifty sheep farmers in
Otago, New Zealand, with fl0cks Of not
less than 10000 each.
Badness, some experiments recorded
by the Edinburgh Medical Journal show,
is probably contagious.
English gold coin has been so worn that
it will cost $4.OOO,000 to restore the 1870
100000 in circulation.
New Zealand wooden mills use Ameri-
can machinery to a large extent, and pay
about ~ per cent. dividends.
Gas light companies in England are
earning bigger dividends than ever since
the electric light came in, chiefly from
increased sales.
"The frozen lake of the Bots de BOulogne
is open to ALL" the dramatist adds. Any
body can skate there-but some fall down.
Au rerOir.
Idaho and Colorado are to be the new
iron States of the future. Ores carrying
IS to 81 per cent. of metal have been found
in the first State.
Kiel has been selected as the central
European observatory, like Harvard here,
and fifty European observatories will take
news from it.
Great Britain produced 1,673,649 tons of
Bessemer steel ingOts last year, an in
crease of an eighth, and of these 20 per
cent. were rolled into rails.
The rentals of the Tay salmon fisheries
amount to 500, 600 year, and the salmon
from the Tay are considered the finest to
be had in Great Britain.
People may feel big and yet not answer
the requirements Ofthe lady who adyer-
tised that she had very nice hall bed
room to let to lady eight feet by twelve.
The Tewkesbury, Mass, almshouse is
the subject of serious scandal, in re-
gard TO the sale OF subjects, from $50 to
$50 infant cOrpses being yearly sold at
from SO TO 50.
The London Graphic has commissions
to seventy English and French artists for
annual groups, in which Trenville, Mrs.
Butler and one or two others have been
most successful.
The United States buys more Irish
linens than all other countries put to-
cether. We pay about fifteen millions a
year for them, and buy only the smallest
quantity from any other nation.
New York, like Paris, is getting mon
unental aspect from the number of its
apartment houses, and, as they are even
closer together in New York. than in
Paris, the West is likely to outstrip its
rival on the Seine.
The London Spectator says the women
in the streets of New York are terribly
Oyerdressed and the mems faces wear a
.ssad preoccupied expression. Yet at bot
tom the American is of a singularly good
natured disposition"
1t costs as much to travel two hundred
miles westward from Denver as from New
York to Kansas. The railway fares on
the mountain roads are excessively high.
A car load of freight was brought from
Liverpool, England, to Denver for 500 a
ton. but Colorado railroad charged $l20
for carrying it one hundred and twenty
miles further.
During the celebrated MaIIey trial in
New Haven the dry goods establishment
of the father and uncle of the defendants
was burned Thirty insurance companies
have failed to pay their indemnities, and
all of them are defendants in suit at
law now pending. Inc tIial VIII revive
the circumstances of Jennie Cramer's
death. fds
A tramp looked at the jail at Malvern,
Ia, on a cold day. Smoke was coming
from the chimney, and, as he shivered in
his ragged clothes, he longed for the COM
Portable warmth inside the building. As
a means of getting in, he threw a brick
through church window. Bitter was
his disappointment. The magistrate gave
him fourteen days labor on the streets.
Jake Roy was to be hanged by a Mon
tana mob. He saw that the rope was thin
and would probably break if strained
suddenly by his whole weight; so he
climbed up the tree, after they had put
the moose around his neck, and dropped a
distance of twelve feet. The rope parted,
as he expected, but his spinal column was
broken nevertheless, causing immediate
death.
The conduct of a Cincinnati physician
is under criticism. He found himself in a
case which baffied his knowledge, and
when the patient grew steadily and hope
lessly worse, he did not acknowledge his
dilemma. nor ask for consultation. On
being dismissed, he refused TO place all
the information in his possession at the
disposal of his successor, but left the sick