Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-11
GENERAL NOTES.


valuation of real ami personal estate foot
ing up a total of $649, 1863, 242, and an out
standing debt of $10,94S,000. Its bonds
ought to be good property.
There We're 46, 1862, 73S bushels of grain
shipped from the port of New York i'll
1882. The grain was carried in 1909
steamers and $40 sailing vessels, but not
a pound of it in an American vessel.
Facts Of this kind need no explanation.
They carry their own comment.
Lady Wilde, Oscars mother, is writing
some social articles for the New York
Home Journal. She tells of Lady ByrOn's
absolute lack of tact. How at one time
she entered the poets study when he was
in the thrOes of composition and asked /:
Am in the way, Byron p 'DamnablyF'
was the answer,
Mr., McCleary, the Boston City Clerk
who was turned out to make room for a
Democrat. on being solicited to run for
Clerk Of the Massachusetts House, asked
if Mr.. Mclaughlin, the Assistant Clerk,
had not done his work well. If he had he
thought he ought to be promoted, and re-
fused to run against him.
Richard Boas, of Reading, Pa, a stu
dent in Williams College, has, it is said,
discovered a new method offinding square
numbers much simpler than the usual
way, At a late exhibition before Prof.
DOdd Mr.. BOas was given number of
thirteen digits, and he produced the square
in less than one minute.
The Canada Northwest Land Company
started last July with the rather impe-
cumOuS and not too brilliant Duke OF
anchester-selected, of course, simply
for his rank-as Chairman. The Duke,
put in merely as a bait, has slipped out of
the chair, leaving the shares, with SIS
paid, at So i5-discount.
England and Portugal are experts in
modern diplomacy. Instead of foolishly
quarreling over their boundary lines in
Western Africa, Portugal yields part of
her claim to the former, while England
aids the latter to help herself to a larger
and better slice of territory. The trifiing
fact that the whole property is stolen does
not disturb either country.
As might be expected, the Boston news
papers are not pleased with the message
of Governor Butler. The AdUertiSer pre-
sents a summary in which it classifies
the message as follows: Recommends
tions. %; insinuations, Is; misrepresenta-
tions. 3; reservations, 4; promise, l. But
the AdCertiSer does not deny that, taking
its recommendations, insinuatiOns, mis-
representations, reservations and promise
together, it is "a great State paper"
General Sherman is very unwilling TO
have the cost of the Signal Service Bureau
charged TO the army. He says: "You
might as well charge the expenses of a
match factory TO the army. The sO-called
o. n \. (,
about the weather, What has the weather
10 do with the armyE 1t doesn't help the
poor boys out among the Indians to know
whether tomorrow is to be cool and clear,
or warm and cloudy. What do they care
about the weathers If the Signal Corps
is worth anything, it is for commercial
purposes"
The Chicago Medical Rorietg says; SAC
cording to local paper, a man who had
been carried to a Philadelphia hospital
while suffering from the effects of a severe
confusion was asked if he had been treat
ed kindly while there. Considering all
things he answered, i have no right to
complain. They amputated both my feet,
removed nv clayical, cut OFF my right
arm, trepanned me, took out piece Of
my inferior maxillary, sawed my left Os
innOminatum in two, and were about to
exsect five or six ribs, when fire broke
out in the establishment and the police
got away with the rest Of my body in
safety"
Yung Wing, of the Yale class of 1854,
who was married two or three years ago
in Hartford, where his family now are,
has received an important appointment,
according to a Honolulu paper, 1t says:
s'AIr. Tung Wing, a Chinaman who is not
altogether unknown in these islands, and
who for several years past held the post
of Charge d. Affaires at Washington, has
received his appointment as TaOtai, or
Chief Magistrate, of the city of Shanghai.
Mr.. Yung Wing is protessed Christian,
which makes the appointment the more
remarkable on account of its being the
first of the kind. He speaks the English
language fiuently, and is generally well
educated"
Professor Sumner, of Yale College, in
recent address before the Civil Service Re
form Association, of Rochester, n. Y,
effectively met the argument that the re-
form proposed is ''undemocratic." They
who allege this, he says, proceed on the
sentimental notion that all men are abso-
lutely equal. But the fact is that men are
only equal ssbefore the law''-our free gov
ernment theory requires only that all men
have the same opportunity: but their diff
ferehces in natural capacity will ineyita-
bly, result in their varying success. There
fore the government has the right TO pro-
tect itself and to secure the best talent
possible for its civil service by applying
tests to which all may subject themselves.
but which viii in the long run sift out the