Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-12
GENERAL NOTES.

Crop prospects in Louisiana continue
good.
Chicago eats $4,000 worth Of ice cream
daily.
Syracuse claims to be the residence OF
500 drummeTs.
The Mississippi Ievees are injured by
being used as rOadways.
Connecticut devOtes 10000 acres to the
cultivation of the oyster.
Caterpillars are damaging the cotton
crop In many sections of Alabama.
The cornerstone of the first Jewish
synagogue in Memphis was laid last
week.
There are so many Germans in Montana
that a newspaper in that language is to
be started there.
Two hundred and seventy-siX divorce
cases have been brought before the New
Haven, Conn, Superior Court since JAM
uary l.
The assessors statement of the number
Of persons subject to poll tax in Boston
is 107, 2O6, an increase from last year OF
1926.
The only policeman in a New Hampshire
town was so excited over the arrival OF
Of the circus that he got drunk and had to
be carried home.
The entire debt of the city of Boston is
81, PSI, 900, an increase of $1,11S,0O0 over
last year. The debt, less the means Of
paying it, is $24, 856, 900.
The hay crop of New England is one of
the heaviest on record, New Hampshire
leading off (prOpOrtionately with an esti-
mated yield of 631 $50 tons.
The number of voters returned by the
election assessors for all the wards of
Philadelphia is 204, 1856 for the year 1888,
as against POI, 1858 for last year.
The Baroness Burdett-C Outts-Bartlett
holds $40, 900, 900 in United States funds,
and the Duke of Sutherland and Sir
Thomas Brassy $4,000, 600 each.
A Nevada stallion chased a man on
horseback, took him from the saddle,
shook him and dropped him, gallOping off
apparently satisfied with his feat.
Chicago has LOOP streets, $50 fire boxes,
s post offices, 60 public schools, p asy-
lums, Is hospitals, IL public libraries, %
cemeteries, and about 5000 saloons.
The New Hampshire Legislature costs
the taxpayers $1,000 a day, and the
sold farmers are unanimous in think
ing the services rendered ''ain't worth
it,"
The bully Cor bullyess) of Sioux City,
Iowa, is woman weighing 300 pounds,
and she distinguished herself by assault
ing and knocking out two men few days
ago.
The hydrophobia is raging among the
cattle at Crystal Springs, Miss, to such
an extent that the citizens have quit eat
ing beef, and the markets have closed in
consequence.
1t is said that nature has written a let
ter of credit on some mems faces which is
hOnored everywhere it is presented. Per-
haps that's the reason why a barkeeper
always sets out bottle before a red-nOsed
man without asking any questions.
Cucumbers, according to VI. Deliee,
caterer of the New York Club, should be
peeled and put TO soak in ice-salt water
at least an hour before served. The salt
extracts the poison, and the ice renders
them brittle and easier to be digested.
President Elliott, of Harvard, mailed a
circular to the parents and guardians of
all the undergraduates inquiring whether
they had daily morning prayers in their
own households. He received 741 replies,
and five men out of every seven said they
did not.
The famous mud hole at Hot Springs,
Ark, Will hereafter, by order of the gov
eminent authorities, be free at all hours
to pauper bathers, and the proposed cree
ton of hotel over the spot is prohibited.
Heretofore paupers have been excluded
at certain hours.
Judge Chapman, of Washington city,
has Just decided that a bicycle, IN the eye
of the law, is the same as a carriage, hav-
ing in common with other carriages
equal rights to the streets and high
WAYS. protected by the same laws, and
their riders are amenable to the same road
laws governing the drivers of other We
hicles.
Somebody put small mud turtle about
the size of a silver dollar in a bed at
New Jersey hotel, and the stranger who was
assigned to the room, on preparing to re-
tire. caught sight of it. He at once re-
sumed his clothes, remarking: 81 ex-
pected to have pretty lively night of 1t,
but if they're as big as that, don't pro-
pose to get in with them"
This is the way they fix the communal
ton price of railroad tickets in Germany
Thirty trips going and as many back-in
other words, sixty single trips month
used to be the basis on which reductions
to subscribers were allowed until recently
in the following proportions: Forty per
cent. for one month, 40 per cent. Tor two
months, 80 per cent. for three months, 90
per cent. for six months and 20 per cent.
for one year. Now the percentage off is
fixed at 30 per cent. for one menth, 81 per
cent. for two months, IS per cent. for
three months, 90 per cent. for four months,
66 per cent. for five months and 70 per
cent. for six months,