Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-16
GENERAL NOTES
There were seventy.two American earth


There were seventv-twO American earth
quakes last year.
The newest industry in Lancaster is
ladies' shoe factory.
No Indians Of pure aboriginal blood eN-
list now in Massachusetts.
\ child living in Muncie, Ind, has four
great grandparents living.
High license is again an absorbing
topic among the Illinois legislators.
Alligators. writes. DR.. Henshall TO
Forest and Stream, may be partially tanned.
The first State house in Iowa was
burned the same year it was occupied, in
the winter Of 1878.
Somebody has ascertained that Iowa
had nineteen cyclones between the dates
of February %, 1875, and october 2S, 1881.
The annual statement Of the Treasurer
of the city of Boston shows the debt to be
S4I. SIS. an increase of about 81, 10000
in the year.
Leadville during the past five years has
produced 2S,OO0, 900 ounces of silver, no.
900 tons of lead. and $4,000 ounces Of gold.
In 1860 there were 546. 749 sheep in North
Carolina In 1870 the number was 49,
435: in 1880, by the aid of the Legislature
and the dogs. the number had fallen to
461. 63S.
1t is a present fancy among young
Parisians, of good families, of dressing up
as workmen and visiting the smaller
theatres in this guise. mixing with the
people whose station they ape.
The Mexican suspender is a scarf of
cotton, wooden or silk, according to the
taste and means Of the wearer, fastening
the trousers at the lOins. and generally
made long enough to wrap around the
lOins twice or three times.
Mother" cried a little girl who stood
looking out OF the window of a dwelling
on Fulton avenue, Brooklyn. recently,
'here's father coming down the street
leading two drunken policemen. and he's
so ashamed he's pulled his hat down over
his eyes"
During the past business year forty
eight steamers and seventy sailing YES
sells, a total of lis, entered New Orleans
from Central America, greater number
than went there from any other country
except Great Britain, and the total trade
with these states amounted TO 1852, 253.
Anticipated jewelry is all the rage
something in your grandmother's aunt's
line. of which there were only two arti-
Giles made the other being in the British
| Museum. This Anticipated jewelry is
made to order. Just the same a. furniture
originally in the possession OF Mary
Queen of Scots.
What will il be-" said Brooklyn drug
gist TO a well-dressed young man who
stepped up to his soda fountain. Blood"
Beg Your pardon - Blood mo
mistaken "B-l-Oo-d was what l said"
we don't keep it," "Guess you don't
know what | mean. That Is what they
call il in Boston," He got it.
Owing 10 the disagreement OF the City
| Council of Quincy. H., and the Water
Works Company over the prices to he
paid for supplying the city with water by
the year, the latter dismantled the by
drants in the heart of the city, and the in
habitants are now compelled 10 20 to the
river for the cooling liquid.
The heirs Of Governor William Brad
ford. of Massachusetts. have just held one
OF the fortune bunting meetings which net
so much to lawyers and so little to heirs.
An alleged Sl00, 100000 lying loose in Eng
land for the Bradford heirs was the cause
of the meeting, which was held in Cleve-
. land. O.
Two Phelps, y. y, boys, who had lost
their heads reading dime novels, armed
themselves and set out for the plains 10
fight Indians. They were found concealed
in a hedge awaiting an opportunity 10
catch on a railroad train. and taken home.
An appropriate application Of strap OIL
awakened them from their romantic
dreams.
The Southern silk Industrial AssOcia-
ton has sent the New Orleans Times
Democrat a bunch Of raw silk raised by
the ladies of the association in that city.
The silk is Of beautiful golden hue, very
soft apd fine, and, the Times Democrat
says, proves that as good quality OF silk
can be raised in New Orleans and vicinity
as anywhere else.
The latest swindling dodge: Two
/ strangers, apparently. meet at a farmers
/ house, manage TO stay over night if they
| can, and make a trade before they leave
! in the morning. in which the farmers
name is wanted as "A witness to the con-
/ tract, which afterwards turns up as
! pr0missory note fixed up in sum salts
factory to the sharpers.
/ The Centralia (Ill.) Democrat states
/ that a child was recently born in that town
weighing a few ounces over pound. 1t
was about eight inches in length. and its
/ limbs were very near the thickness of a
| head pencil. All the parts of the body
/ were perfect. except that the head was
! larger in proportion than other parts Of
/ the body. 1t died through insufficient
care.
1t is estimated at the Post Office De-
partment that under the recent change in
computing the commissions of fourth
/ class POstmasters. an expenditure Of
l, Il
| have been required under the old law will
1 be necessary to settle the accounts of
/ fOurth-class Offices up TO October /, when
/ the two cent postage law goes into opera
/ ton.
4 lady residing in Upper Oswego Falls,
/ New York, has repeatedly asked her hus-
/ band 10 saw a huge limb from an apple
! tree that grated harshly against the house
/ during wind storms. The husband prom
/ ised and promised. but failed To act On
I Monday she borrowed a saw and mOneted
! the tree, determined to sever the Obnox-
/ ious limb. e,wOman fashion. secured a
! seat upon the limb she was saving and
was half killed by the fall
/ In Louisville, last month. Mrs. Jacob
Meyer, a beautiful brunette, eloped with
a neighbOr, David Schoff. Mr.. Never
and Mrs. SchO1f talked the matter over
/ and concluded to repair the wreck with
/ the material at hand and before nightfall
/ they were united in one household. Two
/ weeks later 4lrs, Never returned and
/ begged to be restored, but Mr.. Never
would only admit her as the kitchen girl
| for the family, and as such she is quietly
! serving.
James W. Swank. a Pennsylvania
/ who is very we'll known in the Lehigh
/ Valley, and who has the reputation of
| being one Of the most expert penmen in
this country, resides in Washington. For
many years he mas occupied a desk in the
) Treasury Department, and there are
many examples of his handiwork in every
/ state in the Union. Mr.. SWank was
! brought up in Mauch Chunk. where he
/ still retains his residence, and, when a
! boy. he had the misfortune TO lose his leg
| in an accident on the famous Switchback
| Railroad IN that romantic section. Very
/ early in life his remarkable talent with
/ the pen was discovered, and ii is for.
I tunate that circumstances gave him an
opportunity TO improve it, He does q great
l deal Of fancy work in tie writing of docu-
ments, but il is in the expressing of resO-
! lutiens that his wonderful talent is best
exhibited. lie lately engrOssed the resO-
! buttons OF the bar Of Carbon county, on
! the death OF General Charles Albright.
/ In the centre Of this beautiful piece of
! which is really a truer likeness than the
| photograph from which il was copied.
Mr.. Swank's latest work is a copy of the
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