Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-25
GENERAL NOTES.

tendant as pupil in Greensboro, n.
c., public school.
Allerburg & Co., of Pittsburg, have
taken out a patent for glass shingles, to
be laid like slate.
The French Beaux Arts opened with
1,130 students, 661 architects, 2S5 painters
and 1874 sculptors.
Rubber has been found in Bolivia on the
Benz river, and the supply promises to
break the corner in Para rubber.
An Auburn lawyer has accumulated
$500 in dimes. He is apparently less SEN
tentiOus than ten-cent-iOus.
An express agent in Louisville (hy.)
refused to deliver a corpse until the
freight, amounting to 81 80, was paid.
The French Society for Preventing Acct
dents from Machines has investigated cir
cular saws and condemned them. Most
ingerless men do.
The Hdrudrd Advocate is another OF the
newspapers for which ellis EXcellency,
the Governor Butler, of Massachusetts,, J
has no further USE"
City physicians receive only Sl2O
year in Philadelphia; in Washington they
get 5000. The Medical Reporter considers
the last the right sum,
st. Louis talks of spending $250,O0O or
$3OO,OOO in the erection of a fire-proof
building in which to place all its libraries
and scientific collections,
The Hawaiian sugar cargo imported at
New York has been admitted on appeal to
the Secretary of the Treasury. Other
cargoes are sure to follow.
According to the Lancet, twO-thirds of
the total quantity of medicines consumed
in the United States are sold in the form
of secret nOstrums.
In the London hospital in five years of
amputations under the old process, one
man in seven died; in five years of the
new antiseptic method (Lister's) one in
fifty.
The windows of New Orleans restau-
rants show blocks of clear ice with fish,
flowers and other articles frozen in the
centre. This is product of the ice fac
tories.
Victoria, Australia, place tenth as
old and twentieth as large as Philadel-
phia, has just voted sixty thousand dol
lars to enlarge it's public library and
school.
Reports Of agents Of the various relief
organizations of Chicago are to the effect
that the destitution of this year in that
city is from 30 to 80 per cent. greater than
that of last year.
The man who put his best foot forward
during the past few weeks, only to assume
the position of CreedmOor marksman,
regrets that he didn't leave as good leg
behind to stand on.
Flower raising has been so stimulated
tor two years by high prices that this year
theirs is a glut in the market, and hya-
cinths and lilies of the valley are selling
at sixth of their old prices.
1t is thought that the new five cent
nickel, which will be larger in circumfer-
ence and thinner than the present coin,
can be mSle to take the place of the quar-
ter ON the contribution plate.
The Rev. Paul Gregory, the vicar of Holy
Trinity, at neutrality-suspicious., the
church in which lie buried the remains of
William Shakespeare, has been fined 81
lbs. and sent to Jail for a day for ASSAULT
ing one of his choir boys,
Until recently, it is said, there was not
in the whole Chinese Empire a native who
could ''remOve tumor, treat an abscess
or even set a fractured limb with certain
ty." Even at the present day the army
and navy lack surgeons.
The average export price of ice from
this country for ten years past has been
II cents hundred weight, which is more
than it cost the ice company you bought OF
last summer, for the average in 1882 was
only II cents hundredweight,
The total production of anthracite coal
more than doubled in this country in the
fifteen years ending in 1881, rising from
n nj 81,
minOus nearly trebled in the twelve years
1S60-1SS1, increasing from 1921 ,S14 to 49,
1900 tons.
Carnival prospects were never better
than they are this year, The various So.
cieties are all working on well chosen
subjects, and their displays. tits expected,
will be magnificent and costly. The first
ten days of February will be gala ones in
the Crescent City.
There are in Spain 30 art associations,
43 benefcient societies, 81 scientific and
45S cooperative associations; 80 dramatic,
80 industrial, 13l educational, literary,
ID professional ID political, religious as
sOciations, and 1858 which have amuse-
ment for their aim.
The clergy throughout the country have
been discoursing, morally and spiritually,
on the last words of Gambetta, ''Je suiS
periu.' The deductions that they draw
show that "a little learning is q dangerous
thing" The French expression, as the
dying statesman used it, meant: ''All is
up with me-"
A hundred and fourteen barrels of beer
flowed into Brandywine creek last week.
Shich & Tice, brewers, of Lebanon, Pa,
did not wish to pay the tax on the beer to
move it to their new quarters. So, in
presence of the revenue collector, the
bungs were knocked out,
When a loaded coal barge ON the Ohio
river begins to leak the river coal man
bores a hole in the bottom of his barge
and pushes through the hole a section of
rubber hose, and the motion of the boat
produces a suction which draws all the
water from the barge into the river.
According TO the american Medical
Weekly, the excessive use of quinine is
attended with as serious consequences as
the abuse of alcohol or opium, In two
cases insanity has been directly traced to
the constant use Of quinine, and the re-
cent pranks of prominent Washington
lawyer are attributed to the same cause.
Since Mr., Gebhard's strategetic escape
from st. Louis the society of that city has
been conjecturing the fate of a beau who
got into carriage with belle to escort
her home from ball, at which time his
face was smooth and fair, but when he
emerged his eye was blackened, as
though by blow from fist, and the girl
walked up the steps of her home alone.
Ielisavetpol, Russia, has been made the
scene of robberies and crimes of every
sort by band of rascals under the lead of
a bold Mohammedan named Tan-Ger-
Verdi. The police were powerless to pro-
tect the city, and company of hundred
COssacks were sent against the brigands.
Tan-Ger-V erdi refused to surrender, and,
having killed a number of the soldiers and
put the rest to fight, departed with his
family and followers to the mountains.
Mr.. Blest was eighty and Miss Runnion
was eighteen. Heproposed marriage, and
she consented, with the proviso that he
should take her to the adjacent village of
Byron, Wis.,, to buy toilet outfit. He
gladly did this, though she made shopping
very costly to him. When all the pur-
chases had been packed in three trunks,
and sent to the railroad station, she had
them checked for Chicago instead ofhome,
and went away with them, leaving her
aged lover to find out that she had made
fool of him.