Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-17
GExERAL NOTES.


of milk day.
Missouri is about to expend $4,000 in
geological researches.
Ex-senator Tabor made $5O,OOO pres
ent 10 his mother-in-law.
Carey, the Irish informer, has thirteen
children and numerous debts.
A Kentucky hunter affirms that he has
killed 9.1eO rabbits this winter.
Senator Bayard started in life as clerk
in Philadelphia hardware store.
A screwless door knob and spindle are
among the new things in door locks.
According to the last census there were
only %, 794 deaf people in Germany.
Near Grand Reinet, South Africa, an
ostrich broke horses back by kick.
drama on VI. Gambetta's life is no"
being played at an Amsterdam theatre
Senator Plumb, of Kansas, has made
large investments in Alabama mineral
lands.
Sixteen beautiful girls in steel armor
are TO be added to one Of the circus pro-
cessiOns.
The stock of an old army gun recently
found in the Tennessee river was COM
pletely petrifed.
Senator Sabin, of Minnesota, Mr.. WIN
dom's successor, was once a clerk III the
Treasury Department.
Young and fashionable married ladies
of Paris favor a mixture Of white ana
orange or white and gold.
Ex-senator David Davis is to be pre-
sented by admiring friends in Texas with
a chair made of OK horns.
Great quantities of American candies
are shipped to England. After awhile
the people of England will be buying our
pies.
Forty degrees below zero in Maine is
not surprising. 1t has been cold in Maine
since the great States have ceased to vote
as she votes.
1t is estimated that there are more than
1000. 900 sheep in Kansas, and the great
est majority of them in Southern, South
western and Western Kansas.
A Western colporteur was once con-
versing with an Illinois man on his religi-
GUS duties. Said he: ''DO you attend
church regularity "Oh, no; l never go
TO church, but l alters make it pint to
tend funerals. They be jest as solemn,
and thar hisn't no Reflections. Err
change.
God makes crosses Of great variety. He
makes some of iron and lead, that look
as if they must crush; some Of straw that
seem so light. and yet are no less difficult
TO carry: some He makes Of gold and pre-
ciOus stones. that dazzle the eye and eX-
cite the envy of spectators, but in reality
are as we'll able to cruelty as those which
are so much dreaded eneiOR.
\ serious engineering problem has been
encountered in making the plans for the
Bartholdi statue. to be erected in the New
York harbOr. There will be tremendous
wind strain, and cable dispatch has
been sent to French engineers asking for
their views as TO the best means OF resist
ing it. The pedestal viii cost $2JO,OOO, of
which sum New York has thus far only
raised $4,000.
After a unique career of mingled piety
and depravity, the Rev. eX-MayOr Kali
Loeb. of San Francisco, is apparently set
Ting down to honest business. He now
lives on his large Santa Cruz ranch, and
devOtes his time TO raising fine cattle. He
is building extensive barns and cattle
sheds and making other improvements on
his property that indicate his intention to
spend the remainder Of his years there.
A singular alliance has been formed in
Belgium between alcohol and education.
An alms-bOx for the secular schools is a
recognized feature of every place where
liquor is sold. and every customer drops
into it his sou as regularly as he fees his
waiter. \ school building costing $780,
600 has Just been built from the sous thus
collected. The same plan is on trial in
France, but at present without much sue
cess, though VI. Sarcey thinks that it has
a great future.
\ singular affair occurred i'm New Ha-
ven Sunday evening. At the closing SER
vices of the mission in st. Patrick's
Church one of the Mission Fathers asked
all the men Of the church-and there were
about 800 Of them-tO repeat after him a
pledge promising not TO 90 into saloon
from u O'Clock Saturday night until II
Sunday night for one year. There were
not half dozen men in the church who
did not raise up their right hand and re-
peat the words after the priest.
Mr.. Carl Niehaus, the Cincinnati
artist, who has the contract from the State
Of Ohio for a statue Of Garfield, has placed
a plaster cast Of his design on exhibition
in the Governors office at Columbus. The
DisDGtcb Of that city says there is some
doubt concerning its acceptance by the
State Commissioners. One Of them, who
says all his colleagues agree with him,
pronounce it an eXecrable effigy, bow
legged, sV7ay-backed and stOOp-shOul-
dered. why" said he, II could take a
shovel and slap up better statue than
that"
In 1870 Ramey Thomas killed Joseph
Deal, clerk at the Maxwell House, in
Nashville, Tenn, for insulting a young
woman to whom he (ThOmas) was en-
gagged 10 be married. He was sent to the
penitentiary for twenty-One years, but his
sentence was committed to ten years by
Governor Porter, and the term having
been again reduced for good behavior
he has Just been released. The young
woman has remained faithful to her aven-
ger, and their marriage will soon COM
plete the tragic romance, or romantic
tragedy, whichever it may be.
Another plaster cast Of human form
has lately been taken from the mould left
in the ashes of Pompeii. From the place
and posture it is evident that the man
was overtaken by the ashes while en-
deaYoring to escape, and was suffOcated.
The figure is lying on It's back, the head
is bent backward and the skull is per-
fectly preserved. The open lips disclose
five upper and five lower teeth, white and
even. The left arm is half raised and the
fingers one-half shut; the right arm is
pressed against the body and the closed
fist rests on the stomach. Two rather
small keys were found near the body.
Prof. Henry j. 5. Smith,. of Oxford,
whose death has already been announced,
was precocious student in childhood.
He was able to read English at two years
of age, and at four he began, maided,
the study of Greek. From then until his
eleventh year his only tutor was his
mother. He entered Rugby at fifteen, in
the last year Of DIR. Arnold's Head Mas
tershlp, and was at once placed in the
next to the highest form, and would have
been placed in the highest had the rules
of the school allowed a new student that
rank At eighteen he gained the Balliol
scholarship, and, in spite of year of i'll
ness, carried off the Ireland scholarship,
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