Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-07
GENERAL NOTES.

Beer is displacing wine in France and
Italy.
Three hundred and seyenty-fiye thou
sand persons work underground in Great
Britain.
The Victor Emanuel statue, to be paid
for by the poorest people in Europe, is to
cost 81, 100000.
Phosphate deposits have been discOv-
cred in Poland, and English companies
are to work them.
The sleigh stage which runs between
Fair Haven and Benson, VT, has been
used for ia years.
Sulphate Of quinine, with a little acidu-
lated water will remove the odor of musk,
perhaps the most pertinaciOus Of OdOrs.
The bridge by which the Harrisburg
and Western Railroad will enter Harris
burg will be nearly two miles in length
and will cost 5000, 900.
A doe with horns, giving it the appear
ance of a male, was recently killed near
AiX-la-Chapelle. The longer horn was
seven and half inches long.
Some of the street cars of London have
been lighted with gas. The holder,
placed under the seats, is charged at the
1t is said that during the past three or
four months over 100 girls have been
graduated into welded life from the
Treasury Department at Washington.
At a recent sale in Leipzig. George
Washington's autograph brought S2S 70,
Peter the Greats $27 70, Mary, Queen Of
Scots, $50 20, and Marie AntOinette's
$115 %.
The dog tax nets the United States Gov
eminent about SIG, 900, 900 per annum. and
the Commissioner of Agriculture says it
costs 100000 900 per annum to feed them.
At the show rooms Of a firm Of cutters
in Sheffield. England, is exhibited an At
rican elephants tusks five feet long,
twenty-One inches in girth, and weighing
100 pounds.
r. F. Gaggin tells Pittsburg iron makers
that iron can be made in Western Ken
lucky for Sl2 -, and on the Cumberland
and Tennessee rivers for 50 less than
Pennsylvania prices.
Virginia claims the oldest English
church in this country. 1t is the old
Friends Church at Benton. and was built
in 1852. An ancestor Of Martha Wash
ingtOn is is said TO be buried in the church
yard.
Mrs. Sarah Ray, washerwOman of
Leadville, and the first woman who ever
dared set her foot in the place, has, after
an eventful life of digging in mines,
securing the plains as a scout, and finally
taking in washing, amassed fortune Of
81, 100000.
A German has invented safe which,
in addition to the customary walls and
doors Of steel, has an attachment that, on
being touched, Immediately flares an cleo
tric light on the scene, and at the same
time uncOvers a prepared plate, on which
the burglars photograph is taken while
an alarm is sounded.
There are only two BeAedictine abbeys
in the United States, one of which, st.
Vincent's Abbey. is located in Westmore-
land county, Pa. Application has re-
Gently been made to the Pope to raise st.
Mary's PriOry, Of Newark, y. j., which is
in charge Of the Benedictfne, Fathers to
the dignity Of an abbey.
sMother Goose" according to the latest
authorities, far from being a myth, was
the wife Of Isaac Goose, and lived in Pud-
ding lane (now known as Devonshire
street.. Boston. She was born in 1865
and died in 1851. The first edition Of
her nursery rhymes was published by her
sOn-in-law, Thomas Fleet, in the year
1913.
The Northern Pacific Railroad is monu-
ment to modern engineering. The highest
point reached in the survey is the summit
Of the BOzeman Pass, where the altitude
is 5.715 feet. The rails are laid to the top
Of this pass, and for eight miles before the
summit is reached an engine or car will
not remain stationary unless brakes are
applied.
The largest piece of granite claimed to
have been quarried since the time of Solo
mon, was lately exhumed at ThOmaston,
Me. 1t measures sixty feet in length and
seven feet square at the base. Its weight
was estimated at $50 tons. With the inn
proved methods of blasting, blocks of
stone almost any size and shape can be
separated from the solid rock.
Had we not better resign ourselves to
the use of pure cottOn-seed oil as suchY
Not only is much of the so-called olive
oil the produce of cotton seed, but word
now comes of a considerable industry in
Russia in the culture of suntiowers for
the oil from the seed, large quantities of
which are exported to the Mediterranean
to be used in the adulteration OF olive oil.
Among the treasuresoOf the museum at
Boulak, Egypt, is the mummy of King
of the third dynasty. He is
the oldest authenticated sample of dead |
man i'm existence. He dates back 1900 Il. |
c.. according to the scientists, and, there !
fore. must be about 400 years older than |
Adam, unless, indeed, there be mistake
in the record.
A road supervisor in the Hawaiian |
Islands has been dismissed because he |
refused to sign a statement that over Sl0,-
900 had been spent on the roads in his |
district, when really less than $4,000 had
been spept there, One of the native |