Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-14
GENERAL NOTES.

Dun ing the past year 200 scIloOl mousse
were built in Arkansas.
A six-legged lamb is one Of the curiosi-
ties of Shenandoah county, Va.
Nashville has five national banks and
lust double that number of faro banks.
The Salvation Army propose to squmder
a week of its time on the North Carolina
Legislature.
The latest papers from South Australia
give an account of wheat haryestings and
thunder storms.
An original tale, written by any popu-
lar novelist, is SAID to command, in Lon
don, from $500 to $4,000.
An agent has gone to South Africa to
secure ostriches to stock farm to be es-
tablished in san Bernardino, Cal.
A Boston child, visiting in Denver, re-
fused to drink milk after she saw her
grandpa squeeze it out OF cow"
The largest pension ever paid in this
country, amounting to $9,063, was recently
drawn by a blind man in Missouri.
The cultivation of rice in louisiana
affords livelihood for $4,000 people, and
the annual product is worth So, 100000.
The dinner of the New York cooks, on
Wednesday, had ten courses, and, count
ing creams and desserts, the dishes mum.
bered over hundred.
A cotton exposition is to be opened next
season in Louisville, Kentucky. The At
Ianta exhibition was such a success that
the idea caught on and will probably
stick.
A London youth wanted to marry a
pretty actress until her mother demanded
$50. 900 of him for the loss she would incur
by her daughters withdrawal from the
stage.
The number of native Christians in In
dia has doubled in the last ten years.
That has an encouraging sound until the
discovery is made of how many there were
ten years ago.
Adelaide, South Australia, is trying a
series of experiments with electric light
ing, and it is intended to replace the dim
ness Of gas with that system, which proves
more satisfactory.
Billerica, in Massachusetts, has the
of its name in the world. 1t has now 800
more inhabitants than it had in 17I6, and
is proud of its growth.
The MeSSdqer Franco American regards
the rumor that Sir Garnet Wolseley will
succeed Lord Lorne as GOvernOr-General
of Canada as a serious menace to the flu
ture power of the United States.
Sunfiowers are no longer in vogue.
Even Oscar Wilde repudiates them, and
says they were never intended for ladies'
cOrsages or for vases, but that growing in
the garden they are truly beautiful.
There are about 10000 working men in
Boston whose average pay is four dollars
a week, and whose board cost them an
average of three dollars and fifty cents
week. This leaves them twenty-siX dol
lars year for clothing and incidentals.
Massachusetts has had twenty-five
State Treasurers, and of the $3.50, 0SG,017
which have passed through their hands,
only $21 900 was ever lost, and that as
long ago as 1903, by defaulter who bore
the appropriate name of Skinner.
During the past five years the average
of export of umbrella sticks from Jamaica
has been more than 5000 bundles, each
bundle containing from 500 to 800 sticks.
The sticks are made of young pimento or
pepper trees, and the demand is likely to
cause a scarcity of pepper.
After hard run, policeman at Seneca
Falls, n. Y, discovered that the laughing
man whom he caught dressed in a striped
convict suit was only going to a masque-
rade ball. 1t was good joke, and it will
be long while before the officer can put
in loafiing enough to make up for the eX-
ertiOn.
Two st. Bernard dogs, presented to the
police force of Yonkers by Samuel J. Til
den, captured three burglars on Wednes-
day. Leaving the train, policeman
spoke to them in a friendly way, when
they started off on run. The dogs were
sent after them, and they were soon
brought to bay.
In regard to his talked-of marriage en-
gagement, Senator David Davis is reported
as saying: seriously, now, look at me;
old as the hills and pretty nearly as big as
one, what do / want to get married for?
And do you suppose am going to make
fool of myself just because some girl is
willing to take me for what I've got? No,
sir; / don't believe there is any sensible
girl who would let me be such fool, and
| certainly wouldn't marry one who had
no sense.