Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-07
GENERAL NOTES.

Ex-Governor Tilden is wintering at his
YOnkers country seat, and dispenses hos
| pitable entertainments to his friends.
The Brazilian navy is to be increased
| by the immediate construction of eight
! gunbOats and twenty-fOur torpedo boats
The London Figaro says there never
was any foundation for the statement
| that the Prince of Wales was about tC
visit America.
A work has lately appeared in Paris
called "a French Darwin" which advO
Gates and proves, to the authors satisfac
| ton at least, that men have been evolved
| from plants.
Lady Abingdon has on her estate in Eng
land, a fancy farm, quite extensive, Oh
which the buildings and domestic animals
and even the squirrels and rabbits in the
woods, are all spOtlessly white in color,
France publishes books on an average
of one to 1,600 inhabitants, then comes
England, Holland, Norway and Sweden
Italy and Germany in the order named
Russia has 10000 inhabitants to each book
published.
An amazon died recently at Buenos
Ayres at the age of 100 years, whose event.
full career deserves mention. From heI
Doth year she has been a regularly enroll.
ed member of the Second Regiment OF
Cavalry, wearing the dashing uniform,
with enormous spurs. From its ranks she
selected the seven husbands, whom fate
has torn successfully from her arms,
leaving her to die alone.
The Marquis of Salisbury has given per-
mission to a special committee to cata.
lOgue and reproduce the treasures OF
manuscripts in his library at Hatfield
House. Among them are the celebrated
''Cecil Papers," consisting of letters and
notes of the Queens Mary and Elizabeth,
of Edward VI, James /. and Mary Stuart,
whose publication cannot fail to add ma
terially to the history of the sixteenth
century.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor has trouble with
her diamonds. Detectives are employed
to take care Of her when she wears her
precious jewels abroad, and when at home
the safe that contains them is more sOlidly
built than the vaults that hold so much
precious metal in the United States Treas
ury. And Mrs. AstOr must die, and there
has been no invention that would enable
her to carry her jewels with her. 1t is
really burden to be very rich.
A statue to the first translator Of the
New Testament, William Tyndale-de-
signed by Mr.. j. E. Boehm, and to be cast
in bronze-is to be erected soon at the
west end of the west garden of the Thames
embankment. The names of the univer-
stiles, counties, towns and societies in
Great Britain, the colonies, and this
country, which have contributed TO the
expense, will be inscribed on the PEDESTAL.
Tyndale is represented in doctors
gown, with his right hand resting on an
open New Testament.
When the survivors of the Kenmure
Castle, which foundered February2 in
the Bay of Biscay, drifted away in the
cutter from the sinking ship, they saw
Captain Barrett standing calmly on the
bridge smoking a cigar and waving a
farewell. 1.-The next thing | knew" says
Mrs. Mann, who escaped and has
reached England, twas that on turning
round / saw the end of the Ship. hid
my face, as / could not bear the sight.
Some one said she was going down, and
another cried She's gOnep"
A certain farmer in Belgium found not
long ago that one of his cows seemed
gradually wasting away, so he sold her
TO a slaughter house in Manner, where the
cause of the poor creatures illness was
found to be large medal which she had
swallowed while grazing. The medal
thus curiously found is a very valuable
gold "quadruple pist9let," struck at
BesancOn in the time of Charles ",
whose image it bears, and the date, in the
early part of the sixteenth century. It's
value is increased by the fact that it is
absolutely unique, no duplicate being
known TO be in existence.
The Illustrate ZeitaHg gives the follow
ing statistics in regard to the number of
ancestors each one of us possesses, reck-
Oning from the commencement of the
Christian era. The total is 139, 245,017,-
489, 531 1915, allowing three generations to
a century, during the eighteen centuries
that have passed. This number is OBJ
tanned by calculating that we each owe
our existence to two parents, each one of
whom had two parents, making four an
cest0rs in the preceding generation. Each
one of these ancestors had two parents,
eight in all, and thus il continues In geo.