Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24
GENERAL NOTES.

The Burmese Government has forbidden
any meeting OF the Salvation Army within
the canton.
Mrs. Augusta Smith, of st. Louis, is said
to sleep only two hours a day, but is
strong and healthy.
\ COrean is always ready to eat. The
ordinary meal of a laborer is quart OF
rice, which swells as it bOils.
The native police of the island OF Hilo
cut great figure in white caps, blue
coats and trousers and huge cannibalistic
clubs.
Pomrret, VT, which has been settled 1l3
years, has neither doctor, lawyer, mer-
camille business nor manufactures Of
any kind,
In drilling for an artesian well IN Ches-
terfield, Iowa, stream of a milky sub
stance was struck, which is thought to be
magnesia.
The kingdom of kalakaua is getting an
evil name for the street fights which take
place between enraged Cinnamon. "Ian-
tpne cGlestibuS ireeT
In the four years ending in 1850, IA boys
and girls under fifteen committed suicide.
of these six were under nine, and one was
Augustus Harris, lessee of Drury Lane
Theatre, gave a free performance of the
pantomime "Sinbad0 on the Sth inst. to
more than 1900 of the poorest children Of
London.
At a german in Memphis, six doves
were placed in each of the six large CEN
tire cakes, and when the cakes were cut
the birds flew out and percled on the VIM
dow cOrnices and mantels.
A well known London banker OF War
dOur street announces ''his readiness,
since the passage of the married wOmen's
property act, to make cash advances to
ladies on their notes of hand"
While the attacks upon the Jews in
Hungary are at their height, Caspar Mol
mar, Christian merchant of SalnOk, has
spread establishment far and wide by be-
queathing his entire property to the jew
ish school of the town.
4 pleasant reflection for young people
affected with neuralgia is statement in
a French newspaper that certain lady's
hair became ''gray as badger between
the hours of and a. m. during a very
severe attack of that disease.
The Edison lamp factory at Newark, n.
j., can turn out 10000 lamps a day, and
vet each lamp passes through more than
200distinct stages during its manufacture.
Many of the processes are performed au-
tOmatically by means of electricity,
The EgliSe Li6re, a French Protestant
journal, referred in recent issue to the
statement that NJ. Gambetta had burned
tapers on the anniversary of his mothers
death, and pointed out that no such ami
Yersary has yet occurred, sin ce Nine.
Gambetta died on the 22d of July last.
The Powell family, Of New Jersey, pro-
pose holding reunion near BlackwOOd-
town. The founder of the family, Rich
ard Powell, used to say, II have twenty
sons, and each lone has a sister," the
explanation being that he had twenty sons
and one daughter.
Louisville, KY, is busily making prepa-
ratiOns for a great industrial exhibition
next August. The citizens have sub
scribed $685. ask for no outside help
and are putting up the main building,
which will cover thirteen acres. The
show will open August 1, and will con-
tinue 100 days,
Bradlaugh's sympathizers expected
revolution in London on the day Of the
opening of Parliament. The people applied
for excursion trains to take them TO the
scene, but the railway companies refused
for the novel reason that the crowds were
political rioters and meant to break the
laws and peace of London.
The Marquis of Lorne and the Princess
Louise visited Nebraska farmers rancho
and stayed three hours. The Marquis told
the farmer that he would give him three
hundred and twenty acres Of land il he
would go to British Columbia, and he has
since sent him a number of pamphlets to
be distributed among the Nebraska farm
ers.
The public, who used TO assemble in
crowds in the Castle yard, Dublin, TO
witness the arrivals at the Lord Lieuten-
ants levee, were for the first time eX-
cluded last month. The yard was kept
by company Of the COldstream Guards.
Policemen in uniform lined the hall, and
detectives guarded the stairs leading to
the throne room.
Berlin's 'Jumbo," the pet elephant
which carried children on its back in the
Geological Garden, recently killed its
keeper and SScleaned OUT the rest Of the
menagerie. Sentence OF death was passed
on the brute, but it was difficult to exc
cute the stern law, and the sentence was
to five years solitary confine-
ment with big chain and paddock,
Mr.. Thomas Chambre Vaughan, a large
landed proprietor of Shropshire, England,
was sentenced to twelve months impris-
ment for perjury in case in which the
Vicar of Loppington the Rev. Mr.. Benson)
was charged with killing pheasant with
out license. A laborer named Wood
ward, who gave false evidence in the
same case, was committed for four
months.
In three Of the principal hospitals Of |
Paris the Sisters Of Charity, numbering |