Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-10
GENERAL NOTES.

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The New Haven directory for this year.
contains "a, 402 names, an increase of3, 7S4
from last year.
Mrs Madden, Of Plymouth county,
Iowa, 10 years old, frequently walks two
miles to do shopping.
One hundred and sixty thousand men
and $40 women used the New York pub
lie baths last week.
Since the passage of the restriction act
1850 certificates have been issued to Chi
nese leaving San Francisco.
Boston's new main sewer has already
cost over three and a half million dollars
and is by no means done yet.
"Society for Encouraging the Wearing
of Clean Shirts has been a New York
shirt makers sign since 1884.
An artesian well at Dubuque, Iowa,
spouts the prohibitions favOrite beverage
at the rate of $50 gallons a minute.
One New York dealer sold $4,000 chests
of fire crackers this year, The same man
sells sky rockets at 81 gross and 800
apiece.
During the fiscal year just ended there
has been net increase of 1859 post
offices established over the previous fiscal
year.
In 1882 New Orleans received 1876, 497
bushels Of grain. The value of the total
exports was $103,j30, 454; imports, $l2,-
219920. The amount of tonnage brought
to the port was about 100000 tons.
owen BOYLE, while engaged IN cribbing
a shaft near Dubuque last Friday, slipped
and fell to the bottom, a distance Of 100
feet. He was badly cut, and sustained
other serious injuries, but, strange to say,
is likely to get we'll
A boy in Wilmington, \. c.. was bitten
by a rattlesnake few days ago, the fang
of the serpent entering the end of one of
his fingers. when he seized a Ratchet
which happened to be near at hand, and
cut off his finger before the poison had
time to spread through his system.
The total receipts Of the Paris Salon
this year were 300, 600 francs, against $780,
600 francs in 1882. The entries at five
francs produced 11,200 francs, or 1900
francs less than last year; those at two
francs amounted to $4,000 francs, which
was an increase of 500 francs The bad
money received amounted to 900 francs.
Portland, Me-, has had another ''yellow
dav.' The Press says: Last evening a
natural phenomenon. similar to that
which constituted the yellow day of 1881,
was noticeable in some parts of the city.
Gas lights were a SulphurOus yellow in
color and the grass Of lawns and the
foliage of trees were an unnatural green.
There are 152 national banks in the
State Of Illinois. OF these, there are
eleven in Chicago, possessing a combined
capital of $7,55O,OOO. The individual de-
posits in Chicago banks exceed those Of
all other banks throughout the State, and
the First National Bank has a larger
amount of money on deposit than any
other national bank in the United States
outside Of New York city.
Laredo possesses a curiosity in the per-
son of blind Mexican, twenty-five years
of age, who lost his sight when one year
old by smallpox, which completely de-
strOyed the pupils of both eyes, leaving
him totally blind To-day he is used by
many who know him as a messenger boy,
being able to 90 to most any house in the
city without assistance, even of walk |
ing stick, and is recognized as one of the
best riders in town.
On the Both of June there were Sill, 49, /
175 in standard dollars in the various
United States repositories and mints. OF I
this amount So, 532, 791 is represented by
silver certificates, leaving 1
actually on hand $4,000. 900 in the way of 1
idle surplus of silver. Every vault at the I
disposal of the Treasurer in Washington, /
New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere is /
full to overlooking with silver, having an |
aggregate weight of 6,600,03S pounds. I
There is no danger of the treasure being I
carried off between days, or even a small /
part Of it, 81 100000 weighing about thirty /
tons.
The first organ ever brought to this
country is still in st. Johns Chapel at
Portsmouth, y. Fl. 1t was imported by
Thomas Brattle, born in Boston in 1858, /
from whom Brattle street and Brattle
square are named. He left the organ in
his will to Brattle Street Church, provided /
that, within year of his death, they ''pro- /
cure a sober person who can play skill /
fully thereon with a loud nOise," other /
wise to Kings Chapel. The Brattle /
Street Church refused the gift. but Kings 4
Chapel accepted it, imported an organist
at $50 year salary, used the organ until /
1856, and then sold it TO st. Johns Church /
in Portsmouth.
An old getleman living in country
village went to visit married daughter /
in Springfield, Mass, and, his mental /
faculties being impaired by age, he was
apt to get lost when he ventured to 90 |
about the city. being unable to remember
the name of the street where his daughter
lived. The street was Walnut street, and /
in order to enable him to remember it the |
daughter gave him walnut to carry in /
his pocket, but on his first excursion /
thereafter he got lost as usual. When |
finally he returned his daughter somewhat |
impatiently asked, s'What have you in 1
your pocket to remind you of the name of |
the street," "Ah," exclaimed the aged |
parent. Il forgot all about that shay |
barkH
Now and then the true goodness Of |
human nature is shown even in a street /
car. The other day a. feeble old man,
neately dressed but evidently poor, en-
tered Third avenue surface car in New |
York. When the conductor asked him 4
for his fare, the old man felt in his pocket, /
and look Of dIsmay came over his face /
when he discovered that he had no money. /
He explained to the conductor that he
must have lost it, and begged to be al
lowed TO ride, as he was very tired and |
had some distance to 60. The conductor,
however, was obdurate, and was on the
point of ejecting him, when a richly
dressed lady arose from her seat and |
said: s.lf no one else will pay this old
mans fare, will,r And she did, while
the men in the car looked shame-faced
and hid themselves behind their news
papers.
Cleanliness and purity make Parker's
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