Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-12
GENERAL NOTES.

The City Council of Toronto, Canada,
has appropriated $4,000 toward a public
library.
1t goes everywhere. The Imperial
Opera House in Vienna is to be lighted by
electricity.
Street cars in the suburbs of London are
successfully propelled by means of COM
pressed air.
Wagner's Parsital will be given in Bey-
reuth July and on every alternate day
through the month.
Now that the returns are coming in
some of those Harvard trustees wish they
had voted differently.
John Russell Young, American Minis
ter to China, is now engaged in collecting
material for a work on that country,
which he hopes to publish within two
years.
A sensible Wisconsin girl has broken
her engagement because her jealous lover
tried to drown her as they were strolling
by a mill pond one lovely moonlight
night.
For the year ending May 81, canary
birds to the number of $4,000 were import
ed from Germany to this country. The
of breeding them.
At WarrentOn, Va, a young lady in a
trance, and supposed to be dead, was
about to be buried when she came back to
life-tO her great regret, she said, for she
''had been in heaven"
The Rev. S. F. Smith, of Boston, author
of the national hymn, my Country, IT'S
of Thee" is to read a poem at the COM
mencement of the Central University of
Iowa, Baptist institution.
At the Chicago brick yards there are
seventeen hundred persons employed in
brick making; five hundred teamsters
haul the bricks away; four thousand per-
sons are employed in brick laying.
Carriage horses are becoming very
scarce in and around Kingston, Canada,
and a number of gentlemen there have
combined together to procure 200 mustang
ponies from Texas for carriage use.
New MeXico's wool production last
year amounted to 100000 pounds. There
are upward of 12,OOO,C1O sheep in the ter
rltOry, and the clip this year is not eX-
pected to be short of 50,0O0,000 pounds.
The hull of the paper steambOatrecent-
ly built at Lansingburg is only three
eighths of an inch thick, but bullet from
a revolver, discharged only four feet
away, not only failed to penetrate it,
but did not even leave an abrasion on its
surface.
Who shall blame the Russian Emperor
if he reasons thus: "My father liberated
millions of serfs. He was murdered. If
l grant a constitution, also shall lose my
scalp. Therefore, gentlemen, there will
be no constitution"
A company has been formed for the es-
Enlistment of a permanent geological
garden in Detroit, Mich. The plans in
clude also botanical department, foun-
tains and aquariums. All the stock has
been subscribed and the company organ
lied.
The Salt Lake UTAH Herald, Nor
mon paper, is of the opinion that the
statement telegraphed thence that the
Rev. Thomas X. Beecher had become a
convert to MormOnism while there will be
news to the reverend gentleman, as it
was to his friends.
For pitching in base ball game one af-
ternOon, John L. Sullivan received exact
ly fifteen times as much as John Milton
did for Paradise Lost. Yet Milton pitched
in, severely, in his prose as well as verse !;
pitchy part of theology.
A clergyman in Providence, r. l., pre-
pared an elaborate sermon setting forth
Governor Bourn's duty to veto a new
liquor law. But he did not deliver the
sermon, because he learned almost at the
last moment that the Governor of Rhode
Island does not have the veto power.
The perpetual clock, which has been
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stopping or being touched by human
hands, is wound up by draught of air
through tube which operates on fan
connected with the machinery. The
draught is made to pass upward through
the tube by exposing it to the heat of the
sun.
Some birds and animals of Norway do
not appear TO be as discriminating as they
are in this country. It is said that the
woodpeckers in that country drill holes in
the telegraph poles in search of the insect
which they think is making the humming
noise they hear. The bears also uprOOt the
poles in search of the honey which they
think is indicated by the humming of the
bees, as they suppose.
Prince Arisugawa, cousin to the Mika-
do of Japan. is about to publish diary of
his last years tour in Europe. Japanese
papers state that the Prince was much
surprised at the splendOr of the royal
palaces of Europe, and urged that the
MikadO's new residence should be built on
a more magnificent scale than had been
intended. Accordingly, $30,000,0O0 is TO
be spent on that editice, instead of the
s., zoo, 900 originally appropriated.
A London syndicate has been formed to
at once utilize the new possession of New
Guinea. The syndicate intends to ''search
for, mine and cart away the mineral
wealth of the new country. 1t will also
foster the trade and colonization of the
island. The syndicate hopes also TO be-
come eventually the parent of numerous
other companies, such as carrying, con-
agency, land and fishing CON-
panies. To open up the vast resources
and as guarantee Of good faith, the
originators contemplate sending out
mining engineer Ito commence prelimi-
nary prospect"
It Seems to Satisfy
A family want, and | wonder how we ever