Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-26
GENERAL NOTES.

England spends annually fS93,SS2 to
maintain the royal family.
Some Of the European steamers last year
cleared from $4,000 to $4,000 on each
round trip of four or five weeks.
The New York city Aldermen are trying
to suppress the Salvation Army. That is
natural. Not many Aldermen care for
salvation.
They have a Pug Dog Club in London.
Its meetings take place at the Horseshoe
Hotel, and all persons interested in the
breed are invited to attend.
a clerk in the town government of
Waltham, Mass, is said to be living with
out food TO cure dyspepsia. Probably by
the time he is starved to death he will be
cured.
4 Western woman, after tFansaoting a
lot of shopping in town, alleged as rea-
son for hurrying to the return train that
she had an "eXertiOn ticket and it per-
spired tonight"
The once famous steamer, the Great
Eastern, is lying idle at Milford Haven,
England. She can neither be used nor
sold, her size making her too unwieldly
for commercial purposes.
Curran's ruling passion was joke. In
his last illness, his physician observing in
the morning that he cOughed with more
difficulty, he answered: THAT is rather
surprising, as l have been practicing all
night"
James Guthrie aad Miss Hulda Marian
were married in Burkville, Virginia, one
day last week. The next morning the
bride found her husband dead beside her.
Death is supposed to have resulted from
heart disease.
The English branch of the order of St.
John of Jerusalem has determined to es-
tablish dispensary at Jerusalem for dis
eases of the eye on a site which, at the
request of the Prince of Wales, has been
assigned to it for that purpose by the Sui
tan.
New York papers are demanding filters
of cheap and efficient nature. FIFTY
cents" says the New York Times, Fought
to be enough for a filter to supply any
single person with drinkable water" We
indorse the demand. Let the inventor
rise TO the occasion.
A writer ON ''The Jewish Question: in
The ArgOnGut says that of all the robbie,
ries of poor depositOrs in the history of
banks not one insolvent bank has been a
Jewish one. Of all the long line of de-
faulting and abscOnding bank cashiers,
not one has been Jew
There are now living under one roof in
Boston Highlands the representatives of
five continuous generatiOns-a mother,
daughter, granddaughter, great-grand-
daughter and great-great-granddaug
the span between the age of the young
est and that Of the oldest being ninety-fiYe
years.
1t is proposed to dOmesticate the Indian
10OpOOOca in Aucfralia and Naw Zealand
in order to abate the plague of rabbits in
those countries, The mOngOose is a NOR
tai foe to the rabbit, but it is even more
destructive TO poultry, and the farmers
who import him must be prepared to give
up keeping fowls.
The new East river bridge, via Black
Wells Island, will have wrought iron
chain cables like the Pittsburg bridges
and span like the great Kinzie Viaduct
The cost will be $4,000,000, on which 10
per cent. dividends would require only
$400,000 annual receipts, or about 10 cents
per capita in the 100000 of people con-
nected by it.
The Government School Inspectors in
Ireland report as among the most powerful
influences inducing parents to send their
children to school the letters from relatives
and friends who have emigrated and
found some amount of education indis-
penSable to success. sit so happens that
there is hardly an individual anywhere
through the country that has not friends
in the Far West. Letters are regularly
received from these and eagerly read, and
the point which of all others the writer's
enforce with endless iteration is that young
people from Ireland emigrating to Ameri-
ca must, in order to succeed, be able to
read. write and cipher.'