Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-29

The cost per annum for cremating 1000

$500. 900 in their first month, January, 1888.
German geographers propose to chris
ten portion of the Northern Ocean the
NordenskiOld Sea.
According to official reports India can
raise wheat at a cost of 12lS cents bush
ell. and has IS, }29, 200 acres under wheat.
The French Government have deter
mined TO light forty of the largest light
houses along the coast of France by
means of electricity.
A piece called ''Gambetta's First
Love" is now being played at an Amster-
dam theatre. 1t is drama with pro-
lOgue and four acts.
Prussia gets an income tax out ofevery-
body who earns 81 % or more, and has
just RENTED the tax from 8. 740, 900 people
who earned less.
English trades unions want girls under
fourteen prohibited from work with ham,
mer and forge, and the Economist thinks
this is a dodge to cut of female cOmpeti-
ton.
The editor, the proprietor and the print
ers Of the London Freetbinker have been
sentenced to terms of Imprisonment vary
ing from three months to year, for ridi-
culing the Trinity.
Letters posted in Japan within a week
of each other often arrive in England on
the same day. by way of Brindisi and by
America. having made the entire circuit
of the world.
Michigan claims an increase of 10000
settlers in her northern counties during
1882. 1t will be remembered that the
s.Sweet Singer of Michigan removed to
Kansas in 1881.
A clever writer says that life is like a
pack of cards. ChildhoOd's trumps are
hearts; youths are won by diamonds;
middle age is fond of clubs; while old age
is raked in with a spade.
White Oak, Titus county, Texas, boasts
of the longest man in the United States.
His name is Henry Clay Thurston, he is
fifty-three years old and seven feet seven
aud a half inches in height. He had nine
brothers, each one being over SIX feet
tall.
According to the Cincinnati Enquirer a
tramp refused to saw wood for his dinner,
giving as a reason that he was bitterly
opposed TO the destruction of our forests
and would do nothing TO encourage that
kind of business. And he walked on pick
ing his teeth.
Derwentwater. one of the prettiest of
English lakes, is to be ruined by a rail
road built to accommodate slate quarry;
High street. in Oxford, has horse cars; the
Tower is about to be restored and in
Florence the POnte NecelisO has been con-
demned.
The bank discount in Germany is higher
and lower at the same time as the Eng
lish. and the Economist concludes tIe
course of business i'll Germany CORE
spends more closely with that of England
than that of France, where the rate does
not vary with that of England.
The Russian post Office insures the de-
clared value of letters for One-eighth of
one per cent. Forfeiture is the penalty of
differentiation, and the attempt to save a
few dollars cost a firm of st. Petersburg
bankers the other day $50, 900, which they
had insured as worth $500.
Professor Young, of Princeton College,
says: take a railroad from the earth to
the sun. with a train running forty miles
an hour. without stops. and il would take
about 205 years and a little over to make
the Journey" He estimates the fare, at
one cent per mile, to be 100000.
\ COW living near Syracuse was run
over by railway train, and uninjured
except that one of her hind legs was cut
OFF below the knee. Her owner, skillful
surgeon, amputated the limb at the KIN ee
Joint and healed the wound, and now the
COW stumps along comfortably on a
wooden leg.
\ French engineer. VI. SebillOt, expects
by introducing ''the iron beam system"
which so changes the model of the pres
ent steamship as greatly to reduce the
water resistance. to build an ocean
steamer with r speed of thirty-fiYe miles
an hour. reducing the transatlantic trip
10 four days.
Two bold men, says Figaro, were dis
cussing different subjects. II shouldn't
like to have been in the place of Da-
mOcles." said one: lit is stupid TO dine
under a sword" ..Weu." said the other
Il don't care anything about the sword.
| should be afraid that the hair which held
it up might fall into my soup"
There was an avalanche Of snow near
White Sulphur Springs, Montana. week
ago. and a sleigh, a pair of horses and
their driver were carried over mile down
the mountain side. plunging into a soft
snow bank. The driver and one horse
miraculOusly escaped injury, and were
rescued after fOrty-eight hours climbing.
Rev. A. II. Partridge. rector of Christ
Church, Williamsburg, was stricken with
fatal illness three weeks ago, but prayed
that he might live to see Easter. On Sun
day. as the day passed. he grew worse.
A bulletin on the door of his home read
that evening: VERY low; sinking fast"
He died at dawn of Easter Monday.
Prince Bismarck's favOrite musical in
i cof1 fp no "a
which. if a plebian taste. is none the less
patriotic one. since Berlin is the great
centre for the manufacture of accOrdeOns.
and turns out 200 annually, which are
sent to all parts of the world. Berlin ac-
cordeOns may be heard on the Amazon,
the Congo and the Yangtse rivers.
The following odd advertisement is from
a Roman paper: "a gentleman who suf-
fers from ennui invites a lady, married or
single. to breakfast or dine with him.
without ceremony, once a week. If de-
sired he promises, as gentleman, to keep
the secret. If the acquaintance should
ripen into affection all the better. Ladies
in want of a dinner may apply TO -,
Rome"
When convicts arrive at the Joliet Peni-
Tertiary they are registered, and then 90
to the bath room and barber shop. The
latter is presided over by Charles Camp
bell, who is serving out a sentence for
killing a man in Chicago. Men sit in the
chair. with the tears running down their
faces, on account Of the pain inflicted by
the razor. He will shave hundred men
before he attempts TO whet it.
The total amount annually received or
expended on Queen Victoria and other
members of the royal family is fS93, 3S2.
In this is included the maintenance Of
palaces. expenditures in connection with
rOval yachts E35, $50, households of de-
ceased sovereigns (f6,475), and many
other such items. 1t is estimated that
about 100000 per annum would have to
be expended were there no royal families
TO provide for
There was a great crowd inside and
outside the House to witness the return
of the Premier. As he entered the cheers
which filled the palace yard were taken
ND from both sides of the House. He
looked exceedingly well, and, as he early
showed. was full Of yigOr. says a London
weekly journal. The Conservatives, more
especially the members of the Fourth
party. who have sOrely languished for
fortnight, were very. glad to see the
Premier back again in his place, but it
was with mixed feelings that they cheered
his return.
A fight between a rattlesnake and
black snake was recently witnessed near
Fort Worth, Texas. The black snake
forced the fighting, gliding around in swift
circles. while the rattlesnake lay cOiled.
The circles grew smaller, and the rattle
snake appeared confused as the black
snake grew closer. His rattles ceased to
give out their usual sharp sound, and his
head dropped as if vertigo was seizing