Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-24
GENERAL NOTES.

The losses by flood in Germany will
reach total of SO,OOO,OOO marks.
The public debt of Guatemala is $780,
600, on which per cent. interest is guar
anteed.
Some of the people of Colebrook, n. H.,
are this winter using coal for fuel for the
first time.
Last November, out of 4,400 burials
which occurred in Paris, 1 ,20i were devoid
of religious ceremony.
In order to make Brazilian birds grow
bright plumage the natives feed them on
colors. That is a point for American
painters.
Boston paid 81 Os per 1000 for gas in
1875 and pays 81 80 now; but then Boston
has to get coal for its gas all the way from
Pennsylvania.
Mt. Desert is to have an elevated rail-
road; that is railroad to run to the top
of Green Mountain. 1t will be mile long,
and rise one foot in three.
George l.. Huston, of Parkersburg,
is going to build himself an iron house,
painted and frescoed inside and out so as
to look like something else.
A skeleton six feet six inches in height
was exhumed a few days ago in Palmyra,
n. j., by Joseph Wallace, who was dig
cling a drain near his house.
''DO you stop at hotels that advertise a
speciality of protection from fre?' asked
the dealer in accident policies. Because
if you do, the rate will be double"
England in 1880 and 1881, under an
adulteration act, refused to permit $4,000
packages of tea to be landed. Most of it
was shipped to this country, hence ''gift'
tea stores.
Superstitious people in Hamilton, Ont,
assert that they have seen a human hand
floating in mid-air above one of the hotels
in that city, and says it augurs destruc-
ton by fire.
On the 4th Of January a shower of mud
fell near fresno, Colorado, covering every
thing with light coating of gray, sandy
soil. Perhaps il came from lgnatius Don
elly's comet.
1t was a charming old law in Holland
which condemned great criminals to be
wholly deprived of salt, so that in a short
time they might become the prey to inter-
nal parasites.
An Englishman has bought for f200 the
clock of the palace of the Tuileries which
stopped at half-past ten, the pendulum
having been burnt by the flames started
by the Communists.
Increase of nervous diseases is, accord.
ing to DIR. II. p. Shaws, of Hartford, di-
rectly traceable to the larger part q the
twenty-fOur hours spent within doors by
the masses of the people.
The st. Logis Globe Democrat is accused
of misrepresenting Texas and her people,
and the city authorities of Marshall have
imposed tax of $3.50 upon each dealer
who sells that journal within the corporate
limits.
The Indian survey has just been COM
pleted, as far as the triangulation is con-
cerned, covering 27,765 square. miles.
Two chains of triangles were carried
across the country; one 1900, the other
1,S00 miles long.
a submarine cable is about to be laid
between Cadiz and the Island of Teneriffe,
thus uniting with the cable from the Cana
ry Islands. The contractors are Don
ThadeO d'OksZa OrzechOuski and Don
Rafael Fernandez Media.
John Battersby, the ex-living skeleton,
has never been in good health since he be-
CAD to increase in weight. Fifteen years
ago he tipped the beam at fifty-nine
p could slim an ordinary brace