Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-04
GENERAL NOTES.
England uses q, 600, 900 railroad ties and

Florida is hoping to supply them.
The new local government in India is to
be administered bit by bit through boards
elected by 1000 villages.
England's total of postal areas are but
about 10. 600 square miles, while ours are
not far from 100000 square miles.
This country imports three-fourths OF
it's wine by value; but a much larger
share than a fourth by quantity is made
at home.
Addison S. Chapman, a school teacher
in the Catskills, was found last week lying
in the barn dead with halter a near at
hand, and a county jury decided that he
came to his death through "suicide by
hanging"
Victor Hugo wrote "Notre Dame de
Paris,'' in four months and half; "Ruy
Blasn in sixty-four days; "MariOn De-
| lOrme" in eighty-fOur days; "HernanT' IN
twenty-six DAYS: sLe ROi S'Amuse' in
twenty days; ''CromwelP' in eighty-fve
days.
Snow has repeatedly fallen all over
Southern Europe, once or twice as far
south as the streets of Palermo. 1t is
curious fact that both in the Northern and
Southern Hemispheres, and on the East
ern and Western Continent the last twelve
month was one of heavy snowfall.
The tallest electric mast in the country
has been erected in Minneapolis, MINI. 1t
is surmounted with eight lights, each
with 1000 candle power, which -ditfuse
light enough to enable anybody within a
radius of one mile to tell the time by his
watch at night. 1t lights the most dam
gerOus part of the city.
The demand for white light has caused
the construction of another new intense
gas burner reported in use at gold lace
factory at Colombes, in France. 1t is
combination of the incandescent and car
buretted systems of gas lighting, and is
called by NJ. HelOuis, its inventor, the
carbo-oxhydric burner.
In Germany, the suppression, or limita-
ton, of the use of aniline dyes in the
manufacture of articles of clothing is be-
ing agitated. These dyes have been found
to be highly prejudicial, and even danger
Gus, in some recent remarkable instances,
and so strong is the feeling in opposition
to their use that it is likely to take the
form of Parliamentary action.
Italy has over $500 miles of railroad,
which cost an average of almost 100000
to the mile. The population of the cOun-
try is more than ten times as dense in
proportion to the railroad mileage as that
of the United States. There are more
than twice the prOpOrtiOnate number of
employees that we have in this country,
but they average less than half the wages.
The Due de Charities, who is the young
err brother of the COmte de Paris, the heir
of Louis Philippe, when France was in
her extremity, dropped his title and joined
the army as Robert Lefert. His farewell
words on his enforced retirement were in
the same lofty spirit: 81 was by your
side at SolferinO and with the army of the
Loire, and | shall be there the next time
fighting is to be DONE"
The shipOwners meet the discomfiting
set of figures showing loss of life and
ships by the statement that last year was
exceptional in the number and violence
of its storms, and then they argue that Il
revolution is going on in ship building.
The Old-fashiOned slow ship was safer.
In the new system the condition of great
er speed has not yet been reconciled with
conditions of equal safety.
"Gambetta," says Frederick Harrison
in positivist sermon on the dead French
leader, chad religion in his soul, though
he had neither God nor saint, though he
never bowed the knee in the temple of
IL.
imperfect and but narrow image indeed
of that humanity which we meet here
to acknowledge and serve; but part of
that humanity and an organ and emblem
of it,"
The loss of lie at sea has been inereas-
ing for the last six years. Of the total
number of seamen employed one in sixty
lost their lives by drowning last year,
Of ho
of the five preceding years. Five years
previous 36S vessels were lost and ,551
lives. In 1SS2th were j4S vessels and
2,SS3 lives lost. This does not include the
lives lost in 23j vessels which were not
totally cast away.
Trees are often headed back to make
them grow strong, and as the upper
branches do seem to grow stronger the
next season the belief seems to be con-
firmed. But the trees become diseased in
few years, and gradually dwindle away.
When a tree is severely pruned roots die
in proportion, and the strong growth of a
few branches is only because they feed on
the food intended for hundreds of branches
and which was stored in the trunk of the
tree.
The City Council of Wilmington, Del,
has before it two plans for a system of
sewerage for that city, prepared by Ru-
dOlph Herring, civil and sanitary engineer,
of New York. One plan provides for
draining the entire area lying within the
city limits, serving double the present
population and carrying the sewage to the
Delaware river, at a cost of $546, 900. The
other plan provides for the partial compile
ton of the former, draining into the Chris
tiana river, to cost $23O,OO0
Nine. Minck, one of the Communists of
Paris, became on a certain occasion the
mother of future barricade maker and
dynamite patriot. When he was carried
screaming in his nurses arms to the bap-
tismal font, he was chriStened Lucifer
Satan VercingetOriX Minck. When that
boy grows up how he will bless his mother
for her fortunate selection of names. 1t
may be that he will be too timid to eX-
plOde a firecracker, that he will tremble
all over at the bombs of fete day, still
he will carry through life the beautiful
name, Lucifer Satan.
In a postscript to letter written by
Carlyle to Emerson on February s, 1889,
is passage-nOw curious reading: some
of the strangest things about these New
England OratiOns Emerson's) is fact l
have heard but not yet seen, that certain
W. Gladstone, an Oxford crack scholar,
tony NJ. p. and devout churchman of
great talent and hope, has contrived to
insert a piece of your first Grafton it must
be- in a work of his own on Church and
State which makes some figure at pres
ent. | know him for a solid, serious,
silent-minded man; but how with his
Coleridge shovel-hattism he has contrived
to relate himself to you, there is the mys-
terry. True men of all creeds, it would
seem. are brothers."
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