Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-31
GENERAL L

III Is unlaWlu 10 sell the 10Y plsVol III
Arizona.
Seventeen New York dealers handle 49,
600 horses annually.
a telephone cable is shortly to be laid
across the Hudson at Catskill.
The Church of England Temperance So
ciety has been in existence tor twenty-one
years.
The name of RomanOff, literally trans
lated, assumes the less poetical form of
Robertson.
Coal is stated to have been discovered
| over COG, 600 acres at Cabbage Bay, Auck-
land, n. Y.
With a bonded debt of over $4,000, 600,
Louisville has voted to expend $l,5OO,O 600
on lis streets.
Dead Mans Station is the melancholy
name of a wayside resort near Mammoth
City, in Mono county, California.
1t cost $40 to raise 334 bushels of rice at
! a point in South Carolina, which sold for
$40 in Charleston. Net proceeds, $270.
The aggregate domain Of the Florida
Land and Colonization Company, in the
several counties Of South Florida, embra-
ces about $1,000 acres.
The Billings IN. IT, Board of Trade
plants cottonwood trees on the streets at
ten cents per tree, and will keep them ir-
rigated during the summer at actual cost.
The American Tract Society reports
receipts in all of $394,CGG, and eXpendi-
lures of 1886, $50. The American Bible
Society had al income for general pur-
poses of 1898, Gal.
Every man in the employ of the Allan
tic and Pacific Company, from the highest
official down to the day laborer on a sec
ton, is assessed fifty cents a month to as
sist in maintaining a hospital.
Nebraska claims the largest apple ever
grown in America. 1t weighed twenty
nine and a half ounces. A model of this
production is at presenI in the Smith
sonian Institute, at Washington.
Large bows of gay colOred ribbon are
worn tied around the arm at the elbow
with lark dresses by ladies ambitious to
start new fashions. The effect is quite
striking, which is just what is intended.
There are many pretty styles in beach
or sun hats, some of which cost as much
as a dress bonnet. The Maud Muller is a
name given to one of them, but il might
lust as well be called the Mary Ann Null
cahey.
According to the Bdzdr, flowers dispute
the field with feathers for the trimming of
bOnnets, but always in large, thick clus-
tiers, and the little capotes are hidden from
sight by the huge bouquets with which
they are loaded.
Assuming that the immigration of 1888
will equal that of 1882 and 1881, these
three years, it is estimated, will give us
not less than Il quarter of a million OF
German farmers and mechanics, and over
$50, 000, 900 of German money.
The Salvation Army now, it is stated,
numbers asa corps, with 1000, 900 men,
bers, whilst the income amounts to 9121,-
600. The rental expenses last year were
f21, 600, and the value of the property ac-
quired ESQ, 800, but the mortgages amount
to f54, 900.
Since its commencement the New York
Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Chill
dren has entertained over 11,000 cases, in
volving over 100, 900 children, and during
the past year alone over 5000 children
were looked after, and 1888 placed in
homes or Institutions, to say nothing OF
its prosecution of 1,035 cases., resulting in
1,009 convictions.
A California paper states that a year or
more since a gate post hat had been
painted with so-called zinc white was
noticed to appear Dlack all uay, gray IN
the twilight and white during the night.
On an investigation of this singular prop
erty of the paint the cause was shown to
exist in a new metal, which has been
named actinium, on account of its Pc
culiarly actinic effects. 1t is found in
zinc ores and resembles zinc.
A reporter of the New York Journal
asked a fashionable dressmaker how many
dresses a young lady needed for summer
wear. ooh" said Nine. ID" "about
twenty at least, if she is going out at all.
She must have six white dresses, a pale
pink null of satin, a pale blue and sea
green, an amber, a black Spanish lace
dress, a white lace dress, two or three
dark silks, besides IA yachting dress, a
rowing dress, a ennis costume, n tea
gown, two or three riding-habits and a
special hat to go with each toilet, as well
as slippers or shoes, a parasol and
gloves"
Mr.. f. Nets, who is now n thriving and
prosperous merchant in MOnroville, Ala,
has a remarkable war record. He was in
the late wal between the States four
years and twenty days. He lay in prison
twelve months; was in sixty-two battles;
was shot through the lungs once; was hit
by a 24-pound cannon bali in the leg,
which necessitated its amputation at the