Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-16
GENERAL NOTES.

George &. Min, eX-preacher and present
Shakespearean actor, fell and broke a rib
while playing Hamlet at Richmond, Ind.
The government hires a vault in a safe
deposit company in st. Louis for the stor-
age of silver dollars, and has about 81 ,000,-
0O0 in it.
A three-year old boy in North Carolina
was scalded to death few days ago by
cup of hot coffee, which he pulled upon
his head from table.
Viewing the recent contest in Colorado,
the Denver Relss, Democratic paper,
favOrs the election of United States Sena-
tors by popular vote.
There are 200 or more gambling houses
of va ious kinds in Boston. The police
say they are making what they call Wig
OrOus attempt to close them and keep them
closed.
A balance of $34,044 was distributed in
the Philadelphia Orphans Court on
Thursday among the heirs of SignOr An
tonic Blit2, the magician, who died four
years ago.
Superintendent Yerplanck COlyin, of the
Adirondack survey, says that the mean
height of Lake Champlain, as obtained by
seven years observations, is 1886 feet
above tide level.
The deposit of salt just discovered i'm the
Wyoming valley, underlies a tract fifteen
miles long and two or three wide. 1t has
a depth of from 200 to 1000 feet. The
vein at Warsaw is seventy feet thick.
Virginian named John Z. Cross,
dreamed the other night that he was out
ON chase, and as the stag turned to bay,
sprang violently from his bed, and, strik-
ing upon a chair, received injuries which
it is feared will prove fatal.
Somebody calling himself student"
has asked the Kansas City Mo-. } Times:
lis there any state in the Union where /
can practice medicine without diploma?
| have attended one course of lectures"
And the Times replies: ''Yes, in Massa-
chusetts."
NJ. Pasteur reports to the Paris Academy
of Medicine that he possesses four dogs that
he has inOcplated in such Il manner that
they cannot become mad. As man can
take hydrOphObia from a mad animal
only, the Professor believes that the
vaccination of CANNES will put an end to
rabies.
The Democrats of the Third district of
West Virginia will hold a convention in
Charleston on Wednesday, March %, to
nominate a candidate to fill the seat in the
next Congress to which SenatOr-elect John
+. kenna was chosen in November. The
election will be held on Tuesday, May 10.
Mr.. Kenna's plurality last fall was 4,565
votes.
Among the revelations made in the in
vestigatiOn of the almshouse at Pottsville,
Pa, is the fact that many thousands of
dollars, spent Ostensibly for outdoor relief
of the poor, went to reward personal
friends of the commissioners and to make
political capital. Orders for whisky and
cigars often amounted to 5000 in day.
The late d, NJ, Bennett, editor of the
Truth Seeker, was interested i'm spiritual
ism, and he said that if he found it pos
sible TO return after death, or to in any
way communicate with his living friends,
he would certainly do so. Several mes
sagaS have purpOrted to come from him
through spiritual mediums, but the pres
ent editor of the paper says that each
bears conclusive evidence of spuriousness.
SignOr Torrelli has published a map
showing the malariOus districts of Italy
and demonstrating that the chief causes
of malaria there are the spread of railways
and the destruction of forests. The rail-
way embankments interfere with natural
drainage, and the absence of forests
causes the earth to become so dry and
porus that it absorbs large quantities of
water, which give rise to heavy and long
continued corporations.
Twenty-Five Cinnamon, killed by the
powder explosion at Berkeley, California,
were buried with considerable parade.
On ARRIVING at the cemetery it was found
that permits had been issued for the
burial of twenty-fOur, and the sexton |
would admit that number only. Which |
body should be excluded as the twenty
fifthg The question was left to the crowd
of live Cinnamon, and they settled it by
means of a terrific fight, in which various |
weapons made many wounds.
Dr.. Francis states, in a paper read be- |
fore the Haryeian Society, London, that |
the habit Of tea drinking at and between |
meals, now so common in England, rem
ders people peculiarly liable to neuralgia. |
A lady i'm England wrote to her husband |
in India; ''lf you wish ever TO see me |
again, come home at once; | am very ill.," |
She asked her medical attendant to write |
also, which she did, as follOwsl ''Stay |
where you are; if your wife would only |
take less tea she would be quite WELL"
Charles Reade's latest dramatic venture |
is the production of Tennyson's "DOra,"
in brief form, announced by him as a |
''simple bit of nature" He specially in |
yited writers, actors, painters and artists |
IN general to the first nights performance. |
Although good piece Of construction for /
stage PURPOSES, and acted In perfect |
the piece is q failure, owing in /
part il is thought, to the lateness of the /
hour when it is played. 1t is used as an
after piece at the London Adelphi, and is
not over until nearly O'Clock in the morn
ing.
Bronson Alcott, who had an apoplectic
attack last October, has regained a mod
crate degree of health. One effect of his
Illness has been to weaken his memory Of
words, and though he understands per-
iectly what is said to him, and knows what
he would reply, he cannot usually express
himself with clearness. Since his attack
he has grown white beard and NOUS
Iache, and is unwilling to have them re-
moved. Admirers assured him that he
oOks more like an old Greek philosopher
han formerly. His latest and probably |