New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-03
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the London Times that the excessive itnpufty of
London gas has beneficial effect in keeping
away the choleras and that none of the workmen
IN tbs metropolitan gas works have ever died of
that disease, although their duties expose them to
great alteTnations Of heat aud cold, and they are
notably iatenp crate. THE director however is
directly contradiated by i've different writers.
Mr.. SimooX Lea, incumbent at one Of the churches
at Bow, declares that no class of men in his neigh
borhood have Suffered SO heayily from the chol.
era as the class employed in the gas works, aud
the engineer Of the Commercial Gas Company
says that'his company lost five workrnen in the
first seven days Of the present attack.
Atarecent injecting OF the French Academy Of
| Science, diamond weighing about four gEanimes
sixfy grains1 was exhibited, which, in its ordinary
/ condition, was of q whitish straw color, butupon
/ being submitted to heat it took a beautiful rose
tint. 1t preserves this tint for eight OF ten days
and then completely loses it, and returns pre-
oisely to its original color. This question Of the
color Of the diamond has an important influence
onts value, for white is estimated TO he worth
4 $4,000 francs, could the rose color be made
! permanent its value would rise TO 100000 or
/ 200, 600 francs.
The present poEula ion of Rome. is 2fe,7O1. This
j is an increase of 10000 since 1851 and of 5000
A during the past year. The increase has been
partly natural and partly owing 10 the coneentTa.
II political motises. During the last century the
4 greatest population Of Rome was l66, 944, but
whep Plus MI was taken away,aud the Sacred
College dispersed, it decreased 10 147 ,02G, Or
/
q of the ecclesiastical government IN 1900 the popu
lHauOn Inereasedt to 1913 0a4.
The minister of education in Italy reports thai
there are in the kingdom 260 private schools, 20s
/ of which are elementary, There are 3,l74 pa
u pills, 1925 of whom are boarders, land S420 dress
in ecclesiastical costume. During the las
five years eighty, two seminaries have been clesed
4 The government now proposes to take all the rev
enues of these establishments into its own hands
aud reduce the numbersof semnaries to that OF
the dieeeses,
II A, gan, eight feet long and in good preservation
4 bearing the date of 1912, and having on it the
i arms Of the Saters Company and the motto
/ A Sal sdpH oDNtid,o has been dug up in Derry,
in eSeayating foundations for new bank. Hav-
/ ing been presented to the corporation Of Derry
! by the salters Company previous to the siege,
Land probably used in the defense, it has been
added to the collection of local relics
1 An epidemic has appeared in Vienna, causing
| painful sweilings on the faces Of men who have
used new shaving paste, which had been highly
recommended asa .clean shave" by barber
Johann Gautier His paste renders unnecessary
the use of the razaT. The paste was found to cen
sist mainly of arsenic. OF course it was cdfltis-
Gated, and the aspiring barber subjected to legal
penalties. @l
The Sunday evening Iectureship Of St Jamesls
Aldgate, in the diocese of London, has become
vacant. The following are announced as the con
ditions; Income, from voluntary contributions,
depends entirely upon the popularity of the. lee
rousing style of preaching Indispensable
Since the cholera began in London nearly all
the East End church clergy who usually take their
holidays at this season of the year, together with
their curates, have remained at their posts work
ing manfully and well. Many incumbents who
have not written letters in the newspapers have
possibly worked the hardest.
An English paper says there is no CITY in the
world. not even Paris, where musical performan-
ees are so continuous as in London. The old dis
hncfons of geas0n9afld recess are now, as far as
music is concerned, almost obliterated, and operas
or concerts are To be heard all theyear round
At the end nf JuiE there ioh tear fIoue \
hve hundred and eighty-hye wounded soldiers in
the Prussien hospitals, of whom FIVE thousand
seven hundred and ninety-ige We're Prussians.
Theremaining thirteen thousand were victims of
the needle gun. assg
A spacious reading room, with a refreshment
room attached IS about to beop in Marseilles,
for the use Of sailors of whom nine thousand enter
that port annually. The founder of the establish
ment is the chaplain Of the British consulate.
Among other improvements in st. Petersburg,
electric clocks, egulated from the imperial OBJ
seryatory at Pqkova, are to be placed in the new
law courts, and the imperial library District tel
egraphs are to stretch over the city in all direc-
tons.
sum Of money has been granted from the
British treasury to thedepartment of healthforthe
purpose OF conducting special series of expert |
ments and researches in connection with the |
present outbreak Of cholera, s sG
report that the gambling establishment at /
Babe Baden has been permitted TO remain until /
1870 is contradicted by The Baden Landes zeitung.
The establishments is be broken up next year
a railway 10 now i'll course of construction for
the private use of the Sultan between UnIiar-
Skelessi and the Sultanfs summer residence at
Tokat, on the Asiatic coast of the Bosphorus.
The Vfceroy Of Egypt has determinedt to abolish
polygamy in his family. HeReeforth the viceroys
VIII have only one wife, and may only divorce her
IN case OF the fliiuTe of male issue.
H. Durond Brager, the well known French
painter who was on board one ofsthe Italian ships
1t the battle Of Lssa, was fortunate enough to es
cape unframed.
Letters have bnen sraaAiUaJ froya, n
silppi and Signor Giglioi, stating that great sue
.ess has attended their botanical researches in 4
Japan.
An enterprisng artist in London announces that
e has paint a picture of thefiotsin Hyde Park,
fhich will shortly be on view at the Pantheon 4
One hundred and sixty different kinds Of rifles Z
re now on trial in the French camp at Ghalons. !
foai by the race-horse Stockweli in England :
as been named the Needle Gun :
q iate tourist in Russia writes to the Friend of
llala q Salentta paper, some account of the great
;h ail NJ, iaiE e. Mimi the place where the trade
where the iron Of Siberia, The tea of China the
ks and jewels Of Persia and India are exchanaed I
or the industrial products of France England and =
Jermany The description is graphic and the in. /
ormatoh 1t givesis not too familiar to be yaIua-
lle: 44 y
In the beginning of August arrived at Min.
The appearance was moststriking- Mini with lis
Aremlin on high table land, two mighty rivers
lowing near it, and the fair held on a sandbank
1etWeen those rivers, which were lined with boats
of all sizes, and shapes.s - s5s5se55f5 s ss5545I 4
Nh stecuredsgith great difficulty lodgings in a
MOTEL where the only bed was a hard leather mat
irass dhe Russians usually take their own beds
and food with them) and sailed forth on n :,
lfoshkY 10 the fair, crossing aWide bridge of
9oatst Yhefe the crowds were kept incapital
ofder ny mounted Cossacks, who made pretty free
use OF their whips. was surprised at the full {
accommodation pr0yided--ap1endid ranges of !
shops, hye thousand iHsnumber, D very handsome
bazaar with o residence for the governor in fine |
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