The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-04-25

AFRICAN ExPLoRATIoNs.-T African
travellers are generally unfortunate pco.
pie. DIR. Livingstone was murderedlin
Zanzibar. Girard was murdered or dfown-
ed. An English Consul and Missiona-
rieis are still prisoners in Abyssinia, with
little hope Of relief. The English Gov
ernment has sent out . party OF artisans
with guns and machinery for the Emper-
or Theodore, in exchange for the Consul
and Missionaries, but who knows that
he will not keep them all ? The men who
are on the way have, however, agreed to
take the chances. Mr.. Du Chailu got
safe home, but his book is q story of
difficulties and disasters. There is no
telling what may be done for Africa here
after, but Africa at present is pretty
hopeless case.
NUMBEK OF WORDS IN UsE.-Prof
Max Muller quotes the statement of q
clergyman that some of the laborers in
his parish had not 800 words in their
vocabulary. A well educated person
seldom uses more than about 3, 1000 or
1000 words in aetua! conversation. Ac.
curate thinkers and close reasoners, who
select with great nicely the words that
exactly fit their meaning, employ q much
larger stock, and eloquent speakers may
rise to o command Of 10000. Shaks-
pcare, who displayed greater variety of
expression than probably any other wri-
ter in any language, produced all his
plays with about 5000 words. Milton's
works are built up with 5000, and the
Old Testament says all that it has to say
with 5,642 different words.
The colored people of Charleston, S.
c., are in the midst Of q tremendous re-
vival OF religion. Last Sunday some
sixty, male and female, were publicly i'm
mersed. The men wore white shirts and
drawers, and the women white gowns,
and after the service two or three hun.
dred Of them,- as If seized with sudden
inspiration, ''got glory in the presence
Of their brethren, and INDUCED in . Sc.
ries Of gymnastics as novel a. they were
striking. The negroes in Charleston
we're always peculiar race, and their re-
1igious or devotional exercises were
among the features Of the Sabbath.
named Percy is now living in Lockhamp-
ton, near Cheltenham, England, who was
hundred and ten years old last Novem.
Der. He could then walk without sup
port, and was lar more poor in purse than
Al hSoAso. hS $SoCS0S 0S8IlOR Oh
age and circumstances, sent him twenty
i've dollars, which the London papers
speak of as remarkable generosity. An
American would give ten times as much
to anybody, and neveE think Of It.
j. B. was q stingy old creature, eager
for money. but he was Jealous member
Of church, and ostentatious in his re.
lieious exercises John,' said Catha-
rinc to her brother, what could have
made that stingy old wretch . christian
4 can tell you. said John. .he hAs read
that the streets Of The New Jerusalem
are paved with gold, and he is dsesrnin-
ed to get there
Various receipts have been given for
inducing sleep, OF which tie most usual
are those inducing monotony, such - re-
peaGng certain lines Of postzy, counting
. certain number Of figures, and % on.
Franklin, when slsepless, took N air
bath-that Is, he walked undreaeed about
his chamber. Sermons have bo0 found
very efectual, bat thssaa aaa0et - con.
venieotly AdDinisterod n. .1ed1inAL
M.ins - 80 isdes q g ID r..ea..
viii $4,000 asnbsn.
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