, 1870-05-02

! Of Berlin: professor Mu1lenhor viii re.d
Anglo Saxon. and interpret the poem OF
>geowulfe while u solIy {tectoE1 Mill trent Of
the modern British poets. Even English
stenogrsphy vii furnish materials tor sspa-
rats oourBe. In English history Professor
ErdmannBdorfer has chosen the Revolution is
| the subject Of his summer lectures.", t.:
M. Roulo has read before the Academy OF
Sciences Of France remarkable paper On
/ hydrophobia ItappeaIs thAt children, Hhen Bit
ten, owing to their oquanimity and want Of
apprehension. mostly escape the disease.
T9hs Of $50 Rs5sgn1 btsR By lSnd dggs
once the malsdy appears, there is no cure for
it, and the only preventive is to bum the bite
| With red hot iron. Many members asserted
the Cause Of madness in dogs IVES tho bsrbar-
GUS habit Of "muzz1ng" them. Marshal Vail
liant cited the town of Dion, whero dogs we're
| their gratitude by never going mad.
The Dubuque Times saya: "Althoueh
| the spring rise This year did exceed that Of
most of the spring freshet8 Of the past forty
years, yet it may be reasonably expected that
the spring, or April fresheta, As well as the
| June risc,s viii occasionally reach higher
| point than ever known before. The subject Of
the Mississippi flood WAS investigated By citi-
| izeu OF Dubuque oyer ten yearB Ego. He says
| that tho settlement of the country northward,
| BY agricu1turing, increases the drainage to
| such An extent that all the tributaries Of tho
great river, as well as tho mighty river itself,
will lave annual floods Of more height and
force from year to year."
One often soes in English papera sneeying
notices of the facilities for obtaining di-
yorces in sone Of the United States, Indiana
| in particular. One day recently, Lord Pen
| dissolution OF no less than hfteen marriages,
It is doubtful il an Indiana court ever exceed
ed that number at one sitting. Il is recorded
| that in thirteen cases out of fifteen the hus-
bands were the guilty parties. The next day,
. smaller batch OF eleven had their connubid
| Ino.s united, and in nino Of these cases the
! wives were declared to bo the errlnG partleB..
Mr. John Gilmore, Of this city, has recently
| invented a new propeller for steamers, which
seems to be decided improvement. 1t con-
| Bists in plscing two steam cylinders in = hori-
zontal position, below tho water Line, and ex-
| tending the piston rods beyond the stern- At
the end Of each piston rod is square franao,
fitted with stats, like window blind, which
are closed to the push, but open to allow the
water to pass through freely On the reverse
motion. Doing away with the necessity for
complicated machinery, dispensing oven with
ahy-wheel, and applying tho power directly, it
Beems to be the himpleat and most effective
mode Of propulsion yet discovered.
Tho Gauaois says that some worknnen en-
Eaged in demoliahing an old house in Paris
came upon nest Of adders, containing Boue
hundred s Of these reptiles. at tho bottom Of
an exhausted we1l. In tho midst Of this snake
nest was found a SKELETON, which had probably
which had been deyouIcd By tho adaers.
Strange to say, in tho hand Of the skeleton
WAS pocketbook Of red morocco leather, in
which, when opened, there were found forty
bank notes for ,ooof- each, TornAn'a like.
nese, and q letter which had been almost
entirely eaten BY the reptilea, the only
fragnont rcmaiuing dedpherab1e bearing
tho words, ~ Do not make known thn plot p
A judicial inquiry had been commenced.
Tho North German Correspondent contra
from Rome that Count Bismark had warned
tho North German BiahopB at present attend-
ing tho Gcumenfca1 Council, through the me-
diuul Of the r1ussian Ambassador, that u
they garo their Assent to the preamble Of the
schema de 7de thay would BE- suspanded from
vented from returning within the Prussisn
Territories. The North German Correspond
ent says that no such menaces were necessary
" at the same time" it adds, I" there il no
doubt that the King Of Prussia and tho North
German Confederation would not hxvo secu
with indifference the acceptance Of the proas-
niuna BY tho council in it's original harsh, su-
p0rci1ious, and even insulting form, and tmay
be safely assumed that the most influential
petsonages IN Rome hare not been lsft in ig-
norancc On this point. .'....
While o1eavahng for the foundations Of q
new bridge over tho canal near Trenton, N. j.,
on Tuesday afternoon. quantity Of treasure
IN tho shape Of old coins OF much value Haa
unearthed One Of the workmen threw up
eighteen pieces Of gold, valued at 800, and,
overjoyed, threw down his shovel and left.
Great excitement reigns, and all tho idlers
Of the poor diggers have been quite lucky.
One Of the coins bears date 1889, and all Of
them eeem to be Spanish. piece Of very
pure metal has two castles On one side, and
two lions On the 1ere1sc, with the letters S. D.
Y. and T. 7. A. Under them are the figures 7,
4, l, and over tho v. ! figure g. SOME think
that the coin WAS buried by the Hessiana; but,
from the coins being Spanish, that seems i'm
possible, and it may bo part Of tho long
sought kidd treasure.
..Txo Texas desperadoes named Lawless
and Fisher we're killed in Coryeu County few
days since, after desperate fight With citi-
gems, who determined to capture tham dead or
alive. They we're first captured after being
slightly wounded, and, while travelling toward
Waco, Fisher suddenly. fumpod from his
horse and ran toward thickot. Hs was fred
upon and fell dead when about sixty yards dis
tant. Meanwhile Iawless, taking advantage
Of The excitement, thought to rnzke his CT
cape, and jumped frnn the horso ho WIS nd
ing. He wsa shot and killed.
There is peculiar journal published in
directories u the Ants- Tobacco Journal
To convert the ungodlv from their in
dulgence in the pleasures Of tho weed, 1t
recently published . history cntitted IAN
awful end Of = bmokss' It is tod BY Pen
s1noker who had ruined himself by h1s 'sbottlo
and pipe" One dnJ, it appears, he WAS dis
putting with his wife On tho subject, and, final
y yielding, ho promised that he would never
again smoke, adding, "H I do not Keep my
the use Of ny limbs; may ny blood turn to
corruption" The reverend stosy-teller adds
that the man4 having broken his promise, was
punished as he desired. Whiio tapping beer
cask he lost the use Of Ills eyes; he beeama
para1yzed; nnd on surgeon attempting to
he had previously prayed Hence the journal
dInvs tie moral "Dont smoke"
An English e1perimenter thinks that he
has attained to . knowledge Of certain limits
to the Bize Of the ultimate atoms, OF which
material fonrs are composed. Be thinks they
would not extend one nncai inch il p1aeod in >
RON, nor 60 large that 55f ,0G0, DOC, 900 would
extend over more than one inch. Tho aver
age Of this is about 1s1, 900, ,0o0, 900 atoms to
the hnea1 inch, According to this estimate,
nss N aaste sasa aea e1 eentn 81 g. g
Of such atoms il they Were
placed in contact But tho
pbyeiciatH tell MS that tho atoms
are necessarily sundcred BY spaces much great
er than the atoms Themselves; Bome even Bay
that the interasicial spaces arc probably many
million times greater than the atoms them
selves; whilo tho microscope shows us that
many millions OF living beings can. and do,
exist in the smnll drops Of water. The
chances are, that the Professor has not get
got his atoms email enough. He had better
cut Men, up again {the word atom means
"that cannot be divided y, if, indcod, the re-
suit Of the labor will DO worth the trouble.
Personal
CHIEF Justice Chase Will so TO Europe in
juno.
-Bomanj el Dyramjee Colap, OF India, is
registered at New York Hotel.
-Fcchter is to spend the summer in Europe,
nut will return to America in tire autumn.
Pauline Markham has had over 500 rings
given her since she GANG to this country. "
"A new work by Matthew Arnold is an
nounced, bnt the title ia not given.
Mrs. Scott-siddons talks Of making Hart
ford her residence.
General Dix is going to run Tor Alderman
in New York
Rosa Bonhcur is painting group OF lions
for the Dew Of TupjR.