The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-07-23
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-hlH cstehins hss been msds e peal
offence IN Ffussla
There we're ils osses n suielis IN me
Pwssiah army last year.
Paris hdles how wear ne tame
style On bat ~ vas worn enc hundred
years ago.
Att concert in 81. Pet rshufg r.
comfy, the ofehctira waa composed II
fx hundred immpcis and 10 drums
"A Russian millionaire recently dicd In
Paris who was famous for having once
given \ banquet ~ a select party ~ eight,
and cd them with parrots tongues
stcwed with truflcs
eight are of the first rank Parts, stBs
h9urF, Metz, Lille, Toulon, Brcst and
Chorbourr. The Notifications n Paris
are stated 10 have cos, ti0,00o,0o0, and up
10 1888 there had been expended on Cher.
bourg s34,0000o0
"A law has Just been published In
Sweden which permits iomAlo physicians
n practice medicine in all its branches,
hat they must submit 20 the same risor.
Gus examination ~ the men. All the
Swedish colleges have been instructed 70
admit female students to their course OF
study,
The census lately taken in II ingery
shows the population Of that country 10
amount TO f5,429,e3s souls. OF these,
z SOC, 947 are males, and 7,732,2ai are TO-
males. The census taken In 1857 gave 4
population Of 10, 76S, 1913 souls, so that the
population of Hungary has increased
since that time by 1,G60,7l5 souls.
"A proposal % buy and preserve the
Gad's Hill house and grounds ns a ma
tional mcmento 10 Dickens has hecn set
on footin English literary circles. 1t is sug-
gested that the house shall be retained by
the family of tho deceased for q term Of
years, at the expiration Of which, with
their consent, the place will be held in
trusteesh'p as a national memorial.
The bones OF about 1900 Chinese
lately reached San Francisco on their re.
turn 10 the Celestial Empire, They had
been gathered UP. along the line OF tho
Central Pacific Railroad, and were all
there was left OF a regiment Of laborers on
that great work. They are taken home
in pursuance of the contract by which
they were originally brought into the
country.
: The editor Of a s~atirical journal, the
! Liverpool PoTeaptne, was recently sen
. fenced to M months imprisonment for
. libel upon a local shipowner, and on his
! release was escorted by an immense con.
/; course Of people through the gaily deeked
streets TO the office of the paper. The
Z citizens have subscribed for him nearly
5 5000 over the cost Of the trial.
4 Another curious case OF conscience
d has recently benefited the directors of
: bank at Brussels. A. few months ago they
\ received a package accompanied by a let
ter requesting that the former should no
be opened until three months had elapsed
!. When opened al the proper time, the in
+. closure was found to contain 81 900 franc
restored to the bank by a deiaulter.
&c After q sermon preached by a Pati
priest in favor of Ireland, o woman passe'
through the assembly with an aims bag
The sermon had been very eloquent, tn
n. emotions excited by II were universal, AM
a gifts rained into the bag. A workman
ia present cast in his watch, saying aloud
ar zone need not know the time OF day
!. when q people is dying of hunger"
i'd There is an old man Of 112 at Warsay
!, who still does duty as sexton Of a syna
gogue. 1t is only three years since hi
rs hair turned gray. He walks daily from
! his village 10 Warsaw, a distance Of som
II miles. His own father lived to be 126
Ia and could tell all about the appearance o
N John Sobieski, the famous Polish leader.
q I'm various parts Of England the sur
face OF the country has undergone grea
changes in the last hundred years. A ncv
ID country is being reclaimed from the Sc
% on the coast of Norfolk and Lincolnshire
One consequence Of driving away III
IN water is, that the land shrinks. In Lynn
p many Of the houses are settling" th
n. bridges are weakened, and the Corn Ex
8 change is sliding away from Its front"
y An English lady travelling in Franc
ne was stopping at the Grand Hotel du Lou
be vre, where English Is spoken fuently, az
an cordlng 10 the advertisement, by all th
ny walters. Hearing Of the prevalence of th
a smallpox in the city, she rushed frantics
Cd " TO the Office and demanded Of the clerl
q; aIs the smallpox here :" "Not yet, m
d. ladi," was the reply; as soon as II arriv'
ng | sendit up to miladi."
The method Of "baby farming" /
re England Is this: The parents who desir
u. to farm out their children, and thus q
~ rid of the care of them, pay the matron {
10 a private infant hospital twenty dollar
or about that, to take charge of their bah
a. II Is undoubtedly understood that the il
u human parents do not care ever TO "
~ their offspring again, and the mercenar
am nurse puts 10 out Of the way by Id trea
ment or downright violence as soon
,ns possible.
The M. Garnicr, q member Of the Frcnc
Cambodian expedition, asserts that
ian China the taste for opium Is by no meal
on. confined to the human race. Pigs al
,ss horses thrive upon poppy flowers, az
"a. when deprived of their hvorite food la
led guish and die. At a town in Younan IA
used 10 resort in large numbers 70 q
nIss orium mandatory In order to inhale u
nd. fumes from the coppers.
lie Monsieur Plichon, the new Minister
Ing Public Works in France, is the hero
v. a rather romantic story. When q your
,nr. man he was ont shooting with a frien
:ois who, either through accident or inadvel
nv ence, wounded N. Plichon 20 severely
OK. the left hand, that amputation was niece
ito sory. Mons. Plichon, to screen his friei
smn pretended that be had himself caused Il
accident, and the secret seems to have be-
ap kept-a hidden hand"-until his frient
" death.
laM "A clerk who was discharged from Il
IL. British Admiralty, for misconduct,
De 1861, and Of. course without a pensc
i ~ lately wrote to the department, al IL 81
in Office, offering to accept a cnEnntutati
lilo Of pension. Apparently no inquiry "
ne made by the ~oficials 10 whom the app
cation was addressed. They seem 10 ha
| On assumed Implicitly that The pension "
really due, and 70 have proceeded In I
Iird ordinary conrse with the calculation !
ria committing II. The result was that
for tho 14th OF June, 1880, the clerk receiv
dby e2,co0 from the Admiralty For CONSENT
RED TO retire from q service from which
'ss5 had been dismissed In disgrace nine ye,