The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-09-10

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-An evening ~ pool playing lost an
English Eafl fi0.000, lately.
The moss popular physician Al NJ
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lof
Princess aalm salm has pissed her
examination In surgery and gone 70 the
field ~ . doctreas.
"A London writer estimates the death
rate from chloroform in England ~ one
for every 5000 patients.
"A London paper declares that Eng
land could not get 10000 troops ready for
foreign service within a month
The largest Kitchen In the world IL
that Of the fieblg Beef Extract Company
In Uruguay. 1t covers 10000 square feet
Of ground,
-Fiity.four tons Of bad fish we're seized
in the Lopdon markets by the sanitary
officers during the month Of July.
England keeps 10000 people at WORK
IN the Post Office department on Sundays,
and the Lords Day Rest Association
has protested.
As n proof Of the severity Of the
battle at Welsscnburg, a French journal
states that n Of their standards changed
hands twenty. seven times.
They have discovered a method Of
thinning out tho over abundant popula-
ton OF Japan. Kerosene lamps have
been introduced into that country.
Machinery has recently been invented
in England which weaves from the hair
OF cats and rabbits a sort Of velvet tissue,
di|stinguishable from silk, but not inferior
In flneness and beauty.
The coal mines in Belgium employ
10000 men at wages of seventy cents a
day. The average wages of all employed
In and about the mines, including women
and children, are fifty cents a day.
The military career of King William
OF Prussia extends over a period Of fifty.
five years. His Majesty, who was born
In 1897, was present at the battle of Water.
loo, and was then but eighteen years of
age.
Some Of the French medical Journals
are advocating the plan Of burning in,
stead of burying the bodies Of those kill
ed in battle, TO obviate the danger Of the
public health of interring so many corpses
together.
-~Spurgeon, when laying foundation
stones, disdains the use Of the silver trow.
el as unworthy of a true workman, and
with an ordinary implement does a quar-
ter of an hours hard work, and actually
lays the stone.
Punch says; ave have skeleton
regiments which we must Immediately
convert into flesh and blood, The French
and Germans possess flesh and blood reg.
iments which are reducing each other TO
skeletons.
Insurance agents are busily investi-
eating the losses caused by the recent freF
near Ottawa, Canada. II is estimated by
the Relief Committee that about 400 fam
lilies in tho county of Carleton have been
left destitute.
The following advertisement Ia pub
lished In an English church paper :
"Home wanted for IN ~unmanageable
boy, aged 10, with a clergyman. Strict
disciplinarian, accustomed and willing 10
birch. Liberal terms sings in choir"
They mix things considerably in
China. A man tailor may be seen work.
ing diligently at a lady's dress for
about sixty cents a day, and a
washerman will wash and iron your
clothes at 90 per hundred while a boat
mans wife may be seen tugging at the
oar or handling the sails like a man, often,
too, with a baby on her shoulders.
All Swiss children are required 10 at
tend school up TO the age Of fifteen; first
rate schools are provided, which, II not In
all cases free, provide education at a
tri1ing cost, not exceeding Except in Ba-
sell a charge OF three francs-in Bern 1t Is
one franc-per annum, and even this Is
lessened in the case Of poor people. So
well Is Switzerland covered with public
schools, that private ones are scarce, and
in some cantons do not exist at all.
"A late copy of the Journal, Of Nancy,
says "That which wounds US more than
all else, is the condition of our unfortunate
farmers, dwellers in our country. Our
tears flow at the sight of long lines Of
wagons laden with oats, hay, and pro.
visions Of every kind, to be given
over to the Prussian army. The fire
horses, which were to prepare the
earth for the seed Of the future harvest,
have been harnessed 10 the Prussian can.
non. Since everything Is scattered and
destroyed on this day after the harvest, 1t
equally follows that remarkable barren
ness of the country must ensue The
difficulties Of IN entire year are crowded
into one moment. The ruin Ia complete
and unspeakable. Long years win be
necessary TO repair the damages OF these
few days Of invasion"