, 1872-10-22


surface OF the water, which was now slightl,
l rippled with light air Of wind.''
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Kansas City Bulletin denies that it il
about to die.
| Tho Philadelphia Councils are discussing
how to oxpend 93,0o0,0 600 on Fairmount Park
--Archbishop Bnyley will lay the cornerstone
OF the new st. Patricks Cathedral, Of Washing:
| ton. on the first Sunday of November
The Michigan Central corporation has &C
! cepted and assumed control Of the jackson, Ian.
! sing j. Sag NAV Road to point % miles north
OF Saginaw, and within 100 miles Of Mackiaaw.
The latest invention for travellers is a COM
bined compass, Thermometer, and barometer
the latter measuring IL, 900 feet and the whole
in q solid silver case about inches in diemeter
Metallic money being now scarce in Trance
| the project Of an aluminium coinage has been
projected, and has obtained the sanction Of high
chemical authorities.
Some OF our contemporaries print this rs
piece Of news: "a Chinese inventor has dis
covered how to send b an exact fac
in Switzerland they have sent by telegraph the
handwriting.
Some Of the preachers nre raising their
great voices against the alarming decrease OF
births in this country. So long as we have iaila
and prisons in this country, and acaHolds, and
houses. and feeble1nindcd institutions. and hos
pitfalls to fill: any decrease Of population may
Justly be regarded with a1arm.
The new silver coins Issued by the British
Mint are SO defective in workmanship that the
London Times says Of some specimens for
acter that would induce any one to reject them
on the ground that they could not possibly have
smt been sent forth from any Government establish
Eight rabbis only in tho United States
preach to Jewish congregations in the English
language. These are Dra. Guthelm, INVADER,
and the Rev. $. II. Isaacs, Of Now York; Drs.
Wise hnd Lillienthal, of Cincinnati; two
brothers jacobs, one in Philadelphia, the other
in New Orleans; aud the Rev. George Brown Of
Evansville, Ind.
1t is stated that members of the Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, have in contemplation the
erection of a magnificent Sailors Home in New
York, large enough to afford accommodations for
every seaman in port. It is proposed to raise
$250,000 among the members for this purpose.
The first proposal, to erect q church near Pros
pect Park, to be called the Beecher Memorial,
was omphetically declined by Beecher.
The stove manufactures in Troy at present
number twenty-five. They arc turning of an
aggregate Of 2Oo 600 stoves year, consuming
$4,000 tons Of pig-iron and 15,000 tons of coal,
and giving employment to about 1000 men in
different capacities, as moulders, mounters and
filters, pattern makers, and laborers.
The absurdity Of post-dnting weekly news
papers has. exenplifcation in the. New York
day, Oct. &C. says ita popular contributor, Fanny
Fern, is extremely i'll, when the fact is she viii
be dead sixteen days when the date of the paper
shall have been reached; BY the WY, the last
nmns OF the Ledger ended with q quotation
from Festus: 30 God, I thank Thee that I
live!" the paper bearing date two days after she
. If yoa 1s @atch piece Of silk BY daylight in
will find by gnslght that the match is no mitch
ut all. We do not know this from personal ex-
perionce, bat the ladies' te}l us SO, and they in
Bist that therefore alt such matches should be
made by gaslight (other matches whenever con-
venient). It is On this account that the majority
OF our stores have gasit rooms Who Gun ex-
plain this? We knoB that color in the daytime
lsnot the same color at night, but we did not
know until recently that what seemed like per-
feet match of colora by the light of the sun was
not 30 By gas.
There is an obstinate fatality about the
Coliseum in Boston. The great Gilmore ball
was to have been given last Thursday evening,
but the festivity has been postponed because
Of the insufficient time left for tightening the
roof, which admits water too freely for com
tori" There never WAS such structure before,
il We except its illustrious predecessor-neyer
such 8 building for blowing down and leaking,
and harng everything else happen to it.
could find some recondite connection between
the Coliseum and the Tower of Babel.
The Paris Figaro warns its readers agaius1
placing too much confidence in the announce
ment OF hotel whose proprietor informs, the
public that English, German Italian, and
says, who lately descended at tie hotel in
question, and conld find no waiter possessing
even the most rudimontaIy acquaintance with the |
English language, asked for the interpreter, and,
being told there WAS none, demanded an expIa- |
nation: "By whom, them" he inquired, 'are
Englieh, German, Italian and Spanish spoken :"
By the travellers, sir, who come to the hotel"
was the reply.
A mysterious noise in house in Peckham-
England the other evening, caused the sum,
restigated the kitchen, there found big black |
tom cat, with its head fast in elue-rot. A
strange catastrophe that; but when the police |
man pulled the cats headt out OF the pot, q |
mouse was found in its mouth, and Tint ex- |
planned how puss had got into its funny pretiic-
ament.
THE telegraph has been found usefu1.in a
curious way in Connecticut. A lunatic who was
formerly an operator, lately escaped from the
asylum at Hartford, md no trace Of him could
be found until one night an old associate OF his
his touch in the click Of the instr71-
ment at his side. This message came from Wal
llnGford, and there, sure enough, the missing
man was found, having tried his hand at the old
cr2sfss, and thereby revealed his whereabouts.
People in America and Europe have heard l.
Of all sorts OF strikes; but that an Emperor
SHOULD strike for higher wages is surely nevs
% Them: And yet that is the very thing the
Emperor Francis Joseph Of Austria has done.
Hitherto the poar man received beggarly civil
ist Of five million horins- lie has now informed
Ehe Parliaments OF Austria and Hungary that, i
Unless they allow him an additional two million,
he vii have to go to the poor-house! +
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