Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-23

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stricken districts Of India state that
immense quantities Of grain are
pouring into Behar from the Pun
jsub. An enormous transport train
has started from Patna. The num-
Der Of people employed on the re-
lief works approaches nearly 4Oo, DOC.
The ladies of Bilbao. according to
the Impartial, have decorated q bar
ricsde there with damask, on which
is worked in letters Of gold motto,
which may thus be translated:
AS long as cats will on black pudding
sup,
This unconquerable town shall not give
up.
1.-THE Peoples Cafe Company" is
the name of an association which is
organizing in London, to open cheap
and attractive coffee houses for the
working classes, and thus lead them
away from the gin shops. Lord
Salisbury is interested In the enter
prise, and the capital needed is but
one million dollars.
A colony of Alsatisns at Acib-
Zamoun, in Algeria, has proved quite
a success. 1t numbers three hun
dred and ffty-six inhabitants, n of
whom was born in the new "city of
refuge" The arrival there lately of
a pianoforte excited the greatest de
light, especislly when it was used to
accompany French patriotic melo-
dies.
The value of printed books ex
ported from England in the year
1873 was 9912,534. The late
Charles Knight computed that the
whole people of England 100 years
ago (1744) did not expend more
than 91O0, 600 a year in the pur-
chase of books, newspapers, and
publications of every kind--an as
founding comparison between now
and then, and Indicating n of the
main sources of the increased con-
sumption of paper.
A Berlin telegram furnishes the
text of the new bill for preventing
the illegal exercise of ecclesiastical
functions in Germany which has re
ceived the approval of the Federal
Council. 1t contains three articles,
the first of which authorizes the pc
lice to intern a disqualified ecclesi-
astlc, and the State, in case of re-
sistance, to de~nationalize and expel
him. The second subjects to slmi-
lar penalties all who may assume.
ecclesiastical functions without rec
ognized sanction. The third rem
ders valid throughout the empire
the judgments of each particular
State.
The attitude of the Austrian EN-.
pire toward INSTRUMENTATION is one
of the most remarkable manifesto
lions of modern times. Austria has
heretofore been considered the Cath
Ollie counterpoise to Protestant Rus
sia in German affairs. Now it is
taking substantially the same ground
with its hereditary antagonist upon
the temporal power of the Pope.
The venerable incumbent of the
papacy. in his declining years, is
compelled to see the increasing apos-
tacy of sovereigus respecting a a
dinal and cherished point of the re
ligious system which once denom-
mated in Europe. Plus the Ninth
may well refuse in the remaining
years of his celebrated n to put
his trust in princes.
The Borsen Zeitung says that the
late artillery trials in Germany have
proved that all the German guns now
in use can, st a distance of about l,
600 PAGES, pierce through any iron
plate the thickness of which does
not exceed Fl centimeters more than
the bore of the gun. This would
give the % centimeter gun the pow
er of piercing an iron plate of 80 s
centimeters, or IL inches English.
The only materials used in the con-
struction of the German guns are
cast steel, bronze, and iron. The
cast steel guns are made exclusively
in Krupp's establishment, and the
bronze guns in the gun foundry at
Spandau. The material used for the
cast iron guns is the cast iron of
Sayn, which is produced from brown
iron ore. Gunpowder for the artil-
lery is made in the factory at Span
dsu. Fourteen different kinds of
powder, besides the ordinary gun
powder and brismatic powder, are
used for exploding purposes.