The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-01-16
AT HOMIE AND ABROAD.
American ladies are said to be the
,ost atxIiph IN tho -,o.I5

IuC DAtlSu CbSt6S O6uSJE NlAICu 1bh
1875, for six years.
The value of the estate of the late
Johns Hopkins, of Baltimore, !
amounts to S10000.O0O.
The Rothschilds are worth about |
$I000.O00.0O0, twelve of them includ
ing their individual fortunes.
Rachel, the great French actress,
is said never to have received a high
er salary than $1,000 per annum.
Over two hundred tons OF nitro
glycerine have from first to last been
exploded in the Hoosac tunnel
A Boston house is said to have al
most monopoly of the wooden
toothpick trade. 1t sells, annually,
about 500.00O.000.
The London Times estimates that
| 74,G00,00O bushels of wheat will be
required from this country to supply
the markets cf Europe until the crop
Of 1874 IS harvested.
An imperial ukass has been is
sned in Russia, requiring six men
out of every thousand inhabitants of
Russia-includiDg the Polish pro
Yinces to be drafted into the army.
By agreement between the two
governments, at present four shil-
lings British per dollars United
States will be the rate of exchange
in the London stock market.
During the year 1873, Chicago has
sold at wholesale slone, $530.000.000
werth OF goods gain of Is per
cent. over the business of 1872, and
a gain of 81 per cent. over that of
1870.
The Third Assistant Postmaster
General decides that any number of
individuals or firms may print their
advertisements on postal card be-
fore 1t is deposited in the mails.
The boast that the moment to slave
sets his foot on British soil he is free
does not extend to the British pos
sessions on the gold coast Of Africa.
Slaves are freely bought and sold
there.
The Montreal Monetary Times
says that the hardware manufacture
ers of the United States are finding
a market for their goods in Canada
to very large extent, and are in
fact cutting off the English trade.
1t is proposed in England to con-
struct an eighty ton rihsd gun. The
largest yet ever made there weighs
only thirty eight tons. The ealibre
Of the new gum will be about seven
teen inches.
California has about 100000
head of Sheep. The wool crop in
two shearings, at an average Of ten
pounds per head, would amount to
S0,000,000 pounds, or 15,0O0Oo0
more than the total produce of the
United States in 1871.
Among the civilized things want
ed by the Emperor of=Japan has
been definite birthday. Aconyen-
ton of wise men has finally fixed up
on the 4th of November, and the
Emperor liking that day as well as
any other has accepted the date.
The Russion Government has un-
der consideration s railway project
for q direct route through Siberia to
the principal Chinese and Japanese
harbors. The line will be 1000 vsrsts
in length, and is estimated to cost
$50, 100000 roubles.
A Hindoo lady is Visiting England,
an event that never before occurred.
Although belonging to high caste
in Madras, she has ventured not on
ly to cross the ocean, but also to mix
freely in London society, and to con
form generally to the social customs
OF the country.
Premier Gladstone has, it is said,
notified Mr.. Arch to beware Of using
again such threatening language
as he uttered lately at Bradford,
England, where he said that if Parli-
ment where not careful Of the cause
of the farm laborers he would lead
100000 Of them even to the gates of
St. Stephen.
The dry goods importation at New
York during 1873 is stated at $i24,-
60, ,465. This is twenty-three millions
less than the importation Of 1872,
and eighteen millions less than 1871,
but it exceeds the importation Of any
previous year excepting 1865, when
126 millions worth of dry goods
were landed st that port.
London is going to have magni-
fieent tower two hundred feet high in
memory of Abraham Lincoln. 1t
will cost $35, 900, one half of which
sum has already been contributed in
London, and the balance in this
country. Rev. Newman Hall is the
man who has undertaken and will &C
eomplssh this grand work. The tow
er will adjoin DR.. Halls church.
Young men, who are anxious for
q start in life, are informed that they
will have farm given them in the
Indian country, if they will only
marry a squRw. This is fine chance
for poor, but deserving young men.
They not only get farm, but they
get wife to till it, thus giving them
the opportunity to smeke the pipe
of peace and content in their own
homes, and live without work ell
their days,
Anti Tobacconists will be shocked
to learn that the Pope is an inYeter-
ate snuff taker, and liberally sprink-
les everything within range, so that
be requires no less than five OF six
new cossaeks in the course ofa year
each at cost Of 400f., when two
should be amply sufficient Pic
Mono, however, is as reckless and
extravagant as Beau Brummel in
the matter of dress. His stocings
cost 24R pair, his red mantle costs
S0Of., and his fine slippers Of cloth,
embroidered with fine gold and orn-
amented with q cross, of which he
he has six pairs every year, cost from
l20E to I40f. q pair.-From Rome
Letter.
The influence of Newspapers.
The Boston TraUeuer states that
a school teacher who had enjoyed
the benefit of long practice of his