The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-20
ALL SORTS.

past week. only twenty-five passed the eXaml
: nation and were admitted.
"Of course we couldn't have him roaming
a around here and putting on Congress'o na]
: airs, says Nevada paper, in explaining how
f a horse-thief came to his end.
, The New York market is glutted with
peaches from New Jersey and Delaware. Della
wares sell at 81 80 to So 80 per crate; prime
New Jersey, 81 so to 50: small baskets, 80 to
so cents.
John Paul says: lis very hard to be a
good christian when one has weak dises-
ton, and l sometimes fancy that change OF
stomach would benefit the morbid sinner
almost as much change of heart.
Another Arctc exploring expedition. which
was being organized to find the Austrian ex-
petition that sailed two Years ago. has sud-
denly found It's occupation gone by the arri-
val OF the missing Auslrians in Norway's OK
IRENE northern limit.
! Bayard Taylor met 3 poor iathelless boy OF
seventeen in Iceland, who had ad Shake
speare, Goethe, Schiller and score of other
writers, all i'll the original text And yet, says
the Boston Post. Le AadnS heard OF SIC
Beecher scandal.
Since Sheridan ordered the Scaiping of all
persons travelling toward the Black Hills, the
editor of the Louisville to,p.iel-.Jo,uml has
abandoned his project of emigraing thither
He says 1t is better to bear the hills we have
than fly to others We know not of.
Among the musical novelties of the ensuing
season will bean oratorio, to be produced at
Manchester. founded on Bunyans immortal
book. called o Christian. the Pilgrim or, The
Pilgrim Progress" Llhretto by Arthur Mat
thison music by Mr.. Alfred Plumptono
The Chinese of San Francisco have cheer
'ul custom OF gathering up the bones of their
dead in the graveyayds and bringing them
INTO town II sacks on street cars, when they
desire to ship them to China. The non
Asiatlc passengers protest against this uas,l.
vorv practice.
The .r.Lil. soldier who is to surmoun, Ia.
national monument at the battlefield of An.
tietani has been completed. and is claimed to
be the largest figure in sculpture out Of Egypt
He weighs over thirty tons. and Is twentv-one
and a half feet high. The .aa he holds is
eighteen fee, long and hi. Shoe three feet in
ieng h. The face is smooth shaven, EXCEPT u
heavy moUstache. and is that OF i. resolGte
man.
Mile. Albani was nearly "inocke'd out Of
time on the London stage lately by some
thing thrown to her by an admirer in the
boxes. 1t was one of those little cases in
which jewels are placed, and was attached to a
bouquet. The case hit her fair on the fore
lie I'd and she was compelled to leave the
stage: but the sight of the contents of the
boN-a tiara OF diamonds - completely re-
stored her.
IN 1870 mosquitoes made their appearance
in England, imported. rs it is alleged there
from the United S ates, and they have now so
much increased Us to have become a general
nuisance. 4 corresponds 1t Of the Times says
that they can be kept away at night by placing
few pieces OF s'pale green-eaved
pyrethrum about the room. We presume
that the plant here meant is the pyrethrum
! parthenum, or fever few, which is common
enough in English gardens.
E. Bayard Taylor has come back with a new
tragedy in his fist aud book on Egypt and
Iceland, full Of cataconbs, geysers, and such
things, on his back. Immediately on his ar
rival he rushed away to the wilds OF Pennsyl-
wanna to escape the reporters, who learned
that his pockets We're stuffed with the love
letters of Joseph and Mrs Potiphar There
Is something suspicious in his energetic re-
treat. Have Joseph's friends succeeded in
eiectln9 compromise -Glulhic.
Lord John Manners, scion of the ducal
house OF Rutland, died, the other day, III the
fitty-sixth year of his age He was promin-
ent nlta-conservative politician, but will
chiefly be remembered as the author of some
absurd lines which run nearly as follows
LET learnnc art, and commerce die,
But spare, oh, spare old nobility
The world aud the nobility, too, can well
spare such advocates OF heredtery rank as the
writer of the above rhymed trash.
The Londoners are getting scared over re- |
ports that the Thames is drying up and there !
appear to be grounds tor apprehension. The |
river is exceedingly low, and the embank-
ment seems to h ave drained the upper parts
OF the stream. Unless Il Weir, or some other I
means of prevention is constructed, the days |
Tor boating on the upper part of the stream |
are near their close. The embankment which |
has been reg ,rded as 50 grand an achievement, |
Is thus proving to be more costly and more
troublesome affair than wa, at first expected, |
bat the resources Of engineering are almost |
bouDdless. and q way to cure the difficulty !
will re long be found.
The rage for old china, and rare ceramic |
fabrics generally, is now at it's height A |
single dish tea-cup often sells in Europe !
tor a sum sufficient to keep an economical !
family IN comfort for years, and the number OF ,
American collectors is growing. The only |
trouble is that the supply fails far short of the |
demand, even when gullible lovers ofan,iquity
are cheated by moderu limitations. The |
amount OF the latter bids fair to increase, for
the revival of the arts of Majolica Gubbio
and FaenZa has been undertaken on large
scale in Florence. The only deficiency that
the new ware will have in comparison is the
lack OF age. This will be overcome by keeping
1t long enough.
Two Chinese students were recently admit
ted to Yale College Scientific Department,
they having passed creditate and satsfac
tory examination. There are now sixty Chi
nese students in Massachusetts, and Connecti-
cut, al OF whom are supported by their Gov
eminent Thirty came to this country two
Years ago, thirty arrived one year ago and
thirty more are ,pected in about a fortnight.
The students are placed at first in educated
fam hes two IN place, that they may learn
the English language. and each one spends
from two to four weeks a year at the head
quarters of the Chinese f iucational Commits
SION IN Hartford, where he is examined as to
lis habits and progress.
Staney has bigger contract on hand now
than the discovery Of Livingstone Jointly
b. the London Telegraph and
New York UemId. he has sailed tor Africa to l.
in'erTlew zeal potentates upon the condition
OF the slave trade. and eudeaVor to induce
them 20 take measures tor suptrsssng it.