The Morning herald., 1875-12-15
personal AND PERTINENT.

being imported into France 10 lila "''"
superior native culture.
Professor Hyrti, of Vienna, is SAID to
uossess Mozerts skull, but no modern
composer has his brains.
Gen. Sheridan will have home-gather-
ing of all the members of his family on
Christmas day, at St. Louis
The discovery has been made that gas
distilled from pine is twice as dense as coal
gas and five times as luminous.
Paul Boyton is coming back from Lon
don with new life-saving scheme for
Observation-Disclosures skaters.
d. Bikelas will soon print in Athens
three of Shakespeare's tragedies. which he
has translated into modern Greek.
The manufacture Of plate glass, begun
in .Lissouri about three years ago, Is now
one of the most important industries OF
the State.
Our railways are rapidly destroying
our forests, the wood for ties alone requlr-
ing the levelling of 25O,o00 acres of forest
annually.
A negro Justice of the Peace in Jefer-
son county, Fla, has, with more than
Roman frmness, sent the wife OF his bosom
to Jail for stealing chemise.
When a Chinese Mandarin writes e
novel and a Chinese paper crlticizes it,
that Mandarin goes for that editor and re-
quests his head for a keepsake.
81 stand upon the soil of freedom!" cried
stump orator. "No." exclaimed his
shoemaker. "you stand in a pair OF boots
that have never been paid for"
Senator Dawes is still very lame from
the effects of the kicks from his horse, and
walks about with difficulty. 1t is not Ger
tain but that he has received permanent
injury.
The Rev. T. F. Bird gave notice at the
recent meeting of the CoHgreg ational
Union, of Victoria, Australia, that he
would move vote of sympathy with Mr..
Beecher.
The independent says: ut is strange that
in country where young ladies are SO
generally beautiful SO few OF them should
be sufficiently beautiful to serve as
models"
There have been four suicides by drown
ing within a year, all in one reservoir, at
New Britain, Conn, and now high fence
is to be built about 1t because the water
has to be drawn off IN each case of drown
ing, involving considerable expense.
At Mt. Vernon, ILL.,, man named
johnson, on getting out of bed stepred
upon the body of his daughter who was
sleeping on the floor, crushing her chest
and killing her instantly. She was Is
wears old, and he weighed 200 pounds.
Uncle Levi-"Now Sammy, tell me,
have you read the beautiful story OF Jo-
seph %
Sam-"Oh, yes, uncle"
Uncle-"Well, then, what wrong did
they do when they sold their brother"
"Sam-"They sold him too cheap, l
think"
Street car companies are reasonably pre-
gressive, but there is still one step for
them to take. What is wanted is some
man of polite manners to stand on the
platform and introduce the conductor to
ladies before that tunctionary puts his
hand round the waist to help them ont
70 be hrgged without an introduction
isn't right
A drunken tramp was given a piece of
stereotype to distribute in Bowling
Green Office the other day. He made
several pulls at it, removed the pipe from
his mouth and remarked: "Well, (hic(
Eve worked on the Courier (hic) Journal
and all that, but (hic) this is the d ---dest
piece of turtle distribution ! ever was en-
gagged in." This occurred after constant
pplication for work for about three weeks.
He walked off disguised with the place.
On he panel of desk in the Merchants
Exchange, in San Francisco, the grain is
wood, which is birds eye walnut, bears a
close resemblance to chaotic sea of flame,
in the midst of which shaggy head APP
pears. The features are those of a middle
aged man, and bear look Of despair. 1t
is not unfrequen, that the gram OF birds
eye walnut contains outlines which, by a
little stretch of the imagination, can be
made to appear like animated forms; but
resemblances so plain and unmistakable as
this one are very rfre.
Massachusetts is to furnish for the Cen.
tennial types Of four kinds Of her public
schools. A large city, smaller city, q
village, and sparsely-sett!ed rural town
will make a representative exhibition Of
the highest attainments reached in the old
Commonwealth under her public schoo
system. Boston represents the first and
, New Bedford the second, the latter being
, selected in consequence of the endow'
. ments Of 'the Rowland Income Fund, y
which, added to the liberal appropriations
of the city government, enables the school
to surpass in the extent the variety of thei
work those Of any other city except Bos
ton.
;. Funeral Of Edward HI. Stokes.
". Y. Herald Of yesterday.
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