The Morning herald., 1875-11-30
PERSONAL AND PERrIxExT.


Ouesn victoria's pet horses are hand
some grey.
Florence, the comedian, has symptom,
Of paralysis.
Gustaye Dore receives S50,0c0 f,r illus.
tratiug Shakespeare.
Mr.. Forster complains that there is no 20.
lhical activity in Great Britain.
Prof. Wise, the balloonist, believes tim.
}i,es can be made to tow barges.
"she Stoops 10 Conquer was written
tef,re the days Of pinback skirts.
1.-THE History Of the suez Canal" by NJ.
De Lesseps, is as interesting as a novel.
CampaniAi is coming to this country
otter New Year to support Titiens in
opera. ...- &C..
Charlotte Cushman's agent announce 0
that she is SO i'll as to abandon all expecta-
ton of publicly reading this season. :,
Another Partisan novelty. A committee
J. As been formed to corstru:s a -Eeopll 8
opera. .house in that city, to contain from
10000 to 10000 persons, at prices not e1-
e,eding an average OF two francs r.
1t is said that ameng the Illuminated
devices in the city Of Bombay PIT up by
he natives on the occasion Of the visit Of
tle Prince OF Wales, was one with the
words, Tell mamma We are happy"
The original Uncle SIN was Samuel
Wilson, Of Troy, New York, who used to
brand his fish barrels when filing them
With army supplies in 1872, U. s., to stand
she said, for "uucle SAM" hence the
oubriquet. , Z r. T. p, 4
Den Carlos appeans to Ike brsvity
ma letter to General DorregarAy: aAsI T
ght fer justice, consent to sat.sy ycrr
iesire that either your past record may he
|on6rmed or that you may receive the full
|eaalty Of the law" = q" = ~
The Musical &tand@d says that there il =
arort that twenty-three MANS ,tipu of|
lozart have been found among the papers
ia deceased inhabitant Of stargard, in Po.
panla. Several symphonies, piano con-
no, and Il Latin comedy are named
mons the treasure ucv'.
1t is told Of a. man poorly dressed that
went to church seeking an opportuni.
to worship. The usher did not notice
H. He seated several well-dressed per-
rs who presented themselves, when final
the man addressed the usher, saying !
an you tell me whose church this is "
les; t"is is Christ's Church" ':ls He
:" was the next question. After i, a
was not SO hard to in'.
An English yachtman who has been t.
soath Sea Islands says that ia spi e o.
'lr Christianity, the samoahs are the |
st arr'nt thieves, and their morality is |
the lowest ebb. The foreign missiona- |
have abolished all innocent enjsy-
n's, tuch al dancing, wrestling and
ny eam.s, and their 20 called Ci r'stian
greg 'tions grow up to be a set Of hypo'
lcal humbugs.
the last ten years 2l4 criminals lave
, Sentelcsd 70 death ia England and
9s' but only lOs, or less than half the
ab'r, were in fact executed. In the
4s14 as many as 25 were sentenced to
h, and l6 Of them were executed. In
years, 1864, there have been 4S2
inals executed in England and Wales,
ayear upon an average. The lhrg.
u'nber in that period was 20 in 1903
malles was 4 in 1871. There were
FSeeu'ions in the first ten years, and
were l03 in tse last ten. If ws go
er back than 1888, We find very dif.
hsures; in the three years, lsss-s1,
Aeea'lons were no less than l01, aver
Aa year.
F"'p M'Quaid Of Rochester has given
e"S On the school question at consi .
length TO reporter Of the ButIas
y, re protests against the idea that
''hoilcs intend an alliance with eth a
'oeal party, or any collusion with .
What that they do desire is this
p.|'ct is to gather in the children, in
e'oe', whose parents ore, many Of
40 lgAolant or take time 10 give
r5per instruction. The State cam :
'en all Of these children, but we can,
10 not ask the State to pay fcr the !,
us influences we throw around these \
E"' out simply for the secular teach. =