National Republican., 1875-07-26
ALL SORTS.

At o school exhibition in Auburn, N. Y, on
Tuesday evening, chemical preparation ex.
pIOded in the coat-tail pocket of one of the pro-
fessors, and In q moment he wasiu blaze. There
was great excitement until they had put the pro-
lessor out.
A solemn "Salamanderr-i.e e., Students to lst,
executed not by force of lung, but by grasp OF
glasses-in honor of concord, was given by the
German studer Is at Bonn to DIR. Falck, the Prus-
sian Minister identified with the new ecclesiasti-
cal Legislation, as the highest honor they could
bestow upon him. on the occasion Of his recent
visit to their university.
Another attempt has been made to destroy Fo-
Iey's statue Of Prince Albert in Dublin. Two
men were arrested at midnight while preparing
to injure 1t. They had covered 1t with q canvas
shroud saturated with paraffine oil, which was to
be set on hre, and were in the act of forcing tin
can down upon the head Of the statue, which had
painted on 1t in large red letters, mo resldencs
Tor royal princes"
A Londonor recently complained of his neigh
Dor for keeping fowls so as to be nuisance and
injurious to health. HIS wife did not like to hear
them crow at o'clock ia the morning, and she
fame an house at 8 a. m. RcmOnstrsn%ce % was made,
but the offending neiR hbOr replied that they were
playing Moody and Sankey's hymns. The magis-
trate granted summons.
The revivalistic efforts of Mrs. Mary Brewer
had aroused Graves county, KY, to intense re-
ligious excitement, and her meetings were being
attended by multitudes, when her feVor cuImi-
mated in what she called "Holy Ghost sanctifcs-
tion dances" She was arrested, declared insane
by q Council of physicians, and is now In iunatic
asylum. Hundreds Of her converts, however, de-
clare her to be victim Of persecution.
A botanical critic has pointed out remarkable
errors in many pictures at the Royal Academy
exhibition. Mr.. Bedford's "Hermione," for ex-
ample, is q subject taken from ancient Grecian
life and Q matron Is represented as standing be-
tween lemon and an orange tree. But, SAYS DE-.
George Birdwood, the Greeks and Romans knew
neither the orange nor the lemon, and even
Shakespeare probably never saw an orange or a
lemon tree.
Senator Jones, Of Nevada; A. 7. Stevart, of
New York, and ]. d. Coughlin and Geo. Brown,
Of California, have bought q piece Of land at
Delord and Annuciation streets, New Orleans,
wheron they intend to build artificial ice fac
tory $50 feet long, 1l6 feet wide and more than
feet high, to cost s125 600 They have an ice fac
tory In California, one In Chattanooga one nearly
finished In Galveston, and and are about to build
John Thompson Of Algiers, near New Orleans,
lives close to railroad, and one day his dog was
killed by locomotive. The dog was . favorite
with his master, whose resentment was aroused
BY Its death. That night he misplaced q switch
and threw a freight train of the track, and two
days aiterward ne repeated the act. Then
wat watch nv. was kept and he was csught fastening
His trial is In progress In New Orleans.
The Sultan Of Zanzibar, on his visit to the gun
foundry at Woolwich, where the forty-ton trip
hammer was at work, saw the workmen LII an
i'm nense iron grating, revealing furnace about
the siIe Of an ordinary room, which sent forth
such glare and heat that the party were com
PEELED to shield their faces for Q time from the
hot blast. "whsn snail We get 70 prayersf" he
exclaimed on the return journey, "for have seen
the Gate Of He'll"
The Boston Journal Of Cksnistry regrets that
the millers Use all their inest soundest wheat for
fine aour, and the poorest for Graham or brown
bread, . general name given to mixtures Of bran
and spoiled -four. .What We need is good, sweet,
whole wheat hoar, hnsly ground and put up Sc
who VIII give his earnest attention to furnishing
such hour will realize fortune speedily; secur.
ing the most nutritiye principles the Creator has
stored up for mans food"
An old lady IN Jefferson county acquired the
habit Of using morphia for relief from the pains Of
Q tumor Her family vainly dissuaded her, and
at last united In deceiving her by substituting
carefully prepared potato starch In morphia bot
ties. She used this article fifteen years, Until the
day Of her death, often complaining that Il was
an inferior article, though her physician declared
1t all right He gave her Doveras powders once
during an illness, but she could not rest until she
took some Of the starch morphia.
Curates In the French province of Anjou have
adopted what the Pail Nall Gazette calls the
Ward Beecher plan Of selling the sittinrs BY auc-
ton on the frst Sunday Of the year, The plan Is
more simple than edifying. The curate and treas
gregation, and At every halt one hears, aGoing at
nve francs Tor fteen francs or twenty francs) the
chair, everybody shouting as In an ordinary auc-
tion.room. Worse of all, prices are run up, not
BY fair competition, but BY the bids Of church
wardens and such like. IL is, in fact, just what
goes on at mock auction, or among tie ticket
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