The Morning herald., 1875-08-27
AND PERTINENT.

Carl Schurz i likely to make about
So, 900 from lecturing the coming season.
The American Board of foreign Missions
i behind $aOo, 600 for the year closing Au-
gust II.
Eastern Switzerland il afflicted with the
locust plague, and nearly all the grain has
been destroyed.
1t is estimated that during the Last six
months oveE97, ,lO3 persons in this country
have been killed by violence.
Mr.. Robert Browning's new poem will
be out in October. 1t treats of the effect
produced on the mind by sudden loss Of
fortuue.
San Francisco is to build separate e.
tablishinent for the 163 colored children in
her limits, as the authorities will not allow
them to attend the public schools.
The Presbyterian Church in this country
has thirty-si1 synods, 1905 ministers, $685.
034 communicants, and $40, 452 Sunday
school children.
The directrea of female industrial
school in Paris was sentenced to pay fine
of 100 francs and to suffer an imprison-
ment of three months, for i'll treating the
children.
There will be great gathering of Gran
gers at Louisville, KY, October !. The
National and State Executive COMMITTEES,
and all the purchasing agents will be pres
ent.
Besides the Hon. Charles Francis
Adams, Jr, who is to deliver the annual
address, the managers of the sixth North
ern Wisconsin Fair expect to offer as at
fractions Ex-Governor Seymour and Gov
ernor Taylor.
When Pennsylvania farmer sold his
farm to an oil company he went to town the
day he got his cash, and bought his two
hundred dozen clothes-pins and twenty-five
clothes.Iines. He said he'd had growing
and jawing enough about that house.
A little girl of four or five years asked
her mother one day if she had not seen Col.
Porter. "No, my child" was the reply,
abe died before you were born." "Well,
but mamma" she insisted, '>if he went up
before came down, we must have met"
In the Superior Court at Fitchburg, re-
Gently, tramp, who was tried for an at
tempt to enter blacksmith shop in North
bridge told SO pitiful story as to secure an
acquittal from the jury, and also contribu-
tons Of money from the spectators In the
court.
The recent discovery of extensive coal
deposits in California will add much to the
of the State in moro ways than
one. Last year the sum ofSl0, 900, 900 was
was paid for iron, which cost halt as much
more for transportation from Eastern and
foreign factories.
During the last quarter of q century the
number of volumes in the British Museum
has increased from 435,0OO to 100000:
in the Bibliotheque Rationale, Paris, from
$4,000 to 1000, 900, and in the public H.
braries in the United States, from $4,000
to nearly 2o,ooo,0oo.
A tourist stopping at an establishment
at Enghein, France, where throat diseases
are said to be cured by inhaling the fumes
of sulphur spring, passed an hour in the
instead of the inhaling room, and
when informed of the mistake, declared
that the bronchitis had left him any way.
The following notice from the War
Office appeared in the London Gazette
Of August IL: "Half Pay-Lieutenant-
Colonel and Brevet Colonel Valentine
Baker, half pay, late Tenth Huzzars, has
been removed from the army, her Majesty |
having no further occasion for his services.
Dated I'd August, 1875"
A bereaved New York woNan went to
her minister asking him to come and per-
|orm the funeral service of her fourth hus-
band, he having oficiated for the three who
,ad previously disappeared from public
1iew. "Why, madam, how is this" asked
he reverend gentleman. "Ah, its mighty
'ad," she replied. "There was never q
poor woman worn down with such q lot of !
lying men as I've been." Ii
Forewarned, forewarmed-(Our reporter
'efore dinner): "Beg pardon, my lord, but
'ould your lordship kindly oblige me, by