The Morning herald., 1875-12-10
rERSONALsAND PER erINENT.

4 Miss Annie Louise Cary will return to
Boston in June.
Proctor, the lecturer and astronomer, is
only 80 years old.
The manner of making Chinese gold
lacquer is row known.
Assofptida sacks form the necklaces of
Dubuque school children.
A Massachusetts, squash weighs 1872
pounds. Some pumpkins.
Out of 70 newspapers started in Sacra-
mento since 1919 only Is survive.
A Vermont man has made one tombstone
do for fourteen of his deceased relatives.
The first court house built in Monroe
county, Indiana, cost the people $S7S7!.
They have very high-toned butchers in
Bloomington, Ill. They carpet their meat
shops.
In Glasgow, Scotland, 500 unemployed
handloom weavers are engaged sweeping
the streets.
A six gore walking skirt is the latest.
Never mind the expense. Gore while
you're Young.
New Jersey furnishes the public schools
Of New York city with 100000 steel
pens annually.
When ii rains in Utah. the Gentiles say
it is "Heaven weeping over the iniqui,ies
of the Saints"
The foreign fashion Of wearing colored
flannel and silk undertaking is being ir-
troduced here.
Mr.. Oryille Grant, brother of the Presi-
dent, who has been very i'll in Washington
is recovering his health.
Carryina fish to Newfoundland seems to
be almost a. absurd as carrying 'coals TO
Newtastle.' Yet it is now being done.
Mr. J. c. Bancroft Davis. Minister at
Berlin, is on pleasure trip to Italy and
Egypt, expecting to return to hi, post III
January.
The Dominican fathers have formed an
anti-protanity society in the Eastern Dis ;
trict. 1t is recommended to disappointed
politicians.
Mr.. Richard A. proctor's Lectures arc
as successful as ever. During the past 12
days he lcctured II times, given in one
week 10 lec.ures.
The Indian continue to alternate in the
far West, between minor masscres and
pipe-smokins conventions. Their pipes Of
peace are mere shams.
Said NJ. Theirs Lately FIN free
country the opinions that have been raised
to power have the right of defending them
selves in the elections"
The Adabert shaft at the silver mines
of Pribram, in Bohemia, is now the deep.
ct in the world, an uninterrupted depth
Of $500 feet having been reached.
a collection will he taken in all the
public schools of Virginia on January 10,
the birthday ofGen. r. f. Lee, for the
benefit of the Lee Monument fund.
Paymaster Stevenson, late in charge OF
he naval depot at Nasasaki, Japan, has
'rrved in Washington on his way home,
'iter an absence cf three years and half
The Sumner Memorial Committee, in
awarding the making Of statue of Sena-
or Sumner to Mr. Thomas Ball, removed
he restriction Of the artist to 4 sitting
igurc.
Castelar, is treated with great honor in
'aris, Grand barquct5 TO him have been
;iven by ex-Prcsident Thic.s and Victor
hugo, at which all the the local literary
md political celebrities were present.
livery recruit for the British army has f
o spend four hours in gymnastic exercise
ach day during the first three months OF
lis service. The varicus gymnasiums
rovided for this purpose by the Govern -
nent arc fitted with all the common ath. +
etc appliances, and skilled in tructcrs. =
A party of ladies and gentlemen in Keo. W
uk were talking about theatrical matters,
hen Forrest name was intro oluced. "The
'st time saw Forrest S said pompous o.
who had been putting on all n, m
he airs of critic, was, when he an. tr
cared as Leah, the i'orsakcn." And then
le company got up and screamed, T
At a recent trial the prisoner entered , y
lea Of moi cniliyn mLnn nno &c H.