The Osceola times., 1875-10-23

lHE scientists and professors in Italy
still occupying themselves with the
art of embalming and petrifying the
bodies of animals, including man. MAJ
zini is in state Of petrifcation in his
tombat Genoa. The professors cite him
as grand success in this line of bust
ness.
The compulsory school law in New
York, which promised 50 much at the
time of its enactment, has already become
dead letter. Out of the $4,000 children
which were known in January to be tru.
ants, only 365 have been compelled to
attend school, and their attendance for
six months has cost the city $4,000. 1t
lttakes time To learn, but sooner or later
people must learn that there are social
wrongs which indirectly affect the state
that laws alone cannot control.
.GALIGNANI states that the soundings
for the submarine tunnel between Eng
land and France are being carried on
actively. They are at this moment di-
rected to the part Of the straits near the
English coast, at few miles from shore
Each evening the vessel which carries the
commission returns to Dover Calais or
Boulogne, and work is recommended the
next day. The engineers charged with
that important labor, NM. Larousse and
Lavalle, are perfectly satisfied with the
results obtained and so far nothing has
occurred to destroy their provisions rela-
tte to the depth.
DR. FRANCIS WHARTON, in an article
in Lippincott's Magazine, discusses the
relations of spiritualism and iurispru-
dencc. "What attitude" he asks, sis
jurisprudence to assume toward a person
who, charged with an invasion of the
laws of the land, sets up defense that
he was acting under the constraint of a
superior spiritual power? What attitude
is Jurisprudence to assume toward those
who exercise such power for an illegal
end?" DIR. Wharton has no doubt that
mediums are responsible for acts done
while professedly entranced, and for the
acts of persons whom they may get un-
der their control
AN appeal is now before the New York
supreme court, involving the question of
the right to assess churches for street i'm
provements. Three churches of New
York city unite in endeavoring to escape
the payment of certain assessments for
paving streets. 1t was decided at special
term of the court that, under an act
thrty-fve years old, which has been once
repealed-the repeating act being after
ward itself repealed-the churches were
exempt from assessment, as they were
free from city tax The prominence
given to this case may stimulate the gem
eral discussion, which has not been in
frequent of late years, concerning the
exemption of church property from tax
alton.
TURKEY is afraid that Russia will
take Constantinople and kick the
Crescent out of Europe. Russia is afraid
Prussia will take Finland and Poland.
Austria Is afraid Germany will take Aus
tria. Germany is afraid France will
take Alsace-Lorraine, and France is
afraid that Germany will take the
province of Champagne, as Won Moltke's
soldiers got such a iirst-cass taste of its
sparkling wine during the 1870 campaign.
England is afraid her scattered provinces
will take themselves and leave her only
nutshell to crack in her own little isle.
Spain is afraid the United States will
take Cuba.
TIE floods which desolated Toulouse
and its neighborhood last spring, after
the melting Of the winter SHOWS, have
been equaled, if not surpassed by those
which followed eight days of rain last
month A correspondent of the New
York Herald estimates the loss in the
valley of the Allies at 100000 francs,
and that in Heroult, the Gard and the
Lozere, at $4,000, ,000-a total of nearly
81 100000 in American money. Four
hundred houses have been demolished
and one hundred lives lost. The flood
burst on the Abbey of Fontfroid while
the monks were at prayer. One of them
was killed, and another lost an eye. The
damage to the abbey will reach $40, GOO
In various neighborhoo a, fshe crops have
been completely destroyed, and even the
earth in graveyards has been so dissolved
by the water that cofins have floated
away There is still much distress, but
liberal subscriptions are being taken up
in Paris and other cities
THE last on dit from Paris is that the
Empress Eugene lately requested Pres
ident MacNIahon to permit her to visit
Paris for twentv-four hours in the most
private manner, and that the result was
a prompt refusal The French Govern
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