The Morning herald., 1876-07-14
Current Notes.


California has "put up" 2,5O0,000 cans
OF strawberries this year.
There were $50 Piutes and Shoshones in
the procession in Austin, New, on the
Fourth.
At equestrian statue of Philip Augustus
is to be erected In Paris. It will be finished
in 1878.
Father Hyacinthe and his wife have re-
Gently been the guests Of Dean Stanley, In
London.
A German surgeon has discovered that
the cheek bones of the Japanese are double
in many cases.
1t is said that the Russian Government is
about to melt all its cannon and introduce
new Prusslan ordnance.
j.. s. G. Abbott, the author, is lying in q
critical condition at Fair Haven, Conn, and
there is little hope of his recovery.
Centennial poems left over on the Fourth
may be sent to the Philadelphia "Item,"
which offers prize of $500 for the best.
Andrew jackson Davis has failed to de-
rive competency from Spiritualism, and
money is solicited in his behalf for testi-
mOnial.
Addie Van K9ning, young and wealthy,
will next week in Philadelphia, make her
first appearance on the stage. She Is to
play the part of "Meg Merrilies."
The Russians are experimenting In Eng
land with gun that throws ball weigh
ing $50 pounds, and consumes 800 pounds
ofpowder ateach discharge.
Amy Roselle, one of the prettiest and
most charming actresses In London,i is about
to marry an English noEleman, said to be
very talented rich and charitable.
Grasshoppers in Minnesota are said to be
numerously assailcd by parasites that aftix
eggs TO their bodies, and from the eggs
come srubs that bore into them with fatal
effect.
Colonel George Lonely of the British
army, while drunk, whipped the manager
and assistant manager of the Argyll Rooms
London, and is therefore likely to lose his
commission.
Miss Elizabeth Thompson, who painted
the "Roll Call" and "Quatre Bras" has
completed her "Balaklava," representing
the return Of the Six Hundred. It attracts
much attention.
The Marshal of Huntington, W. Va,
aided by private citizen, chased horse
Thief several miles and overlook him,
Whereupon he shot them, killing one and
fatally wounded the other.
A bridge across the Hudson at Pough-
keepsie is really about to be commenced,
and the completion is promised by the end
OF 1878. Requests for proposals have been
sent to contractors.
Five years imprisonment must be en-
dufed by the Partisan who attempted, un-
successfully, to obtain admission as stu
dent to a medical college on the credential
of another man.
There has been great deal Of money
lost and wen on the English races this year.
Lord Lunley lost SIS, 900 on Petrarch at the
Ascot. A professional book maker cleared
$4,000, and another made $4,000 in one
day
A missionary in India has sent an order
to New Haven for vehicle which can be
travelled in by day, slept in at night, and
preached from at any time. It will be fur
nished with cooking utensils, bedding, and
BOOKS, and six oxen will draw 1t.
A young man ran away from his home
IN Westford, Pa. sixteen years ago, and re-
turned the other day poor and sick. He
iound that his parents had moved, no one
knew where, and so he went into the house
and blew his brains out with pistol.
"Where is your husband {? " asked a gen
tleman in Paris. ':He went out to buy
cigar" replied the lady. "Has he been
gone long?" eighteen years." "He is
quite right" remarks the gentleman philo-
sophlcally; he wants to choose a good one."
In the Pyrenees the following notice is
posted in hotel: "All travellers on their
arrival will be entitled, gratis, to bath
with friction and special lotions. These
otions will guarantee the traveller perfect
immunity from the numerous insects which
1nlest the hotel"
renny savings banks, similar to the insti-
Iutlon for newsboys at the Home in New
fork, ,are to be established for adults in Eng
iahd. Benevolent persons have become in
tercsted, and bank of that kind is to be
opened in each city, the expenses to bs paid
oy subscription.
r, Ihere are seventy-two newspapers In
'Constantinople, sixteen printed In the Tur-
klsh language, one in Arabic, one in Per-
sian, twenty in French, one in German, one
IN English, twelve in Greek, thirteen in
armenian, four in Bulgarian, two in Span
ish. and one in Italian.
A London temperance exhortcr erected q
lent close by groggery, intending to ruin
i1s business and convert its patrons to So
orlety; but the police arrested him for dis
turbing the peace, magistrate fined him,
ana the injured runseller brought lawsuit
TO recover damages.
Deacon Parkinson remarked in prayer
meeting at Carson, Nevada, that he knew
young boys who went to saloons where
Iheir father had credit, got bottles filed
with whiskey ostensibly for the parents, and
got drunk on the LIQUOR themselves. He