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GENERAL BREyITrEs.

FIHE time is .coming,n SAYS dis
dnguished physician, sswhen ii viii be
as disgraceful to have typhoid fever as
II is TO have the itch. y
The Viceroy of India has convoked
an assemblage OF over eight hundred
princes and rajahs for j January, before
whom VII be read the decree creating
Queen Victoria Empress Of the Indies.
The Dutch Republic of Transvaal,
IN South Africa, has decided toseek an-
nexation TO the Kingdom of Great
britain, according to the London Times.
The territory consists Of. q, 764 square
miles Of land, and the people number
about 10000. .t.1.f-rrT 1T-|
TERRA DEL FUBGo has been traversed
by Lieut.. Masters, X. N, who has dis
covered that the natives believe in
devils, and hold them to be the depart
ed spirits or members of the medical
profession. The main object of their
religious ceremonies is to keep these
devils at q distance from them.
PROFESSOR AGAssIz says in his lee
ture on the " Trees of America" that
no fossils of plants belonging 10 the
family of the rose have ever been dis
covered, and regards this as conclusive
evidence that the introduction of these
plants was either coeval with or subse-
quent TO the creation of man.
The. London, England, ordinance
compels street musicians TO stop play
ing before house if any one orders
them TO do so. "A few days ago an Ital-
ian Organ-grinder was fined twenty
shillings because he played before the
house OF surgeon after he had been
requested TO move on. a-..
THERE is a new and fatal disease
raging amopg the cattle ln Pennsylya-
mia which is causing much alarm among
farmers. A singular species Of " tick3
bores deep into the flesh of the animal.
after which inflammation ensues, caus-
ing death in few hours. No remedy
has az yet been found. f..e-S,
THE Italian Government has resolved
TO abolish the religious element in the
forms heretofore in use in administer
ing oaths.- There is TO be no such IN
vocation of the Deity as $50 help me
God, y or q In the presence of the ever
living Cod 1t is simply 81 swear"
and the usual penalties are retained for
perjury .-auali ... ...
Ar Monaco, frequenter of the gam
bling saloon was refused admission.
He asked why, but received no answer.
He then, being French, sought the aid
of his Consul, but with no better result.
He has consequently fled petition in
the Superior Court, praying that his
admission be compelled under heavy
penalty. -t..l--r- 10 ..s 81
The great hold that the Mohammed
an religion has upon the true believers
is found in the fact that in their heaven
they are to be served "with goblets and
bcakers and cups offlowing wine; their
heads shall not ache by drinking the
same, neither shall their reason be dis.
turbed." No crooked distiller shall |
enterthere, nor any jim-jams, and yet
the Mohammedan is not happy, because |
he has to wait for his drinks.
The japanese editors are having a
hard time. Mr.. Hieo, of the Kakai |
IShimpo, has been sentenced to one wear /
and halt's Imprisonment for having I
transgreSsed the press regulations;
Hoklysma, of the Nichi Nictt Shinbu,a,
has Just served out ,a,three months' i'm
prisonment, and the editor of the Sans-
pdt ShinabUn has Just taken bis place
for similar term. There are now six
teen editors in confinement, where MrrI
Higo has gone,
THE statistics presented by Prof. Vir-
chow, of Berlin, at the recent anthro-
biological congress in Jena, upsets the
popular notion that majority of the
German people are blends. He showed
that in the central regions of North
Germany about one-third of the school
children are blond, in Prussia 50 per
cent, and in Bavaria only 20 per cent.
The population grows darker south
ward. Of the German Jews IL per
cent, are blond.
THE report of the French working
mems delegation TO the Vienna Expo
sition of 1873, but lately published, pre-
diets that the day will come when pro
fessional Instructions in the mechanic
arts viii be far more complete than
now and workingmen will avail them
selves of the principle of association
both in labor and living. The report
also favors free trade and the compen-
satioE of women to any equal extent
with nen for the same quantity and
quality of work.
THERE is a trsdeslnan's wife in Suf-
folk, England, whois very determined.
in her way. She got up one night and
put quantity of gunpowder in circle
around her and set fire to it.. This did
not injure her. Then she got canis-
ter of powder and holding her head
over it touched il off. 1t blew the shed
she was mall to pieces, but cruelty
disappointed her in that it didn't xiii
her.. Then she stabbed herself, but not
fatally. Now she is in the hands of the
doctors, where she may be more sue
cessful. r,s s5sts %. L-e .....
BUFFALO BILL, the Indian scout,
who has reached his home in Roches-
ter, N, T., speaking of Generals Crooks
and Terry's difference ia temperament,
said to a reporter a few days ago. Gen.
eral Crook slept on his blanket, made
his own coffee and broiled his own ba-
con. General Terry had bed brought
with him, portable cooking range and
an extension table. We could not travel
fast enough to catch the Indians, as we
would break the Dishes"
DREHEE, Of Vienna, whose beer is of I
Worldwide celebrity, has erected a
gigantic brewery at Kobanya, near
Buba-Pesth.E The caves of this brew
cry, hewn out of solid white sandstone,
form a subterranean town Of innumer-
able halls, some 80 feet in height, and
from 100 to 200 feet in length. The
walk through the main streets occupies
three-quarters of an hour. Three quail
tiles of beer are brewed here-the best
or brown liquor called March bigs, a
light brown beer of Medium quality,
and the rdle Vienna beer.
Daniel Boone Barking Squirrels.