The Morning herald., 1876-08-12
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Our Exchange List Boiled Down.
A wild eagle was killed while flying over
Boston.
Shakespeare has ut last been translated
into modern Greek.
The kick of mule seems so far to have
reached Hendricks no more than, it did Bris
tow.
About three per cent. of the Indian popu-
lation are now in arms against the govern
ment.
Entries for the international dog show al
Philadelphia are to remain open until Sep
/ tember l.
A Universalist church in New Haven will
be opened as an opera house, on the 1st OF
November.
An English hackman WAS recently fined
for charging fare for q pup that rode with
bis master.
Faith in immortality is the highest tribute
that the world has paid to the worth of life.
Emerson.
However rich or elevated, q nameless
something is wanted to our imperfect for
tune.-Horace.
General Dix is at his summer resort at
Southampton, L. l., making it hot for tile
snipe and yellow-legs.
The Baltimore "Gazette," doesn't be-
licve that the Senate intends to pass the
Blaine school amendment.
Steel ropes are being introduced on Eng
ltsh men of war as substitutes for the clum-
sy hemp hawsers now in use.
A bachelor, according to the latest defini-
tion, is q man who has lost the opportunity
of making woman miserable.
That Levy of insects, the musical mosqui-
to, has arrived and is playing on his eweet
cornet: 81 light in the window for thee"
France will in four or five years, possess
a moveable field army of about $4,000 in
fantry and rifles, and 10000 territorial in
fantry.
Speak the truth, yield not to anger give
when asked, of the little thou hast; by
these three steps thou snalt go near the
the gods.-Buddha.
The London "Athenaum thinks that Sin
regard to hestrionic art, the majority of
English audiences are scarcely more intelli-
gent than Choctaws.
bankers, from the reckless and impecuni-
Gus: "Don't count your checks until they
are cashed. Punch.
A COW was found last week standing stiff
( and stark, in pasture in Maine. She had
been struck by lightning and killed, but not
thrown to the ground.
Mary Bogardus, of Columbus, Ohio, when
she heard Of the death of her husband, with
General Cnster, became insane and attempt.
ed to destroy her child by fire.
| Mrs. Carr, OF Quebec, hanged herself
with her false hair. The coroner's verdict
was said to have been that the Carr was de-
molished by misplaced switch.
| Last year, curing comparatively cool
summer, there was a continuous outcry
about mad doge; during the present unusu-
ally hot one hardly a case sof hydrophobia
has occurred.
Hundreds of Canadian French mill hands
of Fall River, Mass, are taking refuge in
the State Alnsheuse, at Tewksbury, where
many of them are given tickets to return to
their homes in Canada.
The Catholics in Boston have wisely de-
cided to discontinue the hiring of carriages
for funeral PROFESSIONS, except for the chief
mourners, and to give the money which
costly funeral requires to the widow and
children
Edward J. Nalle, OF Ohio, was drowned
on Thursday night, in the Potomac, near
the "Thres Sisters" a little above
Georgetown, while bathing. Mr.. Nalle was
q member Of centennial party now visiting
Washington.
In sermon on the Custer disaster the
Rev. E. M. Sanders, of Cheyenne, quoted:
II want to be an Indian,
| A Modoc or Ute;
Pm tired OF being white man,
An unprotected BRUTE"
Watermelon Syrup is now made in Geor-
gia. 1t is said to be of very clear claret
color, and while 1t is not equal to that made
from our sugar cane, It's far superior to
our sorghum, that was brought into use in
this country during the war.
The public debt of Great Britain has been
reduced since 1858, from eS39 ,5l9,32 to
| e775, ,34S ,686, being diminution of Ge4,-
17O.640. The total amount paid off was,
however, much greater, for in the same Is
years, new debt was contracted, amount
Ing to R28, Csc, AL.