The Morning herald., 1876-12-29
Here ana Thers.

Silver has recently been discovered in
Elk county, Kansas.
Osage city. Kansas, has just organized
her IRE department.
The new Burns statue, at Glasgow, is to
be unveiled next month.
New inkstands are made in the form OF
leather and gill washtubs.
The divorces and suicides in California
nearly off-e. the marriages.
Early grain ia reported to be looking
veil along the Pacific Coast.
Canada papers are making an outcry
against tax exemptions.
Fox hunting among the hills Of Chester
county Is a popular amusement.
An exchange remarks that quail on
| toast is worth two in bush"
A new silver territory has been discov-
ared in san Mate county, California.
Fourteen whales have been killed OF
| Pigeon Point, California, this season.
Italy produces 80, ,0O0, 900 gallons OF olive
| oil anoually, and France some 100000
gallons.
A syatem of military discipline is to be
introduced inte Topeka Kansas public
| schools.
To its newsboys, the Baltimore Bulletin
On Monday gave sImptuous Christmas
dinner.
|. is said that organized bands Of barn
burners are operating in varions parts OF
Pennsylvania
In the Indian Territory the school
teachers are better paid than in any part
of the Union.
The Salem, Mass, Gazette ia one of the
Oldest papers in The country, having been
established in 1863.
A fine bust OF the late Felicien David,
by N. Mataban, has been placed in the
Opera House at Paris.
Brazil, emulous Of success in the field Of
commerce, subsidies no less than twenty
eight steamship lines.
! The shipments Of coal from the Cum
berand, Md, region, were one-third less
this year than in the previous year.
New York is importing cardinal red
silk and satin fans. They are painted in
gray ,ints and mounted on ebony sticks.
In consequence OF the advance in the
price of whalebone, whip manufacturers
have put up their prices 80 to 81 per cent.
1t is stated by an exchange that the con-
templated new Territory Of Huron would
be splendid place tor stove dealers If
penty of people were there
On account of the hard times, several
Of the New York churches are putting
down their choirs and returning to the
old style Of congregational singing.
The family of the late NJ. Petersen, the
Interpreter to the Arctic Expedition, who
died during the explorations in the North,
will receive pensi,.l from the British
Government.
Captain Boynton recently accomplished
The task of swimming dswn The river Po
from Turin to FcIrara, a distance Of eight
hundred miles, in ninety-six hours, with
out single stoppage.
The Orpleonic societies, in Europe, are
TO hold monster reunion in Paris during |
the Exposition Of 1873. An appropriate |
concerted piece for chorus 5000 strong is
in course Of preparation.
The State capital building of Iowa has
already cost 81 600, 900, and will require
at least 81 100000 more to finish it. When
finished it will be one Of the finest build
ings Of the kind in the country,
The dogs Of the Dartmouth College stu.
dents have become 80 regular ia their
| attendance at chapel prayers that the Presi-
dent has announced that either they or
their owner. mus, leave college.
The New York Express" coins the wcrd
"organetship' in speaking of the promo
ton Of the assistant organist Of Westmin-
-ter Abbey to the po.iton Of organist Of
Her Majesty Chapel Royal, London.
The slate business Of the Lehigh valley
is better now than ever before, the export
to foreign countries being largely on the
increase, 44, III cases of school states and
| 1914" tons Of roofing slate having been
shipped lo Great Britain during the year.
The swamps in Louisiana are said to be
dryer than they have been for thirty-fve
years. A man may ride on horsebak or a
wagon may be driven through tracts Of
country heretofore impossible within the
memory Of man.
The pith of the rattan which was former
ly thrown away, is now utilized in making
Jssapori ware. Pretty baskets, bowls,
vases, trays, napkin rings and hanging
wall-pockets, are made Of this material in
tasteful design. and decorated with colors.
Miss Grattan, the adventurous English
woman, who ascended Mont Blanc on the
3lst oflast January, has married the Swiss
guide who accompanied her. She made the
acquaintance OF the hardy mountainee,
when--only fifteen years old-she first
clambered up the Alps. She is now about
thirty