The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-20

BnlWer has been discovered, The scene
ofwhich 4 laid at Athens.
In Analysing the many causes Of acci.
dents on railroads, leading English au.
thority has Just stated, in paper read
before the Royal institute, that human
machinery was responsible for forty-one
per cent. Of these accidents, defective
signals for twenty per cent, detective
roadway TOR eighteen per cent, and de-
fectiye rolling stock for thirteen per cent.
CHINESE physicians treat hydrophobia
in highly original manner. Two sand
stone bottles, filled with wine or spirits,
are placed upon the fire until the liquid
boils. The contents are then emptied,
and the red-hot mouth Of the bottle is
applied to the bite and held there until
II Il allied with blood, when the same
course Is pursued with the other bottle.
A deOoction Of rice, in which canthari-
DIES have been boiled for an hour and
then removed, is also given 70 the pa
tient, who is required to keep perfectly
quiet for eight or ten days.
al DO not blame the Jews, and have
never spoken against them" said Mr..
Moody, in reasoning with Hebrew at
the Saturday meeting. "The statement
in Philadelphia newspaper that I did
Is untrue. / never see a Jew but l feel
like taking Off my hat to him. In my
opinion, your people are destined to be
the great missionaries 10 convert the
world to Christ. What better agency
could there be? You are scattered
throughout the earth aud speak all Ian
guages. 1 believe you win all 60 back
to Jerusalem one day, and be restored to
your old kingdom"
THE total number Of soldiers mustered
into the service of the United States
during the late war was 2,669,S23, of
which 296 were for sixty days, los, 4l6
were for three months, ,5O7 were for
one hundred days, ~ were for four
months, %, 439 were for six months, 873
were for eight months, and 81, $50 were
for eight months, and 81, $50 were for
nine months, making a total Of S02,-
66l men who were enlisted for periods
less than one year. Pennsylvania con-
tributed the greatest number Of less thai
one year enlistments Of any state in the
union, being credited with 1918 such.
How happy an American without a
pedigree would be il he could only get
himself appointed general in the Prussian
army. There is not a single piebeian
among the ffty.three generals and sixty
six Acknowledgements; every one of
them has four, eight or sixteen quarters
of nobility. There are only eighteen
pIebeians among the one hundred and
forty-seven major-generals; only twenty
seven among the hundred and forty-six
infantry colonies; only six among the
sixty cavalry colonies; In the cavalry so
per cent. Of the officers are Of noble
birth in the infantry and artillery the
majority OF the officers are of plebiaR
birth. -
JuIEA BERNARD, a passable vocalist,
clever danseuse, and a very pretty girl,
formerly well known on the stage In the
provincial towns * western Missouri
and Kansas, ended her career in a trag-
edy on the stage IN a Montana mining
town 4 short time since. She was stand.
ing against the board while an actor was
showing his dexterity in hedging her in
by hurling knives into the board. Six
knives had been stuck beneath each arm,
just above each shoulder, al each side Of
the head. One more waited 10 be planted
Just above her head. The aim Of the
thFoWer was too low. The knife pene-
trated the brain, and the poor girl sank
down 70 die On the stage.
TIE do0F.keepsra At the Philadelphia
exposition ara likely 10 have no easy
task. The price d admission il to be
lfty cents, and must b paid In single