The Morning herald., 1877-02-13
Here and There.

Here and There.
London has 400 music teachers.
European colleges are being gradually
opened to women.
A sign in South Erie reads: "Rooms to
let, also boarders."
The Emperor of Germany is suffering
from dropsy in the feet.
Better be upright with poverty than un-
principled with plenty.
The newest and most expensive dress
trimmings is made Of fparrots' feathers:
The Matrimonial News is the name of
newspaper published at Williamsport.
Brooklyn had forty-six fires in January,
with losses of $l06,735 and insurance
amounting to $l7l,450.
1t is reported that an Allentown hat
and shoe firm have received large order
for their goods from Russia.
The small towns in France are already
preparing, with avidity, their goods for
the Paris Exposition next year.
At Gloucester, Mass, some sixty fishing
vessels are at present preparing for sea !;
some twenty have already sailed, and the
fleet this year will probably number one
hundred and sixty employing sixteen hun
dred men.
The San Francisco Alta says that, from
causes not easily explained, California, and
perhaps San Francisco in particular, fur
nishes more cases of paralysis than does
any other section Of the country, if not Of
the world.
The Paoli Monument Committee, at a
meeting in West Chester, Pa, few nights
ago, "agreed to erect monument at Paoli
on September 20, 1877, the Tooth anniver-
sary Of the massacre, with what funds we
will then have on hand"
California's import trade, last year,
amounted to SS0,000,000, her export to
$5O,00O,OOO, and the manufactures to $751;
100000. The yield Of gold and silver for
the whole Pacific coast was $l00000,000,
making 81, 100000, 1000 slice lS4S.
A young man named George Schlamp,
Plainfeld twp, Northampton Co., Pa, lay
down on bench to take nap. A pistol
fell out of his pocket and was discharged,
the ball entering his left breast and lodging
in the pit of the arm.
The Providence "Journap thus speaks
sensibly and to the point: "Give work to
the able-b bodied, give food and shelter to
the sick, give sympathy to the distressed,
and consolation to the afflicted, but beware
how you give aims to the lazy"
The monthly report Of the New York
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty to
Animals shows during January, "a arrests
"a convictions, 125 horses turned out as
being unfit to work, 20 complaints jnvesti-
gated "a horses, so cats. and 56 dogs
killed.
Near Augusta, Me-, a few days ago, a
man crossing frozen river on the ice broke
through, and was swept beneath the ice by
the current. Before he lost consciousness,
however. he was borne into shallow water
bv an eddy and broke through the ice,
which happened to be thin, and thus saved
his life.
Tn 1873 there we're built on the Clyde
1923 screw steamers Of 21S, 900 tons burthen
and only l2 iron sailing ships of 10000
tons were launched. But in 1876 only SO
iron.screw steamers were built, while 81
iron sailing ships of $4,000 tons were con-
structed This is an increase Of more than
eight fold in three years.
Pittsburg has surplus Of twelve thou
sand dollars remaining from the Chicago
relief fund, which surplus has been at in
terest for some years, under control of a
Board of Trustees. The interest on this
surplus, amounting to fifteen hundred dol
lars, has judiciously distributed among
hospitals and other charities in that city.
couldn't you give me something to do"
asked poor boy at a Michigan shingle
factory the other day. NO" said the
owner, I'VE are full now." The boy looked
sad and was about to turn away when
bright thought seized upon him, ana turn
inr to the owner. he inquired, Don't you
need boy to test shingles on?" But even
then the boy could get no position, tor the
man had boy Of his own,
There is practice at Harvard College
of lending money to students whose cir
cums,ances require it, and Of taking notes
in return. Many Of these notes are never
paid. It is estimated that over S3o,OO0 Is
now due the college from students VINO
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