The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-19
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The enterprising Rutland (vtl Herald
published on "June 81
Northern Michigan is suffering from q
severe drouth.
The Chicago Tribune is now shouting for
the repeal Of the resumption act
The Hartford Post hopes the Indictment Of
the Returning Board members will result in
division of the Democratic party in Louis
lana
Justice Fields circuit requires him to
travel 5000 miles every year The expense is
borne by himself, the Judges not being al
lowed mileage.
- London is, on the whole, the healthiest
capital in the world, it's average annual NOR
tality not exceeding twenty-four per 1000, but
in some districts the mortality varies from
forty to sixty per 1000, the increase being the
result of filth, foul air, and crowding. The
population increases at the rate of 10000 a
year.
"A cure for bashfulness has been found &C
tording to the following in the Boston Journal
of Chemistry: Whatever may have been said
about the effects of cuca on the human sys-
TEN, this much is certain, that it causes timid
people, who are usually i'll at case in society,
and particularly SO before strangers, to APP
pear to good advantage"
The Philadelphia Press says that while
there is depression in the dry goods trade,
the manufactures of that city are in a re-
markably flourishing condition, some OF them
doing d better business than at any previous
period. The production this year Is estimated
ut 5000, 100000, against $3.50 900 last year.
The working class of Roumania live almost
entirely on vegetables, and peculiar prepare
tion Of maize, supplemented by a little cheese,
buttermilk salt fish and salt meat. This diet
does not produce an enduring constitution,
and the population is for the most part an
easy prey to fever, especially in childhood.
Inferior corn brandy is the most ordinary
drink, and is not wholesome.
- The population of London for 1876 is esti-
mated by the Registrar General at 42S6607,
or more than million in excess of the returns
of the census for 1871. The section embraced
i'm the Registrars tables, under the name Of
London. includes parts of three counties, and
comprises an area of 122 square miles. The
city of London is itself only district in the
metropolis.
old men to the front is the rule in Euro
pean politics. Gortschakof is seventy-nine,
Disraeli seventy-two Theirs at eighty is the
hope of France and old Admiral Constantine
Canaris at eighty-seven is president Of the
new Greek Cabinet. It is fifty-five years ago
since he avenged the devastation of Scio by
fastening fireship to the Turkish flagship
and blowing her up with many hundreds of
men who were celebrating the Ramadan.
The Ausln,d calls attention to curious
instance of climatic influence on race. In 1916
several hundred Wurtemberg families emil
grated to Trans aucasia and took up their
abode In the neighborhood of Tiilis. They
were remarkable for Il broad, square build,
fair or red hair and blue eyes The next gen.
Grafton changed somewhat, and brown hair
and black eyes were seen. In the third gen.
Grafton the type Of the original colonists was
hardly recognizable. Black eyes and hair
were the rule, the round face heightened, the
form gained slenderness and elegance. mas
much as they never intermarried with another
race it is contended that climate alone must
have effected the change.