The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-17
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NVl Eds
in tho French Exhibition will be an Arctic
department..
Queen Victoria gave away sl2 Eifss, valued at
$4,000. to tho poor OK Windsor, on Now Years
Day.
The Massachusetts, fishermen took ous 223.-
IT'S barrels OF maokerel last year.
"A great many new postofiees are needed In
Arkansas. In many counties people go from ten
to tweusy five miles for their mail.
The University OF Pennsylvania has during
the past eight years received gifts the total
value OF which IL sl.621,000. About half these
gifts do not at present produce any income.
A handful, signed by hev. Mr.. Baxter, Ia
being extensively circulated In London, Eng,
announcing the approaching translation to
heaven of 144,6o0 Christians without dying.
Bad luck attended l.obert Hayden, OF Pulas.
HI, Ky. Id ono week his house was burned, his
wife eloped, his son died, and, finally, he got
under an oserhanging rock Just In time to be
crushed to desth by its fall.
"A number OF Germans residing In France
have received since the beginning Of the year 81
invitation from the German Government TO re-
urn TO their country before March II they wish
To avoid serious legal consequences.
King Kalakaus, though not sporting char
aoter is doing oil he can 10 promote races in the
Sandwich Islands. Ho has appointed commits.
sion TO increase tho Hawaiian race"
-Erckman Chatrian have finished th cir great
patriotic drama. "The Traitor on which they
have been engaged for three years. and II will be
presented at tho Inauguration Of the new season
at the Ambigu.
The London Globe says some mistresses In the
metropolis are 30 arbitrarily disposed as 10 insist
that new servant take the name OF her prede-
cessor, because 1t comes handler and the children
are used 10 II.
Judge David Davis left Washington last Sat-
urday evening for the West, intending not to re-
turu until the inauguration Of the new President,
when he will resign his place as Judge OF the
Supreme Court. He has prepared opinions on all
questions assigned to him, to be presented to the
Court when it meets again.
Java isn't an enchanting place to live ID IL 1t
ia true that every year about three hundred
people are eaten by oarnivors, two hundred by
tho crocodier, one hundred killed by tho rhi
noceros, Eve hundr ed killed by lightning, while
one hundred die by snake bites, and varying
number by earthquakes and volcanoes.
MIR. lido Brachvogel, editor OF the Belle
t,isohe Zeituag, has done novel thing In send
ing III uncookod Anne rican dinner for Ia persons
oil the way TO Berlin. IL reached there in ex.
cellen. order, and the u Berlin gentlemen were
enrsptured with such American delcacies Is
wild turkey, canvas-back duckn. and raw oysters
Mr.. Brachvogo's list OF good things included
the dessert with fruits and nuts; even the wines
were American--the dinner was complete.
Edward Everett Hale proposes to get rid Of
the tramps by preconcerted action, taken without
notice, In every town in the Commonwealth, foi
the arrest Of Migrants. He thinks that come
morning fifteen hundred men might thus be ar
rested and long period Of relief secured.
= Not many months ago municipal Paris
delegation went to London to examine the under
ground railway. It has now been decided to
build similar net work under Paris at cost Of
16l, 100000 francs. The Seine will be crossed by
two tunnels, one for up line, one for down, each
incosed in brckwcrk, surrounded by tubes of
plated iron measuring over eighteen feet In
diameter.