The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-25
NOTES.

One New Bedford shopkeeper has continued
his advertisements In the Mercury uninterrupt
eddy for 90 years.
y An industrial college for negroes Ia TO b.
established In Richmond Va, the intention being
10 teach trades OF various kinds.
The school Board of Lynn, Mass, has for
hidden teachers TO set pupils to watch one an.
other, on the ground that II tends to excite
enmity,
Horse thieves out West build hollow hay
stack. provided with a hidden door. into which
che animal lie driven. Much epaoe in Ohio papers
ID occupied by advertisements offering rewards
for horse thieves.
MIR. Bright affirms that, within the lifetime
Of men still living, England has expended ten
thousand million dollars for wars (which might,
xilh hnnnr. have heen avoided. and In needless
or excessive ornaments In preparing for war"
An Arizona paper says that immigration TO
thai Territory IL overdone. Scores Of penniless
men are rushing into the Territory hoping to
realize fortunes by mining discoveries, or, In the
event Of failure, to earn subsistence by their
labor, and are disappointed.
"A monument to Bismarck has lately been
raised upon the highest summit of the Hartz
mountains. II is an obelisk OF stone, with bas
relief portrait of Bismarck on one eide, and his
words 10 the Reiehstsg, I'VE will not go to
Canossa," cut upon the other. The funds were
obtained by subscription.
Two Mexicans murdered q man at Santa
Cruz TO obtain money to go 70 circus with.
They got "a from hts body, went and enjoyed
The Sacramento Union oonfesses il elf unable
TO zee how such wretches could have been more
satisfactorily disposed Of,
--One Iowa paper predicts that ex-Gov. New
bold will be the Prohibition candidate for Cover.
nor, but the Dubuque Times ia of q contrary
opinion on the general ground that he sis not in
tho habit OF browsing in the illimitsble com.
mons of the political wilderness;' moreover. he
Il DESTROYS Of obtaining the Republican nomina-
ton.
The Arizona Indians have weakness for
cremation. Among them when husband and
wife get at that point where Ia q civilized land
separation in bed and board is considered desira.
bio, the grand council Of the tribe sits on the
case and condemns the couple to be burnt
together. When, moreover, = mother dies in
childbirth, the offspring is burnt alive on ts ewn
responsibility.
q
Prime Minister he was unanimously elected
member Of the French Academy. Never having
been formally received into membership, he
lately demanded to go through that ceremony.
and the Academy, more given in this instance to
politics than TO literature has decided to post zone
his reception indefinitely. He will never have
another opportunity for Academic Immortality
In Vienna all the public clocks are moved in
practical synchronsm with an astronomical time
piece by means of pneumatic tubes. Every
minute wave OF compressed air is sent along
the tubes, causing the hands on tho large diais
set up at various parts of the city, to rove 3
distance corresponding to that division Of time.
The troublesome and expensive electric system
has been superseded by this plan, which is the
invention Of the Austrian engineer, NJ. L. A.
Mayrhope.
In 1s42 the Prince Marcus Antonius Bor-
CHEESE revived the old custom of celebrating the
foundation Of Rome by giving banquet in the
villa Pincisna. Since Italy became united, the
government has undertaken to honor the ami.
versay. Rome WAS 1880 years Old on the 2lst OF
April, and flags foated on the public buildings at
an early hour. During the day military bands
played at various points, and in the evening the
Coliseum, the Forum, and other interesting me-
mcrials Of antiquity were illuminated by Bengal
lights.
Baltimore meat-deaAers desire to Join in the
expectation OF fresh meat to England but are
prevented by the lack of freight facilities There.
fore they are sending canned beef across the
ocean. Ia their process the meat is freed of bone
and fat, cooled thoroughly in an ice-house packed
sWhile in spices, sealed in sweet pickle, and
then boiled. The packing is done while the meat
is hot, and the cans, after sealing, are put into
chest of super heated steam. This intense he at
imparts great expansive energy to the vapor that
has been left in the cans, and a puneture of the
tin releases it with squirt. The meat is canned
in single p eces. Heretofore meat similarly sent !
to England from Australia has not met with |
much favor, but the Baltimore butchers are san
guine.
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