The Morning herald., 1877-10-31
HERALD NOTES.

severe winter q pfedcisd " westhe'
,hot, 4 n AaHsi
4 Lass sNAnanum w@ss .aapsg
| The Creedmoor is new style qf hat; ID
| Fash lEx,saShoot itavg sair baopher
Railway postal employees are hereshsi
to wear blue uniforms. s'S''. Eae 81 eA
.halaGG yllaGsp ,sasag gss8gs3 os ss-H.9
Several American pianos have recently
been ahippsd to Japan nj isa us&4. ID
Some sixty Indians are stalps sisoners in
the ioldffort at St. Augustine, Fla. svad y
| A, Chinese BABY, was refused as a com.
4 petitor in San Francisco baby show,
The police are SAID to be like the rain
bow, because they never appear until after
1.-The storm. eds i -. loa s.s. .l... .
/ Since the Crmean war England has
reduced her National debt from e900, 900, =
600 to G712,OoO,00O.
To-day:--tbe a60,h anniversary of the
Reformation, will be celebrated by the
I.utherae congregations Of Reading
"Mamna do you know what the largest
species Of ants are? You shake your
head. Well, III tell you. They are ele-
phauts" , s..a se
The water in the St. Lawrence river at
Montreal, is unusually low, and q number
of buoys have been anchored~ to facilitate
navigation. 1#an -: 81
A Philadelphia dancing master is said
| to be about introducing new dance ex>
pressly for fat people. All the performers
have TO do is to sit and kick. ,~. 4
| A. blind beggar in New York exhibits a
placard on which is written, "Latiies and
gentlemen, please help the fbliod III have
left my two eyes in The hospital s1sT =.
An Advertisement for a political meeting
| in the inleribr Of Pennsy reads"> Let
the poor GOMEZ, Let the hungry coheI
Let the naked ome!'-yes, and get ar.
rested. m.s y. .a.;. d; 49,. ~:
"Buy trunk, .Pat?' said a.dsaler.
"And what for should buy a trunk :. re
piled Pat. ITO put your clothes n. .sawas
the reply "And 60 pakedF' exclaimed
Pat. mot bit " It," ~ H's
When Chinese bank fails, all the Off.
GERS have their heads cut eff and flung
into corner with the assets, and It has
been i've hundred years since there was a
bank failure in that country; ,.,.
The British Board Of Trades returns
show that Englaud's trade still declines,
the imports for September having declined
one-6fteenth and the exports onesthirtieth
foom those Of the same month last- year.
Ono thousand vo hundred and five miIea
of new railroad we're completed in the e
States in 1877, against 1,7l9 miles reported
for the corresponding period in 1876. z6l
in 1875, ], ,125 in 1874, 2,9G7 in 1878 and
5,066 in 1882.
The. trunk which james Barry, the
Palmer House robber, had in his possession
when the Chicago detectives captured him
last week, contained among other things
about 81 600 worth Of jewels which where
recently stolen from George Ringold, the
New York actor. The woman who was
Barry's accomplice, cannot be found,
A new safety cannon, that shoots an an
chor from ships in distress, has lately been
tried at Bremerhaven. From a cannon
with a diameter Of five inches, an anchor
weighing seventeen pounds was Fhot, at
tached to double rope 2,4O0 feetin length
ahd weighing tbirty.two pounds, to dis
tance Of $50 yards, by which stronger
rope was pulled on to the ship, with VII ich
ship and men could he drawn ashore.