The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-17
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The population of Maine is 10000 less than
II WAS in 1870.
About 100000 fans were shipped from japan
IN 1a7s almost all OF which came TO this c1untry.
The Boulder Ne,os announces that ex-senator
Logan is about TO take up his residence In oo'-
orado.
President Hayes is soon to yisit vermont on
private business, and will spend day In New
York.
The Martinsburg wv. Val Salesman nomi-
mates Blue Jeans williams and Wade Hampton
for 1880.
The Bureau Ve,2tas reports 192 sailing yes
sels and IL steamers lost during the month OF
February.
--Leona Dare, tho American trapeze perform
ar was badly injured by a fall while performing
In Brussels recently.
AT the request Of the Austrian ambassador,
and on the recommendation OF the Duke DeCases,
President Mcmahon has conferred the Cross OF
the Legion OF Honor upon John suauss' she
composer and orchestra leader.
Sir Henry James, Director OF the BRITISH
Ordnance Survey, reports that II will take from
eighteen to twenty years to complete the cadas-
tral survey Of England and Wales, aud that the
work will cost nearly 92,OOO.0OO-
The richest ladies in America probably are
Miss Catherine L. Wolfe, Of New York city, ana
Mrs. William Gammell, only child OF the late
Robert II. Ives, Of Providence. both OF whom
have summer residences at Newport. Rhode Is
land.
In tho event Of European war the island OF
Perrin, situated at the gate Of the He'd sea. and
commanding the seaway from the Mediterranean
10 tho Indian Ocean, will become a second Glib
araltar. England first took possession OF the
island in 1900, abandoned IL two years later. and
reoccuped IL In 1857, much to the chagrin Of the
French.
Ohio has adopted bill making primary edu-
cation compulsory requiring every child be-
tween eight and fourteen years of age to attend
public school for at least eight weeks in each
scholastic year, and prohibiting employment for
the same term in any form of business. The
bill. howe yer, makes number OF exceptions to
both Of the above provisions, and these, 1t is
stated leaves 80 many "loop-holes' for children
whose parents do not desire them to attend
school TO retreat through, that tho law itself will
probably DO practically imperative.
There ia in Paris vast establshment--th
most extensive Of it's kind In the world where
the imitation OF pearls, diamonds, and precious
stones generally 10 carried on with oil the skill
which modern ingenuity renders possible. The
sand, upon which the whole art depends, Is found
in tho forests of Tontainebleau. False pearls
are lined with wax and scales OF the roach and
slaoe, which have to be stripped from the flsh
while living In order to retain the peculiar glis-
tenng hue. The setting ia always OF real gold,
and tba fashion of Tho naweat kind.
The 100000 fund which. the late Robert G..
Shaw lett for the founding Of an asylum for
mariners children at Boston, when 1t should
amount to 100000, has now reached that sum
but the trustees have met difficulty in the way
of executing the trust. The will provided for q
home for children OF less than ten years. but 1t is
found that very few children OF that age would
be sent TO the institution unless attended by their
mothers and the Supreme Court has been petit
toned for authority to include children between
ten and e'phteen years.