, 1877-04-07
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All the apparatus on exhibition Mt the
Centennial illustrative Of the workings ot
,he United States Life Saving Service is
now being put up at Sen Grove, Cape
Nav Point, New Jersey, which will be
,he model station in the country
Prof, Ruskin is in Venice selecting and
SECURING casts from tine most beautiful
typcs of sculpture t" he found there, tor
omuspum he is establishing at Wnklcy
asuhelb of Sheffield, England, Tor the
Jcnpft of working students.
Prof f. B Taylor snid, in recent lee
ture "On the Philosophy ot Languages"
tthr London Institution: "ShouId the
extraordinary increase of English speak
ing people continue at existing ratio,
ther, will in twenty years bc S6),0U0,00
of them, as against 10000 900 OF French
or German. The English Language bids
fair to nvcrwhelm all Others"
The news from lndia in regard to the
famine existing in Bombay and Madras
is not cheering. The number of persons
now on the rcIie works IN Bombay Ina,
increased to $4,000 besides those rccriv
ing gratultlous support Bengal and Bur
nah ARE exporting large qdnnti les cI
grain To the distressed districts.
The entire cost of moving the ObeliSIi
Cleopalras needle from Egypt to London,
is to be borne by an eminent English ur
geon, Mr. Erasmus Wilson He In.
made the necessary arrangements with
Nj. Dickson, the civil engineer at an us
tlmatci cost OF 10000 The obelisk will
he surrounded with water tight and air
tignt castings Of boiler plates, will have II
wooden keel and iron deck, and will b.
towtd through the Mediterranean "
powerful steamer.
A Charleston girl wagercd young
man u kiss that Tlden would br elected
--he To pay if TiIden won, she to pay if
Hayes won. The Ners Describes the re-
suit ION the morning of the Sth OF 10.
vember he PAID the debt on the 9lh
he called and took it back. That even
ing she paid the debt. Next moInirg
she took it back and he paid Then she
paid and he paid, and 50 they have been
Kept busy by the contra Iictory dispatch.
eseyrr since, and both declare their will.
mgneSs and ability to hold out until
Congress decides the question:
The government of Egypt is miply
run by foreigners. In the Naval De
partment are IN English Post Captain
and many OF his cOuntrymen. At the
Treasury is an eX Secretary OF the Brit
Sh Admiralty. In the Public Works de.
p"rtment, the chief places are filled by
EngIlShmen, and the railroads will pres.
emily be placed under an English officer
ol engineers. Education is under French
y AMI English supervision. The Postmas-
tel General is from the General Post
once, London. In the Telegraph De
par'ment are two English superintcn,
dents The Judges of the Court OF Ap-
peal nre also English The army is chief
iy oihccred dy American Soutlerners.
Death has removed an aggravatng
thorn lromTrigham Young's side. Anna.
@ NJ Lyman, one of the apostles and
FOUNDER OF the Norman settlement in san
bernardlno, in south California is dead.
lie differed vastly with Young in rclig-
'ous views, and the prophet did his ut.
most to crush him and destroy his inhn.
c"ce with the Mormons 1t WAS to the
ueceased that the country is indebted
l"E the particulars of the Mountain
hc"oows massacre. During the first steps
'aAen by the courts to fathom the depths
" ue great crime, Lyman hbored every
""er'' encouraging the guilty to uubos-
0u' themselves. For this Young order
Vu MN to break up the settlement, then
eNcoMmunicated him irom the church :;
"l hls wives but one were forced to de
sert him, aud his own children were
made his blttercst cnimies. He died a
Poor man, almost alone, in quiet retreat
" "llllmore, - miles south uf Salt Lake
In the last eighteen years England
spent @01O,OOO,O0O in gold on her navy,
anil $4,000 coo i'm subsidirs ON her