The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-20
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Tho ropo has ss2,000.0oo in tho bank o
Italy.
DIR. ne Moyne, the cremator, liz gathering them
In. Two more bodies have been placed at his
disposal.
The central section of the palace OF tie Tuil-
cries, burned by The Communists In 1871, 10 TO be
rebuiit at once Messrs. Duo and violletie-Duc
will be the architects.
"A telegrapho line will soon be commence d
on the shores of the Mediterranean, to traverse
the African continent to the Cape OF Good Hope.
The Mobile Register nominates the Hon. Pc.
ter Hamilton, Of that city, to succetd Judge Da-
Wis on the United States Supreme Bench.
The committee in charge Of the Moody and
sankey Tabernacle in Chicago refused to let Mr..
Beecher preach there last Sunday.
Scarlet fever has made such havoc In Chi
cago that the journals of that city speak OF ii
the Red Death.
The narrow gauge roads are gaining favor
rapidly. Several are being built out of Oinoin.
natl, and over ninety miles are already surveyed
and will be built this year in Indiana.
There i. no accounting for taste. A prisoner
named Ardois, in Jail at Nantes for some slight
offence, stabbed without provocation his cell
mate, 30 as to have q term at hard labor.
The Jewels in Queen vietoria's crown we're
estimated at E1ll,ooo forty years agc--at the
time OF her Inauguration. Since then they have
much increased in value; four diamonds at the
top of the crown are worth 10000 each.
A formal medical report declares that a very
large majority OF the pupils In the Cincinnati
public schools are breathing an atmosphere oon-
tanning moro than one-tenth per cent of carbonic
acid.
From July to December 81, 1876, eighty
nine millions of postal cards We're sold in the
post offices Of the United States, or fifteen mil
lions more than for the same period OF 1876.
Postal oards were introduced IN tins country only
four years ago.
The Charleston Courier says that the capital
removal bill now pending in the Senate OF West
Virginia proposes to "restore the capital to
Charleston by leaving 1t at Wheeling for eight
years, and then removing
The Fourth Artillery is now, or was very re-
gently. the most widely scattered regimental Or
ganization in the United States army. The sew
oral companies are stationed i, the States OF
South CAROLINA, Nebraska, California and Oregon,
- The experiment tried in Liverpool of opening
cheap coffee houses for The sale Of COCOA coffee,
tea and bread, to counterfeit the influence Of the
grog shope, is proving very successful Eighteen
have already been established and though mos.
of the sales are for only half penny, they not
only meet expenses, but will pay good dividend
ON the outlay. They are considered most effec-
tive weapon against incompetence II VI
:. The cunning that seems to be part OF in
sanity il illustrated in the killing Of Erskine Bar
rett, q keeper in the inssne Asylum ct Northamp-
ton, Mass. He was found with his threat cut In
the ward OF which he had charge. and one or
more Of eight maniacs did II; yttit IL impossible
to ascertain the facts. seysral had blood marks
on their hands or clothing, but oil deny the deed.
or course there is no moral responsibility.
The Princess Ids Wrede, Q handsome woman
f3S, whose ancestral castle is on the Grosensse
In Germany, was recently married 10 woodcut-
ter who can neither read nor write. The Prin-
cess is remarkably intelligent woman, who
speaks six languages and is very cultivated. She
is now living on little place on the Salzburg-
Ischl road with her husband. She has donned
peasant garb. and goes with him to the country
church every Sunday.
How great men sign their names George
Washington used to write himself G Washing
ton, with an extravagsnt flourish in crossing his
1. Thomas Jefferson wrote his name Tn: Jet.
terson. Calhoun ridiculeusly wrote himself
J. @. Colboun. Daniel Webster signed his nams
Doml Webster. Henry Clay brought himself
down to 81. Clag. Andrew jackson wrote his
mama very plainly, except that the e in jackson
wore an emacisted appearance nos quite in keep
ing with the signature Of hero.
Mr.. B. Yates writes despondingly to the st.
Paul Pioneer Press from Msnelia, Mimi, CON-
corning the grasshopper plague. and predicts
The disappointment of those who believe sharp
freeze would make an end of such, at least, as
were Matched during the recent mild weather
MIR. Yates says: 1.-Two years ago, Messrs. Flan-
ders, Wadsvorth and others matched out hop
pers here in their Offices by the stoyes, and when
they we're about one-fourth Of an inch long put
them out on the sidewalk and subjected them to
tifteen and eighteen degrees below zsre. When
taken in the next day they were as good as new
and little hungrier.
Important to sugar planters. SEQ Troaard's
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PnExAruRx Loss or HAIR, which l. so common !
aowads5s. may be en- rely prevented ~ the 1se !,