The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-02
NOTES.

NUIES.
The Chicago Times has a photographic de-
partment OF "PearlH," which IL casts before III
readers.
Wade Hampton has been invited to attent
Tho centennial celebration of the battle OF Ben
ninRtop. VT
The authorities OF the University OF Michigan
have forbidden dancing at the coming reception
oS the graduating class, and the seniors are
accordingly In state OF evaporation.
The population Of Algart. in Morocco, ID in
state Of ineurrection. They demand that the
Sultan remove tho chief governor and lieutenant
governor, who are accused Of levying unauthor
s1ed taxes.
The hat factories In the Eastern States are
capable OF supplying 100000 soft hats month,
and the Boston Post Appropriately remarks that
the memory of Kossuth still lives In the hats Of
She American people. "a
The Emperor Of Russia has. by recent de-
cree, greatly ameliorated The condition of the
non.commis. Toned officers of the Russian army.
in which, AZ in all Continental armies. that OF
Germany not excepted, the want Of good non
commissioned officers 10 very great
,--Twenty.e. ven members Of the Canadian Par
lament, who are In sumo manner contractors
with the Grown. will come under the provisions
OF the Independence. of Parliament act. by this
aot sny member directly or indirectly having a
CONTRACT with the government ceasfs to be a
member, and exposes himself TO fine of $4,000
per day for every day he sits and vo'es.
A remedy has been found in Nicaragua for
-fhe pbyloxera, which 10 devastating the French
vineyards. II IL plant possessing electro-mag-
MOTTO properties, and its magnetic Influence ex-
tends TO a distance OF seven to eight feet
Neither insects nor birds are TO be seen about IL,
II would DO enough to transplant this herb twelve
or thirteen te4t TO drive away the phylloxera
from them.
"A curious soene was enacted at the Church
Of 81. Bartholomew the Great In London on Good
Friday. According to the provisions Of an an
oient will the rector proceeded to the church.
yard aud dep ,sited twenty lone sixpences on the
grave Of the testatrix as donation to twenty-one
widows, the conditions being that they were abso-
lutely needy and not too stiff in their joints to
atoop and pick up the money.
--1here Ia already change In tho aspect Of
society In Washington. The men who give big
dinners are no longer In the ascendant, but
more modest people have chance. The Hayes
family does not take kindly to mere wealth aud
show, nor TO people whose prin ,ipal merit s that
they eau eat and drink long and deep. tits the
difference, perhaps, between high and low
Methodism.- Washington Star.
Miss Dancer died in New York some time
ago, leaving the bulk OF her fortune, nearly
million Of dollars, to various charitable and
benevolen5 institu ions. She was the daughter
1t noted gambler, and tho contestants who now
appear aver was uuduly oppressed with the idea
that II was her duly to make restitution. She
cnt her relatives off without shilling, and as
they are not troubled with conscientious qualms
ahey have commenced consuming the estate.
That lie, they contest tho will. The result will be
Shat the lawyers will get everything.
"A few evenings since a new partner in
small New York store astonished his business
fellows b. suddenly producing a book, slap
ping IL down upon the counter. and exhibiting a
valt number of bank notes, varying in value
arUm $40 TO 5000. He looked at his auditors in
tently for moment. and thon, informing them
'Di their sinful character, proceeded to preach to
them. He had come to redeem them, and he
would pay them $40 each to listen to him an
hour. His au litors became wearied, and he in
creased his bid 10 800 each, and then to $1,000
He had locked the door, but two Of his hearers
escaped. 1t WAS after midnight, and the light
went out. The maniac collected waste paper
and fred It. and this being exhausted, he drew
out his pocket book and threw bill after bill into
khe flames before he could be secured"
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