The Morning herald., 1877-10-13
HERALD NOTES

HERALD NOTES s-..-.-.s...
The St. Gothard Tunnel will probably be
finished within three years.
An effort is being made In Reading, Pa,
TO establish ! city park at the head of Penn
street. -
The Lancaster Examiner says the ship
ping of the large tobacco crop of Lancaster
county has been begun -a
The Dartmouth College navy has been
disbanded and boating wholly given up be-
cause of the heavy expense.
1t 10 rumored in Paris that Germany will
occupy Russian Poland, in order that the
Russian forces may operate against the
Turks.
The solution Of the tramp question in
Bridgeport, Con-, ia to build cheap lodg-
ing-house, where tramps may get break
fast, for which they shall Fay by breaking
stones for two or three hours.
Amer the recent cyclone in the Gulf Of
Mexico, the beach near Galveston, Texas
was strewn with human bones washed up
by the sves and supposed to have been the
remains OF the persons lost with the City Of
Waco. -
The total number Of lunstics, idiots, and
persons of uDsound mind, registered rs such
in England and Wales, on the first Of jan
uary last, was sc, ,636, an increase Of ITO
upon the number registered on the 1st Of
Jsnuary, 1875
Harvard students crowded around the
stage door of the Boston Theatre during the
engagement ofthe Lydia Thompson troupe,
to see the girls come out. The stage mana
ger put up placard, ''No losfers wanted
here" and the nuisance was abated.
Among the events Of the Grand Army At
the Exhibition on the 18th will be the pres
entstion of banner to General George G.
Mead Post, the doners being the ladies of
Philadelphia. General George B. Mcclellan
has accepted the invitation to deliver the
presentation address. ."-
A counterfeit $50 note has been discovered
in Baltimore, on the National Bank Of New
York. 1t had been taken BY banker with
out suspicion of its genu'neness. The
only difference noticeable between It and
the genuine note is that It Is triae smaller
and printed on slightly thicker paper.
The centre ofporulation Of the United
States Is said to have travelled westward,
keeping curiously near the thirty.ninth
parallel of latitude, never getting more than
twenty miles north or two miles south of IT. |
In eighty years 1t has Travelled only 400
miles, and is still found nearly fifty miles
eastward of Cincinnati.
A Agreat event is announced in English
Roman Catholic society-the marriage of
the Duke of Norfolk to Lady Flora Hast
ings, sister of the Earl of Loudoun (whose
ancestor was Governor of New York;, and
first cousin to the Marquis of Butte. The
Duke, - young man, is Premier Peer oil
England, and Hereditory Earl Marshal.
BE has been bred q very strict Roman CATH
ole, and is figure head on all important
occasions connected with his faith. he hss
an income of some $4Oo, 900 a year, and
when the leases of his Sheffield property
he owns most of that great town-fall in
the Norfolk estates will worth near 81 $780,
600 year. His bride is niece of the last
Marquis of Hastings.
Ice did not become an article of commerce
until the present century but already in
the United States alone thirty millions of
dollars are invested In the business of gath
ertng and selling it. Large shipments of
ice are made to South America and Asia.
the European nations supplying themselves
with Ice from Norway. There has been
remarkable increase in the use of the article
In the Uuitsd States since 1S45, when oply
$4,000 tons of 1t were used. In the wear
1879 the consumers bought 2,5OO, 900 tons,
and probably 5000 900 tons were cut. Beer
brewers are the best customers of the ice
companies, several using 80, 900 tons of ice
annually.
L. 7. Blair is studying to make greater
savings than ever in their gss lights, he is
ready to do any plumbing or gas fitting that