The Morning herald., 1877-11-08
ITEMS OF. INTEREST.

ITEMS OF. INTEREST. |
A Chinese lawyer has been adm''''0 70
n,e London Bar. ,. . .u.
Como sixty Indians are still prisoners in
The fort at St, Augustine, F'a'
The eucalyptus trees planted at Nice
,..s nreyented, during the last two years.
~. 49, ma,arisl fevers usual in that city.
m,o Swiss Government announces that
~. g. Gothard tunnel will be finished by
1881, fully year in advance Of the period
originally set.
Texas might be out up into 6ve States
. ,.roa a. Illinois, each containing over
1000 square miles, and an early move
ment toward this end is now predicted.
4 Sacramento jeweler has tame mouse
vbich takes position in his show window
and catches flies discounang the best
patent fypaper In the market.
The Chinese language is sspoken by about
49, 900, 900 people. The English Ian
eusge is spoken from o,ooo, 600 to g. 'ooo'-
900.
Tho beach at Galveston is The largest and
,,.ooda.t in the world, extending twenty five
miles, forming the unbroken tide OF the
lulf of Mexico on the south and east.
THEW are at work now on the Straits of
Dover tunnel. The tunnel will belong to
its proprietors for thirty years; then the
two Governments will be able to take pos,
session of it on certain conditions.
Four steel steamers of light draught
have been ordered from England by the
Eayptian Government, for use on Lake
Albert Nyanza, and for opening the navl-
pation Of central African rivers.
Shaker community at Pleasant Hill,
Ky,, has been almost broken up. First q
young couple eoped, next an elderly pau
went the same vsy, and within . month
nine more marriages have occurred
Bridgeport, Conn, keeps lodging hons'
and breakfast table for tramps; also,
pile of stones, where tha tramp must rem
dor an euuiyalsnt, enabling him 10 leave
town with an easy eonseienee.
A mother and daughter in Atchison
Kansas, were poisoned, lately, BY satin
apples picked from a tree in their yard
Some villain had cut the skin of the fruit an
inserted arsenic.
Blondin made a great fortune by hi
rope walking. A few years ago ne we1
into the wine trade and lost all bis money
Now he returns to his old business, and say
he has presentiment that he will lose h
life by fall.
The telephone has been successfully II
troduced into the police department. IN a
bany, n. Y, in place of the telegraph. =
battery is used. The current is generated
on eleotro-msgnst revolving ACROSS tho p'l
of q permanent magnet.
Two important deeds have recently oe'
discovered in the Public Record office
London, bearing on tho family history
Geotfry Chaucer. They are written in Lat'
and to one of them Il attached . %
unique Of its kind:
The Chinese Ambassador to England
tributes the famine In India to 80 mu
land being devoted to the cultivation OF
poppy. It h estimated that 1888, GOO ac
of the best land in India is devoted TO
growth Of the poppy.
The Pottsville (Pa.) Miners Jour
makes an earnest protest against the BAR
windows of the passenger cars on the Phi
delphia and Reading Railroad, as oalcula
to increase greatly the danger Of destr
ton to human life in case of the cars TAX
fire.
The distance OF the earth from the
as given by the reduction of the cont
observations of the transit of Venus by
British expeditions, is 9a, 800, 900 miles.
Photographic observations are yet to
discussed; but this result is somew
larger than was expected.
The longest bridge in the world is {
River Tay, on the line Of the North Brl
Railway. It is 10, 142 feet long, and