The Morning herald., 1877-04-16
Here and There.

Here ana IneVe'
Nexburyport has thirteen hundred more
ooen than men. It il = small place.
nj wedding there creates almost as
nch sadness as funeral. 2 ~ /
The directors Of the London General
|mnibus Company offer prize Of
1000 for an invention Or q scheme for
Fsctually recording or checking the re.
ipts Of passenger fares. 1.s0 ~
The Royal Society for the Prevention oi
r,elty to Animals offers prize Of ESQ
r the best vermin trap, one Of the con-
|tions, being Of course, that II shall not
lure The animal entrapped. eD
The competition for the making of the
blossal equestrian statue Of Robert E. Lee
10 be thrown open to the sculptors Of the
orld. All proposals must be presented
the first Monday in September. q
A gray eagle, measuring eight feet from
n to tin. was killed about I've miles north
Santa Rosa, California, recently. He
nd his mate are believed to have carried
q 100 lambs during the last season. n
A small boy died in Bennington, VT,
om swallowing screw, which becoming
bJyed in his throat, caused his death by
,docation. The same boy but week be.
bre his death swallowed a two cent piece
nd the day preceding was caught in the
1t Of endeavoring to get nail down hi,
broat. 4st a. ga
Extremely expensive dressing by
ctresses is not confined 10 this city. Mi .
Hover and Conway wear, in the play
Three DAYS." now running at the Chestnut
treet Theatre, Philadelphia. the two dress
sent by Worth to the International Ex-
ibition, and for which he was awarded
rizes. -'@
The project of a theatre, 10 be conducted
the best manner, regardless of profit or
bss is under discussion 10 Cincinnati. The
lea is that good dramatic entertainment
elps to make city attractive to visitors,
nd that hotel keepers and merchants
tould gain by meeting the loss that might
rise from keeping a,-'6rst' class theatre
pen the year round. aa'eu'v
New England owns one third The num-
Yer of sailing vessels of the country and
ne half. the tonnage, Maine leading with
,S7S vessels, and 497, 14l tonnage, Massa.
husetts coming second, with 2,463 vessels
ind 460, ,720 tonnage, and Connecticut third,
|ilh 228 vessels add 5S,lOl tonnage. I'll
estimated that New Eng!and's invest
bent in shipping amounts to $4,000, 900.
Brown maintain, sir, that though the
Id savages might have bartered weapons
ind gewgaws the sale Of food was unknow n
|mong Them. Jones-Nensensel Why,
hey had peddfers who went about and
pld it. Brown-1t is not true, sir. Jones
You are an ill-informed man, sir. Read
|mith's History Of the Savage" and you
Jill find several instances Of Tommy
|awking quoted.
Prince Gustavus Wasa, field marshal of
be Austrian army since 1919, is danger
usiy i'll and not likely to live.
His age is seventy-seven. He is the son
King Gustavus Adolphus w. ofSweden
Iho abdicated in 1909, and died in 1887.
The Prince is one Of the last representa-.
yes ofthe old Wasa family. He married
} 1880, daughter Of the Grand Duchess
i Baden, and his daughter by that lady is
ow Queen Of Saxony.
The grand piano once belonging to Bee
hoven is for sale. The instrument was
pade especially for him by the piano man
facturer Graf in Vienna, at a time when
he composer was already beginning to be
eaf, and in order to increase the tone it
(as strung with four strings instead of
hree. After the death of the composer,
Frat took the instrument back again and
pld it 10 ailady in Vienna. There appears
T be no doubt as to its genuineness.
In connection with the recent boat acci.
ent at Rytcn, on The Tyne, in England,
y which three lives were lost, it is report
y that the boatman's dog, retriever,
elzed woman and attempted to swim
shore with her, but the current was too
rong, and the drowning woman, with the
Jog holding fast to her, drifted quarter
amle down the river, when the animal
an extraordinary exertion, brought her
shore at Ryton Willows. 1t was then
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