Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-12-30
CRACKERS AND CHEESE

A Hartford, Conn, newspaper proposes a
bachelor show, the prizes to be awarded by
| ladies'
The losses of the Scotch farmers this year
through floods and bad weather are estima-
ted at $40, 900 900
Thirty Texas papers have died within the
last twelve months, and sixty new ones sprang
into existence during the same time
The Central Literary Bureau at Berlin
offer prize of 5000 marks for the best novel
dealing with German subjects of the present
time
The Philadelphia baby show broke up in a
nd-to-hand fight by the mothers over the
prizes. The police cleared the hall of exhib-
its and spectators.
In the reading room of the British Museum
they are complaining of an influx of idlers
who. come to solve the acrostics in ''society
journals.
In an article on ''The Grounds of French
Conservative Fears" the London Economist
thinks that cit is impossible that while five
in six of all French adults are proprietors, a
serious attack on property should be carried
out
Sir Wilfred Lawson, the temperance mem
Der of Parliament, says that a jail chaplain |
once told him that in his experience only one
teetotaler was ever brought before him, and |
that was a man who thrashed his wife for
getting drunk
The Russian soldiers wear sort of hood
called BashluiCk. The fashion originates
with the dwellers on the borders of the Cas-
plan sea, where it is worn by both men and
women The finest Bashluicks are of camel's
hair, and are light, soft, and warm.
In the vicinity of Rio Grande City, Tex,
there has been no rain since April, with the
exception of one slight shower. In conse-
quence there is no pasturage, and the suffer
ing stock is only kept alive by feeding on the
prickly pear, from which the thorns are first
cut.
In recent speech, Mr. W. II. Smith, First
Lord of the British Admiralty, remarked that :
g the inventive faculties of men are now al
most wholly devoted to destruction, and [
laily receive more suggestions of a murder
JUS character than | can deal with. y
At public exhibition of strength i'll the =
Assembly Room at Wigtown, in Scotland one
Wilson lifted the enormous weight of II hun !,
lred weight. He also lifted with his teeth,
md without the aid of his hands, from the =,
loor, eight 56s on strong board. The
Weights did not touch his body. h
At the fair held few weeks ago in Scot f,
and for hiring farm servants, an immense G
lumber attended, but very small proper W
ion got places wages have gone down. A ft
erribly hard winter is anticipated in Eng
md, Scotland, and South IWales, and the 2
verage poor rate viii probably be higher
han it has been in twenty years. c.
To the French Pilgrims the Pope said on h
'ov. 81: ''You have come hither to visit the b.
omb of St. Peter and-the prison of his sue
essor who lives in the city of Rome, the cap 2
al and centre of Catholicism, but now trans bl
)rmed into the capital of disorder" Louis tt
Tapoleons cousin the Duchess Dowager of tn
WV, pa-'0-' ~ WAY .'O- ps
Last year 40 COG cattle were destroyed by
lid animals and venomous snakes in India,
nd %, 257 wild animals and go, 165 poison W
Us snakes killed: 126,O15 rupees were ex- 81
ended in rewards. In the current year 10, Ii
70 persons and 1850 cattle have been til
lied, and 124, 574 rupees expended in re- be
ards. In the central provinces the deaths b te
ON this cause increased from 617 in 1875 di
1,098 in 1876 oh