, 1877-02-02
NEWS FROM ALL PARTS.

ueaNy Oues
Carl Schurz has inaugurated a
Sunday dime lecture course in St.
Louis.
The New Hampshire Democrats
have nominated Daniel Marcy for
Governor.
Plenty of green peas and straw
berries in Florida with nobody
around to eat them.
A Long Island sea captain named
Tyler, wrecked on the south coast
of Cuba, has reached home, and tells
how he was kept alive on alligator
meat.
A postoiice clerk opened let
ter just to see if a certain girl was
very sweet, on a certain fellow. She
was, and now the Government is
going to be very sweet on him.
The President has pardoned Mar
tin Latruite, notorious gambler.
Icy pavements caused eleven bro
kep limbs and other serious injuries
in one day in Philadelphia.
Fashionable dressmakers in Paris
send dolls to their patrons in Amer
lea in fac-simile costumes of what
they have for sale.
Condensed eggs are the latest
novelty, and they come from China,
the process being secret with the
pig-tails.
The largest sail in the world has
been made in Dublin. 1t is rectan-
gular and measures $50 feet by 60.
1t is to be used in raising sunken
vessels.
Cronin says it was the climate of
Oregon, and not the whisky, that
colored his nose.
A statistician mentions "cultur-
ed" New England town that pays
800 more every year for dog licen-
ces than for ministers.
Paris shopkeepers expect a gol-
den harvest in 1878, when the great
Exposition will fill the city with
strangers.
However fine and elegant hotel
may be, it will never flourish as it
ought to while under bushel. And
to remove the bushel it is requisite
to advertise.
An Irish housemaid boasting of
her industrious habits, said she rose
at 4, made fire, prepared the break
fast, and made all the beds before
any one in the house was up.
The new Territory of Huron al
ready has as many inhabitants as
Minnesota. had when ex-senator
Ramsey went to St. Paul to organ
ize the Territory and Minpesota at
that day was thought to be as unin-
habita5le as Huron is now.
On the last meeting that Mr. Moody
spoke in Chicago he made an appeal
to the audience to help the Young
Mems Christian Association to lift
the heavy debt on the hall and
grounds which they had just pur-
chased. A subscription was taken
up on the spot which amounted to
about $4,000.
The huge guns made and to be
made for modern warfare continue
growing in size. The English $50
ton" gun and the Italian "100-ton"
are now to be eclipsed by a gun
weighing $50 tons, which is project
ed at Woolwich. This monster will
be thirty-6ve feet long and have a
bore of twenty inches. Six hundred
pounds of powder will be required
at each discharge, and the ball it is
expected to send for an indefinite
distance will weigh ton and half.
The destitution and suffering in the
city of New York in consequence OF
the lack of employment for those
who are able and willing to work are
described as something hitherto UNI
precedented.- An organization OF
working-m has submitted to the
authorities a plan of relief. They
recommend that long bonds at low
rate of interest be issued and the
proceeds applied to improvements
on parks and public works, which
shall permit the employment of ten
thousand men during the winter, and
so far as practicable. They argue
that the benefit will be felt by all in
dustries, and that the burden to tax
payers will be transferred to time
when property will be more valua-
bic and business prosperous.