The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-27
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= I)pre will exhibit his FIRST large Swiss paint
Ting In England.
= Dry goods prices show ehtir kags Of ones
third In four years.
- The Legislature Of I,hode Island " endeav-
orlng 10 make education compulsory throughout
The State.
by recent Greek law. the shepherds are
forbidden, under heavy nues aud impfisoninents,
cut down trees on the mountains or 10 light
Urea In their hollow trunks.
The arsenal st Berlin Ii about 10 be Fana-
termed Into . museum Of trophies, and those
taken In the lass war will form one Of the principal
elements Of the collection.
The irish organizations Of Baltimore have
resolved not TO waste their money on b. pst-
riek's day parade, this year. but give what they
would have spent in that way 10 the poor,
The number Of brewers engaged la the
United states ID The manufacture Of fermented
lipuura In 1875, numbered s.sos, and they pro.
durcd an aggregate OF p,0oo.ooe barrels Of beer.
THE Omaha Herald has IL that the Union
Pacific Railroad Company has ordered surveys 10
be made ef tho several routes 10 tho Black Hills,
ana win begin work on branch line to that SEQ.
zion 40 poon az II can be determined which will
be The best route.
A colurea statesman id North Carolina OF.
Fered resolution asking che Legislature TO sug.
sest some plan upon which .uongreas eosld be
nasmoraised 10 set apart territory west OF the
Missouri river for the colenisauon OF tho cvlered
people Of she south. E54@
-4Atthe telegrsphera' reception In uhicigo on
Fsb. Ia, The dancers wsl,sed 70 music played In
Milwaukee, 90 tiiles away. Awaits and several
marches were transmitted by means Of the won-
derfnl telephone. the wires playing 90 dIstinctiy
and perfectly 40 human hands. .iaar mE Is
I'm late number of tho Tucson tArisona)
citizen notice IL given OF the celebration Of st.
NAyiers Day by the Roman Catholics, at VIII oh
time II announces, among other entertainments.
that there will be "bull ights." Thla is In the
United States not old Spain.
"A number OF New York capitalists arc dis
uuasing ths feasibility Of q limo OF trad ng ves"
sels 10 Brasil. II Ia intended thas the vessels
shsil AHii direct from New York TO Manaos, the
thu capital Of The Province OF Amasunas, on the
Amazon river. The project has the sasction of
The government Of BRAZIL and The Amasonan
government viii grant o subsidy.
"A grand aquarium, which Ii expected 10 sur
paas anything OF tne kind ever attempted, In 10
be constructed for the Paris Expeaition. The
Aquarium viii be formed oh No 1mtaense iren
usae. around which will be several galleries for
aiaht.seefs. A huge mole or diving 10 also 10
be- made, In which the visitors can descend 70 the
bottom of the tank and Wow lie wonders by The
electric light with which the bell Ia TO DO gtted.
Miss rhabe Brown, ago %, loved her cats,
TAxf wA ha waI I'm a Hra IA Ipnl rfxNss
Id London and systematically fed o deaen cats.
When che grew feeble and was no longer sbie 10
work, she starved herself aud pAwncd every
thing she had ia order to keep her poo, pess
alive. hhe refused to aend fer doctor when she
was click she starved herself In order that The
cats might live abe wAs found dead In her bod
enc. morning late In January Surrounded By
green cycs and music. Hzsuh6#5t cav H33
New York State has Just wokeaup 10 the fact
that her geography has beon MOST egtegioualy
rnuddled BY the map makers. Even whole cities
are misplaced. Buffalo ID two miles from where
IL ought 10 be, according 70 the maps Albany.
also. ID mile or two out OF position, and bean.
Diary Inca between counties aud towns are of
awry. "psrhaps," suggests covetous Jereay
rareH, " ~hlle lhey Are rnctifying their se#+eSa
and mAps, would DO an opportune time for them
20 restore Staten Island 10 New Jersey, TO which
State II really belongs"
Yankee girls are now cutting and polishing
diamonds. The art has been nioncpelised by
Amsterdam eSperts, who have uniformly re-
fused 10 teach any apprentices except Dutch
hoya Of their own selection. Horny u. Mosae.
after employing Dutch diamond-cutters in Dos
son for many yesrs, learned. the secrets Of the
trade. He opened = shop In Roxbury. and pr.
vatsly taught six or eight young women this
mysterious occupation. He finally appraised his
nntch workmen that American boys must be-
taught by thtm. They peremptorily refused to
instruct the apprentices. He then discharged
them, and brought the young women from Rox-
bnry ~ gil their places. Twensy-thrce OF them
ere nov n work.
- The silver mines Of Laurium. Greece, are
generally known TO be largely encunbered with
scortn, proceeding from The working of the an-
cient CIR, eks but stll containing enough OF silver
ID repay extraction by the improved modern
methods. rrof. Hendreich relates that under tho
scorn. Tor At least 1900 years. has slept the seed
Of poppy Of the species glAucium. After the
rcfrse had been removed Ia the furnaces, nom
,he whole space which they covered have sprung