The Morning herald., 1877-11-01
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Kansas is almost ezaotlyin in the centre OF
the United States. gA. r. a.f. 49,.
In Los Angeles, CAL, they mash grapes
and feed them out to the bees. i
The superstition about the influence OF OF
the evil eye increases among the common
people OF Scotland.
4 Grasshoppers are considerel good ba-
roneters in the West. After the sudden
descent of swarm to the earth, laln 7ln'
variahlv falls within half On hour. q h II
rir,tcs and sea robbers trsedte be han4eI
under iinglsA law %; 4"Fs tS'tl'' N-Nh
tthair bodies botng lefttAtr4 ,tLi iiiEF4 Qlts,
J ba washed over theia. r,.u....9. o. ,u
! a. Mfj}ia1n CnlIau bryant, IonGf'|lNw, and
po,sard lFapIut. have recently been elee't'l
| honora,., ,.mLer, Of the Titc'arW Arah"-
NV of Athens, which, is under the special
| patronage of the Queen OF Greece.
A Londonderry, VT, cat stands twelve
and a half inches high; measures thirty
four inches from tip of tail to end of her
nose. and is over eighteen years old She
is "as spry as kitten."a1 ''.g .a.o. '..".
! Martini, the Hungarian rifle inventor,
founded his idea upon an American inven-
ton. Henry, who made combination Tor
the English, was the Edinburgh gun
maker, The Turks use the Martinl-Henry
rifle. '' ' .,....
After the recent cyclone in the gulf OF
Mexico the beach near Galveston, Texas,
was strewn with human bones washed up
bv the waves, and supposed to be the re-
1 mains of the persons lost with the City OF
y Waco. ...... . ...
The enduring odor of musk is marvellous
When Justinian, in 538, rebuilt what isnoN
the Mosque of st. Sophia, the mortar was
charged with musk, and to this day the at
5 mosphere of the building is filled with the
/ odor.
Since the recent great earthquakes on thu
Pacific coast;of South America, the province
: of Catamarca, in the western part OF tn
Argentine Republic, has become gradual!
= submerged, and the great lake formed ther
" is continually enlarging. '
The K1ishna Shoal Lighthouse, whicl
was probably the finest structure OF the KIM
3 in British India, has completely disap
peared so that no trace of its site can no'
he discovered. It was on the Gulf G
=! Martaban, in the Province of BIRTHS
Burmah. ..t .-
as The workmen engaged in repairing th
re front of the Florence Cathedral recent.
lie in removing thick coating of plaster at on
ed of the corners of the building made the di
We covery of seven marble statues, pronounce
~ by connoisseurs to be of the best period (
tie Greek art.
Oh The rapidity with which the Germa1
~, adopt every improvemnt in means al
nd methods of warfare is shown by the fa
Nv that all the guns carried by the ships of u
German navy, or mounted in the fortifc
-, tions on the shores of Germany, are breec
loading riAed cannon.
All the artistic relics of Pompeii, be
those in the Naples museum and those
lowed to remain in stu, to help out the
fractions of the excavated city, have nj
VS. been beautifully photographed, and are 81
',9 at cheap rates, to be scattered over the wor
No art albums are more fashionable and
,tes| .
tractive. . .0 .. .,. ..,'
to Sir. Henry Halford has a private r
'er- range 1000 yards long, at which distal
ant he has made sixty shots with only
Two misses. He uses a fifteen-pound Metf
red gun, and still believes in muzzle-loadt
ing He says the American rifemen will
IN using muzzle-loaders in few years.
The discovery in Cracow Cathedral
the remains of the Polish King Stepl
.Bathory, wio died in 1856, has cause
great sensation in Austrian Poland,