Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-12-27
ODDS AND ENDS.

pan correspondent says he saw wrought in an
inlaid wood of door in the great Temple OF
Ligmoto, scene showing first monkey, then
an ape, then gorilla, and so OH up by grad
ual development until the final one of the
series was perfect man surrounded by ele-
plants and curious birds The door was
several hundred years old.
Fred Frost of Mortified, Me while hunt
ing recently tried favorite trick with his
loaded gun while sitting on rail fence, which
was to cock the weapon and let the hammer
down, full tilt, without exploding the cap.
TO make the trick more effective he placed
the muzzle in his mouth The full charge
went through his head, and he fell backwards
from the fence, and broke his neck.
In a recent address on Erasmus to Glasgow
students, the eminent Principal, Cavid al
ludcd to the amazing literary industry of that
celebrated scholar, but drew attention to the
circumstance that che possessed some adj
vantages which all students and scholars do
not possess. He was unmarried, and was
therefore free from the distracting obligations
of domestic life.
The position of the Scotch farmers seems to
be, if possible, worse than that of their English
brethren. The Glasgow Herald says: can
other harvest like that from which the farmer
is Just emerging, and it is not too much to say
that half the agriculturists of Scotland would
find themselves il the Gazette. This may be
thought a gloomy view of the position, but it
is sufficiently founded on fact to bear the
most questioning analysis"
At the end of the last century a new sect
appeared in Paris under the name of The
ophilanthrophist, of whom Larevilliere, one
of the Directory, avowed himself patron.
Its members rejected revelation, but wor-
shipped Supreme Being. They were allowed |
to take possession of several Of the deserted |
where they worshipped without |
any prescribed formulas, and brought obla- !
ions in the shape of the products of the earth
flowers, fruit etc
One Of the half dozen books in The English
language which have brought the most grist
o the publishers mill is Burns's ''Justice Of
he Peace. The author was a country cur
tie, who, when he had completed his laborious
work, came up to London to find a publisher
The first to whom he went offered 500, and
kepoor horturned disheartenedawa "a few
lays later he went to Miller, an eminent pub
isher in the last century. Miller consulted a
Dung lawyer who generally advised him on
aw books, and WAS told that the book would
he cheap at 81, 900. Burns cheelfUily &C
opted The o.ter Miller najc so, 003 out Of
he book, but had the decelcy to send Barns
800 on each new edition making its appear
nee
Houses in Paris have been greatly improved
/ comfort of late years Water is now
rought to the upper stories, and furnace
often maintained by the landlord. Flats
airy in price from $500 to $1,000 year; but,
lille the majority live in this way, the
ealthy still reside i'll ''hotels as in days
one by, and build new ones. Many of these '
tier, though plain externally, are exquisite
thin The Paris houses are excellently
uilt, and made as near tireproof as possible. r
A second specimen of the famous fossil, the
a curious reptile-hke bird,
as found few months ago at Pappenheim,
Germany. 1t passed into the hands of
rnst Haeberlein, the son of the doctor who,
yenty years back, sold the only other speci- s
en- of this fossil. to the British Museum.
ne new specimen is more perfect, being es ;,
cially valuable for the bones of the skull, b.
hich were wanting in the British specimen. -
r. Otto Volger has secured the specimen for
e Freie Deutsche Hochstift at a cost of
1000