The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-11
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A monument TO Virgil ia TO be erected by
enbseription in one OF the public squares OF
Mantua.
One Of the largest Sunday schools in the
world IL al IAintab, in India. The number OF
pupils amounts to 1900.
Dean Stanley, of Westminster Abbey, heads
manifesto issued by the London clergy, favor
ing the opening Of the museums and picture gal
leries on Sunday.
Grape growers in California are alarmed at
The prospect of the ravages Of that destroyer the
nhvloxera, II has appeared before in the State,
hat The loss by 1t has hitherto been inconsider-
able
The French Commission OF Historical Monu.
ments has resolved to purchase the i've principal
tomba of the Grand Masters Of the Order of
Malta. which are in tho is'and OF Rhodes. They
will probably be transported to the Louvre
The jou ney OF tho Prince OF Wales from
London to Paris the other day was the fastest on
record. II occupied only seven hours and three
quarters, including stoppages OF Folkstone and
Amiens. but exclusive OF rest OF an hour aud a
half at Boulogne.
aermany furnishes. annually, 100000 fox
skins. q. 600 pine martens, GO.O00 stone martens.
2ap 900 poleoats. 5000 offers. 5000 badgers and
10000 hare skins. In rabbit skins che sends out
opy 100000, to Frances 100000. The list closes
with 400 900 domestic cat skins.
The Ohio papers are out of patience with the
Legislature of that State, which persists In re-
naming In session, while number of the mem
bers are absent much OF the time. The Column
bus Herald suggests fixed salary for the men,
hera with an unconditional deduction for each
days absence.
Owing, presumably, to The abnormal warmth
of the past winter In Europe, millions OF young
fab about an inch long made their appearance
on the coast OF Cornwall England, in February,
which do not ordinarily appear until months later,
and their appearance seems to have brought there
the mackerel who are not ordinarily due until
June.
Owls are OF immense service as vermin de-
atroyerp. An English game keeper found an owls
nest with one young bird in IL. He visited 1t for
thirty consecutive mornings, and in that time re.
moved from it le5 rats, 40 mice, ii shrew mice, 2
robins and sparrow. This was. and well il
might have been, over and above what the owls
consumption demanded.
The exchanges OF the New York Clearing
House from January last zip TO Saturday, April
Is, amounted to 100000, This was s2a3.-
100000 more than during the same period last
year. Allowing margin for the recent rise in
the price of grain and for the recent large stock
transactions in Wall street, there s still left an
indication of reviving business in the metropolis
The Massachusetts, State Board OF Health
issues circular desert ptlve OF hydrophobia. The
disease is divided into three etages-the first ID
marked bv restlessness, the second by spasmt
and frothing, and the third by paralysis An at
tack or the disease. 1t saye, may be avoided in .
vast majority Of cases, after person has been
bitten by a rabid animal, by at once washing anc
cauterizing the wounds with white-hot iron or
nitrate of silver.
The Paris Unipers is responsible for the
statement that Count Gabriel de st. Aymon has
given the Pope complete altar service OF SOLID
gold studded with splendid gems. The Count
accompanied the gift by strongly expressed
wish that it should not pass out of the Pontitfs
hands, and His Holiness took IL on these oondi-
tons, saving clause that II the Queen of England
should perchsnce become Roman Catholic b.
might givei TO her.
The utilization and development Of peat is a
the present time being successfully carried on ii
Onondaga county, N. Y. The Syracuse Pea
Works manufacturing the substance into
substitute for wood charcoal. and at cost of one
half to the consumer. Wood charcoal weigh
about twenty pounds to the bushe and the ne,
article forty-six pounds. The new substitute
represented to be free from sulphur, phosphoru
or other gases, and for that reason should fin
favor with manufacturers of iron and STEEL
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