The Morning herald., 1878-02-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

n eleven months, and swapped hiS last
vie for shot gun. A.,
An eminent Dublin surgeon has given
5000 to establish lifeboat on the wild
coast of Kerry in memory Of his deceased
brothers.-
A single English prslate firmly opposed
the American Revolutionary War-Jona
than Shipley, Bishop Of st. Asaph. He
diedin17ss.
HISS forged London Gazette extra,
n properly stamped, was put in circulation
on the:: Stock Exchange and the author
was never discovered
Amob in Winnemucea, Nev., threatened
to destroy the railroad station and q train
Of cars, if the company did not remove q
passenger who had the smallpox.
Hawk shooting forms quite a business
in Custer county, Colorado. Sixty cents
per bead is paid by the County Treasurer.
One man brought in sixty "a few days
ago ,
4 is significant how wolf infested
Trance was early in the century, that in
1902 an English Kings messenger was at
tacked near Boulogne, and his horses badly
itten.
Vile. Louisa Siefert, who died recently at
knu, was the only woman whose poetry
0b{ained admission for her into the ranks
the 'Parnassian school" of modern
&ance.
IA orty-three varieties Of apples tested
Al. Truelle, of the Chemical Society Of
M t6xis, the red Am erican renette was found
contain the largest amount of sugar.
Al scotehman has proposed that every.
body who drinks alcoholic liquors should
be compelled to taxi, out license. This,
M $6 ahead, yea,., would raise very pref
~ revenue.
The superintendent of factory In Can
ada which manufactures paper from wood
& says that the process is now so much> I'M
proved that the paper can be made r, sady
tor use in six hours from the cutting of he
tree. =.
It is believed by the Chinese that the in
ventor of Ink is charged with keeping an
account of the manner in which all ink is
used here below, and that for every abuse
of Az he records a black mark against the
offender.
The metrical translation of the lyrics of
Kuneberg, the great Swedish poet, by
Eireke Magunsson and E. H. Palmer, will
soon be published. 1t will be dedicated by
rermission to the King of Sweden.
The colored people in Lynchburg think
thata large meteor, which some of them
saw flashing throguh the sky, formed the
letters NJ and L. They are looking for a |
seer able to interpret the sign.
Forsom years past the great garrison
and naval towns of England have been
placed under the operation of what is called
the Contagious Diseases act, and the regult
has been that the number of men in the
army incapacitated by disease fell in such
places from rs per 1000 in 1867 to 20 per
1000 ii 1875.
The largest plough ever manufactured
has Just been made at a factory in Stockton,
Gal. It is designed for work in the tules,
and cuts furrow thirty Ave inches wide.
The mould board is eight feet long from
the point to the end. The plough will be
attached to sulky, and will require a team
Of twelve stout animals to pull it.
benjamin. Godfrey and Mollie Winned-
ger, lovers, neither over IS years of age,
Of Norfolk, had trifing quarrel It
was On Sunday, and that evening she re-
fused 70 let him accompany her home from
church He went to a barroom, got drunk,
went to her house, shot her through the
heart and then killed himse If. Both be.
longed to wealthy families.
One Of the great features in sacred orders
is the number of capital letters required for
initials to represent their names or the titles
VI their officers, but a Washington colored
society lays over them all in this regard,
its name being 'The Ancient Order OF. the
Sons md Daughters of Moses of tho
IInitad States and the World at LARGE