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Sharp County record., 1878-01-25

two of the reindeer, are located at the
Westminster Aquarium. These four
Laps are the first that have ever visited
England. They are two men and two
women, are cousins, and their ages from
10 to 81. They 90 through certain per-
formances, such as catching the rein
deer and Harvesting it to sledge, tent
building, thread-making, and singing,
to illustrate the simple kind of life they
lead.
Two gentlemen from Copenhagen
were recently taking a walk in the
"Dyrehaven,n the royal preserves, sit
uated some five miles from the town,
when suddenly they were attacked by a
stag, wnich began chasing them with
the evident intention of goring them.
One of the gentlemen, getting tired,
tried as last resource to get up a tree,
when, fortunately, the King happened
to pass on horseback, and, observing
the danger, at once charged the stag,
and, having hit the animal a few heavy
blows over the head with his hunting
whip, succeeded in driving off the in
furiated animal. In reply to the thanks
which he received, the King only OBJ
served, "Well, gentleman, perhaps it
was just as well that happened to ride
this way"
"A writer in a London magazine this
month says: 81 am not naturally in
quisitive, and altogether, | hope, exempt
from that morbid curiosity which axes
an interest in every detail connected
with the Royal family; but still | should
like to know where the Queen gets her
India shawls from. | don't mean from
what establishment in Regent Street or
Waterloo Place, for | doubt if she ever
bought one any where; but, [ should like
to hear how she comes by the thousands
which she evidently has on hand. They
do not form part of tribute paid to
her as Empress of India, because she
has always possessed the same super
fluffy of this article, some specimen OF
which she is nevertheless always giving
away. I don't think that any girl Of
high rank has been married in England
for the last quarter of century who has
not had shawl from the Queen. 1t al
ways stands at the head of the list of pres
ents published in the Morning Post:
From the Queen-a beautiful India
shawl" These shawls have
for some time been joke
in English high life; it being
shrewdIy suspected that her Majesty,
whose presents are of the most frugal
order, has some mode of getting con-
signmenls at very low figure. But it
is fair to add that the shawls are eX-
tremely handsome, and could not be
bought under a high price.
Sharp County record., 1878-01-25
Foreign Notes.

Bass, the brewer, is the largest con-
tributor to the revenue of Great Britain,
averaging $4,000 for every working day
of the year.
Queen Victoria's name figured in
the Indian famine relief fund list for
81, ,250, and just below it was that Of the
Baroness Burdett-C -Coutts (second dona-
tion), $4,000.
Gen. la Marmora, who, while in the
field, always displayed the tenderest in
terest in the hospital and ambulance de-
partments, has, on inheriting large
fortune, devoted a very considerable
sum to the great hospital of San Giovan-
nj in Turin, which also benefited by the
muniiicance of the Duke de Galliera.
The Pope has contributed greatly
to the more humane treatment Of the in
sane in Italy, and has bestowed large
sums from his private purse with this
object. Rome can boast the first lunatic
asylum established in Europe. 1t stood
in the Piazza Colonna as early as 1913.
On the death of its founders, a contra
ternity for its superintendence was
formed, which was placed under the
protection of a Cardinal.
Up to the death of Nicholas, Jews
in Russia were not allowed to possess
land, to give evidence in civil suits, nor
to inhabit the holy cities Of Kew aud
Moscow. They were obliged to wear q
particular garb, and out of every Jewish
family one child was taken by the State
to be educated as a Christian at his
parents cost.
AT the inquiry into the causes of
the recent explosion at the Blantyre
mines in Scotland, fireman named
Little confessed that, although tire-damp
was constantly present, the men "work-
ed with naked lights in front of their
bonnets. If they touched the roof it
would kindle.n The rules as to the
use of powder were Systematically vio-
lated.
-Four Laplanders and seven rein
deer, brought from Kantokeino, have
arrived in London. The Laplanders,
with their dogs, an Arctic fox, two
sledges, tent, a variety OF dresses, and
Sharp County record., 1878-01-25
Prolonged Life Under Adverse Cir
CumStanceS.

The resources and accomplishments
Of improved surgery are indeed Won
derful, and the manned and suffering
of the present day are almost happy
personages compared with those in
similar conditions fifty years ago. This
advancement of surgical skill and ap-
pliances in the present day is slightly
exempEfed by the simple but effective
means used by Prof. Christopher John
ston to prolong the life of Jacob Slicer,
who has been under treatment at the
Maryland University Hospital for Sev-
eral weeks. Mr.. Slicer, it will be re-
membered, had his head crushed by an
elevator in Hurst, Purnell & Co.'S ware
house, and the surgeon who then at
tended was of the opinion that he could
not survive day. Several important
arteries were severed, and in conse-
quence frequent and copious hemor-
rhages of the head followed, any of
which would have been fatal if permit
ted to find vent. These hemorrhages
have been prevented by plugging the
nostrils on the inside with pieces OF
sponge. A peculiar instrument is placed
in the mouth Of the patient, and touch
ing a spring two prongs are thrown out.
The pieces of sponge are attached to
the instrument by pieces of silk, and
drawn though the nose to the lacerated
arteries. The silk is then severed, leav-
ing the particles of sponge in the back
and front parts OF the nostril. 1t is the
general belief that Mr.. Slicer will GER
tainly die from his injuries, especially
as decomposition of the injured parts
has already commenced, but Prof.
Johnston believes that life can be pro-
longed for an indefinite period by means
of the plugging process.-BaItSmore
american.
Sharp County record., 1878-01-25
Odds and Ends.

Several exchanges are giving direc-
tions "How to dress" The most SEN
sible way is to stay in bed till the fire is
started, and trot out to the dining-room
stove.
-"Do you believe in the use of the
rod, dear ProieSsor?n asked a lady
whose children were making life a bur
den to all the guests in the hotel. " In
some cases, madam; but there are 9th
ers,n glancing at her gambolling dar-
ings, +" where l prefer the revolver. "
"A tipsy book-agent declared that
he and Neal Dow drank brandy and
water together on a Sound steamer.
When he was confronted by the wrath
full apostle Of temperance, the fellow
Sharp County record., 1878-01-25
Science and Industry.

cNiOhNC anu
"A number of New York hop-grow-
ers are shipping their own hops to Lon
don.
Mining industries in Colorado are
gaining at rate of 80 per cent. annu-
ally.
Ohio has 9S1, 900 acres of apple or
chards, and raised this year 100000
bushels of apples.
Manitoba wheat and -four are highly
spoken of, but high freight rates tend
largely to keep them out of the market.
Flax, hemp, jute, and ramie are of
easy production in this country, yet we
annually import these articles to the
value of S5O,OOO,O0O.
1t is estimated that the raising and
manufacturing of tobacco in this coun-
try furnishes employment to more than
100000 persons.
In Central Georgia the annual av-
erage cost per head of keeping sheep is
81 cents; average cost Of raising pound
of wool, 6 cents.
The President of the South Caro-
lima State Fair Association sold his en-
tire crop of bread-corn to Gen. W. G.
LaDue, United States Commissioner of
Agriculture. This corn will be distrib-
uted throughout the United States for
seed
Texas made this year 100000 bales
of cotton, from which will be obtained
$40, 100000 pounds of seed. This seed,
converted into oil, would bring over
S14, 100000. The total exports of cot
ton from the port of Galveston during
the season just closed were 495, ,814 bales,
of which 2j6,928 went to foreign and
23S, 1856 to domestic ports.
Continental Europe has 19,500,00O
spindles, and Great Britain 39,0O0,O00.
But the continental spindle takes SO
pounds alta time, while the English takes
but SO pounds. This country has 10,-
600, 900 spindles, each taking SO pounds.
The annual consumption in the United
States is 100000 pounds; and Great
Britain, 1908, 100000 pounds.
Prof. Bells telephones are not for
sale at any price. They are rented in
New York for SO year. As they cost
less than a dollar each, the inventor is
quite satisfied with the income which he
derives from this rental, there being
5000 telephones in use in New York
city alone. The instrument has been
before the public but little over four
months.
The manufacture of steel pens is
conducted extensively at Essex, Mass.
Two hundred hands, mostly girls,are en-
ployed. Each pen passes through 20 dis
tinct operations, many Of which require
special machinery and skilled operat-
ives. The steel employed comes from
Sheffield, and the pens are exported to
Canada, South America, Mexico; Cuba,
and even to England.
1t is said that lumbe will be cheap
on the line Of the Mississippi next year,
for logs will be very plenty, more prob
ably than the mills will be able to saw.
The upper waters will furnish 20O,OOO,-
600 feet to Minneapolis; the St. Croix
will furnish 150,000,000 from a cut of
200, 100000 feet of logs; the Chippewa
twill sluice down the rivern 100000
900 feet, and the Black River at the least
will send out 250,000,000 feet-being
an aggregate of upon l,2OO, 100000
feet.
Sharp County record., 1878-01-25
THE LOSS OF THE HURON.
A Lament for the " Brave Hearts that
Went Down in the Seas"
TEro,,, +1,o DDCtO,, Dilot

There is something strangely affect
ing in the wreck of a war-ship. There
may be deeper suffering when crowd
ed emigrant vessel goes down with its
terrified and shrieking hundreds, but
it is the very absence Of the terror and
the weakness which makes the death of
proud, battle-Ship strike home so
keenly. In the hour of her peril, with
the black lee shore before her and the
wild waves around, there must be no
human weakness exhibited on her
deck. She was built to face death; her
officers and crew are expected to meet
mortal danger professionally. The sore
strait of the Huron, as she drove ashore
in the dark night, was only phase of
that which belonged to her calling
which she might have had to face open
", as Farragut'S fleet sailed into de-
structiOn, when the bay shore was roar
ing with an enemy's guns, and the hos
tile fleet closing, and when
."FrOm the maintOp, bold and brief,
Came the command of the grand Old chief
go onp was all he said
And the Hartford passed ahead"
The excitement of fight has power to
blind men to the danger, but we can not
doubt that brave and highly disciplined
seaman feel something Of the battle
spirit even in a struggle with the ele-
ments. There are no men so accus-
toned to deal with blood and death as
men-of-wars-men. In action, there is
no room for skulking the awful pres
ence. The soldier moves from the scene
of destruction; he is not tied to few
yards of reeking field. But when the
enemy's broadside tears the life from
the strong sailor, his messmates "clear
the wreck"
"And the dead are laid to port
All arrow, on the deck"
The war-ship is the sailors home
not his transport. The emigrant is
strange to ship and sea; he fears both;
and when the moment of doom closes
there is added to his terrOrs the awful
strangeness of the surroundings. But
the blue jacket is part of his vessel, and
if she goes down in fair fight he can 60
with her, and cheer going down, like
Morris's brave boys of the sinking Cum
berland, who fired their last broadside
when the lips of the guns were un-
der water.
But when the war-ship is wrecked by
the elements, and her gallant hearts
broken by no foeman'S fire, there is an
infinite tenderness in the Nations sor-
row. Blame will rest eventually where
it has been deserved; but our first feel
inc for the hapless Huron is one of deep
sorrow for her noble young commander
and his officers and crew. They would
have died differently had it been their
choice. They would have asked for q
grand setting for their death picture
"Thc storm cloud all aglow
With flashes of fiery red;
The thunder raging below,
And the forest of flags overheadr
But it was not so to be. Enough that
the country knows they died on duty.
No man can do better, whether death
come to him in the battery-smoke or the
roar of the hungry surf.
"Ho! brave hearts that went down in the
seas,
Ye are at peace in the troubled stream"
No matter, this week, about the blame.
Let us clear the wreck and lay the dead
all arrow, and mourn them with dipped
colors. God bless them, captain and
crew.
Sharp County record., 1878-01-25

Virginia, held lately at Alexandria in
that State, the report of committee on
this subject elected general discussion.
The report declared it to be the duty of
the Southern churches to do their full
part toward the moral and spiritual ele-
walton of the race, and the subsequent
remarks of the delegates strongly in
dorsed this sentiment.
Sharp County record., 1878-01-25
Madame BOnaparte.

Until very lately on occasional fine
days venerable lady much bent in
figure, but with an air of distinguish
ment about her, might have been seen
walking slowly down Charles Street
Avenue, leaning on the arm of young
and handsome man, of medium height,
squarely built figure and dark complex
ion. There was something so out of the
common about the couple that passers-
by who did not know them stopped to
take a second look and wonder who
they were. People who were well ac-
quainted in the city stopped also and re-
marked one to another,j "There are
Madame Bonaparte and her grandson"
The venerable lady was the widely re-
nowned Nine. BOnaparte, and her escort
was Charles Jerome BOnaparte, her
grandson, a rising member OF the Balti-
more bar. Recently the distinguished
lady, now ninety odd years of age, has
become very feeble, and does not ven
ture out of doors, and there are grave
apprehensions that her romantic and
eventful career is fast approaching its
close. The outlines of her curious his
tory are well known. As Lady Morgan
has aptly said, " She belongs to history;
she lived with kings and princes, philos-
ophers and artists; there is about her q
perpetual curiosity and romance. u
BaLtGmOre american.
Sharp County record., 1878-01-25
School and Church.

Elizabeth Oakes Smith is pastor of
ghh Independent Church of Conestoga,
! The women-teachers of Boston are
'o unrecOnciied to the idea of having
" wv nbers of their own sex supervise them
e7 the School Committee, and there is
!. " rowing opposition to the system
I Dng voters.
oi oi-There are now in Boston six public
Inn many more private kindergartens.
! - Louis has thirty-two that are public,
ori cago has seven, and Cincinnati.
veland, indianapolis and Nashua, N.
., one each.
he The total amount raised by the Pro-
erant Episcopal Church the past year
/ home and foreign and city and dio-
q IN missions was S7S3,637, and the
,ount contributed for all church pur-
IN es was Sc, ,S04,44S.
r PROT. Adler announces the opening
school in New York in a short time
he the purpose of teaching the "reli-
bel OF humanity" He is of Jewish
awh, but a liberal in belief, and an op-
laeent OF the observance of the act of
It covenant among his people.
t eat a recent installation service in
e falo IL became the duty of the Rev.
Calkins to say some exceedingly
gin things to the congregation, among
md ch was: "There are three qualif-
a0ons OF ministers-piety, fidelity, and
IN ierty. The first two we must obtain
lex ne lord by prayer; but we may
q pit the stinginess of the churches for
to last
The Rev. B. [. Ives is considered
III champion collectiOn-taker of the
!, !, ahodlst Church. He is invited to
1Nrly all the church dedications where
icy Is to be raised. In four years he
helped to dedicate 156 churches,
= has raised over 81, SOC, 900. This has
lived $4,000 miles of railroading
; = steamboating, and the delivery of
sermons or addresses.
nin! Bishop Huntington, in his new book
ce 'Ihe Common Things of Divine
sides with the Rev. DR.. Be-
vor on Coughing in church, and holds
. people who can not refrain from
.lr.shl CHING ought to stay at home. He
cs- ads M the church-going baby as nuis-
/, 2, and maintains that it and its
ed ma ma ought to spend Sunday almost
Troc where rather than in church.
Of "a country parson in Western Massa-
If irrr sets e'a has been for II years trying to
b1 settlement of accounts with his
Ie hrch. They have paid him in drib-
COD, IRON time to time, as they happen
miss5o haye money. Being generally
d &c, 5hey have not paid his full salary.
e clls mineral services recently number
-ani0 in 10 days, he is naturally afraid
Vi his people will "pay the debt of ma
ne before settling with him.
'cS The spiritual condition of the ne
= r 'S Is attracting the attention Of more
'"'i one religious body. At the annual
ION OF the Presbyterian Synod of
Sharp County record., 1878-01-25

"A monument to Sennefelder, the in
ventor of lithography, has just been un-
yelled in Munich. Mr.. Sennefelder died
in 1884. He was too poor to procure
the printing of his own works, and
sought some cheaper mode OF multiply
ing his copies, and by happy accident
invented TYPOGRAPHY.
Sharp County record., 1878-01-25

---Methodism has a firm foothold in
Germany, according to DR.. Mast, who
says that there are now in that country
more than $50 preachers, 1000 MEM
bers, 81 churches, 623 stations or
preaching places, one theological
school, and a book concern, which
publishes thousands of volumes and
millions of tracts every year.
Sharp County record., 1878-01-25
nc CORRESPONDENTS.

An ACCOMMODATIONS for this paper should ot be
,eompcd by the name Of the "id@T "ydcnce o OF
ecessatlI! ~, Iot tbc mart of the writer. Write
Doa lalI omo a." id" Of the paper. Be particularly
!,.ssf,'p snpp in giving names and dates, TO nave
\ irSsn 1c1.e,.s - or figures plain and distinct'r
Sharp County record., 1878-01-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Personal and Literary.

be Anna Dickinson has recovered from
put er recent illness.
to 1 General Grant is having his portrait
|rCainted in Paris by Healy.
|sto George Mcdonald, the novelist, has
|ae ZEN awarded pension OF Sooo year
VN the British civil list.
Eus The only surviving male relative OF
\ a4ashington, bearing his name, IS a
le rashington newspaper correspondent
|S5a-Charles NJ. Walker, for several
L. L. ,ars editor of the Indianapolis Jour-
Th, is writing biography OF Senator
|om orton.
Isl Julia Kavanagh, the writer, has
ed suddenly at Nice. She was 55 years
tb.d. Her work was principally in novel
|labo .iting.
eBf-General P. St. George Cook, who
|oD-as concerned in the conquest OF New
nexico and California, has written a
[ve lume on the subject, which will be
blished next spring.
ent-Miss Wainwright, now acting in
,ston, is granddaughter of the late
|Aletsbop Wainwright, of New York, and
of Commodore Wainwright,
S. N. She is also niece to Senators
was lthony and Bayard, and to Mr.. Peter
y-sc,ainwright, of Boston.
was Cambridge, Mass, claims the dis
fm ction of having published in the year
land 40 the first book in the English Ian
IS mage on this continent. 1t is common
known as the ebay Psalm Book"
mOough the title reads, "The Whole
Pute oke of Psalms" Only five copies
known to be in existence, one of
what ich, and the only one in Europe, is
Pftei the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Not
what 10 since a single copy belonging to
b, late DR.. Shurtlef sold in this coun-
pom. for Sl,025
|lkeS DICKENS.
b eNs one who filings large hOspitable doors
nnk Wide to a world of masquers whom he
'A' has bade
10 md merrily flood his vacant chamber
~ floors,
[BLalvenso with him about whose fomin scores
|ar Humanity's eager passions, Dlthe or sad,
[ Rush reyeling, and however strangely
|'r ID clad,
d paTre still the old rascals, bigots, fools and
bOreS
5dI III, what a riotous witch dance they pro
long,
|l+oJ OF ayarice, hatred, hope, revenge, despair!
'''''D Ow wight flies timOrOuS from the clutch of
wrong!
Sed How pleasure and ease take hands with
=, toll and carG
ny While humOr, that wild harlequin, here
|tu and there,
II ashes in spangled somersaults through the
tnrOng!
II prl-Edgar Fa~ceH, in Scribner for December.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-08
The House.


WAsHINGToN, May. THE Naval Commit
tee to-day agreed to the report made by Rep
Mr.. Freeman's bill appropriating 100000 for
a dry dock at League Island. 'fhe commit
tee, by invitation from the Secretary Of the
Navy, will meet him and the heads of bu
reaus of the Navy Department this evening,
for the purpose Of consulting upon the best
methods to effectively reorganize the navy.
The House Committee on Indian Affairs to-
day heard statements by Gen. Hammond,
Indian inspector, in reference to the consoli-
dation Of Indian agencies and appointed
Messrs. Scales, of North Carolina, and Stew
art, Of Minnesota a subcommittee to confer
with the Secretary Of the Interior and Gen.
Ham mond for the purpose Of perfecting bill
looking to such consolidation.
The House Judiciary Committee to-day
agreed to report favorably Gen. Buffers bill
repeating the tenure of office act.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-08
THE BASIS OF CONTINUED PEACE.
What the Powers VIII Demand of Rus.
sIa-If Accepted, War viii he Averted,

LONDON, May The peace feeling is gain
ing In England. 1t Is believed that diplo-
macy will settle the Eastern question. The
powers have agreed upon the basis Of the ar
rangement which will be submitted to the
Gar, and If accepted there will be no war
The arrangement comprises five divisions:
l. The powers propose that the two re-
gions OF Bulgaria situated north Of the Bal
kans shall be conceded to Russia. The south
ern portion Of Bulgaria shall remain to a
great extent under the authority Of the Sui
tan. The northern area, which is to be cefied,
has been for some time past serni-indepen-
dent, although nominally under Turkish rule
2. The Asiatic compensations shall be re-
duced to minimum.
The third relates to the straits, and will be
arranged hereafter, when more important
issues are successfully disposed Of
4. Demands definite settlement Of the
war indemnity.
5. Proposes that Thessaly and Epiras shall
have the right Of self-goveTnment, thus se-
curing for them the protection Of Europe and
their national independence
The peace congress has resumed activity
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-08
THE SIGNAL SERVICE.
Report from the Military Committee m
to Its Efficiency.
lWashinRton Poat. |

Representative Clark, Of New .Jersev, eyf
the House Military Committee, TO whom wa8
referred q resolution of january last cflarg-
ing the signal service with nefficiency and
eztravagance OF management, and directing
an inquiry whether this service could not be
consolidated with the coast survey and tho
life-saving service with advantage to the pub
lie interest, Yesterday submitted q report to
the Military Committee. Mr.. Clark, after a
thorough examination, finds that the service
is both efficient and eeonornical that 1t is
growing In popularity, as is shown by the
fact that since his inquiry commenced bills
Tor thirteen additional stations In separate
states have been introduced in the House;
that so far as appears from the evidence,
there Is no reason for it's consolidation with
the other departments Named and that while
the service is capable Of Improvement and its,
eztention Is desirable, and is urged by the
chief signal officer, especially for the benefit
Of the farming community this Is impossible
with the appropriation now available. The
Secretary Of War has asked for an appropria-
tion Of $4,000. A memorial signed by rep
resentatiVes Of all the ocean steamship and
marine insurance companies has been adj
dressed to Hon. A. s. Hewitt, asking him to
favor q liberal appropriation.