The Morning herald., 1878-12-11

Of Education. New York Herald.
q PEN AND SCISSORS.
The Czar has grandson.
Pope Leo follows the Sea.
All Toa is Chinese for devil.
Japan has feminine BARRIERS
Lorne neck dresses are In style.
Wife beating is having relapse.
Sweden has 4, ,4s4 ,542 inhabitants.
Cairo, Ill, has Rev. B. Y. George.
Parasol handles of shark-skin, lacquered,
are out
Ex-senator Joe Lane is farmer in
Oregon.
The Picayune says an egg is liable to be
mislaid.
New York is the champion city for in
fanticide. &ta
King Humbert's moustache grows larger
and larger.
Large 'possums are caught In the suburbs
of Pottstown.
A Cincinnati belle has gone off with
negro minstrel.
The yield of corn in Ohio this year is near
"a, 900 900 bushels.
A Chinese Sunday school has been Or
gsnized In st. Louis.
Cedar Rapids slices up and packs fifteen
hundred hogs day.
200 persons have formed cremation
society in indianapolis.
1000 pound grizzly has been killed
back Of Monterey, Cal.
A Georgia convict, discouraged at life
sentence, broke jail and is off.
Beaconsield's visage is SCARED and
scored with the oldest creases.
A Wisconsin mathematician says he will
prove that the earth Is lop- sided.
A wire was found stuck In the liver of q
late hog killed In OwatonEa, Minn.
Geese quack and bonk around Quantico,
Nd, till the people there can't rest.
Rice county, Mimi, is taking much in.
terest In amber sugar-cane growing.
| Andirons ami grats fixtures of antique
bronze gold are among the novelties.
Out of the twenty-six grandchildren born
to Queen Victoria, only five have died.
The petite Lotta ard the massive Janau-
schek are in Baltimore simultaneously.
The Lehigh mountains are dotted with
young folks gathering Christmas MOSES.
A Frenehman was taken up for stealing
yesterday; let the jailed Gaul wince.-[Ex
A Harden county, Ohio, farmer, other
wise well, has been struck deaf and dumb
"Resolved, what's the use of bears
tail ~ is down East debating clubs qucs-
tion.
Ozone may be kept much longer In a
solution of oxalic acid than in any other
liquid.
1t is said that Russian Government has
sent an agent topurchsse Edison's electrical
light inventions.
| The Rev. DR.. Mcleod, of Philadelphia, is
preaching against the wearing of mourn.
ing, which he says Is productive Of needless
melancholy.
i O'Leary and Campana have arranged for
q six days walk to take place during Christ
mas week in Gilmore's Garden, New York.
i A girl in Clearaeld (Pa } stole ring
from jewelers. rray by tapping 1t up with
her tongue while she was closely examining
the collection.
II Mr. W. a. Blrdsell went to Lake county
Dak., six weeks before election, ran fol-
Sheriff and was elected over man who had
| hold the office for six years. Very few Of
, the voters had ever seen Mr.. Birdsell.
Alexander II. Stephens has sent his
favorite inkstand and pen, with an auto
graph letter, to the Sisters of the Sacred
Heart at Augusta, Ga. They will be dis
: posed of alta fair to be held there.
A young officer thought to puzzle the
editor Of LIE Figaro by asking him, wher
, two men of equal age and rank met, which
should be the first to bow! The editol
calmly replied, "The more polite of tht
t two" ...
u A Salt Lake telegram says that Libby j
y Young, third wife of John W. Young
0 presented herself in an $17OO dress at bal
/ given by the Knights Templar in that cit,
o on Thanksgiving eve, but was refused ad.
= mission, on the ground that polygamou
e women are improper persone.
81 George s. Houston, spencer's suceesso
" from Alabama in the United State Senate
: is over 70 years of age. He was first elect
q ed to Office forty years ago, and was sent t,
! Congress in 1841, where he sat for nearl,
/ twenty years. He was champio of Polk
j Administration, and was greatly admired