, 1878-05-29

proof CuriusSes underneath their coats.
Some of these guard only the chest, but
Others in two sections, cover the
stomach, and are said to be in no way
inc0nyenient. The cap has also band
of the curiass material within its lining.
The loss OF officers in the late battles has
been much smaller, compared with the
numbers engaged, than in past Russian
wars.
The Alaska waters contain more
salmon than all the other waters in the
known world can produce. Within
lew years salmon canneres will be estub.
lished all along the Alaska coast. Al
ready the Pioneer cannery of Alaska has
been located at Klawank, on Prince Of
Wales Island. The company, with II
capital of 100000, have now erected the
necessary buildings Tor carrying on the
business.
An Eastern man locked his wife into
an upper room, and not being satisfied
with this punishment, but wishing to
aggravate her still further, sent his son
up with bone. The youth innocently
brought it. and said, Mother, ia; her sent
this up, and says there is II bone tor you
to pick, The gentle mother replied,
Take it back and tell HIM say he is
not your father, and there is o bone for
HIM to pick"
The Grand Duchess of Baden, the only
daughter of the Emperor OF Germany, is
Il woman of admirable good sense. She
has placed her young daughter in the
excellent girls school in the Schloss Mt
Calisruhe, where she is proceeding step
for step with her young companions, and
teachers and playtellows have been alike
charged not to distinguish her by any of
the high ahd exceptional titles she may
bear in after,iie. She is to work and
play, run and wrestle, give and take, On
perfectly equal terms with all her COM
panions, and to receive exactly the same
punishments If she is reniss in study,
sewing knitting, or any other occupation
of an ordinary scholar. The Grand
Duchess is credited with expressing a
wish that the child may be made as
thorough seamstress as if she were
expecting to earn livelihood by her
needle.
Very wonderful IS that seventeenth
chapter OF Ezekiel Il New York clergy
man, Rev. DR.. Wild, finds in it clear
predictions of coming war between
England and Russia, in which England
is to be victorious; and he finds also
evidence that Victoria and Bismarck are
both of Jewish descent. One hardly
knows whether of the twain is the more
to be marseled at, the Hebrew prophet
who could write family records so long
beforehand, or the American theologan
who can read them so long afterward.
But if England and Russia shouldn't 90
to war after all, what would become OF
Ezekiel. 8 reputation2
The fishermen states as reason for the
comparative scarcity OF shad brought to
this market this season that the sturgeon
cut up their nets so badly that only
about one out of every twenty. five is
taken, the remainder passing through
the holes made by these "tinny monsters.
The river seems to be almost literally full
of sturgeon, many of them extremely
large ones, Notwithstanding the fact that
so many are daily taken at the sturgeon
fishery near Hilton and elsewhere. A
sturgeon generally makes three separate
holes in net when he passes through it,
some of which are described rs being as
large as the head of a good.sized barrel.
-[Wilmington Star.
The entire Bible contains SO books, /.
100 chapters, 3l,147 verses, 753,692
words 1865, ,4s0 letters.