New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-14

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The telephone has been exhibited on the
,A ~ ForIoosa In the China Sea, IN the presence o
80 Jmperia Governor. Messages we're transmitted a
Sapee OF thirty miles. TO the surprise OF the Cinnamon
ssfo sbcw ed Geep interest In tbe experimental
last year in Massachusetts, 12,737 couples
e olred in the bond Of wedOok OF these there were
ao1s bachelors who chose maldens TO their wives
na eos who chose Widows while 1886 widoWers mar
40 maidons sud SIS married widows From this it
sDpear that 7ss more wldowers than widows were mar
S{eS ac.in ana that 396 maidens married wi0oWeFs
when only COS bachelors married Widows
The few Italians who can vote do not care
much for their gh pferOgatve. In population OF g.,
100000 onlr co., 600, about 24 per ceut have the
prvloee but Of COS goo only 50 per cent voted at
fhe elections in 1876. In Italy 900 letters were
Dosted IN 1873, and 100000 postal cards. against
letters and 5000 900 cards in the previous
wear There were no cards 1873. but the number Of
letters was the in 1874. while IN 1871 there
we're less than 1O00OO00O letters. Post Once orders
~ die value of 4I7OO0OOO ire were issued ia 1878,
sgsinst 900 100000 IN 1871 and 1l4OOO,OOO news
paprs passed through te Post Offices IN toe latter as
against % 100000 M The 10 ner year.
A farmer in Washington, Iowa, owning prop
erty worth $4,000 possessed about ten years ago
With the idea that he had been commissioned TO open
hotel near Jerusalem, and thus become pioneer In the
work restoring the Holy City 20 It's ancient spiendor
He el lined 10 have had vision In which the restored
city appeared him But bis wife and son opposed the
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part they determined 70 remain on the farm He gave
them onehaf his property and with $4,000 started on
hs Journey years In good time he reached the
Holy Land, and point two miles east OF the CITY
purchased several Of land, and there built his
hotel, which became popular resort OF tourists
What his mind may now be as to The future
of the fallen city Ia not known, but his letters TO
mia family have been Of q most cheering kind
ne has prOspered abundanty IN worldly way" says
7ls DareIlpori Ga.ete and his oDgngs for his wfes
Ia
She has sold her property IN Iowa. ana expected 70 eave
TINS week with her 90 join her husband at MS hote
on the slopes OF the Lilis OF Judea."
A curious East Indian legend" treating of
the future Of the MOgu Empire, and based upon the
prediction OF priest made many years ago. has been
nut INTO verse in Dresden, and is now In ercula-
tion in that city. Il describes how the great Mo
eu Monarch Arungzebe when following his resolution
20 extrpate the English from HindOstau, was stopped
IN his work by molly Brahmin, Who held before his face
maze mirror III which he the continued growth Of
the British power until only a shadow remained Of his
own At length the shadow itself swept away and
another imperial throne set up, with lady seated in
Its char. TIE priest had given assurance that ZOo
years Of xpaoD and servtude necessary IN order
% free HindOsan from the evil powers that controlled
her destues and for that all prisoners had been
set free by Arungzebe The legend goes TO that
the lazy becomes seated on the throne the scene
her sway. The priests prediction IS well known says
the legend TO the natives Of India The hrt part OF the
urODheUy 10 continues, been fulfilled aleadya wO-
man ats the MOgu throne. and the fabric Of British
Empire the East is now cracking and ready TO iau
90 piecesl
A farmer fond of good stories and of trad
ing horses became trancepreaeher for year, and is
now silent as Iago " This Is the last time shall
speak 20 you." he said. My work is finished" lie
lives IN the town OF Amish State OF Iowa and by birth
"a German lterate to the extent that he has rarely
read a book or a newspaper. he has no English Bible
and the German one that be owns he has seldom read
People knew him 10 be good churoh-gOer, and rig
orOus not narrow believer in the tenets Of his faith
The trance state bad fOreWaing for him in cramping
pains in his stomach which began four years ago. They
were followed occasionally by lethargy and last year be
became at times uncOn scious, and would talk OF re-
Igon Regularly OF O'Clock in the evening he passed
into trance state would rise 70 his knees ana pray
and then exhort his imaginary audience for two cOnsec
utve hours At people came TO hear him. but were
not admitted TO house They then gathered around
the building and be spoke in voice so loud that 800
were able TO hear him outside. He quoted from the
Bible the next morning could not tell whether the
sentences IN q Bible not HIS language was
coarse, but there something OF logic and rhetoric IN
HE matter aud delivery. His doctrines liberal al
he became unconscious IN church. arose from his
seat and preached for two hOurs TO the astOnhed con
gregatiOn. While be spoke his ewes were closed, ana
hi- stomach become large and distended was as bard
a. stone. 10 impossible 20 awaken him. Spiritual
fsR came forward claim him their They said
he was the medium Of certain departed preacher. II
was three weeks ago that the voice OF tins Amish
preacher ceased be heard These facts and
some Others made record of In the printed words Of
q Chicago Tribune correspondent