Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-09-20

TIMELY TOPICS.

TIMELY TOPICS.
Five hundred and forty-eight Euro
pean journalists have decided to make
a pilgrimage to the Vatican on the anni-
versary of Leo Kill 5 election as pope.
Recently uncovered lodges of rich
gold-bearing quartz in Alaska lead ex-
perienced miners to believe that country
will rival California and Nevada in min
eral wealth.
The crush from England to Cyprus
is much like that from the Atlantic
states to California in 1849 and 1850,
with this difference, that they go in
steamships and have short passages, and
can easily return if homesick. -
A gentleman who lately oought pair
of marine blue gloves in Hamburg, Ger
many, found that his hands were soon
covered with an eruption. He gave the
gloves to a chemist, who discovered a
considerable quantity of arsenic in the
dye.
Accordingto French statistics recently
published, person had in France, in
time of the diligences, chance of being
killed in making 300, 900 journeys, and
of being hurt once in making 10000.
On the railways, from 1872 to 1875, the
chances were reduced to one death in
$4,000, 900 journeys; and injury in one
million.
The Pa6ellon Mejicano of Guadala-
jara says that over forty bolts of light
ming fell upon that city during recent
storm. Three persons were instantly
killed, one a student who was passing
along public street, and several others
were injured. At the same time deluge
of rain fell. The inhabitants of the
town were overwhelmed with terror.
An important experiment is being
tried in the Boston public schools, where
books have been excluded from the pri-
mary departments, and oral exercises
and object lessons substituted. The
young pupils are especially taught to
express ideas in their own language.
The teachers lecture, or talk, daily about
such knowledge as little children best
acquire.
Henry NJ. Stanley's real name, ac-
cording to the Baltimore EUery ,Satur-
day, is Henry M. Eastway, and he was
born in New York city. His father was
a sea captain. The family went to
Europe when Henry was very young,
and soon afterward the captain died.
Henry quarrelled with his mother at the
age of sixteen, and went away to seek
his fortune. Other accounts make Stan
ley..a Welshman, by name Rowland.
German newspapers correct the as
sertion published last year both in
Europe and the United States, that the
last of the descendants of Martin Luther
had just died in one of the smaller
towns of Germany. The last male de.
scendant of the reformer departed this
life at Dresden in 1869, but on the fe-
male side Luther's posterity is more
hourishing than ever. It's oldest and
most prominent representative, was
Prof. Robbie, of the University of Leip-
sic, distinguished scholar who died
few weeks ago at the age of eighty
eight, and his place is now taken by
Prof, Mobins of the University of Kiel.
The lecture platform will this year
miss Mark Twain, John B. Cough, Bret
Harte and Bayard Taylor, who are in
Europe. Beecher and Tilton will be on
hand, and possibly Mrs. Tilton. Mil
burn, the blind preacher, has got back
from Europe, and will speak of customs
in England. Ingersoll will have new
religious lecture. Wendell Phillips will
not go out of New England. Among
the novelties will be Randall Browns
mind reading, Prof. Tobin's Pepper
ghosts, and De Viller's mimicry of all
the humorous lecturers. James T. Fields
has twelve lectures on as many authors.
DR.. Hayes will continue to tell about
the Arctic regions, and Ann Eliza Young
about the Mormons. Susan B. Anthony
will argue for woman's rights, and Mrs.
Livermore will tell "How to Raise our
Daughters. From the pulpit, Storrs,
Talmage, Hepworth, Swing, Collier and
Murray will be drawn.
A Paris correspondent gives this list
of women who belong to the Legion of
Honor, the great French order of knight
hood: Besides Mile. Dodu, who has
just been nominated a member, there
are seven ladies who have the right to
wear the cross so priced by our Gallo
friends. Here are their names: 1. Mile.
Rosalie, commonly called Rosa Bonheur,
the celebrated artist 2. Nine. Abicot,
wife of the mayor of Olson, who gal
lantly and successfully defended her
husbands official dwelling against the
attack of several armed men. 3. Mile.
Dusoulliet, called in religion Sister st.
Helena, superioress of the Hospital of
Jouarre. 4. Mile. Chagny, in religion
Sister Barbara, superioress of the Hos
pital de la Grave, Toulouse. 5. Nine.
Massin, in religion Sister Jane Clara,
superioress of the Daughters of Charity,
Compiegne. 6. Sister Perrin, whose
heroic devotion to the victims of the
great floods at Toulouse, in 1875, is well
remembered. 7. Nine. Lefevre, in re-
igion Sister Onesime, superioress of the
Sisters of st. Joseph de Cluny, at La
Martinique.
A great deal of damage has been done
to the crops in Cyprus by the ravages of
locusts, but it appears that these insects
are not likely to trouble the agricultur-